CHAPTER IX SEPTEMBER 

 GOOD THINGS TO EAT FINE THINGS TO SEE 



AS a garden month, September carries a note 

 jL of completeness. There is some relaxation 

 now from the planning and the planting, 

 and especially from the weeding and the spraying 

 of earlier months. The results of hard work 

 become apparent, and there are actually hours 

 when I may sit at ease in the swing under the 

 maple, contemplating the growth of the garden, 

 and thinking more of next year's plans than of the 

 next hour's work. 



The month is usually well started before Eagles 

 Mere releases us, and so we find at Breeze Hill 

 actual September, rather than the August exten- 

 sion that one may expect in the earlier days. Of 

 course the very first thing on returning to this 

 regretfully left growing-garden home is a trip 

 about, to see what is doing. Often this is a twilight 

 trip, and it has been taken by moonlight to no 

 disadvantage. Any light or no light, I could not 

 expect to sleep without greeting the garden ! 



This year the arranged vegetable succession has 



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