04/05/2023
Every day on the farm with my family, my dog and my garden is the best day of my life.
May is my favourite month of the year. The days are still warm, so time in the garden is very pleasant and with the sun on my back I can enjoy my time picking pumpkins, picking and planting chrysanthemums and watching the beautiful trees turn slowly into their beautiful Autumn colours.
Once the days cool off and frosts are around the corner (if they havem’t already arrived) the pumpkin vines start to die off and an excitement builds as I start to count the pumpkins. Anything more than 10 or a dozen will have to be given away because you can only eat so many bowls of pumpkin soup. It is so interesting to cut my first pumpkin to see what is on the inside. My favourite pumpkin is a nice dark orange colour and thick pulp.
This season I have butternuts and Queensland Blues which have grown wild around my veggie patch. They have covered beds and found the fence a handy trellis. A mistake I will try not to make again. I just find it hard to pull out a strong seedling simply because it is where mother nature planted it and not where I think it should be.
May is also a month that will forever be my dear Mums special time of the year. I recall beautiful memories of past Mothers Days and birthdays. Picking a bunch of chrysanthemums and bringing them inside to show off in a vase is always going to remind me of my Mum. She loved flowers and particularly chrysanthemums in May.
May was also my Dads birthday and although I never did ask I am sure he would have thought May to be the perfect time of year too. He would have loved moving his chair around to follow the sun You could always find Dad sitting asleep on his chair enjoying the warmth of the sun in a sunny corner of the Garden.
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