Whoops, Connie forgot to mention that the most recent equinox was September 22, though from her diagram, some puzzle fans might deduce that it would happen about six months prior to the March 20 equinox.

If you you live up North and plan to extend your growing season, you need to get moving now (a month ago would have been better). The best reference on season extension that I’ve actually used is Eliot Coleman’s Four-Season Harvest. I have yet to read his new book The Winter Harvest Handbook, but it’s been getting good reviews, too.

And for all you hardcore permies out there, yes, we’ll be looking at perennials soon.  This first season Permyz has used annuals to get  a yield while building soil.

Oh, and watch for an unbelievably far-out new storyline next week…

–Kev

See Volk, Tyler, Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth (MIT Press: 2003); Butler, Rhett A. “Soils and Nutrient Cycling in the Rainforest.” Mongabay.com / Tropical Forests: The Understory August 27, 2009. http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0502.htm.