There comes a time when Fall turns to winter, when temperatures kill the leaves of perennials, their dying a signal of their intent to hibernate for the coming extended cold. The leaves slump on the ground, looking mushy and going brown. The garden looks untidy, unfinished, even ugly.
But this dormancy gives us a chance to feed and protect our garden for the coming heat of summer and the possibility of drought. When the garden appears at its lowest, this is when to layer on the mulch. Unseen, soil organisms will feed on the mulch in darkness, adding goodness and tilth to the soil.
It is a lesson to consider: how do we feed our souls when things are bleak? What are we using to blanket ourselves against the winters we will face, giving us a space to feed our spirits until the spring? We know winter will come. Let us not look at it as a time of bleakness, but as a time to hold space to grow stronger for the spring.
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