Editor’s Letter
GOING OUT WITH A BANG It doesn’t matter if you call it yardwork or gardening; by the time autumn rolls around, most of us are ready to be done with mowing, planting, trimming, and weeding. Granted, there are still end-of-season tasks, but enjoyment of the garden seems to wane after Labor Day as plants start to look a bit tired. But it doesn’t have to be that way. One of my major influences as a young gardener was the 1990 book The Garden in Autumn by Allen Lacy. Previously, I had thought of fall as a grand horticultural exhale, as if the garden were collapsing, exhausted, on the couch (but maybe that was the gardener projecting). Thinking of Lacy’s thesis that fall gardening is a goal all its own, I planned my…
