Fall is surely here.  The sounds of geese flying over head, the leaves are changing, the apples are fallng and it just feels and smells like Autumn. 
It is time to get the gardens ready for winter.  So, fall clean-up has started here at Vintage Gardens.   Thank goodness the village picks up our piles of leaves and spent flowers.  Mike has been getting the equipment ready for winter and  I have planted some mums in the garden.
Our vegetable garden was enjoyed by our local doe and her three fawns this year, so we didn't get much for ourselves.  It has been great fun to watch the three babies grow.  We think we have a little buck and two does.  One has grown larger and has lost it's spots already, so we think  it is a buck.  While the other two are smaller and still have spots.  They are so tame that we can get just a couple of feet away...especially when they are busy eating the garden!  

 Yesterday we havested the last of our tomatoes and basil (evidently deer don't like them) and enjoyed a lovely lunch of pasta with pesto, sun dried tomatoes and roated pinenuts (Yum, Yum) with our garden partners from the Hickcock Center.    Here is the recipe for Vintage Gardens homemade Pesto: