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proud vegetable is placed in the dinner basket, or put aside for the canning jar, there comes an acknowledgment (how- ever slight) that the harvest is coming to an end.
Thus, for most avid gardeners, fall is a time of conflict. It begins with anticipa- tion, meanders through jubilation, and finally gives way to introspection – when replaying what to do differently next year is a recurrent theme.
But fall in the Flathead has been this way for years. Since the first pioneer homesteaders arrived in the late 1800s, the rich, almost-incomparable soils and micro-climates throughout the Flathead Valley have been host to bountiful har- vests beyond imagination.
Most hobby gardeners are not tending a 160-acre homestead, which was typi- cal decades ago, but more modest areas, and far smaller garden areas. However, no matter the size of the garden plot, the purpose seems to have defied the years and somehow remained the same – grow
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