Historically, fall gardening opportunities pass me by. When the glamour of summer produce begins to wane — squash plants begin to mildew and wither, tomatoes stop ripening, basil turns black — I usually lose interest in the face of autumnal ennui. The garden remains neglected and unattractive until spring. This year will be different! I’m looking into fall friendly plants and plants that will over-winter. Maché, arugula, fava beans… I actually don’t know that much about what works this time of year, but this is a good starting point. To remind myself of what else can be done through the fall and winter, I thought about setting up a Portland - specific gardening calendar.
This is where I segue from Horticulture to Geekery.
To this end, I just ran across a plugin for WordPress that enables multi-author calendar event posting, as well as calendar subscriptions. I could share the calendar with friends and family and hopefully reap the benefit of a pool of gardening knowledge. This is the idealistic dream anyway. We’ll see how it plays out. 
A xylothek is generally speaking a collection of simple pieces of wood specimens placed together in some kind of cupboard. In a refined form it is in the shape of “books” where you can find details from the tree inside, everything arranged as a “library”. This latter form flourished in Germany around 1790-1810. Four different manufacturers existed and three of them offered their products for sale…Each “book” describes a certain tree species and is made out of the actual wood (the “covers”). The spine is covered by the bark, where mosses and lichens from the same tree are arranged. “Books” of shrubs are covered with mosses with split branches on both covers and spines. —The Wooden Library in Alnarp
No, I haven’t started on the previously mentioned September garden tasks. But I have a good feeling about today. A trip to Portland Nursery is in the works. I still have a week of September left. 
