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By Donna LaPre Special to the Rappahannock News
The months of late fall and mid-winter are upon us, bringing the time of dark and deep to garden and gardener alike. All energy naturally travels inward and downward in this period, for rest and replenishment of earthly bodies.
Renowned author and agriculturalist Eliot Coleman likes to call this time the “Persephone months”. Persephone, if you recall, is the mythological daughter of the earth goddess Demeter and was abducted to Hades’ underground home. During the three months each year of Persephone’s absence, Demeter would grieve and nothing would grow.
Well, in the garden, plants may be dormant, but their roots are never entirely still: they must feed and grow, however little, while they bide time for warmer
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