Discussing: agricultural seasons in the Shire?
Re: agricultural seasons in the Shire?
Since Tolkien based it so explicitly on England, I try to stick as closely to the English climate as I can when writing about the Shire. I've often had to resort to asking our UK members for seasonal pointers - this kind of info can be surprisingly hard to find elsewhere.
For wheat & other grains, harvest will partly depend on weather conditions earlier in the year; a late spring or a very wet summer, for example, can delay the harvest. Generally speaking, though, you'd expect to be harvesting in August to mid-September.
For apples, I'm not sure where I remember this from, but I think that apple season would be later - September or October?? (Take that with a grain of salt, though, for as I've said I don't remember my source.)
