Just because the warm summer days are over does not mean you get to stop the work in your gardens ! This is the time of year where the more effort you put in, the more results and less work you are faced with come spring.
Fall garden weeding is the most important - if you stop and put the gloves and tools away for the season - the weeds are going to love you so much they will dig in with their tap roots and runners and multiply as fast as they can because they have all the time to do so -
Fall garden weeding is the most important - if you stop and put the gloves and tools away for the season - the weeds are going to love you so much they will dig in with their tap roots and runners and multiply as fast as they can because they have all the time to do so -
Fall does have some fantastic warm days - more moisture and all the right ingredients to jump start the weeds growth again ! So make a point - one last hurray in your gardens and do a final fall weeding ! you will like the results after completion and will be far ahead of the game come spring.
If you want to go one step further - after all the weeding is done - take out the whipper snipper and cut the gardens down - this of course means just the perennials not your bushes or shrubs !!!! Cut them right down and you can either rake up the cuttings if you are a fussy gardener or leave the cuttings in place to decompose and put the nutrients back into the soil.
So do you think I rake up my cuttings or leave them in place ? I am super fussy in my own yard but at end of season I do cut all the gardens down including the perennial field, and I leave all the cuttings where they fall because it is a bonus for the soil. I simply let mother Nature take over, and come spring most of the cuttings are gone with minimal clean up.
Happy Fall Gardening everyone - the past season was a great summer and as always the summer days sailed by far too quickly!
My motto has always been as long as there is no snow on the ground than one can continue working the gardens! Sometimes I am still working about in Dec; a lot of that garden work we never seem to get to in the summer soon gets done, and being outside -- as any Gardener knows -- is the best place to be !!!!!
If you want to go one step further - after all the weeding is done - take out the whipper snipper and cut the gardens down - this of course means just the perennials not your bushes or shrubs !!!! Cut them right down and you can either rake up the cuttings if you are a fussy gardener or leave the cuttings in place to decompose and put the nutrients back into the soil.
So do you think I rake up my cuttings or leave them in place ? I am super fussy in my own yard but at end of season I do cut all the gardens down including the perennial field, and I leave all the cuttings where they fall because it is a bonus for the soil. I simply let mother Nature take over, and come spring most of the cuttings are gone with minimal clean up.
Happy Fall Gardening everyone - the past season was a great summer and as always the summer days sailed by far too quickly!
My motto has always been as long as there is no snow on the ground than one can continue working the gardens! Sometimes I am still working about in Dec; a lot of that garden work we never seem to get to in the summer soon gets done, and being outside -- as any Gardener knows -- is the best place to be !!!!!
