What to plant in the Fall

 

Watch this video on Fall Gardening.

It's not the best quality video but I learned some things from this video

and I wish my nephew would work this hard. SMILE.

Planting a fall garden - part 1

 

Planting a fall garden - part 2

 

 

 

           

 

 

Gardening doesn’t end after the growing season, prepare to give your gardens a little extra attention this fall and you’ll see them thrive in the spring. Here are a few tips that will help.

1. To protect perennials from harsh winters, cover beds with landscape cloth. The landscape cloth allows moisture and air to go through while still protecting plants. Because it blocks light, remove it as soon as plants start growing in the spring.
2. To enjoy vine ripen tomatoes longer, when you hear that frost is on the way, pull up tomato plants with the fruit still on them. Hang the plants upside-down over the garage rafters. This way the tomatoes will continue to ripen for quite some time.
3. Before frost pick all of your cherry tomatoes and pack them in egg cartons (one in each hole). This way the tomatoes don’t touch each other, they’re in a dark place but easy to get to.
4. Microclimates are areas that can exist around your home and remain warmer than the exposed areas. The help provide safe havens for tender plants. Some of the best examples of microclimates in your yard are south and west facing sheltered locations close to your house foundation, rock walls that retain heat from the sun, and the area above your septic tank.
5. Place collected seeds in plastic 35 mm film containers. They are airtight, unbreakable and just the right size for tiny seeds
6. Don’t throw away your sunflowers stalks. You can save them in a dry location for next year’s garden. They make sturdy beanpoles, flower stakes or trellises. Their natural look blends in with any garden.
7. To make your soil rich and ready for spring planting in the fall cut your healthy pest-free annual flowers with a mulching mower and till everything into the soil.
8. To save marigold seeds
   After the first frost pull up a few plants to dry. To identify the color clip a clothespin to a stem and write the color of the plant with a permanent marker. When you gather the dried seeds clip the clothespins to the containers they’re stored in
9. Before putting away garden tools for the season wash them with soap and water to disinfect them. Then apply a light coat of oil.
10. In the fall when you clean out the garden apply generous amounts of compost and till it into the soil
11. Instead of raking up fall leaves, use your lawn mower with a bagger to pick them up. This chops them into fine pieces which makes excellent mulch for your garden.

1. Fall fun for Kids
   While pumpkins are small carefully write the name of each child in the skin with a sharp pencil, as the pumpkin grows, so the name. It doesn’t hurt the pumpkin and children of all ages enjoy seeing their name grow bigger and bigger.