Garden Tasks for Late Fall
September and October are the months to prepare your garden for the winter. In warmer areas, the fall is the time to plant cool-season vegetables. In colder climates, gardeners need to “put the garden to bed.” Here are the main fall gardening chores for the fall, including warmer and cooler climates.
Cool Climates (Pennsylvania and north)
Remove dead flower stalks (example: daylily flower stalks), dead leaves, flowers and debris, but wait until perennials are …
Using Mulch in Your Garden
There are many individuals who automatically think of mulch as being the shredded bark that is colored red, brown or black and is used primarily to beautify the landscape in flower gardens. This method of mulching has its benefits which should not be discounted. Any type of mulch retains moisture and suppresses weeds. However, this should not be the only type of mulch that is used in the garden. What other types of mulch are …
Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Keep Your Garden Cool During Those Wicked Summer Months
There are some plants classified as cool weather plants that cannot handle the scorching sun during the growing season’s hottest months. In this case, you must find ways to keep your garden cool. For those in the south, this may be needed more months out of the year. Northerners generally need only worry about July and August.
Some may wonder why plants should not get sun in the summer months. Most of the seed packets and …
How to Plant Trees
Planting trees involves more than digging a hole and sticking the tree in the ground. You can try that, but don’t be alarmed if, a few years later, your tree isn’t doing so well. There are a lot of myths about tree planting that lead people to do silly things when they plant trees.
Tree Planting Myths
The tree needs a really deep hole.
This is one of the worst gardening myths. A tree does …
Mulch Matters – What and When to Apply in Your Organic Garden
As we get closer to the end of the gardening season for most of North America, it is time to think about mulch. Depending upon where you live, you might automatically think about one material over another when you think about mulch. In the Southeastern US, pine straw is the mulch of choice for many people. It makes sense, because natural …
