| Some Fast Tips To Get Your Garden Ready For Autumn |
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With the days now growing shorter, and the temperatures starting to fall, there's an awful lot of work involved in getting the garden ready for winter. It's definitely one of the busiest times of the year, with so many jobs that need doing. Many of them all at the same time!
With the days now growing shorter, and the temperatures starting to drop, there's an awful lot of work involved in autumn gardening. It's definitely one of the busiest times of the year, with so many jobs that need doing. Most of them all at the same time! Autumn is the main harvesting time for most food crops. Tree fruits like pears, plums and apples are all ripe, and soft fruit crops such as blackberries and autumn raspberries need picking before thebirds get them all. Unusual and tender crops like figs and grapes are ready for harvesting too and need to be picked before they're damaged by frost. The brassica family all become ready to get, as do all members of the capsicum family. If you like your peppers a little less ripe, you can pick and eat them just as they are, or you can get them to carry on ripening for a while longer by bringing the plant inside and hanging it upside down for a few weeks. If you have space you can use as a greenhouse, this method works great. This method can work with tomatoes as well. Beans need harvesting constantly, or they'll simply stop producing more pods. Dig the roots into the soil, in either autumn or spring, and take advantage of the nitrogen that they've taken in. Brassicas will flourish in that area next time. Most root vegetables are ready for harvesting in autumn, and can be made into wholesome soup and stew to get you through those long winter months. Potatoes need to be dug up and checked for any type of damage and holes before being stored in boxes or paper bags. Make sure you eat any damaged ones straight away. Don't expect any rest in your ornamental garden either. Tender plants will need bringing indoors or into a greenhouse, and larger ones will need wrapping up. A plainwire frame can be made around palms and bananas and stuffed with straw. Cover with a good ventilated plastic bag though, or you'll just end up with a lot of soggy wet straw, as the plants will just rot away inside it. Although it makes good sense to have a general garden tidy up at this time of year, don't forget that wildlife need some attention too. Leave some berry and seed producing plants until spring and let the birds and animals have some fun. Invest in, or make your own bee and insect hotels for them to stay the winter in. They're your garden friends. Autumn gardening can be very rewarding, even though it's such hard work. The effort you put in now will certainly show next year. You'll be glad then that you took the time and put the effort in. DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice. Read more about the good garden products as well as essential indoor garden stores for this next winter season. |