🌼 How to Add Garden Color in Every Season! 🌼
Want your garden blooming year-round? Here’s the seasonal flower guide:
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🌹 Summer – Roses
🍂 Fall – Chrysanthemum
❄️ Winter – Helleborus
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Carol Connare, Editor, talks about gardening trends, heirloom tomatoes, hanging baskets, houseplants, flowers, herbs, easy DIY projects, weather and lots more. Print and online editions available now. www.OldFarmersAlmanac.com
Are you into rosemary gardens? If yes, then here is your chance to make the best out of it. Your passion for having rosemary gardens will come true and you will find that jello in you that you did it.
So, we have come up with some segments that will encourage you to make the best out of your passion.
Growing Rosemary Gardens
The rosemary plant is a perennial herb that is valued for its fragrance. It grows to a height of about 20 feet and has glossy, dark green leaves that are more than…. Read more here: https://geedone.com/the-ultimate-rosemary-gardens-guide/
How to Plant and Grow Hardneck Garlic - Fall Planting and Care Guide
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The Encyclopedia of Herbs! 🌿 A 1973 reprint of a 1943 compilation by the author Victor Tiedjens. You might not recognize his name but you’ll definitely recognize one of his biggest gardening accomplishments. Through his study of hydroponics and soilless gardens in the 1920s, Victor discovered that plants absorbed fertilizers in a liquid state much easier and more readily than dry fertilizers which is what gardeners had been using up until that point. An important discovery by Victor, this led to a method of applying liquid fertilizers to the leaves of plants instead of directly to the soil, thus creating a nutritious and thriving growing environment for hydroponic plants. By studying both the practical and scientific sides of gardening, Victor became an expert in his field and wrote this gardening book in 1943. Highlighting vegetables and herbs, it’s a ready reference guide to the most ideal garden soil growing conditions of each plant, their specific nutrition requirements and how to care for each plant throughout the growing season. Fun to peruse but also to learn from, this book also contains suggested garden layouts (one of my favorite things in a garden book!) and lots of illustrations including drawings of weeds and garden pests. Find it in the shop!
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Fall can be a rewarding time to grow your own food. Cooler temperatures make it easier to work outdoors and leafy greens get sweeter in cold spells. In warmer winter climates it’s even possible to squeeze in a few summer crops and get some modest autumn production from them. Yet as the season stretches onward and day length wanes, plants are no longer growing under ideal conditions and challenges from pests and inclement weather inevitably emerge. This primer is aimed at getting you growing food as quickly as possible in the autumn, recommends a few tools and some equipment to extend your growing season in the late season, and addresses a few common garden pests and problems.
Containers? Raised beds? Rooftops? Or just plain ‘ol in the ground…
A lot of plant cultivation techniques are the same, regardless of where you grow. Containers have limitations because some plants produce substantial root systems that fill up your available soil area fast. Long season crops such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower, deep rooted crops like chards and beets, and even leafy greens such as collards and kale are not ideal for containers. With that said, if you have and maintain adequate soil fertility, root area, and a consistent watering regime for your plants, you will have success no matter what your growing style.
The following chart lists what crops are can (and can’t!) be planted for fall growing along with recommended planting months. If you want to focus on the easiest crops, look for what’s color coded green. This list is substantial because we’ve included crops that theoretically could be planted in warmer winter climates like ours. Pretty much avoid growing any crops color coded red, unless you’re in for an adventure and have a tolerance for a lot of failure. Lastly, a quick spoiler: August is the most ideal planting month for all major vegetable crops.
Unless you have a relatively weed free soil, starting your seeds in seedling trays in a protected area such as a greenhouse or shade house can be a great way to get plants started ahead of time. For those unfamiliar with what certain seedlings look like, this can also be a great learning experience as you will see your seeds emerge in isolation from potential weeds.
Take note, however: root crops must be direct seeded. For example, carrots are a crop that absolutely must be direct seeded. Last year we experimented with transplanting some of the most productive carrot varieties on the market. They took well to the ground, but when harvest time came the roots were nearly universally twisted and and stunted.
Use specific planting instructions such as planting depth and days to germination to guide your seed starting. One thing holds pretty universal: keep seeds evenly moist throughout their germination period and during the earliest stages of their life. That’s when they are the most precarious and need the most attention.
If you are late starting plants from seed, consider heading to your local nursery to pick up some seedlings to make up for lost time. Seedlings at a nursery already have about two or three weeks of growth.
Garden beds can be created and maintained in a number of ways, so a lot of the tools you use are a matter of personal preference.
Most soils require some form of nutrient amendment for proper vegetable growth. Adequate soil fertility is especially important in the autumn season, as once it gets colder, plants take up soil nutrients less efficiently. Inadequate soil fertility can lead to stressed plants, opening them up to greater predation, stunted growth, and in many cases, total crop failure.
The macro-nutrients every major vegetable crop requires are Nitrogen (N), Potassium (P), and Phosphorous(K). Any fertilizer purchased or sourced at a garden store will have NPK values. These reflect the percentage by weight of each nutrient included in the fertilizer. To determine the nutrients available in a given fertilizer, multiply one value of the fertilizer by its weight. For example, a 50 pound bag of fertilizer with a 10-10-10 NPK listing has 10% of each of these nutrients by weight.
Fertilizer application is an imprecise art for most of us. If you know your soil, you probably know just what to add. If you’re unsure what you’re dealing with, amend plants modestly, observe and if plants seem like they are stunted, add more later. An easy to use store bought fertilizer is Down to Earth’s All Purpose 4-6-2.
Something else to consider: organic fertilizers tend to break down slowly and provide a sustained amount of fertility throughout the season. However, if soil fertility is initially very poor, consider a faster releasing fertilizer, such as a liquid kelp (typically a water spray applied directly on the plants in cooler, overcast weather or toward dusk) or a blood meal. Fertilizer application is an imprecise art for most of us. If you know your soil, you probably know just what to add. If you are unsure what you’re dealing with, amend plants modestly.
Also consider side-dressing. Essentially, this means giving plants an additional dose of fertilizer halfway through their growing cycle. If you are applying fertilizer mid season, take note of a few things: organic fertilizers must make contact underneath the soil surface as they are not directly available to the plants: they must first go through the soil cycle whereby they are consumed by microorganisms that in turn make the nutrients available to plants. Apply fertilizer around the base of the plant and gently scratch it in using a tool such as the CobraHead weeder (discussed below). Do not scratch deeply as you may end up distributing or uprooting plants.
For those more interested in the topic of soil and fertility, we recommend the book Teeming With Microbes: A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web as a great entry level into the topic.
From June until through the winter solstice (typically around December 20th or 21st), most areas in the Northern Hempisphere lose about two minutes of daylength per day (for more precise information, consult the Navy’s daylight calendar). This means fall gardening is not only a colder but darker endeavor.
A great way to give your vegetables a little more time to grow in the autumn is to protect them from the cold months of October and November. Even modest cold protection goes a long way and also provides your plants refuge from some (but not all) common garden pests and even larger animals such as deer. Cold frames made of glass or heavy duty are a ubiquitous, and if you have a greenhouse you can also grow inside of it for the cold months, but for many these options are too expensive and laborious to set up – especially if you are getting a late start.
One inexpensive method are QuickHoops Low Tunnel Benders, which is a tool set that allows you to bend inexpensive electrical conduit available at any hardware store into the basis of a cold frame. You can place these frames about four feet apart along your garden bed and then cover them with a light frost cloth, such as agribon which is also inexpensive. Definitely invest in some method to anchor down the frost cloth to the ground once you are set up. Sand bags and sand work are an inexpensive option.Your bill of materials will run approximately $100-$150, but consider this: the hoops can be retrofitter with shade cloth in the summer to make it easier to grow cooler season crops such as lettuce.
If you live in a warmer winter climate, this will help take your fall crops all the way through winter. If you live in a colder winter climate, this hoop house will not protect your crops from extreme cold, frost, and snow, but it may give you a few additional weeks of leafy greens.
Anyone who gardens organically or with low inputs has experienced plants becoming infested with aphids, eaten up by flea beetles, decimated by cabbage moths, and taken down by slugs and snails overnight. If you are commonly experiencing these issues, you are likely dealing with soil issues. Growing crops without the proper nutrients, placing them in too tight spacings, or growing the same crops consecutively in the same soil are common problems that precipitate some, but not all forms of predation. The best way to avoid pests is preventively: use adequate plant spacing, ensure adequate soil fertility, and anticipate problems before they happen.
If you do experience problems, here are some recommended treatment methods for common pests: These are all forms of pest management that are allowed under organic production.
Crops such as beets, cabbage, cauliflower are “one hitters” in the sense that they are harvested once and finished. These harvests are relatively straightforward. However, crops such as collards, kales, some types of broccoli, and even lettuces can be progressively harvested. Consider harvesting these crops at a more modest rate than you would during summer or spring months. Plant leaves don’t regenerate as quickly in the fall and winter, and if over harvested they will have a much harder time regenerating. Be gentle to your plants in the autumn.
It’s seed shopping time! Have you received any seed catalogs in the mail? Maybe you’re checking out seeds on the web? Perhaps thinking of attending a Seedy Saturday swap? How do you plan your garden each year? Do you try new things, or stick to your faves? 🌱 #Seeds #SeedShopping #SeedCatalog #WestCoastSeeds #OrganicSeeds #SeedStarting #Catalog #GardeningGuide #GardenGuide #CanadianGardening #OrganicGardening #OrganicGarden #HomefortheHarvest
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