View Full Album Cleanup in the fall garden is an extended process here in the Beer Garden. The leaves begin falling ... until Thanksgiving, or later. The first step is to pick up the leaves on the lawn and garden beds. Next is to do any pruning necessary to cut back shrubs, ... roses, buddlea and azeleas. When all of this work is completed the fall cleanup is finished and the seed catalogs have started ...

... enjoy taking a peek at my first ever fall garden. It is almost as much fun as my very first spring garden. We, of course, hope it turns out a bit ... and Mammoth Sweet Peas. Those didn't do well in my summer garden so I'm trying them again in the cooler weather. Trial and error ... ? Trial and error, my friends. Trial and error. The fall garden is turning out to be a nice diversion from my usual ...

Fall garden filled with black seed simpson. Credit: Tim Bruni From organic gardening with composted horse manure to raised ... --filled with Swiss chard, spinach, romaine lettuce, radicchio, arugula, black seeded simpson and broccolini--readers send in their fall garden photos. Click through for beautiful fall woodland gardens, glowing golden Birch trees, and gardens prepared for winter. And if ...

... may start to dig a large 5 x 20 foot garden bed for next year's spring garden. If ... having a clear plan makes it much easier for me to organize and keep up with the garden tasks. I'm sure as my experience and skills grow I will be ... a place to start. I've also been playing around a bit with the online garden planning software at Plangarden (which I heard about over at MamaStories). I have ...

One of the most important things you can do for the health of next year's vegetable garden is to prepare your vegetable beds this fall. Clearing out dead plants, turning in some nice old compost for soil regeneration, and even planting some early spring crops is the perfect way to jump start next year's garden.

... ;s work i enjoy. we had good rain yesterday. got up early early early this morning in order to spread a thin layer of compost over the fall planted garden areas. everything is looking good. i am tempted to pull the eggplants out for potted planting so as to give space for winter growing goods. that may be a job for the future ...

... this one volunteer that came up in a pot. This is a pitiful broccoli plant after living in my garden for many weeks. It's not dead, but it has hardly grown at all. The herbs are doing OK, but they always do. ... figure. And the Japanese beetles got the pecans! And the chickens have been molting! No eggs. It's been a rough fall for food production. Hope you had better luck that we did.

... planted their gardens, apart from watering and weeding, the work is done until next spring. That couldn't be further from the truth. There are so many things you can do to ensure a successful lawn and garden for the following year. Besides, it's just plain fun to get back digging in those beds again. Clean-Up Now is the time to rake up any leaves or mulch them with your mower. Your ...

This is what I picked from the garden this morning and what good tasting broccoli it is. Soon, some of the cabbage will be ready to pick and collard will be ready too. Beats and lettuce ready now too. Rain is gently falling as is the temperature about to do. A wintry day is on the way and that suits me just fine. Perfect for writing my Christmas letter to go out with my cards. Emery is busy ...

Isn’t chard beautiful? This is my fall garden. It looks a little battered because it’s been raining, but it’s pretty hearty. I planted dragon carrots (they are small and deep red), parsnips, broccoli, chard, and kale. I am a big fan of winter greens, especially kale.

In early October, I did a post on sowing radishes using Annie's Granny's homemade seed mat technique. I haven't written an update on this because for a long time it looked as though the radishes weren't doing much of anything (as you can see from the picture above taken yesterday). In fact, I've been ignoring them mainly because I thought they'd be killed off by frost ...

... sets on the north side of the house. We are gardeners, not landscapers. While we like the garden to show well from the street and the sidewalk, we also like it to show well for ourselves when we are on the front porch. But we ... fall. With our northern protection and southern exposure, our fall garden continues into November, sometimes beyond Thanksgiving, rarely to Christmas. We enjoy allowing ...

... heat of the day. It would be a job, but I knew I could do it and have time to put in a fall garden. Let the planning and work begin! The rocks were a lot deeper than I realized. The boys and I spent hours... ....and hours... ... that I could make it how I wanted it. Finally, the day came... Whala!!! My first garden! (Unless you count the one I planted in the fourth grade in Mr. Schnebly ...

When my mom was here visiting this August she helped us plant a small garden by the kids playground. She planted a circle of lettuces, a mix of greens, two lines ... bushes in the flower beds with berry bushes, finish the raised beds, replant our fall garden space, and put peppers and strawberries in the flowerbeds. I think kale and cabbages look great in flower beds also. It is odd not having ...

... two years ago. The plants are getting huge and taking more than their share of the garden, and I’ll have to admit that they’re on my list of flowers that I&# ... gallery of flowers below. The season also brings some new blooms to the fall garden: Oxalis bowiei, Protea Pink Ice, ... thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting this monthly online garden party. bookmark, share: