Extend Your Organic Garden into Autumn
Although summer is winding down, your organic garden can still remain strong and offer lots of food choices for an Autumn harvest.
Before planting your fall garden, make sure you do some basic maintenance of your current summer garden, such as…
- Deadhead any flowers and remove old stems.
- Remove any summer crops that aren’t producing decent plants anymore and remove any dead or weak plants.
- Re-fertilize with a good organic fertilizer to give end of summer plants a boost and to make sure your soil is ready for fall planting.
- Keep on weeding now. Once it starts raining in the fall weeds can pop up sooner. Weed as an ongoing task so the job doesn’t get too big.
- Repair broken garden decor and tools and remove any summer recyclables like old mossy garden post, rusty tools, and so on.
Good Autumn organic vegetable seeds to pick up and plant soon include:
- Arugula
- Broccoli
- Brussels Sprouts
- Carrots
- Collards
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Mustard
- Shallots
- Swiss Chard
- Beets
- Broccoli Raab
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Garlic
- Kohlrabi
- Mesclun
- Radishes
- Spinach
If food isn’t your deal there are some pretty fall perennials to plant too, like…
- Echinacea
- Blue lavender
- Rudbeckia
- Hydrangea
Adapted from bestgreenhometips.com
