Category: Autumn Garden Tasks
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Performing A Garden Year In Review: Analyzing For Future Success
Performing an annual review on your garden can help you (and your garden) to perform better next year, overcome mistakes, and imagine new possibilities for the future. But how do you even start with such a review? There’s a few steps that I go through in my annual garden year in review that help plan…
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Overwintering: Extend the Garden Season by Bringing Your Plants Indoors
Overwintering is the process of manually maintaining temperature and light for your plants so to sustain a slow level of growth even in the plant’s usual period of dormancy. This can be done indoors during winter while the outdoor garden slumbers. If you plan to overwinter plants, bringing them indoors for the winter, you need…
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Persephone Period and What It Means For Your Garden
When it comes to planning and managing your garden, you need to take seasonal light levels into account. Plants not only need sunlight for photosynthesis, but they also need the heat generated by the sun’s rays. While gardeners tend to think in terms of Spring, Summer, and Autumn, it is worthwhile to take sunlight levels…
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Green Tomatoes With Envy
Green tomatoes isn’t necessarily a tomato problem you need to overcome. But as the growing season grows to a close, the question arises: what to do with all those green tomatoes?
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Homemade Infused Olive Oil With Your Own Garden Produce
If you have a garden that occasionally over-produces, you’ll want to look at ways to preserve your herbs and spices for the long term. Making your own infused olive oil is an excellent method of preservation, and it creates a wonderful and beautiful gift to friends and family. Get started a few months in advance…
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Seed Saving Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Saving Seeds
Whether you grow annuals or perennials, a garden continues year after year. If you’re looking to preserve the varieties and cultivars of plants that you most enjoy, you should save your seeds. Saving seeds from your own garden saves money too. If you’re going to go through the trouble of saving your own seeds, you…