Fall gardens . . . who is getting started?
Return to DiscussionsI just bought my cabbage & collards for the fall garden. It was getting time to start planting the winter crop. My raised bed plot was throughly overgrown with weeds & required a little bit of effort to prepare. I figure that Ill add a little compost tomorrow and plant this years greens. Anybody else getting started?
Hi. Its Spring down here in New Zealand, quite the opposite of Fall, Ive spent the last two days digging, weeding, fertilising and generally preparing the veg plot for planting. Weather is good, garden is private so Ive been nude most of the time.
Since it is October I am starting to get ready to put down a cover crop to hold the soil from washing away. I just have to remove the old plants I still have in there. Then seed it with clover and watch it grow over winter.
Planting bulbs .pulling weeds, over seeding. Back yard and watering.
The ornamental gardening season up here is all through, except for blowing & shredding leaves. All the bulbs are planted. Need to spread gravel mulch in my Rock Garden
I just harvested the first very small crop of collards. The leaves were just getting a little bigger than my hand and I needed to augment the Wallys bag of greens purchased over the weekend. It amounted to a large bowl and will cook down to just about nothing but it was good fill. I also added bell peppers, banana peppers and jalapeos from my garden. It all adds up & its cooking now. Anyone else gathering their veggies?
neglected to plant anything for fall/winter harvest, got too mentally occupied with other stuff. But winter is passing, about half past now, I need to be watching the weather carefully around 6 weeks from now and have my tractor and plow ready. Need to plant at least an acre of rye and maybe a quarter acre of einkorn wheat. Along with tilling up some garden and putting in plenty of collards and kale and radishes and lettuce and whatever I can think of for an early veggie harvest.