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Fall Gardening in Your Vegetable Patch
Fall gardening varies from one climate to another, but it is always an important time of any vegetable growing year. Much needs to happen after summer disappears and winter waits ahead. The following tips are for the care of vegetables grown in moderate climates.
Early Fall Gardening
This is a good time to start hoeing weeds. Continue throughout this season. Water all fall crops regularly, harvest onions and bend the necks of the rest of the onion plant to stop it from seeding. Continue to harvest or ‘lift’ potatoes across fall. Tomato fruit needs to be fully exposed to the remaining warmth of the sun. Enable this to happen by removing any leaves that may be covering this fruit. Continue to sow seeds for short growing crops that will be harvested in late fall or early winter. Plant crops that will harvest later into winter under cover.
Mid Fall Gardening
Harvest the reminder of your pea and bean crops. Turn over the soil their and allow it to rest across winter. Lift any remaining root vegetables like carrots as soon as their tops fade. Dig up the final potatoes and store them. Thin any beds of turnips and onions. Pull up leeks and celery, protect any crops of cauliflower and plant late season fall crops like Brussels spouts, spinach and peas.
Late Fall Gardening
Prepare your garden soil ready for sowing during spring. Use a mulch of dry leaves to protect the heads of tender crops like cauliflower. Harvest the final carrots and beetroot. If thinned, spinach will continue to grow. Dry any remaining potatoes to prepare for use as seed stock the following year. Dig up all leeks and celery and continue to plant out late season crops..
Fall gardening is a combination of sowing fast growing vegetable varieties such a s broccoli, kale or kohlrabi, drawing summer crops to a conclusion and preparing soil that needs to lie fallow across winter. Much of what you do in your vegetable garden across fall is important preparation for your next year of successful vegetable growing.
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