Fall is a great time for garden chores. This is the time to clean up before winter, protect vulnerable plants, and wind down the growing season. This isn’t the right time for all tasks, though. Know what to do with your garden in the fall and what not to do — for instance, what plants should not be cut back in the fall — to best prepare it for next year.
Tips For a Fabulous Fall Garden
05.10.2023 - 16:11 / treehugger.com / Elizabeth Waddington
A fall garden can be a great and bounteous place—not a space that makes us mourn for the glory days of summer but somewhere that allows us to revel in the beauty and abundance of the season.
Fall is definitely my favorite time of the year, and perhaps the time of year when I enjoy and appreciate my own garden most of all.
Unfortunately, many gardeners seem to focus on summer so much that the garden can fade during the fall and not live up to its full potential at this time of the year.
So, to help gardeners make sure they have gardens that bloom and create abundance right through to the first frosts and beyond, here are some tips for a fabulous fall garden.
If you live in a warmer climate zone, you will no doubt be able to grow annual crops outdoors year-round. You may already sow and grow cool-season crops for winter in the fall.
Even in cooler and more northern gardens, however, it is still possible to sow and grow throughout the year if you invest in an undercover growing area or grow indoors.
When you switch from summer growing to year-round cultivation, you will be amazed by how much more you are able to grow and by the abundance of your yields.
By sowing and growing the right crops at the right times throughout the year, your garden can be incredibly productive right up to and even beyond the first frosts.
As well as growing annual crops for food production, a successful fall garden also shows very clearly why it can be such a good idea to embrace perennial food production.
A forest garden, or even a single fruit tree and guild, can be particularly beautiful and productive in the fall. This is the time when a number of fruit trees and berry bushes will be producing their yields. This is also a time when
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