August is an interesting and busy time in a vegetable garden, as many readers will no doubt be well aware. Most of your attention is likely to be on harvesting and tending the summer crops.
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Discover the secrets to a thriving fall vegetable garden with our expert tips! Learn how to plan, plant, and extend your growing season for a bountiful harvest. Embrace the joys of fall gardening with our comprehensive guide.
As the warm days of summer wane and the cool breeze of autumn sets in, avid gardeners know that it’s time to embrace the beauty and bounty of a fall vegetable garden.
While many may think of vegetable gardening as primarily a spring and summer activity, fall gardening offers many benefits and exciting opportunities to cultivate various delicious and nutritious crops.
Fall gardening is a great way to maximize your garden’s productivity and ensure a continuous harvest. Extending the growing season into the cooler months allows you to enjoy a wide range of fresh, homegrown produce well beyond the typical summer harvest.
Advantages of Growing Vegetables in FallFall vegetable gardens provide a golden opportunity to grow crops that thrive in lower temperatures and are better suited to autumn’s cooler, more stable weather. These cool-season vegetables often have better flavor and texture when they mature in fall’s crisp, refreshing air. Here are some advantages to growing fall crops:
Fewer Pests and Diseases: As the heat of summer diminishes, so does the prevalence of many garden pests and diseases. Fall gardening allows you to escape the peak pest season, resulting in healthier plants. Milder Weather for Gardening: Working in the garden becomes more enjoyable as temperatures become moreAugust is an interesting and busy time in a vegetable garden, as many readers will no doubt be well aware. Most of your attention is likely to be on harvesting and tending the summer crops.
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For many gardeners the cold weather signals that the time has come to pack up their tools until spring, however that does not have to be the case.
Today, we bring you an external expert to the table to tell us some nifty gardening tricks. Nicky Roeber is the Online Horticultural Expert at Wyevale Garden Centres. Here, he shares his top tips for creating a garden that can be packed up and moved — perfect for green-fingered members of “generation rent”.
Camassias, also known as wild hyacinth, Indian hyacnith, quamash or camas, produce tall spires of blue, white or occasionally pink star-like flowers in late April, May and early June. Grown from bulbs that are planted in autumn, they come into their own at a time of year when many spring bulbs have finished flowering and early perennials are yet to flower.
Daffodils are classified into 13 divisions and currently one of the most popular is Division 8 Tazetta Narcissi. These are a group of low growing daffodils that are at home in rockeries or containers.
This is one of the many books in my collection but the only one to focus on growing big, bigger and biggest vegetables. If you want to grow giant vegetable for exhibition or to get large crops then there are many pointers in ‘How to Grow Giant Vegetables’ by Bernard Lavery and below.
Buying tips for indoor Hibiscus. Smaller plants with3-5 branches each with buds are generally the best value. If they loose there buds new ones should soon follow. Look at florists and chain stores as well and garden centres.
Foxgloves are native to the British isles and can be grown relatively easy here in the UK. They provide an excellent addition to any cottage garden. There distinctive spikes of flowers can be up to 4-5 feet high and they offer a new dimension to any garden. They also attract bees for their extensive nectar.
Bamboo is an intriguing plant, which contains over 1,200 species ranging from specimens 6 inches tall, to varieties which can grow upto a foot a day and reach over 130 feet. With the 1,200 species there are varieties which deserve a reputation for being an invasive plant. In the above picture, you can see how the bamboo is spreading away from the wall and is popping up in the middle of the front garden. This particular variety is not too bad, and digging up the rogue runners once a year is sufficient to keep it in check.
There are two great uses for Geraniums that make it worth growing these fine flowering plants. Outdoors they make fantastic border plants and the red varieties are very popular in formal bedding schemes. The second use is as a long flowering houseplant and if you deadhead and feed you plants you will get lots of geraniums from one windowsill plant.
Ipomea indica the blue form of Morning Glory is a cool clear blue, a startling colour in the garden. As you would expect from a member of the Convolvulous clan it is a strong twisting and binding climber.