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Fall lawn work is often sold as a package: aerate, overseed, fertilize, and expect a fresh green reset. That package makes sense only when the lawn is a cool season turf with enough growing weather left, compacted soil or thin
A crowded perennial border can make fall feel like the obvious time to divide everything. But a spade is not a seasonal reset button. Dividing cuts roots, asks a plant to rebuild them, and puts the new pieces at the
A brown perennial bed can look like one big fall chore. It is not. Some material is worth removing promptly, some can be shortened when it flops into a path, and some earns its winter place as seed, structure, or
When tomato vines finally come out of a 4×4 raised bed, it is tempting to think of the space as either “finished” or ready for another full crop. September is usually too late for that kind of reset. The useful
September can be a useful month for flower seed, but not because every garden is entering the same season. A bed that will spend winter under sustained cold and snow behaves differently from one that stays damp, briefly warm, and
“Is it too late?” is usually the wrong first question. The useful question is: too late for what harvest, from which crop, with how many days before the first frost? A radish grown for a small, crisp root has a
Garlic often gets filed under “October chores,” which is why a good selection of planting stock can disappear before a gardener has chosen a bed. The better September job is to separate the purchase from the planting: secure good garlic
Fall is a useful second chance for a container garden, but the promise is easy to overstate. In a month, a patio pot is unlikely to produce full heads of lettuce or mature kale. It can produce tender salad cuts,
A frost warning can make a productive fall garden look like an emergency. It usually is not—at least, not for every bed. Some vegetables need to come inside before frost touches them. Others tolerate a light frost, and a few
A frost warning can make a productive fall garden look like a rescue operation. It usually is not. With one evening to prepare, the best approach is triage: harvest the crops most likely to be ruined, cover only the plants
Fall is a great time to give your landscaping and gardens some serious trimming and pruning. As we move closer to winter, you might feel the urge to trim back your plants to keep everything looking neat for spring. Hold
Spring is often seen as the go-to time for planting many garden plants, but don’t forget that late summer and fall are also great times to plant trees, shrubs, perennials, and herbs! And yes, herbs can definitely be grown in
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