Fall Garden & Lawn Care
The cooler months of Autumn provide the perfect opportunity to get your garden and lawn in shape for the winter months. And, with proper planning, you should be able to enjoy fresh vegetables up to and beyond the first frost.
Here are some helpful tips regarding fall gardening, harvesting and storage preparation of your vegetables.
Proper harvest timing, handling and curing are important to ensure maximum longevity of gourds.
Pumpkins and gourds can be grown in areas all across Virginia. As fall-harvest crops, they offer growers the opportunity to further diversify.
By the end of October, most Virginia gardeners are wrapping up the garden season. With a little care now, gardening can be easier and more rewarding in future seasons.
Many varieties of vegetables can be planted in mid- to late summer for fall harvests. Succession plantings of warm season crops can be harvested up until the first killing frost.
The change in seasons from summer to fall presents an optimal time for the renovation and establishment of cool-season turf grasses and a period of preparation for warm-season grasses before their winter dormancy. Take advantage of the relatively mild weather of the months of September and October to get your turf ready for winter and next year's growing season.
Here are some tips for preparing your soil for winter.
Here are some helpful tips for preparing your garden for fall crops and harvest.
Clean-up of tools and equipment is another important practice related to the garden which should not be ignored in the fall.
