When does the gardening season end for you? The first frost? The first snowfall? I find it hard to call it quits, and here's why . . .
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Good Fall Is Here! Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2017
September 15, 2017 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingIn my mind there are two kinds of fall: "Good" Fall and "Bad" Fall. Good Fall is what we have now. The leaves on the trees are starting to turn color, temperatures have moderated so that you want to work in the garden again, the colchicums have started blooming and the many native autumn-blooming plants are at their peak, summer annuals are still going strong and some perennials are having a second flush of bloom. (Bad Fall is after the leaves drop and it's cold enough that they'd call it winter down South.) In this blog post, I'd like to share some of the best that autumn has to offer.
How to Pull Your Potted Plants Through the Winter
November 17, 2013 – Posted in: Garden chores, How-toIt happens to all of us. At least, it happens to me and a lot of other gardeners I know. Winter is right around the corner and you have all these plants in pots that you were sure you were going to have time to plant during the growing season. And now the growing season [...]
Collecting Poppy Seeds: Fall Gardening Chores
November 10, 2013 – Posted in: Garden chores, Seeds and Seed StartingCollecting seeds is an optional fall chore for me. Most of the time I depend on the plants' own willingness to disperse seeds, or the availability of the seed from seed companies. But every so often I grow a plant and I am not sure I will be able to buy more seed, or I [...]
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