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Extend Your Growing Seasons
By admin | May 14, 2007
There’s never been a fixed and fast rule that says a garden must stop producing as summer comes to an end. With a little planning you can continue development and growth into the fall months. Many people annually harvest produce while other gardeners are busy planning the following year.
The trick is to plan the extension at the beginning of the season…. which mean now, as we set into the Spring months, use the following tips to plan for gardening extension times.
The following advice comes from Kenny Point
If you take advantage of the opportunity you’ll find that fall gardening can actually be easier than growing during the summer season. There are few insects to contend with, less weed growth, and you can frequently get by without watering the garden at all.
There are fall vegetables, flowers, and herbs such as calendula, kale, broccoli, mums, ornamental cabbages, leeks, and Mexican Sage that will appreciate a break from the summer heat just as much as you will.
Best of all you get to extend your gardening activities and share the sights and harvests beyond summer’s end. There are also plants such as garlic, leafy greens, pansies, shallots, and leeks that can be planted in the fall to be enjoyed the following spring or summer.
With fathers day around the corner, get dad a cool gardening gadget… an auto rewinding hose reel.
Topics: gardening gadget, hose reel |
