Every month I will offer what can be done in or for the garden.
October is time to do the following:
1. Plant your garlic and shallots that will be harvested next summer.
2. Test your soil for lime needs and add if necessary.
3. Start cleaning up. You can pull dead plants and weeds out and put into the compost pile.
Clean up fallen fruit as it could be diseased.
4. If you transplanted trees or bushes, continue watering until ground freezes.
5. Harvest tomatoes, if you have any this year. You can keep your potatoes, carrots and other roots in the ground until before the ground freezes. A light frost might even make them a bit sweeter! Keep an eye on your pumpkin for ripening.
6. If you have a greenhouse or cold frame, keep on planting that lettuce and spinach!
Here's another excellent resource:
www.almanac.com/gardening/jobs/October
Also check out Crockett's Victory Garden by James Underwood Crockett
Year-Round Gardens
- Funny Farm
- Hudson Valley, New York
- Year-Round Gardens was started by Rebecca Cossa. She has over twelve years experience in sustainable agriculture and food issues. Rebecca bought a house in the New York Hudson Valley Region with her husband last year in hopes of providing garden education, produce and design to homes and restaurants in her local community and beyond. Being empathetic to the challenge of adversity herself, Rebecca's passion is the hearty vegetables that can take the varying conditions, cold temperatures as well as the warm summers, of the four local seasons.
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