As much as I love the changing leaves and cooler temperatures, the shorter days of autumn remind me that our garden's days are numbered. Save for a couple perennial herbs, it will soon be time to pull out most of our garden and surrender the joy of harvesting food mere steps from our kitchen.
Through the years I've picked up a few ways to get the most out of the waning days of the growing season. Here are some tips to maximize your harvest before the growing season ends:
Prune Any New Blossoms: Pruning blossoms that have no hope of maturing before the frost will help concentrate the plant's energy to maturing fruit or vegetables that are close to harvest. Look for little flowers like these and try to be ruthless:
Prune Any Blight or Yellow Leaves: Pruning yellowed and wilted leaves likewise will concentrate the plant's energy to producing healthy fruit or vegetables:
Prune the Top of the Plant: Again, doing so will concentrate the energy to the fruit and vegetables below:
Continue to Pick/Harvest Herbs to Prevent Flowers: Once a herb plant, such as basil, mint, or thyme grows flowers, it signals to the plant that the growing season is complete, and herb growth will halt. Herbs will produce more if you continually harvest them. Pick basil before the first threat of frost and make pesto, which freezes great!
Allow Herbs to go to Seed: Some herbs, such as dill and cilantro, produce seeds that you can use in the kitchen (dill seed and coriander seeds, respectively). However, I like to leave some seeds on the plant in the garden. These seeds often produce new plants in the spring.
Plant Fall Seeds: In our area it still isn't too late to plant fall crops like greens, beets, carrots and more, all of which can often last after the first frost:
Here's to a successful end of growing season and a plentiful harvest!
Life is sweet,
SPC
3 comments:
We still have tomatoes growing (we planted them late after our first round failed), and some basil that I'm keeping the house lately. these are great tips that I'll be passing on to Nick, the garden man!
Thanks for coming to the veggie demo last night. Your son is so cute and polite! I'm glad he (and you) enjoyed the food!!
Save your empty seed packets every season and bundle them along in an exceedingly bag or giant mailing envelope marked with the contents. the subsequent year as you intend your garden.
My husband and I have been having lots of problems living together, he never gives me attention or makes me happy because he has fallen in love with another woman outside our marriage. I tried my best to make sure that my husband leaves this woman but the more I talk to him about it the more he makes me feel sad and unhappy, My marriage started leading to divorce because he no longer gives me attention. I wanted to forget him but i love him and didn't want to lose him. We have been married for years and he is all I could call a true best friend and best in all, the man that handles my problems perfectly, the man that makes sacrifices for ,my happiness. I wanted him back in my life badly and I was so confused. My Friends told me to buy books about relationships, so I went online for relationship books while I came across a spell caster called Dr Emu. I read testimonies and reviews about him so I contacted him immediately, explained my problems to him. Same day , he casted a spell for me and assured me for 2 days that my husband will return to me and to my greatest surprise the third day my husband came knocking on my door and begged for forgiveness. I am so happy that my love is back again and not only that, we are about to get married again, he proposed. I wouldn't stop talking about him. Contact him today if you need his help via email: emutemple@gmail.com and you will see that your problem will be solved without any delay. Website: https://emutemple.wordpress.com/
Post a Comment