Fall Garden Maintenance is Important For Early Spring Planting

Once your summer gardening has ended, there is plenty of work that is still needed to be done if you want to get your early crops in the spring planted as soon as the weather permits. With a little planning and preparation it will greatly benefit your organic garden.

Now is the time to create a plan for what you want to grow next year. It doesn't needed to be an elaborate plan, just a simple list with dates that you needed to plant certain crops and a layout for there designated location. This is very important when wanting to include companion planting into your gardening practices.

Clean all debris from the garden so that pests wont have a place to harbor through the winter months is a major part or organic pest control. There are many pests that can harm your garden and survive the winter months with the shelter that spent plants and other garden debris will provide.

Fall is a great time to test your gardens soil and to improve it's structure. Organic soil amendments need time to breakdown to provide the benefits your gardens soil needs to create the healthy growing conditions for your plants to thrive.

Preparing your organic garden in the fall has many rewarding benefits. It gives you the ability to extend the length of your growing season. Being able to start your garden earlier in the spring also allows your plants to get established, grow strong and healthy early in the season before there are any dangers of pests or diseases.

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Vegetable Gardening Through The Cool Months

Now that the rush of the spring planting is over, the summer months are here and your crops are fully established, waiting to be harvested is the next exciting part of having an organic garden. It all goes by so quick and before you know fall will be here and you just can't believe the gardening season is going to be ending soon. There are crops that do very well in the cooler times of the year and you can keep your garden going with a second crop before it completely ends, this is the time to start getting these crops planted.

Carrots, lettuce, peas and spinach are all crops that do great in the cooler months of the year. Any crop that you enjoy and plant in your garden early spring are the crops you want to get planted for a fall harvest. The benefits of taller crops that are established in your garden are a great benefit to these cool weather crops, they supply the shade they need to keep them cool and allow them to get established in the warmer months. This is also a great time of the year to experiment for yourself and see what will do good in your garden.

To get the most of your gardening season, you can even use row covering to protect the crops you want to harvest during the times when a early frost can be expected. It is getting to that time of year where planning should be getting some thought on how long you want to keep your garden growing. Waiting to the last minute can cause you to loose the crops you but all that hard work into growing.

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