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Post by daylilydude on Aug 18, 2011 6:22:33 GMT -5
When your gardening is done do you prep it in the fall or do you wait and do everything in the spring?
Here, I do all my fixin in the fall, so I can get an early start in the spring!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2011 8:50:37 GMT -5
I start in the fall. However, I cannot do a lot because I have greens producing until December.
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Post by txdirtdog on Aug 18, 2011 14:46:01 GMT -5
Can't really do much until late November or December here.
Then if onions are garlic are planted (Oct-Nov), can't do anything with that area till early summer.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2011 15:03:05 GMT -5
I leave the spent plants and stalks on top of the earth so that nutrients from them can leach into the soil throughout the winter. I burn anything which hasn't disintegrated (like corn and sun flower stalks) in the garden come spring. I let the ashes go into the soil. I do remove anything which might be bug infested and burn it in the fall, such as squash vines.
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Post by coppice on Aug 18, 2011 19:03:01 GMT -5
Everything that don't go in the compost pile goes in the trench.
Fall start-up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2011 5:40:56 GMT -5
I do fall / winter cover cropping (small 1/2 acre garden) of winter rye, or oats. If I'm not using certain beds in early spring I'll till the cover crop down, and plant a legume e.g clover for the summer (or something like a PVO mix) and then use that bed in the fall for alium plantings etc.
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