Fall Garden Chores - Time to Get Dirty
by John Yazo
Now that the gardening season in most areas have come to an end, you would think that you would be able to sit back and start thinking about your next years gardens. Well, your not done getting your hands dirty yet.
Fall is a very important time when organic gardening. It is the time of the year when all the cleanup to your garden beds, preparation for next growing season needs to be done, adding soil organic soil amendments to your garden beds, the planting of perennials, dividing other perennials and the digging along with storing of tender bulbs before the ground freezes.
Cleanup is very important, leaving debris in the garden can harbor pests and diseases over the winter months. Raking leaves and spent plants to compost will greatly benefit your organic garden, along with supplying you with a nutrient rich humus material to be used for improving your gardens soil structure and supplying nutrients back into the soil that are needed for your plants to thrive.
The making of compost from grass clippings, leaves and spent plants is the reproduction of what nature does naturally in our fields, meadows and woodlands. It is the natural cycle of turning plant life into nutrient that are replenished into the soil to start the growth of new plants all over again next planting season. Watching nature and gardening the way it is done naturally is what makes organic gardening exciting. Nature has it's own way of balancing diseases, nutrients and pests naturally.
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