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Planning Your Fall Garden
Having the ability to sustain yourself through your own homegrown food is a joy everyone should experience. Like the old saying says, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” There is no better reward for gardeners than enjoying the fruits of their hard labor in a delicious bliss.
Even though gardening is considered a summer hobby, the rewards don’t have to stop when the days get shorter. With a little planning and work, you can keep on enjoying your homegrown vegetables well into the fall months. Fall gardening offers some of the easiest, most stress-free gardening opportunities possible – no scorching heat, fewer pests, fewer weeds, and possibly the best-tasting vegetables you’ve ever had!
Before You Get Started…
Before you get started on your fall vegetables, give your garden a healthy dose of an organic fertilizer or mix in compost. This will help replenish the soil’s nutrients after your original garden plants have used it up. Clear space in your garden after harvesting beans or lettuce or after the plants have bolted (which means it is flowering and creating seeds), and turn the dirt and begin adding mulch from grass clippings or plant waste.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/08/02/planning-your-fall-garden/
