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Fall Blooming Flowers – Autumn Beauty For Your Garden

There are many fall blooming flowers from which to choose for the autumn garden. Some are perennial which will return to brighten your flower garden for many years. Set a few pumpkins and gourds around to complete your classic autumn scene. Chrysanthemum The old garden standby, mums are one of the most popular fall perennials. [...]

August 29, 2011 · Administrator · No Comments
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Fall Is The Time For A Wildflower Nature Hike

Spring is generally associated with wildflowers, as this is the season which the forests and fields explode into color after a long, cold winter. But wildflowers bloom throughout the season, the color persisting until the first hard frosts of autumn. And the autumn wildflower show can be quite spectacular. Fall wildflowers include many types. Deep [...]

August 29, 2011 · Administrator · No Comments
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Five Tasks For the Fall Garden

Fall can be a very busy time of year in the garden. Beyond the traditional fall clean up, there is planting, dividing and mulching to be done. The garden in spring can be much nicer as a result of some of the tasks done in the fall. Here are five things to do in the [...]

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Use Those Leaves – Don't Throw Them Away

Every year they come tumbling down and blow into virtually every nook and cranny of your lawn. And every year you spend hours raking and bagging them, dragging them to the curb and throwing them away. What you probably didn’t know is that you are discarding a very valuable resource rich in nutrients and minerals. [...]

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Divide and Transplant – Perennials Love Fall Planting

Divide and Transplant – Perennials Love Fall Planting Autumn is approaching and the perennial flower garden is looking kind of bedraggled. Most of the flowers are finished blooming except for the chrysanthemums and Autumn Joy Sedum. Now is the time to begin the fall cleanup of the flower garden to ensure that the perennials are [...]

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Plant Spring Flowering Bulbs in the Fall

Spring is a time of promise in the garden. Blooming tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils announce winter’s end with bright colors and heady fragrance. But only if you plant them first. So when do you plant these spring blooming beauties? The time for planting these bulbs is in the fall, when the garden is going to [...]

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Frost Free Dates – Based Upon USDA Zones

It pays to remember that this chart gives you the date of the AVERAGE last frost in your area. That means that, based on records kept over a fifty to seventy year record, about 50% of the time the last frost will occur around the date listed on the chart.

October 5, 2010 · Administrator · No Comments
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Fall Garden Planting© 2008

Many garden plants benefit from being planted in the fall. Indeed, most perennials, shrubs and trees will do much better from a fall planting than they will from a spring planting

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Fall Garden Plants © 2006

There are many plants which can enliven the fall garden with flowers, foliage and berries and all can make their individual contribution. By autumn, many of the annuals have faded and most perennial flowers have died away.

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Fall Vegetable Garden Crops © 2006

Many vegetable crops do very well grown as fall crops. Lettuce, the cabbage family, peas and some of the root crops may all be planted in mid to late summer for a fall harvest. Some may even do better than the spring crops, as the weather is cooler and usually the insect population has lessened. You do have to allow extra time for the crops to develope in the fall, as the days are shortening and the plants have less light to develop.

October 1, 2010 · Administrator · No Comments
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