From picking the last of your produce to winterizing your garden hoses, here are a few final seasonal duties.
I am waiting for that really big — meaning cold and hard — frost to hit. In fact, aren’t we all? It is not time yet, but close enough to start hauling our warmer jackets out. Night temperatures are in the 30s.
It is also a good idea to uncoil your hoses and let them drain as well. Newer, modern hoses probably won’t crack when water expands during the freezing process. But why risk it? Of course, lawn sprinklers and the errant watering tool should also be put away. Next, it is time to clean up the vegetable gardens and boxes. Yes, Brussels sprouts get sweeter if they have been exposed to frost, but yours have had enough of cool nights to harvest before the moose decide they really aren’t that bad. Potatoes should be fine. Get those carrots and beets, too!Speaking of moose, which I wasn’t, if you want to spray or paint trees and bushes with Plantskydd, now is the time. It is messy stuff to apply when temps remain below freezing.
OK, have you planted those spring flowering bulbs I told you to buy? They most surely are easier to plant when the ground is not frozen. Similarly, we are real close to garlic planting — in theory, a week or so before the first frost. Hard neck types are best for our winters.Finally, have you been seeing wood frogs in your yard? They eat insects and slugs. As a result of an interview with Dr. John Larson, wood frog expert at UAF on the Teaming With Microbes podcast — Friday, Sept.
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