If you find a deal on annuals late in the season, you may be able to pot them, and bring them inside for the winter. Some annuals, like coleus can be overwintered as a houseplant. Other plants, like Boston ferns a perennial that's treated as an annual in colder climates , can be overwintered in a basement or shed.
You may only have to buy annuals once, since many readily self-seed. Learn how to identify, and collect, the seeds of annual flowers, vegetables, and herbs so that you can save them for next year.
In many cases, you don't even have to collect the seeds. Just skip dead-heading your plants, so they go to seed, and they'll take care of planting themselves. Trying to keep your gardening costs down? Then, buy or find free seeds , instead of plants. Most seeds germinate quickly, so it doesn't take much longer to grow your garden from seed.
While you can certainly start your seeds indoors, most flower seeds and many herb seeds do just fine when sprinkled out in the garden, and they'll acclimate better to your local climate if you do. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.
Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. The more you do now, the easier it all becomes in the spring. Every two weeks, feed vegetable plants with a water-soluble organic fertilizer like fish emulsion. Cut asparagus plants to the ground as soon as the foliage has turned yellow or brown. Spread a few inches of aged manure or organic compost over the bed. The bottom line: If you planted a winter garden, keep harvesting, weeding and watering as needed.
Month-by-Month Guide to Vegetable Gardening. By Madaline Sparks Updated August 29, Save FB Tweet More. Colorful vegetables. How to prep, plant, and maintain your garden for a bountiful harvest every season. Start Slideshow. Credit: David Prince. Seeds and gardening supplies. Preparation Finish up your seed orders. Planting Outside: If the ground is workable, plant bare root perennial vegetables like asparagus, artichoke, horseradish, and rhubarb.
Containers and hand tools for gardening. Credit: Ngoc Minh Ngo. Preparation Outside: Most vegetables prefer a slightly acidic soil 6.
Gardening supplies and seeds. Preparation Check soil temperature regularly with your thermometer. Planting Begin setting out your early-season crops. Watering can. Planting You can continue or start planting any early-season crops, plus tomatoes, squash, melons, eggplant, peppers, sweet corn, cucumbers, potatoes, and herbs. Maintenance Follow packet instructions for proper spacing of the crops that were direct sown and thin the seedlings accordingly. Harvest Cool-season plants like asparagus, peas, and spring greens will be getting ready for harvest.
Credit: Monica Buck. Planting Early in the month, finish getting any warm-season vegetables into the ground. Harvest Harvest during the cooler times of day—early morning or evening—when plants are least stressed. Tomato garden.
Credit: Rosalind Creasy. Planting Extend the season with a late harvest of beans, carrots, cucumbers, cauliflower, and other cold-season crops. Maintenance Remove suckers—the growth between the main stem and the leaf—on tomato plants and pull out any finished early-season crops. Harvest Harvest daily. A potted herb garden. Preparation Make some notes about your successes and failures. Harvest Keep picking! Cut fresh herbs for freezing or drying to use over the winter.
Pots of plants - mistake Planning As the weather cools, this is a good time to dig and prepare new beds for the spring or build additional raised beds and fill with amended soil. Planting Pot up selections of your favorite, healthiest herbs in planters to bring inside for the winter.
Maintenance Keep pulling up finished plants and discarding fallen or rotten fruit to discourage overwintering of insect larvae meaning they stay alive underground through the cold months ahead. Harvest Some plants will keep producing even through light frosts. Casabella Garden Grip Rake. Credit: Burcu Avsar. Planting Continue planting cool-season crops like beets, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, chives, celery, onions, parsley, parsnips, peas, radishes, spinach, lettuce, turnips, and Swiss chard.
Harvest Dig up potatoes and store in a dark place with low humidity, and pick winter squashes and pumpkins before a hard freeze. Shovel in dirt. Planning Order seed catalogs for January planning. Harvest Harvest greens and other cool-season vegetables that are producing. Winter vegetables. Broccoli Plants. Brussels Sprouts Plants. Cabbage Plants. Cantaloupe Plants. Carrot Plants.
Cauliflower Plants. Celery Plants. Collard Greens Plants. Cucumber Plants. Eggplant Plants. Garlic Bulbs. Goji Berry Plants.
Honeyberry Plants. Kale Plants. Kohlrabi Plants. Lettuce Plants. Okra Plants. Onion Plants. Pea Plants. Pepper Plants. Potato Plants. Pumpkin Plants. Radish Plants.
Rhubarb Plants. Spinach Plants. Squash Plants.
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