Tips by the Month

Tips for October

1. Clean up garden debris...

   It's garden cleanup time. Clean out your languishing annuals, cut back the dead stalks of perennials, and clear out debris.
   
   
2. Evaluate your garden. What worked and what didn't? Make notes for next year, and while you're at it, sketch out a plan of your garden and note where your perennials are so you won't dig them up next spring.
   
   
3. Buy or harvest apples and make pies, apple butter, and apple sauce. don't forget some cider!
   
4. Harvest late potatoes, onions, and any other remaining root crops for winter.
   
   
5. If you have bags and bundles of summer herbs that you collected and dried, now might be a good time to put them into glass containers or plastic bags, with labels of course.
   
   
6. Go out to the pumpkin patch and pick yourself a pumpkin.
7. Build or buy yourself a good plant stand for all those houseplants you need to bring inside.
   
   
8. Make a wreath for your door out of dried flowers, seed pods, twigs, and dried berries.
   
   
9. Harvest the last of the green tomatoes if you haven't already. Better you should get them than Jack Frost.
   
10. Go for a walk in the woods and enjoy the bright fall colors.