Your fall garden will consist of many chores, but there are 3 things you really don’t want to do in the fall.
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33 Comments
My elderly neighbor gifted me her 15 bags of leaves.
I live in Sioux Falls, SD and after I am finished harvesting my fall planting of spinach, I will leave the plants all winter. Most years in the Spring, the plants start growing and I have early spinach for our salads.
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The birds eat all my seeds that so planned for winter🙄
I was all set to cover my unused beds with cardboard for the winter, but now I'm going to use leaves. I have an endless supply of leaves! Good video, thanks.
Thank you for the cool tip on the asparagus. I usually mulch mine well with garden compost and add some autumn leaves to insulate but I'll leave my foliage on. Thanks v much. Great that.
Too late for me on the asparagus advice although I ran it through a shredder and mulched the asparagus plot with it.
So nice to see a Youtuber that's not OCD about a tidy garden!
I leave my Tithonia all winter and even when they topple the birds are all over them. So nice to see in winter when food is scarce! They will go to what seeds are left in the garden before the bird feeder! 😊
What if you live in the South where it doesn't snow? I cut my asparagus after completely brown and mulch that bed with the asparagus
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Got any tips to convince my wife that i'm not just dodging yard work?
I love this video! So much great info that I wanted to know about Fall gardening 👩🏻🌾🙌🏻👍🏻🍁🍁🍁🍁🌻
Such GREAT information!!! Thanks!!
I watch ur channel, and like the advice but I find myself clicking off or leaving because of the intense in your face/fast movement/YouTuber feel. It might be because I’m naturally a calm person but I like when garden YouTube stuff is just calm and “real life” not boom pow internet. Idk man I wanna watch but I’m not digging but you do have 1+ mil subs so hey if the recipe works keep with it. Constructive criticism, take what you want.
Eek I didn't know this of kale or sunflower stalks. Hopefully the stalks decomposing on my bed still provides a home
Our tree drops so many leaves, we get 3”+ of solid leaves which creates a mat killing anything growing. Then our clay soil becomes compacted bc there is nothing growing, then water pools and there’s excess runoff bc there are no plant life.
Also, we have more variety of roaches who love our leaves than beneficials in our area. (At a local wetland meeting, I was told we have only 3.)
We compost our leaves, share with gardeners, and leave them in our gardens, but do not leave them all on the yard.
There needs to be a caveat to all those memes! Leave the leaves…unless they are oppressive! 😂
My parsley is actually looking better now and more green than when its warm.
The deer took care of my asparagus, Swiss chard, and kale. I do have some kale and Swiss chard inside polytunnel last year made it all the way through zone5 winter. I love mulching with leaves. Besides using my vast amount of leaves, I graciously collect bagged leaves left at curbs.
Some of my aspargus fronds get 6 or 7 ft long . Would it be ok to cut the absolute very long ones in half?
Yeah for ladybugs
I harvested most of one of my sunflowers and left the rest for a couple birds that i saw swooping in for food
Thank you for changing your intro.
Er, cold hardy.
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I have a large number of huge maple trees on my 5 acres, so basically an infinite supply of leaves. I cover all my garden beds under about 6" – 9" of leaves in the fall. The winter snow compacts them into a mat that blocks all weed growth. I just pull aside the leaves in whatever spots I want to plant in the spring. I hardly do any weeding in the spring and summer. And over the next year, the previous year's layer of leaves composts right in place and adds to the soil. In four years we have gone from very poor clay soil to a very rich, black soil like you find in the forest.
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Luke, you’re giving me permission to be lazy in the garden through the winter
Is that dwarf asparagus?
Unfortunately the only sunflower plant I had was a volunteer one that was in the way of me planting my garlic in that raised bed. But the birds did get a chance to eat the sunflower heads.
You might want to modify your statement about cutting down asparagus ferns, to include "if you live in a cold climate". It only occasionally gets down to 25° where I am, and the soil never freezes. Asparagus beetles overwinter in the stems of the ferns, and if I don't cut them down and dispose of them, I will have a flood of beetles in the spring. I MUST cut down my asparagus ferns!
Maybe next year I'll leave all the plant stalks up instead of cutting them back to the ground. I'm hesitant to do that with tomato plants that may have shown brown spots on the leaves at the end of the summer. 🤔
my chard lost most of its leaves with a frost. I also thought to remove asparagus to reduce asparagus beetles for the next year.
Slugs and snails are a big problem in our area. Leaving the leaves seems like it just gives them moer places to stay. Any advice on reducing the number of slugs?