Ten things I’ve learned about winter gardens

This year is my first true attempt at a fall/winter garden. This is what I’ve learned so far from my winter garden experience.

Learning to garden

Sometimes, when you move to a new place, you need help figuring out when and what to plant in a garden. Your local extension office can help with that and a lot of other gardening questions.

Fall clean up

As our fall garden starts to come in, we’ve been working on cleaning out some of the summer plants and moving things around to maximize our growing potential. The first order of business was cleaning up the compost area. Our dachshund dug a two-feet deep, four-feet wide hole in our garden area while we were…

Come on fall

I planted seeds about a month ago. Now we wait and see what happens. So far, I’ve noticed that the squirrels have done their own gardening. Their seeds, which are really mine but finders keepers I guess, are along the sides of my pallets and in the nether region between the garden and the trees….

Waiting for fall

Here in planting zone 8a, we have two seasons — the early summer season (March- August) and the second summer or fall season. The fall season is from September to the first frost, around late November. When the second season starts depends on what you want to grow. I opted for the fall season, planting…