Posted on October 20, 2007 in latest news
November is barely a week away and its time for some gardening tips that would help you with your vegetable gardening for the following month.
- Plant some hardy vegetables like spinach, beets, cabbage and even lettuce for winter in November.
- If you had grown perennial vegetables like Rhubarb or Asparagus in your garden, make sure you cut their dead leaf stalks after their tops are killed by frost.
- Do not store fruits like pears or apples with your vegetables. Such fruits let out ethylene gas that speeds the break down of vegetables. It also causes them to develop weird flavors.
- Plowing leaves the soil bare. Make sure you don’t plow your field late fall to early spring. Plowing at this time can create erosion and leaching problems.
- If the weather conditions do not permit you gardening, its better to cover your garden with mulch or compost. You can even tile your garden with non diseased plant waste or leaves in spring. This will leave your soil cold and wet till the right time.
- If you want to use manure as your soil conditioner, do it after composting to reduce weed seed.
- If your garden contains heavy clay soil try plowing it roughly. If you leave the soil rough by plowing you wont face the problem of clods that break due to freezing in winter. Plus, rough soil surface retains moisture for long and reduces soil erosion.
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