Gardening This Fall Season

It is just around the corner! Yes, it will soon be the Fall season and that means we are all getting back to the routine for one of the best seasons of the year and then come the winter months. But don't forget that this is absolutely the best time of the year for planting in your landscape. I'm sure you have heard the slogan "Fall Is For Planting". Did you know that when you accomplish planting in the Fall, that the roots of the new plants become so well established that the trees and shrubs grow better and will not be as sensitive to weather extremes next year? Growth the following spring is much better when Fall planting takes place.

Remember, if you need to establish a new lawn or renovate your existing turf, fall is the best time of the year to do that. Planting grass seed from the end of August to the end of September is nature's perfect timing here in the Miami Valley.

At a plant symposium a speaker told the audience that trees and shrubs that are planted in the Fall are way ahead of those planted at any other time of the year. We also were told about many new plant introductions and all the trialing and testing that new plants are subjected to so the public can be confident that the new selections being offered by the plant breeders will perform well in our gardens here in the Miami Valley. Meadow View, right here in western Clark County, has a test garden in full view for the community, right along Rt. 235. Stop and take a look at the plants in the All American Selections Display Garden and the rest of the landscape, so you can see how well these varieties perform here where we live. Another test or trial garden is the Clark County Agriculture Extension and Master Gardeners plantings in Snyder Park on the west end of Springfield just off Rt. 40. The Master Gardener Volunteers work diligently so you can see how the plants that are available today perform in this area. Take advantage of this valuable and beautiful resource - and it is FREE. Bring your own snack and cold drink and enjoy a couple of hours.

Your vegetable garden, namely your tomatoes and peppers are on the downside but they will be producing for the next 6 weeks or so. They would benefit from a light application of a granular fertilizer like 14-14-14, or something similar due to the recent rains. It would have been best if you could have put this on your plants in mid July but it isn't too late so you can 'squeeze out' the last of this year's produce.

Enjoy the rest of the gardening season.


30 years of Growing
Meadow View Growers
New Carlisle, OH
www.meadowview.com

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