Garden what do you do to get it ready for next year??

old · Oct 29, 2011

Well gave up and let the frost kill off what I had left of the summer garden. So what do you do to get your ready for next year?? Today I pulled all the cages I use them on every thing. Then I mowed it down being sure to throw all the stuff so it stays in the garden area. I then covered the whole area with a layer of horse manure and will let that sit a couple weeks. Then if it does not freeze solid I will till that in and cover again with manure and call it good for next year. So what do you do to yours??

john in la · Oct 29, 2011

We can grow something in the garden 12 months out of the year. Our cool crop (cabbage cauliflower) is growing now and we are putting in strawberry transplants.
The area that is not growing something over the winter months gets planted in grass. (winter rye) This gets cut and tilled under next spring.

old · Oct 29, 2011

I over wintered a few things last year in cold frames and may do it again this year. Here in Missouri where I am most things will not last much past Dec. In years past I would plant winter wheat in the garden area but this year figure it is to late for that but hey is is almost Nov

MarkWV · Oct 29, 2011

always till, plant rye or crimson clover, but probably too late even in your area.

Billy NY · Oct 29, 2011

I still have a bell pepper patch going or I'd have tilled, added compost, organic matter, till, lime etc., by now, give or take.

The peppers are covered up, might make it so I can get a few plants to bring in. I just picked a box full red, yellow, etc. the other day in the snow, they still produce in the fall, still flowering, got my eye on one to try and see if it will live by the glass slider inside that faces south, lots of sun.

Herbs, oregano and thyme, I try and mulch them a bit, oregano comes up every year, thyme is supposed to but I have to replant so far.

Howard H. · Oct 29, 2011

Ha... I'm trying the same thing, Billy. I nurtured a bunch of heirloom peppers from seedlings since last Feb through the garden all summer and finally dug up three of my favorites and put them into big pots to try and see if I can keep them alive all winter.

I've already had to put a bright fluorescent light on them, but that really perked them up.

Howard

Dick L · Oct 29, 2011

My garden is in between the deli and the frozen foods at Walmart. It seems to produce year around.

^D

PopinJohn · Oct 29, 2011

In NE Arkansas, Dad used to plant winter wheat in November and then plow it under in the spring for cover crop.
Although it was before my time, dad says grandpa used to plant "Chinese Cabbage" and it would be hardy until after frost.
And of course, turnips were always planted, harvested and eaten.
Dad also had seed for big leaf mustard, and the leaves made the best greens cooked down we ever had. Not tart, but sweet. He would let the tops go to seed and beat the tops on the carport so seed could be swept up and saved.
MikeS

James Williams · Oct 29, 2011

Plant it in grass and mow it next year,I spend a 1000.00 a year in a 2 acre garden,after the deer and relatives get there share I get about a bushel for myself that would be cheaper to go to Walmart.I will probally try next year but im a slow learner

jimmy

old · Oct 29, 2011

That is funny since I have people who work at Wal-Mart come to me for organic grown vegetables and they hands down prefer mine over what they can buy at Wal-Mart and know what they are eating.

RalphWD45 · Oct 29, 2011

Every year, I promise myself to spend a couple of months early Bass fishing, and every year in march, I am going thru the seed catalogs ordering veggie seed, and impatient with the slow warm up, so I can get out in the garden. Now that harvest is over, maybe I can squeeze in a couple of days on the lake, if the freeze holds off. I just planted the patch to red clover, and turnips. should get a stand, but it is a little late.

Bob Huntress · Oct 30, 2011

In all seriousness, I think that if you're going to apply chicken manure, this is when you might want to apply it. That is strictly my opinion, and I know of plenty who disagree, yet, that is what I think. Chicken manure has a lot of nitrogen to put down as soon as you plan to plant.

El Toro · Oct 30, 2011

I pull off the tomato vines and mow off the garden. I plowed and broadcast rye and then tilled it. Some years the rye gets pretty tall and I mow it before plowing it in the Spring. Hal

doubleN · Oct 30, 2011

Pull up all vines, take up the cages and stakes, plow it, broadcast winter rye, drag it lightly without the teeth down (just enough to lightly cover and mix the seed into the soil) and now I have a nice carpet of rye that's about 4" high.

Paul from MI · Oct 30, 2011

Pull all the stakes & cages, disc it down good and wait for spring.
Probably do it next week.

Dick L · Oct 30, 2011

Did ya happen to see the grin face at the end?

^D

Billy NY · Oct 30, 2011

I've been wanting to try it for a number of years, have a sunny spot inside, I like the ripe bell peppers, loaded with vitamin c. They sure did well with all the late season rain and cool temps, though this is the first sustained cold, close to freezing, still tarped up, 4" of snow insulating them, good luck with yours, need something reminiscent of summer growing in the house.

Russ from MN · Oct 30, 2011

We are going to put a fence around ours today, to keep the deer out!

Traditional Farmer · Oct 30, 2011

Rototil the whole garden and then plant some late Mustard Greens and the rest in wheat or Rye as a cover crop.Also add manure,leaves and compost as they become available over the Winter

TomH in PA · Oct 30, 2011

All I usually do in the fall is mow it off and try to find something to cover the soil. This year a tree-trimming service dumped a couple of loads of wood chips at the edge of the woods nearby so I used a few loads of that. Will add some extra nitrogen in the Spring.

kj(seil) · Oct 30, 2011

had mine plowed and leaving it rough over winter this year, may cover with mulched leaves later, kj

OH Boy · Oct 30, 2011

Plant frozen vegetables to harvest in January and February

ChuckMa · Oct 30, 2011

I usually plow and disc the organic matter in, but this year the Good Lord covered it with 19 inches of heavy wet snow. Happy Halloween And Merry Christmas from Massachusetts. Oh yeah thanks Al Gore hate to see how much snow without that global
warming!
Chuck

ChuckMa · Oct 30, 2011

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Jim in Ma. · Oct 31, 2011

I plow and disk in the fall. Add ashes from the fireplace and wood stove during the winter and Disk again in the spring.

oldtanker · Oct 31, 2011

I don't do anything except pull the tomato cages. In the spring I mow it with the bush hog and plow after I spread manure on it.

Rick

eastexan · Nov 1, 2011

(quoted from post at 11:00:44 10/30/11) Plant frozen vegetables to harvest in January and February

LOL....good one. :lol: :lol:

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