Fall Jobs

It's time to plant garlic. I have three varieties: 'Elephant', 'Musik' (both purchased thru Burpee last fall) and then there's random garlic from a grocery store. The latter is not very impressive size-wise, but has kept better than the other two.You can plant garlic up until the ground freezes.

Fall is also good time to expand the garden beds or prepare the existing ones for next spring. Simply put shovel in the ground, lift it up and turn over the sod (or weeds) and soil that comes with it. The method is labor-intensive and might not be fast, yet it costs nothing as long as you have a shovel. I've never rented a sod remover or tiller.

Next spring the weeds will be dead and if not, it is certainly much easier to pick them out then.

My goal is to dig up the whole veggie patch this fall as it makes for lighter soil prep work in spring.