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fall garden

Cool-season planting, late harvests and putting beds to rest before the frost.

Composting pumpkins: chopped jack-o'-lantern pieces and seeds layered with fallen oak leaves in a wooden compost bin.

Composting Pumpkins: What to Do With Jack-o’-Lanterns After Halloween

Winterizing garden tools outside the shed: spade, hoe, fork and secateurs laid out with a file, a whetstone and an oily rag.

Season Extension

Winterizing Garden Tools: Cleaning, Sharpening, and Storing

Slug and snail control: a large slug on a lettuce leaf eaten through with smooth-edged holes, its slime trail on wet soil.

Pests & Diseases

Slug and Snail Control: Organic Defenses for Wet Autumn Beds

Fall garden cleanup: a wheelbarrow of cut stems on the path between a bed strawed and a bed left standing with seed heads.

Season Extension

Fall Garden Cleanup: What to Cut Back and What to Leave Standing

Leaf mold compost in a wire bin, in three layers: whole brown leaves on top, skeletal ones below, dark crumb at the bottom.

Leaf Mold Compost: Turning Fall Leaves into Free Soil Conditioner

Ripening green tomatoes laid out in a single layer in a wooden crate on newspaper, a few blushing orange and one fully red.

Harvest & Storage

Ripening Green Tomatoes: Saving the End-of-Season Harvest Indoors

Growing Brussels sprouts in a garden bed: a tall stalk packed with tight green sprouts between the leaf scars.

Growing Brussels Sprouts: Sweeter After the First Frost

First frost date: white frost on kale leaves and on the soil of a raised bed at sunrise, with the crop still standing.

Season Extension

First Frost Date: How to Find Yours and Protect Your Crops

Curing onions spread one layer deep on a slatted rack in a shed doorway, tops still attached and shadows falling right.

Harvest & Storage

Curing Onions: How to Dry Bulbs That Store All Winter

Radicchio heads with deep red leaves and white veins growing in a garden bed.

Growing Radicchio: Cultivating Bitter Italian Chicory in Fall Gardens

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