Getting your garden ready for fall planting----Chad Brock ---Red Bird Mission

Summer is traditionally thought of as vegetable gardening season, but fall has some qualities that make it great for planting crops that prefer cooler temperatures or wetter conditions.

    If your vegetable garden has been well tended all summer, keeping it weeded, removing diseased or spent plants, your garden won't need much work to prepare it for a fall planting.  Just clear the space, maybe add some compost and start planting. But if you're like most of us, your garden probably got a little ahead of your best efforts and could use some attention before you start a second season of planting.

If there are weeds hiding out under plants, get rid of them now before they go to seed. This will limit the amount of weeds you are left to deal with in the future.

   You will also need to get rid of any spent plants. You can leave your tomatoes and peppers to ripen, but many other plants, like early planted beans, cucumbers and lettuce, are pretty much done for the season and they're just luring disease and insects that will attack your fall plants. Dispose of anything diseased by placing in a garbage bag and sending it out with the trash. You may compost the rest.

   If you have any small fruits that have dropped off the plant, make sure you get them out of there because rotting fruits also attracts pests.

        Try and choose varieties with short days to maturity and get them in the ground soon.

If this will be your second planting season, make a map of what was where, so you can rotate your crops as best as possible. Good Luck and Happy Planting

Here is something that I found very unusual, Just wondering if anyone else had ever saw this happen and what had caused it??

The date on the photo is wrong, his tomato was picked a week ago from
 my cousins garden
As you can see the tomato has seeds sprouting and trying to
grow plants. 

The date on the photo is wrong, his tomato was picked a week ago from
 my cousins garden
As you can see the tomato has seeds sprouting and trying to
grow plants. 

Rhubarb and Strawberry pie made by my Sonya Brock

                                                    Rhubarb and Strawberry Pie 
                                                           1 cup white sugar
                                                        1/2 cup all-purpose flour
                                                   1 pound fresh rhubarb, chopped
                                                      2 pints fresh strawberries
                                                    

                                                     Recipe shared by Sonya Brock