How to Prepare for Fall/Autumn with Your Vegetable Garden

Aug. 18, 2009 - PRLog -- The fall/autumn season can be tough for your organic vegetable garden. However you can get your garden to be prepared properly for this milder season. Here is a look at how to prepare for fall/autumn with your garden.

The first part of how to prepare for fall/autumn involves testing the ground that your garden is in. You and your kids can work together to test the soil by checking how the soil crumbles. If the soil can crumble easily then it will be ready for the season. This is because of how the soil will be more capable of handling roots and water. For details on this visit http://www.mumsgrowyourownorganicvegetables.com

The capability of your organic garden to work to properly grow your own organic vegetables will relate greatly to the quality of your soil. With this in mind it will help to use green crops during your fall gardening process. These are crops that work as plants that grow fast and close to the ground. They will protect the soil from the harmful weather conditions that can come during the winter months and can be properly entrenched in the soil when the spring season does come. Legumes and winter cereal crops are popular examples.

If you have kids you should ask them to help you to get these crops planted and watered. For additional info visit http://www.mumsgrowyourownorganicvegetables.com

Another thing to do for fall gardening is to be sure that the soil has enough nutrients that can last during the colder times of the year. With these fall gardening crops you can get them to break down inside of the soil as time goes by. When this happens the soil will retain water at a greater rate.

Next you will need to add about four inches of topsoil onto your sod and to get about two inches of compost prepared as well. If you have older kids you can get them to help you with handling these materials.

Finally you should get your kids to gather leaves for your garden. This should be done if your soil is going to freeze or be in substantially colder temperatures. Your kids should get enough leaves to create a pile of about two inches of leaves that will be covered by two inches of topsoil.

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