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July 30, 2008 - Now is the time to prepare for your fall garden

Every year it seems a bit odd to be getting ready for my fall garden at this time. After all, it’s 97 degrees with no relief in sight.

How can anyone think of fall gardens in this weather? Well, like it or not there is lots to be done at this time, so that come cooler days our gardens are ready and growing.

If you have a garden that is still producing, maybe okra and a few tomatoes, you can work around them.

But, for those that have nothing in the garden, except for maybe weeds, now is the time to clean it out. That is if you want to grow fall vegetables.

I mentioned a week or two ago about solarizing. That’s where you cut the weeds down and lay a large piece of plastic over the entire area. Let the garden area “cook” undisturbed for a few weeks. At that time you’d need to remove the plastic and clean out all the dead weeds, add organic fertilizer and compost, and till it all in.