Wondering what to do in the garden in the fall and winter months? Here are my Top 5 fall/winter gardening tasks in my Zone 6, Ohio garden.
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00:00 Intro
00:28 Task 1- Cleanup
02:52 Hisea Boots
04:38 Task 2- Plant Garlic
06:14 Task 3- Cover those Beds!
10:15 Task 4- Critter Control
13:07 Task 5- Prep New Beds for Spring
14:12 Bonus Task
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I've planted the root cover radishes some September 1 honestly they might be a ft.out of the ground level and some buckwheat.some wasn't planted until weeks later and Columbus has been dry most of the year but wet today.
I found cardboard as messy but love the big leaf bags and my neighbors leaves combination with grass clippings and garden waste
Thanks for helping
As you garden more and more, you go from perfection, to utility. Nature, again, shows us the way π
Did you get that bunny out?
My shed looks exactly the same down to the one seed tray on the top of the pile π. I've already pulled out a bag of trash but I need to go back out and unclutter all the tools I've thrown in there planting fall bulbs lol
Planted garlic and shallots a week before our first killing frosts- late October. Mulched them with semi-rotted straw. Of course, daytime temps went back up into the 70s and most of the bulbs have sprouted. Guess I'll aim for a mid November planting in 2025. π€£
I think everyone struggles with sheds. Is a imma keep it in the back of my head thing. but im getting on it little by little.
Domestic cats are not really "natural" predators and outcompete actual natural predators while being damaging beneficial animals. I think its better to first try to attract actual natural predators first. Before considering cats.
We love our Ohio Gardener π ππππ !!! We covered all our raised beds surfaces with alfalfa pellets and sweet feed with oats already mix in with it, the oats is our cover crop which dies and covers the bed with the alfalfa pellets which dissolved into the surface, and also covered with fine chop straw that has weathered for a year outside, so it's already starting to rot and mix all our extra pumpkins and squash in with the chop straw, we also chop all pumpkins in the chopper.
Thanks, Jenna! Very good timing, also π Just got my garlic in and have two beds of tiller radish doing well. In Indiana zone 6b, should I put leaves over the radish? I do not have broken down or composted leaves, but about 25 bags from friends and neighbors. Cheers π
Does your bunny eat your garden stuff? The one who sits around our garden didn't seem to eat anything there. It seemed to prefer eating the white clover I threw in the lawn. Of course, there's probably no such thing as one bunny. Where you have one, you'll have a dozen.
In my tiny 120 sq. ft. of growing beds, I just cut off the plants leaving the roots. I put the small amount of non-walnut tree leaves I could find on the beds. I put the summer compost on paper in the new bed and covered all the beds with cardboard. In the fall and winter, I'll be making compost for the spring. The grow bags will be left alone.
Do you have a preferred timeline to mulch garlic? Iβm in your area so Iβm trying to figure out when to mulch.
For when I really should do something, I get myself a STRONG latte then tackle the task on the caffeine high π
I sent you an e-mail for a chipmunk trap that works great.
Do you ever use cardboard to cover the garden for the winter?
What about FIRE ANTS? I have giant mounds of fire ants (Zone 8B NW SC) It would take me days of boiling water applications to temporarily kill them before they relocate and build new mounds. Do beneficial nematodes work? I have never tried them. Besides boiling water, I have tried Diatomaceaous earth. Both seem to work somewhat. Is there a schedule I need to follow? I don't want to have to resort to chemicals as I'm trying to grow food here.
Lastly, how do you know whether to leave roots of plants in the soil that might be affected with root knot nematode or something harmful? Is there a way to check the health of the roots before deciding to leave them in or not???
I had a Cherokee Purple Tomato plant that was a tremendous producer for me during the first half of the season and then the size of the tomatoes were reduced later on. Of course they were in a SSW facing raised bed with walls 8 ft behind them on the NW and NE side so air circulation was limited and the already brutal summer heat was probably worse there than anywhere else.
So to make a long story longer, before trusting that the roots were o.k. and leaving them in to decompose, I thought I'd check them….. and sure enough there were tumor-like growths on the roots that must have been suffocating or at least preventing all the nutrients that should have been getting up to the branches and the fruits resulting. I pulled the plant out with the roots and I planting Marigolds is one way to insure against root knot nematode. But is there one determining factor we should use? When is it fully safe to leave the roots of a plant in the garden?
I agree with all the tasks at hand preparing for winter, my garage looks like your barn, lol.
I have a couple others on my list as well.
Before I mulch with shredded leaves, I mulch my beds with all the comfrey I have growing around the garden, gives an extra little boost of nutrition for my soils. NOTE: Because of the jumping worms, I need to remove the leaf mulch before the soil temps reach 50F, that is when the JW cocoons start to hatch out.
I have gone to feeding my composting worms primarily foods from my gardens. To do this I am harvesting and freezing nutritious leaves before they die off like strawberry, raspberry, borage, calendula the list goes on and on, along with that, after I get enough flower seeds for planting next year, I will be collecting flower heads, hanging to dry, then pulverizing to add to my worm chow.
Finally planted my garlic on Nov 7th, zone 5a, we have been horribly dry as well, was waiting for a good rain, YAY.
Enjoy your videos! Stay Well!!!!
Hello Jenna, how do you kill the cover crops in the spring? Thank you,
Mike
Isn't interesting that the longer we garden, the "lazier" we get but really it isn't laziness but realistic. Composting in place is such a good idea when you have the space. I think when I first started gardening I had to harvest every fruit and vegetable and clean it out perfectly by Nov 1st. Not so much any more. Maybe with old age I am thinking more about the birds and other critters that might crawl in there and take a snack.
Hello, Jenna. Glad to see your new video. Got one garden pretty well cleaned up and ready for a clientβs garden next year. Iβve been doing the leaves for them like you do, ground to little bits and piled for use. My own garden still has peppers actively growing and producing in Columbus, so gutting things out has been slow to happen. So much to do if I could just talk myself into it.
So glad Iβm not the only one with clutter areas to tackle. Iβm now working on downsizing since having a few systems in place like worm bins and compost bins. Finally got some heating mats so it saves me time that I would otherwise have to move seed trays indoors and outdoors constantly. The best thing Iβve done this year was save my favorite plant seeds and label the envelopes with dates that I put them in for future use.
I just cleaned up most of my vegetable garden last week. There are still some vegetables out there now-green onions and leeks. It has been incredibly mild here in zone 5b WI this fall. My winter cover crops all germinated so as winter approaches I feel like the garden is well prepared for spring.
just discovered you and devouring your content. Same growing zone so very helpful!!
Looking forward to your "2024 Favourites" and ordering some new varieties!!
Thank you!!
I'm in NE OH. I've been planting my garlic very close to Thanksgiving; this will be my fourth year. I've not had any issues so far!
I planted my garlic today. Ohio zone 6b. I covered it with straw and then Chicken Wire to keep those nasty squirrels out. I couldn't sleep last night so I was out at 2:00am planting the last of my Egyptian Walking Onion Bulbs. I wanted to get them in before the rain and have a flood light in the back yard and I also put on my headlamp. I'm sure the neighbors thought I was nutz if they saw me. Hopefully they were fast asleep. As for your barn, I need to bring my 4 granddaughters over. They love to clean and really do a great job. They are 11, 8 year old twins and a 6 year old. I figure I will let them clean to their hearts content while they enjoy it. That tide will most likely turn soon enough. Thanks for another great video.
I was happy to see a new video from you. I always enjoy them.
This is really the best time of year to plan for the next growing season.
The most important task is clean up and I add manure to all the beds in the fall.
In fact, I was too , busy to clean my gardening residues of vigetables plz shoot a video on growing potatoes under mulching namely no tillage method ok thank you God may bless you and your family long life
Hello Jenna! Thankyou again for the informative video! My garden cleanup consists of taking down the fence & letting the deer have at it!