Fall Gardening Chores

I have the fall gardening chores on my list to do, I have just been too lazy to get busy doing it. We had record heat a few days ago, now its cold and rainy. I will still have some good days to get out there and do some work. I am hoping the weather improves soon, I am going to be busy with me mom. She will be having heart surgery in a week and a half, I will be tied up with her. Have fun.

Yes I do have alot of leaves still. My hubby has already used the blower 3 or 4 times already. I didnt dig up my flowers yet because they are still blooming. I like to wait till they start to look ugly.LOL Do you plant mums?

My husband will blow the leaves out of the garden beds,much to my dismay. I tell him that they help to protect the plants, but he doesn't listen to my pleas to leave them.

I have all of my plants and flowers in containers being that I live on a military installation, there is no sense of permanence. I am still having fairly good weather there, so my plants are doing fine so far. Once, the cold weather really sets in I usually bring my fern in from outside, clean up the pot and find a nice place in my home for it to survive through the cold months. My summer flowers though, will probably die so I will just clean out my pots and store them until the next spring. As much as I like fall and winter, I hate seeing my pretty flowers go.

I am lucky that my neighbor takes care of all the leaves....he just sweeps them up on his little tractor and takes them away. I still have to get the little decorations out of the flower beds like the frogs etc but that is about all I have to do.

I've rated your photo Grandpa Bob, you know why?. Because I started thinking of how to make money from that mulch..hahaha. Have your good day Grandpa Bob.

My tomatoes are still blooming, but they're predicting an second frost soon, so I'll be pulling those up next week. The squash and beans are done for, I've got part of them cleaned up. Going to move some lavender and iris a little later. I have a lot of clean up yet to do with flowers!

I don't have a green thumb. I definitely have a brown thumb lol. So I don't mess with anything out in the yard. My husband mows the grass, does the weedeating (sp?), and he blows the leaves. We have a big back yard so he always blows them to the back of the yard and leaves them there. If any kind of flowering stuff is done out at our house then my husband's grandmother comes and does it.

I have the opposite to you. Spring is full on, sop it is time to prepare lots of ,ulch. This year, due to severe water restrictions, my emphasis is on mulching, & weeding. I need every drop of water to go to my plahnts & not weeds. Plus, I am buying those spikey things that I poike in the ground, & attach an empty water bottle too. This I fill up with whatever water I can get, from the shower or bath. We are only allowed to water using a trigger nozzle once each weeek. In summer this will be no where near enough. So my focus is on keeping alive what I have, & not growing anymore. My hubby has a leaf blower too, & he uses the accumullated leaves for mulch too. We also have a mulcher, a small one.

I've started doing some fall clean-up but we still have a lot of leaves still on the trees, although very colorful, so will wait another week or so before collecting them. My room-mate/landlord has a lawn rake that pulls behind the riding mower so this should be much easier than the old way. And yes, I've already requested that he dump the leaves on the flower beds rather than the mulch pile.