Your Plants
Last chance to plant the following:
- Beet leaf spinach
- Chinese cabbage
- Garlic
- Japanese onion sets
Notes for Your Garden
Check to see if Brussel sprouts need harvesting (if leaves are yellow – add nitrogen feed to the soil)
Cabbages should be ready – watch for slugs in the leaves – sprinkle outside with salt to avoid slugs
Harvest the last of the beans, but leave the roots in the soil; use foliage for composting
Harvest the last of your potatoes – when leaves start dying, cut back leaves but leave potatoes for a couple of weeks to set skins and prevent potato blight. When harvested, leave out for a couple of week before putting into cold storage or paper sacks
Your Garden
- Turn over the soil – dig as deep as you can – allows oxygen into the soils; exposes pathogenic insects and pests to the open air for the birds to feed on
- Cover with all the leaves that have been cut out over the summer
- Layer with lime
- Then cover with compost
- Then with organic horse manure
- Then with organic chicken manure
- If you have rabbit manure – apparently this is good as well, but I don’t have access to any
Your Berries
- Prune back your blackcurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, blackberries, raspberries
- Fork in some good nitrogen fixers to create stronger bushes next year
Your Greenhouse
- Make sure the vents are open on muggy days – to avoid fungal growth
- Wash, clean, disinfect pots, glass
- Bubble wrap windows if necessary
- If you are like me, plant your hardy lettuces like artic king to give salads over the winter
Submitted by
Dr Holly
One Stop Mobile Health Shop
Choices Unlimited for Health & Wellness
Dr. Holly Fourchalk, Ph.D., DNM®, RHT, MH, AAP, HT
604.764.5203
holly@ChoicesUnlimited.ca
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