Fall

Getting your garden ready will make it a lot easier in the spring. October is the month when you plan and plant your bulb garden. Make or buy your mulch and arrange to have your garden tilled and covered to kill off the little pests and weeds in the soil. Time to start raking the leaves and or wait for them to drop. This year we decided to pile them up and run a mulching lawn mower over them and use them as mulch as a way to be more green. A lot of garden supply stores are having sales getting rid of summer inventory. It’s the perfect time to buy your manures/ composts, pre-emergent, fertilizers, oil sprays, repellants and even some plants put them in the ground immediately (perennials) . Store things for next year somewhere cool and dry so you have them in the spring. Its also time to start collecting seeds. Remember to wrap them in paper towels to ward off mold and keep them nice, cool and dry. Mark the seed containers with permanent markers so you won’t be trying to guess what they are later. Bring in containers and plants that aren’t winter safe and store them.

Morning Glory!

Summer hit me with a lazy kind of heat. Heat in Georgia is wet and numbing you spend your days avoiding it. Most plants wilted and some died, but my morning glories were magnificent! I planted a little flower called a Cardinal climber with them. The purples, pinks and red brightened cooled a wall that got full sun. All it took was a few sticks for them to climb, and a little water in the mornings every other day. Morning glories are tough little plants. Next year I'm going to plant more variations and see if I can get a full riot of color. The flowers planted in spring are still flowering and it's October!