Gardening Tips For Autumn: The Food Growers Top 5 Jobs For The Fall (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798685916167)

Gardeners Get Ready For Autumn
Winter is coming - But Autumn is here already
Autumn or Fall is one of the busiest seasons in the food growers calendar. It is a time for picking the last of the fruit harvest, and storing the vegetables to keep fresh over the long dark winter months.
Broken down into the Top 5 Main tasks to be done over the Autumn, this book also gives some tasty tips and recipes for preserving the fruit and vegetable harvest.
What You Will Find In This Book:

• Gathering & Storing. How and what to gather over the Autumn period including harvesting and storing fruit as well as vegetables, whether it be in Root Cellars or by converting to Jam, Marmalade, dried fruits or pickles.
• Pruning Fruit Trees & Bushes. Some great tips on pruning your fruit trees so that they will withstand the winter in good health, to produce abundant fruits in the following spring/summer.
• Autumn Planting. Just because it is late in the year does not mean an end to the growing season entirely Here you will find information on just what can be grown in cooler climes, including cover crops and winter veggies.
• Composting. The fall is a great time to get your compost heap up to speed Everything from leaf moult to vegetable waste can be put to good use and composted for the following years vegetables.
• Repair & Maintenance. Before the real cold sets in to freeze your fingers numb, now is the time to do any outside repairs to the greenhouse, cold-frame or outbuildings Top tips for things to do around the Autumn garden.

All of this and a good selection of tasty Jam & Pickle Recipes to finish, means that there is no need to be standing around idle, just because the main growing season is over