Comments on: my november garden chores http://awaytogarden.com/my-november-garden-chores Organic gardening inspiration from Margaret Roach Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lynn druskat http://awaytogarden.com/my-november-garden-chores/comment-page-1#comment-13072 lynn druskat Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:26:51 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=6701#comment-13072 perhaps we should be well hydrated to entire the winter as well? i love your intimacy with the outside world, thanks for sharing, it comes to welcome ears. L perhaps we should be well hydrated to entire the winter as well? i love your intimacy with the outside world, thanks for sharing, it comes to welcome ears. L

]]> By: Fred from Loudonville, NY http://awaytogarden.com/my-november-garden-chores/comment-page-1#comment-12644 Fred from Loudonville, NY Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:58:28 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=6701#comment-12644 To me, November is the time to see the real bones of the garden. If all the flowers are gone, and all the foliage has died, and is cut back, AND you now just have a fence, or brown tree trunks to look at, then you really don't have a garden that offers SOMETHING 365 days a year. This is the time to go out on your deck, or porch, and look out windows and think about what kinds of evergreen mounds, globes, columns, pyramids, topiaries, trees, etc that will bring your eyes WINTER INTEREST. Start on your left, slowly looking across your property to the right side, and visualize evergreens, ornamental grasses, plants with colored stems, or twisted growth habbits, and berries. The plants can be in beds or boarders, floating out in the lawn, and along paths. Every November, I see a spot where a new evergreen something can be added. The other day, I saw places for an upright yew, and a blue spruce mound. They will appear HOPEFULLY, next spring. Also, fancy iron garden decorations, garden trellises, and arbors, to name a few, give you something to focus on when winter is here. To me, November is the time to see the real bones of the garden. If all the flowers are gone, and all the foliage has died, and is cut back, AND you now just have a fence, or brown tree trunks to look at, then you really don’t have a garden that offers SOMETHING 365 days a year. This is the time to go out on your deck, or porch, and look out windows and think about what kinds of evergreen mounds, globes, columns, pyramids, topiaries, trees, etc that will bring your eyes WINTER INTEREST. Start on your left, slowly looking across your property to the right side, and visualize evergreens, ornamental grasses, plants with colored stems, or twisted growth habbits, and berries. The plants can be in beds or boarders, floating out in the lawn, and along paths. Every November, I see a spot where a new evergreen something can be added. The other day, I saw places for an upright yew, and a blue spruce mound. They will appear HOPEFULLY, next spring. Also, fancy iron garden decorations, garden trellises, and arbors, to name a few, give you something to focus on when winter is here.

]]> By: ConeFlower http://awaytogarden.com/my-november-garden-chores/comment-page-1#comment-12550 ConeFlower Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:34:15 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=6701#comment-12550 I have planted my garlic, turnips, radished and spinach. All are up and looking very happy now. I see you said that spinach planted now will be for a very early spring picking. When will I be able to get radishes and turnips. Do I dig through the snow for them? I'm in zone 5 also, NE Ohio, not sure whether it's 5a or 5b. Thanks for info. I have planted my garlic, turnips, radished and spinach. All are up and looking very happy now. I see you said that spinach planted now will be for a very early spring picking. When will I be able to get radishes and turnips. Do I dig through the snow for them? I’m in zone 5 also, NE Ohio, not sure whether it’s 5a or 5b.

Thanks for info.

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