Fall Garden Maintenance is Important For Early Spring Planting

Once your summer gardening has ended, there ispests that can harm your garden and survive the
plenty of work that is still needed to be done if youwinter months with the shelter that spent plants and
want to get your early crops in the spring planted asother garden debris will provide.
soon as the weather permits. With a little planningFall is a great time to test your gardens soil and to
and preparation it will greatly benefit your organicimprove it's structure. Organic soil amendments need
garden.time to breakdown to provide the benefits your
Now is the time to create a plan for what you wantgardens soil needs to create the healthy growing
to grow next year. It doesn't needed to be anconditions for your plants to thrive.
elaborate plan, just a simple list with dates that youPreparing your organic garden in the fall has many
needed to plant certain crops and a layout for thererewarding benefits. It gives you the ability to extend
designated location. This is very important whenthe length of your growing season. Being able to
wanting to include companion planting into yourstart your garden earlier in the spring also allows your
gardening practices.plants to get established, grow strong and healthy
Clean all debris from the garden so that pests wontearly in the season before there are any dangers of
have a place to harbor through the winter months ispests or diseases.
a major part or organic pest control. There are many