Maintenance and Clean Up
- Harvest winter squash when the "ground spot" changes from white to a cream or gold color.
- Mulch carrots, parsnips and beets for winter harvesting.
- Protect tomatoes; pick green tomatoes and ripen indoors if frost threatens.
- ✦Harvest potatoes when the tops die down. Store them in a dark location.
- ✦Stop irrigating your lawn after Labor Day to suppress European crane fly populations.
Planting and Propagation
- Divide peonies and iris.
- Plant or transplant woody ornamentals and mature herbaceous perennials. Fall planting of trees, shrubs and perennials can encourage healthy root growth over the winter.
- Plant daffodils, tulips and crocus for spring bloom. Work calcium and phosphorus into the soil below the bulbs at planting time. Remember when purchasing bulbs, the size of the bulb is directly correlated to the size of the flower yet to come in spring.
- Plant fava beans, corn salad and multiplying onions.
- Plant a winter cover crop of annual rye or winter peas in the vegetable garden. Click here for more about cover crops.
From Benton County Master Gardeners Association -
Membership meetings: 3rd Monday Oct. to May 7:00pm on Zoom.
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