![]() Watering is probably your post important task for a fall garden. Clean up the beds and add some compost and kelp to feed the soil before planting the next crop. ![]() Or, perhaps you’ve pulled diseased tomatoes or the squash bugs have now taken over the squash bed. ![]() You may have harvested your onions and garlic, so you have an open bed. This is when you’ll be clearing out the summer crops that have died back or that you’re simply not using. Of course, you have to decide on where to put your crops. Other greens such as arugula, mache, minutina, and claytonia can withstand quite cold temperatures, providing you with lots of interesting salads and cooked greens well into late fall.Īlso, considering mixing up edibles with flowering annuals to bring autumnal interest to the garden! For example, combine ornamental cabbages and kales with flowering pansies and different salvias. Some Asian greens like hon tsai tai and mibuna are more closely related to mustard (also a brassica), which gives them tangy leaves that add a pleasant bite to an autumn salad or stir fry. They can weather a frost and will last through a hard freeze if given some protection. Tatsoi, pac choi, mizuna, and napa are all in the brassica family.
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