Just relax and stretch your legs and enjoy a year’s worth of work. Or planning what to do in the spring. But not even now. It is necessary to clean, dig, cut… But what if not? Are you working unnecessarily in the garden in autumn?
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We do not promise that you will not appear in the garden again. But it’s better to tell yourself that if you’re not currently planning to plant, or if you don’t need it before winter, you can relax. You can leave a number of jobs until it starts to warm up again. “There are jobs that we do more out of habit in autumn. At the same time, it is often better for nature if you leave them until spring,” nods Jana Bucharová, editor of the magazine Recipe for Garden Themes, in the podcast. So plan walks and reading under a warm blanket and put all this aside with a calm heart.
Digging and fertilizing
This is only partly true. It depends on how your beds look right now. If they are empty, or possibly waiting to harvest the last heads of cabbage and other winter vegetables, leave them alone until spring.
But if you planted green manure in September, we are sorry. As soon as it grows big enough, it will need to be dug into the soil before it freezes. But you will take care of a lot of valuable nutrients for next year and that is worth a little sweat.
Removal of old branches
This also applies to the general cleaning of the garden. Cleaning up branches, piles of leaves, or perhaps piles of stones ready for the construction of a dry wall. Cross your fingers and don’t want to lie down. There may already be a lot of useful vermin hiding in them, from insects to small animals that you definitely don’t want to drive out of the garden.
Cut herbs and berries
While cutting will benefit most during the colder months, let the rest of the garden go dormant for now. And that includes bushes. Berries such as currants or gooseberries are much better cut in the spring.
So are perennials, including perennial herbs. “By this time, they are no longer of very good quality, they have half fallen off and are slowly drying up,” describes the expert. “But this dead stem protects the rest of the plant.” Therefore, it is better to leave it where it is until spring. “When the frost covers it, it will certainly be more beautiful than a bare bed,” Jana Bucharová adds.
