Harvest time is the season of progress and can be an exceptionally bustling time. Here are some tips on Autumn (Fall) projects to keep you motivated and busy in the garden.

A wide range of beautiful blooming globules should be available in stores now, ready for next Spring. Such as Daffodils, Freesias, Tulips, Hyacinths and Ranunculus. So be sure to purchase them ahead of schedule for the best pick. They will need to be stored in a cool dry spot until you are prepared to plant. Most spring blooming bulbs can be planted from April onwards; yet leave tulips and hyacinths until May or June when the dirt is cooler.

Spring and summer perennials will have pretty much completed their turn in the garden. Such as Agapanthus, Clivia, Day Lilies Salvias and numerous others will react well with a hard prune back and can be lifted and separated. The clearing process will give you additional plants to fill any crevices around the patio nursery. Ensure in the wake of transplanting any plant it gets a lot of water.

Autumn (Fall) is citrus time and the time you spent caring for your citrus trees through the mid year months will start to pay off. It is important that citrus get a light nourishing at this time of year. Though oddly it seems that male urine is especially good with Lemon Trees. Not sure why.

So as you might have noticed, Autumn (Fall) is no time to put up the garden tools and take a break. There are soils to turn over and mulch to work with. For some plants such as bulbs it may be a sleeping time, but if planted timely they will burst forth in Spring bringing with them a veritable range of colour and texture to the garden.

Michael