GARDENING TIPS: What you need to know as we enter fall – KOKI FOX 23 TULSA

TULSA, Okla. — The Autumn Equinox may begin later this month, but warmer temperatures are sticking around.

If you’re considering making some changes to your garden to prepare for cooler temperatures, you may need in order to do some research first. FOX23 spoke with Paul James at Southwoods Nursery to get an idea in what vegetables you should plant this particular time of year.

We still have two more months in our growing season, so there’s plenty of time to put cooler weather plant seeds for leafy greens, cabbage, cauliflower, and root crops like carrots, radishes, plus turnips.

When you are planting within this hot, dry, and breezy weather patterns, you need to keep the top half inch associated with soil moist by watering daily. Once the plant is above the ground and temps drop below 90°, you can cut back on watering every other day.

For the particular rest of your landscaping plants, you’ll want to make sure they get a good, deep soaking at least once per week through early drop.

Before a person put seeds in the floor, Paul says to make sure you amend your own soil, which can be done by adding a composting product. A slow-release organic fertilizer will help those fall plants grow.

You don’t want to waste any time in getting those seeds germinated, so make sure your soil has replenished nutrients necessary. As we approach Halloween plus November, we encounter frost and freeze. As long as the temperatures do not dip beneath 28°, these cooler season plants can still survive.

John says even those light frosts can actually concentrate sugar, adding a good even-better taste to your own vegetables.

As foliage begins to drop, you can also add shredded leaves to your beds, which usually will add later season nutrients to your plants.

This is also the best time of year to plant trees and shrubs. If your fescue grass took a hit in this brutal summer, you can start replanting that grass once temperature ranges return to the particular 70s plus lows within the 50s.

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