On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Vance County Regional Farmers Market Update.
- If finished with your garden consider planting a cover crop to protect the soil and add nitrogen to your garden for next year. Example – Crimson clover.
- Avoid using organic soil amendments when planting trees and shrubs unless you can amend a large area.
- Start winterizing equipment that you are not going to use until next spring.
- This is a good time to make herbicide applications to vines and woody brush you want to eliminate. This includes things like english ivy, poison ivy, wisteria, briars, tree saplings, etc. Use a brush killer that will kill the root as well as the top part of the plant.
- Start assembling your leaf gathering equipment. Have a plan on what to do with your leaves this year.
- Do you have any mixed spray solution in any of your garden sprayers? Use it up now before you forget what it is, and before we get freezing temperatures.
- Soil samples need to be taken now to make soil amendments!
- If you have shrubs with major dieback, consider replacing them this fall. Shrubs with dieback may continue to survive, but they almost never look good and treating them is impractical to impossible.
- You can plant beets, sweet peas, bulb onions, mustard, lettuce, collards, arugula.
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