Autumn Archives - Growing and Gathering

Creating A Beautiful And Bounteous Edible Garden In Fall

Most people are of the opinion that the arrival of fall means the end of the growing season. Well, before you pack away your garden tools, allow us to tell you that summer is not only the high-season in the …

Autumn Harvest

It’s hard to believe that where I live, we are in Autumn already. The year seems to have only just begun, and I had lost track of time with all the glorious Summer days, yet here we are. Sometimes it’s …

Harvesting Yams – When To Dig Up Your Yams

We’ve had 3 or 4 good hard frosts already this Autumn. Jack Frost has definitely started his rounds . Which means it is time to harvest the Yams! I have to be honest and say that when I see those …

Mint Refurbishment

Things have got a little out of hand in the Mint department. Our Mint patch is looking rather unruly right now which means it’s time for the bi-annual herb refurb. Every Autumn and early Summer our Mint patch gets a good haircut …

Autumn Beauty In An Edible Garden

Growing an edible garden doesn’t mean missing out on all the beauty of Autumn.

The yellows of the Cherry tree leaves…

The oranges of the Nectarine tree leaves…

Growing Garlic From Last Seasons Bulbs

As you are eating your Summer harvest of Garlic, don’t forget to put aside a few cloves from each bulb, for planting in Winter.

Garlic bulbs are grown from individual cloves like the ones in the picture above. With the right growing conditions, each clove planted goes on to produce a single Garlic plant with a bulb containing as many as 20 cloves.

Which makes growing Garlic wonderfully self-sustaining.

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