As we start changing seasons here in the upper Midwest sir Washburn of course from Eagle gardens by Washburn. My biggest question right now yes is what do we do in order to get our gardens ready for the last harvest or for you know putting it away for the winter.

L'autre is a big issue. We're still going to be watering omelets every day even though we just got about how many inches of rain in our area. I know it sounds crazy to keep watering your plants but they need that healthy drink specially evergreen all your woody shrub that you've just planted. Although this is a really good time to plant pride it isn't ready for the changing season. Some people like to cut down their native grasses or they like to prune things to the ground right now which is OK but in my mind I like to leave them up until spring. Just because they're beneficial live in there and when I say beneficials I mean beneficial insects and it also gives our other beneficial like pollinators. Even a mouse can be a pollinator. Believe it or not. So you've given them habitat over the winter and you're in your ornamental grasses. If you have time in the spring to wait I say wait but otherwise even your plants a good mulching perhaps with some leaves that you collected or some straws or even some grass put in weed free of course and then you can remove that lots when spring time comes. So what you're doing is essentially your mulching your going to protect them.

So do we want to add the grass then to our garden. After we pull over. So in my example I've got my garden that I've got planted I've got tomatoes and peppers and squash. And I think that's all I have.

Oh and cucumbers this year. So do I want to hold those plants up and then kill off everything that's do I want to Roundup them. Everything that didn't get pulled up because there's a lot of weeds this year.

No definitely yes. Pull out your vegetable plants that are no longer producing fruit and you can eat them into the ground. If they don't have any disease issues. Otherwise you can put them in your yard. We've been an island to the site or put them wherever you put them. I would not roundup anything because basically you're kind of just wasting roundup simply because if you're going to plant in there and you're putting it to bed many of those are annual weeds and they won't come back next season until perhaps the weed seeds get stirred up again by Rodo chilling or just simply by blowing in your garden and growing in optimal temps. Definitely pulling out your plants and in fact if you wanted to introduce more nitrogen into your soil you could plant to cover crop. Some people plant a rye grass. Some people plants LCL from those types of things that you can just plant the winter cover crops.

So like I said if the nitrogen back into your soil which your plant or vegetable plants need so if you just if you end up just pulling them and now planting that can you put grass clippings over the top of that or like you mentioned leaves submental that'll also help with the nitrogen put it back into your for soil absolutely cover your whole garden with deadly away from disease.

Or quirk sample maple trees have a disease called Parisot and although that is cosmetic to the tree meaning that it doesn't hurt the tree it's just something that happens and the only way you can really get rid of it is by removing the leaves from the site that if you leave in your garden you are actually spreading the car but not you just want to sprinkle that on top or you want the upset him. I would just let it lay on top if you run a rototiller right now. You could otherwise I just wait till frame and let it naturally decompose on its own. But also when you are using the rototiller You are disturbing the soil underneath your feet and there's a lot of good microbes and microorganisms down there that are doing their job and when you disturb them. Some people call it organic farming or organic gardening. If you're using a rototiller instead of a broad fork you deserve the soil so much more. And basically you're working against yourself.