Gardening Tasks For The Fall Season

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Gardening Tasks For The Fall Season

September is already upon us and in many parts of the United States, it’s now time to start our fall gardening chores. For some of us there is a lot to do in a very short period of time, because the first frosts are just a few weeks away. Other parts of the country may have another one to three months before the cold snaps hit, but getting started now will give you time to get everything done without rushing.

Not everyone will have the same gardening tasks in the fall, but we’ll look at some of the basics and you can decide which ones apply to your personal gardening needs.

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Easy growing annuals

Easy growing annuals

Annuals are flowers and plants which only grow for one season, then they die off and must be replanted again by seed or starter plants the next year. Some annuals create seeds though, which will drop to the ground and naturally start sprouting on their own the following year, but many must be purchased again if you want to have those flowers blooming in your yard and garden again each year.

Annuals are a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to create beautiful color in your yard and garden in the springtime. Many annuals can be purchased in small four or six inch starter pots, and they’ll often already have flowers blooming when you buy them. Buying them this way allows you to take them home, put them into the ground or into pots and containers, and have an instant blooming garden right from the start.

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Creating an Annual Flower Bed

Creating an Annual Flower Bed

Annual flower beds are a beautiful site to see. Since most annual flowers are quite colorful, they’re planted into beds where color is most desired or needed. Used for a wide variety of exterior landscaping and garden design purposes, annual flowers come in every color of the rainbow and they can have any number of textures and shapes too.

Annuals are also popular because they’re versatile. In other words: You don’t have to make a long term gardening commitment to them. If you’d simply like to try various flower colors and arrangements around your home and lawn, you can put in annual flower beds whose designs change every year.

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The Best Annual Flowering Plants to Include in your Garden

Annuals provide more color, more quickly than any other group of flowering plants. They definitely give you the biggest ?bang? for your color buck! Moreover, they give you planting choices as well: you can plant them from seed or from seedling six packs or as already established plants in four, six or eight inch pots.

The life cycle of annuals is to sprout from seed, flower, set seed, and die within one growing season. Many flowers, vegetables, and herbs are planted as annuals, either seeded or set out in the spring to grow during the summer and die when frost hits.

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