Home Gardener’s
Weekly
Issue
No. 49
November
10, 2023
Weekly Garden Tip
Growing Garlic: Hardneck varieties are only grown in colder climates. They need cold to properly form bulbs. Once you plant them in fall, you want them to be at least 4” before the first frost. You won’t water them all winter! 😲
When the hard frosts of winter are over, you’ll start watering your garlic again. Some people mulch their garlic beds, and some don’t. It depends on how cold your winters are. If you live in a warmer climate, you’ll grow softneck garlic instead.
This week’s highlighted video covers the third habit in the Habits of a Green Thumb Grower. The third habit is Routine, which allows you to find more creativity and productivity. We believe that anyone can learn to have a green thumb with the right mindset and habits.
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Fun is Better than Perfect!
Our recent newsletters have contained a lot of info about planning that we hope you have found useful as we look forward into the new year…only about seven more weeks left in 2023. 🤯 We want to make sure, though, that you are also keeping your gardening fun. Yes, gardens are a great resource of nutritious food, and that is very important. However, they are also—or should be—a source of fun, relaxation, and peace!
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This month’s LIVE Q&A Garden Jam is Monday, Nov. 13th 4-5:30 Pacific / 7-8:30 Eastern. LIVE Q&A with your garden guide Crystal and a Garden Jam presentation by Grow Your Own Vegetables Master Instructor Stacey Murphy on Spirit Gardening.
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Make Gardening a Lifestyle, Not a Chore
If you are not finding the peace that you hoped for in your garden, it may be time to step back and take a fresh look at it. When you feel good about what you are doing, the habit is more likely to stick with you. This week’s blog article offers some insight into how to make your garden part of your normal lifestyle that you enjoy and not feel like a dreaded “I have to do this” chore.
Dear Arti,
Question: How do I organically get rid of bindweed in and outside my garden? – Rae
Answer: Hi Rae, so glad you reached out! For those of you who might not be familiar, bind weed is a member of the Convolvulaceae family, the same family as morning glories. These plants can be really hard to eliminate from your garden area because these plants spread rhizomatically.
Managing bindweed is a manual, two-step process. First, pluck out all the plants, removing as much of the underground parts as you can. Then, once a week, scuff up the top two inches of soil. Scuffing the soil is the process of taking a hoe (I like a collinear hoe myself) and roughing up the top few inches of soil.
While this won’t stop the rhizomes from trying to grow, it will prevent them from getting photosynthesis from leaves. Eventually, the rhizomes will die off. This process can take many seasons, but the good news is that scuffing the top few inches of your garden soil won’t just help keep your bindweed at bay. It can also help reduce pests and disease in your garden.
Fall time brings the changing of leaves, which also means raking leaves and using them to enhance soil and garden beds.
To utilize leaves in the garden, GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins does a thin layer of leaves in some of the beds to help enhance the soil over the winter, but where she wants weed suppression, she does a thicker layer of 2 – 3 inches.
She also uses leaves by adding them as a “brown” layer to compost bins as well as using them to mulch around plants or on top of her recently-planted garlic to help protect them from cold temperatures.
On a lighter note…
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