How To Prepare Your Garden For Autumn (Part Two)

Hey Guys,
I hope everyone is doing well.

This is the second part to a quick, basic guide on how to prepare your garden for autumn. It's been a really fun process going through this mini-series, I've learned a lot and I really hope that I've been able to give you guys some helpful advice.

So let's dive right in to this guide on preparing your garden for autumn:

1: Sow Cover Crops: The practice of cover cropping is a really good thing to consider for your garden once the growing season ends because cover cropping is used to manage and hopefully if all goes well, reduce the amount of soil erosion. Cover cropping really does help your soil by reducing the negative impacts if you live in an area that has to endure particularly harsh winters. This will help maintain your soil in good condition until you're ready for the new growing season.
2: Protect Young Trees and Plants: Young trees and plants do need a lot of protection as they grow because in their younger stages, they're increasingly vulnerable to all kinds of things in your garden. This is particularly true during the winter months when the weather takes a weather for the worse. Young plants and trees really will thank you for any extra layers of protection you can provide.
3: Improve Drainage: This step shouldn't be overlooked because it's a really important step in preparing your garden for autumn, especially if you live in an area that endures particularly wet, rainy autumn and winter months. Water-logged and wet soil can make young or shallow-rooted trees more likely to uproot, as well as depriving the roots of oxygen which will cause them to die, and realistically, nobody wants that to happen.
4: Plant Spring-Flowering Bulbs: Autumn is the perfect time to get a head start on what you want to grow in the new growing season in the following spring. So this is the perfect tome to get ready and get planting those spring flowering bulbs that you've always wanted and kick start your growing season with a sense of colour.

Next up we'll be taking a look at the benefits of an autumn garden.

Thank you for reading,
Until next time,
Kim