GARDENING TIPS
                            FOR
                       NOVEMBER

● As the weather gets colder, plant your cold-weather vegetables in a cold frame. You can sow lettuce, beets, mustard, spinach etc. Stagger sowing so that you get a constant supply.

● Do not store apples and  pears with other vegetables.
Ethylene gas produced by these fruit will accelerate
vegetable senescence and yellowing.

● Plant your tulips, daffodils, hyacinth, crocus and other
bulbs that require winter chilling before the ground gets
frozen up.

● This is a good time to dig a hole for your Christmas tree if you are getting a living tree for Christmas.

● Harvest all your frost tender vegetables. Tomatoes will only ripen at temperatures above 65º F. So keep all your tomatoes, including green ones at room temperature and let them ripen on your kitchen table.

● Garlic and shallots can be planted now. They will be
ready by next summer for harvest. Their tips should be
about 2" below soil level to prevent upheaval by frost.

● Wash your harvested vegetables with dilute kitchen
detergent or mix a 1% Chlorox solution, then rinse off thoroughly with tap water. This prevents storage rot.

● This is the time to clean up all diseased plant material
and discard into the trash. Do not compost diseased
material.

● Mulch with the abundance of free leaf mulch that has fallen on your yard. Leaf mulch is "green gold". The thick layer of leaves serves as insulation material for plant roots. Be sure to remove the leaf mulch in spring.

● Make cuttings of all your plants that you can over winter in the house till next spring. These are the fuchias, geraniums, impatiens, including all types of herbs that will readily grow in your window sill (if there is good light).