Garden Talk

Time to ready gardens for winter

Garden Calendar

• Harvest winter squash when the outer rind becomes tough and is hard enough not to easily puncture with your fingernail.

• Walk the garden and pick up fallen fruit from the ground.

• Divide and replant most perennials, especially spring bloomers.

• Enrich soil by adding organic matter, such as compost, shredded leaves, manure, or cover crops.

• Plant new tall fescue or Kentucky bluegra…