subject: How To Grow Potatoes And Autumn Jobs [print this page] It is that time again, when we say goodbye to the great British summer. The nights are drawing in and its time to put the BBQ and patio set back in the shed for another year.
The vegetable patch, however, is coming into a new lease of life as there are many prominent vegetables that love the autumn weather. All the tips and gardening advice that you have collected are now coming into use as you are kept busy planting and preparing for the next year.
Autumn produces some of the best vegetables in my opinion, the leeks, parsnips, sprouts, onions, asparagus, but to mention a few should all getting your full attention round about now.
Autumn is an excellent time for planting and preparing and given the right gardening advice and guidance, your vegetable patch will be thoroughly prepared for the coming spring.
Spinach is an excellent crop that can be sown now and up until the end of October, and it is perfect in soups or salads. Garlic is also ideal for this time of the year, and if you plant it now you will have a lovely crop come early next year.
Now is the time also you should be leaning how to grow potatoes, potatoes are sown in mid march and they are delicious and healthy. These vegetables are also exceptionally proficient at cleaning an area of land, as lots of the diseases that are in the soil attack the potato, so on harvesting, the diseases are pulled with the potato leaving a truly nutritious vegetable patch for the coming season.
Autumn vegetables make for some of the tastiest varieties, and also keep you busy during those dark months, when you thought pottering in the garden was finished.
