Everyone says Fall is a great time for planting, but all the articles talk about Fall as if it happens in September. Well, perhaps that’s true for the rest of the world, but here on the Gulf Coast, at least temperature wise, Fall didn’t really get here until late October. Even now that it’s mid-November, it’s still almost Summer-like. Yesterday it was over 80 degrees when I was working in the yard.
So, anyway, I’m hoping that because I’m just getting started doing my Fall gardening that I’m not too late. Hopefully, a major freeze won’t come sweeping through in a week or two to kill all my new plants before they get established.
I haven’t even gotten very much done so far. I have a long way to go before I can call myself a real gardener – I’m such a wimp! I work for an hour and I’m hot, tired and sweaty. Wah!
All I’ve done so far is replace the plants under my front yard tree. I had originally put some coleus there and they looked good for a while, but a while back we had a really windy day – and they just blew right over! Apparently, they were never able to root very well in the shallow holes I was able to make between the tree roots. So, I pulled all of those out and put in some cute little pansies – white and purple. Hopefully they will be able to do a little better, at least until Spring when I can do some more work.
