Fall time, what does it mean to you?

[Gemma]

The best- cool weather and rich, warm meals that take hours to cook!

Yup! Nothing says family, like the aroma of a delicious dinner coming from the kitchen and spreading allover the house!

 

[addy1]

time to put the pond, yard, bees to sleep...............Down time for me! I love fall and winter

 

[Lisak1]

I do love fall... as much as I enjoy my gardens and pond all spring and summer I do appreciate when things start to slow down a bit. I have been watering more this year than ever in September - the drought we've had this year (after having flooding rains in June) has me really worried. Hopefully the more mature plants with survive, but all the white pines in our neighborhood are dropping needles like crazy. We have two in our backyard and I've never seen them look this bad. I was tempted to just let all my pots go, but I just couldn't do it! Too much work goes into them and I love to make them last as long as possible! So it's been me and my watering can, reunited!

I had a BAD fungus problem in my vegetable gardens this year. So I've been experimenting with H2O2 and compost tea to see if I can kill it off and use the beds again next year. A master gardener told me it was impossible - that I needed to let the bed sit fallow for SEVEN TO TEN YEARS. Uh... no. I'll keep you all posted!

@teeemkay - I was going to suggest you leave the perennials standing until spring, but I understand about your leaf net. You'd be trading a solution for another problem!

 

[Angel]

Putting away lawn mower and bringing out the snow blower and leaf blower.

C ant wait for snow.

 

[j.w]

Oh the snow, I forgot the snow but that's not Fall, that's winter for us if we are lucky enough to get any.

 

[Gemma]

aww what a cute snowman!
I remember years ago it started snowing the first week of October, and we had snow on the ground from then till April! I also remember a year where we had no snow on Christmas day, and by March everything was in bloom 2 month a head of time
I wonder what this winter will be like!

 

[peta hillman]

Fall means going to bed at 8pm.

 

[Nyboy]

I love Fall nothing is prettier then the Hudson River Valley in fall. Painters for 100s of years traveled to paint it. The air has a fresh crispness you almost can feel the magic in the air. I am a lazy gardener I leave the fallen leafs to decompose over winter, I never cut back flowers but leve them so birds can eat the seeds in winter. I am becoming a big fan of dahlias. I never bothered with them because they are not winter hardy in my zone .Last spring I picked up some dahlia roots on clearance $1 a package. They impressed me so much with there nostop flowering I dug them up and saved over winter.

 

[MitchM]

Snow tires, cleaning eavestroughs, cooking plans, make sure the building is ready for winter, firewood on the deck.
Favourite time of the year as well.

 

[Gemma]

Fall means going to bed at 8pm.

I wish!

I am becoming a big fan of dahlias. I never bothered with them because they are not winter hardy in my zone .Last spring I picked up some dahlia roots on clearance $1 a package. They impressed me so much with there nostop flowering I dug them up and saved over winter.

I think Dahlias are addictive like Cannas!
I decided to try them out this year, and loved them! I'm already going through catalogs envisioning the new ones I could buy next year!

No other flower comes in so many different forms, sizes and colors! Dahlias are absolutely beautiful!

 

[teeemkay]

@teeemkay - I was going to suggest you leave the perennials standing until spring, but I understand about your leaf net. You'd be trading a solution for another problem!

I'm leaving some of the taller grasses up to camouflage the mess in our backyard from the ongoing garage construction. I trimmed back just enough of them today along one end so that when I want to put the net on next weekend or the weekend after I'll have an easier time. The other sides just have the shrubs around them, so those are low enough to cover easily with the net. No matter what, I have a lot of landscaping and lawn work to do next year once construction is over. The lawn got pretty torn up from the activity.

So far not many leaves have made it into the pond even though they are dropping off the walnut tree already... but all it takes is one windy, rainy day and poof, they're all in the water clogging up the skimmer net.

 

[callingcolleen1]

OMG! What a wonderful place you have created and what a beautiful soul you are!
I love your imagination and I could listened to your stories all day long!!!! View attachment 104823

Your So sweet. Thanks for the beautiful words.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Oh the snow, I forgot the snow but that's not Fall, that's winter for us if we are lucky enough to get any.
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Snowy bizzard coming tomorrow here.

 

[Lisak1]

Snowy bizzard coming tomorrow here.

WHAAAAAAAT?? No. Not ready.

 

[Angel]

WHAAAAAAAT?? No. Not ready.

hah canada has 2 seasons snow and no snow