Cool fall mornings invite you to enjoy a stroll in the garden with a cup of something hot.<\/p>\n
Top dress warm-season lawns with well-composted manure.Sharpen and clean tools for fall pruning.Adjust watering schedules to reflect cooler temperatures and shorter days.Leaf-fall is the time to start pruning – except for apricots and olives, which should have been done in August.Feed cool-weather plants and vegetables to promote fall growth.This is a good time to plant landscape trees and shrubs.Continue to plant cool-weather annuals and those that use less water such as classic Coreopsis or hybrids such as \u2018Rum Punch\u2019.Perennials: Lantana, Penstemon \u2018Margarita BOP\u2019.Bulbs, corms, tubers: allium, anemone, Babiana.Fruits and vegetables: carrots, garlic, lettuce, plant from seed.Annuals: Michaelmas Daisy (Aster novi-belgii), snapdragon (Antirrhinum), calendula,\u00a0chrysanthemum paludosum.Trees, shrubs, vines: Cotoneaster.Harvest almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, and pecans when the outer hulls split open and nuts fall to the ground.\u00a0 Pick up nuts daily or shorten the task by shaking branches or knocking nuts down with a pole.\u00a0 Before shelling, dry nuts in the sun for 2-3 days;\u00a0properly dried nutmeats should snap in two rather than bend. Use shelled nuts right\u00a0away or store them in the freezer to prevent oxidation (rancidity), mold, and infestation by\u00a0ants or small worms.Fruits and vegetables: jicama, pumpkins, olives.Overnight temperatures in late October occasionally drop below freezing.\u00a0 Frost\u00a0protection will be needed for houseplants, citrus, avocados, and other cold-sensitive\u00a0plants.Do not replace vinca with pansies in the same bed \u2014 a soil-borne fungal root rot affects these plants.Use drip or soaker hoses for cool-season vegetable gardens, rather than less efficient overhead or furrow irrigation.<\/p>\n
Source: Adapted from A Gardener\u2019s Companion for the Central San Joaquin Valley, 3rd edition, currently available from Fresno County Master Gardeners for $30. These can be purchased at our demonstration garden – Garden of the Sun (1750 N Winery (McKinley\/Winery), open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9 am to Noon, and via email at mgfresno@ucanr.edu<\/a>. Gardening questions answered as well at mgfresno@ucanr.edu<\/a>. Prepared by Terry Lewis, Master Gardener UCCE Fresno County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cool fall mornings invite you to enjoy a stroll in the garden with a cup of something hot.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[13798,13796,140191,112,114,113,7997,13799,13802,13800,188937,3730,6526,13801,140190,140194],"class_list":["post-482092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-archaeplastida","tag-botany","tag-edible-plants","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-horticulture","tag-kingdoms-biology","tag-nut-fruit","tag-plant","tag-plants","tag-plants-and-humans","tag-pruning","tag-vegan-cuisine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}