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Preparing Your Garden for FallTom Watkins – Certified Master Gardener

Prescott Valley

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Irrigation

Remember to irrigate landscape plants and fruit trees

Average rainfall in November is 0.81 inches

Can decrease schedules times of irrigation

Maintains vigor of plants

Reduces likelihood of pest problems

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Fall Plantings - Flowers

May plant cool season flowers

Prepare soil by digging in lots of composted matter mixed with small amount of nitrogen fertilizer

Types of flowers: Pansies, Poppies,

Sweet Peas, Snapdragons

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Fall Plantings – Landscape

Good time to plant native & drought adapted plants

Examples: Globe mallow, acacia, mesquite,

Use the improved planting standard

Do not prune fruit tees/roses until Feb/Mar

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Turf

Cool season turf; fescue, bluegrass, ryegrass

Fertilize with one pound of nitrogen per 1,000 sq. ft.

Remember one pound of nitrogen fertilizer does not equal one pound of nitrogen applied

Apply turf fertilizers evenly so not to concentrate it in any one area

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Helping Your Garden Grow

AlkalineAcidic

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Cool Season Weeds

May use a pre-emergent herbicide

Consider mulches (At least 3 inches deep) to help control weeds

Attractive mulches: wood chips, bark

Mulching is good soil protection and water conserving

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Clean Up

Clean up your vegetable garden and flower beds

Compost healthy plant residue

If you don’t have a compost pile, consider

starting one

May plant cool season crops

Consider planting a cover crop; annual rye, barley etc.

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