Finally, despite the super summer heat this week, autumn is finally on its way! This means fall planting is just around the corner and most of our edible plants are back! They were taking a break over the summer due to the heat and hot sun, but starting this Saturday you can grab a greater variety of plants for establishing your edible landscape.
Also, we’re super excited about joining in the fun tomorrow at the State Street Festival from 2-7pm. We’ll be heading over for the festivities after being at our excellent Corner Farmers Market hangout in the morning. This means you can get a double dose of homestead life and KW Edible Landscaping Nursery plants tomorrow at our two Greensboro market locations.
At State Street Festival, we’ll have lots of fall plants—fruit trees like the delicious Asian pear, berry bushes like the fruitful and easy-to-grow thornless blackberry, and other unusual greenery like the self-fertile and quick-bearing Issai hardy kiwi vine.
Tell your friends and spread the word. Then come by and see us yourself! 👍🏼
Our Featured Fall Plants
Are you ready for fall planting season? If you haven’t yet thought about what you’d like to get in the ground this fall, now is great time to start brainstorming… And we can help. We have loads of fruit-bearing bushes and unique edible plants, some of which include:
—Blackberry
—Raspberry
—Dwarf Beach Plum
—Hazelnut
—Asian & European Pear
—Modern & Heritage Apple
—Hardy Kiwi
—Elberberry
—Blueberry
All of these babies are ready to go home with you! You have the option of planting now or of waiting until the weather cools off—and we can help you decide which works best for your busy schedule. Just check in with us this week, Saturday at The Corner Farmers Market or the State Street Festival, or anytime!
Your Fall Planting Options
When it comes to fall planting, you have a lot of options! You can either plant now, being sure to watch your plants carefully in these last, hot days of summer or plant as the weather cools off a bit. Planting now means that your bush or tree can go ahead and put on more growth before the dormant season, and planting when the weather cools off means that you don’t have to watch your plant for signs of drying out or being sunbaked.
Either way, if you’re anxious to get your plants in the ground before next year, you can definitely get it done. Planting before spring means that your plants can spend their dormant, winter season putting on a lot of new root growth. When they start budding out for spring they’ll be extra hardy and ready to rock!
Just a tip: Raspberries and blackberries should bear fruit for you next year, so giving them this extra fall and winter time in the ground is an added benefit in making sure that they have you enjoying fruits next summer.
Soil Preparation
Let’s talk about getting your property and soil ready for fall planting! If you already know where you’d like to plant your plants, you can prepare the soil by covering the ground with a killing mulch—a mulch meant to kill all the grass and weeds below. You can also lay down cardboard or black plastic under this mulch to help with that process.
If you’re not into this idea, you can lay down a cover crop… Plants like buckwheat, which adds organic matter to the soil, prepares the soil for later planting, and improves overall soil health.
Tips For Caring For Your Established Plants
Some of you may be wondering what you should do to care for the plants that you’ve already planted as we go into fall and winter… One great idea is to fertilize your plants with a mineral fertilizer or compost! Be sure that you do not add any high nitrogen fertilizer to the soil at this time. Also, if you haven’t already mulched around the base of your plants, now is a great time to do this. This extra layer will help to protect the roots in the coming winter!
Need more tips? Ready to pick up your fall plants? Come find our booth tomorrow at the State Street Festival from 2-7pm!
