What I’m Planting This Fall to Prep for an Abundant Spring & Summer Garden (🤞)
It’s important to get a head start on your spring and summer garden in the fall for two reasons. First, many plants need the dormant season of winter to get a good head start and fall planting is just right for this. Second, it just provides so much joy to plan ahead and work in the garden when it’s not so blazing hot! I also find great joy in anticipating the fruits of my labors!
The best things to plant in the fall are spring-blooming bulbs, shrubs and trees. Keep in mind that I am in South Alabama — zone 8b (or 9 if you consider the newer hardiness zones) so I can plant much later in the fall (and even winter!) than most because our soil never gets extremely cold. Here’s a list of what I am planting this fall to prep for an abundant spring and summer garden!
Garden Dreaming
When I bought my house, I inherited a yard and garden that was once certainly beautiful in its day. Mrs. Lucia — the lady of the house for 70 years — was a gardener. But for the last several years (+), she couldn’t care for it like she once did. It was a bit of a mess when I first saw it.