Jack Frost is knocking on the Door to your Garden

 
 Before Jack Frost comes knocking at your garden door,take a few minutes to make notes on what worked in your garden this year (or didn't) and start a plan for next year.
Its time now to plant spring bulbs such as,tulips,jonquils,hyacinths.....
You can also dig up your geraniums and keep them in a frost free spot(I put mine in an unheated cellar) and pot them up late next winter.
Don't forget to pot up your herbs,rosemary and  basil are a couple I have luck with indoors.
Also, I bring inside my Mandevilla and bougainvillea they go fairly dormant over the winter,but will rejuvenate once they go outside next spring.

 

Miracle Blooming Geraniums

Surprise!! Remember those dead looking geraniums from earlier this year? Viola!They are now growing healthy and blooming beautifully.I like this variety of geraniums.I will plant this one and the other geraniums in pots and bring them inside before the first frost in September.
Next time I will talk about the wonderful healthy veggies that I am growing.

Miracle Geraniums...later

Early February is the time to bring your geraniums up from the basement if you saved them in the fall from the frost.
Every September I pull up my geraniums from the pots or ground and place them in a paper bag and put them in the cellar which is about 50 degrees or so.
They do look extremely ugly and hopeless.I get out some 4 inch pots add some potting soil,trim up the geraniums, plant them and add water and hope.Within a couple of weeks they will start showing some green.Give them plenty of light but keep them cool.Just itching to start some pansies,but they won't be happy in the house,its too warm.Maybe later this month I'll try.