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By BIRGITT THORNHILL
Extension Agent
• If the weather stays dry enough before the ground freezes, you can plow. Fall plowing allows earlier planting in the spring and is especially good for heavy soils since they are exposed to the freezing and thawing of action of winter. This will help improve your soil’s structure.
• Remove any diseased or insectinfested plant material from your garden; it may harbor overwintering stages of disease and insect pests. If you leave this plant material in your garden, you are leaving diseases and insects which will begin to reproduce again next spring and add to next year’s pest problem.
• A plant or two of parsley taken from the garden and potted up will do well all winter if watered and set in a sunny window. Chives, sage and thyme can also be maintained in this manner.
• If your climbing roses are in an exposed location, tie them up firmly with broad strips of rags so that the wind will not whip them against the trellis and bruise the bark.
• Fall is an excellent time for taking soil samples in your lawn and garden. Soil tests will measure the acidity or alkalinity of the soil and the levels of some of the nuqor elements required for plant growth; phosphorus and potassium. Where lime is needed, now is a good time to apply it.
• In preparing flower beds which will be planted next spring, do not
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