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BY KENNER P. LOVE
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop & Soil Sciences
Following are gardening tips for October. For additional information feel free to call the Rappahannock Extension Office at 675-3619.
• Smaller apples usually keep longer and bruise less. Allow for air circulation when storing..
• You can reduce the number of pests on fruit trees next year by picking up and destroying all fallen fruit, branches, and leaves. Worms and other pests feed on this fruit over winter in the soil, and emerge in the ^ spring to lay eggs and start the cycle all over again.
• Surround the trunks of fruit trees with hardware cloth or similar wire, and bury the edges in the ground to prevent rodents from chewing on them.
• Clean up orchard and small-fruit plantings. Sanitation is essential for good maintenance. Dried fruits or “mummies” carry disease organisms through the winter to attack next year’s crop.
• Tomatoes need an average daily temperature of 65 degrees or more for ripening. If daytime temperatures consistently are below this, pick the fruits that have begun to change color and bring them inside to ripen?,
• Plant garlic and shallots
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