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By Kenner P. Love
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop and Sou Sciences
The following are October gardening tips from the Rappahannock Extension Office.
• 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.
• Many of the late-maturing apple varieties, such as Winesap, Yellow Newton, Rome Beauty, and Northern Spy are best for storage. They can be stored outdoors in insulated boxes, straw-lined pits, or buried container. As long as outdoor temperatures are above 10F, they should not freeze. They will, however, last longer and taste better if kept in plastic bags of in plastic-lined, cardboard boxes in a fruit cellar. Cardboard boxes and plastic bags must be perforated to allow for air circulation.
• 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 home orchard
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