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By Kenner P. Love
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop and Soil Sciences
The following are November gardening tips and advice from the Rappahannock Extension Office.
• Plowing that leaves the soil bare throughout late fall to early spring can create problems such as leaching and erosion. It is too late to plant cover crops to hold nutrients in the soil, but mulching could help preserve soil that otherwise might be lost during heavy rainfall.
• Be sure not to store apples or pears with vegetables. The fruits give off ethylene gas which speeds up the breakdown of vegetables and causes them to develop off- flavors.
• Dead leaf stalks of perennial vegetables, such as asparagus and rhubarb, should be cut to the ground after their tops are killed by frost.
• Remove grass and weeds from trunks of fruit trees and
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