You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. What garden tasks can you be doing right now to transition from the summer garden?

Here we are in the middle of September, and I can just imagine with the

diversity of the people that are listening to this today, that a lot of us are experiencing

different things in our gardens right now, depending on our climate. Some of you guys are

in more northern parts of the country of the world and you're starting to

get ready for your first frost and yet there are some people that are in the more southern

and tropical parts of the country that maybe you don't even get a frost and so that's

you're still experiencing summer well i'm kind of in between that.

We typically don't get our first fall frost to late October and early November. And typically

in September, it's just about as hot as it is in the middle of the summer. But still,

you can feel it. No matter where you live, you can feel the transitioning of the seasons.

For us, that starts to come subtly through the nighttime temperatures getting a little bit cooler

and just the feeling of fall in the air. So if you're like me, you may be finding yourself

transitioning slowly from your summer garden

either into your fall garden, which I hope that you're growing something in your fall garden.

If not, check back to episodes 96 and 97 where we talk about that.

Or maybe you're just transitioning out of the summer garden.

Maybe you don't have plans to do a fall garden this year

and you want to set everything up well for your garden over the winter to get ready for next

season. No matter where you are in terms of climate or whether you're planning a fall garden or not,

these tasks are some that I personally use as I'm getting ready

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