I still have about two weeks before frost but I pulled my geraniums - which were really, really great this year.
Closing down the yard is about a two week project so I have to start with something.
Tomorrow I take down the vegetable garden and plant garlic.
(Upstate New York)
I checked the Farmers Almanac today, and it said NYC would get its first frost around early November. I remember a few years ago getting our first snow Oct. 16, but that was a one-off weird event. The next couple of weeks’ forecasts don’t come anywhere near freezing. So I’ll go on collecting leaves to mulch my roses. There is already an inch or two of shredded bark mulch over the whole garden, and I’ll probably add an inch of fallen leaf covering to my containers of mini hostas. I already put away an envelope of deep yellow marigold seeds I took from this year’s outstanding marigolds. I wonder if they will breed true.