Winter may be coming, but autumn is the ideal time to get the garden prepped for the upcoming cooler season. Cool-weather vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, and spinach will still bring life to your garden during the colder winter months. Even if you’re not doing any autumn or winter growing (or you just can’t because of the weather), there are still plenty of landscaping and yard maintenance chores and tasks to handle. And if you can’t be bothered with any of that, just go ahead and leave all the leaves lying where they are and grab yourself a hot chocolate or pumpkin spice latte. After all, if you were to do that, you’d be helping many local pollinators out by giving them a safe place to winter under the bed of leaves. That’s pretty neat!
Or, maybe you live somewhere where the winter barely touches you and seasons aren’t really a thing. There’s just «hot» and «not so hot» as your only indicator of passing seasons. If this is you, I have one question: What’s it like?
If that’s the case, you’re probably out in the garden every day. At least I would be. Where I am, it can get pretty cold, and that means working out in the yard in the winter can bring a chill right through your extremities and to your core. Frozen fingers gripping a trowel, cultivator, or rake through gloves.
Gardening has long been touted for its therapeutic benefits. After long days sitting in front of a screen and browsing the internet for trends, getting outside and getting my hands into the soil helps me ground myself and slow things down. And after spending a weekend out in the backyard garden dealing with some gardening and landscaping-related yardwork that had begun piling up (literally), I had the idea to take a dive in and look at what discussions online were taking place on the topic.
The following is a collection of the joys of autumn gardening that people shared in many different discussions taking place around the internet; give them a read, and hopefully you can find some inspiration of your own to get out there and stick your hands in the soil.
