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season: early-fall
section: the work this season asks for
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- plant garlic, four to six weeks before the ground freezes. the most important thing you do this season.
- seed cover crops in empty beds. crimson clover, winter rye. they hold the soil.
- clean up dead and diseased plant material. do not compost anything that was sick.
- dig and cure sweet potatoes before frost. let them sit in a warm place for two weeks.
- bring in tender herbs. pot up rosemary and basil if you want them through winter.
- clean, oil, and store tools you will not use again until spring.
- put up what the garden gave you. can, freeze, dry, ferment. do not let it go to waste.

fall is the season of closing. do it well and spring will be easier. do it poorly and you will spend march catching up.