Ideas for autumn plants in the country: the best options to choose from.

Flowers

Autumn is a good time to plant corms of flower crops and enjoy the bright colors of the garden already in April and May.

Crocus or saffron

This primrose pleases with its rich color and looks great in rock gardens, around trees and in flower beds.

• In order for the flower to have time to take root, it is necessary to choose the optimal planting time – 3-4 weeks before the onset of frost.
• You should plant healthy bulbs with dry scales, without dents and signs of mold.
• The area for planting crocus should be well lit by the sun, and the soil should be sandy loam or loamy, moderately moistened: excess water can cause the planting material to rot.

The soil should be fertile, loose and moist.

• Before planting, soak the saffron bulbs in a fungicide solution – this will serve as an excellent disease prevention.
• Pour a small handful of sand into the holes to prevent over-watering.
• It is recommended to plant crocuses at a distance of 4 cm from each other and at a depth of 3 bulb heights.
• After the procedure, the soil should be mulched.

Daffodils

This a delicate, touching flower, loved by many gardeners.

• The bulbs are planted in the soil in the first half of September to a depth of about 15 cm.
• Daffodils love slightly elevated areas, without stagnant melt water.
• They do not tolerate abundant sun and wind, so the near-trunk areas are considered the ideal place.
• The soil should be loamy, since sandy soil does not provide daffodils with enough nutrients.
• Three months before planting, humus or manure can be added to the soil.
• Before planting, it is important to use balanced fertilizer with a higher content of phosphorus and potassium compared to nitrogen.

Most varieties of daffodils do not tolerate severe frosts well, so the plantings must be covered with dry leaves, straw or spruce branches.

Aster

Sowing colorful beauties before winter allows you to get a lush flowering flowerbed two weeks earlier than usual. Asters should be sown in late autumn, when frosts come and the ground becomes crusty.

The bed must be prepared in advance, preventing fungal infection – fusarium. To do this, change the sowing site every year, and before planting, warm the soil with a fire and spread the resulting ash along the furrows.

To sprinkle the seeds, you need to set aside the soil in advance and put it in a warm room. Next, make shallow furrows at a distance of 10 cm from each other, evenly distribute the seeds and sprinkle with loose soil.

Calendula

This sun plant is unpretentious and grows anywhere, so even an inexperienced gardener can cope with growing it.

• To prevent the seedlings from sprouting prematurely and dying from frost, marigold seeds must be planted in November, when the average daily temperature is about 0 degrees.
• The flowerbed is prepared in advance – the land must be dug up with humus and fertilizer from potassium sulfate and superphosphate.
• Calendula loves sunlight, but does not tolerate drought well.

To make planting easy, furrows should be formed before the onset of cold weather and covered with film, protecting them from destruction.

There is no need to prepare the seeds – they are planted abundantly in the fall, simply sprinkled with warm soil reserves, and mulched if desired.

Aquilegia

Also called “catchment” and is valued by gardeners for its beauty and unpretentiousness.

• In winter, columbine is planted in a temporary bed, and in spring, the seedlings are transplanted into flower beds.
• It likes light shade.
• Depending on the region, the seeds are sown in October or November.
• To do this, prepare the bed by digging it with compost or humus.
• You can make grooves or simply scatter the columbine seeds, lightly sprinkling them with earth and covering them with mulch before frost.

Attention: the first flowering of the catchment area begins in a year.

Trees and Shrubs

Autumn is a good time to plant new seedlings, as well as replant garden trees and shrubs that grow well in your climate.

Spruce

Experts recommend planting spruce in late autumn with the onset of cold weather, when root rot is least likely.

• The best place for a spruce to grow is in a sunny area in acidic soil, forming a lush, uniform crown.
• Before planting, the soil should be dug up thoroughly.
• When choosing a spruce in a nursery, it is important to pay attention to its appearance: the root system should be intact, the earthen lump should be moist, and the needles should be shiny.
• Two hours before the procedure, the roots should be kept in a bucket of water.
• The depth and width of the hole should be about a meter.
• A 15-centimeter drainage layer of crushed stone should be laid on the bottom, then the tree should be planted and filled a mixture of turf soil, sand, peat and humus.
• Next, the tree needs to be watered with two buckets of water and mulched.

Western thuja

When planting thuja in the fall, it is important to observe the timing and transfer the tree to open ground 2-3 weeks before the first frost. The optimal daytime temperature should be 10-15 degrees.

We recommend buying thuja in specialized stores, choosing a seedling with a closed root system (that is, in a container) and about 3 years old. Its appearance should not be confused by the brown color of the needles and dried roots.

• Western thuja grows well in sunny, windless places.
• It does not tolerate excess moisture, the roots begin to rot.
• The planting hole should be twice the size of the earthen lump.
• If the soil is dense, drainage must be placed on the bottom.
• Then you should fill in any fertilizer suitable for conifers and fill with water.
• Thuja is planted immediately after removing from the pot.
• It is important to place the place where the trunk turns into the root 3 cm above the ground.
• Then you should form a trunk circle (an earthen ridge about 15 cm high), water the thuja and mulch.

Raspberry

The bushes are planted a month before frost, so that in the spring the young raspberry starts to grow quickly. The soil after winter will be filled with moisture and nutrients.

• The soil on the site should be moderately loose, three weeks before planting, seasoned with humus or manure.
• The distance between the holes should be about 80 cm, the depth – 30 cm.
• Seedlings should be selected with a well-developed root system.
• When planting, the roots must be carefully straightened, covered with fertile soil, watered abundantly and mulched with peat.

If the soil is sandy, raspberries are planted in a trench. If the soil is heavy, the seedlings are placed in a bed raised by 20 cm.

Currant

To give the bushes time to take root before the persistent cold weather sets in, we recommend planting them from mid-September to the end of October. At this time, the seedlings take root better, as they go into rest, not wasting energy on leaf growth.

• For black currants, it is better to choose a slightly shaded place, and for red currants – a sunny one.
• The bush loves loamy soil.
• Before planting, it is necessary to add fertilizer from peat and superphosphate.
• To help the roots straighten out better, the seedling should be lowered at an angle of 45 degrees, gradually leveling the trunk.
• After planting, the shoots need to be cut, leaving 3 buds on the branches, watered abundantly and mulched.

Winter-hardy apple tree

Young apple trees are best planted in September or October: at this time, the seedling has already gained strength, and its metabolism has slowed down. These are ideal conditions for withstanding transplantation. An apple tree ready for relocation should have both large and small roots, without signs of disease and covered with a lump of earth. The distance between future trees should be about 5 meters.

It is better to buy seedlings sold in pots with soil: as a rule, their root collar is at the same level with the ground, which has a positive effect on the growth of the tree.

During the next year, the young apple tree should be regularly watered and fed with well-soluble mineral fertilizers, and pruned in the fall.

In the garden or in the greenhouse

When sowing vegetables and herbs, you should also observe some nuances. All beds must be dug up and fertilized in advance so that the soil is loose and nutritious. In summer, you should prepare the soil for backfilling by hiding it in bags in a warm place.

Carrots

Carrot roots planted in winter can be dug up as early as mid-June.

• To do this, it is important to choose a bed that is well lit by the sun so that the snow melts faster.
• Thanks to the abundantly moistened soil, the root crops are juicy and sweet.
• During loosening, mineral fertilizers should be added to the soil.

Sowing should be done in November so that the seeds do not have time to germinate before the frost. They should not be soaked so that the shoots do not appear prematurely.

• The depth of the furrows should be no more than 2 cm.
• The planted seeds should be covered with warm soil, then covered with humus and slightly compacted.
• It is recommended to cover the fallen snow on the beds with spruce branches and remove it in the spring.
• To make the carrots grow faster, after the snow melts, they can be insulated with film. Beets are planted in a similar way.

Garlic

This crop loves well-lit places.

• Two weeks before sowing, we recommend adding mineral and organic fertilizers (potassium, phosphorus, humus) to the soil.
• For planting, it is better to choose large cloves without defects. They are separated from the head, removing the bottom, and deepened by 4 cm.
• A distance of 20 cm is maintained between the rows.
• The beds are covered with a layer of peat, which is removed in the spring.

Salad

To get healthy greens as early as possible, lettuce seeds can be planted in November. In October, the bed should be dug up, weeds removed and fertilizers added (humus, superphosphate).

• Sand should be added to clay soil.
• The furrows should be shallow, it is recommended to cover them with film and save them until sowing.
• After planting, cover with prepared warmed soil or peat.
• Winter lettuce, well rooted in winter, develops quickly: in spring it has a lot of moisture.
• The seedlings can be thinned out if necessary.

Parsley, parsnips and dill are planted in the same way.

Potatoes

Planting potatoes in the winter is a risky business for inexperienced gardeners, so in the first year a small part of the seed material should be planted only as an experiment.

• For planting, you need to choose a place protected from the wind and without stagnant moisture.
• To prevent soil pests from spoiling the tubers, they should be taken out into the sun 2 weeks before work.
• It is recommended to keep green potatoes in a fungicide for half an hour.
• When planting, add a glass of ash and two tubers at a time to each hole 10 cm deep.
• From sharp Straw, a layer of peat and spunbond will protect the potatoes from temperature fluctuations.
• A month after the shoots appear, you can harvest.

One of the main advantages of autumn work is that it helps to allocate time more rationally. In the spring, gardeners have a lot to do, and planting before winter allows you to not only save time, but also get an early harvest from stronger fruits and plants.