Plant garlic in autumn for a summer harvest
Plant garlic in autumn and it needs almost nothing until summer. Choose good cloves, plant them pointed end up, and keep the bed weeded.
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Sow green manure to cover bare soil in winter
Green manure is a crop you grow for the soil, not to eat. Sow it on bare beds in early autumn and cut it down in spring, a few weeks before planting.
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Make leaf mould from autumn leaves
Leaf mould is fallen leaves left to rot for a year or two. It is free, it improves any soil, and it needs only a bag or a wire cage and patience.