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@hoosieroriginal wrote:

Started depotting annuals and putting things away for the fall.  (They had 8" mums for $2.99 at Aldis the other day - got them, then put them back - darn!)  It has been so dry here nothing really looks good anymore, except my begonias, which still look great (will be getting more of those next year for sure!).  Putting outdoor rugs away, painted my front deck chair, bagging the last of the limbs. In a couple of weeks I'll start cutting down my grasses (I cut them while they are still green because if I wait I can't cut through the dried stalks).  My big chore (leaves) will go on for the next couple of months - so I'm not out of the wood yet!  When do you start your cleanup for the fall?

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@hoosieroriginal  Way out West, we clean up all year except during the blazing heat of Summer, but mainly in the Spring, when we prune, cut back, and prepare the vege garden, then begin planting.  All I do in the Fall, if needed, is divide Irises, did that last year.  I do bring any decor in the garden, except bird baths, under the deck roof for Winter in case it rains, hopefully it will again as last year, don't want another drought so soon.

[mousiegirl]

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@deeva wrote:

For me it's just the opposite. Next month I'll plant tomatoes and herbs for my fall garden. Then, I'm going to replace a few perennials.

Can't wait to start using my grill this fall.

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@deeva   I have never heard of planting tomatoes in September.  Mine will still be producing then, as long as there is heat and I feed them, and where I live there is a long growing season, but I have to plant veges in the Spring in order to have them two-three months later, then in late summer, I plant cooler weather veges.

[mousiegirl]

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@Carmie wrote:

We have had way too much rain here this summer and it has been hot.  Right now it is getting cool at night and my plants are telling me that we will have an early fall this year.

I have cleaned up some of my potted annuals because they dried up, were leggy or just awful looking.  My tomato plants are starting to dry up too. My DH had to blow some leaves into a pile and pick them up.  Our trees are staring to show some red, orange and yellow.... way too soon for all of that around here. I cut my tall Lilly plants back to the ground because they were done blooming.

We need to plant some grass and will do that next week.  I am planning and ordering bulbs to be planted this fall to bloom next spring and summer.

i hate to see Summer go, but Mother Nature is kicking it to the curb about a month early this year.

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@Carmie - I agree fall like events are happening early - does that mean a longer fall or an earlier winter - hmmmmm.....

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@Carmie  The past three weeks the weather seemed like Fall, but this week and from now until October, it will be 80's-90's, so the Fall feeling has left me, lol.  

[Mominohio]

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@Allegheny wrote:

I do think we are going to have an early fall. (SWPA)  Looking out the kitchen window this morning, I noticed bare spots in the woods, the maple leaves are just starting to turn and leaves are starting to dot the yard.  A lot of the folage (weeds) along the highways has dried out.  Almost overnight our lawn started to dry out and there is just the sound (insects) of fall approaching.  The temps are still pleasant, but the signs of pending fall are here.

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@Allegheny

We experience much the same weather and seasons that you do, and I see some of the same things you mention here.

Yet what we see I don't consider fall at all, like many here call it. I see what is natural for late summer weather. It is a drying out and slow change. 

I don't consider it 'fall' until the nights are almost cold, the days sunny and warm but no heat/humidity. The leaves have to be in full swing of changing . 

For me and Ohio, it really isn't fall here till after the first of October, and then sometimes it really isn't noticeable until later in the month. 

Different in different parts of the country, but it is interesting to read and see what others consider fall and when they think it starts. 

There is just this time I call 'late summer' and I love it, and don't want to make it or call it fall yet. Fall is, to me, much cooler, brighter (with all the colored leaves), and a whole different feel in the air. 

[mousiegirl]

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@chlema wrote:

So far I have lost 4 of my tomato plants.  The tomatos looked good but when cutting them the insides looked strange - and pulpy.  Disappointing.  Also tossed out a hanging basket but so far that's it.  My sunpatients from Cottage Farms are huge and gorgeous and will hate to see them go.  I will bring out my fall decor the day after labor day.  That to me is my official beginning of fall 

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@chlema  My Cottage Farms white sunpatients are now only a third of the size they will become, and they will be huge and bloom all through winter as long as they are watered, though due to a lot or rain last year, I didn't water, and I think if I had done more, they would have gone through this year, but because I didn't know that, I ordered more for this year.

[Financialgrl]

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@Teddie wrote:

I've noticed some have been decorating for fall since the beginning of August. It's still summer here and fall doesn't officially begin until September 22. We're still enjoying summer. 

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Funny - was thinking the same thing!  I live within 3 miles of a Kirklands, Pier 1, Home Goods store and two days ago they opened an At Home store.  Seems once July 4th went away - out went all the red, white and blue items and in came all the pumpkins and fall harvest stuff!  

However, in past years it'd still be brutally hot but the last 2 or 3 years fall has arrived almost as if on cue as soon as we turned the calendar over to September.  Yesterday I went to grocery store wearing sandals and no jacket and I was downright chilly!