Agricultural work in the late summer

Dig potatoes, trying to finish his harvest before the onset of night frosts. Purified from dry land potatoes were being taken to procurement items. Selected seed, poured it into storage. Ends with the collection of tomatoes and cucumbers last. Clean beets, carrots, swede, turnip, radish. The gardens is only late cabbage: cabbages in the average time cut. In the garden, removed the spring and winter varieties of apples and pears. Preparing planting material for laying new gardens, to replace the dead trees in young orchards. The second time mow perennial herbs: dried hay, silage, let the green fertilizer. Advance continues zyabi, plowing vapors. Cleanse meadows, sow grass on them. Clean corn for silage. Few harvests - should take care of a good harvest next year. And along with the ending of the harvest goes, but to ensure future crops. Astronomical beginning of autumn quarter of the year is the day of the autumnal equinox (September 22). In fact, autumn in nature can occur before and after this period. We feel for the middle band of early autumn day of the first frost on the soil surface. For suburban areas average time it falls on September 14, ie somewhat earlier than the astronomical beginning of the fall season. The earliest first frost was in 1897 and 14 August. The average first frost in the air falls on September 24 - 10 days later than in the soil. All autumn, we divide into two periods: 1) from the first frost on the ground before the end of leaf fall, 2) from the end of leaf fall to freezing ponds.