Autumn Nature Studies Part 3

This is the last of the fun ideas I got from the book "It's fall!" by Linda Glaser. I hope you've gotten to have some fun with an idea or two...here are a few more;

• Visit a pumpkin patch and choose a pumpkin
• plant some large cloves of garlic outside. They'll come up in the spring and be ready for you to harvest late next summer.
• Start a leaf compost pile. Pile leaves in a far corner of the yard. Let the pile sit and decay. If you turn it over, it will decay faster. In a year or two it will be all composted and ready to add to your garden.
• Some fun things to plant in the summer for the fall harvest; gourds, pumpkins, sunflowers. Some flowers that bloom in the fall if planted in spring: asters, chrysanthemums, dahlias, black-eyed Susans, strawflowers, statice.
• After dinner, go outside at night and watch the stars and moon appear.
• Take photos of one tree all during fall and notice the changes.
• Follow the migration of animals on Journey North on the Internet. www.learner.org/North

Happy Fall!