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Preparing fall gardens for the winter season

Lithia Park in the fall.
Lithia Park plants in the fall.

Geoffrey Riley and Master Gardener Lynn Kunstman offer insights for gardeners in their button-up-for-winter segment. They discuss the final harvest of food gardens before frost sets in, how to get a garden ready for winter, and how to make moves now that give you, and the environment, more biodiversity later.

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR from 2009 through August 2024. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.
Lynn is the Master Gardener Speaker on the monthly JXpodcast Garden for Life. Lynn Kunstman began gardening with her parents in Lafayette, California, as a young child. She has a degree in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University and, after moving to Ashland in 1986 obtained a Masters of Science in Education from SOU.