Prescott Garden Keeping - October Edition

🌿 October in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch

​With crisp mornings and lingering daytime warmth, October in Prescott is a lovely transition into fall. It’s the moment to begin dialing back irrigation, prepare for frost, and settle new plantings in before winter takes hold .
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​🌼 Seasonal Highlights

• Adjust your irrigation schedule — reduce water cycles to around 80%, and prepare to shut systems down and drain before freezing temps arrive
• Plant cool-season favorites — sow bulbs, cool‑season veggies, cover crops, and install trees or shrubs while soil is still warm and receptive

📝 Full Checklist is on our Substack.  The Prescott Garden Keeping Journal – October Edition includes:

• 🌱 Plants & Planting
• 💦 Water
• 🦌 Critters
• ✂️ Maintenance
• 📝 Planning & Reflecting

👉 Get the full monthly checklists on Substack  Exclusively available to subscribers of Letters from the Porch on Substack.  Subscribing is FREE.
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​A Quick note about my shift to substack

• I’m moving all of my seasonal content — including these monthly garden checklists and my more personal reflections on design, simple living, and the art of living well — over to Substack.
  
  It’s a quieter, more intentional space where I can share practical tips, stories, and behind-the-scenes moments — all without ads or social media noise.  And, we can foster a more personal conversation there which feels more like sharing from the porch than broadcasting into the algorithm void.
  
  It’s still completely FREE to follow along, and I’d love to welcome you there.
  
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Can't get enough of this goodness?

You can find lots more good stuff and inspiration on our Garden Resources page if you just can't get enough of the garden now.

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I've been getting wonderful feedback from local gardeners and followers.  I can't tell you how much I enjoy that - keep it coming! 

If you have ideas, suggestions, or questions just go ahead and drop a comment below, or head to the Contact Page to send me a note.

I hope you are enjoying the results of your efforts this season as much as I am.  And, if it didn't go so well, don't despair!  There's always next season, and planning for that starts now...  

Peace and contentment,
~Miriam