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How to Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Winter: Fall Cleanup Made Easy

Here’s a fall vegetable garden cleanup checklist with 11 tasks to do before the weather gets uncomfortably cold. If you’ve ever forgotten to clean up in the fall, you’ll know it makes life much easier in the spring—and it’s also better to clean up for the health of your garden.

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Your daily dose of holidays, words, weather & wisdom — updated every morning.

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39 Days Until Winter Begins

Thursday, November 12, 2026

Question of the Day

If a recipe calls for one pound of eggs, how many would that be?
Approximately nine eggs equals one pound.

Word of the Day

Snub

A post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.

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Puzzle of the Day

Who was the strongest man mentioned in the Bible?
Jonah, because the whale could not keep him down.

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Seasonal Outlook

 

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Long-Range Weather

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  1. Northeast
  2. Atlantic Corridor
  3. Appalachians
  4. Southeast
  5. Florida
  6. Lower Lakes
  7. Ohio Valley
  8. Deep South
  9. Upper Midwest
  10. Heartland
  11. Texas-Oklahoma
  12. High Plains
  13. Intermountain
  14. Desert Southwest
  15. Pacific Northwest
  16. Pacific Southwest
  17. Alaska
  18. Hawaii

Astronomy

Today's Moon Phase

Today's Moon Phase

Today's Moon Phase

11% of Full • 3 days old
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Next Full Moon

The Full Beaver Moon, will occur on Tuesday, November 24, 2026.

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