How To Help Your Garden To Survive The Winter
As we get closer and closer to winter, it’s time to place your lawn into hibernation until next spring. Here are a few tips to get you started.
In order to get them off to a good start next spring, move your most sensitive potted plants indoors or to a warm environment. Otherwise you may find that they failed to survive the harsh cold and you’ll have to reinvest for an entire new set of plants.
Inspect your trees and bushes. Trim the damaged ones that you find. Also trim the ones that are too close to the home. Broken branches have the very bad habit of breaking off at the most inopportune times - as in an ice storm or wind storm - and possibly doing extensive damage to your car or home.
Inspect your lawn for bare spots and plant grass seeds in the area. Planting them now gives them time to develop strong roots before the weather gets too cold. In the spring, after a few months of hibernation, they’ll be fully acclimated to your garden and can start to grow right away. They will also have strong roots and be ready to survive attacks from weeds and insects as the spring season begins. For a quick start you can use cheap zoysia grass plugs or available Scotts grass seed reviews.
Do your last weeding for the year. The last thing you want do do is to let your weeds lay dormant in your garden over the winter months. If you make this mistake, you’ll be giving them an unnecessary head start over your other garden plants come springtime. Weeds have a good enough advantage as it is. No need to give them more.
Finally, cover your garden furniture or store it in your garage or other storage area. Snow and cold have a habit of rusting garden furniture.
Learn more about Alex’s thoughts on fall cleanup and advantage of hunter sprinkler heads from his site.
