Getting Your Garden Ready For Winter

As we get closer and closer to the winter season, we need to prepare our lawn for hibernation mode and get it ready for the spring. If you don’t know where to start, here are a few points to help you out.

If you have any sensitive potted plants in your garden, you’ll want to move them indoors or to a warmer environment. In the Spring, you can move them back and they’ll be ready to go. If you don’t do this, you may discover that they failed to survive the harsh winter. You’ll then have no choice but to invest more money 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 possibility of coming down at the most inopportune time during a winter storm, 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 ready to grow immediately. By that time, the grass will also have developed strong roots and be ready to survive assaults from both weeds and insects as the new spring season begins. For a quick start you can use zoysia grass plugs for your yard or the best grass seed.

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 do, you’ll be giving them a good head start over the rest of your plants come springtime. Weeds have a good enough advantage as it is. You don’t have 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.

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