Helping 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.

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. 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 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 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 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.

Lastly, either cover the furniture in your garden area 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 cost of artificial grass from his site.

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