What To Do To Winterize Your Garden

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Many people think that once the climate begins getting cooler and the leaves begin to drop, it's time to set aside the garden equipment and wait till the following springtime to work on the backyard once again. Completely wrong. Winter season is definitely an essential time for you to take care of your garden's health and ensure yourself a great harvest for the coming year. It may seem that it could take a extended time to get ready your back garden, but the reality is that it requires less than 1 day to get ready a person's back garden for the approaching winter season.

Once the night time temperature drop to below forty-five degrees Fahrenheit for longer than 4 nights in a row, or frost is predicted for your neighborhood (generally around late Oct or even Nov) you realize it is time to start preparing your back garden. You need to start by analyzing your backyard garden layout, check out which plants grew nicely during the past season, and which plants and flowers didn't flourish. Autumn is a great time for you to determine which plants and flowers will stay in your backyard the coming year, and which ones should go.

It's also a great time to determine which new plants and flowers you would like to grow. In order to help to make your backyard much more vibrant and healthy, make sure simply to plant the more hardy plants during the autumn to enable them to endure the wintertime. A few plants which will do great getting planted in autumn are: rudbeckia, Aster Novi-belgii, Anemone Japonica, panicle hyandea, endive, escarole, and Brussels sprouts.

You'll find many of these and much more in garden publications or even the local gardening shop.

Once you have completed this you need to start cleaning your back garden.

Start by taking out unwanted weeds that might have popped up, and raking fallen leaves. Unwanted weeds and decaying leaves can carry bugs and diseases that may end up being bad for your back garden. It's also wise to free your backyard of spent annual vegetation, and pick your veggies along with other plant life that can't endure the wintertime climate. Right after autumn has come and gone, the leaves will be off your trees and shrubs and you can begin to see the rotten limbs. Cutting off the undesirable limbs from the trees and shrubs is not essential to your back gardens health, but may well help down the road by not dropping limbs on the vegetation and not blocking too much of the sun's rays.

For those who have younger trees and shrubs you should look at wrapping all of them and supporting them with stakes to help them endure the wintertime wind and cold. Placing thick mulch over your back garden for the winter season can be quite a helpful method to safeguard plants and flowers from unexpected temperature changes and heavy snowfall. For thick mulch it is possible to use about 5 in . of shredded bark, pine needles, or a number of many other materials. You need to be cautious never to mulch too soon, because a few bugs may still be alive and capable of taking shelter inside it for the winter season.

When you are done with your gardening equipment you need to thoroughly clean all of them and make certain they are inside a secure location where they won't rust and you know exactly where they will be for the coming year. Just before the winter season arrives it is best to set out slug repellent, as slugs are among the worst bugs to have inside your back garden. For those who have a swimming pool or water feature inside your back garden, make sure to remove any fish which you have inside them and bring all of them inside. There is nothing sadder than a fish frozen inside a block of ice.