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. 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. After a time of hibernation, they’ll be climatized 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 fast start you can use cheap zoysia grass plugs or available Scotts grass seed reviews.
Complete your final weeding of the year. You don’t want the weeds to lay dormant in your garden over the winter. 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 place it in your garage or other storage area for the winter. Snow and cold have a bad habit of rusting garden furniture.
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