February 9
Winterizing You Garden
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 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 or good quality Scotts grass seed.
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.
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.
Read more from Alex regarding fall lawn care and comparing artificial grass cost at his website.