How To Prepare Your Garden For The Cold Months 101
A little planning and prepping for the colder season can really help your garden out when springtime comes around. Even though the days are shorter and the weather is colder, there is still plenty to do during the last months of summer and during the fall when it comes to gardening. It’s the perfect time to clean up your beds, prune your flowers, give the bushes and trees a good trim, and amend the soil for the upcoming season. Not only does prepping your garden help to enhance the yard’s appearance, it also helps to protect your plants and brace them for the cold. So, without further adieu, here is how to prepare your garden for the cold months.
Prepping for the colder season can really help your garden out
How To Prepare Your Garden For The Cold Months
While you can still plant plenty of things in the fall, it’s also a good time to start getting it ready for the cold. It’s just like changing up your wardrobe to for the season. It’s now time to change the garden’s wardrobe. Here are some ways you can help your yard out, other than making sure your plants and trees are pruned.
It’s a good time to start getting the garden ready for the cold
#Tidy Up
With the end of summer the garden often looks like a mess of weeds and dying pants. We know your enthusiasm may be withering, however as tempting it may be to just ignore everything until spring, but trust us you’ll be grateful next spring for doing the work now. Make sure to get rid of dying plants, clean up leaves, tidy up any tools lying around and so on.
Make sure to get rid of dying plants and tidy fallen leaves and branches
#Get Rid of Diseased Plants
Getting rid of dying and diseased is a must for preparing your garden for the cold season. This will ensure fewer pests, as these little critters main habitat and food is dying plants. This will help rid you from future pest control. Not only that but leaving diseased plants only leaves the possibility for the diseases to survive the cold and linger until it’s time to infect your springtime plants.
Getting rid of dying and diseased is a must for preparing your garden
#Amend Your Soil
While a lot of people tend to leave this activity until the springtime, fall is a good time to start adding soil amendments as well. You add things like organic fertilizers, manure, compost, rock phosphate and kelp. Adding such nutrients during fall means they have plenty of time to break down, become biologically active and enrich your soil, making it ready for the spring. After you amend your soil, it’s best to mulch it as well in order to prevent the rains from washing all the amendments away.
Fall is a good time to start adding soil amendments
#Stop The Water
With the cold approaching us more and more, it will soon be time to turn off the water systems in the garden. You really don’t want to have the irrigation or the hose connected when frost falls. This will only cause damage to your system. If you live in a warmer climate you may get away with just disconnecting the system from the hose and let the water just drain out.
It will soon be time to turn off the water systems in the garden
#Winter Mulching
Winter mulching is just as beneficial as summer mulching. Gardeners usually use mulch in the summer to help to reduce water loss and help to protect the soil from weeds and erosion. However, mulching during the winter can help the soil to easily transition to the colder months without the roots suffering. The mulch will help to regulate the soil’s temperature and moisture levels. And a great thing about winter mulch is that as it breaks down it incorporated organic materials into the soil.
Winter mulching is just as beneficial as summer mulching
This was how to prepare your garden for the cold months. We hope you found this article useful. Now you know how to correctly prep your garden for fall and winter, and you will have a garden ready for springtime.
This was how to prepare your garden for the cold months
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