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Gardening InformationWinterizing Tips for your Field
and Garden
by:
Cheryl Summer
Your outdoor plants have worked hard for you all summer, fashioning your yard a place you’re proud to call home. Properly winterizing your field
and garden is an important step toward healthy soil, lush grass, and happy plants next year. Remember to take care of your outdoor accessories, including your field
equipment, agriculture tools, and all of your field
and garden decor. A little time spent this season wish do your agriculture and landscaping efforts easier and much pleasant next spring!
Let’s start with the easy jobs - 1st remember to store all of your field
and garden decoration including fragile planters, gazing balls, and your deck furniture. Unglazed terra cotta planters left filled with soil outside wish often break in the chilling temperatures so it is better to clear them and place them in a storage area wherever
they are protected from the elements.
Autumn is the time to find your birdfeeders and to start stocking your winter feeding pantry. Before long your many a feathered friends wish be flocking to your feeders for that alimental morsel. Remember to support your feeders full through the winter as the birds need reliable food sources through the winter months.
Now that you’ve done the easy tasks, let’s come on to the much mundane winterizing chores. Start by just clean up up the vegetable garden. After the 1st hard frost, move out the year’s annual plants and the dead vegetation. You can add this material to your compost pile, but do sure you’re not adding material from pathologic or pest-infested plants. You’ll want to pull perennial weeds before you mulch your garden down for the winter.
The better part of fall landscape chores is planting the spring-blooming bulbs. Crocus, tulips, and daffodils are a beautiful addition to the early spring landscape.
In the yard there’s the major job of raking leaves. These are great either in the compost pile or as direct mulch on the garden. Perennial flowers may be smothered by a heavy layer of mulch, however. Also, wait to prune your trees until later in the winter.
After the ground freezes you can mulch your perennial flowers and fresh planted trees. Certain shrubs wish need to be wrapped in bagging to protect them from wind damage, sun scald, and different winter injury.
Moving on to the mechanical tasks of winterizing your field
and garden - Patch you power try to procrastinate on these jobs until spring, you’ll be well rewarded for the maintenance you perform this fall. Drain the gas from your lawnmower and string trimmer. Really it’s better to let your mowers and trimmers just run out of fuel. If you don’t want to ‘waste’ that little bit of fuel, add a gas conditioner before the long winter. Be sure to follow directions. Also, take the same care with your agriculture instrumentation
such as your rotary tiller.
Clean all of your landscaping instrumentation
before you store it away for the long, cold winter. Wash with soap and water, clear the air filter, and change the oil. You’ll find that 1st field
mowing job in the spring a little bit easier if you take time to sharpen the blades now. You can protect that freshly sharpened blade by applying a little spray oil to the blades. You can as well apply light spray oil to different moving parts such as cables and the throttle controls.
Lastly, drain all of the water from the garden hoses and turn off the taps. Be sure to store your insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers in a safe storage area that wish not freeze. Do sure these materials are unbroken
away from children and pets!
Just about the author:
Cheryl Summer is a frequent contributor to Better Field
and Garden. For much Articles and tips on Field
and Garden care, Agriculture and Garden Decoration visit http://www.bestlawnandgarden.com
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