7 Ways to Prepare Your Garden For Winter

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Not sure how to begin preparing your garden for winter? Here are 7 fall gardening tasks to help prepare for winter.

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Lift Tender Plants, Bulbs and Tubers If you have tender plants, bulbs and tubers in your garden, you have two choices to prepare for winter: treat these plants like annuals or dig them up and store them indoors for the cold season.

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Overseed the Lawn Fall is a fantastic time to overseed the lawn. By adding grass seed in early fall, you give the seed time to establish root systems after the hot summer months and before the ground freezes. Come spring, your lawn will be able to bounce back better than ever!

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Cut Back Diseased Plants I like to leave a lot of my perennials throughout the winter, but it’s important to cut back any diseased plant foliage before winter and remove all of the foliage. Doing so ensures that these issues don’t spread and become worse by spring.

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Tidy Up Perennials and Annuals I don’t cut back my garden as much as some gardeners, but I do make sure to tidy up plants that are falling over. I leave a lot of perennials and their deceased foliage up all winter so the birds can enjoy the seed as well as add winter interest to the gardens.

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Plant Bulbs Before Winter Plant spring flowering bulbs (Tulips, Daffodils, etc.). Do not plant too early though – I usually wait until the temps are much cooler – usually in late October and sometimes as late as early November.

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Plant Perennials, Trees & Shrubs Bulbs aren’t the only thing you can plant in fall to prepare for winter and spring. Now is a great time to plant perennials, vines, shrubs, or trees. Garden nurseries are selling their stock off at a discount so run, don’t walk to get plants now while supplies last.

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