How to Prepare for Winter Gardens

Some people believe that when the weather starts becoming colder and leaves begin to fall, it is time to get rid of gardening tools and wait until next spring to work in their gardens again. Wrong. Winter time is important to maintain the health of your garden and convince yourself that a good crop for next year. You might think that might take long to prepare you for the Botanical Gardens, but the truth is that it takes less than one day to prepare your garden for next season.

When night temperatures dropped to less than 45 degrees Fahrenheit for more than four days in a row, or frost is forecast your area (usually around late October or November) you know it's time to start preparing your garden. You should begin by evaluating your garden design, check the plants grow well in the past season, and tanamantidak good. Autumn is a good time to determine which plants will remain in the park next year, and which ones should go.

It is also a good time to decide you want to grow new crops. To make your garden more colorful and healthy, be sure only to plant the more hardy plants during the autumn so that they can withstand the winter. Some plants will do well planted in the fall are: rudbeckia, Aster Novi-belgii, anemone Japonica, panicle hyandea, endive, escarole, and Brussels sprouts. You can find all this and more in gardening magazines or your local nursery.

After you finish this you have to start cleaning your garden. Start by removing weeds that have cropped up, and sweep the fallen leaves. Weeds and rotten leaves can carry insects and diseases that may be hazardous to your garden. You should also rid your garden is spent yearly crop, and harvest your vegetables and other crops that can not withstand winter weather.

After the fall has come and gone, the leaves will soon be trees and you can see the rotten branches. Trimming off the unwanted branches from your trees is not necessary for the health of your garden, but it might help later on by not dropping branches of your plants and do not block too much sun.

If you have younger trees you should consider wrapping them and supporting them with stakes to help them survive the winter wind and cold. Placing fertilizer for your garden for winter can be a useful way to protect plants from sudden temperature changes and heavy snow. For the fertilizer you can use about five inches from the skin tear, pine or any other material. You must be careful not to mulch too early, because some insects may still be alive and able to take shelter in it for the winter.

Once you are finished with your gardening tools you should clean them and make sure they are in a safe place where they do not rust and you know where they are going for next year. Before winter comes, you should always set out slug repellent, as slugs are one of the worst bugs to have in your garden. If you have a pool or fountain in your garden, be sure to take your fish on them and bring them inside. No sad rather than frozen fish in blocks of ice.