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Winter Garden Care Tips to Protect Your Landscape

Preparing your garden for winter is crucial for ensuring healthy growth in the spring. The harsh temperatures and harmful insects of winter can greatly impact your gardening space, making it important to take the necessary steps to protect it. In this article, we’ll provide you with winter garden care tips to help you get your garden ready for the coldest time of the year.

1. Remove Weeds

Removing weeds and dead plants from your garden before winter hits is essential to prevent pests and diseases. Tilling the soil will also expose any remaining insects and eliminate their hiding spots. Get rid of all fruits and vegetables to discourage pests from entering your garden.

2. Amend Garden Soil

Adding compost or manure to your garden’s soil in early winter is an excellent way to improve its quality and promote healthy growth in the spring. Learn about soil testing and what nutrients your soil needs the most in our article on soil testing.

3. Prevent Insect Damage with Horticultural Oil

Horticultural oil is a type of pesticide that can protect your trees, vegetables, and other plants from insects and pests. Applying horticultural oil before winter will prevent damage to your garden and keep it healthy in the spring.

4. Plant a Cover Crop

Planting a cover crop of mustard, clover, peas, rye, or a combination of these crops will reduce erosion and weed growth, as well as increase organic matter in your garden. Simply turn over the cover crop in the spring to enrich your garden’s soil.

5. Plant and Care for Trees and Shrubs

Late fall and early winter are the perfect time for planting new trees and shrubs and caring for existing ones. Spread a 2–3 inch layer of mulch at the base of the trunk to protect your trees from cold temperatures, and prune deciduous trees during this time as well.

6. Protect Your Garden from Birds

While birds can be helpful in removing small insects and pests in your garden, some can cause damage to your plants. To prevent birds from eating your garden plants, provide nesting boxes, water, and bird feeders away from your garden.

7. Care for Perennial Flowers

Autumn and winter are excellent times to cut dead or withered flowers in your perennial flower beds. This will improve their appearance in the spring and prevent insects from hiding in the dried flowers. Divide and plant new bulbs in your flower bed for even more perennials in the spring.

8. Continue Checking Your Garden Weekly

Even though your garden may seem shut down during the winter, it still benefits from weekly check-ups. Checking your garden at least once a week will allow you to evaluate any damage and treat it with insecticide if necessary.

By following these winter garden care tips, you’ll be able to protect your landscape and ensure a healthy and successful growing season in the spring. Check out our article on winter lawn care tips for even more winter garden preparation advice.

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