The Day are shorter than nights and the leaves flying in the wind. Color the prairie is brown this days.This is the time of investment of good efforts in your garden. It is the time to protect your country from the ravages of winter.
It's time to pull the tubes and your landscape water. Whether you're watering lawns, beds or shrubs, apply enough water to soak in 8 to 12 inches. Water when the daily temperature is above 40 degrees, there is no snow and the ground is frozen, not. Irrigate early in the day to allow moisture, before nightfall soak in. Remember, unhook and let the hose run at the end of the day.
This is the best time to check the level of mulch around woody and herbaceous plants and to wrap the trunks of newly planted trees. It will help you to protect plant tissues by the freeze-thaw cycles, the damage both roots and stems. Depending on the size and type of mulch, go for 2-4 inches mulching.Remember mulch from woody stems to hold an inch Animals deter feeding on the bark. Plastic or cardboard wrap, etc.
Fallen leaves are good to increase mulch in flower beds and vegetable gardens. Diseased infested, insects or weedy plants with seeds should not be used as mulch or compost. Fungal spores, insect larvae and weed seeds can survive in or dry plants and are the source of infection for next year. But all the other leaves are a good, inexpensive source of pesticides and organics.
Whole leaves are excellent organic mulch around shrubs and perennials. spread easily to help a couple of inches of leaves in your beds to keep soil temperature and reduce humidity and weed germination next spring this winter. To harvest the leaves on the ground, just run your lawn mower, secured with bag, about your lawns. The crushed leaves make a great change for your vegetable garden soil. Make sure the soil regularly to irrigate this winter, because the microorganisms that need to decompose the leaf tissue moisture their jo do
animal manure can be added to your vegetable garden this time. It is good to apply animal manure into the soil in the fall and easily allow to dry between waterings decomposition. Since manure tends to be high in salt, and our soil is often naturally saline, can winter moisture from the growth zone leach salt before season planting.
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