How to Prep Your Outdoor Garden for Winter

Winter is coming and the activities your garden has would be reduced by the day. Depending on where you stay, your plants that last for more than two years would be blushing already, and some of their leaves would start falling.

Veggies that grow annually would soon die, and they may soon start falling off as a result of frosts that will soon be here. After the spring rush and the harvest from summer, we might want to close the gates of the gardens and allow nature to take its course. At this point, all the benefits of summer and serious work for spring have been done. Now we just need to prepare our gardens for winter to come.

This article will show you simple methods you can use when you want to prepare your outdoor garden for winter to come. These are simple tricks you can perform for the garden to get ready for this new season.

List of Things to Do to Prep Your Outdoor Garden for Winter

1. Clean up finished and rotting plants.

Old plants look untidy and they could gather pests, diseases, and fungus. Would you like to see the eggs laid by these insects when summer comes? These eggs could be on the leaves and stalks. Make sure you get rid of spent plants from the surface of the soil. You could also use garden trenches to bury them. If they have diseases on them, burying them would be a bad idea. But burying rotten plants in your garden would add more organic matter into your soil. This would help the health of your soil and also make the soil better.

2. Get rid of weeds that would take the space of plants you want to grow.

Make sure all stupid weeds that stress your garden are removed adequately before you begin planning for your garden during the winter. After uprooting them, burn them. In a weed pile or a compost heap, you could still see some of those weeds that wouldn’t want your plants to grow well in peace. Removing invasive plants properly is one of the best ways you can stop them from spoiling your garden plants in winter and for them not to spawn up.

3. Prepare your soil for winter.

Most people wait for winter to come before they start preparing their soil to take plants and grow them. But the season before winter is the best time to dig in bone meal, compost, manure, rock phosphate, and kelp. In some places, putting in nutrients to the soil at the season before winter is the best time for them all to start breaking down. This would biologically make your soil active and at the same time enrich your soil.

Now you know how to get your soil ready for winter. Don't worry, snowballs wouldn't spoil your plants.

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