Ms. Eudora’s Garden Tool Blog

Before you begin cleaning out your garden in the fall, a simple way to make sure you haven’t missed doing anything, is to make yourself a checklist. As you are sitting and enjoying the last days of the summer months and your garden while also waiting for your fall garden to blossom, start noticing little thing that you will need to do and make a list of them.   As you fall garden begins to die down you can start to:

1. Clean around the base of your plants (especially the roses) diseased debris can hold spores and insect eggs.

2. If you are planning on planting new shrubs, now is the time, the weather is still warm enough for them to get their roots established before winter arrives.
3. Water your shrubs and trees well, remember that winter is coming
4. Once you have cleaned out the garden and flower beds start amending the soil in them, adding fertilizer, compost and manure to them, then tilling it under into the soil
5.  Get your spring bulbs ready for their fall planting

As the weather becomes cooler and cooler your summer garden will fade more and more so you should be prepared to cut back and divide multiplied flowers or clean out ones that didn’t do well.

Leaves will be falling more and more so:

1. As you rake them shred them and use for mulch (if the are not diseased)
2. Clean out your vegetable garden bed
3. Plant and lightly fertilize your spring bulbs now

Following these simply rules for easy garden care will help to make spring gardening easier when spring arrives again.

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