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Gardening Tips

Winter

  • Decorative cabbage and kale are good to plant in the late fall.
  • Plant spring-flowering bulbs
  • Purchase tulip bulbs and pre-chill in a paper bag in your refrigerator for 8 weeks.  Plant these in January
  • Give bulbs some "bulb booster" at the time of planting and any spring bulbs already in the ground should be fertilized now. Prune dead and dying foliage.
  • Bring houseplants indoors. They may experience an adjustment period and have yellowing or falling leaves, but that is a natural reaction to dryer indoor conditions
  • Apply fertilizer to cool season grasses before Thanksgiving
  • Rake regularly to keep leaves and pine needles off lawn. Use these to mulch.
  • Prepare lawn mower for winter storage by draining the gas and disconnecting the spark plug.  Now might be a good time to check into that electric mower.