Fall Chores for Beautiful Spring

Fall Chores

          It’s that time to start cleaning up the yard and garden before the snow flies, and for an easy fresh start in the spring. I always enjoy less work, and great results.

          So we all know that cleaning up the leaves in the lawn is important. Remember that the heavy leaves on the lawn will cause dead areas in the spring, and we don’t want to seed in the spring unless we have too.

          I’m also a fan of over seeding in the fall, which will help with a thicker lawn and so I can put down a crabgrass preventative. Don’t forget now is great time to lime the lawn and garden since it is a slow-release and it will raise the pH level.

          Any spent plants should be removed so that diseases and bugs.  Remember don’t throw it in your compost pile. You don’t want to give the disease or the bugs a better home.

          If you plan on moving your garden or expanding it, give this a try:

                Scalp the lawn in the area. Then layer newspapers directly on top of the sod. Put the newspapers 4-5 sheets thick are ideal, overlapping by a few inches. Hint: Wet down the newspapers to keep them in place. Cover the newspapers with compost and mulched leaves.

                WAIT FOR SPRING

Now you have lovely new planting beds full of worms.

I can't wait to see if this works the way, I picture it in my head.

Don’t forget to pull those weeds, one left to mature can produce hundreds, if not thousands of seeds that will grow into weeds. 

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