I’m typing this as I look out the window to falling snow. I’m not ready yet! Luckily, it’s not too late to get my garden ready for Winter. The ground is not frozen yet. Here’s what you should do:
You should plant (if you haven’t already) bulbs for Spring. If you want beautiful tulips then now is the time to act. As long as the ground is not frozen you can plant bulbs.
Here’s something you can do AFTER the ground is frozen (courtesy of the Farmer’s Almanac): apply protective [including rubber] mulches on the perennial garden after the ground has frozen an inch or two.
Cover strawberry plants two inches deep with hay or straw.
Cover your garden furniture.
Work a trowelful of bonemeal into the soil around your rosebush, then hill up more soil around the base.
Prune your grapevines.
Turn your compost pile.
Water all trees and shrubs before the ground freezes.
Check the trees around your house for weak branches and remove them now rather than by snow and ice later.
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