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October Garden Care
The magnificent colors of Fall are here. Although plants are now starting to go dormant, maintaining your lawn and garden at this time are essential to having great spring blooms and foliage for next year. So, savor the cool breeze as you spend few minutes in your garden. Here are some helpful tips:
- Protect tender plants from light frosts by covering them with sheets, plastic, or newspaper on nights when frost is predicted.
- If soil tests indicate nutrient deficiency, fertilize trees and shrubs once leaf growth has stopped. Plants will store fertilizer in roots until needed next spring. Wait until spring to fertilize evergreens.
- If weather is dry, water plants deeply, especially evergreens, before the ground freezes.
- Continue to mow lawn as needed.
- Begin to tidy up flowerbeds by removing flower heads and cutting back dead stems from perennials. Remove annuals that have finished flowering.
- Start a compost pile. Add plant debris, such as leaves, lawn clippings, and garden plants. Discard heavily diseased and infested foliage.
- Empty large flower pot containers of plants and soil. Bring containers indoors to prevent breakage from alternating freeze and thaw cycles.
- Book your Next Spring/ Summer Yard Make-Over with your landscaper early! Avoid being last on the list and settling for less-experienced landscapers to do your last-minute yard improvements before the kids get back for spring break or family gatherings.
Visit Sloanes Garden Center for a wide variety of disease-resistant trees and shrubs.
Or call us at (708) 560-0300.
Or Email Us Now.
Give a TREE or SHRUB to your Loved Ones.
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