You can make this season a great period for preparing yourself and your garden before you enter spring again!
Here are some tips on what you should do in winter:
Tools
Give your garden tools some love this spring by oiling, sharpening and repairing them. Sharp blades can save you a lot of time and make the work easier!
Check on Bulbs and Seeds
If you keep your seeds and bulbs in a fresh space with low humidity, they should do well over the winter.
However, changing temperatures can cause fungus to grow on them if their moisture level is off even slightly. Seeds are no different; make sure that they’re kept somewhere cool and dry when it’s not planting season!
Keep Up With Compost
As soon as you build a good compost pile, it will still be cooking. When the weather begins to warm up in springtime, this beautiful creation is going to help your garden thrive.
Save some scraps from dinner and add them into the mix for great decay!
Perennials
Why not let your garden stay vibrant throughout the winter? There are beneficial insects that spend their winters on your perennials.
Clean
For a happy and healthy houseplant, give it some attention. Take off any dust that has gathered on the leaves and clean them with a damp cloth.
If there are sticky leaves due to scale insects, take rubbing alcohol to get rid of these pests for good!
Feed
You can attract birds and insects if you leave flower stalks.
You should put out a peanut butter or suet from a piece of twine, as well as leaving water in the bowl for your bird’s needs.
Plan
This is when you should figure out what worked in your garden this year, and improve it for next season.
Don’t make the same mistakes again! You can have a great plan that will really help during springtime if you do something right now.