Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: mugins on September 15, 2010, 16:33
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hi how do you care for your garden in the winter
also the greenhouse
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If it's fairly mild and dry, I do cut the Lawns and trim the edges. I also collect any fallen leaves and compost them. I tend to try to keep the Front and back gardens neat and tidy during the winter months weather permitting!!!
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If it's anything like last winter, in an armchair with lots of tea till the weather improves.
In other words, if the ground is sodden or the lawn frozen leave well alone.
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Hi there,
There are quite a variety or pre-winter tidy-up and protection tasks that will sort out your garden for winter. There's a handy article on this very subject at Ecocharlie, as follows:
https://www.ecocharlie.co.uk/blog/2010/01/top-10-winter-garden-jobs/
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I do a final weeding and mow the lawn, plus trim the edges. I also cut down any perennial stems that don't help to protect the plants and prune off any long stems of roses to prevent wind rock - if you could look out of my window now, I'd be blown off my feet here!! I shred any prunings, mulch over beds with last year's composted shreddings, gather fallen leaves for composting in bags after emptying them of last year's contents, maybe empty a compost bin for mulch too so I can refill with winter's stuff. Ha-ha-ha- with this annus horribilis that we have had, I am WELL behind, but that is my intention and goal if both me and the weather give us chance!!! ::)