October’s Question: How do you put your garden to bed for the winter? Leave us a comment
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October’s Question: How do you put your garden to bed for the winter? Leave us a comment
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October 28, 2023 at 6:01 pm
Once the plants leaves and flowers and stems brown I cut the plant down to the ground.. I leave fallen leaves in my flower beds as mulch…has anyone tried growing garlic ?? Looking for your successful tidbits Txs, Sue
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October 28, 2023 at 7:32 pm
Thanks. As to garlic I have heard you just pop the single cloves a couple inches down and they pop up in the spring
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October 29, 2023 at 1:20 pm
Easy enough…thanks for helpful garlic tip…
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November 19, 2024 at 9:12 pm
I remove any dead plant remains after killing frost and have already mulched the flower beds with bark mulch. I mulch our vegetable garden with chopped up leaves picked up by my lawn mower’s bagger system. This year I am going to see if rototilling the leaves under now gives a head start to decomposition and hopefully disrupt some pests which have buried themselves or laid eggs under the soil. Then I dredge through the dark months dreaming of the spring day when I will notice Siberian squill, crocus, daffodil and hyacinth bulbs sprouting out of the mulch signaling an end of another winter.
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