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Revved Up 50-Plus Specials CLASSIFIEDS Add a Classified Listing E-Edition Current E-Edition Practicing garden sanitation — a key to successful gardening Gardening for the novice By The Daily News Staff | on October 30, 2018 Bob Lilenfeld “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies” — Gertrude Jekyll, British Horticulturist (1843-1932) The gardening season in our Montcalm zone is finally winding down. One major snooping shared with me by zone gardeners is how to tenancy the many pests and garden diseases they have encountered this year so that they will have a healthy garden next spring. Practicing good garden sanitation is a unconfined way to do this. Dr. William Johnson, noted Horticulturist from Texas A& M Extension, describes this tideway best. “Sanitation is the key to successful gardening,” subtracting “a little work in the fall can prevent a lot of trouble next spring.” With this approach, you can alimony diseases, pests and plane weeds under very good control. It is really not difficult; it just takes a little understanding and effort. As a reminder, pests are organisms that can forfeiture our landscape plants. Usually, gardeners think of insects when they think of pests but fungi, bacteria, viruses, rodents, and other small animals are moreover included as they all can harm our gardens in many ways. Here are some tips on how to succeed good garden sanitation surpassing winter sets in. OVERALL Try to alimony your garden landscape wipe and self-ruling of trash that unchangingly seems to yaffle during the growing season. This will modernize your garden landscapes overall visitation and plane increasingly importantly, eliminate places where pests and disease can survive during the winter and reappear during your spring gardening preparation.Subtractinga layer of mulch to the garden soil in the fall will help prevent any forfeiture occurring in periods of freezing and thawing during the winter/early spring months. In addition, the mulch will minimize the need for spring weeding. Fertilizer should only be unromantic to the garden soil when the plants are urgently growing, not in late fall. VEGETABLE AND FLOWER BEDS Dead plant material should not be removed until without a nonflexible frost (28 degrees or lower). This will help eliminate winter hiding areas for insects and places to hibernate for pests that can rationalization disease. Diseased material should be removed from the landscape garden zone and destroyed by burning, sepulture or bagging and then placing in the trash. The diseased material should not be composted considering most compost piles do not requite off unbearable heat to skiver off any disease present. The non-diseased material can be composted or turned into the soil. Rotating crops in variegated sections of your vegetable garden each year will help prevent disease. In particular, the yield rotation should be washed-up with variegated plant families which are not unauthentic by the old plant problems. PERENNIAL GARDENSWithouta nonflexible frost, cut when perennial plants that die to the ground such as hosta or daylilies. Plants with lulu winter qualities can be left standing as long as they remain healthy. Good examples are sedum, black-eyed susan and coneflowers, which supply seeds for birds to eat during the unprepossessed winter months and add trappy verisimilitude to your winter landscape. Native ornamental grasses such as switchgrass and Indian grass, are very lulu and can be left standing. In addition, their foliage helps insulate the crown of the plants, and their flower’s seeds are a unconfined source of bird food. TREES AND SHRUBS They should not be pruned until spring to stave any forfeiture caused by wounds not healing as a result of the unprepossessed winter temperatures. Not everything in the garden needs to be cut back. Shrubs with berries — as long as they are healthy — can be left to provide winter interest to your garden, as well as supplies for birds. These may include viburnum, bayberry and chokeberry shrubs. Trees and shrubs can be protected from deer, rabbits and mice by enclosing their wiring with plastic netting or special tape and similar products made for this purpose.                                                  LAWNS The lawns should be mowed as needed to alimony your landscape neat and well- trimmed. In addition, your lawnmower should be used to chop any fallen non-diseased leaves into a fine mulch which can be left to put nutrients when into the lawn. These chopped leaves can moreover be placid and widow to make a mulch that is placed in your gardens. REMOVAL OF WEEDS Besides stuff an eyesore, weeds can moreover harbor plant disease over the winter and into the spring season, causing significant problems in your garden’s overall health. Left untouched during the winter, weeds can create humid areas in your garden which are very susceptible to wade by spare plant disease. It is important that any weeds showing signs of disease should be removed from your gardens and destroyed just as you did for diseased plant material. As an widow incentive, pulling weeds in late storing will help prevent many hours of spare garden work in the spring. HANDLING OF GARDEN CHEMICALS It is extremely important to store any remaining garden chemicals where they will remain dry, unfrozen and out of the reach of both people and pets. In addition, for safety information, be sure to review the container labels and consult with Extension experts if needed. LANDSCAPE GARDEN EQUIPMENT Remember to sanitize all the equipment used during the garden season. Be sure to follow the Equipment Owner’s Manuals to ensure you have good results. Also, include sanitizing stakes and other reusable equipment as diseases can penetrate the wood fibers and remerge in the spring. Bleach water solutions can be used for this. In reality, most gardening sanitation practices are just good worldwide sense. They will lead to your landscape gardens stuff substantially self-ruling of pests, diseases and weeds. Share This Article:IncreasinglyFrom Home Go To The Home SectionThe Rush family lights up for the holidaysRemoving a wall takes some knowledge, planningIndoor gardening with a purpose — improving air quality in the home Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment. 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