Tasks in the Fall Garden

To have a healthy garden experts say you have to be a season ahead. In the fall you should prepare your plants and garden for the winter, so we tell the essential tasks we care for your garden this season.

1. If you live in a region where winter temperatures drop below 20 degrees Fahrenheit (-6 degrees Celsius) for extended periods of time you have to lift and store tender bulbs such as elephant ears, dahlias and lilies water after the first frost, according to the expert in garden and outdoor P. Allen Smith signature STIHL.

2. Patents selective application of herbicides on perennial weeds, these herbicides are especially effective in the fall. Be strengthened to prevent it before winter. A basic measure of protection is to wear gloves when applying these products to prevent skin damage, the expert mentioned.

3. Do not need to retire root crops like carrots, radishes or potatoes, these climatic conditions support until well into the winter, so says Smith.

4. Compost and organic mulch should be left to rot to put it to the plants and flowers. The inhabitants of the garden will thank you next spring.

5. Is the time to plant spring flowering bulbs like tulips, daffodils, alliums globe.

6. Bare and remove the leaves from the lawn. The importance of removing dead ojas is that after a few days a carpet of leaves choking the grass is formed, this will prevent you grow healthy in spring, says Smith.

7. Protects your entertainment areas with water from Autumn Leaves. With a network you can cover pools, spas, fountains and ponds, to prevent clogging water outlets.

8. Analyze your garden to know which plants are perennial plants and will die. Then they die take them out and make them into compost.

9. If you do not want to sacrifice the beauty and color of your garden you should plant species such as chrysanthemums, aster and sedum, which are ornamentals and perennials to place on the lawn.

10. You have to keep in mind that to make compost you should not take the leaves and plants that died without falling. The leaves were already dead when they fell from the tree, but a branch or a leaf dies and rots on the tree or plant, do not put in compost because you probably have a disease and that it spread to the other plants.

11. When you put the compost in your mix it garden with a little lime, this element will act as a neutralizing soil pH and corrected to a better birth, is a tip of the expert that should be present in autumn.

12. Feed the trees and shrubs leaf for keeping them evergreen in late September, for that can occupy a slow release organic fertilizer, one option is the Holly Tone.

Tasks in the Fall Garden