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How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring This Fall
This is a great time to get a jump on enjoying the outdoors next spring. Just follow some of these suggestions before you settle in for the winter, and you'll be among the first to benefit when warm days return.
1. Rake debris from your yard and garden, but don't dispose of all your fallen leaves
Gather leaves and place them around your most fragile plants. You can also shred leaves with your lawn mower to create a natural mulch fertilizer for your lawn or garden. Put some aside to contribute to your compost pile throughout the winter. Add them to layers of kitchen greens, grass clippings and dried brush and soil to create an excellent nutritional supplement for your garden. Alternatively, if you simply let leaves mixed with dirt or water rot in a plastic bag over the winter, and occasionally churn the mixture, you'll have a fine batch of leaf mould to mix with your composting or planting soil in spring.
2. Dig new flower beds and yard borders before the ground gets hard
This is a great time to plan your spring garden, and give your yard new definition. Prepare the earth now to give your garden space for more flowers. In the spring with less space devoted to grass, you'll have fewer overall maintenance requirements and fewer resources that will be needed for your lawn next year.
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