Fall Garden Guide

• Keep your lawn mowed until it stops growing and then give it a final raking.
• Rake leaves from the grass, but don’t discard them all. Place shredded leaves in garbage bags with a few handfuls of soil, moisten, close and shake once a week. The resulting leaf mold makes an excellent spring fertilizer or top dressing.
• Use leaves as mulch on vegetable or flower beds. Apply at least six inches of leaves for best results.
• Reseed or resod bare patches of the lawn this month. Weed, aerate and apply a fall fertilizer to kick-start your lawn come spring. If weeds are a problem, try a fall lawn food of 10-5-20 plus weeder.
• Cut back spent biennial and perennial herbs and flowers to approximately five inches from the ground.
• After the first frost, remove annual flowers, vegetables and herbs and bury climbing roses.
• Plant spring-flowering bulbs, such as tulips and daffodils, this month.
• Transplant deciduous shrubs and trees.
• Repair and paint trellises, arbors, fences, and other garden accessories and store for winter.
• Drain, clean and store garden power tools in a clean, dry, ventilated area.

Courtesy: Homeservice Club