Many of us are excited to see the winter months fade away and make room for the sun! While you wait for the weeks to pass before you can enjoy our beautiful outdoor spaces, here are 5 ways to get ready!
1) Prepare your gardening tools: Examine your tools and clean them thoroughly. Make sure to use fresh fuel in your gas-powered tools and fully charged batteries! For a complete checklist, click here.
2) Clean up: During the fall and winter, your property is subjected to various phenomena, storms, and weather systems. Clean up broken branches, leaves, and debris that have accumulated on your property and in your gardens. The sooner you do this, the more you reduce the risk of damaging bulbs as they try to make their way out of the ground. It is also a good time to trim broken or dead branches, and prune and shape your trees. Discover the range of STIHL battery hedge trimmers to help you!
3) Give the soil a little love: Turn over the soil with a pitchfork and remove any weeds that have grown. Then, spread fresh compost to add nutrients to your flower beds and garden a few weeks before planting anything. This allows the compost to mix well with the soil without damaging the roots of new plants.
4) Make a plan: Your garden center is the best place to find expert advice on the flowers and vegetables best suited to your location. Plan according to colors and heights!
5) Maintenance! Maintenance! Maintenance! Once your annuals are in bloom, it is the right time to plant perennials to fill your flower beds. Late spring is also a good time to add mulch to protect your flower beds for the long, hot summer ahead. And while you are maintaining your flower beds, don't forget to maintain your tools too! In this video, National Technical Manager Chad Dubois shows you how to properly maintain your gas-powered lawn mower.
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