October Quick Tips
- Start preparing your vegetable garden for winter. Piling 12 or more inches of shredded leaves and straw on root crops will allow harvesting throughout much of the winter.
- Pot up and bring in or cut and hang for drying any herbs you want to save for winter use.
- Set aside a pile of shredded leaves to mulch your beds once the ground freezes.
- Now is the time to apply Gertens’ Winterizer to your lawn.
- Make a dried arrangement with some of your great garden plants - hydrangeas, ornamental grasses, milkweed pods, Baptisia pods, Russian sage etc.
- As the nighttime temperatures start to dip towards the low 40s, move your tropical plants indoors.
- Once the ground temperature becomes cooler (mid-October), it is safe to plant your hardy bulbs.