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H: Hey guys this is H, PhilÕs sister from smilinggardener.com and today we are talking
about preparing your garden for winter. How do we know itÕs time to winterize our garden?
Phil: I do it right before itÕs going to snow.
H: WhatÕs the most important thing for preparing the garden?
Phil: For me it is like one really big step and that is doing something to protect your
soil over winter. There are some few different ways you can go about doing that.
H: WhatÕs the easiest thing to do? Phil: Yeah. Like if I guess if we were talking
about like a vegetable garden or a perennial garden, certainly one thing you could do is
just leave your plants there, your tomatoes, your peppers, your everything, just leave
them right there and they will just die back, the nutrients from the plant will go back
into the root system of the plants and the top will just die back and become a mulch
for the soil and all those nutrients and all those organic matter will makes its way back
into the soil and itÕs not the most esthetically pleasing, but if your garden is kind of back
somewhere where it doesnÕt matter and now it will be easiest way to do it and thatÕs
how nature would do it too, right. H: But what if your garden is in a really
high profile area and you donÕt want it to look that messy?
Phil: ThatÕs what I have this garden here, its right up by the house and itÕs like I
try to keep it as a nice garden. So then what I do is take all of that stuff and put it
into the compose bin because I really want to get the nutrients out of that and get the
carbon, the organic matter out of that. So I take all that and put it into a compose
bin and then I like to plan a carver crop. H: What about leaves?
Phil: If you are not going to plan to carver crop, you want something to protect our soil
and so thatÕs where mulch comes in and by far the best mulch and the most natural mulch
is leaves and this is the time of year that we actually get them for free, especially
if we have been clever enough to planting and make wild leaves.
H: I think thatÕs it. Is there anything else that you wanted to say about preparing the
garden? Phil: I did put a few more tips on the blog,
so people are watching on YouTube, they can go over to this blog and there is some extra
brownie points, there is some extra things you can do to really improve this process
of soil building in the fall. H: Sounds good.
Phil: Hey you know what I should say because you donÕt know how to say it yet is for people
who havenÕt picked up the 15 vital lessons for becoming a better organic gardener, you
can do that right on the Home page of smilinggardener.com and thatÕs where I teach a whole bunch of
really cool tips. H: You are gardening for the winter.
Preparing A Garden For Winter_ Here Are 3 Ways To Go About It