Fall Garden Prep

It’s that time of year to start putting your gardens to bed for winter. For most people this means removing all dead growth, cutting back overgrown branches and removing leaf litter. Other gardeners pretty much leave their gardens as is, maybe pile some extra leaves on the garden to protect the plants from the cold, but clean everything up when new growth starts in the spring. Then still others just leave their garden as is, letting old dead growth fall between the plants and slowly decay, never really getting a neat and tidy garden.

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