Garden Cleanup

When you make time this fall for a quick garden cleanup, not only will you have orderly looking beds throughout the winter, you'll also save yourself the messy hassle of tidying wet, muddy beds in spring.

How-to

• Remove annuals after they have finished blooming.
• Use gardening gloves to protect your hands and a kneeler or knee pads if you're going to be spending time on your knees.
• Use bypass pruners to cut back roses to approximately half their height.
• Weed and edge a final time to start clean in the spring.
• Move plants to other beds using a garden cart or wheelbarrow.
• Carefully dig up summer bulbs such as dahlias, cannas and gladioli after the first frost for storage over the winter, using a spade or pitchfork.
• Compost organic matter and apply it to your flower garden next spring. Add approximately 1" (2.5 cm) of compost to existing beds and work it into the soil using a rake or hoe.

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