7 Nov
What is a Fall Clean-up and What it includes?
Posted By Ervin in Gardening
The primary sign that fall is coming is the beautiful and colorful leaves at the trees. Eventually, those leaves do fall off the trees making a fun play environment for kids and pets. However, it also means hours of work to clean them up or fall clean-up. As labor intense as it can be to clean-up and dispose of these types of leaves, it is an essential evil.
Why do you need to clean-up those leaves?
Leaving the leaves creates several troubles on your garden.
- Leaves on the lawn suffocate the garden by depriving the turf of important oxygen.
- Leaves on the garden deprive grass plants of needed sunlight. This can cause brown patches and/or dead patches in the lawn.
- Leaves on the lawn entice moisture within the turf that can create fungus problems.
Leaf clean-up in only one aspect in assuring that your yard seems its great come next spring. A whole fall clean-up is the important thing to getting ready your landscape for a long winter’s nap and making sure that it awakes happy and healthy in the spring. no one likes a cranky yard.
What else is essential for a final fall clean-up?
- The garden must be mowed shorter than normal (around three inches) to prevent fungus issues.
- Trim and shape hedges and shrubs one last time for a neat winter look and to prevent snow and ice damage.
- Deadwood or cross branches need to be pruned to dispose of the chance of pest troubles.
- Eliminate all leaves, twigs, branches, and debris from lawn and planting beds.
- Perennial flowers must be “dead-headed” to increase growth in the spring.
- Fall manure high in natural phosphorus must be applied to promote healthy turf growth in the spring.
- Mulch must be turned and roughed up for a neat look and to remove any mold that can be set in.
Putting in the money or time for a proper fall clean-up will not only repay come spring with a lovely and healthy yard, however, may also have matters looking fantastic for those Christmas lights and decorations.
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