Cleaning up and Putting the Main Garden to Bed
While my container garden has winter-hardy plants growing, I'm letting the main garden hibernate. This is good practice for a few reasons:
* It's good to let the soil rest and recuperate after a hearty growing season
* You can test the soil and add natural soil amendments such as blood meal, bone meal, kelp, greensand, compost, and the like: these soil amendments will break down gradually over the winter
* If you've been plagued with pests such as Mexican bean beetles, leaving them exposed in the cold, naked garden will reduce their population
*If you've not been bothered by pests, mulching the garden will keep weeds to a minimum and will furnish their own nutrients to the soil
You do want to weed before doing all of the above, one last time before cold weather hits. Otherwise, it's time to tell the garden "Good night: sleep tight."
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| By RainBoxRed (Own work) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons Garden Clean-Up |
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