Fall clean up: winterizing a perennial garden

Welcome to the Garden Spot! I'm so happy you stopped by. In this video I show gardeners how I approach fall clean up in my zone 5 garden. Are you leaving the leaves this year?

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My channel is all about sustainable gardening in the plains and mountain west, which means my idea of fall cleanup might look different from the traditional one.

When my grandma cleaned her garden for fall, she cleaned all the way down to bare soil. But now we understand that isn’t what’s best for our garden: fallen leaves are great mulch, seedheads are eaten by birds, and insects overwinter in dried plant matter, and some perennials actually look pretty good in winter, at least until our first heavy wet snow.

CHAPTERS
0:00 (Fall clean up: winterizing a perennial garden)
1:15 (leave the leaves)
1:47 (foliar disease)
3:15 (don't prune spring-flowering trees and shrubs)
4:10 (water your trees)
4:43 (leave your grasses til spring)
5:16 (plant spring-blooming bulbs and divide herbaceous perennials)
5:30 (edge your beds)
6:10 (mulch)
6:26 (fall inspo because why not)

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