No matter how much you love gardening, when Winter comes along you will almost always have to just give in to nature and either leave a small patch for straw bale cold frame or move everything indoors into the greenhouse. However, before you do that it is always wise to prep your garden for winter.
Preparing your garden for the winter months, helps you get it ready for the next growing seasons. There are a few simple things that you can do or grow, that help replenish and protect your soil. It is a little extra work at the end of the season, but it is surely worth making the extra effort.
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Here’s What You’ll Need:
- clovers seeds
- vetche seeds
- oats
- buckwheat
- winter barley
- wood-chip mulch
- pine needles
Clear any dead or dying green matter and use it to make your compost. There are many different ways to go about doing this, from simply putting your green and brown matter into a pile to building specialized diy composting units. Do not add any chemically treated matter into your compost pile, it may affect the organisms within.
Another thing you can do is grow a cover crop, as soon as Fall comes on. Most of the cover crops like cloves, vetches and winter barley are available as seeds which you can just sow over your garden. They are legumes too, so they will fix nitrogen into the soil. A 2 to 4 inch layer of wood chip mulch can be laid over the soil during the winter months, to protect it from the elements.
You can get more information on the Prairie Homestead blog, here…
How To Prep Your Garden For Winter
You can watch the video below on 3 simple ways to prep your garden for winter…
