The forecast calls for much colder temperatures, and possibly snow showers, beginning tomorrow and with that significant weather pattern change, it’s the right time to do some work in your planting beds.
Tim Krueger from Lakeland Landscape was the guest on Welcome Home with Brandon Bartow Tuesday morning.
“You want to trim your flowering shrubs, roses, spireas, perennials, everything like that,” he suggested. “It makes it much easier for leaf pick up, so there is less things to get trapped in.”
He also suggested cutting your perennials down and splitting them.
Krueger said, “It’s a great time to thin your garden beds out, and add new plants from your cuttings to other places that you didn’t have filled in.”
The local landscaper also suggested to homeowners, “Get your lawn cut nice and short. You want to avoid those moles and mice that leave that damage in spring. Other things that people don’t really think of is even your sidewalks. Make sure there’s no grass left growing in the cracks in your sidewalks. It is going to make snow blowing much easier.”
Krueger added, “You want to be prepared as much as possible for mice and other rodents making nesting material in your untrimmed shrubs.”