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What you can do to prevent winter from damaging your yard and garden! By: Peter Doyle  |
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 With winter rapidly approaching you’re probably starting to worry about the plants, shrubs and trees you have planted around your home and the damage that a harsh winter can do to them. While there is nothing you can do about how often it snows or how quickly the snow piles up, there are things you can to minimize the damage old man winter can do to your yard and garden.
To start; if you have young evergreen trees or evergreen shrubs you may want to cover them with burlap for the winter. Covering them with burlap will help protect the limbs of the plant so that don’t become damaged from the snow weighing down any particular limb. If you don’t like the idea of wrapping them with burlap, you can build a burlap tent over the young tree or shrub to deflect the snow from building up on the plant. If your evergreen trees are too big to protect with burlap, just shake the snow from them after a snowfall or anytime snow starts to build up on them.
When it comes to the garden and flower beds, it’s a good idea to cover them with a landscape cloth for the winter. That will help insulate the bed and keep debris from collecting.
Believe it or not, the big enemy from winter isn’t the snow; it’s what’s in it and what we do with it. When the snow really starts to fly, take special consideration of where you pile it up when you do your shoveling. Never pile up snow onto plants. Never pile up snow against the side of your house; not to protect plants but to protect your home. When the plow comes down your street and piles up the snow at the end of your driveway, take special care that the snow you remove doesn’t come anywhere near your plants or your lawn. Snow from the road contains a high level of salt which can cause havoc for your plants, lawn and garden.
There’s nothing you can do to prevent winter, but by taking a few precautions, you can minimize the damage winter does to your yard and garden.
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