Get your garden for winter with these tips

What with their geraniums, hydrangeas and shrubs for the winter?

Baie d'Urfe landscape Kelley O'Rourke shared her tips on how to. Your garden for winter CBC Daybreak this week in Montreal

Annually

A term used to describe plants that can wait until the end of winter and the return of spring, - Some annuals such as geraniums, ivy vines and potatoes can spend the winter.

But many can not survive if the soil covered with frost. O'Rourke recommended to remove the young plants in the garden before the first frost. Set it aside from the street, and the city needs to collect.

She said that the country can be saved and put to use in the garden next year.

Cleaning of garden

Be sure to remove all diseased plants or some mildew or black spots on them - otherwise infected plants in her garden in the spring backfire.

"When cleaning your garden, really disposal. Turn the soil," he said. This will clean insects or pests, not help survive the winter.

She also recommended that cover areas of particular weed with sheets of black plastic.

"Leave it in the spring and kill the next planting season," she said.

As for the equipment of their multi-year for the winter, O'Rourke advised to wait until the ground is hard, then they shot about three inches.

Plants autumn

O'Rourke, gardener said you can go ahead and perennials, shrubs and trees, as long as you make sure that your well water to go, then cover the roots with leaves or mulch, to protect them during the winter.

"Now is a good time to put in light bulbs. You can do even after the frost," he said.

He also suggests that covers tender shrubs and fences creating cylinders with leaves for endangered trees and shrubs in winter filled to protect.

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