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Winter-prep tips for your lawn and garden
A little attention to your landscape in the fall can make it look great the rest of the year.
So, you're looking at your yard and thinking now what? Well, its time for winter-prep. Did you know that The Barn Nursery in Olympia offers FREE education classes on gardening? Just go to: http://www.thebarnnurseryolympia.com/Calendar.html to find out more.
To prepare your yard for winter, we've compiled a short list:
1. Feed that lawn! Lawns with these cool-weather grasses - Kentucky bluegrass, fescues, perennial ryegrass - should be fertilized in two waves. The first application, from mid to late September should be a fertilizer that's high in nitrogen. The second application, roughly about Thanksgiving but before the ground is frozen, should be a fertilizer that's high in phosphorus, which will prepare that plant for next year.
2. Repair summer's damage. Now is a great time to repair a damaged lawn and reseed. If you're racing the cold put down a perennial ryegrass, which germinates quickly . (just four to seven days, versus two to three weeks for bluegrass). Help the seeds take root by top-dressing them with up to one-quarter-inch compost or soil, he says.
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