Getting ready for winter

If you have not started yet, it is never to soon for people in the Northeastern part of the country to get thing ready for the long, cold, often snowy, winters we have here. Make some simple plant covers out of light plywood to protect your investment in those beautiful plants (and yes even the established plants) you have nurtured through the year. A good feeding before they go to bed will only insure when they wake up in the spring, that they have a head start.

For any new young trees you may have planted, please make sure to wrap the trunks right down to the ground to keep the mince from girdling them which will surely result in them dying on you. They need that layer to direct their food to the branches. Some plants can even be sprayed with a light vegetable oil to help protect the foliage from insects and diseases.

You spend a lot of money and time on your labor of love. Why not protect that and leave nothing to chance? After all you did bring them to your garden for a reason. You obviously saw something in them that you liked, and brought them to their new home. A small bit of effort will ensure that you will enjoy them for many years to come. We have more info being added on our web site constantly about the care and health of your garden and the plants in it. We also have resources to some great ebooks for care of fruit trees. Check those out at Yankee Gardener Info

Keep an eye out for more new info on a regular basis and leave us a comment at the web site letting us know if we can help you find something you are looking for.

The Yankee Gardener

Welcome to The Yankee Gardener's little corner of the Internet. We hope to share many things with you about working in your yard and decorating your gardens. One of the many great things about garden decor is that you can constantly move it around and therefore giving the appearance that you have added something new to your garden.

Garden decor can come in many forms. You can find unusual items at a flea market sale or buy very fancy items from an Internet store or your local big box store. I would caution you though that the big box store items are generally not of very high quality. If you are in it for the long haul like my wife and I are you might want to think about initially spending a few extra dollars on some higher quality decor.

It will be with you much longer and it also will take on it's own aged look as time goes by. We recently added a solar Gazing Globe to our yard and the neighbors instantly wanted to know where to get one and just how it worked. We explained it all to them and they just had to have one. We have a pretty special neighborhood now. We people pass by at night they must think that space travelers have taken up residence. It is all in good fun and having great neighbors to boot. This is my first attempt at a blog so bear with me and I promise I will get the hang of it very fast.