What to do in your yard each season – Show Notes

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• Fall Maintenance Tips
• The Twice a Year Garden
• How to save 27 hours of work
• How to save time mowing your lawn

• Today’s Plant: Juniper ‘Compressa’

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Listener Question:

I was listening to your podcast on the way to work this week and thinking about my upcoming garden in Ohio. I thought it would be helpful to know what to work on in my yard in each season to keep it maintained year-round.

Spring yard maintenance

This is the time when your garden wakes up!  Here’s what you need to do:

• Spread compost
  • If low fertility or compacted
• Mulch
  • If soil exposed
• Trim
  • If dead material
  • If plants need pruned.  It is best to prune before growth begins.
• Plant
  • If you need to replace or add new plants to the garden.  Fall is generally the best time for this.  Early spring before major growth is next best.

Summer yard maintenance

• Relax.  You already have your first working day for the year completed.

Fall yard maintenance

• Weed
  • If necessary

• Spread Compost
  • If low fertility
  • If soil compacted
• Mulch
  • If soil is exposed
  • If mulch is thinning

• Plant
  • Best time of year to establish perennials.

Winter yard maintenance

• Enjoy the winter textures.

Today’s favorite plant

Pencil Point Juniper

• Juniperus communis ‘Compressa’
• Also called Noah’s Ark
• Columnar evergreen
• USDA Zone 2-6
• 3-8ft tall, 1-2ft wide
• Full sun
• Dry to medium moisture
• Tolerates drought, shallow soil, rocky soil
• Deer resistant
• Relatively disease resistant