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Lawn & Landscape Tips

General Tips

• Clean up and burn any diseased plant material to ensure a healthy start next spring. Never add diseased material to a compost bin.
• Establish bird-feeding sites now and maintain them throughout winter.

Lawns

• Continue to water your lawn with the final watering just before freeze-up (usually from late October to mid-November).
• Fall seeding of lawns can be done in September.
• Use a weed-and-feed winterizer fertilizer on your lawn to get rid of persistent weeds, build strong grass roots, and reduce disease problems.

Trees and Shrubs

• Water evergreens well from the beginning of October until freeze-up, especially newly transplanted cedars and junipers.
• Loosely wrap upright cedars and junipers with burlap in mid-November to prevent browning. Remove the burlap in mid-March.
• Use Dormant oil on trees and shrubs if you have had problems with scale and mites the past year.
• Use Skoot to protect your trees over winter from chewing rodents, such as mice and rabbits.
• Use Tree Guards or Tree Wraps to protect tree trunks from sun scald and trunk injury (splitting and blistering of trunks from repeated heating and freezing). Fruit trees especially benefit from this type of protection.
• Transplant deciduous trees to new locations only after their leaves have fallen.
• Water trees and shrubs heavily before freeze-up. A Ross Root Feeder is the most efficient method of watering trees and shrubs.
• Wait until late fall, after leaves have fallen, or early spring to prune most trees and shrubs. Do not prune spring-flowering shrubs, except for the dead flower heads. If further pruning is necessary, wait until spring, after the flowering is finished. Maple and birch trees should not be pruned until late spring, after they have fully leafed out.