Frosty weather is coming! This week, winter is definitely due to arrive, with lower temperatures predicted towards Friday, and initial forecasts even indicating snow in some regions.
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Wrapping yourself up to keep warm will be your first concern (or wishing you could make like a bird and fly south for the winter), but you also need to make preparations for your garden. If you have a lawn, follow our simple tips to make sure it stays in tip-top condition.
As we're heading through autumn (though it feels like it's rapidly degenerating into winter), leaves start to fall off the trees, covering your lawn. While crunching through piles of these was the best part of the season when you were a child - and, even now, leaves in varying hues of golden and red look stunning - they are not a friend of your garden. If they stay on your lawn too long, they'll start to block the light and keep too much moisture on the grass, leading to it look patchy and dead. Rake the leaves as often as possible, and definitely before any snow falls.
Before it gets too cold, you should also fertilise your lawn. Get a fertiliser with a high nitrogen content, and if you apply it to your lawn in the early winter, the grass can absorb its goodness gradually through the winter.
Finally, once you've done everything else, and the frost and the snow have fallen, try to avoid walking on your lawn as much as you can. Heavy footfall will compact the ice and snow onto the grass, and this will cause dead spots.
It might be a bit of extra work to make your lawn survive the winter, but you'll definitely reap the rewards coming springtime, when your garden will look luscious and lovely.
Emily Bancroft
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