{"id":1225,"date":"2011-10-26T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcmgf.org\/mg2\/mg2\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:46:57","slug":"winterizing-your-garden-10-26-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/winterizing-your-garden-10-26-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Winterizing Your Garden 10-26-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title: <a href=\"http:\/\/jcmgf.org\/mg2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Winterizing_Your_Garden-10-26-2011.pdf\">Winterizing Your Garden 10-26-2011<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Roger McPherson<br \/>\nDate Published: 2011\/10\/26<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am writing this from the perspective of the weather that we face in Port Townsend with<br \/>\ncold down to about 20 degrees, strong winds and quite a bit of rain. We could get a hard<br \/>\nfrost just about anytime so you should be digging up and potting tender perennials such<br \/>\nas heliotrope, tender fuchsias and geraniums that you may want to keep in a sheltered<br \/>\nspot or inside.<br \/>\nThis has been a great year for tuberous begonias, but those tubers won\u2019t make it through<br \/>\nthe winter. Pull up the begonias and lay them on a newspaper in your garage or basement.<br \/>\nAfter the top has died and the soil on the tuber dried, clean the tuber, label it and store it<br \/>\nin a paper bag with some dry peat moss, vermiculite or shavings. I like to dust it with a<br \/>\nfungicide so it doesn\u2019t get a fungus.<br \/>\nTender plants that are hard to move can be covered with dry leaves or straw and wrapped<br \/>\nin something like burlap. My dahlias seem to survive the winter with a good layer of<br \/>\nmulch. I trim them down to 2\u201dstubs and mound a 6\u201dpile of bark over them.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t want strong winds breaking tree limbs or plant stems. It is a good time to trim<br \/>\nunsightly excess growth and vigorous ornamentals. I also like to do an initial pruning of<br \/>\nsome of my leggy roses to prevent damage. They will get a final pruning in February just<br \/>\nbefore they start next year\u2019s growth (as will the apples and pears).<br \/>\nThe best preparation for our wet winters is cleanup of the beds and yards. You don\u2019t want<br \/>\na layer of soggy leaves smothering your plants and providing a hiding place for pests and<br \/>\nfungi. Get rid of the diseased leaves that may have dropped from your roses, fruit trees or<br \/>\nthose mushy lily leaves, etc. A layer of clean mulch or compost can then be spread to<br \/>\nprotect and enrich the soil and the roots near the surface.<br \/>\nOh, and weeds! Pull them while the soil is damp, but not soggy. They will only get<br \/>\nbigger, better rooted and harder to pull. Have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Winterizing Your Garden 10-26-2011 Author: Roger McPherson Date Published: 2011\/10\/26 &nbsp; I am writing this from the perspective of the weather that we face in Port Townsend with cold down to about 20 degrees, strong winds and quite a bit of rain. We could get a hard frost just about anytime so you should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-column","category-uncategorized","classic-edited"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmgf.myparkpack.com\/mg2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}