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Collapse ▲Prepare your garden and landscape to thrive through the cooler months - and set the stage for a vibrant spring - with our hands-on Fall Garden Maintenance & Landscaping Workshop. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, you'll gain practical skills and seasonal strategies to keep your outdoor spaces healthy, beautiful, and low-maintenance all autumn long.
What You'll Learn
- Clean-up & Pruning: Identify which spent blooms, foliage, and branches to remove or trim back to prevent disease and encourage strong winter form.
- Soil Care & Amendments: Techniques for testing soil pH, incorporating organic matter, and applying fall fertilizers or mulches to build nutrient reserves.
- Plant Protection: Strategies for insulating tender perennials, bulbs, and container plants - plus tips on covering or relocating sensitive specimens.
- Seasonal Planting & Transplanting: Best practices for planting cool-season vegetables, cover crops, shrubs, and trees so they establish roots before winter.
- Hardscape Prep & Enhancement: Assess and repair walkways, edging, and garden structures; explore fall-themed accents (ornamental grasses, pumpkins, containers) to keep your landscaping inviting.
- Pest & Disease Management: Recognize late-season pests and fungal threats, and learn ecologically sound tactics - like beneficial insects and organic sprays - to minimize overwintering populations.
- Seed Saving: techniques and practives
Workshop Take-Home Resources
- Illustrated maintenance checklist for month-by-month garden care.
- Seasonal soil amendment guide with local recommendations.
- Plant protection DIY handout (frost cloth techniques & container covers)
- Fall planting calendar tailored to our region
- Landscape design palette ideas for autumn interest.