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Country Garden Club Winter Gardening Tips

Spring Gardening Tips

Gardening Do's

​1) Get your soil ready
Preparing your soil for a spring garden should be done as early as possible. The main process is tilling your garden area around 8 to 12 inches beneath the surface and removing any rocks or debris. The next major step is to add organic matter and fertilizer. One thing you want to avoid is tilling when your soil is too wet. The extra water will hinder plant growth.

2) Weeding your yard
​Weeds can be a pesky thorn in your side—especially if you let them run wild for most of the winter. Wedding is the boring and tedious work of caring for a garden, but it must be done. Start early, and do a little at a time so you won’t tire yourself out.

3) Use cooking water on your plants
Watering your plants using left over cooking water is another great way to add a nutrient boost with the vitamins and minerals left behind after you have boiled some pasta, vegetables, or potatoes. Just be sure to let the water cool down before you feed it to your plants.

​4) Fertilize your garden with coffee grounds
During the winter, you may have moved some of your shrubs to indoor planters – now’s the time to move them back out again! Using coffee grounds to prep your soil is a great way to save a little money and be a bit more ‘green’ in the process. The grounds are filled with nitrogen, a mineral that aids in vegetable and plant growth. Simply add them to your compost pile or directly into the soil itself.

5) Use chamomile tea to ward off plant infections
Watering your plants with chamomile tea is a great way to help ward off bacterial and fungal infections that come with springtime. Spraying your plants with a chamomile tea mix a few times a week will help stop your seedling from damping off.

6) Plant egg shells along with your vegetables
Throwing some eggshells in the same hole that you will be planting your vegetables in help your plants avoid “blossom end rot” which is often cause by a calcium deficiency. Just be sure to grind up the egg shells as much as possible.


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National Audubon Society
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The Nature Conservancy
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Wood County Park District
Toledo Metro Parks
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Toledo Zoo
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Black Swamp Bird Observatory
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Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
OSU Bee Lab


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Alliance for the Great Lakes
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