Preparing for Winter
Blue Onblue
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Comments (2)Once Fall temps arrive, you can change the watering schedule and amounts from whatever you used in the summer to whatever you used in Spring. That means to water -say- about 1 gallon of water if the topmost 4" of the soil (not counting the mulch) is dry and your soil is not sandy (water more if your soil is sandy... but try to mix in some compost if you can). You can skip watering if rain is forecasted. Once the plant goes dormant and the leaves begin to dry out, I water either weekly or once every two weeks, depending on whether there was rain or no rain. And definitely stop watering if the soil freezes! Ha! ;o) To restart watering, play it by ear; see how dry or wet it is. Maybe when you see leaf-out in Spring of some shrubbery and the soil feels dry for lack of rain/ice/snow. Ice or snow accumulations that supply melting water in Spring make restarting waterings sometimes a moving target. Best to make notes in a wall calendar and pass it the note from the one year's calendar to the next year's calendar. Add more mulch and soil pH amendments then if needed....See Morelittlebug zone 5 Missouri
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