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Cover strawberries 2-inches deep with hay or straw to reduce weeds and increase winter protection.

Cut the tops off asparagus plants and mulch with a good layer of compost.

Complete removal of fallen leaves and debris to help eliminate overwintering insect and disease organisms.

Incorporate compost in the annual and vegetable gardens for next growing season.

As soon as the leaves fall from fruit trees and berry bushes, spray for the first time with a dormant horticultural oil. Spraying helps control overwintering insects and deseases. Apply…

November is the time for the first herbicide application to control wild garlic and wild onion, if you have them in your yard.

Keep heavy layers of leaves raked from the lawn. They should be composited. Alternatively, you can mow over a light layer of leaves, turning them to a mulch that adds…

It’s not too late to fertilize your cool-season fescue lawn. Use a turf fertilizer and follow label directions. The fertilizer encourages good root development and helps improve the color of…

Mulch flower beds with 3- to 4-inches of good compost or fine mulch to keep soil temperature stable and prevent winter plant injury from frost heaving. As the compost of…

It’s the ideal time to plant spring-flowering bulbs. Consider planting some of the minor bulbs such as winter aconite, glory of the snow, species tulip, narcissus and grape hyacinths.