Winter Checklist

  • Protect plants from deer and rodents:
    • Wrap trunks with hardware cloth
    • Fence young trees
    • Use spray repellents
    • Put out Irish Spring soap
    • Put out poison for voles
  • Replenish mulch if needed, to tea roses, new perennial beds, etc.
  • Spray anti desiccant on evergreens likely to winter burn, spray only on a warm day
  • Plan landscape projects, new flowerbeds, and vegetable gardens
  • Check tubers or glad corms that are in storage
  • Prune trees & shrubs (except spring- bloomers, maples, birches and evergreens)
  • Spray fruit trees with dormant oil on a warm day