- 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
