What are your plans for your garden over the winter? Are you planning to let your garden rest over the winter, or do you plan on having a winter harvest? Either way, there are plenty of things you can do now to keep your garden healthy over the winter. No matter what you intend to …
Now that the holidays are over and visitors have headed home, we have a lot more time on our hands but this wintry weather means we still have no dirt on our hands! If you are as anxious as we are to get your spring gardening started, we have the perfect project for you; an …
Worms help make healthy soil, so what happens to them in the winter? Their survival tactics are actually astounding! Before the soil freezes, earthworms burrow down into the subsoil, below the frost line, sometimes as much as 6ft deep. They form a slime-coated ball and hibernate in a state called estivation. Because they are wrapped …