Gardening Tips for getting an early start to season – WCSH

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ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — The warm weather has a lot of people chomping at the bit to get out into their gardens.   That’s why we asked John Jameson, a soil expert with the UMaine Cooperative Extension for advice.  Jameson says it’s a good idea to do some cleaning and weeding in your gardens and to turn over the soil in your beds if its not too wet. If you’re worried about how your perennials might be affected by this early warmup, he says don’t clean out your beds just yet.

“I wouldn’t be in a hurry to rake some of the leaves off them just yet because the leaves gives them a little insulation it might keep the soil a little cooler it might keep them from coming up. if they’re already up there’s not too too much you can do, maybe cover them if you know we’re going to have a frost with a little white sheet or something.but once you have a whole lot of them and they’re all coming up there’s not much you can do,” Jameson said.

 If you’d like more gardening tips, the Umaine Cooperative extension has a lot of useful information on it’s website

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