A Step by Step Guide to Winterizing Your Yard and Garden, Before October Ends

Is this your first winter as a new homeowner in Toronto? It’s time to winterize your yard. Come October, the weather’s going to start taking a turn from warmth to something a little colder. Toronto’s first snowfall can come quick and freezing temperatures will mean your yard’s more difficult to work with. Before encountering these issues, here’s a way to get your yard ready for winter.

Hoses

Before you get going on the more time-consuming winter readying tasks, disconnect hoses from exterior taps. Ensure all water drains and then, coil your hose prior to storing it. Water left inside a hose can freeze and damage it. Alternatively, leaving it outside is just asking for damage. Any item connected to the hose – such as a water timer – should also be disconnected.

Garden cleaning

Take a good look at your garden. How to prepare a garden for winter is relatively simple. All a gardener has to do is clean up any dead plants, pull out bulbs or anything you want to keep for next year, and create the sort of empty, clear garden you want for the spring. It goes without saying but yards and gardens can look like a mess when the snow starts to melt, if a homeowner hasn’t properly cleaned up.

Clean gutters

Gutters should be cleaned before every winter. As the leaves come down in fall and with the summer rains, and everything else that comes with gutters, things accumulate. Before the snow and ice begins packing your gutters, cleaning them out ensures an easy way for winter melts to drain away.

Putting summer away

Take a look around the yard and see what needs to be removed. Furniture, fabric cushions, any toys or games, BBQs, gardening tools or accessories, and more usually find their way on this list. Every home’s a little different but you don’t want to leave anything outside come winter that could end up faded or damaged in some way.

Cover patio furniture

If there’s patio furniture that you intend to leave outside, be sure to cover it with large plastic garbage bags or something similar. You may also wish to do the same with your air conditioner. Though you’re probably ok, some air conditioners can experience damage from leaves and harsher climates.

Rake it

When you’re tidying up your garden and lawn, raking up everything can help to clean your property before the freeze sets in. Raking up fall leaves and dead vegetation can avoid destroying grass. Bonus – you can shred the leaves with a lawn mower and reuse them as mulch in your garden beds!

Winter tools

Come winter, you don’t want to be digging around for snow shovels to clear out the driveway. Instead, take the time before winter’s set in. Set up winter tools where you prefer them to be, like any ice scrapers, shovels, snow blowers, salt, etc. You may also wish to ready for any power outages by stocking up on storm supplies.

One by one, step by step. When you winterize your yard, you keep your property ready for anything. It takes time but it's worth it. Come spring, you’ll be ready to start re-building your yard and garden for how you want it to look. For high quality garden soil any time of year, contact Core Mini Bins. We deliver anywhere in Toronto.

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