What an incredible day to be outside raking, putting away the lawn furniture, or at our house tuning up the snow blower!
It’s also perfect weather for planting hardy mums, and lucky you–they’re on sale! All of our beautiful hardy mums are 50% off while they last!!
Just take them home, dig a hole about the same width and depth as their pots, take them out of their pots, loosen up the soil ball, and nestle them in their hole surrounding them with the loose dirt. Let them die back naturally after a few hard freezes, but give them a bit of insulation with some of your final leaf clippings or mulched leaves.
Towards the beginning of May gently rake away the leaf clippinga and look for your mums reappearance. Keep them pinched back 3″-4″ high until the 4th of July. This will give you lush, full plants in the fall, rather than scraggly, leggy ones.
Shouldn’t your garden be “floral and haRDY
