Home improvement and hardware stores are filled with bags of salt-based de-icers for your sidewalk and driveway. Leave them be. Instead, use sand to make your sidewalk and driveway safe. Why avoid salt? Because it will cause serious damage your lawn or plantings along the pavement. Also, while sometimes recommended, using fertilizers as de-icing agents leads to over-fertilizing and can kill plants and lawns.
The Dracut Garden Club
A non-profit gardening, community service, and social club in Dracut, MA
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Christmas at the Coburn House
Please join us this Sunday, 12/8 between 11 AM and 4 PM!
The house looks beautiful and the raffle prizes are fantastic!
Friday, December 6, 2019
Live tree? Think ahead.
If you are planning for a living Christmas tree to be planted outside after the holiday, dig the hole now, cover the soil with a tarp and plan to plant it as soon as possible after Christmas Day.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Let them rest.
Stop fertilizing houseplants until next February – unless you keep them under lights. With late autumn and winter’s lower light levels, houseplants enter a resting phase. It will also help your houseplants if you keep your home on the cooler side (or place plants in a cooler room) and keep your houseplant’s leaves clean.
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