What do gardeners do in winter???

Question

hi i just started my gardening business and its coming up to the winter any ideas what i could do we dont get much snow either plz help...

Answer 1

Well, we get a ton of snow so I have to plant my favorite root veggies in a tub that protects them from frost.  It's called the Roottub, and it's a large container with 2 sides that fold down, its  got drainage holes and allows for aeration.

Neat thing about this contraption is that it takes all of the backbreaking work out of harvesting root veggies.  Come time to harvest them, I just pull the 2 sides all the way down, and the soil just falls away, exposing the roots.  Like the ad says, there's no kneeling, digging, pulling or broken roots.  I've used it for 2 seasons now and I'm impressed.

Apparently it was designed especially to grow Salsify and Scorzonera, which I've never grown before.

http://www.roottub.exofire.net/faq.html

Answer 2

They crawl around and whine and mope about how all of their plants are dying.

Answer 3

I'm out of work during the winter, but I have a hobby tree and shrub nursery and that keeps me going. I started this 2 yrs ago when I moved up north. My goal for it [besides making my neighbors jealous] was to successfully grow the Southern trees and shrubs I grew up to love, up north. Now up here they all gotta come inside for the winter, but theres still watering, fertilizing, weeding, etc thats needs to be done all winter. This allows me to enjoy gardening yearround. Besides that, I spend winters traveling back home and doing everything I can't do during summer when I'm working. So try gardening in pots indoors. fruit trees, palms, hibiscus, theres tons of plants that will work inside for the winter.

Answer 4

In late summer, start booking appointments for raking up leaves, putting down compost and mulch, fertilizing/seeding lawns, putting down bulbs, etc. There are also a number of trees and shrubs that can and should be pruned in the fall/winter. You can also take notes or mark dead branches that you weren’t able to cut during the summer and take care of those into fall/winter. See what might be needed for the flora that grow or are grown in your area in the fall/winter and make it known you take care of those things. There may be a point in the year where you may have to stop but at least you could cut it down to a minimum.

You get the idea. Get started. If your customers don’t know what services you provide, at each season of the year, how do you expect them to ask. They will just assume you provide the basics.

Answer 5

poinsettas

Answer 6

Winter is for pruning trees and shrubs.   Big garden clean-ups: rake up all the leaves under big shrubs and rake leaves out of the corners.  It's also a good time to do "hardscapes" like install rock walls, stone paths, brick patios...

We don't have much snow here, so we do winter container gardens: http://www.ehow.com/how_2183018_give-gar...

Answer 7

They spend it in the kitchen, making delicious meals out of all the veggies and fruit that was canned and frozen during the summer.

Answer 8

clean up the leaves, mow the lawn if it still needs it. do some light pruning if needed. keep the weeds down. gather up the dead annuals and compost them. turn over the compost.

dig in manure to the garden to get it in shape for next year.

clean and sharpen all your tools. disinfect your planting pots

tidy up your storage area. check your hoses for leaks, make sure the outside taps are turned off (two years running I burst the pipes!!) tuneup your electric tools.  Plant bulbs.

Failing all that you could offer to put up and take down xmas lights. That is big business where I live because we have

a lot of retired people here.

Answer 9

They prune plants like roses, ready for the spring, they plant bulbs such as crocus etc and do tidying up, clearing leaves and choppping logs etc.  If they have access to a greenhouse, then they also work in there

Answer 10

plow snow