How to Winterize an Ornamental Garden

How to Winterize an Ornamental Garden

Winterizing Garden - Fallen Leaves

Winterizing Garden - Fallen Leaves

Winterizing Garden - Mulching

Winterizing Garden - Mulching

Winterizing Garden - Watering for Winter

Winterizing Garden - Watering for Winter

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Winterizing Garden - Pruning

Winterizing Garden - Fertilizing

Winterizing Garden - Fertilizing

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Winterizing Garden - Bringing Houseplants In

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Winterizing Garden - Planting Fall Bulbs

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Plant a Tree - Planning

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Pot your Plants - Choosing a Plant Container

How to Winterize an Ornamental Garden

How to Winterize an Ornamental Garden

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September Gardening Tips

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Fast Fall Lawn Revival

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Planting Cool Weather Vegetables

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Top Fall Gardening Tips

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Keeping Color in the Garden

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Top Lawn And Garden Watering Tips

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Late Summer Lawn Care

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End of Summer Garden Maintenance

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Top Tropical Garden Plants

Summer Watering Secrets

Summer Watering Secrets

Making The Most Of A Mid-Summer Garden

Making The Most Of A Mid-Summer Garden

Tips For A Deer Free Garden

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Control Garden Pests The Natural Way

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Pruning The Perfect Summer Garden

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Early Summer Gardening Tips

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Spring Annuals Brighten Any Garden

Secrets To Spring Garden Success

Secrets To Spring Garden Success

Bring Your Lawn To Life

Bring Your Lawn To Life

Spring Vegetable Garden Secrets

Spring Vegetable Garden Secrets

Spring Gardening With Perennials, Annuals And Bulbs

Spring Gardening With Perennials, Annuals And Bulbs

Top Tree Planting Tips

Top Tree Planting Tips

Spring Tree And Shrub Gardening Secrets

Spring Tree And Shrub Gardening Secrets

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Get Garden Ready For Spring

Great Garden Winterization Tips

Great Garden Winterization Tips

Make Garden Mosquitoes Disappear

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Gardening With Organic Seeds

Organic Garden Planning

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Organic Garden Pest Control

Organic Garden Pest Control

Conserving Water On Gardens And Lawns

Conserving Water On Gardens And Lawns

Growing Tomatoes

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Gardening - Fertilizing Basics

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Summer Lawn Care

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Gardening - Pollinators and Beneficial Insects

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Mitch Baker

American Plant Garden Center and Nursery

www.americanplant.net  

(301) 469-7690

Mitch Baker is the Horticultural Specialist at the American Plant Garden Center and Nursery, in Bethesda, MD, focusing on natural gardening products and organic gardening. Mitch is a MD Certified Professional Horticulturist, with more than 34 years of experience in the garden center industry. He has studied at numerous horticultural institutions from New York to Oregon, and also serves on the board of the Rachel Carson Council.

Winterizing Garden - Fertilizing

Professional horticulturalist Mitch Baker demonstrates how to winterize an ornamental garden including fertilizing tips.

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Mitch Baker: Hi! I am Mitch Baker with American Plant in Bethesda. We are talking about winterizing your ornamental garden, right now fertilizing. Fall is a great time to fertilize as long as you are using the right type of fertilizer. This would not be the time to use some fast acting water-soluble high nitrogen fertilizer. What we are going to use is a low fertility organic fertilizer that will be released slowly over the winter and give all these plants a boost in the spring. So, rather than just toss this fertilizer on the surface of the mulch, this fertilizer needs to come into contact with the soil, so that it works its way down into the soil profile rapidly. So we want to pull this mulch back if you have already mulched. Then we will apply the fertilizer to the soil surface and the mulch can go back on top of that. So we are just going to spread some fertilizer around the entire root zone, we will just do a portion for now and then the mulch goes right back over the top of the fertilizer. Then we want to water it in, very important, we want to dissolve that fertilizer and pull it down into the soil profile. So get it into contact with the soil surface and then water it in right away. So again using the right type of fertilizer, an organic, slow release, slow fertility fertilizer; you can apply this to just about any tree, shrub, perennial this time of year. So you want to use an organic, general purpose, low fertility fertilizer, apply it to the soil surface, mulch on top of that and then water it in, right away. That will get things off to a good start next spring. Next, we will talk about transplanting.

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