https://lovelygardenroots.com/road-salt-plant-damage-30-feet/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T19:00:00+00:00A 12-Ounce Mug of Road Salt Can Cover a 20-Foot Driveway, and UW-Madison Extension’s Bruce Spangenberg Says Plants Within 30 Feet Take the Damage https://lovelygardenroots.com/winter-compost-bin-tarp-insulation/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T18:30:00+00:00A Compost Bin Gets a Tarp, an Occasional Soaking and Leaf or Straw Insulation on Top and Sides for Winter, HGTV’s Fall Checklist Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/plant-garlic-weeks-before-soil-freezes/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T18:00:00+00:00Garlic Goes In 4 to 8 Weeks Before the Soil Freezes and Under a Thick Straw or Chopped-Leaf Blanket, HGTV’s Julie Martens Forney Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/fall-vegetables-28-degrees-frost/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T17:30:00+00:00Most Fall Vegetables Survive About 28 Degrees, HGTV Says, While Rosemary and Thyme Can Spend Winter Outdoors in Their Pots https://lovelygardenroots.com/daffodils-that-naturalize-plant-in-fall/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T17:00:00+00:00HGTV’s Julie Martens Forney Names ‘Fortune,’ ‘Ice Follies’ and ‘Dutch Master’ as Daffodils That Naturalize, and Says Plant Them in Swaths This Fall https://lovelygardenroots.com/mulch-strawberries-straw-thanksgiving/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T16:30:00+00:00Strawberry Plants Get 4 to 6 Inches of Wheat or Rye Straw Around Thanksgiving, After Nights Near 20 Degrees, WVU Extension Agent JJ Barrett Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/carrots-in-ground-winter-straw/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T16:00:00+00:00Carrots Left in the Ground Can Be Harvested Into December or January Under 6 to 8 Inches of Straw or Leaves, Illinois Extension’s Richard Hentschel Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/cut-back-monarda-phlox-irises-november/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T15:30:00+00:00Monarda and Perennial Phlox Get Cut Back in November to Head Off Powdery Mildew, and Irises Go Down to About 5 Inches, Says The Spruce’s Seven-Plant Guide https://lovelygardenroots.com/mendocino-november-garden-citrus-frost/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T15:00:00+00:00Mendocino County Gardeners Should Cover Citrus When Temperatures Hold at 29 Degrees for 30 Minutes and Have Gutters Clean by Nov. 12, Columnist Roger Coryell Writes https://lovelygardenroots.com/pasadena-nonfunctional-turf-ordinance/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T14:30:00+00:00Pasadena Is Banning Tap-Water Sprinklers on Decorative Lawns at Businesses, City Properties and Some HOA Common Areas https://lovelygardenroots.com/zoe-desmarais-pin-oak-memorial-bench/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T14:00:00+00:00A Dunbarton Mother Whose Daughter Was Killed Beneath a Concord Pin Oak Now Has a Bench Made From the Tree, Carved ‘In Memory of Zoe’ https://lovelygardenroots.com/mulch-fall-leaves-into-lawn/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T13:30:00+00:00Utah State Extension Professor Katie Wagner Says Mowed Fallen Leaves Can Go on Lawns in a Thin Layer, but Black Walnut and Diseased Leaves Belong in the Yard Waste Bin https://lovelygardenroots.com/rose-mulch-hard-frost-tulips-missouri/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-09T13:00:00+00:00Roses Need 6 to 10 Inches of Mulch After a Hard Frost and Tulips Can Go In Until the Ground Freezes, Missouri Extension’s Dhruba Dhakal Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/dim-night-lighting-nocturnal-insects/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T22:30:00+00:00Outdoor Night Lighting Can Be Dialed Back to Protect Nocturnal Insects, and Hollow Seed Stalks Left Standing Shelter Native Bees, UCCE Master Gardener Peyton Ellas Writes https://lovelygardenroots.com/large-patch-disease-warm-season-lawns/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T22:00:00+00:00Expanding Circular Yellow or Brown Spots in a Dormant Warm-Season Lawn Can Mean Large Patch Disease, Clemson’s Samantha Brown Warns as Cool, Wet Fall Weather Sets In https://lovelygardenroots.com/galahad-tomato-katarina-cabbage-kale-soup/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T21:30:00+00:00Iowa State’s Jessie Liebenguth Picks Galahad Tomato, Katarina Cabbage and Prizma Kale as All-America Selections Winners to Grow for Soup Season https://lovelygardenroots.com/azalea-lace-bugs-horticultural-oil/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T21:00:00+00:00Horticultural Oil Goes on for Lace Bugs Now, and Durham Master Gardener Gary Crispell Then Cleans and Puts Away the Sprayer, While Moving Azaleas Out of Full Sun https://lovelygardenroots.com/bring-tropicals-ferns-basil-indoors/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T20:30:00+00:00Tropical Plants, Ferns and Basil Should Come Indoors Before Temperatures Drop, and Clemson’s Samantha Brown Says to Check Leaf Undersides, Stems and Soil for Pests First https://lovelygardenroots.com/fall-sow-coneflower-butterfly-weed/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T20:00:00+00:00Seeds of Purple Coneflower, Black-Eyed Susan and Butterfly Weed Can Go Straight Into the Ground This Fall, Clemson’s Jennifer Weaver Says, Letting Winter Do the Chilling https://lovelygardenroots.com/spot-invasive-bittersweet-buckthorn-fall/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T19:30:00+00:00Fall Is the Easiest Time to Spot Invasive Bittersweet, Buckthorn and Burning Bush, UNH Extension’s Jo Russavage Says, and Vines on Big Trees Get Cut at Knee Height https://lovelygardenroots.com/kentucky-coffeetree-profile-winter-pods/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T19:00:00+00:00Kentucky Coffeetree Reaches About 75 Feet With Leaves Up to 36 Inches Long, and Its 5- to 10-Inch Pods Can Hang On Through Winter, Illinois Extension’s Emily Swihart Writes https://lovelygardenroots.com/enroth-tree-topping-storm-drains-burning-leaves/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T18:30:00+00:00Illinois Extension’s Christopher Enroth Lists Tree Topping, Blowing Clippings Toward Storm Drains and Burning Leaves Among His Horticultural Pet Peeves https://lovelygardenroots.com/quick-release-nitrogen-after-last-mowing/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T18:00:00+00:00A Quick-Release Nitrogen Feeding After the Last Mowing Gives Lawns Early Greening Next Spring, Utah State Extension’s JayDee Gunnell Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/seed-to-supper-langston-eggplants-tomatoes/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T17:30:00+00:00Jennifer Langston’s Tomatoes Struggled, but Her Eggplants Produced So Much She Shared Them With Neighbors, Oregon State’s Seed to Supper Graduates Report https://lovelygardenroots.com/fall-cover-crops-rye-crimson-clover/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T17:00:00+00:00HGTV Lists Rye Grass and Crimson Clover as Fall Cover Crops That Suppress Weeds, Stop Erosion and Feed Bare Garden Soil Over Winter https://lovelygardenroots.com/wilmington-hillcrest-live-oaks-mitigation-fee/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T16:30:00+00:00Wilmington Says It Will Not Waive an Estimated $122,000 Mitigation Fee for Six 100-Year-Old Live Oaks Slated to Come Down at the 550-Unit Hillcrest Redevelopment https://lovelygardenroots.com/sprinkler-controller-half-july-water-rain/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T16:00:00+00:00A UCCE Master Gardener Says Sprinkler Controllers Can Drop to Half of July’s Water or Less Once the First Two or Three Light Rains Have Fallen https://lovelygardenroots.com/stelts-canfield-giant-pumpkin-weigh-off/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T15:30:00+00:00Carol and Dave Stelts Won the Giant Pumpkin World Weigh-Off in Canfield, Ohio, With a 2,565.5-Pound Pumpkin and a $12,250 First Prize https://lovelygardenroots.com/divide-crowded-perennial-clumps-fall/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T15:00:00+00:00Crowded or Dying-in-the-Middle Perennial Clumps Get Cut in Halves or Thirds With a Spade or Fork, Utah State Extension’s JayDee Gunnell Says, Once Foliage Has Died Back https://lovelygardenroots.com/peach-leaf-curl-copper-spray/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T14:30:00+00:00Peach Trees Need a Copper Spray for Leaf Curl in November, and a California Master Gardener Says Products Must Be 50% Copper to Work https://lovelygardenroots.com/leave-perennial-stems-native-bees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T14:00:00+00:00‘Leaf Removal Is Job #1’ in November, a Durham County Master Gardener Says, While Dead Perennial Stems Should Stay Standing for Native Bees https://lovelygardenroots.com/cut-back-hybrid-tea-roses-frost/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T13:30:00+00:00Hybrid Tea Roses Should Be Cut Back by at Least a Third After the First Killing Frost, HGTV Garden Expert Julie Martens Forney Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/fescue-mowing-height-november/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-08T13:00:00+00:00Clemson Extension Says Fescue Lawns Should Be Mowed at 2.5 to 3 Inches in November, Never Losing More Than a Third of the Blade https://lovelygardenroots.com/ornamental-kale-cold-hardy-color/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-07T22:30:00+00:00Ornamental Kale Survives Down to 5 Degrees Once Acclimated, Wisconsin Extension Says, and Its Color Deepens as Nights Fall Below 50 Degrees https://lovelygardenroots.com/amaryllis-potted-now-top-third/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-07T22:00:00+00:00An Amaryllis Potted Now Should Flower in 6 to 8 Weeks With Its Top Third Left Above the Soil, University of Wisconsin Extension Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/tulip-planting-zones-6-7-november/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-07T21:30:00+00:00Gardeners in Zones 6 and 7 Have Until Mid-November to Plant Tulip Bulbs 6 to 8 Inches Deep, Extension Experts Tell The Spruce https://lovelygardenroots.com/leaf-compost-bin-fertilizer/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-07T21:00:00+00:00Colorado State Extension’s Fall Leaf Compost Recipe Calls for a 3-Foot Bin, Up to 1/2 Cup of Lawn Fertilizer per Bushel and Leaves as Wet as a Sponge https://lovelygardenroots.com/dahlia-tuber-drying-cedar/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-07T20:30:00+00:00Penn State Master Gardener Mary Niezelski Dries Dahlia Tubers for 4 to 5 Days, Not the Usual 24 to 48 Hours, Before Packing Them in Cedar Shavings https://lovelygardenroots.com/tulip-bulb-depth-mulch/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-07T20:00:00+00:00A 2-Inch Tulip Bulb Belongs 5 to 6 Inches Deep, and Penn State Extension Says 2 to 3 Inches of Mulch Should Go on Top https://lovelygardenroots.com/mayville-tree-advisory-committee-resigns/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-07T19:30:00+00:00Mayville’s Entire Tree Advisory Committee Resigned After Waiting Three Years for a Tree Board, Having Won a Grant for 68 Lakeside Park Trees