https://lovelygardenroots.com/walking-on-frosted-grass-damage/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T22:30:00+00:00Footsteps on a Frosted Lawn Rupture the Grass, Purdue Says, Leaving Tracks That Turn Black, Then Brown, and Take Weeks to Recover https://lovelygardenroots.com/living-christmas-tree-dig-hole-now/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T22:00:00+00:00Families Planning a Living Christmas Tree Should Dig the Hole Before the Ground Freezes, Penn State Says, and Keep the Tree Inside No More Than a Week https://lovelygardenroots.com/iris-borer-fall-cleanup/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T21:30:00+00:00Iris Borer Eggs Overwinter on Dead Iris Leaves, and University of Minnesota Extension Says a Cleanup After a Hard Frost Is When to Destroy Them https://lovelygardenroots.com/overwintering-perennials-in-pots/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T21:00:00+00:00Perennials Spending Winter in Pots Need to Be Hardy Two Zones Colder Than the Yard, Penn State Master Gardeners Say https://lovelygardenroots.com/what-to-do-with-old-pumpkins-compost/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T20:30:00+00:00Rotting Jack-O’-Lanterns Belong in the Compost, Not the Woods, Illinois Extension Says, as Wildlife Officials Warn Against Leaving Them for Deer https://lovelygardenroots.com/ice-on-shrubs-let-it-melt/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T20:00:00+00:00Beating Ice Off Frozen Branches Does More Harm Than the Ice, Iowa State Says, So Shrubs Should Be Left to Thaw on Their Own https://lovelygardenroots.com/winter-sowing-native-wildflower-seeds/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T19:30:00+00:00Gallon Jugs With 4 Inches of Potting Mix Let Gardeners Winter-Sow Native Wildflowers Outdoors, and UW Extension Says Most Seeds Need 30 to 60 Days of Cold https://lovelygardenroots.com/when-to-cut-back-peonies-fall/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T19:00:00+00:00Peonies Get Cut to the Ground Only After a Hard Freeze Kills the Leaves, Which Iowa State Says Usually Happens in Late October or Early November https://lovelygardenroots.com/volcano-mulching-trees-how-to-mulch/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T18:30:00+00:00Mulch Piled Against a Tree Trunk Can Rot the Roots, and Illinois Extension Says to Keep It 4 Inches Back and No More Than 4 Inches Deep https://lovelygardenroots.com/fall-spinach-cold-tolerance-cover/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T18:00:00+00:00Young Spinach Can Handle 15 to 20 Degrees, and Penn State Master Gardeners Say a Plastic Cover Can Stretch the Harvest Into Late Fall https://lovelygardenroots.com/anti-desiccant-evergreens-when-to-spray/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T17:30:00+00:00UMass Extension Says to Wait Until December, and a Dry 40- to 50-Degree Day, Before Spraying Evergreens With Anti-Desiccant https://lovelygardenroots.com/oak-wilt-firewood-split-before-january/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T17:00:00+00:00Firewood From a Red Oak That Died of Oak Wilt Can Seed New Infections, So Minnesota Extension Says to Split It to 4 Inches and Stack It Loosely Before January https://lovelygardenroots.com/when-to-prune-oak-trees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T16:30:00+00:00November Opens the Safest Window to Prune Oaks, and University of Minnesota Extension Says It Closes When Oak Wilt Season Returns in April https://lovelygardenroots.com/prune-fall-bearing-raspberries-ground/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T16:00:00+00:00Fall-Bearing Raspberries Cut All the Way to the Ground This Fall Ripen 1 to 2 Weeks Sooner Next Year, Iowa State Says, at the Cost of the Summer Crop https://lovelygardenroots.com/nunnally-oak-chesterfield-removal/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T15:30:00+00:00A 212-Year-Old Oak Planted During the War of 1812 Beside Chesterfield’s Historic Courthouse Comes Down This Month, Its Trunk Full of Rot https://lovelygardenroots.com/diamond-bar-bradford-pear-removal/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T15:00:00+00:00Diamond Bar Will Start Cutting Down 246 Bradford Pears in Mid-November, After a Falling Branch From One Injured a Pedestrian https://lovelygardenroots.com/southern-nevada-hoa-turf-deadline/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T14:30:00+00:00Las Vegas-Area HOAs Have Until Dec. 31 to Replace Decorative Grass Before Colorado River Water Is Cut Off for It on Jan. 1, 2027 https://lovelygardenroots.com/calvary-cemetery-tree-removal-headstones/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T14:00:00+00:00Branches and Cut Wood Lay Across Headstones at Calvary Cemetery in North St. Louis After a Tree Removal, and the Archdiocese Says More Cuts Are Coming https://lovelygardenroots.com/atlanta-leaf-rules-paper-bags-bulk-fee/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T13:30:00+00:00Atlanta Takes Leaves Only in Paper Bags Up to 35 Pounds and Charges $343.10 for Every Bulk Pickup Past 12 a Year https://lovelygardenroots.com/connecticut-phosphorus-lawn-fertilizer-ban/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-05T13:00:00+00:00Connecticut Bans Phosphorus Lawn Fertilizer From Dec. 1 to March 15, and UConn Extension Says Lawn Feeding Should Wrap Up by Oct. 15 https://lovelygardenroots.com/west-edmeston-spruce-rockefeller-tree/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T23:00:00+00:00The Decker Family’s 75-Year-Old, 76-Foot Norway Spruce in West Edmeston, N.Y., Comes Down This Week to Become the 2026 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree https://lovelygardenroots.com/winterize-fig-tree-burlap-straw/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T22:30:00+00:00Fig Trees Take Real Damage Below 15 Degrees, So Penn State Master Gardeners Wrap Them in Burlap, Cardboard and Straw After the First Hard Frost https://lovelygardenroots.com/rodney-smith-mowers-stolen-baton-rouge/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T22:00:00+00:00Two Lawn Mowers Meant for Iowa Kids Who Finished Rodney Smith Jr.’s 50-Yard Free Mowing Challenge Were Stolen From His Van Outside a Baton Rouge Hotel https://lovelygardenroots.com/last-mow-snow-mold-minnesota/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T21:30:00+00:00Keep Mowing Until the Grass Stops Growing, Then Take Lawns Over 3 Inches Down to 3: University of Minnesota’s Last-Cut Advice Against Spring Snow Mold https://lovelygardenroots.com/michigan-state-christmas-tree-iron-mountain/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T21:00:00+00:00‘Pretty Cool’: Larry Riccio’s Family Is Giving the 60-Foot Spruce That Outgrew Their Iron Mountain Property Since 1986 as Michigan’s 40th State Christmas Tree https://lovelygardenroots.com/san-jacinto-eucalyptus-limb-father/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T21:00:00+00:00A San Jacinto Father of Four Heard Something Above Him While Picking Up His Kids’ Toys in the Backyard, Then a 20-Foot Piece of Eucalyptus Landed on His Back https://lovelygardenroots.com/torquay-hedge-boundary-dispute-costs/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T20:30:00+00:00An 87-Year-Old Former Rally Driver Won a Five-Year Fight Over Where a Torquay Hedge Stood, Leaving His Neighbor With a £108,402 Upfront Bill https://lovelygardenroots.com/colby-third-grader-100-free-lawns/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T20:00:00+00:00Colby, Wisconsin Third Grader Brian Leader Mowed His 100th Free Lawn for Seniors and Veterans on Oct. 12, and Now He Wants to Reach 150 https://lovelygardenroots.com/campton-hills-spruce-chicago-christmas-tree/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T19:30:00+00:00A 6-Inch Spruce Sapling From a Grandfather’s 2004 Funeral Grew for 22 Years in a Campton Hills Yard, and Now It Is Chicago’s 113th Christmas Tree https://lovelygardenroots.com/mesick-spruce-detroit-christmas-tree/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T19:00:00+00:00Elaine Zinger’s Late Husband and Daughter Planted a Spruce in Her Mesick Front Yard as a Birthday Gift, and More Than 40 Years Later a Crane Came for It https://lovelygardenroots.com/mulch-maple-leaves-lawn-dandelion-control/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T18:30:00+00:00Mowing Fallen Maple Leaves Into the Lawn in November Gave About 80% Dandelion Control in Michigan State University Research https://lovelygardenroots.com/michigan-leaves-landfill-ban-egle/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T18:00:00+00:00Michigan Landfills Are Off-Limits to Bagged Leaves and Grass, and EGLE Says Only Diseased, Infested or Invasive Yard Clippings Are the Exception https://lovelygardenroots.com/pavement-to-permaculture-garden-north-carolina/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T17:30:00+00:00Kim Dinan and Brian Patton Tore Up the Paved Lower Driveway on Their Western North Carolina Lot and Turned It Into a Wildlife-Certified Garden for Their Two Kids https://lovelygardenroots.com/delaware-burning-branches-leaves-rules/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T17:00:00+00:00Delaware Lets Homeowners Burn Up to 27 Cubic Feet of Branches From Oct. 1 to April 30, but DNREC Says Raked Leaves Can Never Go in the Fire https://lovelygardenroots.com/winston-georgia-family-vegetable-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T16:30:00+00:00Three Generations Share One Vegetable Garden on a Winston, Georgia Family Farm, Where Young Amelia Gathers Strawberries and Her Brother Aiden Tends the Beets https://lovelygardenroots.com/new-york-lawn-fertilizer-ban-suffolk/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T16:00:00+00:00New York Law Keeps Lawn Fertilizer Off the Grass From Dec. 1 to April 1, and Suffolk County’s Own Cutoff Already Arrived on Nov. 1 https://lovelygardenroots.com/new-jersey-lawn-fertilizer-blackout/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T15:30:00+00:00New Jersey Homeowners Have to Put the Lawn Fertilizer Away on Nov. 15, and the State’s Blackout Keeps It Off the Grass Until March 1 https://lovelygardenroots.com/minnesota-yard-waste-trash-law/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T15:00:00+00:00Twin Cities Homeowners Haven’t Been Allowed to Put Yard Waste in the Trash Since Jan. 1, 1990, Under a Minnesota Law Extended Statewide in 1992 https://lovelygardenroots.com/massachusetts-leaf-yard-waste-ban/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T14:30:00+00:00Leaves and Yard Waste Can’t Go Out With the Trash in Massachusetts, Where MassDEP Keeps Them on Its List of Materials Banned From Disposal https://lovelygardenroots.com/swift-kelce-bratenahl-tree-plan/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-04T14:00:00+00:00Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Bratenahl Backyard Tree Plan Ran Into a 10-Foot Height Limit, and Neighbors Raised a 115-Year-Old Sewer Line Before the Nov. 10 Review