On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.

• Collecting leaves use PPE ear,eye, hand protection
• Include some NC products on your Thanksgiving table.
• Have frost protection measures ready for any outside plants you want to protect.
• Cover your raised vegetable garden beds with an inch or two of compost. This will reduce weed growth over the winter and it can be incorporated prior to spring planting.
• Skunks are foraging for grubs in lawns, making a lot of holes in lawns. With colder weather the grubs will go deeper in the soil and skunks will leave your lawn alone for other sources of food.
• Build a compost bin. Pallets, cinder block, wire fencing, etc.
• Now is the time to collect soil samples. 3 week analysis Dec 1 fee goes to $4 per sample
• Visit a public garden to get ideas for plants that look good in fall and winter.
• Kudzu bugs and Asian Lady bugs are on the move to your house.
• Buy fertilizer for the late November application to tall fescue.

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