With the help of some of our favorite gardening experts, we rounded up a few suggestions.
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Along with cleaning your planters and containers, Carvalho also recommends doing the same service checkon your gardening tools.
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Now is a great time to clean, sharpen, and oil your tools, she says.
Having a well-maintained set of implements at the ready makes digging into yard work easy.
I would be lost without a small pick axe and agreat pair of work gloves, she says.
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A lightweight hose equipped with a quality brass shutoff valve is also a must for controlling and saving water.
Foster agrees, adding a comfortable spade for expanding and re-edging garden beds to the list.
She suggests people leave any fallen leaves and avoid cutting back grasses for now.
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This is your cue that its okay to start cleaning up.
Dont hesitate to designate some parts of your landscape to stay unraked, Foster says.
A lot of our native bees are ground nesters.
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