How to Nurse Your Garden Soil Back to Health Over Winter

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If your garden soil is looking worse for wear after churning out harvest after harvest all year long, fall is the perfect time to give it a little (or a lot of) TLC.

Here are three easy ways to restore the health of your soil and protect it over winter so it’s ready for spring.

It starts with a layer of compost.

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Top it off with mulch.

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If you don’t plant a fall crop, then plant a cover crop.

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How to Nurse Your Garden Soil Back to Health Over Winter

If your garden soil is looking worse for wear after churning out harvest after harvest all year long, fall is the perfect time to give it a little (or a lot of) TLC.

Here are three easy ways to restore the health of your soil and protect it over winter so it’s ready for spring.

It starts with a layer of compost.

Top it off with mulch.

Compost on its own is an effective mulch, but your yard is probably full of free organic mulch in autumn that you might as well use!

If you don’t plant a fall crop, then plant a cover crop.

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