Plus, Grumpys tip for prepping your fall garden.

Question Of The Week

What is it with the squirrels this year?

Grumpy Gardener Answer:Squirrels go nuts for that stuff.

squirrel

And it’s not funny.

but actually, there’s some good news to this.

So you’re going have to put up with it.

bearded iris

And one of the easiest to do, and most fruitful, is to divide your perennials.

And so they don’t mind having their roots disturbed at this time.

you could be dividing yourbearded iris.They’re real easy to dig up and just separate the roots.

Ornamental grasses form these big mounds.

And so you get free plants.

it’s possible for you to do this with hellebores too.

Just dig ‘em up, divide ‘em, and divide the roots.

you’re able to divide bee balm.

you’ve got the option to dividemumsreally easily at this time.

Garden phlox is really simple.

Make more, and that way you have some color in the winter time.

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