Protect your garden from the cold weather to come

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. The long, hot days of summer have slowly faded away, replaced with shorter, cooler days of autumn. While our Florida weather will continue to fluctuate in the upcoming weeks and months, one thing is certain: cold weather is coming. And cold weather, whether it comes now or next month, means things are changing in your garden at home. While you can certainly stand back and let nature take its course all on its own, there are plenty of ways you can prepare your plants to overwinter that will give your garden an extra head-start come spring. The first thing to do is to clean up the post-summer clutter. Do you have plants in your gardens that are strictl