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Farm Your Yard: Put your garden to bed for the winter

KBIA | By Trevor Harris

Published November 27, 2014 at 10:06 AM CST

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Reduce chances for later garden disease by removing dead plant material now from the garden.

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture

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Liberty Hunter and Trish Woolbright add compost to one of the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture's Opportunity Gardens.

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture

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Adding a mulch such as straw to your garden protects soil-dwelling organisms and reduces erosion during the winter.

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture

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A well-prepared urban farm at-rest last winter.

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture

On this installment of KBIA's gardening segment, Farm Your Yard, Carrie Hargrove tells us what to do now that will help you be the most successful with your Spring plantings.

Adding compost to your beds now builds soil fertility. Learn more on this installment of Farm Your Yard with Carrie Hargrove.

Hear the recurring segment Farm Your Yard on KBIA's Thinking Out Loud. New episodes of Thinking Out Loud air at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays on 91.3FM KBIA.

Find more gardening information than you can shake a pitchfork at at the website of the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture (CCUA). Farm Your Yard is hosted by Carrie Hargrove, the Farm Manager for CCUA.