Here are a few tips for maintaining your garden in December:

• Late fall is a great time to plant trees and shrubs, especially bare root.

• Inspect the roots before planting and check if they are healthy, turgid, no stains or smells rotten. Trim root ends and bruised.

• You can plant bare root roses.

• It is good time to plant spring-flowering bulbs in well-drained soil, rich.

• Water needs are less than months ago. The spacing will reigos.

• Reduce watering cacti and succulents to once a month, and only during the hottest hours.

• A paid general organic garden should be done every year in late fall or winter. Organic fertilizers: manure, mulch, compost, etc..

• Do not employ during winter fertilizers containing nitrogen, because it stimulates plant growth and do not need, are at rest.

• In the garden finished cleaning the plots incorporating a good organic fertilizer.

• Good time for general pruning.

• If pruning frost disrupts.

• Make clean cuts to prevent disease and promote healing, while shreds of bark.

• The most recent branches of old trees or young people should not be pruned very drastically, it provokes the emergence of suckers.

• Most shrubs are pruned in winter, especially those that bloom in spring and summer.

• In the rosebushes eliminates central branches and dry or diseased. Leave three main branches as framework in those weaker plants, and 4 or 5 branches in more vigorous roses.

• After the pruning cuts protects mA of 5 cm. healing with pasta.

• Collect fallen leaves often, and wilted flowers.

• Clumps, flowerbeds and borders are recomposed and weed, eliminating weeds, then adding manure, compost on a subscription fosfatado.

• Should dig the remaining empty areas that will be planted later.

• It is good time to transplant trees and shrubs to other locations.