Keith Ramsey:  All right. Today, we're talking about gardening during the wintertime winter work. Winter is a great time to take a look out your window and look at areas that need improvement. Either from a view standpoint, areas that need a screen, or looking at the bones of the landscape. [00:00:55]when we talk about bones, evergreen plants, the hardscapes, the walls figuring out where you need more structure or figuring out where you need a ceiling or a canopy that you can do with a tree or an Arbor entry to do a different area of the yard, with the, with an Arbor It's a great time of year because the trees are deciduous.[00:01:13] In the middle of spring and summertime, you're in your backyard, and you've got total privacy as winter comes on, you've got six months of deciduous trees dropping their leaves. Suddenly you can see, straight into the neighbor's house, you can see TV when it comes on, you can see the lights.[00:01:28]Yeah, [00:01:29] Joe Woolworth: we just moved, and I didn't even realize that my back neighbors existed until all the trees [00:01:32] Keith Ramsey: fell down. It's definitely a, I built a house a few years ago, bought the lot, and built the house at the Lake. So it's a country setting. Leaves drop. There's an old camper sitting in the woods, on the lot next to us. I never saw it. It doesn't bother me at all.[00:01:50] Cause I'm there during the summertime. But when I go there during the wintertime, it's not the site that I want to see. It's not pretty. [00:01:56]Joe Woolworth: you can get a better sense of your land, but what specifically makes a lot more sense in the winter than in the summer when it comes to yard work.[00:02:03]Keith Ramsey: There are all kinds of things you can do in the wintertime. Looking at your lawn, and if it's not dark green doing more fertilization, that's a, it's a great time to do fertilization. It's a great time to do all of the ground covers. You can do dormant seating top-dressed it with black soil.[00:02:19] And then in the spring, you're going to get germination pretty quick. You can do lawn fertilization, like I said, mulching and pine strong. There's no better time to do it. Perennial plants are, have died all the way back to the ground, or you've got that is not looking at its prime, and it needs to be cut back. Ornamental grasses need to be cut back. In February, you start cutting your roses back. There are all kinds of dormant pruning that can be done. And when you're looking at a tree in the wintertime when it doesn't have foliage on it, you can see that we're branches are crossing or branches are rubbing or taken in and lifting a canopy a little bit so that you can walk under it.[00:02:55]So that you can see through it, a layer in a Japanese maple. It is just so much clear when there aren't leaves on the tree. So you can do that kind of stuff. But doing all your cleanup, all your pruning the stuff that requires a fair amount of effort, and you pretty much produce your own heat.[00:03:12] You know what I mean? When you're moving around, and you're really actively working, on a day when it's. 25 degrees to 40 degrees, whatever it's comfortable outside, a light jacket, and you probably end up taking it off. Mulching in particular, though, hardwood mulch is what I always recommend.[00:03:28]it's organic, it's natural, and color. It's consistent. It's readily available. It's a by-product. When you're standing next to a mulch pile, It might be a hundred degrees inside that mulch pile. You're shoveling mulch, and heat is actually coming off the mulch.[00:03:43]It's not a comfortable thing to do, and it's 80 degrees outside. Looking at your landscape, looking at the definition, digging some edges so that you've got that golf green look to the yard, given the lawn a better shape and then creating beds or around the lawn.[00:03:58] But getting that kind of stuff out of the way, the perennials aren't up yet, you've got everything trimmed back. you don't have to be tende