Winterizing Your Mums

Welcome back to the Koopman DIY Project Book! Mums are known to be a fickle perennial, so much so that some gardeners just give up and treat them as annuals! It doesn’t have to be this way though. With proper care and preparation your beautiful mums can come back year after year.

All mums aren’t created equal however. Some are hardier than others and have an easier time even in harsher winters. Our friend Kevin from a local farm puts it like this, “Some varieties may be considered more of a tender perennial, and how they survive the winter will depend on the severity of the winter we have.” The good news is that there are ways to help these more tender mums come back healthy each year. Let’s take a look at how to winterize your mums!

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