Top Tips for Spring: Get Your Shed & Garden Ready for the Season

The pops of color in pristine gardens and the meticulous landscaping you see each spring and summer doesn’t happen overnight—there’s a lot of thought, preparation and hard work that goes into these projects. And it all starts about this time of year.

Here, we’ll provide a few top tips on getting your shed ready for spring, as well as some spring gardening tips.

Get Your Shed Ready

Your shed might sit dormant during the colder months—unless of course that’s also where you keep your snow removal equipment! But, either way, your outdoor structure and the items inside it might need a little TLC after winter:

Check for leaks; repair if necessary
Clean siding and windows; make necessary repairs/touch-ups
Check any hooks, inside or outside; secure/repair/replace if necessary
Check around foundation for debris/holes; clean and repair as needed
Clean and sharpen your tools; repair and replace items, if necessary

Early-Spring Gardening Tips

While there’s an exhaustive list of tips we could share about getting your garden ready for spring, here are a few that might require immediate attention:

Remove winter mulch; clean debris from around plants and trees
Clean repair garden structures/features (gates, fences, trellis, birdbaths, etc.)
Prune and trim plants and trees
Start a compost pile, and start with your debris from spring clean-up efforts
Revitalize soil and add mulch
Plan what you want to plant; order seeds