Winter gardening is wrapped in mystery, folklore, and wildly confident advice from neighbors, relatives, and that guy at the garden center who “has always done it this way.” When temperatures drop, logic often freezes right along with the soil. Gardeners rush to overprotect, overspend, or completely abandon their gardens based on myths that sound reasonable but quietly sabotage plants and wallets.
Winter doesn’t destroy gardens nearly as often as bad information does. Let’s crack open the cold-season rulebook and toss out the advice that’s been wasting time, effort, and money for years.
