Beautiful fall colours are on display around Steinbach, and a local gardener is offering tips to get your garden ready for next year.

Dorinda Penner from Sunshine Nursery and Greenhouse says autumn is the perfect time to prepare for the next growing season.

“It is a wonderful time to embrace how we can add more colour to our yard and of course, clean up our yard. Any pruning that needs to be done on our shrubs or cleaning up,” she says. “You can trim back your perennials, clean them up, and then you're ready to go in spring.”

She recommends raking leaves.

“We have various trees that have dropped all their leaves, some that are just in the process of dropping. And it can be a succession. Some leaves, if they're dried up, you can work them into a compost pile if you've got, turn it a cou

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