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Monthly to do Calendar
Each season brings a to do list for gardeners. Whether it’s pulling weeds, mowing, mulching, watering or just general clean up, it seems work in the yard is never ending especially during the warmer months. Here area a few tips to help keep up with the seasonal schedule.
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March
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- Continue dormant sprays for ornamental and fruit-bearing plants.
- Begin fertilizing houseplants (every two weeks)
- Spread pre-emergent crabgrass killer when soil temperatures are around 55 degrees F (or when forsythia blooms)
- Plant pansies, snapdragons, sweet peas and larkspur.
- Plant asparagus, rhubarb crowns, potatoes and cool weather crops.
- Plant summer flowering bulbs inside for an early start.
- Spread weed preventer such as Preen in your landscape beds.
- Overseed the lawn. Remember fertilizers with weed killers and crabgrass preventer can harm or prevent germination.
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April
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- Remove mulch from roses. Prune, fertilize with Rose Tone and begin spray program with insecticides and fungicides. Add new Roses to your beds now.
- Check trees for tent caterpillars, spray with Sevin or biologically safe Thurmicide. Spray when caterpillars are out of web and feeding. Spray can not penetrate web well.
- Fertilize trees and shrubs when soil is 40 degrees F or above. Remember to fertilize at dripline and not at base of trunk.
- Watch for dandelions and treat with Fertilome weed out plus or Ortho weed B gone. Don’t water or mow for 2 days after treatment.
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May
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- Fertilize Spring blooming plants like Azaleas and Rhododendron after blooming. We recommend Espoma Holly Tone for acid loving plants & Plant Tone for others.
- Check Dogwood for borers and evergreens for bagworm larvae. Check with us about control. Plant warm season annuals and summer flowering bulbs after possibility of frost.
- Prune Spring flowering shrubs after blooming.
- Continue spraying Roses.
- Sassafras weevil on Magnolia can be controlled by Sevin spray.
- Repot house plants if needed and begin feeding with Miracle-Grow twice a month. After last frost you can move them outside, but be careful not to scorch them. Place them in the shade for awhile and be sure to increase water while they are outdoors.
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