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Finish winter pruning of roses and fruit trees.
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Plant potatoes, garlic, onions, asparagus, rhubarb and horseradish.
Fill in veggie garden with chard, lettuce and kale.
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Purchase seeds for your spring and summer garden.
Start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost.
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Fertilize roses
with Alfalfa meal or pellets and Sul-Po-Mag to promote healthy canes.
- Clean, sharpen and repair garden tools.
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Spray fruit trees and roses
with All Seasons Horticultural and Dormant Spray Oil to kill overwintering insects before plants leaf out.
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Watch for frost
and protect sensitive plants by covering with N-Sulate frost blanket and/or spray with Wilt Stop.
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Plant bare root fruit trees, berries and dormant roses.
- Sow wildflower seeds.
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Spray peaches and nectarines
with final application of Liqui-Cop at popcorn stage (swollen buds showing color, but not fully open).
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Pick up fallen camellia flowers
to prevent camellia petal blight.
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Plant summer flowering dahlia, lily and gladiola bulbs.
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Deadhead and fertilize annuals
to keep them blooming. Apply EB Stone Rose and Flower Food.
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Clean indoor air with air purifying plants.
Purchase, feed and repot them now.
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Protect plants from slugs and snails.
Apply Sluggo or Sluggo Plus.
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Plant annual and perennial color
such as anemone, ranunculus, snapdragons, stock, cineraria, candytuft, primrose, cyclamen, pansies and violas.
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Weed, weed, weed
before weeds set seed and proliferate. Apply pre-emergent herbicides to prevent weeds from germinating.
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Plant early blooming plants
such as magnolia, daphne, quince, flowering cherry, wisteria, peonies and lilac.
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Cut back dormant ornamental grasses and prune lavender,
if you haven’t already.
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Check in on your winter veggie garden and harvest.
Look for aphids and control by spraying with soapy water or insecticidal soap.
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Purchase potted daffodils and tulips
to perk up your doorstep or patio.
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Plant azaleas, rhododendrons, and camellias
while they are in bloom.
