Prune Most Trees This month prune your fruit trees and your evergreen or deciduous non-flowering trees or shrubs. All other plants, especially the spring flowering should wait until after they bloom this spring. That would include Lilac, Forsythia, Brooms, Flowering Quince, and Mock Orange. Also, wait until the Daffodils are blooming in your neighborhood before [...]

Control Pests Remove debris from garden beds to control over wintering diseases and pests Save Time in Spring Apply a pre-emergent weed ‘preventer’ to keep weeds from germinating and save you hours of weeding in the spring. Keep Pruning Still not too late to prune. Be sure to apply another application of dormant oil. Got [...]

Prevent Crab Grass Treat your lawn with one of the crab grass prevention fertalizers. Summer Bulbs Time to plant summer bulbs like gladiolas, peonies, and dahlias! Give Trees Flu Shots Now is the best time to apply a systemic tree and shrub bug cure and ‘preventer’ – lasts for a whole year Gardening Organic? It [...]

Feed Me Fertilize woody plants, young trees and lawns. Still time to plant summer and fall blooming bulbs. Flu Shot for Roses Start applying systemic all in one for roses and flowering shrubs – it fertilizes, prevents diseases and kills and prevents bugs – makes rose maintenance much easier – leaves more time for enjoying [...]

Trees with black leaves from a recent frost? Don’t worry trees can leaf out 3x in one season. They’ll look ugly for awhile but they’ll leaf out again. The trick is to not over water them while they’re trying to leaf out and catch back up to the other plants that might not have reacted [...]