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February and March for spring delivery.
Fruits - Mulch strawberry beds after the first freeze. Use evergreen branches or straw.
Prune fruit trees and brambles during the dead of winter; remove broken, diseased and interfering branches.
Vegetables - Cold weather crops can still be harvested in November and December, including collards, kale, corn salad, Jerusalem artichoke and parsnip (especially tasty after the hard freezes).
Trees - After trees have entered dormancy, you can do maintenance pruning.
Shrubs - Treat broadleaf evergreens with an antidessicant spray in
mid-November and again in mid-January to reduce winter windburn.
Evergreens - If you got a potted evergreen for Christmas, have a hole dug in your landscape before the ground freezes. Keep the tree indoors for no more than ten days. Afterwards, set it in the hole, water the
root ball well, and fill around it with topsoil.
Water Gardens - If fish
over winter in the pond, stop feeding until the water warms up in spring. Leave pond netting in place to protect fish from predators. Reduce water circulation to, reduce excessive cooling of the pond.
If a pond with over wintering fish should freeze over, don't try to break the ice the shock waves can seriously harm or even kill the fish. Instead, slowly melt a hole in the ice with a pan of hot water. Reduce the water level a few inches, if possible, to create an air pocket between the water and the ice.
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Annuals - Start spring bedding plants on the following schedule:
Late January: wax begonia, geranium, impatiens, ruffled/double petunias, salvia
and verbena.
Early to mid-February: alyssum, Chinese aster, yellow and orange cosmos, nicotiana, bedding petunia, portulaca, snapdragon and stock.
Holiday Plants - Keep poinsettias and Christmas cacti in slightly cool, non-drafty locations. Water when soil is dry to the touch, but don't waterlog.
Perennials - Mulch plants after the first hard freeze. Cut back those which do not have interesting winter features.
Roses - If using rose cones to cover plants, wait until after several hard freezes before covering. Cut back canes far enough.
Wildlife Care - If you are going to feed birds, select the seed and feeders that are preferred by those birds you wish to attract. Set up your stations before the first snowfall. A good selection of bird food will include fruit, beef suet and a seed mix containing safflower, millet and black oil sunflower. |
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fresh air!
Our
greenhouse is packed with a
new selection of beautiful
tropical plants.
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Winter Pruning - Now is the time - Especially for Oaks and Elms
Why winter pruning? It's easier to see the tree's structure & find problems. Also there is no presence of insects & disease. Trees recover better and there is less damage to lawns & garden beds.
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