Tool Care
Once the fall garden chores have been completed, some attention can be given to properly preparing your tools for storage until spring.
Taking Cuttings From Broad-Leaf Evergreens
Summer or winter are the best times to take cuttings of rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas and most other broad-leaf evergreens. Cuttings properly taken will usually produce flowering sized plants in about three or four years.
Top Garden Projects for April
Spring is finally here! What a beautiful time of the year, with the rhododendrons, magnolias, camellias, forsythia, and all the other spring-flowering plants reaching their peak of beauty.
Top Garden Projects for March
Spring is busting out all over (or will be soon). The primroses are blooming, bulbs are bursting into bloom, the lawn is starting to grow, and it’s beginning to get a little warmer. It’s time to get your spring gardening underway. Caring for the lawn, preparing the soil and planting vegetables, pruning roses, and starting seeds head the list of things to do this month.
Top Garden Projects for February
Fertilizing, dormant spraying, pruning and starting seeds head the list of February projects. Weather permitting, this can be a great month to get your spring and summer gardening underway. PERENNIAL VEGETABLES – Rhubarb, horseradish, asparagus and artichokes are among the perennial vegetables that can be planted this month. Plant them along the perimeters of the vegetable …
Top Garden Projects for January
One of the best gardening months of the entire year is January. This is an ideal month to plant fruit, flowering and shade trees, dormant spray, prune and eliminate weeds. This is also a great time to sharpen and repair mowers, trimmers, shredders, chain saws and other garden implements. WINTER PLANT PROTECTION – If you still …
Top Garden Projects for December
December is a good month to put the final finishing touches to the year’s garden. Watering, dormant spraying, winter protection of tender plants and planting head the list of December garden projects.