Time to get started!
* Plan your gardens. Plan your summer vegetable and herb garden. Plan your annuals beds. Plan your containers and hanging baskets.
* Start your seeds. We offer a wide selection of seeds that include all of your favorite annuals, perennials, vegetables, and many hard-to-find selections as well. Inventory your pots and flats and discard unusable ones.
* Make a list of the supplies you will need for the growing season ahead.
* Have your garden soil tested for nutrient content. We carry affordable soil kits in our Garden Store.
* Prune woody plants while dormant. Limit pruning of spring-blooming trees and shrubs to the removal of sucker growth and rubbing or broken branches. Spray trees and shrubs with year-round horticultural oil to reduce insect population.
* Sharpen, clean, and oil tools and lawn mowers. Begin heavy annual pruning of shrub roses as new leaves appear.
* Cut back ornamental grasses if you haven’t already.
* Divide or thin any crowded perennials. Share with friends!
* Plant pansies, English daisies, and primrose as soon as the earth is workable. Plant strawberry plants. Sow cool-season vegetables and herbs in the garden.
* Start spring cleanup and begin major lawn work. Remove debris, dethatch your lawn or aerate compacted areas to improve water penetration.
* Apply fertilizer to perennials, trees and shrubs.
* Remove winter weeds and debris from the planting beds.
* Reseed bare spots in established lawns. Keep the area moist until seedlings appear, then mow when the new grass is 3″ high.
* Prune forsythia and other spring-flowering trees and shrubs after the flowers fall.
* Dig and divide crowded early spring bulbs after they finish blooming. Enrich the soil with bone meal.
* Plant and transplant trees and shrubs, including roses, ground covers, and perennials.
* Transplant cool-season seedlings into the garden. When the soil temperature reaches 60 degrees, sow warm-season vegetable and herb seeds.
As you know, there is always something to be done in the garden. We hope our Spring Garden Checklist will help get you off on the right foot this spring. Happy growing!
Barb
/ 15 Mar 2019Love this! Thank you.
rgnursery
/ 16 Mar 2020You bet! 🙂
Sharon
/ 20 Mar 2020Rolling Green is the best! Thank you for all the beautiful newsletters
rgnursery
/ 23 Mar 2020Thank you so much Sharon!