Thursday, March 15, 2012

March To-Do List

  • Clean up the yard on days when the weather is nice.
  •  Start warm-season plants indoors for transplanting in May.


  • Work organic material into annual beds as soon as they are dry enough to be worked.
  • Plant hardy vegetables (peas, onions, radishes, spinach, broccoli, turnips, rhubarb).
 
  • Plant bare-root plants (strawberries, raspberries, fruit trees, roses).  Go here for more information.
  • Purchase an herbicide to prevent crabgrass and spurge to apply the first of April.
  • Consider applying a lawn pre-emergent earlier to areas next to sidewalks and driveways where it warms and breaks dormancy sooner.
  • Attend pruning classes for roses, fruit trees, trees and shrubs at the Ogden Botanical Gardens, or USU Botanical Center in Kaysville.   Dates, times, locations are available here.

 
  • Prune fruit trees, raspberries, grapes and ornamentals that need it.  Learn how to at our free pruning classes.

  • Apply dormant oil to all fruit trees as soon as the buds swell and the first tip of color appears.  Include an insecticide with the oil, if desired.
  • Prune roses after the buds break and there is 1 to 2 inches of growth.  Learn how to at our free rose pruning demonstration here.
  • Clean up perennials by removing last years’ dead material, and transplant or divide those that are overgrown.  Learn how to at our free Pruning 101 class.
  • Plant pansies and primrose for color in the garden, if you didn’t plant them last fall. 
  • Browse through our new 2012 Event & Class calendar.  Choose a fun gardening class to take this year!
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3 comments:

  1. Thank you, garden geniuses,for the helpful reminders and tips. Happy to come to the pruning class to watch and help on March 31.

    Carolyn White

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  2. Thanks Carolyn for your kind words and all your help! We'll see you on March 31st for the pruning demonstrations.

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