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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