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Garden Calendar
January:
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Lawn - top dress with up to 1/2 inch of compost or enriched topsoil.
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Garden - plant potatoes and onions and cool weather crops. Start
planning
and prepping your spring garden plots now.
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Flowering plants and trees - Plant fruit and shade trees now! Also plant
large shrubs now. Apply dormant oil to
fruit trees this month and do you pruning on your shade trees now. This is
the best time to plant your bare root trees.
Febuary:
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Lawn - good time to top dress with compost or enriched top soil.
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Garden - Keep planting potatoes, onions and cool season crops. Get your
spring plots worked and composted and
ready to plant, spring is almost here.
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Flowering plants and trees - Can still apply dormant oil to fruit trees.
Keep planting trees and shrubs. Keep
planting bare root trees. Start planting roses this month. This is the
best month to prune both roses and fruit trees.
Get your new beds prepped and ready and add a layer of compost to your
existing beds.
March: Spring is here!
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Lawn - Busy, busy, busy. Top dress the lawn with compost or enriched top
soil. Apply fertilizer to all lawns.
Apply corn gluten to help prevent weeds. Put out warm season grass seed if
needed. Start to watch for fungus in St.
Augustine and treat if needed.
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Garden - Start planting all warm season veggies like peppers and tomatoes.
Be ready to cover if we get a late frost.
Start putting out slow release fertilizer for increased yields. Mulch beds
after planting. PLANT, PLANT, PLANT.
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Flowering plants and trees - Keep planting all trees and shrubs. Start
planting flowering perennials and warm
season annuals. Fertilize beds and existing trees now for good growth.
Mulch plants after planting.
April:
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Lawn - can still put down fertilizer and corn
gluten. Can still top dress
with up to 1/4 inch top soil or compost.
Treat fungal problems as needed. Can start treating for ants and other
pests. Watch out for grubs.
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Garden - great time to start or continue to plant warm season crops. Keep
fertilizing for good growth. Keep weeds
under control. Start watching for pests and insects and treat as needed.
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Flowering plants and trees - keep planting all plants now. Start enjoying
your flowers! fertilize your plants for
good growth. Spray now with thuricide to help kill the nasty webworms in
the oak trees. Watch for pest problems as
it warms up. PLANT, PLANT, PLANT.
May:
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Lawn - Watch for chinch bugs and grubs as well as brown patch. Last chance
to top dress the lawn for awhile.
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Garden - Keep planting hot season veggies like okra,
black-eyed peas and
watermelon. Get your mulch down for
sure by months end and get your plants on a consistent watering schedule.
Fertilize. Watch for pests.
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Flowering plants and trees - keep planting warm season plants. Start
planting palms and crepe myrtles and tropical
plants. Fertilize for growth. Get your beds mulched and be sure to get
your plants on a consistent watering schedule.
June: Summers here and its hot!
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Lawn - heat treat your lawn by applying liquid seaweed sprays to the lawn.
Do this in the mornings. Keep a watchful eye out for insect pests like chinch bugs. Spot treat weeds in
the lawn carefully with post emergent weed
killers designed to be used in lawns.
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Garden - keep up with weeding. can still start some hot weather crops.
Water, water water. fertilize with a slow
release fertilizer Enjoy your harvest.
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Flowering plants and trees - Plant crepe myrtles, hot weather plants like
palms, pride of barbados, vitex, lantana
and others. Heat treat plants with liquid seaweed sprays.
July:
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Lawn - Continue to carefully spot treat weeds with post emergent lawn weed
killers. treat pests as needed.
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Garden - At the end of the month start to plant
tomatoes and pepper plants
for a fall harvest. Best to get them started
under a shade cloth tent. Water well.
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Flowering plants and trees - Can still plant crepe myrtles, palms and other
hot weather plants as long as they are
kept well watered.
August:
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Lawn - Use liquid seaweed to relieve stress. Water well. Treat pests as
needed.
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Garden - Continue to plant tomatoes for a fall crop. Keep them under shade
as best as possible. Re- mulch the
garden now and use liquid seaweed for stress relief.
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Flowering plants and trees - Use liquid seaweed for stress relief and
re-mulch your beds. Keep plants moist.
September:
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Lawn - Busy, busy again. Apply fertilizer toward the end of the month and
apply corn gluten to the lawn to help
prevent weeds. You can start to top dress the lawn again once it starts to
cool off a bit at the end of the month.
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Garden - can start a second round of warm seasons veggies if you want and
can start some of the cool season
veggies after it cools a little at the end of the month. Good time to start
to fertilize the garden again.
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Flowering plants and trees - good month to plant
perennials and can start to
plant trees and shrubs again. Can
usually start snapdragons and mums now. Just keep them watered well for the
next few weeks. Fertilize your beds
with a slow release fertilizer.
October: Fall is here!
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Lawn - get you fall fertilizer and your corn
gluten down if you have not
already done so. Still a great time to top
dress your lawn with compost or enriched compost.
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Garden - start all of your cold weather crops like lettuce, greens, cilantro
and green onions. Fertilize for better
yields.
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Flowering plants and trees - Great month to be planting almost everything.
Plant perennials, bulbs, ground covers,
and start planting winter annuals like pansies and ornamental cabbage.
This is a great month, maybe the best, to
plant all types of trees and shrubs. Use this month to plant, plant, plant.
November:
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Lawn - Can still top dress if needed. Now is the time to put down your rye
grass seed for a green winter lawn.
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Garden - Continue to plant cold weather crops. Start to enjoy some of your
harvest. Watch for cabbage loopers and
other pests on your crops. Fertilize your winter garden.
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Flowering plants and trees - Can still plant winter flowering plants and it
is still a good time to plant trees. Prepare
to protect any cold tender plants from winters chill.
December:
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Lawn - continue to put out rye grass seed if needed.
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Garden - Cold weather crops can still be planted. Keep watching for pests
and treat as needed. Fertilize your winter
crops during warm stretches.
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Flowering plants and trees - continue to plant cold weather flowers and
continue to plant trees and shrubs. Protect
cold sensitive plants like young palms during freezing weather with blankets
or frost cloths. Get ready for another
great year!
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