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Advice


 

  • Fertilize everything with a complete fertilizer as 12-6-6 slow release.

  • Spray dormant oil on spruce, pines, cypress and junipers for mite control.

  • Prune any deciduous plants that may need it.  Pruning this time of year reduces the time before leaf out so that the plant does not look manicured.

 

  • Begin scouting for insects or diseases such as aphids on spirea, crape myrtle, roses, etc.

  • Spray for black spot disease on roses.

  • Enjoy the garden.  It is spring.

  • Mow the fescue lawn at a height of 2 ½  to 3 inches.

 

 

  • Mulch again all areas that need it, never getting more than 3 inches. 

  • Maintain a bowl affect around all trees.

  • Plant annuals in the garden.

  • Begin scouting and spraying for Japanese Beetles with liquid Sevin.

  • Apply second application of a complete fertilizer (12-6-6) in holes punched around plants or over the top as a broadcast.

  • Irrigate as needed; lawn needs 1 inch of water per week and established plants needs less than that, especially yews.

  • Scout for lawn diseases such as brown patch, dollar spot or root rot.

  • Spray Kelthane on spruce, junipers, pines and cypress for spider mites.

  • Scout for bag worms on evergreens. 

  • Spray for beetles, mites and aphids.

  • Irrigate as needed on lawn and shrubs; watch for lawn diseases.

  • Maintain height of lawn grass of 3 inches.

  • Scout for Black Spot on roses. 

  • Apply final amount of a complete fertilizer on shrubs.

  • Continue to apply irrigation as needed.

  • Watch for lawn diseases.  Use the Cooperative Extension Service for accurate pest ID if needed.
  • Mite spraying with Kelthane continues. 

  • Over seed lawn with Falcon Fescue at 4 lbs. Per 1000 sq. ft. if needed.

  • After grass is up and growing, apply 3 lbs. of Ammonia Nitrate per 1000 sq. ft. over entire lawn areas. 
  • Apply ammonia nitrate to grass at 3 lbs./1000 sq. ft.

  • Spray dormant oil on evergreens.

  • Discontinue irrigation for entire landscape.

  • Apply ammonia nitrate to grass at suggested rate.

  • Plant any plant such as trees, shrubs or bulbs now. 

  • Begin trimming process on everything that needs it except any cone producing  plants such as pines, spruce, etc.

  • When in doubt to cut or prune; just remember that it is very difficult to kill a plant from trimming it.  You may affect flowering but unlikely will you affect the life of the plant.

  • Tree trimming can be done at this time of the year or anytime between when leaves fall and when they begin to leaf out for the Spring.  The same holds for the shrubs.

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