Planning
• Select and store healthy scion wood for
grafting fruit and nut trees. Wrap in damp cloth or peat moss and place in
plastic bag. Store in cool place.
• Plan an herb bed. Choose a sunny spot
and plant seeds or transplants once the danger of frost has passed (late-April
or early-May).
• Plan to add herbaceous perennial
flowers to your flowering landscape this spring. Ex: sweet alyssum, yarrow, penstemon, and
coneflower.
Maintenance and Clean Up
• Make a cold frame or hotbed to start
early vegetables or flowers.
• Cut and lightly incorporate cover crops
or other organic matter into soil.
• Prune and train grapes; take
cuttings.
See this link for many helpful publications.
• Prune apple trees. See this link for many helpful publications.
• Prune apple trees. See this link for many helpful publications.
• Prune deciduous summer-blooming shrubs
and trees
• Prune and train trailing blackberries and
black raspberries.
• Prune fall-bearing raspberries (in
late-February or early-March).
Planting/Propagation
• Plant windowsill container gardens of
carrots, lettuce, or parsley.
• Good time to plant fruit trees and
deciduous shrubs. Replace varieties of ornamental plants that are susceptible
to disease with resistant cultivars or natives.
• Plant asparagus if the ground is warm
enough.
• Plant seed flats of cole crops
(cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts), indoors or in a
greenhouse.
• Where soil is dry enough and workable,
plant garden peas and sweet peas.
Pest Monitoring and Management
• Monitor landscape plants for problems.
Don't treat unless a problem is identified.
• Use delayed-dormant sprays of lime
sulfur for fruit and deciduous trees and shrubs.
• Elm leaf beetles and box-elder bugs are
emerging from hibernation and may be seen indoors. They are not harmful, but
can be a nuisance. Remove them with a vacuum or broom and dustpan.
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