April Tips
New trees, shrubs, evergreens, and roses are rolling in
Seed potatoes are now in. Try our new Yukon Golds. Everyone raves about their flavor. Cut the taters in to small pieces, wrap them in newspaper before you plant. That will keep the dirt from their eyes so they can see where to come up. (A little humor there.)
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Prune roses, fruit trees, small fruits, shade and ornamental trees, spreading evergreens like yews that look shaggy, cut back grasses.
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Clean up perennial beds. You may fertilize beds now. Try our new dimension preemergent to keep weeds out of all your ornamental beds.
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Fertilize trees, shrubs, and perennials. Spring rains will put this food where the plant needs it. Use Fertilome Tree and Shrub Food
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Tune up the lawn mower and sharpen the blades.
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For ponds add pond balance and bacteria. What you do now will keep your pond clear all summer.
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Feed the Finches. Spring is when they really hit the feeders and gold finches love the inexpensive thistle socks.
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Is it too early to plant tomatoes? Only if it freezes. The frost date for our area is the 15th of MAy. Most people cheat and plant the first and cross their fingers.
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Take time to listen. I woke up in the middle of the night and made my way out to check out the greenhouses. The still nigh air was the calmest I had ever experienced. When was the last ime you gazed up at he stars. Its a God thing you know.
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Have you ever seen a chick hatch? Did you know that if you try to peal away any of the shell you will kill the chick. There is a network of tiny veins that are conected to the shell which supplies food for the emerging bird. A lot of planning went into that network of veins and that chick.
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Cut some forsythia branches and put them in a vase of water indoors. They will bloom in the pot.
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Come down to the greenhouse, walk around, enjoy the music and smell some spring.
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Its time to apply preemergent to lawns. Make sure you do all your raking and aerating before putting down your fertilizer and preemerge. If you rake or disturb the chemical blanket you put on the ground you will get crabgrass later on in the season.
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