How miraculous that growing on my own little plot of land are plants that cn turn the dead soil into a hundred flavours as different as horseradish and thyme, smells ranging from stinkhorn to lavender.
- John Seymour
What to Plant:
- Plant ground covers and warm season annuals and perennials as soil temperatures warm and the danger of frost has passed.
- WAIT UNTIL NEXT MONTH TO PLANT HOT SEASON ANNUALS! (around Mother’s Day in our area.)
- Plant Bermuda grass seed ONLY when nighttime temperatures average 65 degrees. (Farmers will be planting cotton!)
“Now ’tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted!”
What to Prune:
- Prune spring blooming shrubs and vines after they finish flowering.
- Allow foliage on spring bulbs to die back and dry before removing, so they can store food for next year
“Kiss of the sun for pardon.
Song of the birds for mirth.
You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden
Than any place else on earth.”…Dorothy Frances Gurney
Plant Care
- Mow grasses weekly or as needed.
- Use broad-leafed weed control products to eliminate spring “weeds” such as dandelions, henbit, and chickweed. Just know when you choose to use chemicals. You are killing beneficial insects & pollinators.
- “A weed is but an unloved flower.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “A weed is but an unloved flower.”
- Use 3 – 4 inches of mulch on all flower, shrub and vegetable beds