Holidays:                      A good time to remember to tend to your garden.

Valentines:                  Map out the vegetable garden, start purchasing seeds.

St. Patrick's Day:       Uncover mulched perennials and roses.  Apply early application of                                               lawn fertilizer without weed control.

Easter:                         Till the garden for the first time.  Consider crabgrass control,                                                    dormant oil to fruit and crab trees, fertilize hydrangea bushes.

Good Friday:               Plant potato and onion plants.  Weather permitting any cool weather                                           vegetables, lettuce, spinach, peas, broccoli plants, cauliflower plants.

Mother's Day:            Begin working gardens, crabgrass control lawn fertilizer needs to be                                        applied.

Syttende Mai:            Plant cool weather annual plants

Memorial Day:          Start fertilizing rose bushes, plant warm weather annual plants                                                   (impatiens do best in warmer soil conditions).

July 4th:                      Last chance to trim lilacs, forsythia, rhododendrons, azaleas back for                                        next year.  These are a few of the plants that set bud in the summer for                                      the following spring.

Labor Day:                  Stop fertilizing rose bushes and perennials, apply lawn fertilizer.

Halloween:                 Cover ceramic planters, clean out annual plants, trim perennials and                                          shrubs back.

Thanksgiving:            Trim trees and fruit trees, cover hybrid roses with mulch and                                                      perennials that are border line hardy.  Final application of lawn                                                    fertilizer for the year.

Christmas

& New Years:             Enjoy your family!!