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May Gardening Tips

Edited from The Farmer’s Almanac – Tend to your rose garden. Trim climbing rose bushes and attach them securely to fences or trellises. To deter slugs, spread a thick ring of crushed eggshells around your roses. Continue fertilization of your rosebushes with applications of liquid fertilizer every 2-3 weeks. – Continue weeding and mulching routines […]

Lighten Up! Brightening and enlivening the shade garden

Hosta and ferns are standards for the perennial shade garden. They have similar growing condition requirements and the contrast of fine-textured fronds and broad Hosta leaves does bring dimension and quiet contrast. All well and good for a supremely serene retreat, but what if you’d like to energize your shadowy shade realm a bit?

April Green Ideas

For Your Lawn Lime and fertilize lawn and apply pre-emergent control to prevent crabgrass. Re-seed areas of winter-killed lawn. For Your Vegetable Garden Plant peppers, tomatoes, and other warm-weather crops after all danger of frost has passed. Top-dress beds with aged manure. For Your Flower Beds Prune hybrid tea and floribunda roses. Feed tulip beds […]