Gardening Activities Breathe Spring And Garden Tools Significance
Though February snows may fall and linger, our thoughts and gardening activities breathe of Spring. Here is a list of some garden items to do.
Branches of pear, peach, apple, and other fruit trees may be brought indoors for forcing.
Sow seeds of stock in order to get flowers in the early Summer when evenings are still cool. Stock resents hot weather, and plants set out late wait for the cool nights of late Summer and Fall to bloom.
In the northern states boxwood should be protected against freezing and thawing. In the South it may be pruned and trimmed.
Pot up gloxinias in light, humusy, well-drained soil.
Seeds, particularly old ones, may be tested for viability by placing a few on a damp blotter kept in a warm spot until germination.
Watch ferns, oleanders, gardenias, ivies and other house plants for the scale and mealy bug, and spray with an oil emulsion.
Plant seeds of onions, eggplant, pepper, early cauliflower, tomatoes and early cabbage.
Dry off freezias, ixias, lachenalias, ornithogalums, and sparaxis gradually, and store in their pots until August when they may be started again.
In selecting new shrubs for your property order those that fruit in the Fall. The attractive berries often vie with Spring bloom, and besides, the birds will appreciate them too.
Give lilacs and euonymus infested with scale a dormant spray with an oil emulsion.
For early bloom cannas may be started inside in 1-inch pots. Place tubers with the eyes less than 2″ below the surface of the soil.
Give garden tools a final check up. If you failed to clean and mend them during the Winter, tend to those needs now.
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