On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
THIS WEEK IN THE GARDEN
- Avoid the rush get your lawn mowers serviced before the mowing season starts.
- Get ready to plant your vegetable garden! Many cool season crops can be planted in mid-February. Get beds ready, check your seed supplies, and begin looking for quality transplants at local nurseries.
- Clean reorganized your garden sheds.
- Pick up some fertilizer for your tall fescue lawn. Get a slow release turf fertilizer for application in mid-Feb.
- On warm days 70F or warmer provide ventilation in greenhouses and cold frames if growing plants in them.
- If you use a turf fertilizer that’s combined with a weed or insect killer, remember that you are handling a pesticide! Read the instructions carefully and follow all precautions.
- Clean seedling trays 1 part bleach 9 parts water before adding media and planting seeds in the trays.
- Don’t purchase fruit crops without doing variety research first.
- Make your seed orders ASAP some varieties of seed are selling out fast.
- Get ready to do a dormant spray on your fruit trees. Also check your stock of chemicals and spray equipment so you’ll be ready to make the necessary treatments that start soon after flowering.