On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.

• Keep your Garden notebook or app up to date. Ex planting dates, fertilizer schedule
• Make plans to visit a public garden this spring to get inspiration and ideas for your own landscape.
• Purchase a good soil thermometer.
• If you direct seed crops in your vegetable garden, monitor soil daily to ensure the seed bed has adequate moisture.
• Order Honeybees ASAP for pollination.
• If you have plans to do some landscaping this spring, don’t wait to plant trees and shrubs.
• Check garden equipment. Tillers, sprayers, weed trimmers.

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On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.

• Select Plants that grow well in zone 7
• Cut back ornamental grasses, liriope and mondograss.
• Remember PPE when doing your garden chores.eye protection, gloves, hearing protection
• Try to get evergreen shrub pruning done soon, if any need it.
• Honey bees are swarming now if you see a swarm contact Cooperative Extension
• Buy a grow light to improve success with indoor seed starting.
• Check for mice in greenhouses and storage areas.
• Add some native flowering plants to your landscape (perennials, shrubs, small trees).

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