Cindy Stockett - Horticulture
"Garden chores for April"
Things to Do...
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Weeding - stay on it!
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Mulching
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Dig and Divide (donate some to the Plant Sale!)
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Plant trees & shrubs (don't forget to keep well watered over summer)
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Plant summer blubs
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get ready for dahlias
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set out cool season vegetables
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bait for slugs - use cheap beer to create traps
Presented April 11, 2022 by Nancy Kappelman
Garden Chores for March
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Plant bare root roses and trees
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Cut back deciduous grasses
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(use gloves to pull out dead stems)
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Leaf clean-up - save for leaf mold!
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Prune trees and shrubs
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Dig/divide snow drops
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Prune group 3 clematis*
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Plant sweet peas and hardy cold vegetables
*If it blooms before June -
Don't prune!
"Garden Soil Choices"
Presented March 14, 2022
Stop using non-renewable peat moss!
Say yes to using COIR! (natural coconut fiber)
Crape Myrtle Lagerstroemia
"Small Trees for the Pacific Northwest"
Presented February 14, 2022
Serviceberry Amelanchier
Garden Chores for February:
Weed! and apply compost
Divide your hostas - pot up for plant sale!
Prune your roses, apply compost
(use BloomDriver in June)
Prune your Clematis, but remember-
"if it blooms before June, don't prune!"
Use Jacks Classic Blossom Booster to fertilize
Fringe tree -Chiananthus virginicus
Flowering Dogwood - Cherokee Sunset
Cindy helps define the real meaning of some catalogue gardening terms:
"robust grower" - probably a garden bully
"A favorite of birds" - avoid planting near cars, sidewalks, or clotheslines!
Cindy says...
It's time to order from your Catalogues!
Presented on January 10th, 2022
Hellebores" presented 12/13/2021
