Super Fitness Health BlogWhat Is The Best Environment For Strawberries To Grow In?
With things warming up outdoors it is time to look at our list of to-do’s in the garden outdoors. Here are a few ideas.
Plant strawberries.
Prune Privet hedges.
Start mowing when the grass is three inches high.
Give ventilation to plants in frames on sunny days – plenty of it.
Use the spading fork instead of the spade for digging, but dig deeply and break the clods finely.
Lift self sown seedlings of perennials and plant in nursery rows for cultivation during the summer. They will thus have a better chance to succeed than if transplanted at once to the borders where finally wanted. By fall they will be ready for this.
If not already sown, delay no longer to sow seed of Poppy, Annual Larkspur and Mignonette where the plants are to remain. The seedlings are difficult to transplant so don’t try to start them in flats or nursery beds.
Start pruning of Forsythia, Spirea, Flowering Quince, and other early blooming shrubs as soon as the flower buds on poorly placed sprays are beginning to open. Use these branches for house decoration so they will not be wasted. Such treatment will reduce the pruning that should always follow blooming.
Make basins of heaped up soil around newly planted evergreens so these may be filled with water both at planting time and during dry weather. The larger the plants and the drier the summer the greater the necessity for doing this. When neglected the trees may die next winter.
Soak shriveled scions and cuttings in water for a day (longer if they are of hard or ripe wood) to plump them up. It is well to cut a thin slice across the lower ends to help water to enter freely. So treated they will have a far better chance to live than if used for grafting or for rooting.
Learn from our expects – 100’s of plant topics – thousands of articles at Plant-Care.com:
Comments are currently closed.