MARCH Plant starts of lettuce and cole vegetables, dill, cilantro, parsley. Sow seeds of peas, radishes,carrots, beets. Wait until the soil warms up a bit and the evening temperatures are consistently 50 degrees or above to plant summer vegetables. Time to plant most permanent landscape plants (shrubs, trees, vines.) Wait until April or May to plant tropicals. Act on Nancy Conway’s advice to “…sprinkle gypsum on your garden as you would sprinkle powdered sugar on French toast.” Plant container fruit trees Final opportunity to spray copper sulfate for peach leaf curl and peach leaf blight before the buds open – never once they have opened or fruit could be damaged. Time spent weeding now will reap benefits in the heat of the summer. APRIL Divide crowded clumps of summer-flowering perennials Prune and feed citrus Plant summer blooming bulbs, corms, and tubers. When planting, feed them with 10-10-10 fertilizer incorporated 1” …
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