Colleyville Landscaping Company (Harvest Landscape) offers tips for Early Spring maintenance that will help to make your yard more beautiful and fun for outdoor living.
February is the month to get ready for spring by getting your garden in shape. March will be quickly approaching and will be time for those early season annuals.
- Water your plants sparingly. This time of year shrubs and trees require little water and cooler temperatures help your beds will stay moist longer. Even your annuals, like pansies and violas, don’t need a lot. However, it is important to make sure your beds are moist if a hard freeze is expected. In this case, the moisture in the beds actually helps to insulate the roots of the plants.
- Late February is also a good time to trim back perennials, grasses, and rose bushes if you haven’t done so already. This helps these plants by getting the old, dead foliage out of the way so that it is easier for the new growth to come out in March when it starts to warm up.
- Late February and early March is also a good time to spread slow release fertilizer on your trees and shrubs, and will give them the extra boost they need when they their start their new leave flush in mid to late March
- March 15th is a good time to start planting if you plan to install early spring annuals like; Alyssum, Petunias, Dianthus, or Snapdragons. Just remember that these plants will have to be protected from a hard freeze. An old blanket, sheet, or piece of burlap makes a good protection cloth. Using plastic is not a good option as it will still burn the leaves of the plants
- Late March, early April is a good time to rejuvenate your bedding soil if you decided not to plant winter annuals, and are not planning on planting any early spring annuals. Doing this gets your beds ready so in April, when you are ready to start planting, the dirt work is already done and you can focus on picking out your spring annuals.
- Prune trees and shrubs in order to ensure your tree’s healthy appearance
- Check evergreens for sign of desiccation.
- Travis Hancock, Landscape Consultant
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