We teamed up with our friends Lora & Bev at Unlocking Connecticut to come up with a list of things we feel are most important for you to be taking care of in your garden as the season approaches. Here is what we came up with!
- Remove winter mulches, debris, and leaf litter from garden beds after several over 50-degree days.
- Cultivate planting beds, weed, and add fresh compost.
- Prune juniper, cypress, and other conifers. Prune forsythia after it finishes flowering.
- Fertilize bulbs as they finish flowering. Fertilize perennials when there are 3 inches of new growth. Fertilize roses and fruit trees.
- Divide perennials like daylilies, delphiniums, iris, daisies, and phlox.
- Plant cold-weather vegetable crops like asparagus, rhubarb, peas, carrots, beets,
- spinach, lettuce, cabbage, onion, kale, cauliflower, and broccoli.
- Plant summer flowering bulbs like gladiolas, dahlias, and lilies. Mix bulb fertilizer with manure and peat moss into the soil.
- Put in peony supports.
- Remove mounded earth from roses and trim off dead wood. Don’t trim climbing roses now.
- Mulch and edge garden beds.
Come to the Woodbury Farm Market to find a strong variety of Flowers, Perennials, Vegetables, garden equipment, and much more!
