Spring is a critical time for practices that will help maintain the health of your landscape. Here’s a helpful checklist:
- Cut back herbaceous plants. Any remaining winter interest perennials can be cut back now.
- Remove dead plant material, dead leaves and dead branches.
- Edge planting beds in preparation for new mulch. Create a shallow edge to avoid damaging existing plant roots and do not place soil against the stem of woody plants.
- Top-dress beds with a thin layer of new mulch, from just off the trunk to the outer dripline whenever possible. Wood chips make great mulch.
- Apply dormant horticultural oil sprays just before new growth begins.
- Fertilize plants and adjust soil pH as needed.
- Monitor for early spring insects.
- Prune plant material that blooms on new wood.
- Plant trees and shrubs. If you live in an area experiencing a drought, delay planting until the fall.
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