Monthly Garden "To Dos"

• Japonica Camellia, Wintersweet, Breath of Spring (Winter Honeysuckle), Daphne Odora, January Jasmine, Lenten Rose (Helleborus), Trailing Arbutus, Crocus, Violets

• Fertilize emerging spring flowering bulbs
• Spread wood ashes around the vegetable garden, flowering bulb beds and non-acid loving plants

• During the first week in Februray start broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower plants inside
• Plant English peas, onions, Irish potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, turnips and carrots
• Plant asparagus crowns when soil is dry enough to work

Pruning

• Prune all fruit trees - apple, cherry, nectarine, peach, pear and plum
• Prune muscadine and bunch grape vines
• Trim ornamental grasses like lirope, mondo grass and pampas grass
• Cut back any overgrown shrubs - severe pruning should be done this month
• Prune summering flowering plants such as Crape Myrtle, Rose of Sharon, eleagnus,and butterfly bush
• Prune camellias after they finish flowering

• Spray peach and nectarine trees with a fungicide to prevent leaf curl
• After pruning, spray all fruit trees with dormant oil to help eliminate some insects

• Cool season lawns like tall fescue should be fertilized
• Follow soil test results
• Control wild onion in your lawn with spot sprays of recommended herbicide

Propagation

• Divide perennials like daylily and shasta daisy when the ground is dry enough
• Hardwood cuttings of many landscape plants like crape myrtle, flowering quince, forsythia, hydrangea, juniper, spirea and weigela can be taken

Specific Chores