Gardening And More

  March Gardening Calendar As the weather warms, we as gardeners start thinking about Spring and what to do with are garden. Spring is a good time to check out new gardening books. Here’s a gardening book I would like to recommend Southeast Style Gardening and the book is on sale at Amazon. Here’s a Link to Check it out. Fertilize winter flowering annuals with a blooming type fertilizer. Water in all granular type fertilizers. Tattered Liriope leaves can be cut either with a weed eater or your lawn mower set on its highest setting. Lawns should have lime at least yearly. Have you limed your lawn lately? Use 40 pounds per 1000 square feet. Start spring flowers and tomatoes from seeds indoors. It takes about 6 weeks to get strong seedlings. Spring is a good time to prune your boxwood shrubs. Peach and Apple trees need to be sprayed with a fungicide recommended for fruit trees and spray the trees while the blossoms are on the tree. Prune back Holly shrubs that have got...

There is a new gardening book that I would like to recommend to readers gardening in the Southeast, Southeast Style Gardening. The ebook may be purchased on Amazon. Click here to view :  Southeast Style Gardening   This book will allow the reader to effortlessly identify indigenous plants within the southern region by referring to pictures.   The southern climate is unique: it accepts tropical, subtropical, and native plant species.   The gardener can choose a wide variety of plants from each category. The book is arranged alphabetically by botanical or scientific names. Over 490 species suited for AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC, and TX are featured. Each species has 3 full color photographs with over 1480 photographs on display. Each photograph depicts an important characteristic to help anyone from the novice to the expert identify each plant. Southeast Style Gardening reads like a cookbook, and the cultural requirements represent the ingredients to the recipe and are ...