March Gardening Calendar

 

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 gotten too large. If needed, you can prune back to 18 inches.

Need to divide your Hostas? When the leaves start to show you can divide and plant elsewhere in a shady part of the garden. Use a solution of SuperThrive as a root stimulator for best results after planting.

Fertilize Pecan Trees with a fruit tree fertilizer and water in well after.

Check for scale insects on Camellias and Euonymus. Spray with a horticultural oil, if you detect the insects.

March is the last month recommended to prune Roses to half their original size. Fertilize with Bayer Advanced Rose Fertilizer after pruning and apply once a month. Click Here For More Information on Roses.

There is still time to plant winter veggies. Click Here For More Information. All vegetables can be grown in large containers. I prefer to grow my vegetables in containers. Click Here For Cedar Planters.

Fertilize shrubs with a shrub and tree fertilizer and water in well.

Flowering shrubs such as Winter Honeysuckle, Quince, and Forsythia can be pruned after flowering.

One of the best time to plant fruit and nut trees is in early spring. Nurseries have a good selection of these trees in spring, but hurry the selection usually goes fast.

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Southeast Style Gardening - Print Version

 

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 included for each plant. Each cultural requirement listed gives insight into caring for and identifying plants in the garden, retail nursery, or botanical garden and will assist you in the design and placement of your garden.

Basic gardening topics are also covered and include—garden design, site survey, planning on paper, planning your garden, planting, watering, fertilizers, pruning, pest and disease management.

Southeast Style Gardening is an informative reference guide for the first-time home owner, recently relocated, horticulture or botany student, Master Gardener, landscape designer or architect.

Click to Purchase From Amazon Press: Southeast Style Gardening

About the Author.

An avid horticulturist and gardener, Cheryl Ann Meola gained invaluable experience in the eighteen years she worked within the plant nursery industry. Her career began with Cornelius nursery in Houston, Texas where she took classes to become a Texas Certified Nursery Professional. Upon completion of the courses she was promoted to bedding plant supervisor.
 
Ms. Meola had an interest in tropical plants and moved to Florida to further her education. In 1989, she received her Associate in Arts degree in Landscape Architecture from Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC). While studying for her degree, she attended junior level courses with the University of Florida’s Research and Educational Center in Fort Lauderdale. During this time, she worked for five years at MDCC in their Landscape Technology Nursery, a teaching nursery.

While at the nursery, she supervised Nursery Practices II students, and she gave tours of the nursery to visiting elementary school children. During her stay at the nursery, Ms. Meola rewrote the plant and animal section of the school children’s tour, giving an overview of plant evolution. While at the nursery, she photographed the plants, and her plant photography was later used as an instructional tool for Plant Identification students. The photo guide of native and tropical flora inspired the idea to write Southeast Style Gardening.
 
Starting in 1997, she worked for Wolf Camera where she won their 1997 District Printoff and 1999 Store Printoff Awards.  In 2006, she became an estate gardener at Deeridge Farms, and was responsible for growing organic vegetables, herbs, tropical fruits, ornamentals, tropicals, and orchids. The ornamentals, tropicals, and orchids were utilized in the landscape, and the fresh edibles were enjoyed by the owners. She enjoyed all the praise!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Southeast Style Gardening

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 included for each plant. Each cultural requirement listed gives insight into caring for and identifying plants in the garden, retail nursery, or botanical garden and will assist you in the design and placement of your garden.

Basic gardening topics are also covered and include—garden design, site survey, planning on paper, planning your garden, planting, watering, fertilizers, pruning, pest and disease management.

Southeast Style Gardening is an informative reference guide for the first-time home owner, recently relocated, horticulture or botany student, Master Gardener, landscape designer or architect.