Gardening And More

                  April Gardening Calendar Start planning for Spring. April is the perfect month to start planning your garden for the current year. As a refresher for last year’s thoughts, ideas or plants you were thinking about purchasing, dust off your gardening journal to see what changes or additions you wanted to make this year. A garden is always evolving. Irrigation: In zones where your irrigation was turned off for the winter. Irrigation should be checked each year in spring. Turn on the irrigation to make sure the irrigation heads are working properly. Check for leaks, cracked heads, and spray direction. Some issues you may be able to fix yourself, if not call an irrigation specialist. Roses: Your roses should be trimmed between February 12 – 20, if you have not pruned your hybrid tea roses it’s not too late to trim them now. For more information on trimming, caring, and fertilizing your roses click on my blog article on Rose...

Spring Annuals It’s spring! With spring the weather warms, the weeds start growing, and our fall-winter annuals are looking droopy. The month of April is an excellent time to start replacing the droopy annuals with fresh spring color annuals. The month of April is now recognized as National Garden Month. The organization is to raise awareness to gardening education. For more information into National Garden Month click here.  For most gardener’s April is the month to start taking a survey of the garden. What survived the brutal winter we had? Shall I wait to replace the fall-winter annuals? The majority of Spring Annuals that are listed below will last from spring to fall. Are you ready to get your garden ready for spring and summer? Try some of these spring annuals which will give you lots of color. African Marigold, American Marigold - Tagetes erecta: Zones: 2-11. Height: 1-4 feet depending on variety. Spacing: 8-18 inches apart depending on variety. Lig...