![]() ![]() It is easier to mow when the lawn is dry and you have a sharp blade. Make sure the lawn is dry before you mow. The season of mowing is now upon us as early spring is here. They are definitely one of the most carefree of all perennials to grow and their blooms are beautiful as well as unusual. The red hot poker is red but also available in bright yellow orange. It needs water once a week and feeding with Flower-Tone organic flower food once a month. It thrives in all seasons and blooms in early spring and summer. You will need an extra large container to grow one of these on the porch or deck. Red Hot Poker has a great name and when it blooms, it actually resembles a red hot poker. Four o’ clocks will thrive in any type of soil and will bloom until the first frost. You can find them in seed racks at Walmart, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, hardwares, and supermarkets for around $2 per packet. Now is the time to purchase several packs of four o’ clocks for a season of dark green foliage and colorful flowers of red, yellow, wine, white, pink, and speckled and marbled blooms. Planing for a colorful four o’ clock year Keep the barn, shed, or outbuilding swept out and sprayed once a month to protect from insects and critters. Place everything where you will know where to find it when you need it. Organizing the shed, barn, or outbuildingĪs the gardening season gets on the way, it’s time to organize tools, shovels, mowers, trimmers, and supplies. If you keep the feeders and birdbath supplied with food and fresh water, they will certainly find a nesting area near your home. ![]() They especially like areas near a food and water supply and also close to nesting materials. The birds are looking for secure places to build nests and lay eggs. Water once a week.īirds are active as April showers its way down. Place peat moss in bottom of the hole and cover with more peat moss, bone meal and blood meal before covering with soil and tamp down with hoe blade. Dig holes about three or four inches deep, place the bulbs and corms with root sides down. Feel the bulbs and corms before buying to make sure they are not rotten or mushy. When you purchase bulbs, buy a bag of bone meal and blood meal as well as peat moss to apply around the bulbs and corms. You can find the bulbs of summer at nurseries, hardwares, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Ace Hardware, and garden centers. From now until the end of April, the bulbs of summer flowers such as glads, peonies, clematis vines, bleeding heart bushes can be set out.
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