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Preparing Your Garden for Spring. Vanderbilt Community Connections. Astronomical Spring is March 20 th to June 19 th ….but it really depends where you live!. Exactly when is spring?. Early Spring February to early March. Middle Spring Mid March to April. Late Spring May.
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Preparing Your Garden for Spring Vanderbilt Community Connections
Astronomical Spring is March 20th to June 19th….but it really depends where you live! Exactly when is spring?
Early Spring February to early March Middle Spring Mid March to April Late Spring May
Hey What about June??? Isn’t it still spring? Nope…not for me!
Tasks for February • Clean up debris left over from fall • Weed • Apply Pre-emergent weed killer to established beds • MULCH • Stop and Look! What do you want your garden to look like next spring?
Plants for a February Garden SNOWDROPS Galanthus
Plants for a February Garden LENTEN ROSE Hellebores
Tasks for March • Complete list from February! • Have soil tested if opening up a new bed • Attend local gardening events • RESIST the temptation to plant all but hardy perennials !!!!
Plants for a March Garden Primroses Primula
Plants for a March Garden Celadine or Wood Poppy Stylophorum diphyllum
Plants for a March Garden CANDYTUFT Iberis
Tasks for April • Time to start planting perennials • Resist the temptation to plant annuals until after April 15th……I wait until the end of April when the ground is warmer • Create new planting beds • Go buy plants, support the local plant societies!
Middle Tennessee Perennial Plant Sale April 14, 2012 TN State Fairgrounds
Bloom ‘n’ Garden Expo April 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2012 Ag Expo Park, Franklin
Tasks for May • Plant tender annuals • Planter boxes and pots • Finish up plantings, apply fertilizers, mulch • Skeeters are coming……
May Gardens….. the possibilities are endless
View from the Screen Porch …… where those skeeters can’t get me!!
Thanks for your time! Questions?