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Based on the general conditions in the Pacific Northwest
March, April, May, June, July, August, September
GENERAL
- Spread compost over garden and turn soil.
- Divide hostas, day lilies, chrysanthemum, lupines and daises.
- Grafting can now be started.
- Bring geraniums, fuchsias and begonias from storage and fertilize lightly with Down To Earth's Rose, Flower and Bulb Mix.
GARDENING
Annual Flowers: With the onset of spring, try planting a few annual flowers now. Chances are good that calendulas, marigolds, poppies, primroses, pansies, alyssum, etc. will sprout and come up.
Vegetables: The seeds of hardy brassicas, radishes, potatoes, spinach, and turnips can all be planted now.
Bulbs: Plant Dahlias and other tender bulbs for continuous summer blooms.
Perennials: Fertilize roses after pruning. Fertilize lilacs and add lime to the soil. Use Down To Earth's Rose, Flower and Bulb Mix.
Trees: If your soil is workable, plant bare root trees where they will get lots of sun. Mix in compost.
Berries and Grapes: Plant bare root raspberries, currants and grapes. All of these can be trellised to save space.
PRUNING
Spring Flowering shrubs: Prune after the blooms have faded. Hedges: Prune back any weak or spindly growth. Prune slightly below desired height.
Clematis: Prune back clematis by variety.
GENERAL
- Prepare garden soil for planting.
- Incorporate organic materials and other amendments as needs are shown by soil analysis. Prepare raised beds in areas where cold soils and poor drainage are a continuing problem.
- Place compost or well decomposed manure around perennial vegetable plants.
- Spread compost over garden and landscape areas.
GARDENING
Vegetables: The following vegetables can either be set out or seeded directly into your bed: broccoli, bok choy, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, chard, chives, endive, leeks, lettuce, peas, radishes, rhubarb, rutabagas, spinach and turnips.
Perennial Herbs: Rosemary, mint, sage, and thyme can be planted outside. Shrubs: Fertilize azaleas, rhodies and camellias with Down To Earth's Rhody and Azalea Mix.
Bulbs: Plant dahlias, gladiola and other tender bulbs. Fertilize with Down To Earth's Rose, Flower and Bulb Mix.
FERTILIZING
Fruit and Shade Trees: Fertilize around the drip line of trees where most nutrient uptake occurs.
Berries: Apply manure or compost to cane and trailing berries.
Lawns: Use a slow release nitrogen fertilizer such as Bio-Turf; let the spring rains carry the fertilizer into the soil.
PRUNING
Ornamentals: Prune ornamentals for better air circulation.
PEST MANAGEMENT
Slugs: Protect new plant growth from slugs. Use Sluggo, oyster shell, copper strips, or beer traps and hand pick at night. Clean up potential hiding places for slugs, sow bugs and millipedes.
Row Covers: Use floating row covers to keep insects such as cabbage maggots, adult flies, and carrot rust flies away from susceptible crops.
Strawberries: Spray strawberries with water using a high pressure, low volume spray jet or use an insecticidal soap to control spittlebugs and aphids.
Roses: Control rose diseases such as black spot and mildew. Remove infected leaves and spray with neem oil or All Season Horticulture and Dormant Spray.
GENERAL
- Fertilize maturing plants with fish emulsion and liquid seaweed on the soil as well as foliar spraying the leaves.
- Mulch beds with straw to keep soil cool and moist.
- Hill up leeks and potatoes.
- Harvest the outer leaves of spinach, lettuce, and greens for early salad. Flavor with thinnings of root crops.
- Gradually harden off cukes, eggplants, squash, pumpkins, and mid to late season tomatoes. Gently transplant on a cloudy day or evening and apply row covers. We recommend Reemay.
GARDENING
Vegetables: Make successive sowing of coles, greens, root crops, beans and corn.
PROPAGATE
Perennials - Take cuttings of perennials and softwood shrubs, dip in a rooting compound and trim lower leaves to prevent evaporation. Keep cuttings moist and out of sunlight.FERTILIZE
Trees - Water newly planted trees deeply once a week. Fertilize with compost. Liquid sprays also help.Fruit Trees - Kelp sprays helps supply potassium for increased sugar production and boron, a mineral deficient in Willamette Valley soils.
PRUNING
Fruit Trees - Prune out suckers and waterspouts. Thin apples after June drop; one apple every six inches.Rhododendron & Azaleas - Pick faded blossoms by carefully snapping to one side. Be careful not to break off new growth underneath.
PEST CONTROL
Slugs - Use Sluggo, a natural snail & slug killer, beer traps, or copper stripping.Aphids - Soap sprays are effective for all but the black variety. Add pyrethrum and rotenone to spray for control.
PROPAGATE
Perennials - Bleeding Heart, anchusa and oriental poppy can be divided if dormant.Bulbs - Daffodils can be divided if too crowded. Wait until tips die and turn yellow before digging.
PRUNING
Blueberries - Vigorous canes, which grew several feet this year, should be cut 4 to 5 inches. This produces lateral branches that will bear next year.PEST CONTROL
Powdery mildew - Control with sulfur or fine spray oils on grapes, roses and fruit trees.GENERAL
Water deeply to encourage deep rooting and so you won't need to water as often.Corn - Should be ready to pick 17 to 20 days after silk appears. Poke kernel with your fingernail; if it is milky the corn is ready; if it's watery wait a few days; if it's paste-like, the corn is over ripe.
Onion - Begin curing as soon as tops yellow. Knock tops over and leave for 3 weeks before digging.
Garlic - Harvest when 60% of leaves are yellow. Approx. mid-July.
- Remove diseased leaves from roses and rose beds.
- Groom, feed or replant container plants.
- Order spring-flowering bulbs.
- Remember to moisten compost piles.
- Sow lettuce, mustard greens, turnips, radish, kale, peas, Walla Walla onions and spinach.
- Plant garlic, peas and turnips.
- For something different, 'Chinese Misato Rose' radishes, nicknamed "watermelon radishes" for their beautiful red hearts, can be planted late August through September.
- In the vegetable garden, pull up bygone or heavily diseased plantings, and take down pea trellises and bean poles. Once tomatoes are frosted, remove stakes, brush off soil thoroughly, and store in a dry place. next year, dipping stakes in a weak bleach solution can help avoid diseases such as bacterial canker.
- Continue to remove weeds, especially mature ones that have been hiding under the foliage of crop plants.
