When it’s above freezing, cut old dead wood out of your roses regardless of the type and spray tea roses, floribundas, and grandiflora types with lime-sulfur as directed.
Lime-sulfur is your first defense against the black spot fungus as the spores of this disease on the plant and surrounding ground are killed when the solution contacts them.
Fertilizing your shade and flowering trees with a garden or lawn fertilizer spread under the tree drip line is ideal to invigorate the tree to keep it healthy and more resistant to insects and disease.
I like Greenview’s Wintergreen Fall Fertilizer with a 10-16-20 analysis than can be safely spread at the rate of 1 pound per 100 ft² so that a 10'x10' area under your tree would receive one pound of the fertilizer applied as evenly as possible.
A good raking of your lawn will help to relieve any snow mold pressure in addition to cleaning up winter’s debris.
While a crabgrass preventer can be applied next month, be sure to use Greenview’s Crabgrass Preventer & Seed Starter if you did some reseeding late last fall or earlier this year. See our March 6th blog.
The time for sure has come to plant peas and onion sets as long as the ground is workable. I know that many old timers like to plant on St. Patrick’s Day but the ground rarely has been ready to plant that early as there is still snow on the ground, or it’s frozen, or it’s too wet in which case I believe the worst thing for a gardener to do is to try to work the garden.
Don’t forget to plant asparagus roots, rhubarb, horseradish, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries bare root before temperatures get too warm.
I better get back to work now.
Tom
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