A Year in Gardening February

Gardening in February

“A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime”

Here are some ideas for gardening in February:

·        February is a good month to finish planning your garden and cleaning up beds and garden when the weather permits.

·        Deciduous shrubs and trees are still dormant enough to transplant this month, once the buds have begun to swell, it will be to late.

·        Mid-to-late February is the time to fertilize shrubs and evergreens. Use an acid type rhododendron fertilizer to feed evergreens, conifers, broad leaf evergreens, rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias.  Use an all-purpose fertilizer to feed roses and other deciduous trees and shrub

·        Canes (raspberries and blackberries), with the exception of ever bearing, should have all the canes, which produced fruit last year removed.

·        The vegetable garden should get its first tilling (if weather permits) to allow the weather to aid you in breaking up the dirt clods. Exposed weeds and seeds hopefully will perish.

·        You should finish up any seed orders and have all your seeds gathered up. 

What can be planted in February:

·        Start indoors(anytime in February): Artichokes, Leeks, Sweet Onions, and Oriental Greens

·        Start indoors(towards the end of February): Asparagus and Parsley

·        Direct seed:  Radishes at the end of February when the ground isn’t frozen

·        Strawberries can be planted as soon as they become available.

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BE READY TO PLANT YOUR EARLIEST PEAS THE 1^st PART OF MARCH