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Garden Gnome: Gardeners have lots to do in March

17.05.12

Everyone who would rather be out working in the garden, welcoming back plants from their winter nap, better pull on those work gloves.

March is one of the busiest months for gardening. Just in case you are not sure what needs tending to, here’s my to-do list:

If not finished yet, do it now:

• Mow down ratty-looking monkey grass.

• Clean beds of dead leaves and other dead plant materials and dispose of slugs and snails hiding in it.

• Add compost to beds and mulch.

• Clean out old mulch around rose bushes. Cut back, treat for disease and insects, fertilize and add fresh mulch.

• Plant more cool-season vegetables, such as lettuce and English peas.

• Treat lawn with pre-emergence herbicides but not post-emergence herbicides.

• Do not fertilize lawn until later in spring.

And add to that list:

• Prune overgrown shrubs (wait until after blooms finish on spring bloomers).

• Fertilize and mulch all plants.

Source: The Augusta Chronicle