Turn over your vegetable garden and add humus, mushroom compost or manure to enrich the soil. Apply Bonide Fruit & Plant Guard Spray as buds swell and again at petal drop to all fruit trees.
Fertilize perennials with Espoma Garden Tone or Plant Tone.
Continue spring cleanup. Completely remove winter mulch. Cultivate to remove winter weeds and debris from the planting beds, then edge. Prepare your annual beds, and mulch landscape beds with shredded mulch, bark chips or gravel. Apply Preen or Corn Gluten and scratch it in to prevent future weeds.
Plant and transplant trees and shrubs, including roses, ground covers, and perennials (including hardy lilies and lily-of-the-valley).
Seed or sod new lawns. Reseed bare spots in established lawns. Keep the area moist until seedlings appear, then mow when the new grass is 3” high.
Transplant cool-season seedlings into the garden. When the soil temperature reaches 60 degrees, sow warm- and cool-season vegetable and herb seeds.
Dig and divide crowded spring bulbs after they have finished blooming. Enrich the soil with compost, manure or Espoma Bulb-Tone.
Prune forsythia and other spring-flowering trees and shrubs after the flowers fall.
Place Peony Supports over or around peonies, grasses or any other perennials in need of support.
Check arborvitae, cedar, juniper spruce and pine for bagworms. Hand-pick bags from the host and spray with Bonide Systemic Insecticide.
Begin summer rose care program of deadheading, spraying and watering.
Fertilize roses with Espoma Rose Tone, azaleas with Espoma Holly-Tone and fruit trees with Espoma Garden Tone.
Deadhead bulbs, but leave foliage to mature and yellow before removing. This will help nourish the bulb for next year’s flowering. Fertilize with Espoma Bulb Tone.
Prune new growth on needled evergreens.
Dig and divide early blooming perennials after flowering.
Apply Bonide Liquid Iron Plus to azaleas, hollies, junipers, laurel, pines, rhododendron and spruce to provide iron for chlorophyll production by foliage.
Fertilize container plants and window boxes weekly with a Nature’s Source Plant Food or Espoma Plant Tone for season-long feeding, to promote healthy, vigorous plants all summer.
Pay close attention to the watering needs of these plants as well as hanging baskets, because they tend to dry out quickly on hot summer days.
Check plants for spider mite damage and treat with Bonide All-Season Oil Spray.