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PAGE 12D
- FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, April 6,1997
Spring gardening
checklist
The American Association of
Nurserymen (AAN) offers the fol
lowing general guidelines for spring
yard and garden maintenance. For
landscaping schedules specific to
your area, clip this list and review it
with your local garden center pro
fessional.
! Kick off a lawn maintenance
program. Fertilize, seed or mow
depending on your turf’s require
ments.
• Take a soil sample to establish
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SPRING HOME IMPROVEMENT
baseline information. Sample test
ing determines the pH of your soil
and tells you what nutrients your
garden needs. In many regions,
cooperative extension agents can
assist with this service.
• Start vegetable seeds indoors
or in a cold frame structure out
doors. Cool weather crops include
turnips, kale, sweet peas, broccoli,
cauliflower and carrots. Most seeds
of waim weather crops, such as
tomatoes and peppers, rsqnire 70
degree temperatures to germinate.
Many wildflowers require spring
sowing too. Seed packets specify
when to start seeds in your growing
zone.
• Prepare beds. Till soil and
remove any dead plant material.
Amend if necessary with organic
materialcompost, aged manure, etc.
• Composting can be done all
year long, but spring is a great time
to start a compost pile if you
haven’t done so already. Many gar
den centers sell composting bins, or
you can make one from chicken
wire. County extension agents are a
good source of information on com
posting methods.
• Establish new annual beds
after frost danger has passed.
• If you didn’t plant perennials
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last fall, do it now before summer
heat sets in. Spring is also a good
opportunity to revamp existing
perennial beds by fertilizing, adding
new mulch or dividing plants. Your
garden center may have a selection
of books on perennials.
• Late winter and early spring
are ideal times to prune young spec
imen trees. Before trees have leafed
out, remove damaged and crossing
branches or limbs that may be in
the way of pedestrians and struc
tures. Pruning is a chance to devel
op a strong central leader branch
and an attractively shaped tree.
• Prune spnng-biooming shrubs
like azaleias, rhododendrons and
forsythias after they’ve bloomed.
While you’re waiting for bloom
cycles to complete, go ahead and
prune non-flowering broad-leafed
evergreens like tea olives and hol
lies to maintain shape or reduce
size.
• Fertilize young shrubs and
trees to increase size and encourage
growth.
• Make sure all danger of frost is
over before moving potted plants
back outdoors. When situating
See CHECKLIST, Page 13D