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Monthly Calendar
- Establish winter protection landscape plan. (Learn more.)
- Continue to add fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, nut shells and house plant leaves and stalks from inside the home to the compost pile year round.
- Store firewood outside until ready for use to avoid insects coming in the home.
- Follow proper techniques for shoveling snow. (Learn more.)
- Use proper de-icing salts on pavers to assure safe foot and vehicle traffic.
- Avoid rock salt products that can damage hardscape and plantings.
- Apply only the amount of de-icing salt needed to do the job.
- Rake winter leaf mulch back onto beds if winds blow it off.
- Weed beds once during winter to prevent weeds going to seed.
- Plant bulbs (including tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocus) to ensure timely blooming.
- Water Evergreens if the ground is not frozen to avoid water loss through the needles.
- Protect Evergreens from snow damage by gently brushing off any snow pile-up. Avoid shaking branches as this may cause breakage.
- Prune fruit trees and other woody trees and shrubs while they're dormant.
- Plan in advance for spring landscape needs for planting preparation
- Follow proper techniques for shoveling snow. (Learn more.)
- Prepare landscaping tools. (Learn more.)
- Continue to add fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, nut shells and house plant leaves and stalks from inside the home to the compost pile year round.
- Prepare vegetable soil to include tilling and/or spading weather permitting and soil is dry enough to work.
- Sow vegetable seeds for an early start.
- Transplant shrubs to prepare for plants' spring growth.
- Assess property for winter damage and desired spring landscape needs.
- Continue to add fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, egg shells, nut shells and house plant leaves and stalks from inside the home to the compost pile year round.
- Consider the on-start of and organic or traditional lawn care program
- Plan over seeding lawn areas where needed
- Start spring clean-ups. (Learn more.)
- Cultivate garden soils.
- Add compost nutrients to vegetable and flowerbeds.
- Cut back ornamental grasses and perennials.
- Weeds beds before plants flower and seed.
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