- Keep holiday poinsettias in a bright, cool location with high humidity. Avoid placing them in cold or warm drafts.
- Plan your garden and make a diagram drawn to scale before making your spring decisions.
- Review your gardening chemicals and check for deteriorating containers. Consult local authorities for acceptable ways of disposing of chemicals you no longer use.
- Organize, clean, oil, and sharpen garden tools if you didn’t do it in the fall. A splash of bright paint on tool handles will make them easier to spot out in the yard.
- Examine your land in the stark winter days, looking for places where an evergreen might go nicely. (Landscape designers call what you see in the winter the “bones” of the landscape.)
- Call Ferda’s Garden Center and talk with our experts in the slow season about your growing concerns. Ask us about tree and shrub varieties best for your conditions.
- Gently shake or brush off snow-weighted branches that have no support. Heavy snow cover protects evergreen foliage f
rom windburn, but too much weight will break branches. - Prune fruit trees now. The prunings can be gathered up into bundles to be used for kindling after they’ve dried.
- Neatly trim any shrubs and hedges broken by snow. Finish all pruning of trees before the sap starts.
- Examine willow and poplar trees for borers. Prune out any infested branches.
- Plant lettuce in flats or bowls this month and harvest before it’s time to start some of the later seedlings. Artificial light may be required, but the air should not be too hot.
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