SIR’S BRANCH #1 GARDENING GROUP

FEBRUARY IN YOUR GARDEN

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  1. 1 Purchase & plant: bare-root roses, apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, apricots,

cherries

  1. Other plantings: spring annuals, perennials, bulbs, evergreen vines, shrubs, and

Vegetables

  1. Winter Care for Indoor Plants: Proper water management is the key to healthy house

plants, late fall to early spring; room temperature; fertilization of foliage plants.

2 4 Pruning: general, after pruning-spray dormant oil, roses, deciduous fruit and nut

trees, ornamentals-fuchsias, flowering vines, bushes and shade trees, :evergreens

such as citrus.

3 5 Harvest Citrus

4 6 Fertilize lawns, other plants, and roses with Bayer’s 2-in-1 Rose and Flower Care.

5 7 General disease and pest control.:

8 Snails & slugs

9 Earwigs

10 Aphids

11 Worms, insect eggs, scale and mites

12 Mites (spider mites.

13 Scales

14 Other insects

6 DISEASES

15 Powdery mildew

  1. Peach leaf curl (peaches & nectarines

  2. Petal blight of Camellias and Azaleas

  3. General notes on spraying WEED CONTROL

  4. Lawns-crabgrass, spotted spurge and annual bluegrass

  5. Pre-emergent herbicides (seedicides)

  6. When transplanting seedlings use pre-emergent herbicides (seedicides) ….

  7. Frost & frost damage: Watch for and prepare for it.

  1. 23 Repot Cymbidiums

24 Other orchids:

25 Planting bare root plants (roses & other plants), the ABC’s

26 Automatic irrigation systems

8-9 27 Green gifts of the season can live to see another year, by Victor Vool