March in the Garden

• Aerate lawns and top dress with coarse sand to promote good drainage; to help thicken turf and thus discourage weeds.
• Apply a moss control and fertilizer combination during dry weather; rake out blackened moss and overseed to promote a thick lush lawn.
• Discourage moss in lawns by improving growing conditions: improve drainage, remove lower limbs of trees to provide more light, apply Dolopril lime to ‘sweeten’ soil.
• Prune you Roses as soon as the Forsythias begin to bloom; cut each Rose cane just above an outward-facing bud to encourage an open vase shape or just shear the plant back to half its height.
• Uncover tender perennials, roses, and the more delicate plant material that were mulched during the winter.
• Plant vegetables like asparagus, onions, cabbage and broccoli and fruits like strawberries and raspberries.
• Plant away.  New shipments of trees, shrubs, perennials and roses now in stock.