Prepping Your Landscape for Spring Planting
Time
Budget
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★Every home landscape needs some attention in the late winter to prepare it for Spring planting and the next growing season. The following activities should be performed in late Winter/early Spring (Mid-Feb. – Mid-March).
Tools
Compost
Landscape Spray Paint
Pruners
Rototiller
Square Shovel
Hedge trimmers
1
Remove dead annuals
2
Cut back perennials to ground level
3
Lightly prune shrubs and small trees removing dead, damaged, diseased and deranged branches
4
Divide perennials that have overgrown areas, plant or give away divisions
5
Till or turn new planting beds adding compost and/or soil conditioner
6
Mark with paint spots where new plants will be planted
7
Rake landscape beds removing large debris
8
Add compost/soil conditioner and/or organic fertilizer around plants in landscape beds
9
Lightly mulch all landscape beds