Baby Bok Choy February Gardening Checklist 1.Most spring flowering bulbs should have already been planted by now. 2. Remove old flowers from your cool-season bedding plants to extend blooming and improve flower performance. 3. Plant gladiolus in late February. Prolong the blooming season by planting at two- to three-week intervals for a couple of months. […]
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Rose (Claude Monet’s Garden) Preparing Roses for Fall Blooms Rose gardens need pruning, disease management and proper fertilization now for flowering in September and October. Late summer pruning of modern rose varieties such as hybrid tea, floribunda, grandiflora and shrub roses should be completed by early September. Pruning should be less severe than that done
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Some Like it Hot – submitted by Mary Dawn Pugh Not that I’m any kind of Marilyn Monroe, but I do love hot-season gardening. Some of the best things to grow (in my humble opinion) are already ripening in May – and going full speed into June. The tomatoes are getting ready to pick, and
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Though Dianthus doesn’t bloom much in the shorter days of mid-winter, it is a perfectly hardy annuals to plant now.. January, Janvier or Enero, no matter how you say it, this month is the least rewarding for New Orleans area gardeners. There are multiple mundane maintenance tasks to perform. There is anticipatory preparation for and
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