• Plant annuals and perennials as well as blooming shrubs, trees, and vines to color your landscape through spring and summer.

• Watch for June bugs and apply beneficial nematodes to prevent grubworm damage. Beneficial nematodes will also control fleas, fireants, termites, wireworms, and other damaging insects and their larvae.

• Plant warm weather vegetables tomato transplants and seeds for squash, beans, melons, cucumbers, and others. Feed existing vegetables.

• Cut back spring blooming shrubs as flowers fade. This includes Indian hawthorne, spirea, & quince.

• Clean existing birdhouses and put up new ones to attract insect-eating songbirds. Also put up hummingbird feeders.

• FEED EVERY PLANT IN YOUR LANDSCAPE with Landscape Essentials fertilizer! Add Color Essentials fertilizer for blooming plants.

• Apply Sluggo Plus to control snails, slugs, and pill bugs.

• Treat compacted soils (and those with clover) with Medina Plus and apply a thin layer of compost.

• Make additional releases of trichogramma wasps for caterpillar control.

• Plant caladium plants anytime and bulbs after the soil warms.

• Apply cornmeal around base of roses to reduce potential for blackspot and mildew.

• Treat emerging fire ant mounds with Come and Get It, Mound Drench, or orange oil.

• Celebrate Spring and all of the beauty and sense of renewal it brings into our lives.