• Make the effort to make important people in your life feel special on Valentine’s Day!

• Colorful annuals will brighten your winter landscape...plant them in profusion!

• Liven up indoor spaces with lush, green houseplants.

• Apply fertilizer to your entire landscape to increase cold hardiness and promote healthy, vigorous spring growth.

• Plant root crops and leafy greens, asparagus, onions, leeks, snow peas and plants in the cole family.

• Continue feeding houseplants and all plants that have been brought indoors for the winter.

• Take care of native and overwintering songbirds by offering fresh water and a variety of food types.

• Plant lots of herbs to use in flavorful winter meals.

• Apply 1/2” of compost to turf areas for improved growth, softer soil, better water retention, and weed control.

• Apply beneficial nematodes to control ticks and thrips. To be effective this must be done while it is cold.

• Start tomato, eggplant, and pepper seeds indoors in January. Begin preparing the soil in empty areas for warm season crops.

• Make the first release of trichogramma wasps in early to mid-February to control tree-damaging spring caterpillars.

• Begin pruning in mid-February–green and summer-flowering shrubs as well as bush roses and fruit trees. Cut back ornamental grasses before they begin their spring growth.

• The gods do not deduct from the alloted span of our lives those hours spent gardening.’
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