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April showers bring May flowers!...Don't let these rainy days get to you...start planting! And be sure to take steps to aviod over-watering. Nurseries and garden centers will have enormous selections this month. Try to stay with cool/early season flowers like daisies, pansies, and snapdragons. Later, you can add marigolds, petunias, and zinnas. You can also start looking for fruits to plant. A good place to start this time of year is with strawberries, grapes, and kiwis. Herbs will also do well if want to grow some of your own. Chives, parsley, basil, oregano, mint, and tarragon will do well with the cool mornings, but make sure to take steps to protect them, as well as other early plantings, if it looks like a late frost is on the way. Start growing all kinds of vegetables and flowers on your window sills, or under plastic. Getting a head start on the growing season is extremely important for some of us. If you have a short growing season, you'll need the extra time if you intend to have lots of healthy plants around this year. There are many different kinds of lighting available if you really want to get things going. Everything from cheap flourescent lighting, to the more expensive lighting like mercury vapor lamps, high pressure sodium lamps, and other types of high intensity discharge lamps. Constructing cold frames, a hoophouse, or even a small greenhouse might serve your needs even better. If you are going to be planting a large garden, and with successive plantings, one of these structures will assist you greatly throughout your growing season. For your lawns, many of us will have moss to contend with. make sure that you remember to cut your grass a little shorter than you would otherwise, and then apply your choice of moss killer to the lawn. Remember not to cut more than 1/3 ofr the length of your grass at once. Once the moss has died out, if there are any areas that need replanting, be sure to get some good quality seed, and adress those areas. Most moss killers will also make your lawn very green, and cause it to grow fast, so make sure to cut it again before you apply grass seed. |
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