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FEBRUARY continued...<br />
HOUSEPLANTS<br />
VEGETABLES<br />
FRUITS & NUTS:<br />
HOME<br />
1. Fertilize with liquid<br />
fertilizer<br />
2. Turn houseplants<br />
weekly to allow full<br />
coverage by sun<br />
1. Plant beets,<br />
broccoli, cabbage,<br />
carrots, collards,<br />
kale, lettuce,<br />
mustard, onions,<br />
English peas, Irish<br />
potatoes, radishes,<br />
spinach & turnips<br />
2. Seed tomatoes,<br />
peppers, eggplants<br />
for growing<br />
transplants for later<br />
planting<br />
1. Prune apples,<br />
pears, plums,<br />
peaches,<br />
blackberries,<br />
muscadines &<br />
grapes<br />
2. Plant fruit trees<br />
3. Prune low hanging<br />
limbs on pecan<br />
trees<br />
4. Plant blueberries<br />
5. Spray fruit trees<br />
with lime-sulfur<br />
before blooming.<br />
MARCH<br />
ORNAMENTALS<br />
TURF<br />
FLOWERS<br />
1. Complete pruning<br />
for shape<br />
2. Prune overgrown<br />
shrubbery<br />
3. Fertilize shrubbery<br />
4. Mulch shrubbery<br />
5. Plant shrubbery<br />
HOUSEPLANTS<br />
1. Fertilize<br />
houseplants<br />
monthly<br />
2. Repot houseplants<br />
where needed<br />
1. Apply preemergence<br />
herbicides<br />
2. Delay fertilizing<br />
Bermuda, Zoysia<br />
and St. Augustine<br />
until soil about mid-<br />
April<br />
3. Top dress lawns, do<br />
not use pure sand<br />
VEGETABLES<br />
1. Prepare soil for<br />
vegetable garden<br />
2. Bed sweet potato<br />
plants for slips<br />
3. Cultivate weeds<br />
after emergence<br />
4. Plant sweet corn at<br />
end of month<br />
1. Fertilize bulbs<br />
& remove dead<br />
flower heads<br />
2. Fertilize roses<br />
3. Prepare plan for<br />
spring and summer<br />
plantings of<br />
annuals<br />
4. Plant hardy annuals<br />
5. Plant perennials<br />
FRUITS & NUTS:<br />
1. Fertilize fruit trees.<br />
2. Plant strawberries<br />
3. Spray apple and<br />
pear trees for fire<br />
blight when in<br />
bloom<br />
4. Prune fig trees in<br />
late March<br />
5. Fertilize pecan<br />
trees with fertilizers<br />
containing zinc<br />
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