Check Out These Spring Landscaping Tips!

Getting a Head Start on a Healthy Lawn

• Remove thatch in older lawns and dead moss in lawns that have been treated with moss control (approx. 10 days after moss control)
• Lime your lawn about 2 weeks before fertilizing
• Fertilize with high quality, organic fertilizer
• Ongoing weed and dandelion control

Getting Your Flower Beds in Order

• Fertilize your shrubs, trees, hedges, vines, perennials, roses, and small fruits
• Plant new shrubs, trees, pansies, perennials, herbs, roses, and small fruits
• Use manure, compost, bone meal, and peat moss
• Water your flower beds often
• Weed on an ongoing basis
• Buy summer flowering bulbs, tubers, and roots, then plant as per the instructions on their packages
  

Vegetable Garden Duties

• Add compost or manure to the areas where you will be planting roses, vegetables, strawberries, and rhubarb (Note: Don’t add manure where you will be planting potatoes because that can cause them to scab)
• Ideas for veggies to plant in April: carrots, cabbage, beets, broccoli, green onions, lettuce, onions, turnips, and parsnips

Tidy Your Decorative Yard Ponds

• Get your pond in tip top shape with a thorough cleaning
• Purchase water plants at your local garden centre

Pruning

• Consult with your local garden store or research online to know when to prune the greenery that you have in your yard
• Call a professional landscaping company like ATC Landscape to get the job done for you, as pruning can be quite overwhelming