Lawn Calendar

 

To protect and nurture your landscape and outdoor living space, you need to be engaged year round.

Budget Tree and Landscape can service all your landscape needs.

 

Clean winter’s debris (lawn and shrub beds)

Remove lawn thatch

Prune winter injury to trees and shrubs

Cut back dead ornamental grasses

Uncover perennials, assess and fertilize

Uncover roses, prune dead and fertilize

Remove excessive mulch on trees and shrubs

Apply lawn pre emergent herbicide (Before the Forsythia drop their flowers)

Apply pre emergent control to shrub beds

Apply supplemental fertilizer lawn

Spring tune-up on irrigation.

Commence mowing (rule of thumb, only remove 1/3 grass blade length)

Treat broadleaf weeds

Monitor for insect and diseases

Dead head tulip and daffodils

Weed perennial bed as need

Select and install annuals (fertilize with time release product) (dry locations plant with hydro gel for water retention)

Prune shrubs that have flowered

 

 

Raise mowing height to 3.5” when summer’s heat arrives

Spot treat weed in beds with contact herbicide

Don’t mow lawns that are stressed (Easy method to define stress, if you walk across the lawn and after 3 hours the path is visible the lawn need to be watered.)

Weed and spruce up bed edges

Turn on irrigation (it is better to water well a few times a week then water a little daily , never water in the evening, a lawn should be dry during the night to discourage disease. Apply water in the early morning before your shower (this cuts down on midday evaporation). About and 1” of water per week is good for an established lawn on 6” of loam. A simple method to see how much is being applied it to put a cup in the irrigation area and measure the amount of water. Various soil types will require water adjustment depending on the lawn appearance.

Monitor for insect and diseases

Prune needle evergreens and shrubs that have flowered

Monitor lawns, shrubs , annuals and trees for stress

Tend perennials and annuals ( dead head and remove dead materials)

Late summer apply lawn grub control

 

 

Do not prune shrubs after September 30 until Mid November. One does not want to encourage tender growth that will be damaged by winter

Install fall mums

Slice seed thin lawn areas

Aerate compacted lawn areas

Fertilize lawn

Late fall install pansy

Tend perennials ( dead head ,divide and remove)

Turn off irrigation

Monitor insect and diseases

Fall clean up

Clean gutters and drains

Winterize water features

Install spring bulbs

 

 

Prune trees, A perfect time to see tree structure. Avoid removing more than 15% of the tree mass. Perfect time to inspect for tree hazards.

Apply and anti-desiccants to broad leaf evergreens to reduce winter sun scald . New planting are also benefit for and application. Two applications are recommended December and February.

Water new plant one last time before the ground freeze.

Relax and plot your next season gardening projects

Take a class in horticulture

Attend the regional flower show

Late winter prune fruit trees

Apply dormant oil when temperatures stay above 40 degrees for a day’s cycle.