Fertilizing, dormant spraying, pruning and starting seeds head the list of February projects. Weather permitting, this can be a great month to get your spring and summer gardening underway.
- Start to clean up perennial borders and flowerbeds.
- Return your planters and hanging baskets to Port Kells Nurseries for refilling.
- Cut back raspberry canes and other fruit bushes and plant new ones.
- Plant bare root roses during a mild spell.
- Prune deciduous trees as well as buddleia (butterfly bush) and C-type clematis that bloom after June. *Don’t prune spring flowering shrubs until after they have bloomed.
- Discover the delightful fragrance of sarcococca.
- Sow hardy annuals such as bachelor buttons, sweet peas, and california poppies outdoors.
- Plant peas and broad beans. Radishes can be sown under cover. Celery can be started indoors.
- Lime lawns to counteract acidity and achieve a desirable ph balance.
