Time to Wake Up Your Garden
Gardening chores come fast and furious once warm weather hits and sometimes you don’t have time to fit it all in. That’s why late winter is a great time to get a few of the spring jobs started. It’s a great way to reduce stress later. That’s why I asked Daryl Beyers, an instructor at The New York Botanical Garden and author of The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Grow a Beautiful & Bountiful Garden, to share a checklist for getting a jump-start on the season.
START WITH THE SOIL
Soil is, quite literally, the foundation upon which every garden grows, and spring is a great time to prepare it for the season or make improvements. If you amend your soil early in the year, the plants will have the Flower-Tone on top of the soil and then protect the soil from erosion with a light layer of mulch to get your small trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials off to a great start,” he says. In addition, check for bare spots in ornamental beds where mulch has decomposed or shifted and add an inch or two of fresh mulch or compost like you see in the photo above.
