In our last post, we gave you a Spring Landscape Maintenance To-Do List. One list item was ”Check Your Garden Beds” – but that hardly does it justice to the proper upkeep of your garden beds.
If you have a green thumb, you’re well on your way already. This year’s seedlings are probably well along, and you’ve got your garden plan all figured out.
But, if that’s not you, or you just want to double-check, we’ve put together the following list of things to do in the garden in early spring.
6 Items for Your Early Spring Gardening Things To-List
Every gardener could probably put together their own to-do list and no two would be exactly alike. Here’s a general list to help you cover the basics.
- Remove Protective Coverings – Once the danger of frost has passed, remove anything you put on your garden and or plants to minimize frost damage, including burlap bags and pine cones.
- Make Room for Growth – If your leaf mulch made it through the winter and is still covering your beds, move it away from the crowns around your perennials and wherever your bulbs will sprout.
- Prune Perennials – You can cut back any dead stems, old deadheads, down to where there’s greenery on the stems. Deadheading is best done shortly after blooms wither to keep the energy of the plant focused on new blooms.
- Plant Bare-Root Plants – When the soil is tillable, you can plant any bare-root perennials, roses, and fruit plants (like strawberries and raspberries).
- Secure Perennials – Depending on how much frost your garden endured over the winter, it may have pushed up perennial root bulbs. It will help improve their growth to press them down, level with the surrounding soil.
- Top-Dress the Beds – Once the ground has thawed and is tillable, turn up the soil while working in compost and/or topsoil.
If this is the year you want to redesign your landscape, with features like new garden beds, outdoor lighting or irrigation options, put the professional landscaping services of MBL Landscaping to work for you.
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