Dig In: Garden checklist for week of Jan. 19
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| Primroses planted now will brighten the winter garden and keep blooming into early spring. (Photo: Kathy Morrison) |
Time to get your hands dirty in soft soil
Get in the mood for spring; plant something!
Recent rains have left soil soft and pliable – perfect for digging holes. Transplant bare-root fruit trees, divide perennials or add some instant color with cool season annuals.
Think about spring, too, by planting spring bulbs and flowers.
Before you dig in, replenish nutrients with compost or well-aged manure.
Also this week:
* Divide daylilies, Shasta daisies and other perennials.
* Cut back and divide chrysanthemums.
* Plant bare-root roses, trees and shrubs.
* Transplant pansies, violas, calendulas, English daisies, snapdragons and primroses.
* In the vegetable garden, plant fava beans, head lettuce, mustard, onion sets, radicchio and radishes.
* Plant bare-root asparagus and root divisions of rhubarb.
* In the bulb department, plant callas, anemones, ranuculous and gladiolus for bloom from late spring into summer.
* Plant blooming azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons. If you’re shopping for these beautiful landscape plants, you can now find them in full flower at local nurseries.
* Finish pruning roses and most deciduous fruit trees.
