Jan
28
Written by:
Humber Nurseries
1/28/2010 12:09 PM
Did you know that snow is one of your gardens best friends?
Snow insulates and protects all that it covers. Are your early flowering shrubs being snowbound? Relocation to a snow free area may be advisable.
- Inspect indoor plants for white flies, spider mites and aphids. Due to low light levels at this time of year, cleaning the foliage of indoor plants to allow more light to penetrate into the leaf.
- If using de-icers on your entranceway, be sure to use a lawn and plant friendly brand, such as Alaskan Ice Melter.
- Keep the birds attracted to your garden by topping up your bird feeders regularly
- Visit Humber Nurseries Ltd to buy your 2010 seeds. You may also need propagation trays, soil, heating mats and lights.
- Inspect bulbs in storage. Bulbs should be stored in moist peat moss or vermiculite. Dust bulbs with garden sulfur and diatomaceous earth. Discard any bulbs that may be damaged.
- Try forcing amaryllis and paperwhites indoors. With many colours to choose from, brighten up winter days.
- Look around your existing garden to see if delicate plants require additional protection by planting a hedge or tree.
- Gently brush snow off of evergreen branches such as Cedars. The weight can damage bendable branches.
- Start seeding slow germinating seeds like begonias and geraniums and early flowering annuals such as pansy, petunia, verbena, dianthus and snapdragons
- During winter thaws, water the ground around trees and shrubs as long as there is not any snow around the plants.
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