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Home Maintenance Tip                  March 2014
The question on everyone's mind right now is -- 
"will Spring EVER come?" While you're shoveling for hopefully the last time this winter, start thinking about what needs to be done to get your garden ready!
Remember, Spring officially arrives March 20!
Ken
10 Things To Do in the Garden
(once it stops snowing!)

courtesy of the New York Botanical Gardens
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  1. Remove winter mulch and reset frost-heaved plants
  2. Add compost and work into planting bed soil
  3. As the ground becomes workable, de-thatch lawn, fill in bare spots with soil, and fertilize
  4. Plant deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs
  5. Prune dead, diseased, weak and crossed branches from trees and shrubs
  6. Prune back butterfly bushes and other late-flowering shrubs, but hold off on early bloomers like forsythia until after flowering
  7. Plant, transplant and divide summer-blooming perennials
  8. Cut back ornamental grasses to new shoots
  9. Prune hybrid tea roses, grandifloras and floribundas, but hold off until after flowering for the ramblers and climbing roses
  10. Fertilize deciduous broad-leaved and needle-leaved evergreens if not done in fall.  Don't prune evergreens and hedges until later in the spring.
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