Tips

FEBRUARY

Tips provided courtesy of Thelma Barnett and Ernestine Woodall of the Green Thumbs Garden Club.

Plant catalogs are arriving in each mail. Select at least one new plant you have not grown before and try it. Local nurseries will have good suggestions and examples for you to see.
Start searching those seed catalogs for seeds to start inside before moving them outside. Select seed and start them at least two months before the last frost. (Average last frost locally is about April 15.) Start the seeds inside and be ready to move them outside as the soil warms up.
Prune anything that you have not already pruned that is not a spring bloomer. Prune nothing that blooms on old wood like most hydrangeas.
Fertilizer fescue types grasses if you have not already done so.
Set out trees and shrubs now to get them established for spring and summer growth.
Pre-packed bar root perennials are now available and can be set out now also to establish good root systems for spring and summer growth. Choose packages with no foliage growth visible for out seed use. Packages with foliage growth may be potted up and held inside waiting for warmer weather.

Provided by: Garden Clubs and Garden Club Members of The Greenville Council of Garden Clubs, Inc. The Council’s Headquarters are located at the Historic Kilgore-Lewis House, 560 N. Academy Street in Downtown Greenville. (visit the Council website www.kilgore-lewis.org for information on becoming a Garden Club member)