Mar
23
Spring Gardening Tips
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Spring is my absolute favorite time of year.
This winter has been very mild in Colorado, but in years past when snow has covered the garden for winter, that first splash of color from your crocus bulbs you lovingly planted last fall just warms your heart. I’m anxious to get out there and get my hands dirty and luckily there is plenty to do in your garden in March.
MARCH
In the Garden
- Plant your Pansies
- Prune your Junipers
- Plant container and balled or burlapped trees and shrubs late in March.
Spring Lawns
- Get your lawn mower ready and if there were any issues when you winterized your sprinkler system, head to your favorite Home Depot / Lowes to get your supplies.
- This winter has been very dry, so I’m hand watering my lawn until we get our sprinkler system going.
Kitchen Garden
- You can sow seeds of peas, onion, carrots, lettuce,spinach, beets, swis hard & radishes outdoors
- Plant seedlings of broccoli< cabbage< kale< brussel sprouts and cauliflower now
- Plant Potatoes late March.
- Plant bare root asparagus & rhubarb, bare root raspberries, grapes, strawberries and fruit tree’s.
- This is of course if your garden area isn’t still frozen! I know parts of mine still are.
Indoor Plants
- Fertilize pots of annuals that you kept inside for the winter.
- Re-pot root bound houseplants.
The columbines aren’t out yet, but that’s such a pretty picture from last year I wanted to share it. I find that Colorado’s state flower is happiest in some shade and beneath your Aspens since it most closely mimics their wild cousins that grow in the Rocky Mountains.
Do you have any tips to share? Favorite spring flowers? Talk to me below.
Your post reminds me how much I have to do. LOL! We moved a year ago and didn’t start a real garden at the new house yet. I need to find a place for it. I would love to have fresh chives and tomatoes again.
I LOVE your Columbine photo. They are one of my absolute favorites – and the rabbits don’t like them at all! These tips are fantastic, I think I need to consider getting outside this weekend with a clean up the winter mess kind of plan. Thanks for sharing.
I didn’t know that rabbits didn’t like Columbines. I will add that to my list of “things I CAN put in the front yard!” My DH has “BUNNY PROOFED” our back yard! I wish I could get them to last longer, it seems like you have to start with fresh columbine plants every few years.
I just moved into this house last April, so almost a year now. It had great raised gardens in the back but NOTHING planted. I’ll share some photo’s of it before and after last year and then this year. I just love perennials! I already have TONS of Oriental Poppies coming up that I grew from seed last year. Try those… I probably have 15 of them and I had to thin to that number.
great tips. I enjoyed reading this
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