Feed! Feed! Feed! It’s time to refresh your garden plants. Fertilize all of your plants to support spring growth. For landscape shrubs and trees feed with Master’s Formula 49 All Purpose Plant Food. If you have citrus or avocado trees, use Master’s Citrus Food. Early March is an ideal time to start feeding fruit trees, grapes, and berries. We recommend Master’s Fruit Tree & Vine Food for the nutrition your plants need to produce the best crop ever! Your roses will appreciate a monthly feeding of Master’s Rose & Flower Food.
Prune azaleas and camellias into shape after their blooms have faded. Feed them with Master’s Camellia, Azalea and Gardenia Food and Iron Plus monthly through October.
Place Yellow Jacket traps out early this month to catch the queen before she starts her family. Prevention is the best cure!
Give your lawn “a meal – not a snack” with Master Green Lawn Food.
Control snails with organic Sluggo Plus and pet-safe Sluggo.
This is a good time to think about lawn renovation.
Add a lilac to your garden and enjoy its fragrant spring blossoms.
Remember to plant gladiolus bulbs (corms) every two weeks, and you’ll have armloads of cut flowers through the summer.
Remember to water plants under eaves and in containers. It’s important now to deep water trees and shrubs if it isn’t raining on a regular basis. Their root systems are starting to grow now.
Start annual morning glories from seed this month and establish them in the garden or a pot by summer! Morning glories are one of the most stunning of the old fashioned garden flowers. Flowers are huge – three to five inches across – and bright, colorful blue, purple or pink. Best of all, morning glories are easy!
Combat Citrus leafminer organically. Hang traps in your citrus to catch the flying adult, doing so will reduce damage to new growth of your lemons, oranges and other citrus plants.
