Garden Calendar-
• Choose the site for your living Christmas tree and dig the hole for your tree while the soil is still workable. Keep the soil in a trash can or other container, mix it with peat moss, compost or rotted manure, and keep it in the garage or outbuilding (where it won’t freeze) for easy planting after the holidays. Cover the hole with a board or fill it with leaves for safety. We offer white pines, Norway spruce, Green Giant arborvitae, holly, and falsecypress for living Christmas trees.
•Hardy trees and shrubs can still be planted as long as the ground isn’t frozen. Check with us if you are unsure as to a plant’s hardiness zone. Mix the soil from the hole with compost and add Bone & Bloodmeal. Use Fertilome Root Stimulator when planting and every 2 weeks as long as the ground isn’t frozen.
• Finish planting tulip, daffodil, hyacinth, crocus, allium, and other hardy bulbs
outdoors for spring blooms as long as the soil is workable or plant them in containers
and keep in the garage or other cool area until spring. Use Hi-
•Protect pines and other trees from deer damage this winter with all natural
Liquid Fence Deer Repellent or Milorganite organic fertilizer (the odor reminds deer
of humans – repels and feeds at the same time). Protect tree trunks with heavy duty
black-
•Buy seed and plan for next year’s garden. Check seed starting supplies and
buy Seed and Cutting Starter mix, trays, 6-
•Keep squirrels away from birdfeeders by using a squirrel guard, available for pole mounted and hanging birdfeeders.