| Make a list of herbs you often use and plan the garden to include them. | Click here for more information |
| Use only sterile seed starting mix. | |
| Start seeds of slow growing annuals such as ageratum, sweet alyssum, browallia, geranium, petunia, annual phlox, snapdragon, lobelia and verbena. | Click here for more information |
| Look your orchids over carefully before new growth starts. Repot if necessary. Orchids need excellent drainage. | Click here for more information |
| Have your trees professionally pruned. For a list of Arborists, call 516-228-0426 ext. 7 between 10 am and 12:30 pm, Monday through Thursday. | |
| Look for leaf drop on house plants - use room temperature water. | Click here and herefor more information |
| Monitor your hemlocks for hemlock woolly adelgid. | Click here for more information |
| Bulbs and fall-planted perennials may heave out of the ground. Press back into the ground. | |
| If you see cankers on rose canes, prune out infected canes and disinfect cutting tool between cuts. | Click here and herefor more information |
| Sharpen mower blades and other cutting tools. | |
| This is a good time to prune summer flowering shrubs whose buds develop in the spring. | Click here for more information |
| Try to refrain from pruning "bleeder" trees now. These include Maple, Beech, Dogwood, Elm, and Sycamore. Wait until they are in full leaf. |