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January Gardening Tips

‘Treecycle’

Recycle your old fresh cut Christmas Trees, instead of putting it out with the trash.  You can cut off the branches and use them to mulch tender plants like perennials and bulbs.  Or put the entire tree in the corner of your yard to form a brush pile, which makes excellent winter shelter for birds.

 
Landscape Plants

In we have a dry winter, soak trees and shrubs once a month when the weather is warm.  Tree wrap should be used to protect the bark of trees susceptible to unscaled and subsequent splitting.  Maples and newly planted trees are most vulnerable.

 
Holiday Houseplants

What should you do when the holidays are over and your poinsettia and amaryllis are still alive and well?  Keep them for holiday blooms next year!!

After your Amaryllis has bloomed, keep it growing to build up the bulb for next year’s flowers.  Fertilize with a balanced fertilizer like Fertilome Geranium, Hanging Basket & Pansy Food.  Set the plant outside in the spring and let it grow until the leaves start to yellow in late summer.  Let it go dormant and give it six-weeks of rest.  Then repot, start watering and watch for new blooms.

For Poinsettias, continue the same care as before—bright light, moist soil and no drafts.

·         Set it outside in the spring

·         In the summer, fertilize your poinsettia well and cut it back to help make it bushy.

For Christmas blooms next year, give it 14-hour nights starting October