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Garden Calendar
-DECEMBER
• 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.
•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
peat moss
or compost,
add bone & bloodmeal.
Use Fertilome Root
Stimulator
when planting and every 2 weeks as long as the ground isn’t frozen.
•Set up
birdfeeders, if not done so earlier, for winter feeding. Provide
black oil sunflower seed,
a good quality mix such as our
Audubon Deluxe,
new Cardinal Formula
or hull-less Waste-free
Mix, suet, and a source
of water to attract the most birds. Birds also love
safflower seed,
so offer this as well and watch the cardinals, finches, chickadees, titmice, and
doves flock to your feeder. Use a
birdbath heater
to keep the water open. This is one of the best ways to attract birds in
winter.
•Tie up
evergreens or other plants which may be prone to breakage or splitting from ice
and snow using heavy
garden twine,
stretch tie,
or strips of burlap
for extra support.
• Finish
planting tulip, daffodil,
hyacinth,
crocus,
allium,
and other hardy bulbs outdoors for spring blooms as long as the soil is
workable. Use Bone &
Bloodmeal or
Dutch Bulb Food
for best growth.
•Protect pines
and other trees from deer damage this winter with all natural Deer
Repellent
from St. Gabriel Laboratory, Fertilome
This One Works,
Pharm Solutions Deer
Repellent,
Shake Away,
Deer Away,
or Milorganite
organic fertilizer.
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