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February 26th, 2011
Eric Pedley from East Austin Succulents illustrates creative designs with succulent plants, and shows how propagate them. Trisha Shirey has tips for tasty kale.
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Plant of the Week: Soft Leaf Yucca
Tips of the Week
- Prepare your soil for new ornamental and vegetable beds with well-composted organic material. Add 1-3" and blend into your existing soil
- Prune and fertilize roses.
- Cut back mushy growth from frozen plants but do not prune cycads, abutilons, or others that browned with the extreme cold.
- If you need to move a plant, do it now, except for cold tender plants.
- Do not prune damaged citrus. Wait until the last freeze date.
- Stay on top of those weeds! Do not apply a weed and feed type of product. It is too early to fertilize the grass and the herbicides in these products cause great harm to our plants and our waterways.
- Continue planting trees, shrubs, roses and hardy perennials.
- Check this list for the many vegetables that we can plant now.
- Plant herbs like basil, thyme, oregano, lemon balm, lemon verbena, and rosemary. These work well even in containers.
- Weed!! If you let the weeds go to seed, you'll have them next year. Avoid chemicals since they will do no good right now. The best thing is a shovel or other tool. And, keep them mowed.
- More Tips
Question of the Week
Do I need to water my lawn in winter?
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