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Week of January 28th, 2012

• Get a jump on weeds! Every weed you dig up now is one less weed that's going to seed. Just a few minutes a day will spare you an ordeal.
• Plant trees, shrubs, roses, and perennials.Continue planting bare-root fruit trees, pecan trees, blackberries, and grapes. All planting of trees and shrubs should ideally be wrapped up fairly quickly, before the onslaught of heat begins.
• Compost ornamentals, trees, and the lawn. On the lawn: don't apply more than about 1/4 inches. Around trees, do not pile anything up against the trunk of the tree
• Continue planting lettuce, chard, carrots, radish, broccoli, spinach, greens and herbs: dill, fennel, oregano, parsley, and thyme.
• Plant asparagus crowns, onions, and artichokes.
• Prune asparagus foliage to the ground to encourage emerging spears.
• Fertilize vegetable crops and winter annuals.
• Prune woody dormant plants.
• Prune trees, especially oak trees susceptible to oak wilt.
• Prune crape myrtles.
• Avoid pruning evergreen shrubs for another month.

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