January Gardening Tips

Did you make a New Year’s resolution to grow more of your own food, clean up that ugly corner of the yard or finally create the private backyard of your dreams? Now is the time to get a plan for your project. Our garden centers offer a Free Landscape Design program called Planscaper. Imagine planting your yard with the confidence that you’re doing it right and the knowledge and assurance that your plant purchases are backed up by the best guarantee in town! Call any of our locations and ask about Planscaper.

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Master Nursery Black Forest Organic Compost

Water landscape plants underneath wide eaves and in other sites shielded from rain.

Reapply and or redistribute mulches that have blown or washed away during winter. Black Forest compost is our favorite mulch.

Use dormant sprays of oil or copper fungicide on fruit trees and roses for general preventative disease and insect control. Come ask one of our garden center professionals for a recommendation. Follow-up with a 2nd application in about 4 to 6 weeks.

Monitor houseplants for correct water and fertilizer; clean and dust off leaves. Allow plants to dry out between watering and generally reduce water for winter. Over watering damage may be corrected with Oxygen Plus.

Treat yourself to an early spring! Gather branches of quince, forsythia, flowering cherry, pussy willow, etc. Bring indoors and place in a vase of water to force an early bloom.