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Helpful Info | Monthly To-Do List | April

April print

  • Make appointment with a landscape professional for design
  • Plant new water plants in your pond
  • Select a spot for a waterfall or pond to be installed
  • Fertilize lawns
  • Plant hardy vegetables
  • Control slugs
  • Aerate your lawn
  • Rototill compost or manure into garden
  • Overseed and reseed lawns
  • Protect dogwoods with Daconil
  • Have your soil tested
  • Prepare to conserve water with an irrigation design
  • Fertilize rhodies, azaleas, roses
  • Call architect for design/build water feature
  • Plant summer annuals, marigolds, petunias, begonias
  • Remove old rhododendrom flowers
  • Trap gophers & moles
  • Watch for root weevils in rhodies & azaleas
  • Planting month! Add color to your yard
  • Set out fuchsias & geraniums
  • Test soil
  • Plant summer vegetables
  • Fertilize lawn
  • Adjust water schedule on automatic sprinkler system