What to plant?
• In a shady spot early in the month you can still plant pansies, violas, and primroses.
• You can plant dahlia tubers and transplant most perennials.
• As temperatures warm (nights consistently over 55 degrees) you can transplant tomatoes, eggplants and peppers.
• You can still plant seeds of cilantro, radishes, beets and chard. (Cilantro will go to seed quickly as the weather warms up.)
Chores:
• Fertilize shrubs and trees once this spring.
• Watch azaleas and camellias for yellowing between the veins in the leaves. If the leaf is yellowish, apply chelated iron to the plants.
• Trim the dead flowers but not the leaves from spring bulbs. The leaves restore the bulb; so wait to remove them until they turn yellow. Fertilize the bulbs after the bloom is finished with bone meal.
• Apply organic mulch to all beds to keep the soil cool and enrich the soil.■
