Timely Gardening Tips For Where You Live
Regional and seasonal gardening tips for where you live.
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Illustration by Diane A. Rader
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Edited by Carol Mack
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New England &Maritime
Canada
When February starts to feel interminable, get outside and
do some skiing, skating or walking. Put on a pair of
snowshoes and pack down the snow around all your fruit
trees. The packed snow is difficult for rodents to burrow
through and may help reduce chewing damage to tree trunks.
Then, warm up back indoors. Sit in the sun with a cup of
hot tea or soup, some homemade dried cantaloupe slices and
a stack of seed catalogs. Soon, March will bring noticeably
longer days, with the sweet smell of spring hanging in the
evening air, and you'll be back in the garden again. By
then, overwintered and newly seeded greens will be
sprouting; try sowing some cilantro, spinach, mustard and
mache this year. The first genuine mud appears, too, so
don't get out your garden fork yet. Instead, a sunny day
makes cleaning out the greenhouse a welcome task.
In late March when you're out and about, don't forget to
listen for the "Peent" call of the male woodcock as he
whirls skyward, claiming territory and calling a mate.
Mid-Atlantic
"F" is for February and "f' is for flats. Early in the
month, pull out the flats and start eggplant, parsley,
celeriac, habanero peppers and the last of the dry bulb
onions. In mid-February, seed other peppers, broccoli,
cauliflower, cabbage, celery, Chinese greens and lettuce.
By the end of the month, start the fast tomato seedlings.
Try 'Zarnitsa,' a cold-tolerant Russian variety, for an
extra-early harvest, 'Mule Team' for heavy main-season
production of top-notch fruits and 'Strawberry Red'
(sometimes called 'German Red Strawberry') for an
exceptional slicing tomato. In early March, transplant
raspberries and blackberries, and shortly after St.
Patrick's Day (March 17), plant potatoes. 'Red Cloud,'
'Carols' and 'Rose Apple Finn' are regional favorites with
high yields and disease resistance.
Also in mid-March, start transplanting cold-hardy greens
(but keep them under row covers), and begin biweekly
sowings of beets, carrots and radishes. Spring has arrived!
Southern Interior
Time to start tomato, pepper and eggplant seeds indoors.
When the seedlings get their first true leaves, move them
to 3-inch pots to grow on until after the frostfree date
for your area. Then, transplant them outside.
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