A Gardner’s Guide to Getting Ready for Spring
Feel ready to “spring” into action? Get a head start by taking care of these gardening tasks in the coming weeks.
- Spray fruit trees with horticultural oil
- Prune fruit trees
- Schedule spring cleanup appointments and/or annual lawn maintenance with landscapers
- Inquire about professional landscaping design consults
- Take measurements/pictures of your yard and gardening spaces to have on hand.
- Create a garden journal or calendar
- Review 2023 garden successes and challenges in your journal to help you plan for the coming season
- Build a compost bin for your kitchen and garden scraps
- Research gardening techniques such as companion planting, vertical gardening, permaculture, seed saving, or anything else of interest
- Get inspired by browsing Proven Winners. Look for perennials and shrubs that tolerate Zone 5 or colder for this region.
- Some seedlings can be started indoors
- Organize, repair and clean garden accessories
- Clean and sharpen garden tools
- Shop for spring planting bulbs and store until ready
- If needed, reseed your lawn prior to the ground thawing. Check out this Purdue article about Spring reseeding.
- Send us an email for general plant availability questions at Gardencenter@wrfnursery.com
