Getting Your Garden Ready for Spring with friends

Getting Your Garden Ready for Spring with friends

1. Preparing Your Garden for Spring
Master Gardeners of Ontario
Durham Chapter

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Topics For Discussion
Seeding
Splitting perennials
Pruning
Insect control
Lawns & Weeds
Healthy soil
Fertilizing
Mulching

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Seeding
Starting Seedlings Indoors
Hardening Off
Direct Seeding Outdoors
Protecting Seedlings

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Center Dies Out
Centre Flops Open
Flowering Declines
Plant Swapping
Weed Infested Clumps
Creative Outlet
Dividing & Moving Perennials

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Pruning

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Insect and Pest Control
Clean and monitor
Attract “beneficials”and avoid chemicals
Use nematodes for controlling grubs
Dormant Oil and physical barriers
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Spring Lawn Care
Core-aerating
Over-seeding
Compost top-dressing
Cutting high
Deep watering
Pest/weed control
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenerscalendar/7999973/Gardening-calendar-
September-2010-week-1.html

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Life Cycle 1st year
Spring Summer/fall Winter
2
nd
year
Spring Summer/fall Winter
3
rd
year
Spring Summer/fall Winter
Summer Annual
Winter Annual
Biennial
Simple Perennial
Creeping
Perennial
Classification Of Weeds By Life Cycle

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Soil and Composting
Soil
Add organic matter
Composting
Spring garden waste
Utilize finished compost from
year before

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FERTILIZING
Providing a healthy diet for your plants
Nitrogen (N)
Phosphorus (P)
Potassium (K)
Calcium (Ca)
Magnesium (Mg)
Sulfur (S)
Boron (B)
Copper (Cu)
Chloride (CI)
Iron (Fe)
Manganese (Mn)
Molybdenum (Mo)
Zinc (Zn)

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Choosing A Mulch
Cocoa Bean Hulls
Compost Shredded Cedar Mulch (Black)
Pine Bark Nuggets
Ajuga reptans 'Atropurpurea'
Decorative Stone

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Summary
Clean up
Divide or move
Prune
Lawn care
Monitor for insects
and weeds
Amend your soil
Mulch

13. Questions?

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Citations:
1.Michael Dana and Philip Carpenter, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, West Lafayette, IN 47907
http://www.ag.purdue.edu/counties/porter/Documents/Ag.PDFs/Pruning.pdf
2.‘Complete Roses’by Field Roebuck; publisher Creative Home Owner; copyright 2007
3.http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/fruit_home.htm#thinning
4.‘Make Your Wisteria Bloom’ By Aldona Satterthwaite: published by Canadian Gardening…. http://www.canadiangardening.com/how-
to/techniques/make-your-wisteria-bloom/a/1541
5.‘Pruning Dormant Plants ‘by Dr. Leonard Perry, Extension Professor at the University of Vermont
http://perrysperennials.info/articles/dormant.html
6.http://hort.uwex.edu/articles/pruning-evergreens)
7.‘Secrets to great Soil’by Elizabeth P. Stell; Published by: Storey Publishing, 1998
8.Gardening Naturally’: A Guide to Growing Chemical-Free Flowers, Vegetables, and Herbs by Ann Reilly; published by Better Homes
and Gardens (April 1993)
9.http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/00-055.htm
10.http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/biosi/staffinfo/wocs2.html
11.http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pubs/pest/_pnotes/gypsy-spongieuse/index-eng.php
12.http://www.hort.cornell.edu/vlb/
13.http://www.perennials.com/seehowto.html?item=10
14.University of Guelph, Weed Management course, Winter 201
15.http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/climzoneveg.htm
16.http://eartheasy.com/article_corn_gluten.htm
17.Karen York ( Spring 2012 ), Sizing Up Landscape Fabric, Garden Making No.9
18.http://www.ttca.on.ca/yards
19.http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/biosi/staffinfo/wocs2.html

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This presentation was originally developed by
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