Spring Vegetables & Flower Gardens

Spring has officially started; and so can your garden!

With the first day of spring brings the topic of your beautiful #SpringVegetables&FlowerGardens.

Jay Harper helps us get going on our spring garden and discusses:

• What should be inspected for your irrigation
• Tips for the lawn transition from winter rye grass to bermuda.
• Tips to extend that rye grass if you desire.
• It's not too late to plant tomatoes but Jay has varieties to consider.
• How to attract pollinators.
• And ways to control weeds!!

Tried and True Garden Soil Recipe

Ingredients: 

For every 100 sq ft (10x10)

• • • 6 bags of 1.5 - 2.0 cubic ft of good quality compost material
    • 10lbs of gypsum
    • 1-2 lbs of soil sulfur
    • Approximately 5lbs of a good quality organic fertilizer; like Hickman's farms choice or you can blend 2-3 lbs of blood meal and 4-5 lbs of bone meal together.

Directions: 

• • • This should be tilled into about 12" in depth and watered well one time before planting.
    • Continue to fertilize with the organic fertilizer of your choice every 30 days or so.
    • This process should be repeated every season just prior to planting. 

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