Trinity Gardening Calendar
Last Updated: January 13, 2012
As the seasons change, so do our projects in the garden.
We update this page regularly to help you know what should be attended to in
the next month or so.
Following the checklist below are some
seasonally-appropriate articles we think you’ll find useful:
·
Caring for
Your Bareroot Plants
·
Dormant Spraying
You can click on the article
name above to be taken directly to the article or scroll down past the
checklist. Enjoy!
The Savvy Gardener says: It’s Time To …
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Plant Bareroot Fruit Trees … now in stock! Visit our e-News
and Handouts page for a list of varieties
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Dormant Spray … remember to spray your fruit trees while
they’re dormant – a combination of Pest Fighter Year-Round
Spray Oil and sulfur or copper gets both over-wintering insects and
diseases
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Feed Early Spring Bloomers … with Master Bloom (0-10-10)
for better flowers and fruit next year
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Peach Leaf Curl … January for your second
application of MicroCop and mark your calendars now for final
application in March – (Peaches & Nectarines are your only fruit trees
that get peach leaf curl)
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Feed Evergreens … with EB Stone Organics All Purpose
fertilizer, Formula 49 or Master Nursery Acid Food
for healthier trees and shrubs
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Add Lime … sweeten your soil, especially those areas that
always grow moss
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Mulch … before the heavy frosts come to protect against cold
damage — Black Forest Compost or Cocoa Hulls work
great
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Feed Lawns … with Master Nursery Fall & Winter Feed for
a healthier, greener lawn this winter
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Azomite … adds needed micro-nutrients to your garden soil
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Rake Leaves … and other debris to reduce the habitat for
over-wintering insects and diseases
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Caring for Your Bareroot Plants
During bareroot season you’ll find a great selection of
trees, shrubs and vines at a great value.
As you may have heard us say before, bareroot plants are
different from container plants and require special care — starting at the
grower and continuing through to planting in your garden.
By definition, there is no protective layer of dirt around
a bareroot plant’s roots, so it’s very important that care be taken to
protect those roots — protect them from overheating, drying out, freezing and
from over — or under — watering.
Trinity Nursery offers only quality field-grown plants
from reputable growers. We protect the roots here in the nursery by heeling them
into sand immediately upon arrival. We know that damage to the tender roots
can kill your plants before you even get them in the ground.
We follow-up our good care with good advice to you. We
recommend bareroot plants be planted the same day they leave the nursery. We
know this isn’t always possible, so we can recommend some ways to keep those
roots moist and cool until you can get them in the ground.
As always, if it works better for you, we’d be happy to
hold your bareroot plants for several days to give you time to prepare your
planting holes.
We also provide a handy planting guide — available in the
store and on Newsletter & Handouts page of our website — that will
help you dig the right size hole, choose the right soil amendment and
fertilizer, and generally get your bareroot plants off to a great start.
Happy planting!
Dormant Spraying
Many of you know the benefits of dormant spraying with
horticultural oils like our PestFighter Year-Round Spray Oil
(to control scales, mites, aphid eggs, caterpillar eggs, and more).
In this article, we highlight a couple of other diseases
common in our area and help you identify and treat them.
As always, you can bring in samples (in sealed baggies
please!) and we’ll help you with the ID. And don’t forget, always follow the
instructions on the product packaging!
Peach Leaf Curl
Peach Leaf Curl affects the
blossoms, fruit, leaves, and shoots of peaches and nectarines, and is one of
the most common disease problems for backyard gardeners growing these trees.
The distorted, reddened foliage that it causes is easily seen in spring. When
severe, the disease can reduce fruit production substantially. Other fruit
trees may experience a curly leaf symptom, but it would be due to something
other than Peach Leaf Curl.
To prevent Peach Leaf Curl on your peaches and nectarines
this year, treat them with a fungicide. Multiple applications while trees are
dormant make the treatment more effective in our area, and the final — and
most essential — application is typically in March as flower buds begin to
swell, but before green leaf tips are first visible.
We recommend MicroCop Fungicide or Polysul
Dormant Spray for treating Peach Leaf Curl.
Scab on Apples & Pears
Scab infections are usually
noticed first on leaves which become twisted or puckered and have spots on
them. Scab can also infect flower stems causing the flowers to drop. Later in
the season, scabby spots may be found on fruit. Scab can cause fruit drop or
malformed fruit.
If your apple or pear trees
had this disease last year, it can be addressed through cultural practices
and dormant spraying of fungicide.
Cultural practices include
raking and removing leaves from the yard. If you use sprinklers in the area
that spray on the fruit trees’ leaves, irrigate between sunrise and noon to
allow the leaves to dry quickly.
Dormant spraying with Polysul
Dormant Spray should occur just as the tips of the green leaves can
be seen. Additional applications should be made per the product instructions.
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