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warm season crops, sucn as tomato, eggplant, pepper, muskmelon, and watermelon, should not be planted until all danger of frost is past.
• Do not add lime to the area for potatoes. The lower pH helps control scab.
• If the spring season is typically cold and wet, or if the garden soil is too muddy to enter following a rain, consider building raised beds. They work especially well as a replacement for traditional gardens, if your soil is poor, rocky, or compacted.
• Once new growth begins on trees and shrubs, cut back winter-killed twigs to living, green wood.
• Research has shown that young trees allowed to move with the wind develop greater trunk strength than trees rigidly staked.
• Don’t leave stubs when pruning; stubs usually die and are entry points for decay fungus. Cut just outside the branch collar, the slightly thickened area at the base of the branch.
Pruning should never be done in damp or wet weather when the fungal spores and bacteria that infect plants through fresh wounds spread easily.
For more information on spring gardening or anyone with questions call the Rappahannock Extension Office at 675-3619.
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