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• If your garden is on a hillside, plant across the slope (not up and down) to help hold moisture in the soil and reduce erosion.
• Apply a liberal side dressing of 5-10-5 fertilizer on your asparagus bed and around your rhubarb plants. Use about 4 pounds per 100 square feet, and scratch it into the top 2 inches of soil. Renew the organic mulch to a depth of about 1 inch to help conserve soil moisture during the summer.
• lb make the vegetable garden easier to till and maintain, group perennial crops along one side of the plot, out of the way of annual plants. Plant early season, quick-to-mature crops together.
• Do not plow your garden when the soil is wet. It will form clods that are difficult to break up and interfere with cultivation during the summer.
• Unsterilized soil may contain organisms that cause damping off, a disease that makes young seedlings wither and die suddenly. Use a sterilized potting mix in clean pots or flats.
TREES AND SHRUBS
• Prune evergreen shrubs before growth starts.
• Do not leave stubs when pruning; stubs usually die and are entry points for decay and 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.
• Dogwoods and magnolias should only be moved in early spring. Always move magnolias
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