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February 11th, 2012
Garden success, especially in drought, starts right at home. Pat McNeal from McNeal Growers shows how to grow where you're planted. On tour, see how Mueller in east Austin has restored gardens, prairies and lakes over former airport runways and parking lots. John Dromgoole explains what cool-weather crops can still be planted.
Plant of the Week: Pineapple Guava
Tips of the Week
- Get a jump on weeds! Every weed you dig up now is one less weed that's going to seed. Just a few minutes a day will spare you an ordeal.
- Plant trees, shrubs, roses, and perennials.Continue planting bare-root fruit trees, pecan trees, blackberries, and grapes. All planting of trees and shrubs should ideally be wrapped up fairly quickly, before the onslaught of heat begins.
- Compost ornamentals, trees, and the lawn. On the lawn: don't apply more than about 1/4". Around trees, do not pile anything up against the trunk of the tree.
- Continue planting lettuce, chard, carrots, radish, broccoli, spinach, greens and herbs: dill, fennel, oregano, parsley, and thyme.
- Plant asparagus crowns, onions, and artichokes.
- Prune asparagus foliage to the ground to encourage emerging spears.
- Fertilize vegetable crops and winter annuals.
- Prune woody dormant plants.
- Prune trees, especially oak trees susceptible to oak wilt.
- Prune crape myrtles.
- Avoid pruning evergreen shrubs for another month.
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