To Do This Week

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Week of December 8th, 2012

• Plant trees, shrubs and hardy perennials.
• Plant winter herbs like cilantro, dill, fennel, parsley, and chervil.
• Sow wildflower seeds or plant transplants.
• Plant larkspurs and poppies.
• Plant transplants of alyssum, calendula, pansies, and violas.
• Avoid pruning evergreens as we get close to our first frost date.
• Get row cover or collect old sheets and blankets to be ready to cover frost-tender vegetables and specimen plants.
• Mulch vegetable beds once seeds are up.
• Be sure to dig up weeds the minute you see them before they get out of control.

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