To Do This Week

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Week of January 1st, 2011

• Prepare for the first frost. Mulch tender plants and get blankets, sheets or rowcover to cover when we get the first warning alert.
• Plant perennial strawberries and fertilize the ones you already have.
• Take cuttings of cold tender plants you really love, like coleus and begonias, to overwinter in a sunny warm spot indoors or greenhouse.
• Continue planting cold-weather lettuces, greens, carrots, spinach, and herbs like cilantro and arugula.
• Plant hardy perennials, shrubs and trees.
• Get naturalizing bulbs to plant in two weeks.
• Last call to plant wildflower seeds.
• Avoid severe pruning at this time.
• Be sure to water new plants until rain comes our way again!

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