To Do This Week

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Week of May 7th, 2011

• Fertilize your spring-flowering plants, perennials, and vegetables.
• Mulch, but don't clump it up against the trunks of your plants.
• Don't forget to give deep watering to new plants and fruit trees.
• Collect seeds from spring annuals. Cut them off, dump into a bag or bucket. Next week, sift the seeds and dry in the house. Then, bag them up for cool storage until next fall.
• Move spring bulbs while you can see them.
• Plant beets, okra, cantaloupe, summer squash, tomatillos, cucumber, Swiss chard, peppers, sweet potato slips.
• Plant summer annuals like caladiums, impatiens, marigolds, cosmos, celosia, begonias, coleus, zinnias, and globe amaranth.
• Plant basil, lemon verbena, rosemary, oregano, and thyme.

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