March To Do List/Nursery Tour/Garden Style nw

[Music] hi everybody Debbie here with Garden style so this is the second part of my grow more and 24 series to kind of cover with you what we should be finishing up during the month of March now today is St Patty's Day and yes I'm a little late but we've been absolutely slammed the last few days because we finally got up to the 60s and today it'll be in the 70s oh my God so that just means a real early spring for those of us here in the Northwest and I thought it would cover some basic things that we would like to get done during the month of March this is probably one of the busiest months of the year as far as finishing up projects in the yard things like pruning time to get the pruning finished up and done um what's our second thing we want to do well fertilizing fertilize everything um it's real important especially as things are starting to get their leaves on them and get growing that we start fertilizing I'm going to spin around here real quick because I can see the sun's coming my Direction so as we get the pruning done we get the fertilizing done we of course want to finish cleaning up the beds and getting those ready for planting and I do the majority of my planting during the month of April so there's still a couple weeks left here where we can start finishing at what we got to get done out in the yard the third thing we need to start to do is start looking at the lawn believe it or not I finally got to cut the grass for the first time this year just a couple of days ago because it was finally dry enough thanks to this little warm spell that we've received here in the Northwest we're so blessed to have it come so early but now I'm looking for Moss control fertilizing the lawn raking and cleaning some bare spots so I can reced so all of that will be just nothing but a huge success by the time you get to May cuz the weather is still cool and the grasses here in the Northwest fescues rise all do very well in Colder Weather and that goes for the seed as well but with this warm spell that we've had is warming up the soil so it just means that your grass seeds are going to come up even faster than they normally would so pay attention to your lawn see how much you can get it in shape I'm not going to fertilize my lawn until the beginning of April and then I'll do it again in May and then that's it by the time you get into June July and it starts to get really hot no need to be fertilizing the lawn until you get back into the fall which is September and October so I'll fertilize mine about four times a year and that's all it needs um right now it looks so luscious and green you think to yourself oh my gosh it may not need any food but it does it's starving after all the rain that we've received over the winter time it's starving so it's going to need some good food uh either whether that's an organic fertilizer um Scots puts out some really good product although that's instantaneous and that's actually worse for your lawn than if you were to go with like an organic fertilizer which is slow and releases the nutrients back into the soil and that way you're not getting overgrowth and then suddenly having it die back so I totally recommend a uh organic lawn fertilizer something that moves slowly into the soil and of course helps to enrich the soil as well as feed your grass so and edging edging your beds um it's finally gotten to dry enough where I'm going to attempt that soon as I finish you know cleaning out the rest of my perennial Beds which will come up in my next video I'm going to show you what I'm doing there but as you can see behind me we've got trees starting to bloom and it's just such a wonderful feeling we're finally here it's finally spring as far as I'm concerned now our spring here uh um starts on the 20th it's actually a little later this year because we have a leap year so depending on where you live uh 20th 21st is usually the time where spring is officially hitting but I think it's later this year because we have an extra day in February this year in our leap year but anyway spring is already sprung for us just this past week with the warmer weather and we have been busy at the nursery okay another thing you need to be doing this month is is planting your early seasoned veggies things like potato starts uh a lot of your uh green onions can start to get planted now your onion sets uh spring and summer bulbs you know like aliums dalas those types of bulbs can start going in the ground now uh what other kinds of planting well of course early season veggies for the regular vegetable garden and that would be things like your lettuce kale cabbage radishes carrots you can put in the ground right now peas um broccoli there's a vast array of cool seasoned veggies and we're already starting to receive those in here at the nursery I'm not too concerned about Frost but if you see that it's starting to get a little colder out then by all means put some Frost covers on your new starts but it's going to be an unusual year this year I think I think we're going to be in for an earlier warmer spring I can see over the next 10 days we're not getting anywhere near freezing we'll be in the 40s but no where near the 30s which kind of gives you a little sigh of relief okay what else should we be doing in March other than the items that I've just told you about Now's the Time to start cleaning up your containers uh on your decks your patios get those nice and clean refresh them with some fresh soil and prepare for annuals I've already put in a huge order for early annuals patunas geraniums calbra COA all of those types of uh early annuals are starting to come in Bonas impatience those things are a lot more tender so we usually don't receive them in until April and I usually wait until April anyway to plant some more of those tender type plants but yeah now it's time to gear up and get ready and it's just very very very exciting um I'm noticing all kinds of green starting to come up and I find this month to be the easiest month for doing Garden cleanup just because not everything has grown up yet and filled out with all of its leaves so it's the easiest time to start pruning and cleaning uh rather than saving at all for April now I've also noticed the birds are back so clean up your bird feeders start putting out the bird seed for them because this is the most important time of the year during spring during their Mating Season soon they're going to have little babies and those will come up in April and May so they really need food so for all of you bird lovers out out there start filling up your feeders getting them clean and enjoy of course the company of some extra Birds during the Spring I've noticed with each passing day that it's getting a little louder and noisier in the early morning than what it's been and it's just a nice thing to hear okay so those are some of the basic things that uh you need to start getting finished up here in March before we really get serious about planting in my next video I'll probably cover what I'm doing in The Perennial bed as far as getting it cleaned up and ready to go and several videos after that I'll probably be covering some new plants because we are getting a ton of them in to the nursery right now we've just been hammered the last couple of weeks getting ready for spring and just in time too before this warm weather hit so there you go a brief rundown on what to do in your March Garden um I hope you all are having a fantastic St Patty's Day I'm going into work today it's still early this morning as I'm shooting this video and uh prepare for another really busy day but it's just so it always just refreshes me and it's just so nice to see all the excitement from all the gardeners who are walking in going oh finally some warm weather so and everybody's stocking up on some early season plants so there you go I'll probably take you on a little brief tour in the nursery as soon as I get there to kind of show you what we're up to there we've already filled up our fountains we've got those running we're filling up bird baths and birdies are already using them so yeah here we are we're finally made it and uh I hope to cover a whole lot more and we'll definitely be covering a whole lot of new plants um over the coming months as we get into planting season it's it's here finally all right you guys um enjoy the little tour that's coming at the end of this video and we'll talk soon in the next one and if you want to receive our newsletters just sign up at Sunny Crush nursery.com we're going to send out uh probably a monthly bonly newsletters now for the next three to four months as we're getting into the real busy time of the year for gardeners and uh of course if you like this video and you enjoy getting this new information by all means share it with your friends and you can leave your comments and uh any questions you may have in the description box down below all right you guys enjoy your 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