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It’s National Garden Month! Scan the QR code to access a helpful video on setting up your garden. April Fools’ Day
Seed onions,
beets and radishes
(outdoors)

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Monitor for
Plant cabbage
and kohlrabi Plant fruit and
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asparagus beetles Seed beets and Passover Begins Seed parsnips hazelnut trees
Seed or plant
Seed kale and kale (outdoors) Plant red, blue and (outdoors) Seed leaf lettuce
broccoli, cabbage
collards Seed basil for gold potatoes and cauliflower Seed dill (indoors) (outdoors)
Seed Ethiopian kale transplant (indoors) Plant raspberries (outdoors) Plant blackberries Plant or seed shallots

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Seed celery
as transplants West Virginia
Loosen mulch
on strawberries
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Seed radishes Seed orange and Passover Ends Arbor Day Seed watermelons
Order sweet
(outdoors) potato slips or purple carrots Seed or plant Use row covers (indoors)
Apply crabgrass bed sweet potatoes Transplant collards to protect flowers Seed late tomatoes
Easter control for transplanting strawberry plants Fertilize lawn and tender plants (indoors)

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Plant summer- Earth Day
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Plant perennials Refresh mulch in Transplant leeks Seed annual herbs flowering bulbs Seed sweet corn
Start compost pile landscape beds Seed chives Seed colorful Plant red, black Apply pre-emergent
Remove row cover Seed or transplant (outdoors) carrots and and golden landscape weed
from strawberries peas (outdoors) Seed new lawn Swiss chard raspberry plants control

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Seed flat-leaf
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Buy herb parsley

Seed Asian greens cuttings/plugs
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Seed or transplant
Begin spraying fruit Start grafting lemon balm Seed tomatillo National Arbor Day
trees after petals fall tomato plants (outdoors) for transplants Seed ground cherries

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Control broadleaf
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Plant figs Plant red, blue Seed snap beans weeds in lawn
Seed or transplant Seed fennel and gold potatoes (outdoors) Seed leaf lettuce Seed summer squash
parsley Plant fingerling Transplant or seed Seed head lettuce and winter squash and cucumbers
Transplant onions potatoes Chinese cabbage (outdoors) (outdoors) (outdoors)

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Happy Birthday Seed thyme
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Cooperative Seed sweet corn Plant early celery Seed annual flowers Plant sweet
Extension! Seed cilantro and tomatoes Transplant or seed potatoes Plant tomatillos
Seed late celery (outdoors) Grow mint in melons Harvest scapes Plant large pumpkins
(outdoors) Plant bok choy containers Fertilize houseplants from hardneck garlic Seed lima beans

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Plant peppers, Seed sweet corn Seed or transplant Install row covers Prune azaleas,
okra and cabbage Seed borage and Remove strawberry basil to exclude insects viburnum, lilac
Harvest established zinnias to attract blossoms on newly Seed Malabar on cabbage and and forsythia
Mother’s Day asparagus pollinators transplanted plants spinach broccoli after blooming

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Prune tomatoes
Begin control Plant tomatoes at first flowering Stake and mulch Plant asparagus
measures for and eggplant Plant jack-o’-lantern Plant an tomatoes beans
cucumber beetle Turn compost pumpkins herb garden Trellis cucumbers Transplant fennel

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National Learn About Composting Day
Seed leaf lettuce is May 29! Scan the QR code to learn
as a companion how to start your own compost pile.
plant with trellised
Memorial Day cucumbers Seed Roma beans

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