Gardening Activities for week – February 4, 2016

Here are the most time-sensitive activities for this week.

• Plant onion sets and Sugar Snap peas immediately in all but the Panhandle.
• Plant bare-rooted fruit and pecan trees, blackberries and grapes.
• Transplant established trees, shrubs that need to be moved. Do so before new buds begin to appear.
• Prune peach and plum trees to encourage bowl-shaped growth habit.
• Prune grapes to remove 80 to 85 percent of cane growth.
• Prune crape myrtles to remove unwanted basal shoots. Never “top” a crape myrtle for any purported reason. There is never justification.
• Feed asparagus beds with ammonium sulfate (21-0-0) to promote strong spear growth.
• Fertilize rye and fescue turf with high-nitrogen lawn food.
• Apply broadleafed weedkiller as weather permits to control henbit, clover and other non-grassy weeds.