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Garden Tasks

There's always a good reason to go to the garden!

Taking care of routine tasks is key to keeping your garden healthy and attractive. Longfellow's shares their top tasks here with you by the month.

In general, garden-related tasks fall into three categories:

Regular maintenance: such as cultivating, trimming, pruning, fertilizing, and mulching
Planting:
Enhancement: such as adding garden art and special features or feeding the birds

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March

Please click on the links below to access planting and maintenance information for March.

•	General Gardening Activities List of when to plant vegetables
•	Preparation Get rid of Moles
•	Maintenance Cutting Back and Pruning grasses, perennials, shrubs
•	Maintenance Uncover perennials and roses
•	Maintenance Crabgrass Preventer and other Pre-Emergent Herbicides can be applied now
•	Maintenance Fertilize shrubs, perennials, and lawns
•	Maintenance Apply dormant sprays