Winter Maintenance Schedule

We hope you all are attending the 2010 Flower & Patio Show. It takes place March 13 - 21 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Please stop by our display and talk with our designers!

Here is a maintenance schedule for the upcoming months. It is important to have these done every year to insure healthy and beautiful growth.

JANUARY

1. Review garden plans.
   
2. Perform dormant pruning on shrubs.
   
3. Ornamental Round 1 through January and February – Deep root fertilization of trees and shrubs. Designed to increase the plant’s natural resistance to insect and disease damage and to initiate growth.
   

FEBRUARY

1. Branches, leaves, and other garden debris picked up and disposed of.
   
2. Fruit trees pruned.
   
3. All garden machinery serviced.
   
4. Tools cleaned and repainted.
   
5. New gloves and tools ordered.
   
6. Garden furniture cleaned, repaired, or replaced.
   
7. Garden ornaments purchased.
   
8. Lawn Round 1 applied in late February – A blanket application of granular fertilizer and pre-emergent weed control to promote early spring green up and long lasting crabgrass control.
   
9. Order seeds for vegetable garden.

MARCH

1. Complete pruning.
   
2. Lawns blown of dead leaves, aerated, and bare patches seeded.
   
3. Take soil tests of future or existing beds. Test for organic matter content.
   
4. Press back into the ground any perennials that frost heaved over the winter.
   
5. Fertilize gardens (end of March or early April). All gardens fertilized with super phosphate; flowers served additional 10-20-10.
   
6. Fruit trees sprayed with dormant oil to control scale.
   
7. All evergreens fed.
   
8. Cut back plants that were left for winter interest (especially watch Calamagrostis, Pulmonaria, Epimedium).
   
9. Check evergreen plants for removal of dead leaves.
   
10. Roses unwrapped; dead wood pruned; mulch removed from crown.
    
11. Mow Liriope.

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Gardens of Growth is a landscape architecture design/build firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana. We remain committed to acting as both designer and contractor for our projects. Many design/build firms are contractors first. Gardens of Growth is unique because we are designers first. We welcome design and construction challenges and approach everything we do as artisans. It is our belief that beautiful spaces are created when each and every component of the landscape is carefully designed and executed.
The team at Gardens of Growth is responsible for building and maintaining custom gardens. We provide a variety of products and services including: planting, design, retaining walls, patios, decks, fences, pergolas, water features, sculpture, driveways, pools, site grading, landscape lighting, irrigation, masonry, mowing, pruning & landscape maintenance.
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