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In the garden with Rick:
November gardening tasks
This month and the next several months are the time to transplant trees and shrubs, apply winter dormant sprays and plant for fall and winter. Now is the time to clean up your garden and prepare it for cooler months ahead.
- Clean up! Pull any dead plants from your garden and clean up any fallen leaves. After a rainfall is a good time to pull weeds. Insects and diseases can fester in weeds and rotten leaves. Rid your garden of spent annuals.
- Transplanting: Do it now when plants are beginning their dormant cycle (when it is safe to dig up and replant.) Dig a large root ball, keeping in tact as much of the root ball as possible, and replant into the new location quickly limiting the roots air exposure. New roots will have rich soil to establish. Generously mix peat moss and manure and/or compost. (Peat moss sku 70585, 11.99; Compost sku 72436, 4.99)
- Stake Trees & Shrubs: To avoid damage from storms, stake trees and shrubs with a Lodge Pole. Stakes should remain in place until roots are able to develop and anchor. (Sku 700509, 8.49)
- Plant!: Despite the hopeful rainy weather, you can still plant. My choice of plants would include broccoli, cauliflower, chard, spinach, leafy greens (lettuce and cabbage) and snap peas.
 Dormant Spraying: Fruit, shade and flowering trees, as well as deciduous plants, can be sprayed as soon as the leaves fall for the first time. Spray a second time in December and a third time in early February. This will help control over-wintering insects and diseases. Apply as directed. Some of the various sprays we offer include Neem Oil (Sku 746103, 11.99), Volck Oil (Sku 71560, 7.99), Safer Garden Fungicide (Sku 74806, 9.99) and Pharm Soy Oil (Sku 750012, 11.99).- Free Composting Class: Fall can be a great time to start a new compost pile as you tidy up the leftovers of the summer’s bounty! Join Garden for the Environment at their 7th Avenue location (@ Lawton Street) for a free class on Saturday November 7th from 10:00 AM to noon and discover how to turn those leftovers, from the garden or the kitchen, into “black gold”. This fun, hands-on workshop teaches methods for both backyard and worm composting for all who seek to enrich the bounty of their garden and reduce their ecological footprint. Learn what you can do to improve your garden and prevent biomass from ending up in the landfill! To register, visit www.gardenfortheenvironment.org. Rot on!
- Christmas Trees! Our freshly cut Christmas trees will be available the week of Thanksgiving at our Cole Street, Mission Street and Polk Street stores.
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- Holiday Gift Plants: Our garden centers offer beautiful flowering plants perfect for gift giving. Choose from azaleas, begonias, cyclamen, poinsettia and more.
 A Cool Tool: The Cobrahead Weeder & Cultivator: Gardeners love this tool – it weeds, digs, plants and cultivates! This all-purpose tool is exceptionally well constructed of recycled steel and plastic and produced by a small family operation in Wisconsin. Sometimes called “the steel fingernail”, the tempered steel blade cuts through soil with ease, grabs weeds and allows you to transplant bulbs and plants in no time at all. The Cobrahead makes an ideal gift for the gardener in your life. (Sku 701000, 19.99)
See you in the garden!
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