Gardening Month by Month: Tips for Flowers, Vegetables, Lawns, & Houseplants

by Rosefiend Cordell

Gardening Month by Month lays out general gardening tips and tricks through the whole year. Are you planting vegetables, growing orchids, finding organic ways to care for your lawn, trying to raise fragrant roses? This book lays out what you need to know. Written for the beginning gardener, but also with plenty of information for the more advanced gardener. Table of JANUARY 5 Save Time and Trouble With Garden Journals 5 First To-do lists 5 Second Reference lists. 6 Third Tracking progress. 6 Fourth Details of the natural world. 7 Fifth Notes and comments. 7 New Year’s Resolutions 9 Garden Catalog Mayhem! 10 Heirloom Vegetables – History Plus Taste Plus Hardiness 12 January To-Do List 14 January Garden Checklist for Zones 7 to 9 16 FEBRUARY 18 Birds of Missouri 18 Write Your Shopping Lists for Spring! 19 MARCH 21 Square Foot Gardening 21 Getting Ready for Spring Tilling 23 Why Soilbuilding is So Important 25 Spring Wildflowers 27 Great Organic Soil Additives to Make Healthy Soil 29 Choose Tough Perennials and Annuals 31 The Romance and History of Roses 32 Time to Plant Your Vegetable Garden!! 34 You Can Plant Trees and Shrubs in March 35 Lawn Care in Early Early Spring 36 Late March and Early April are Better Times for Potato Planting 37 Trellis Planting 38 Cold Frames 39 APRIL 40 Your Early April To-Do List 40 What Plant Tags Actually Mean 42 Damping-Off Disease and How to Stop It 43 Get a Jump on Weeds 45 Rabbits, Squirrels, and other Nuisances 46 A True Blue Is It Possible? So Far, No. 48 Try Something New in Your Perennial Garden This Year 49 Lawn Tips for Spring 50 MAY 52 A May To-Do List! 52 Rose Tips for May 53 Organic Lawn Care Tips 55 Potato Blight Also Affects Tomatoes 57 Some Quick Reminders for Late May 59 Fragrance Can Give Your Garden an Extra Dimension 60 JUNE 62 Spotted Cucumber Beetles 62 Squash Bug Control 62 Revamping Your Perennial Bed 64 Deadheading Your Plants 66 JULY 67 July To-Do List 67 Beat Heatstroke and Heat Exhaustion 69 Take Care of Hummingbird Feeders 70 Food Pantry Plea 71 Helpful Tips for Your Lawn 72 AUGUST 74 Prepare Your Garden for a Fall Harvest 74 August Lawn Tips 75 Fusarium Wilt, Bacterial Wilt, and Other Wilts 77 Fighting Weeds in High Summer 79 SEPTEMBER 82 Planting in Early Fall is the Best for Plants 82 How to Weed When Weeds Have Pretty Much Taken Over Everything 83 Pumpkins! 84 Drying Fruit 86 Free Plants! Divide Your Perennials 87 OCTOBER 91 Tips for Preparing the Garden for Winter 91 The Truth About Green Tomatoes 92 Winterize Your Lawn Mower 93 Late Fall Flowers 94 Tender Bulbs 95 Bringing the Houseplants Inside 96 Houseplants Part 2: Now That They’re Inside, Clean Them Up! 97 Fall Bug Attack! Boxelder Bugs, Ladybugs, and Crickets 99 NOVEMBER 101 Actually Not That Difficult To Grow (Mostly) 101 How to Grow a Christmas Cactus Like Grandma’s 103 Keep Bird Feeders Clean 104 DECEMBER 107 ‘Tis the Season for … Poinsettias 107 Josephine, Empress of the Roses 109 Water Does Not Equal Love for Houseplants 110

195 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 5, 2017