Plant

Oklahoma trees, shrubs and other permanent plants can still be planted.

Cultivate your Oklahoma beds to get rid of weeds.  If you have a lot of weeds, cover the bed with 5 sheets of newspaper and top with compost.

Begin warm season crops like lettuce, cauliflower, peas, radish, potatoes, spinach and onion. read article on "The Most Important Day Of Your Onions Life"

Fertilize

Drench new plantings with Garret Juice to stimulate root growth.

Organic fertilizer can be put down at approximately 20lbs. per 1000sf. (Sustane, Yum,Yum or Soil Mender).Buy Soil Mender

Actively growing plants can be drenched with Garrett Juice.

Garrett Juice (ready to spray) The BEST basic organic foliar spray/soil drench you will ever use! Here’s the recipe:

1 cup manure-based compost tea
1 ounce molasses
1 ounce natural apple cider vinegar
1 ounce liquid seaweed

Garrett Juice Concentrate
1 gallon Compost Tea
1 pint Cider Vinegar
1 pint Liquefied Seaweed
1 pint Blackstrap Molasses

Mix all ingredients together. For spraying: use 1 ½ cups of concentrate per 1 gallon of water.
*1 pint = 2 cups = 16 ounces

Weed Control

Broad leaf weeds can still be controlled as long as it is not 50 degrees with a post emergent.

Corn Gluten can be put down to control turf weeds.

Prune

Time to finish all major pruning.  This includes grasses like Maiden grasses and monkey grass/liriope.

 

Prune Oklahoma roses just before growth begins.  Watch for disease.

If you have any cold weather damage to foliage this should be removed as well.

Remove all suckers from the bases of deciduous shrubs.

Fruit trees should be pruned just before bud break.

DO NOT prune your spring flowering vines/shrubs until they finish their spring flowering: wisteria, spirea, flowering quince, azaleas, camellias. 

Water

Annuals and all dry soil areas as needed.

Potted plants.

Turf during dry conditions.

 

Yellow Finch’s plumage will begin to turn bright yellow in March.  These beautiful boys will then begin to build a nest to attract a mate.  Upon completion of the nest, he proceeds with his load  singing early in the morning and continuing late into the evening for a female.  Showing each eligible girl his nest.  If she takes a shine to him, she will promptly tear up his nest to build her own.  Ah, such is love.

To attract this colorful bird to your yard put out a thistle feeder.

Remember to feed and water the birds!

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