Issues to do in the garden this 7 days | Property & Back garden

• Cut or mow everbearing raspberries near to ground level at this time. Everbearers are most effective managed in this way to deliver a tumble crop only.

• Get started to implement crabgrass preventers to recognized turf when the temperature of the prime inch of garden soil is above 50 degrees, or about the time forsythia bushes are in bloom.

• Scatter grass seed on thin spots and bare patches in the garden. Scratch in a starter fertilizer before sowing seeds. Do not use any weed killers or weed preventers to these parts or the grass seed will not mature.

• Sow seeds of hardy annuals these as larkspur, bachelor buttons, Shirley and California poppies straight in the garden now.

• Raise purple martin houses this week.

• Apply acidic mulches these as pine needles or shredded pine or oak bark more than the root zones of wide-leaved evergreens these as azaleas, rhododendrons and hollies.