Items to do in the backyard garden this 7 days | Property & Garden

• Cut or mow everbearing raspberries close to floor level at this time. Everbearers are most effective managed in this way to produce a slide crop only.

• Start out to utilize crabgrass preventers to set up turf when the temperature of the leading inch of garden soil is previously mentioned 50 degrees, or about the time forsythia bushes are in bloom.

• Scatter grass seed on slim places and bare patches in the lawn. Scratch in a starter fertilizer before sowing seeds. Do not use any weed killers or weed preventers to these areas or the grass seed will not increase.

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

• Elevate purple martin homes this week.

• Implement acidic mulches this kind of as pine needles or shredded pine or oak bark more than the root zones of wide-leaf evergreens such as azaleas, rhododendrons and hollies.