April Calendar | Organic Gardening

Trees	Every 1-2 weels 3ft deep around the drip line
Shrubs	2ft Deep
Groundcover	1ft Deep
Lawn/Turf	Every 3-5 Days in the morning 6" deep

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Calendar for Organic Gardening - April

Water

Prune

For better light and thicker growth, prune hedges to have wider bottom.
After bloom, prune spring blooming shrubs and vines. Avoid pruning your cassia and sages into lollipops.

Fertilize

For newly planted trees and shrubs, apply Extreme Juice monthly in small amounts, to soil as root stimulator.
Roses and summer flowering shrubs.
Use Extreme Juice on all plant foliage, adding garlic tea in minor unsect or diseases exist.

Pest Control

For control of thrips on glads, roses, citrus trees and other flowers, release green lacewings or spray with neem.
To combat ticcks, fleas and chiggers use natural diatomaceous earth when weather is dry or apply beneficial nematodes anytime.
Trichogramma wasps released will help control caterpillars.
Dust around plants with a combination or cedar flakes, hot pepper and natural diatomaceous earth, spray garlic pepper tea or use beer traps for snails, pill bugs or slugs.
Blast with water mixed with 2 oz. of molasses per gallon for treating aphid invasions. Use beneficial nematodes to control ants. (arbico.com)
Garlic juice plus Extreme Juice is used for treating black spots on roses.

Plant

Container grown roses, fruit trees and pecan trees.
Turf grass from seed, sod, plugs or stolens.
Warm season vegetables: lettuce, large tomatoes, eggplant, beans, cucumbers, squash, corn, black-eyed peas, okra, melons and Chinese long beans.
Warm season flowers: periwinkles, marigolds, zinnias, lantana, coamos, portulaca, copperleaf begonias, caladiums, coleus, begonias, nicotiana, 4 o'clocks.
Flowering perennials summer/fall.
Summer herbs.

Odds 'n Ends

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