This month in the garden at Sloat Garden Center: March

• Our Plant Pick of the Month for March: Asparagus. Read more about asparagus here.

• Our Pottery Color of the Month for March: Rainy Jade

NEWS!
Spring Hours begin March 6th!
Starting March 6th: 8:30am – 6:30 pm at all Sloat Garden Center locations, except as noted below.
—Danville: Mon-Sat: 8am-6:30pm, 9am to 5pm on Sundays
—Pierce Street: 9am-6:30pm
** We will be open until 5:30 at all stores until March 5th. (Sunday hours in Danville remain until 5pm).

TO DO IN THE GARDEN: March

Plant:
• It’s Vegetable Planting Time! Organic vegetable starts and seeds are here. Start your edible garden early this year. Add E.B Stone’s Agricultural Lime to soil to provide needed calcium for your vegetables & fruit.
• Plant your favorite annuals for spring. Impatiens, petunias, marigolds, cosmos and lobelia are all budding and blooming now.
• Say yes to summer bulbs! Plant gladiolus, dahlias & lilies now for summer color.
• Rhododendrons and azaleas are budding and blooming. Feed them with E.B. Stone’s organic Ultra Bloom. After the bloom cycle, use Azalea and Camellia food from E.B. Stone.

Fertilize:
• Fertilize your garden and houseplants with Osmocote to provide ongoing nutrition for up to four months. Use Sure Start fertilizer for new plantings to establish them quickly.
• Stock up on a season’s-worth of top quality, plant-specific fertilizers from E.B. Stone. The “Naturals” and “Organics” lines are environmentally friendly.

Prune/Maintain:
• Snails and slugs are hatching in your garden right now. Non-toxic Sluggo can help.
• Wait to prune spring blooming shrubs until after flowering.
• Prepare planting beds for spring. Test your soil for pH, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium and add appropriate fertilizer. We recommend amending soil with Sloat Loam Builder, Sloat Forest Mulch Plus, Sloat Planting Mix or our new E.B. Stone Planting Compost.
• Aphids are beginning to appear. Stop them early with either Insecticidal Soap, Bonide All Seasons Oil....or, Greenlight Rose Defense. Use on roses and all your plants!
• Don’t forget lady bugs for combatting aphids; they are available once the weather begins to warm.

The spring edition of our printed Gardener's Notebook newsletter is available in stores now. You can also
read it online here.

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