Time To Plant:

Herbs & Vegetables – broccoli, brussels sprouts, beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, chives, coriander, garlic, kale, lavender, lettuce, mint, onions, peas, potatoes, radish, rosemary, rutabaga, spinach, thyme

Cool Season Plants – alyssum, calendula, campanula, christmas cactus, cineraria, cyclamen, dianthus, geraniums, iceland poppy, nemesia, pansy, snapdragon, stock, sweet pea, verbena, viola

Seeds – aster, candytuft, delphinium, hollyhock, larkspur, lobelia, petunia, poppies, sweet alyssum, sweet peas

Bare-root Deciduous Fruit Trees – apple, apricot, peach, pear, plum

Other - bare-root roses

Fertilize:

• Ferns, orchids, fuchias, epiphyllum, ornamental trees, established natives, Mediterraneans, and container plants
• Do not feed newly planted natives or Mediterraneans
• Fertilize citrus with Dr. Earth Fruit Tree Fertilizer
• Fertilize cool-season lawns with Marathon 15-15-15 fertilizer
• Fertilize roses with Dr. Earth Rose Fertilizer and spray emerging foliage with Neptune’s Harvest Fish & Seaweed

Prune:

• Deciduous fruit trees to maintain manageable size for harvesting and increase production
• Do not prune heirloom roses until after bloom
• Prune hybrid roses and remove canes that cut across the center of the bush or are dead
• Prune non-native deciduous trees and conifers if needed
• Thin bamboo
• Cut canna and ginger to the ground
• Deadhead all flowering plants including bulbs

Control Pests and Disease:

• Use Lily Miller dormant spray on roses and deciduous fruit trees after pruning
• Bait for snails and slugs
• Clean up rotting material to deter sowbugs and pillbugs

Miscellaneous:

• Purchase camellias and aloes now
• Use 2-3 inches of mulch to help reduce weeds and retain moisture; keep a couple inches away from the plant base
• Rebuild water basins
• Pull weeds as soon as they appear