A record for me, mostly. Updated for 2025.
- Beg, pray and plead to all the gods that the Drippin’ Honey Pear Tree and Sweet Bay Magnolia are actually healthy and alive. UPDATE MAY 2: Both are currently alive yet the Sweet Bay Magnolia was chewed to a nub. Purchased a replacement from the Arbor Day Foundation. UPDATE MAY 4: I see a new branch emerging from the pear tree! UPDATE April 2025: Sweet Bay Magnolia died, did not replace. Drippin’ Honey #2 survived and is thriving!
- Complete what wasn’t completed on the previous Dakota garden list for later April. Damn winds and cold.
-Continue Weeding, Spray persistent weeds
-Plant Potato – DONE
-Handle Strawberries DONE
-Fertilize roses, fruit trees – DONE
-Sprinkle Potassium in all garden areas except Main – DONE
-Tune up Mower
-Clean out garden bench
-Continue processing branches and sticks -ONGOING - Ensure completed pruning, mulching and fertilizing of:
-all Tulips – DONE
-all Hollyhock – DONE
-all lilac – DONE
-all roses – DONE
-raspberries – DONE
-all pine/juniper – DONE
-strawberries – DONE
-all iris – DONE
-hydrangea -DONE
-grapes – DONE
-peas – DONE
-purple smoke tree – DONE - Mow
- Get out the woodchipper and get to chippin’ wood. Move branches that are too big to chip.
- Create perch for raptor birds.
- Spray boulevard to remove plowing refuse.
- Rake mulch under fruits trees to expose any pupae.
- Plant flowers into front garden.
- Spray neem on fruit trees right after petal drop, check timing for other sprays. Between 250-350 Degree Days for codling moth control.
- VIDEO CHORE: Early May Garden Tour.
- Replant/reseed. This year reseed cotton and coleus as I was too aggressive hardening off those two crops.
- Make plant supplement list for Farmer’s Market plant hunt. Can I just say that thus far I am only replacing TWO tomato plants out of the 70 varieties I have planted? Very successful indoor seeding operation, if I do say so myself.
