Visit us each month for the best reminders for successful gardening.
  		 
 


1. Leave lots of hints around the house about the Mother’s Day gift you were hoping for—an NHG Gift Card, a session with the expert NHG Garden Coach or colorful garden accessories.

2. Plant: Caladium bulbs and summer bedding plants such as lantana, marigolds, purslane and zinnia; perennials, herbs,warm-season vegetables.

3. Fertilize: Tomatoes, annual flowers and potted plants, and azaleas after blooming.Use root stimulator on all new plantings. Add compost and slow-release fertilizer to new planting beds.

4. Prune: Spring-flowering shrubs, vines and climbing roses after they are finished flowering.

5. Pest Control: Use BT for caterpillars, blast aphids with water and release ladybugs; use horticultural oil or insecticidal soap for thrips, scale, spider mites, and mealybugs.6. Disease Control: Spray Neem oil for control of black spot, powdery mildew and other fungal diseases.