The Busiest Gardening Month? – February Garden Checklist – In this video we talk through all the gardening projects and task we are trying to accomplish during the month of February. This is definitely and important time to get things set up for an easier summer in the garden.
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Appreciate your videos. Thanks.😊
Haven't watched yet but…
Jim: Busiest garden month: February?
Me: Looks outside at snow-covered yard. Looks at forecast – Friday's wind chill overnight -17°F, two days in the next fourteen it might go above freezing. Looks at indoor seed starting plan – just four varieties to start on February 18th. Plans to spend February dreaming.
Got some good info here TY ! I am itching to move some perennials here in NJ 7a . And I entirely agree about how my best gardening is in the shoulder seasons before heat and mosquitos .
Please provide in general, how much rain you receive annually, and when… I think that helps some of us understand or to get a more complete picture as to under what conditions you do not water plants etc.
These are the BEST videos! So happy I finally found them – and even happier that I live in the Raleigh area too, so I don't have to adjust for my climate/zone.
Here just outside NYC it's March – and we're Zone 7a! It's a whole month's difference. Yet our average frost dates aren't all that far apart. But February here ain't spring. It will be seed time though.
These videos help me especially being in Atlanta, Ga zone 8a, I just do to my garden the thing I see you and other gardeners in my area doing. My way as it works in garden!
Hi I have I quit question. Do you think it's alright to use goat manure in the veggie garden? I planted some lettuce and things in the garden but I put goat manure down. After I had the seed planted my grandma said something about you could get disease from it. I don't want to waste my seed and I want some lettuce. What would you do?
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Can you show us how you sharpen your pruning shears? Thanks
Well, I think I’m going to have to have a service for my beautiful lorepetelums-no signs of hope after that December attack!
Hi Jim! Thanks for the great content. Every video of yours I've seen knocks it out of the park. Really appreciate you putting your knowledge out there. It helps that I'm also in Zone 7B! Just wondering about oak leaf hydrangeas–I've got several very mature specimens on my property which got bitten a little bit in the fall with a mild drought, then of course at end of December with the arctic blast. Each individual is huge, maybe 8-10 feet tall, and so they probably need to be gotten under control anyway. Would you recommend cutting them back hard as you mention doing here with the mahonia?
Do you ever use or recommend using preen in a flower bed early in the spring or late winter?
Do you have a Forsythia❓
So happy you talk about your zone. I am in the same zone so what you grow I know will work for us! Also. Where are these spring gardens to tour? We are in Hickory NC. Thanks!
I know this is not a lawn channel but you did mention your front yard grass. Lawn care is important because nice yard grass showcases the landscape beds. In this regard, February in zones where appropriate is a great time to put down pre-emergent weed control. You'll be thanking yourself later in the Spring when the lawn comes to life!
Honeysuckle has taken hold in my big azalea bed (zone 7b also). Any easy hints for removable? All I can think about wading into that bed is SNAKES!
I have many ground covers. I don’t t want to rely on mulch due to cost and labor. I will trim some of them like grass, if they get too tall. Fortunately that just helps them thicken up. I wish I could find a rechargeable bladed trimmer on a long handle, small enough to trim ground cover between plants. It would have to be less than a 6 inch diameter. Have you ever heard of one?
❤️ love you Holly!
Lovely bit of information and tips…Greatly appreciated.
Thanks Jim! 🌸
I have a question for you Jim. I bought a very expensive hellebore and left it in the pot over the fall until now. All the leaves on the top pulled away and I cannot see the crown of the plant. Should I leave it in the pot and wait to see if it comes back or might it possibly be dead?
When is the best time to plant tulips?
Awesome. Thanks for the tips Jim.
Thank you Jim and Stephany! Please feel free to slow and show even cutting back perennials!
I’m looking forward to learning about ground covers for HOT, DRY, FULL sun beds – thinking about using creeping Thyme?
I'll be very interested to see what you come up with for groundcovers Jim you can always find the most unique and interesting plants. Cause around here the go to for landscapers is always myrtle (vinca) and pachysandra ( Japanese spurge) sometimes ajuga but thats it. Ik my favorite is lamium and sedums but how well they come back varies alot from year to year so not great but such tough and care free groundcovers
I have a bottle brush that's supposed to be a perennial in our area zone 8b. But the cold looks like it killed it. It's completely brown would it be alright to cut it back to the ground?
Question: You mentioned that instead of using much fertilizer, the mulch that you use is improving the soil. How does this translate to those of us who live in areas of natural pine straw (long leaf pines) where that tends to be our "mulch" since it's falling continually everywhere anyway? Z8a NC Thanks for another great video.
Excited to hear more about groundcovers, kills me every year on the amount of $ we spend on mulch. Planted periwinkle in one bed which is a little too aggressive. Hope you include zone 6 plants. Thanks.
Thank you Jim for another great video. My sunshine ligustrum’s are shedding their leaves, in a big way after the big freeze. Can I prune these now as well, zone 7a Winston Salem?
I need some advice on what foundation plants to plant in front of our house. It faces NNW and I am struggling. I believe the encore azaleas are not getting enough sun to bloom. This is their third year and they are still small and never bloom. The dianthus between them stays really small, like a carpet. The hosta on the northern most side burnt up in the few hours of sun in the afternoon, but the limelight hydrangea looks good. I am trying to give the azaleas some fertlizer and give them another year to see what they do. Do you have any recommendations? The front gets between 4-6 hours of sun (4 in the cooler months and 6 in the summer).
Good Morning Jim, Thank you so much for all this information!!
I tend to overbuy pansies & violas. I had barely gotten half planted when the freeze hit. There was just no way with the wind to keep multiple containers & beds covered. I also have no shed to put those still in the flats into. I stashed them under some large Burfordi, mashed them up against the house foundation & blew leaves over them. Some on the edges were lost but thankfully, there's enough to replace everything that got zapped. Some are still alive but all the tops turned to mush & will take forever to flower again. I used the cut off Hellebore leaves to keep the deer away from the viola flats, poked them up between plants, ugly but it worked!
I adore my birds, we spend a lot of time on my front porch. Even the pesky squirrels are okay. Molly is too old to chase them but she likes to yell at them from her throne on the porch, I swear they torment her for their enjoyment!
Here's hoping the weather gods are merciful this spring 🌼
Thank you for this video! I am bummed out, because my Rt (dominant) hand needs surgery asap for carpal tunnel, de Quervain's, arthritis, bone spurs, bone-on-bone. I am so addicted to gardening, and just started a few years ago. I have no idea when to have the surgery, but the thumb and wrist are in pain and getting worse. Anyone with any advice, I would appreciate! Thank You!
I also have leaves in my beds that I'm anxious to mulch over but I had read that mulching too early in the year will keep the ground cooler longer, thus the plants will take longer to wake up once it does start to warm up. Any thoughts on that? Is it pretty insignificant with just an inch of mulch or so? Thank you!!!
I like how you encourage the birds, bees and other “good” bugs. February is busy here in 8a TX but I’ll wait till the ice melts. 🙂 Do you plan to put in the backyard patio this year? Looking forward to seeing the process.
Love your channel Jim!
Excited for the extra content on ground covers! I’m trying to cover all of the bare spaces in my garden too!
I'm amazed to see greenery in February. My 5b garden is covered in snow.
N Alabama 7b question: I planted Pansies, and Snap Dragons in early December for Spring color. Then we got that quick hard freeze around Christmas and lots of rain since then. Im not seeing anything from those plants, esp Pansies. Think they’re dead or is there still hope that they’ll come back? Thanks!
Jim, my nandenas dropped their leaves during our severe coldsnap in Atlanta back in December. Will they regrow their leaves this spring?
Another very informative video! Thanks Jim.
loved this video, learning how to properly take care of my garden
what plants are those in your pots?
I'm in Dallas Georgia 7B, need lots of ground cover in my yard,, i'm taking notes!
Appreciate your guidance and your 4 paw partner.
Nice tour Jim 😊
5:23 damn rabbits, they love my young tree trunks this time of year.