Gardening Tips

Check out our latest gardening tips from Master Gardner, Candice Jones.

January, 2012

Happy New Year and welcome to the 2012 garden season.  December brought us some much needed rain and mild temperatures.   The garden soils should be ready for you to work in your compost and other organic products.  Ark Country Store carries Bradfield Organics and Gardenville products that can help with your early gardening needs.

Here is a quick guide:

• Plant potatoes and onion sets in well prepared soil in January.
• Peppers, tomatoes and warm-season annuals from seed can also be planted.  Make sure they are in a well lit place with warm temperatures.
• Spray fruit and pecan trees with a Horticulture oil / All Season Spray
• Prune fruit trees
• Prune off damaged and weak tree limbs
• Plant fruit trees, pecan trees, grape and berry plants
• Consider getting your soil tested in your lawn or gardens

The average rainfall for January is 1.90” so have rain barrels set up and ready to catch every drop, the plants my need the water later in the year.  For information on water resources check out Dotty Woodson with Texas AgriLife Extension http://dallas.tamu.edu/faculty-and-staff/extension-program-specialists/dotty-woodson.

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