- Send soil samples to UMass. Take samples from perennial bed, vegetable gardens, orchard, blueberry hedge, apple trees and front gardens. This can also be done in September; actually, it's better to do in the fall when the lab is less busy and well before anything is planted.
- Prune butterfly bushes, hydrangeas, forsythia, blueberry bushes, and apple trees.
- Purchase more self-watering containers.
- Clean tools (if they weren't cleaned in the fall)
- Start seeds indoors (see list)
- Start cool weather plants as soon as soil reaches ____ degrees, and as soon as soil can be worked.
- Clean out garden beds.
- Scatter flower seeds in perennial bed: cleome, poppies, foxglove, snapdragon.
- Take pictures of everything!
- Clean out/organize shed, basement and garage.
Seeds - Indoors:
- Peppers: early March
- Eggplant: late March
- Thyme: late March
Seeds - Outdoors, direct sow:
- Lettuce: early spring, succession planting
- Spinach: early spring
- Kale: early spring
- Green Onions: early spring
- Foxglove: late March, early April
- Poppies: late March, early April
- Snapdragons: late March, early April
- Cleome: late March Early April
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