Julia Laughlin
OSU Extension Horticulture
Educator
Be sure to check out Julia's podcast "The Urban Gardener." Each month, Julia gives homeowners and gardeners valuable tips relating to lawn, landscape, and gardens.
What to do when? Follow our annual schedule of garden tasks.
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Want to learn more about the tasks with an OSU Fact Sheet reference?
For example, (HLA-6245)
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Valentines Day is my day to remember to prune! Finish pruning shade trees, fruit trees, summer flowering shrubs and hedges. Spring blooming shrubs such as forsythia may be pruned immediately after flowering. If you prune these spring blooming shrubs you will remove their flower buds You may hold off on roses till early March. For more info Click Here
In late February and early March begin planting blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, grapes, asparagus, and other perennial garden crops. Bare root fruit trees can also go in in now. Be sure to find varieties recommended for Oklahoma. For more info Click Here.
YAY! Its planting time in the spring garden! Your cool-season vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, carrot, lettuce, onion, peas, spinach, turnips etc. should be planted by the middle of March and on into early April. Find out when to plant what in your Oklahoma veggie garden by Clicking Here.
