Gardener's Calendar in March

Lawns:

Apply selective weedkillers. Apply acid fertilizer if clover is present.

Trees and shrubs:

Prune or trim shrubs as necessary. Plant bamboos.

Flowers from seeds:

Sow hardy and half hardy annuals; sow biennials. plant half hardy and tender annuals late in the month.

Hardy border flowers:

Continue staking; thin shoots where required; lift and replant polyanthus.

Bulbs:

Mulch lilies and spray against botrytis disease. Lift and heel in biulbs wich have been used in spring bedding. Plant crinums.

Palm trees:

Apply treatment against the Red Palm Weevil.

Based on "Gardener's Calendar" by Roy Hay adapted for Portugal.

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Gardener's Calendar in February

Lawns:

True up or trim lawn edges. Fill hollows and level humps. Control worms. Repair bare patches. Apply fertilizer.

Trees and shrubs:

Prune forsythias. Plant evergreens. Clip ivy on walls.

Roses:

Underplant roses with attractive carpeting plants. Apply a residual weedkiller to rose beds and kill perennial weeds. Spray against pests and diseases; apply a mulch.

Hardly border flowers:

Stake plants before they grow too tall. Deadhead daffodils. Plant summer flowering bulbs.

Flowers from seeds:

Keep on sowing hardy annuals in the open when the soil is workable. Sow half hardy annuals in a frame, under cloches or in a cold greenhouse. Sow flowers for cutting; also ornamental grasses. Weed and thin seedlings.

Fruit:

Finish planting strawberries. Prune soft fruit. Mulch fruit trees and bushes. Spray gooseberries.

Based on "Gardener's Calendar" by Roy Hay adapted for Portugal.

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Treatments against the red palm weevil

Treatments for the Palm Trees against The red weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier)

15-mar Spray + Injection

10-may Spray + Injection

05-jul Spray + Injection

01-sep Spray + Injection

01-nov Spray + Injection

15-dec Spray

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