Use care when applying herbicides to turf at this time. Many of our warm season grasses are beginning the crucial green up period, and herbicides may damage or delay the process. Be on alert for early hatches of damaging pests. Aphids, lace bugs, and crawler stage of scales will all be on the move shortly.
Most insects are easier to control at the infant stage.
Hold off transplanting tender summer vegetables until soil warms up significantly. Early planted summer vegetables often stunt and rot because of damp, cool soils. Now is a good time to give plants that need a boost a little fertilizer. Begin a careful spray program on fruit trees-especially peaches as they begin to bloom and leaf out. Finish any late season pruning now on summer blooming plants and non-flowering ornamentals.