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Garden Tips for January

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  1. Purchase and plant bare-root roses, trees, vines, berries and vegetables
  2. Choose and plant camellias and azaleas
  3. Purchase cymbidiums
  4. Purchase and plant cool-season flowers to fill in bare spots
  5. Plant seeds of warm-season flowers for transplants to put out in spring
  6. Continue to plant winter vegetables from transplants and seeds
  7. Many succulents, including cacti, bloom in winter and spring; purchase new types now
  8. Prune deciduous fruit trees
  9. Prune roses
  10. Deadhead azaleas
  11. Mow cool-season lawns. Most warm-season lawns are dormant now and don't need mowing
  12. Treat citrus trees for chlorosis
  13. Start feeding epiphyllums for bloom with 0-10-10 or 2-10-10
  14. Continue to fertilize cymbidiums that have not yet bloomed with a high-bloom formula such as Grow More Bloom Formula
  15. Feed cool-season flowers
  16. Feed cineraria
  17. Fertilize cool-season lawns
  18. Water plants according to need (when the rains are not adequate).
  19. Irrigate citrus trees
  20. Remember to water plants under eaves where the rains cannot reach
  21. Dormant spray roses and deciduous fruit trees
  22. Check citrus trees for pests
  23. Pick up dead camellia blossoms to prevent petal blight
  24. Protect cymbidiums from slugs and snails with Sluggo Slug & Snail Control
  25. Control rust on cool-season lawns
  26. Pull weeds
  27. Spray peach and apricot for peach leaf curl
  28. Protect tender plants from frost
  29. Stake cymbidium bloom spikes