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February Tips

Garden Help > Monthly Tips

Monthly tips are categorized by To-Dos, What to Plant, or Pests and Diseases. Scroll through the list to see items in each category. Also, refer to our list of tips useful for any month.

To-do: February 

Bare Root Roses
Bolting Lettuces
Carrot Culture
Certified Arborists
Citrus Fertilizing
Dormant Rose Pruning
Fertilizing Fruit Trees
Flowering Vines
Fruit Tree Grafting
Fruit Tree Pruning
Growing Vegetables in Containers
Harvesting Oranges
Houseplants Repotting
Inspect Roots When Planting
Leafy Salad Plants
Mushrooms
New Trees Staking
Overgrown Shrubs
Peach Leaf Curl Preventive Care
Poison Oak
Prune Apple Trees
Pruning California Natives
Pruning Fuchsias
Pruning Large Limbs
Pruning Tools Maintenance
Save the Worms
Stinkhorn Mushroom
Support Your Vegetables
Transplanting Vegetables
Weed Management
Wet Soil
Why You Should Test Your Soil
Winter Irrigation
Worm Composting
Yellow Leaves on Citrus Trees

Pests and Diseases: February 

Armillaria Root Rot
Citrus Leafminer
Dormant Oil Spraying
Gray Mold (Botrytis)
Rat Management
Slime Molds

What to plant: February 

Asian Vegetables
Bare Root Plants
Bare Root Roses
California Natives
Camellias
Chayote
Chill Hours
Fresh Cut Flowers from Your Garden
Growing Purple Carrots
Growing Transplants from Seeds
Peas
Perennials and Bunch Grasses
Plant Asparagus Crowns
Plant Cool Season Vegetables again
Plant Garlic & Shallots
Seed Viability
Selecting Seeds
Sweet Peas
Trees for Patios and Small Spaces
Vegetable Planting Chart
When to Start Summer Vegetables from Seed