Johnson's Garden Centers

There is still time to prune for general maintenance. You can prune spring-flowering shrubs like lilac, white spirea, forsythia and quince after they are finished blooming this spring.

Crabgrass starts to germinate when the redbuds are in bloom, but it continues well into the summer, so go ahead and apply ferti•lome For All Seasons II Lawn Food plus Crabgrass and Weed Preventer if you haven’t already. An April application will still catch most crabgrass before it germinates.

In the vegetable garden it’s time to seed beets, carrots, collards, lettuce, mustard, radishes and spinach. There’s still time to get in peas, onion sets, and onion plants, too. Perennial and biennial herbs such as caraway, catnip, chives, lavender, mint, parsley, sage and thyme can also be planted now.