Plants in Flower

• Wintersweet, Breath-of-Spring (Winter Honeysuckle), Lenten-Rose (Helleborus), Trailing Arbutus, Crocus, Violets, and Japanese Flowering Apricot

Fertilizing

• Shade trees can be fertilized.
• Fertilize emerging spring flowering bulbs.
• Spread wood ashes around the vegetable garden, flowering bulb beds and non-acid loving plants if the pH is below 6.0.

Planting

• First week in February start broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower plants inside your home.
• Plant English peas, onions, Irish potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, kale, turnips, and carrots the last week of February.
• Plant asparagus crowns when soil is dry enough to work.

Pruning

• Prune all fruit trees.
  
• Prune bunch grape vines this month.
• Trim ornamental grasses like liriope, mondo grass, and pampass grass.
• Cut back any overgrown shrubs.  Severe pruning should be done this month.
  
• Prune all summer flowering plants like Crape Myrtle, Rose-of-Sharon, Butterfly Bush, etc.
  

Spraying

• Peach and nectarine trees need to be sprayed with a fungicide to prevent leaf curl.
• After pruning, spray all fruit trees with dormant oil to help eliminate some insects.

Lawn Care

• Cool season lawns like tall fescue should be fertilized. Follow soil test results.
• Control wild onion in your lawn with spot sprays of a recommended herbicide.
• Apply crabgrass preventer to cool season grasses.
  

Propagation

• Divide perennials like daylily and shasta daisy when the ground is dry enough.
• Hardwood cuttings of many landscape plants like Crape Myrtle, Flowering Quince, Forsythia, Hydrangea, Juniper, Spirae, and Weigela can be taken this month.

Specific Chores

• Clean out bluebird boxes.
• Develop a vegetable and landscape plan for your home grounds.