Past Seasonal Planting Tips

Winter Garden Tips

Winter is a good time to put on cozy slippers and relax with the latest garden catalogs that’ll make you yearn for spring.  It’s a joy to page through the time-honored Burpee or Park Seed catalogs, but consider ordering a catalog from one of these wonderful, Midwest nurseries.  Happy reading!

Flower Factory, Stoughton, WI (many unusual perennials)
Ph:  1/608/873-8329
http://www.theflowerfactorynursery.com

J.W. Jung Seed Company, Randolph, WI
(seeds and plants)
Ph:  1/800/297-3123
http://www.jungseed.com 

 Klehm’s Song Sparrow Farm & Nursery,
Avalon, WI (Wow!)
Ph:  1/800/553-3715
http://www.songsparrow.com 

Shady Oaks Nursery, Waseca, MN (plants for your shade garden)
Ph:  1/888/855-8750
http://www.shadyoaks.com

Quick tips: 

·    Minimize salting on pavements next to plantings
     & turf to avoid salt damage.  Use an alternate
     product that melts ice but does not contain salt.

·    Monitor outside woody plants for evidence of
     rodent, rabbit or deer damage.  Keep snow away
     from base of plants that show signs of gnawing.

·    Weather permitting, dormant pruning can be done
     in February on some woody plants.  Avoid pruning
     birch, elm, maple and walnut at this time as sap
     movement may stop cuts from healing.