With spring right around the corner (perhaps sooner than we think), Extension Yard and Garden pages have some great resources to help you get your landscape ready for the 2024 growing season. Here are some late-season resources for Minnesota gardeners to keep your gardening on track.
Trees and shrubs
While our woody plants web page is packed with resources on selecting and caring for trees and shrubs, a few are new and particularly pertinent to late winter.
- Pruning Hydrangeas: Equipment, techniques and timing (video; 7:33)
- Shrubs to prune in late winter (video; 8:21)
- Watering newly planted trees (video: 3:31)
- Watering established trees and shrubs
- Watering newly planted trees and shrubs
Finish pruning oaks as soon as possible
A warmer winter and early spring are affecting the potential spread of oak wilt disease. Brian Schwingle, DNR forest health coordinator, urges us to act swiftly to trim oak trees. With temperatures warming earlier than usual, the risk of oak wilt transmission will soon be on the rise.
Lawns and gardens
- Dormant seeding
- Minnesota lawn care calendar
- Upper Midwest gardening calendar
- The effects of deicing salts on landscapes
- Recommended plant varieties from the Master Gardener seed trials
- Cleaning and disinfecting gardening tools and containers
Fruits and vegetables
- Starting seeds indoors
- Raised bed gardens
- How to prune apple trees: a 3-part video series
- Growing grapes in the home garden (includes pruning diagrams)
Houseplants
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