Garden Tips from Fox's

Well after telling you last week we weren’t getting our trees in until late April, we got surprised by our largest order of trees showing up early. This order includes almost all of the fruit trees we will be getting this year. There’s quite a bit to choose from with 9 varieties of apple trees, 8 cherries, and 3 varieties each of peach, plum and apricot. The current forecast looks to be safe for planting trees, but if we get down below the mid 20’s for a night, covering them would protect the young buds. The trees can also be left in the pot and watered occasionally until ready to plant.

Along with the fruit trees we also received a lot of the most popular trees and shrubs for the area. Shrubs include Burning Bush, Snowball Bush and 6 different colors of Lilacs. Flowering crabapples, flowering pears, lindens, honeylocust, aspens and maples are some of the trees we have available now.

When planting trees or shrubs we recommend digging a hole about twice the size of the pot the plant came in. Then mix cotton burr compost 50/50 with the soil in your yard to fill the hole with after placing the tree. To finish, mix Fertilome Root Stimulator with water and pour it onto the roots of the plant. This will stimulate early root formation and stronger root development as well as helping to prevent transplant shock.

Now’s a good time to trim roses back. Cut your bush roses back to 6 inches above the ground and climbing roses to 3 feet. We have our mulches in stock now if you want to dress your rose and perennial beds up.