January is a great time to start planning any design updates for your garden! Taking out the lawn and replacing it with a design that incorporates climate appropriate planting and permeable hardscape will pay off in water savings.
Purchase/Plant
- Purchase and plant bare-root roses, trees, wines, berries and vegetables
- Choose and plant succulents now when they are their most colorful
- Purchase and plant cool- season flowers to fill bare spots
Tim/Mow/Prune/Divide
- Prune deciduous fruit trees
- Prune roses
- Pick camellias to use in flower arrangements
- Deadhead azaleas
- Do not prune off frost damage, wait and let the plant heal itself
Fertilize
- Fertilize roses with an organic mix containing alfalfa when they start to leaf out with an inch of new growth
- Begin to feed citrus trees and continue monthly they May
- Treat citrus trees to correct chlorosis
- Feed cool-season flowers
Water
- When rains are not adequate, water all garden plants according to their individual needs
- Irrigate citrus tress, if rains are not adequate
Control Pests/Diseases/Weeds
- Apply dormant spray to roses and deciduous fruit trees
- Pick up dead camellia blooms to prevent petal blight
- Pull weeds
- Spray peach and apricot trees for peach leaf curl
Also this Month
- Protect tender plants from frost
- Order seeds and supplies from seed catalogs
- plant lettuce from seed while the weather is cool