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  Nasturtium

  Finish April’s chores!  Isn’t that the way it always is?

• Spray Roses and crepe myrtles with baking soda spray weekly to control black spot and fungus.
• Mow weekly, tune up mower and sharpen blades.
• Pot up extra seedlings to give away.
• Give bad bugs a soapy bath.
• Pull dandelions to feed to chickens and bearded dragon (and some for a salad?)
• Repair ladder arbor – after the baby Mockingbirds leave the nest.
• Put out beneficial nematodes to control fire ants, fleas, ticks and chiggers.  Dust around trees with dusting sulfur and diatomaceous earth for ticks.
• Mulch all beds once seedling are established.
• Spray everything once a month with compost tea.
• Dig out last forsythia and give to a friend.  (It is just too big for the space it is in.)
• Spot prune trees (lacebark elm, apricot, winged elm) for shape and structure.  This should have been done much sooner!
• Put out composted horse manure on lawn and flowers and composted chicken manure on veggies.
• Move yarrow to shade, L’il Business daylilly to sun and cut back asters.
• Re-pot house plants and feed with compost tea.
• Build new compost rings.
• Clean and treat the pond weekly.
• Weed, weed, weed!  (Especially the Carolina Snailseed, Cypress vine and that stuff that looks like ruellia on steroids!)
• Feed and water the birds.
• Check the weather for when NOT to water!

There!  That should keep me busy!