If you wanted to prune your forsythia, now is the time to shape it up.  This is also the end of your opportunity to stop crab grass from germinating by putting down a pre-emergent application of any of the many products in stores.  Now is also a great time to make sure the weeds are out of your border beds; that the beds are weed free so that you can apply a preventative product like “Preen” which will hold down annual weeds for much of the growing season.  If you are still planting spring vegetables, do not tiller or work your soil before it has dried out and become moist.  If you can form a ball of soil in your fist and it doesnot break up when you unclench our hand, it is too wet.  Wet soil clumps into hardened balls which do no service for your plants, and become a challenge for you to restore to a beneficial state. ~ John Peter Thompson
Behnke Nurseries
Chairman of the Board