In order to ensure that your lawn is ready for the warm weather to roll in, you need to make sure you’ve pruned, weeded and cleaned out your garden appropriately.
Now is the time to clean out winter debris from your garden. Dead branches or fallen leaves, twigs or branches that may have fallen during winter weather will stifle the growth of plants trying to thrive.
Once the larger debris is removed from the plant bed, you should begin to hand weed. Typically people would like to use herbicide to kill the unwanted vegetation, but keep in mind that if you are planning to use herbicide, you have to wait until daytime temperatures are warm.
You should replenish or replace mulch in areas surrounding shrubs and trees. Mulch is important surrounding your trees and shrubs because it helps to keep weeds from growing, conserves water and improves soil texture.
Last, but not least, we revisit our topic of pruning. Wait to prune your spring flowering shrubs like Forsythia until after they’ve finished blooming.