Start the LEEK Seeds indoors, check the overwriting tubers and be ready for spring – Vermont Public

Although your garden is in a dream under this protective blanket of snow and ice, this between time is ideal for several garden cases.

It will take weeks until the weather is turning and the soil warms up, but you do these tasks now, so you will be ready come in the spring.

Sow onion and indoor holiday

If you are antsy to start planting, this task is right on your alley. You can start starting seeds indoors now for onions, leeks and flakes.

For this project you will need a suitable container or container, a little soil for a pot, a waterproof heating pad for plants and growing lights.

Fill your pot with soil, then sow 20 to 30 seeds in the same container and place it on the heating pad. Once they start to germinate, turn on the growth light.

After a few weeks and after the seeds grow tall and floppy, cut them to about a third of their height and add some fertilizer. They will continue to strengthen and require eight to 10 weeks indoors before growing time before you can transplant them out to your garden, beds or containers.

Check your Dahns and other tubers

A few months ago, as part of cleaning your autumn garden, you may have prepared some Dahlia, Canna Lily and other tubers to overwinter in their basement. Check the tubers every month to make sure they are in good shape.

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If they look dry or bent, just sweep them lightly with water and reproduce them.

If they are rotten, then the fixing is more intensive: first, remove the rotting bulbs and discard the sawdust or other environment in which you pack them. Then add a fresh environment and return the unauthorized storage bulbs.

Spray fruit trees

This last garden work is a good measure of preventive pest control: the next day, which is over 40 degrees and tranquility, you have to spray your fruit trees.

The spraying of deciduous fruit trees with gardening or “sleepy oil” protects the trees as they lie in sleep in the winter.

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By covering the bark and branches of trees with latent oil, all wintering insects, eggs and larvae will also be covered and stewed.

Vegetables have already been busy trimming their fruit trees. You can also start cutting yours now or reserve this task for a more warm day in March.

What are Mycorrhizae?

A: Mycorrhizae is naturally found fungi in local soils. Their presence creates a complex underground network in the forests, in the lawns – wherever they grow. And it is really good for plants because it helps them to absorb more efficient water and nutrients and even helps them communicate with each other.

There is movement among home gardeners to insert the fungi elsewhere where things grow, such as soils for a pot, in the hope that it will have a similar, positive effect.

Some brands of pots for pot say they contain mycorisi, but there are some studies that are shown otherwise when the soil has been tested: up to 80% of mycorisi were dead because it became too hot or sat in the soil bag of the soil The soil for too long.

So, Rosin, maybe you Can you try a small experiment and report back: Get a bag of pot that says there is Mycorhizae in it and buy a bag with soil without. Grow similar plants in soil and compare. Then please let us know your discoveries.

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