Chastant Brothers presents your Lawn and Garden.

Today on your lawn and garden we’re talking about the spring garden. It’s time to start planting or maybe maintain what you’ve already planted.

I still have some things from the winter like pepper plants that made it, so you want to re-fertilize those and take care of them. By this time you should have fertilized already, if not it is time to do it. Side dress your plants with 5-20-20 or nitrogen later. Of course if you need to add lime make sure to add it to your garden. The best thing is to take a pH test through the state. We have these at the store we give away. The sample bags are in here, put your soil inside, send it to them, tell them what you have and they’ll send it back to you and tell you what you have with pH telling you what you need to add. In the garden we’re gonna have bad insects this year, we haven’t had a winter… at all. So we have the Cyonara which works on stink bugs and everything. Also the organic fungicide, Liquid Copper. Use this for different spots on the leaves and things like that. It’s also a good time to pull up your onions, shallots, and you can split them up and replant them again or cook with them. They did well this year. I also still have a few carrots and things like that but the garden has done well this year.