Start Your South of Boston Spring Gardening Now!
With the mild winter we’ve had in Plymouth County this year, it’s hard not to start thinking about spring. As the South of Boston real estate market bursts to life with people eager to buy or sell their South of Boston homes, the earth does the same. In no time, we’ll have budding trees, growing lawns and blooming flowers.
If you’re not sure when it’s safe to start pruning and planting in your South of Boston yard and gardens, this article from MSN Real Estate will come in handy. It lets you know what you should do now, what is safe to do now if you’d like to work ahead, and what you should wait on.
As your Plymouth County real estate agent, I want to make sure you’re up to date with your February gardening checklist, because before you know it, spring will be here! That means lively, bright curb appeal and open houses!
Here is some of the most helpful advice from MSN’s article:
- On the next sunny day with comfortable temperatures, start sprucing up your fruit trees and woody landscape plants. Avoid pruning spring bloomers and lilacs, crabapples and forsythias.
- If you need to plant or transplant trees and shrubs that have grown over the winter or are ready to be replanted from a pot to the ground, you can do this now. Choose a day when the ground is soft but not frozen.
- If Plymouth County does get hit with a blast of freezing temperatures (let’s hope not!), you can place stakes around a newly planted tree or shrub and then drape cloth over the stakes. Don’t let the cloth touch the plant.
- When temperatures remain steady and mild, you can start planting your perennial vegetables, including artichokes, asparagus, rhubarb and horseradish.
- Start planting summer perennials, annuals, vegetables and herbs in indoor pots so they have a chance to begin growing. You can transfer these outdoors after the first frost.
- If you notice any perennials that rose up from the ground due to temperature changes, push them gently back into the ground.
- Use a spring fertilizer on your lawn now or in early March.
Even if you just want to stay curled up indoors for a while, you can start planning your South of Boston gardens by looking up photos for inspiration. Do you want to add fences around the yard, mulch around new trees or gardens, or trellises or garden benches around your foliage? If you plan now, the process of buying and completing the work will go much simpler come spring.
Then, when our South of Boston spring arrives, your house will be ready for the Plymouth County real estate market! Your grass will grow in lush, your trees will bloom and your gardens will supply an array of flowers and vegetation.
A beautiful spring yard can be just what a potential homebuyer needs in order to stop at a seller’s home and check it out. Don’t fall behind!
Susana Murphy
South of Boston Real Estate Expert
RE/MAX Paramount
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