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February Tips

Garden Help > Monthly Tips

Monthly tips are categorized by To-Dos, What to Plant, or Pests and Diseases. Scroll through the list to see items in each category. Also, refer to our list of tips useful for any month.

To-Dos: February

Bare Root Roses 
Bolting Lettuces 
Certified Arborists 
Citrus Fertilizing 
Dormant Rose Pruning 
Fertilizing Fruit Trees 
Flowering Vines 
Frost Dates 
Fruit Tree Grafting 
Fruit Tree Pruning 
Growing Vegetables in Containers 
Harvesting Oranges 
Houseplants Repotting 
Inspect Roots When Planting 
Leafy Salad Plants 
Mushrooms 
New Trees Staking 
Overgrown Shrubs 
Peach Leaf Curl Preventive Care 
Perennials and Bunch Grasses 
Poison Oak 
Prune Apple Trees 
Pruning California Natives 
Pruning Fuchsias 
Pruning Large Limbs 
Pruning Tools Maintenance 
Save the Worms 
Stinkhorn Mushroom 
Support Your Vegetables 
Transplanting Vegetables 
Weed Management 
Weed Spotlight - Common Fumitory 
Wet Soil 
Why You Should Test Your Soil 
Winter Irrigation 
Worm Composting 
Yellow Leaves on Citrus Trees 

Pests and Diseases: February

Armillaria Root Rot 
Citrus Leafminer 
Dormant Oil Spraying 
Fruit Damage 
Gray Mold (Botrytis) 
Peach Leaf Curl Preventive Care 
Plum Bud Gall Mite 
Rat Management 
Slime Molds 
Snails and Slugs 

What to Plant: February

Asian Vegetables 
Bare Root Plants 
Bare Root Roses 
California Natives 
Camellias 
Carrot Culture 
Chayote 
Chill Hours 
Fresh Cut Flowers from Your Garden 
Growing Purple Carrots 
Growing Transplants from Seeds 
Peas 
Plant Asparagus Crowns 
Plant Cool Season Vegetables again 
Plant Garlic & Shallots 
Seed Viability 
Selecting Seeds 
Sweet Peas 
Trees for Patios and Small Spaces 
Vegetable Planting Chart 
When to Start Summer Vegetables from Seed