• Use Preen to prevent weeds from growing in your landscape & garden

• Slowly acclimate your seedlings, tropicals & houseplants outdoors (temperatures should be consistently above 55F)

• Start planting cool-season vegetables like lettuce, peas, and spinach as soon as the soil can be worked.

• Fertilize Perennials with Osmocote or Flower-tone

• Prune your spring blooming trees & shrubs immediately after they are finished blooming

• Watch your climbing vines & begin to train them up a trellis or around a lattice

• Start feeding and protecting your Roses with BioAdvanced All-in-one Rose & Flower Care

• Apply Sluggo around your Hosta & other plants to prevent Slugs from eating holes in the leaves

• Get ready to spray Dogwoods and large-leaved Rhododendron to prevent borer damage

 

Mid to Late May:

• Apply Step 2-Jonathan Green Weed & Feed to control broadleaf weeds in your lawn

• Plant summer bulbs like Gladiola, Dahlia, Elephant Ear etc that you have started indoors. Plant in ground when threat of frost & colder temps is past

• Plant seeds directly into the garden for vegetables and flowers that prefer direct sowing, such as beans, cucumber, and sunflowers.

• Plant tomato and pepper plants and most other annuals when the danger of frost has passed and the ground has warmed.  This is usually around May 20th.

• Transplant seedlings started indoors into the garden once the danger of frost has passed, typically around mid to late May in Michigan.