• Trees and shrubs.
• Finish cool-season vegetable plantings. Begin warm-season crops after last killing freeze date.
• Best tomatoes for Texas: Celebrity, Carnival, Spring Giant, Jackpot, Better Boy, Porter, Sweet 100. Plant a mixture of varieties and include some open-pollinated choices.
• Continue to plant cool-season annuals such as petunias and snapdragons. Begin planting warm-season types after last killing freeze.

• Annuals and other dry soil areas as needed.
• Wildflower areas in dry years.

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• All planting areas with a 100% organic fertilizer at approximately 20 lbs/1,000 sq ft (if not done in February).
• Foliar feed all growing plants with Garrett Juice.

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• Loopers and caterpillars: Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) biological worm spray.
• Pillbugs, snails, slugs: diatomaceous earth/garlic tea, beer traps, citrus oil products.
• Aphids: garlic-pepper tea. A blast of water and a release of ladybugs is even better.
• Black spot, powdery mildew, bacterial leaf spot: Garrett Juice plus garlic.
• Sycamore anthracnose: Bordeaux mixture as leaves emerge.
• Fruit tree sprays; garlic-pepper tea and baking soda. Garrett Juice plus garlic and potassium bicarbonate.
• Fertilizer sprays such as Garrett Juice are all that's needed once healthy soil is established.

• Spring-flowering shrubs and vines only after they finish blooming; flowering quince, spirea, forsythia, weigela, azaleas, camellias, Caroline jessamine, wisteria, climbing roses, etc.
• Fruit trees before bud break.

• Turn the compost pile.
• Use completed compost for bed preparation. Use partially completed compost as a top-dressing mulch.
• Mulch all bare soil.
• Feed the birds!