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February is hot. At the end of the month, the sowing season begins – it’s time to sow late varieties of heat-loving vegetables for seedlings. Yes, and in the garden with a garden there is work.
8 / Tue / Grows
Another favorable day for working with plants – transplanting, watering and fertilizing will benefit.
9 / SR / Grows
Transplanting indoor plants, sowing garden flowers for seedlings – this is the work plan for today.
10 / Thu / Grows
Conduct an audit of dahlia tubers and gladiolus bulbs stored in the fall – rotten ones should be thrown away.
11 / Fri / Grows
You can go to the garden and shake off the snow that has stuck to the branches of the trees, whitewash the trunks and skeletal branches.
12 / Sat / Grows
It’s time to organize snow retention in the garden. Sort through the tubers of seed potatoes and flowers.
13 / Sun / Grows
At home, on the windowsill, you can sow the seeds of spicy crops – basil, parsley and marjoram on greens.
14 / Mon / Grows
A favorable day for any work with plants – you can look after indoor flowers and the garden.
15 / Tue / Grows
Today you can do the processing of indoor plants from diseases and pests, give them a shower and water.
16 / Wed / Full Moon
No plant work! You can go to the store for vegetable and flower seeds, buy garden tools.
17 / Thu / Descending
Today you can sow leeks, celery and basil for seedlings, water indoor flowers and process them from pests.
18 / Fri / Descending
A great day to sow root celery. In addition, you can put root parsley on the vgonku.
19 / Sat / Descending
It’s time to organize snow retention in the garden, check potatoes, tubers and flower bulbs in the cellar.
20 / Sun / Descending
A great day for all types of pruning – you can form fruit trees in the garden, cut flowers at home.
21 / Mon / Descending
You can feed indoor flowers and seedlings. In the garden – shake off the snow from the trees, remove it from the roof of the greenhouse.
22 / Tue / Descending
It’s time to start preparing containers and soil for seedlings. Conduct an audit of the seeds, buy the necessary ones.
23 / Wed / Decreasing
It is better not to disturb plants today, especially an unfavorable day for sowing seeds for seedlings.
24 / Thu / Descending
It is possible to carry out preventive treatment of the garden from diseases and pests, but on condition that the air temperature is above 4 ° C.
25 / Fri / Descending
Today you can sow vegetables and garden flowers for seedlings, pick seedlings, transplant indoor plants.
26 / Sat / Descending
A good day for picking seedlings, you can make soil mixtures for transplanting indoor plants.
27 / Sun / Descending
It is better not to disturb the plants, but it will be very useful to make plans for the future, read books on gardening.
28 / Mon / Descending
No plant work! In case of urgent need, plants can be treated for diseases and pests.
Garden work in February
Cut cuttings for grafting. Fruit trees, as you know, are grafted in April – during active sap flow.
“In order for the vaccine to take root, it is important to remember the main rule: the stock must be awakened, and the scion must be dormant,” recalls agronomist-breeder Svetlana Mihailova.
That is why grafting cuttings are best cut in February, when the trees are at rest.
It is best to store the cuttings before grafting in the snow (1) – they must be tied in bunches according to varieties, each signed, wrapped in polyethylene and buried in a snowdrift.
Put on root cuttings of coniferous plants. Summer residents actively root cuttings in the summer, which is fair, but the branches of coniferous plants take root best in February – the survival rate at this time reaches 90%. Thuja and junipers can be propagated in this way.
Cuttings should be taken from young plants, 4-8 years old. And rooting – in sphagnum moss. The cuttings must first be treated with Heteroauxin or Kornevin (2), then wrapped with moss, put in a plastic bag and tied. By spring, such cuttings form roots, and in May they can be planted in the garden.
Shake snow off tree branches. In February, there are often snowfalls and blizzards, which alternate with thaws. Snow sticking to the branches turns into frost and can break them. Therefore, after each snowfall, it must be shaken off (3).
Throw snow on strawberries. Strawberries do not tolerate severe frosts, and in February they happen.
“And the winter can be little snowy,” reminds agronomist Svetlana Mikhailova. – Therefore, after each snowfall, as much snow as possible should be thrown onto the plantation – this is the best protection against critical temperatures.
Garden work in February
Sow seeds for seedlings. In the second half of February, seeds of peppers, eggplant and celery root can be sown for seedlings.
Throw snow on the beds. The more it is, the more moisture the soil will receive in the spring, when it begins to melt. And the more moisture in the soil, the better and more friendly the seeds will sprout.
Fill greenhouses with snow. For the same purpose as throwing snow on the beds – the earth will be saturated with moisture in the spring.
Check planting material. In February, it is necessary to check the cellar – sort out seed potatoes, carrot, beet and cabbage queen cells (4), onion sets. Rotten specimens must be discarded so that they do not infect healthy ones.
Folk omens for gardeners in February
- If in early February the snow began to melt, a thaw began, then the harvest will be poor.
- Cold, snowy February – to a fruitful, warm summer.
- Dry cold February – to hot August.
- The brighter the stars on a February night, the colder the next day will be.
- If February is without snow, then summer will be without harvest, because it will be dry.
- If the last week of February is cold, then in March it will be warm.
Sources of
- Lavrik P.I., Rybitsky N.A., Gavrilov I.S. Gardener’s desk book // L.: Lenizdat, 1972 – 568 p.
- State catalog of pesticides and agrochemicals approved for use on the territory of the Federation as of July 6, 2021 // Ministry of Agriculture of the Federation https://mcx.gov.ru/ministry/departments/departament-rastenievodstva-mekhanizatsii-khimizatsii- i-zashchity-rasteniy/industry-information/info-gosudarstvennaya-usluga-po-gosudarstvennoy-registratsii-pestitsidov-i-agrokhimikatov/
- Kamshilov A. and a group of authors. Gardener’s Handbook // M .: State Publishing House of Agricultural Literature, 1955 – 606 p.
- A group of authors, ed. Polyanskoy A.M. and Chulkova E.I. Tips for gardeners // Minsk, Harvest, 1970 – 208 p.