By Elaine Wilshusen, Somervell County Master Gardener
If there are any fellow procrastinators like myself out there, now is the time for us all to get busy. The extended cold weather has hopefully given us a couple of extra weeks to get things in order before spring arrives.
1. Get your plum and peach trees pruned. Shape to an open center and encourage horizontal branching as vertical branches tend to be weak. Keep your fruit trees at a height easy for you to to harvest without using a ladder.
2. Get your seed potatoes, onion sets, and carrot seeds in the ground.
3. If you haven’t already done so, relocate perennials and shrubs to a more desirable location in the landscape. Be sure to keep their root balls intact as much as possible.