Buy, Eat, Do!

Here are some tips for what's on sale, what's in season and what chores are the smartest this season.

February

Buy: Colorful houseplants for Valentine's Day, bird seed, organic houseplant fertilizer

Eat: Broccoli, carrots, leeks

Do: Start seeds indoors, repot & feed houseplants, prune shrubs & trees

March

Buy: Cool season vegetables and annuals, new gardening tools, mulch

Eat: Early strawberries and spinach, asparagus, grapefruit

Do: Cut back perennial foliage and ornamental grasses, prune roses, carefully rake flower beds

April

Buy: Berry shrubs, perennials, organic fertilizer for the garden

Eat: Fennel, lettuce, rhubarb, spinach, spring onions

Do: Clean up beds & add organic fertilizer, plant summer bulbs