Lawns: Continue to overseed lawns with annual ryegrass.
 

Annuals: Plan and plant now for spring color.  Condition your soil and then set out daffodil or other spring flowering bulbs. Overplant those with cool weather annuals such as pansies, which will bloom in mild winter weather. The bulbs will push up through the annuals in spring for a two-layer garden bed.
 

Perennials & Bulbs: Now is a great time to divide perennials in the Middle and Lower South. Use a digging fork to lift an entire clump of hostas, phlox, ferns and other clump-forming perennials.  Set them back into th soil at original growing depth after separating them.
 

Trees & Shrubs: If trees and shrubs are showing yellow leaves with greenish veins, they may lack iron.  Apply a chelated iron product to the soil at the rate recommended on the label.  Gardenias and camellias are especially susceptible.
 

Vegetables & Herbs: Stems of rosemary, bay and lemon verbena may be gathered now while they're in peak condition.
 

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