Plant Bermuda or Centipede lawns with seed or sod. When planting a Bermuda lawn from seed make sure to use turf-type Bermuda seed as common Bermuda is best suited for pastures. Turf-type Bermuda grasses, such as 'Sahara', display excellent overall turf quality similar to that of Tifway Bermuda 419 sod. When planting a Centipede lawn from seed ask for the new TifBlair strain of seed. TifBlair is a more cold hardy starin and remains green longer in the Fall, greening up earlier in the spring. SEE: How To Plant A Lawn With Seed or How To Plant A Lawn With Sod

Weed control in the lawn and ornamental plantings. If you have weeds popping up in your lawn you can pull them by hand or spray them with a lawn weed killer. Remember, if you have a Centipede or St. Augustine lawn to use only Atrazine weed killer. Other types of lawn weed killers can damage these lawn grasses. To kill the weeds popping up in your ornamental plantings you can use a weed killer containing glyphosate, such as Killzall or Glyphosel Pro. These products contain 41% glyphosate and are identical to super concentrate Roundup but at half the price, or less.

Feed perennial plants. Perennials are plants that return year after year in your garden. By April, usually all of the perennials in your garden - with the exception of lantana and a few others - should have started to emerge from dormancy. This is a great time to give them their first good feeding for the warm season. Fertilize perennial plants with a flower fertilizer or natural and organic plant food such as Milorganite. SEE: How To Fertilize Perennials

Prune and fertilize any spring flowering shrubs that have finished blooming. Prune and fertilize Forsythia, Flowering Quince and other spring flowering shrubs that have finished blooming. Wait to prune and fertilize Azaleas and other spring flowering shrubs until after their flowers have faded. Prune lantana once you see new growth begin to emerge from base of plants. After pruning shrubs, fertilize with a well-balanced shrub fertilizer or natural or organic plant food.

Fertilize roses if you haven't done so within the last six weeks. Fertilize roses every 6 weeks or so, or as directed on product label, with a well-balanced rose fertilizer, preferably one containing a systemic insecticide. Alternatively you may feed your roses with a natural or organic plant food. SEE: How To Fertilize Roses

If you overseeded your Bermuda lawn with ryegrass do the following: Cut the ryegrass as low as possible. This will cause the ryegrass to die out and allow the Bermudagrass to emerge from dormancy.