April
2007 Garden Tips
Stop by Primex for seed potatoes. Plant when the soil temperature
reaches 45 degrees. We also carry asparagus roots, horseradish,
rhubarb and strawberries, onion sets, shallots and garlic.
Early this month apply Lebanon Team to your lawn
to prevent crabgrass later on this summer. If the lawn was seeded
last fall, or if seeding this spring, use Tupersan
for crabgrass control.
Begin your rose care program of fertilizing, disease and insect
control and watering. Spray Bonide Fung-onil
to control blackspot and use Bayer 2-in-1 Fertilizer &
Insect Control.
Continue your spring clean up. Apply Preen or
Concern Weed Preventer Plus corn gluten to flower
beds to prevent future weeds and mulch them with Right Dress shredded
hardwood mulch, bark chips or gravel.
Start summer-flowering bulbs indoors, including caladium, canna,
gloxinia and tuberous begonias for planting outside after May
15th.
Keep an eye out for slugs. Use Sluggo, slug control
that is safe for pets and wildlife.
Control leaf spot on Mountain Laurel with Bonide Fung-onil,
first application is at spring bud break.
Morris Arboretum Day at Primex today. Save 10% off your entire
purchase when you present your active arboretum membership card
or join today in our store (some restrictions apply).
Spray Liquid Fence on ornamentals for deer control.
Messina Wildlife Deer Stopper is safe to use
on fruits and vegetables.
Use Concern Weed Preventer Plus corn gluten on
your lawn to prevent crabgrass. Apply a second time in June.
Apply Bonide Fruit Tree Spray to all fruit trees
as buds swell, and again at petal drop. Repeat every 2 weeks up
to 10 days before harvest. Fertilize with Ross Fruit Tree
Spikes.
Sow cold tolerant annuals in a cold frame; try alyssum, baby's
breath, snapdragons, salvia and verbena.
If you have noticed tunneling in your lawn apply Bonide
Molemax to encourage moles to move away or use Moletox
to eradicate them.
As soil becomes workable, till your vegetable garden turning under
your green manure, also at this time you may add cow manure, humus
or Bumper Crop.
Protect cabbages from cabbageworms and leafy vegetables from leaf
miner by covering with Reemay Fabric.
Wake up your garden pond for the season. Clean out your pumps
and filters. Ecolab Microbe-Lift or Aquarium
Pharmaceuticals Pond-Zyme provide microbes to break down
sludge and help keep water cleaner. Use Aquarium Pharmaceuticals
Simply-Clear, a fast acting bacterial pond clarifier
and Gel Filter Pad Bacterial Inoculant or Aquarium
Pharmaceuticals Biofilter Booster to quickly restore
biological activity to your filter to stabilize your pond’s
environments.
Use Messenger on fruits, vegetables, flowers,
shrubs and houseplants to boost growth, flower and fruit production.
Remove infected stems and litter of pachysandra and begin spraying
every 2 weeks (until hot weather) with Liquid Copper
or Bonide Fung-onil to control volutella blight.
Use Espoma Bio-Tone Starter to stimulate root
growth as you plant and transplant trees and shrubs, ground covers,
perennials and annuals.
Invite Hummingbirds to your garden by putting out your Hummingbird
feeders. Perky Pet Instant Nectar or
Instant Liquid Nectar Concentrate are both convenient
way to fill your feeder.
To control chickweed, clover, ground ivy, henbit and violets,
apply Spurge Power or Speed Zone
to an established lawn.
Primex Reward Members Double Points Day today!
For season-long feeding, apply Osmocote when
planting annuals, vegetables and perennials. Osmocote is a particularly
good choice for container gardening.
Fertilize acid loving plants like rhododendron, azalea, pieris
and mountain laurel with Holly-tone.
Use Havahart Critter Ridder to safely repel skunks,
groundhogs, dogs, cats squirrels and raccoons. One application
last 30 days!
Apply Beneficial Nematodes to control black vine
weevil and beetle populations later in the season.
Dig and divide crowded spring bulbs after they have finished blooming.
Enrich soil with compost or manure and add Espoma Bone
Meal or 0-20-0.
National Arbor Day today! Join us this Friday, Saturday and Sunday
(April 28th, 29th and 30th) when all Trees, excluding only fruit
trees, are 15% off.
Keep an eye open for saw fly larvae on your needled evergreens,
when noticed spray with either Sevin or Eight.
Apply Bonide Lime Sulfur to peonies for Botrytis.
Place gro-thru sets over peonies, grasses or any other perennials
in need of support.
