May
2007 Garden Tips
If you did not seed this spring, or if your newly seeded lawn
has been mowed three times, you may use Bayer All-in-One
Weed Killer for Lawns to control broad leaf weeds in
your lawn.
Thin seedlings of early-planted crops such as; carrots, lettuce,
spinach and beets. Protect cabbages from cabbageworms and leafy
vegetables from leafminers by covering with Reemay fabric.
When the soil temperature reaches 60 degrees, sow warm- and cool-season
vegetable and herb seeds. Replenish poor soil with essential micronutrients
for optimum plant vigor, growth and fruit by using Black Gold,
plant micronutirents with humic acid.
Use Espoma Bio-Tone Starter Microbial Plant Food to
add living microbes to your soil. These mircrobes help plants
establish faster, help prevent transplant loss, promote deeper
roots, better blooms and fruit and improve soil structure.
Add Barley Straw or Aquarium Pharmaceuticals
Algae Fix to your pond to control algae growth. Add Aquarium
Pharmaceuticals Bio-Filter Booster or Microbe-Lift
Gel to jumpstart the bacteria and enzymes in your pond
filtering system.
Apply St. Gabriel Laboratories Milky Spore to
your lawn to control Japanese beetle grubs.
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Kill unwanted weeds and grass safely with Bernzomatic
Weed Burner or Burn Out Grass & Weed Killer.
Control Dandelion, Henbit, Plantain and many other broadleaf weeds
with Speed Zone or Spurge Power lawn
weed killers.
Continue to spray fruit trees every 2 weeks with Bonide
Fruit Tree Spray.
Save time and labor this year with the Space Saver Garden
System. This raised bed system uses intensive square
foot gardening and vertical growing to increase your yields with
less space.
Remove blossoms from newly set strawberry plants to allow better
establishment. Six weeks after planting allow everbearing strawberries
to begin to flower.
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It's now safe to place your warm season vegetables, annuals and
summer blooming bulbs outside for the season. Check out our large
assortment of top quality plants.
It's time to plant your container gardens! Be sure to use Premier
Ultimate Potting Mix or Pro-Mix mixed with Soil
Moist Crystals and Osmocote for 4 full months of feeding.
Plant bush beans every three weeks for extended harvests. Pole
beans will yield harvest all season long and are easy to harvest
when planted on trellis netting.
Place Bosmere Tomato Spirals alongside your tomato
seedlings. Spray zucchini, squash, cucumber and cantaloupe seedlings
with Eight or Pyrethrins to
control squash vine borers before eggs are laid. Fertilize all
vegetables, including tomatoes, with Organic Laboratories
Tomato Maker 4-2-6. Tomato Maker not only contains complete
nutrition for vegetables but corrects the deficiencies responsible
for blossom end rot.
Supercharge your plants with Messenger. It unlocks
your plants natural defense against stress and pests and boosts
overall growth, vigor and production.
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Pinch back Chrysanthemums, Asters, Sedum 'Autumn Joy', perennial
Sunflowers and other bush-forming perennials to promote healthy,
thick plants that are self-supporting.
Test the pH of your turf and add lime or sulfur if necessary.
Apply Monterey Spurge Power or Speed
Zone to control broadleaf weeds like dandelion, clover,
henbit and more.
Continue your rose care program of deadheading, spraying and watering.
Use Bonide 3-in-1 Rx Rose Care to control insects
and disease. Fertilize roses monthly with Espoma Rose-tone.
Apply Deadline, Sluggo or Slug Stop in
those shady moist locations in the garden to control snails and
slugs.
Prune new growth on needled evergreens and fertilize as needed
with Ross Evergreen Tree Spikes.
Help keep soil weed free, moist, and at a more even temperature
by applying salt hay around your small fruits and vegetables.
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Bayer Season Long Grub Control may be applied
now through mid-June to kill the Japanese beetle grub population
this summer and fall
Complete your spring clean up and mulch your landscape beds with
Right Dress, shredded mulch, bark chips or
gravel. Put a layer of landscape fabric or Preen
down first to discourage weeds.
