AUGUST GARDENING TIPS

Some perrennials are winding down but there are many other late blooming shrubs and perennials that can flourish into the fall.

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• Annuals & Containers: Reinvigorate your annuals and container plants by deadheading and pruning. Add a weak solution of liquid plant food when watering your container plants.

• Trees, Shrubs & Perennials: You can fertilize until the end of August especially trees and shrubs. Do not fertilize past the end of August for shrubs, trees and perennials.

• Garden Maintenance: Cut back your spent perennials, you may even get a second flush of leaves and flowers. Deadhead blooming perennials to keep them fresh. Stake plants that are fallen over from bloom weight or rains.

• Vegetable Gardens: Keep picking your warm weather vegetables, they will produce more and prevents them from going to seed. It’s also time to start planting your cool weather veggies, like lettuce, spinach, arugula, carrots, beets, beans, kale, and peas to be planted now for fall harvest.

• Weeding: Make sure to stay on top of the weeding. Crab grass and blackberry like the warmth and can spread quietly and quickly.

  
  ENJOY WATCHING ALL THE LATE SUMMER POLLINATORS BUSILY MOVING FROM BLOOM TO BLOOM!