Tips

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Gardening Tips for September 2010

 

 

• Fall is a great time to plant trees, shrubs, bulbs, grass seed, sod and perennials so they’ll be hardy for winter.

 

• September is the best month of the entire year to seed your lawn.

 

• Clean up any dead or diseased plants in your beds to make room for mums and pansies.

 

• If you haven’t already done so this year, September is a good time to apply lime to your lawn to prepare for fall seeding.

 

• Use Scott’s Weed & Feed to boost the health of your lawn and control weeds.

 

• Do not prune spring flowering trees or shrubs such as Rhododendrons, Azaleas or other spring flowering shrubs or you’ll remove next year’s blooms.

 

• Trim back annuals and fertilize for one more fall bloom.

 

• Prune your evergreens to shape them so any new growth will have time to harden off before frost.

 

• Spray roses with fungicide/insecticide and fertilize.

 

• Spray houseplants with insecticidal soap to prepare them to bring inside.

 

• At the end of September, lift and divide peonies.

 

• Plant mums, pansies, cabbage & kale, and fall blooming perennials and annuals for fall color.

 

• The following is a list of plants and trees that provide color in the month of September: Beautyberry, Cotoneaster, Viburnums, Crape Myrtles, Hydrangeas, Butterfly Bush, Hypericum, and Pyracantha.