Late summer GARDEN CHECKLIST
From George’s Potting Shed
✔Pick off the old dead flowers end of September. Maintain a
on your annuals, as well as the spraying schedule to control
spent flowers on perennial insects and disease.
plants. By removing the spent
flowers, the plants will not go ✔Now is the time to start your
into the seed producing stage fall and winter vegetables. Plant
and should continue to flower starters or seeds of green
longer into the season. onions, carrots, beets, lettuce,
spinach, radishes, and winter
✔Fall, container-grown cauliflower directly into the
perennials, shrubs and trees can garden early this
be planted in late August. month.
Always take
✔ August is not a heavy
time to
demanding month in the garden
properly
and around the yard. However,
prepare the
it’s important to stay on top of
soil by mixing
the weeds and water regularly.
generous
You will need a good inch of
quantities of
water per week during the last
peat moss,
hot days of summer.
compost and
processed
✔A brown lawn isn't
manure with
necessarily a dead lawn.
your existing
Grasses go dormant in times of
soil. Fall
drought, but will quickly return
blooming
to life with the fall rains. For a
Crocus should
lush green lawn, water it
be planted this
regularly and deeply. Raise the
month, to give you an extra
✔Keep the weeds pulled, before
cutting height of the mower.
week or two of flowers after the
they have a chance to flower
Taller grass cools the roots and
main garden plants have
and go to seed again. Weeds in
helps to keep the moisture in the
finished for the year.
the garden are harmful because
soil longer.
they rob your plants of water
✔Prune hybrid roses in late
and nutrients, harbor insects and
✔Spring flowering perennials
August to promote the most fall
diseases, and, on occasion grow
can be divided and transplanted
blossoms. Remove about a third
tall enough to shade your
this month or next. Be sure to
of the vigorous growth. Any
flowers and plants.
do this during the coolest part of
stems that cross each other
the day and water the plants
should be removed, as well as
✔Continue to watch for insect,
thoroughly after transplanting.
those that are in the center of
slug and snail, or disease
the plant. Weak, spindly canes
damage throughout the garden,
✔Summer blooming shrubs
and any damaged by black spot
and take the necessary steps to
should be pruned for shape after
fungus should be removed.
control the problem.
they have finished flowering.
Except in colder regions, roses
Remove any dead or diseased
should be fertilized through the
branches.
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