Monthly Bodacious Garden Tips

Apply a slow-release fertilizer to all of your shrubs and trees. We recommend using 10-10-10 or 10-20-20.
Get out and get those grasses and perennials cut back!

Liquid feed your annuals, perennials, and hanging baskets with Miracle-Gro. And never your let hanging baskets dry out.
Spray insect and disease control on your roses and ornamentals.
Deadhead your Knockout Roses, Salvia, Coreopsis, and many other perennials to get more blooms. What is deadheading?

Now is the time when Powdery Mildew may set in on your perennials and shrubs, in partilcular bee balm, lilac, roses, and even annuals. Treat with a rose and flower fungicide.
From now on and through the rest of the year it is best to use a liquid based fertilizer, such at Miracle-Gro, for your perennials, annuals, and hanging baskets.
When deadheading your reblooming daylilies, make sure to cut the stock off as far down as possible.
The time to prune your hydrangea is just after they are done blooming. Don't wait too long after that or pruning may affect the buds being set for next year's bloom.

Get your hardy fall mums at Rave's!
Now is a good time to plan for fall color in your garden. We have lots of perennial color this time of year in our yard.
Continue deadheading your butterfly bushes for continuous blooms. Cut only the dead/spent flowers off.
Apply grub control to your lawn if you've had a lot of beetle activity over the summer. At this time of year, and through mid-September, Japanese Beetle larvae are underground feeding on grass roots and will re-emerge the following year

Apply a slow release fertilizer to your shrubs and trees.
Cut back perennials and ornamental grasses to the ground. Don't fertilize until mid-spring when they are active and growing.
Cut back roses to about 15".
Trim old flowers off Hydrangeas. Prune back in spring.
Apply a lawn winterizer.