Garden Calendar
July
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Watch those container plants for water. Plants in containers need more frequent water than plants in the ground. Most container plants will benefit from daily watering during the warm months.
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Slugs, snails, and earwigs are out and about. Use pet safe “Sluggo Plus for snails, slugs, and earwigs or Cooke's Slug, Snail, and Insect meal. If you plants are eaten by unseen insects, go out at night with a flashlight and check the plants out. Earwigs work at night, hiding during the day.
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If you planted your vegetables and flowers this May they could use a feeding about now. Foothill soils lack important nutrients for plant health. Container plants also need regular feeding through the summer. We like E.B Stone All Purpose Organic Plant Food. Just sprinkle the food on the soil, and water in.
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To get continued blooms all summer from annuals and perennials cut or pinch off faded flowers. Feed with Foxfarm Marine Cuisine for the ultimate flowers.
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Be sure to raise the height of your lawnmower to 2½ -3 inches for the summer. Taller grass survives hot temperatures better and helps shade out weeds.
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Now is the time to feed water plants. We have special water plant tablets to do the job.
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Check you drip system out to make sure it is operating properly. We carry a complete line of drip irrigation parts, plus the knowledge to help you set it up.
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Now that the weather will be warming up this would be a great time to mulch your plants. Applying a 2" layer of shredded cedar, planting compost, micro-bark, or coco hulls around the base of plants helps to reduce moisture loss during hot days.
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Be sure to keep the birds off your ripening fruit
on your fruiting plants. Use “Bird Scare
Tape”, which is shiny and scares the birds
away when it moves in the wind. We also have bird
netting and plastic owls.
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Before you have trouble with blossom end rot in your tomatoes use Foli-cal's. Blossom end rot creates a leathery brown patch at the bottom end of a tomato and is caused by insufficient calcium.
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