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UPCOMING EVENTS: GAP Workshop September 9, 2021 9am – 4pm Vance County Regional Farmers Market; 210 Southpark Drive; Contact Cooperative Extension 252-438-8188 for more info and to register.

TODAY’S TOPICS:

• Get your soil samples taken early for 2022 garden.
• Be on the lookout for fall armyworms.
• Check crops for harlequin bugs, aphids, cabbage worms, loopers.
• Do research for fall planting of trees and shrubs.
• Remember get vegetables under refrigeration as soon as possible.
• Avoid pruning from now until mid November at the earliest.
• Sow your tall fescue seed now though mid-September. Get soil seed contact and water frequently.
• Cooperative Extension has fall gardening publications. Call Cooperative Extension 438-8188