The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show 8-25-21
WIZS Home and Garden Show – Vance Co. Cooperative Extension
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UPCOMING EVENTS: Fall Vegetable Gardening Monday August 30,2021 6:30pm VCRFM 210 Southpark Drive Contact Cooperative Extension 252-438-8188 for more info and to register.
- Check vegetables growing now and in the fall for insects more closely. Loopers , cabbage worms, aphids.
- Purchase seed and fertilizer for early Sept tall fescue care.
- Fall vegetables need at least 1 inch of rain or irrigation per week.
- It’s late to be planning a complete lawn renovation. May be best to wait until next year.
- When broadcasting seed make sure you have good seed to soil contact. Use a roller or packer to get that seed into the soil.
- Evaluate your landscape for late season blooms (goldenrod, asters, joe pye weed).
- Cooperative Extension has a publication titled Carolina Lawns. Call Cooperative Extension 438-8188
- Consider leaving dried flower heads in the garden for the birds.
- Use labeled row markers when planting your fall garden, put planting date, variety, type of vegetable on each marker and place on each row and record in vegetable journal.
