On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.

• When purchasing grass seed check tag for Germination %of that lot of seed. Use a mixture of 3 varieties.Check Carolina Lawns Publication.
• Scout for fire ants
• Check transplants for insects. Ex Loopers, cabbage worms, Harlequin bugs.
• Late summer can be a good time to work on managing tough to control invasive plants. Use a broad spectrum systemic herbicide such as glyphosate or a brushy killer product.
• We are in full hurricane season, Prepare or check your Emergency Kit. review your emergency weather plan.
• Don’t be too quick to cut back perennials and ornamental grasses. The standing stems and foliage can provide habitat and cover for beneficial insects and birds over the winter.

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On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.

• When planting turnip seed by hand mix the seed with 16-0-0or ammonia nitrate in order to see where you have seeded, also remember good seed to soil contact pack your turnip seed into the soil with a packer.
• Prune fruiting canes out of blackberry patch.
• Provide irrigation for recently planted transplants
• Begin researching options for any tree or shrub plantings you want to do this fall.
• We are in full hurricane season, Prepare or check your Emergency Kit. review your emergency weather plan.
• Think about trees that might pose a hazard, get them evaluated.
• Now is a great time to take soil samples. 2week analysis time.
• Fertilizing your lawn? Use the right amount of the right product at the right time.
• Keep your Garden Journal up to date. Take pictures of what you grew this spring and what you have planted in the fall garden for future reference.
• Plant tall fescue now.

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