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

• Start preparing for season extension. Have your frost protection plan ready!
• Should you apply lime to your lawn?
• Clean up your garden. Take up and clean and store your vegetable trellis if vegetables are finished producing on the trellis
• What should you do about moss? Stop fighting it?
• Check fall vegetables for harlequin bugs. These insects are shaped like stink bugs. Black with red markings on back
• Mowing tip: aim discharge chute away from flower and shrub beds to cut down on weeds.
• October is a great time to collect your Soil Samples when we get some rain. 2 week analysis time.

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

• Start preparing for leaf collection. Plan to compost your leaves Do Not Burn Them!!!!!!
• Save seed from coneflower, sunflower, marigold, rudbeckia, cosmos and others.
• Check cole crops for insects. Ex Loopers, cabbage worms, Harlequin bugs.
• Store leftover and collected seed in a cool, dry location.
• Bring in Houseplants from outside before this weekend
• If you overseed or reseed your lawn, avoid weed control products according to product instructions.
• October is a great time to collect your Soil Samples!n 2 week analysis time.
• Planting trees and shrubs? Start with a tape measure.

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