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

• If going on vacation have someone harvest vegetables for you,
• PPE tip when using gas powered equipment: Eye protection guards against possible injury. Hearing protection guards against almost certain injury.
• Harvest vegetables in the morning and refrigerate as soon as possible.
• Learn to recognize invasive plants such as paulownia, tree of heaven, Chinese privet and others. Eliminate them when you find them.
• Make sure weeds are actively growing before using weed control post emergence herbicides.
• There are hundreds of species of bees and wasps in NC and the vast majority are non-aggressive and beneficial.
• Watering your garden thoroughly once a week is much better than watering just a little each day.
• Leave snakes alone. The majority are harmless and beneficial. Learn to recognize copperheads and leave them alone. Trying to move or kill them will likely increase your risk of getting bitten.
• Check garden each day for harvestable vegetables ex Squash
• Avoid spray drift. Don’t spray in windy conditions and set the nozzle to spray larger droplets.
• Check the product label every time you use a pesticide.

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

• Check squash for squash bugs
• Avoid hand watering.
• If you have young children or grand kids let them help you in the garden teach them how plants grow.
• Avoid excess mulch around trees and shrubs.
• Continue your succession vegetable planting
• Avoid herbicide applications on tall fescue lawns.
• Watering your garden thoroughly once a week is much better than watering just a little each day.
• Fertilize warm season lawns
• Check garden each day for harvestable vegetables ex Squash
• Shape up shrubbery

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