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

• Keep your garden journal updated daily
• Tomatoes and peppers may drop blossoms during hot weather, but fruit set should resume after temps fall again.
• Pull out suckers on your tomatoes
• Tall fescue can go dormant during summer months, needing little water.
• Provide irrigation for your garden vegetables needs at least 1 inch of water per week.
• Many vegetable crops can be planted in July to extend your harvest into late summer and fall.
• Always read the label each time you use a pesticide
• Check label for temperature guidance when using herbicides.
• Start making plans for a fall garden. Ex seed, design of the fall garden
• If planning a tall fescue lawn renovation, time to get busy.
• When you hear thunder it is time to leave the garden.

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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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