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

• If tomato’s lower leaves are showing signs of leaf spot and tomatoes have set fruit you can take off those leaves below the small tomatoes .
• It’s not too late for container gardening.
• Continue your fruit tree spray regimen.
• Check current references when doing any food preservation, especially canning.
• Continue your succession vegetable planting
• Learn the optimum harvest time for the fruits and vegetables you grow.
• Your vegetables may need a topdressing
• Protect yourself from ticks and mosquitos.
• Check garden for pest and disease and ID the pest before purchasing a control.
• What to do about moss.

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