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Home and Garden Show

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

  • Remember harvest intervals before spraying your vegetables Read Label it will have the harvest interval
  • Follow research based practices for canning and freezing.
  • Harvest early in the morning vegetables will taste fresher.
  • Continue shaping up shrubbery as needed to keep them looking tidy.
  • Take lower leaves off tomato plants below the first fruit set.
  • Remove water sprouts and other errant growth from fruit trees.
  • Summer is here keep hydrated while doing garden chores.
  • Dispose of excess spray solution and empty pesticide containers properly.
  • If you are going to be away from your garden for several days, have a friend harvest vegetables for you.
  • Check shade trees for broken branches after summer storms. They could fall days or weeks later and cause damage or injury.

Cooperative Extension with Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden

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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Composting

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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden

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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Japanese Beetles

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Home And Garden Show

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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Cooperative Extension With Paul McKenzie: What Works in the Garden

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Cooperative Extension with Wayne Rowland: Spotted Lanternfly

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Cooperative Extension With Jamon Glover: Managing Stress

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Home And Garden Show

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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