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

• Start planning your Fall vegetable garden
• Do you plan to do some home canning? Be sure to follow up-to-date recommendations.
• Keep hydrated, take rest breaks when doing garden chores during  hot temperatures
• Tomatoes and peppers may drop blossoms due to high temperatures. They should return to normal production once temperatures fall.
• Now would be a good time to check your lawnmowers do maintenance according to the owners manual.
• Wear hearing protection when operating gas powered yard tools. The damage occurs slowly and is cumulative.
• If you have fig bushes, water them well once a week if it hasn’t rained to prevent fruit drop.
• Learn about the Spotted Lanternfly. Report sightings to NCDACS.

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