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- Start preparing for season extension. Have your frost protection plan ready!
- Should you apply lime to your lawn?
- Clean up your garden. Take up and clean and store your vegetable trellis if vegetables are finished producing on the trellis
- What should you do about moss? Stop fighting it?
- Check fall vegetables for harlequin bugs. These insects are shaped like stink bugs. Black with red markings on back
- Mowing tip: aim discharge chute away from flower and shrub beds to cut down on weeds.
- October is a great time to collect your Soil Samples when we get some rain. 2 week analysis time.
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The Local Skinny! Home And Garden Show 10-04-23
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- Start preparing for leaf collection. Plan to compost your leaves Do Not Burn Them!!!!!!
- Save seed from coneflower, sunflower, marigold, rudbeckia, cosmos and others.
- Check cole crops for insects. Ex Loopers, cabbage worms, Harlequin bugs.
- Store leftover and collected seed in a cool, dry location.
- Bring in Houseplants from outside before this weekend
- If you overseed or reseed your lawn, avoid weed control products according to product instructions.
- October is a great time to collect your Soil Samples!n 2 week analysis time.
- Planting trees and shrubs? Start with a tape measure.
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- Cole crops may need top dressing with nitrogen.
- Start controlling fire ants.
- Check cole crops for insects. Ex Loopers, cabbage worms, Harlequin bugs.
- Planting trees and shrubs? Planting depth is everything!
- Control weeds in the garden. One weed left to seed out can produce 1000’s of weeds in your garden next year.
- Sowing tall fescue? Soil/seed contact is essential.
- Now is a great time to collect soil samples. Avoid the rush this fall. .2 week analysis time.
- Fertilizing your lawn? Use a slow release product.
- If you have vacant areas in your garden consider planting a cover crop. Ex Crimson clover
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The Local Skinny! Home And Garden Show 09-20-23
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- When reseeding your cool season lawn buying poor quality seed is asking for disappointment.Check your seed tags purchase certified seed. Check for the blue certification tag.Certified seed is free of noxious weed seed and contains low amounts of other crop seed.b Good seed helps in having a good lawn.
- Start controlling fire ants.
- Check cole crops for insects. Ex Loopers, cabbage worms, Harlequin bugs.
- Start planning for any trees and shrubs you may want to plant in your landscape this fall.
- Control weeds in the garden. One weed left to seed out can produce 1000’s of weeds in your garden next year.
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The Local Skinny! Home And Garden Show 09-13-23
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- When purchasing grass seed check tag for Germination %of that lot of seed. Use a mixture of 3 varieties.Check Carolina Lawns Publication.
- Scout for fire ants
- Check transplants for insects. Ex Loopers, cabbage worms, Harlequin bugs.
- Late summer can be a good time to work on managing tough to control invasive plants. Use a broad spectrum systemic herbicide such as glyphosate or a brushy killer product.
- We are in full hurricane season, Prepare or check your Emergency Kit. review your emergency weather plan.
- Don’t be too quick to cut back perennials and ornamental grasses. The standing stems and foliage can provide habitat and cover for beneficial insects and birds over the winter.
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The Local Skinny! Home And Garden Show 09-06-23
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- When planting turnip seed by hand mix the seed with 16-0-0or ammonia nitrate in order to see where you have seeded, also remember good seed to soil contact pack your turnip seed into the soil with a packer.
- Prune fruiting canes out of blackberry patch.
- Provide irrigation for recently planted transplants
- Begin researching options for any tree or shrub plantings you want to do this fall.
- We are in full hurricane season, Prepare or check your Emergency Kit. review your emergency weather plan.
- Think about trees that might pose a hazard, get them evaluated.
- Now is a great time to take soil samples. 2week analysis time.
- Fertilizing your lawn? Use the right amount of the right product at the right time.
- Keep your Garden Journal up to date. Take pictures of what you grew this spring and what you have planted in the fall garden for future reference.
- Plant tall fescue now.
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- With forecasted heavy rain open rows to prevent flooding in your garden
- Plant tall fescue now.
- Check for crusting of soil where recently planted seed in your fall garden
- Think about how you could compost your fall leaves.
- Prepare for inclement weather now. Emergency Kit, Have A Plan for Inclement weather!
- Get ready to plant trees and shrubs.
- Order bulbs that you will plant this fall.
- Consider adding plants to your landscape that will add beauty in the winter.
- Keep your Garden Journal up to date. Take pictures of what you grew this spring and what you have planted in the fall garden for future reference.
- Avoid pruning.
- Take stock of leftover garden seed.
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- Check house plants if they have become root bound and replant them in larger containers.
- If you haven’t checked the oil on your mower lately, do it before the next use.
- Take out vegetables that have slowed production use the space for fall vegetables
- Pull, spray or trim microstegium before it sets seed.
- Prepare for your fall garden.
- Collect seed from coneflower, rudbeckia, marigold, zinnia, sunflowers and other flowers to reduce seed costs next year. Avoid collecting from hybrid varieties and store seed in a cool, dry location.
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- Protect Lawn equipment by putting your contact information on the equipment, also photo equipment for insurance purposes.
- Chop up fresh garden herbs, place in ice cube trays, then fill with water and freeze. Save the herb cubes to add to your soups and stews over the winter.
- Start planning your fall landscape projects now
- Check out the NC State Extension Plant Toolbox to research plants for those fall landscape projects.
- Know what to plant and when in the garden with a copy of the Central piedmont planting guide
- Make plans for tall fescue fertilization and/or seeding in early September.
- Share excess vegetables with friends and neighbors who don’t have a garden.
- Make sure leftover garden seed is stored in a cool, dry location, or even better in the refrigerator or freezer.
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