First Week
- Now is the time to divide monkey grass, iris, and daylilies while you still have several weeks of warm temperatures to encourage root growth.
- Fertilize chrysanthemums and salvia with liquid plant food to encourage blooms in late fall.
- Cut off dead flowers and brown foliage in your tired out perennial flower beds to neaten the plants for fall.
Second Week
- Prior to planting fescue seed, wipe out weeds with a fast -acting weed killer. Try Next Day, Finale, or RoundUp, you can seed in 7 days.
- Spot spray broadleaf weeds in your lawn.
Third Week
- Now is the time for the first application of fertilzer on fescue grass. Being a cool season grass, it needs fertilzer in Sept, Nov., Feb., and April.
- Don't put spring flowering bulbs in the ground until the soil temperatures are in the 60's or cooler.
- Watch out for saddleback caterpillars feeding on the leaves of trees and weeds.
Fourth Week
- Time to put out pre-emergent weed preventer on lawns you'll not overseed this fall. This will help control annual bluegrass and chickweed that appears in the spring.
- Starting a new fescue lawn? Use 6 pounds of seed per 1000 square feet.
- Time to plant trees and shrubs. Make sure to dig a hole three times as wide as the root ball. In heavy clay soil, leave about 2 inches of the root ball above ground and mound dirt on top of it. This should keep the tree from 'drowning'.
- If you had annual bluegrass or chickweed in you lawn this past spring then now is the time to put out a pre-emergent weed preventer on lawns that you are not going to overseed.
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