Garden Calendar
October
- Plant spring flowering bulbs like tulips, daffodils, crocus, hyacinths, snowdrops, and more. Fertilize
with Dutch Bulb Food or Hi-Yield Bone Meal. - Cut down stems and foliage of herbaceous perennials after two or three hard frosts and when leaves
begin to brown. - Pick bagworms from evergreen trees and shrubs. This will eliminate the spring hatch from over-
wintered eggs. - Remove leaves from your lawn and lower your mower blade to reduce disease problems. Compost
the leaves or shred them and reuse as mulch. - Fall is the time to control certain broadleaf weeds in the lawn, like white clover, dandelion and ground
ivy. Use Fertilome Weed Free Zone to control these weeds.
- Remove any diseased or insect-infested plant material from your garden to prevent over-wintering of
disease and insects. - Christmas cactus need special care now to get its beautiful flowers this December. Buds will form at
50-60 degrees Fahrenheit or if the plant is exposed to at least 13 hours of complete darkness each
night. - Divide daylilies and spring-blooming perennials, including iris and peonies. Don't be tempted to prune
your spring flowering shrubs like forsythia, azaleas, holly, lilac, rhododendron, spirea or viburnum -
you'll cut off next year's buds! - Water all landscape plants well and mulch before the winter cold sets in.
- Apply Fertilome Winterizer and Natural Guard Soil Activator to your lawn if you did not do this in
September. - Spray evergreens, azaleas, rhododendron, boxwood, and rose canes with Wilt Pruf for protection
against wind and cold weather.
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