Barker September 2018

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GARDEN TIPS FOR SEPTEMBER
Time now to make plans for fall landscaping projects.
• Clean up flowerbeds of fallen foliage, yellowed leaves and dead wood. Light
green leaves may signify lack of iron (chlorosis). Correct with iron cheleates.
• Cut off old dead foliage on irises. Scratch in a little bone meal around the roots.
• Prune roses to reshape and groom plants for fall growth. Follow up with a
dose of fertilizer the first week of September.
• Plants come out of summer rest and go crazy. Insect populations explode as
we get into cooler temperatures. Diseases that have been dormant wake up.
- Citrus, croton, avocado and mango are susceptible to spider mites and
thrips. Discourage them with a strong jet of water from a hose directed to the
undersides of the leaves.
- Hibiscus, citrus, palms, gardenia and ixora are susceptible to scale and
mealybug.
• Winter vegetable gardens and perennials get planted.
• Wait until November to plant petunias and pansies.
• Fire ants baits should be put out in September-October to lessen the number
of eggs that make it to Spring.
• St. Augustine grass gets its fall fertilizer during September. Continue to mow
at maximum height. You want to leave a lot of leaf surface to produce carbohydrate
reserves for the winter.
• Keep an eye out for sod webworms. First sign of them is grass that appears to
stop growing. You need to get them early for biological controls to work. When
the caterpillars are only 1/4 inch, Bacillus thuringiensis applications can slow
them. Bt is a bacteria that works on the caterpillars’ digestive systems and
makes them stop feeding. Do the application late in the day. The larvae feed
at night and you want them to get nice fresh Bt.
• When the heat and drought end, the weather could bring brown patch disease
in the St. Augustine grass. Watch for yellowish spots if the nights drop into the
60’s and days stay in the 80’s.
• Get any pruning of hedges and such done now. You want the flush of new
growth to be hardened-off before the end of October. Tree pruning should be
put off until winter, when the trees are dormant.
• Pre-emerge herbicide applications targeting annual bluegrass and the
earlier-germinating winter broadleaf weeds needed to be put out starting in
mid-August.
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September 2018 | The Barker