Cypress North September 2018

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.
September
Gardening
Tips
CYPRESS NORTH
TEENAGE JOB SEEKERS
If you are between 12 and 18 and would like to be added to the
teenage job seeker’s list, please fill out the form on our website (www.
krenekprinting.com, click submissions and choose Jobseekers) with
your name, birthdate (mo. & yr.), phone number, year you will graduate
and the name of your newsletter/subdivision. Check the list of jobs you
want on your form. Please make sure your email is correct, we send
emails in the summer to make sure all the info is still good and that you
want to stay on the list. If we do not hear back from you after 3 tries, we
will remove you from the list until we do. Must have parent(s) permission.
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on the Teenage Job Seeker List. Please ask for and check out references if you do not
personally know those listed. This is just a list of teenagers from the subdivision who wish
to find part time jobs. Responsibility for any work done by these teenagers is between
those seeking helpers and the teens and their parents.
CODE KEY: B - BABYSITTING, CPR - CPR CERT., FAC - FIRST AID CERT., RCC - RED
CROSS CERT., SS - SAFE SITTER, SL - SWIM LESSONS, PP - PET/PLANT SITTER, P - PET
CARE ONLY, H - HOUSE CARE, L - LAWN CARE, C- CAR CARE/DETAILING, T - TUTORING
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