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May is a great month to …
May 19, 2006 |
May days are here! Now is a great time to get a handle on those garden chores you’ve been neglecting
- Garden tools should be sharpened, use a rasp and go over the baldes of the shovel, hoe, and any other tools you use, you’ll see a great improvement.
- Rose’s … I LOVE them always finding room for “just one more” my rose beds are overflowing with bloom and color. Roses love fertilizer, in the growing season I fertlilize once a month and dead head spent blooms once a week. {deadheading = removing old blooms, how? cut below the dead bloom but just above from a five leaflet on the stem, soon that cut will be replaced with a new shoot with bud and blooms}
- Weeds, weeds and more weeds … that is what you get if you don’t get a grip on them now! Get to it while the weeds are small and then each week cultivate the beds with a hoe and soon you will see that your beds are looking better with nary a weed.
- If you have Camelias, Gardenias or any other plants that crave an acidic based fertilizer, get going on it! Camelias should only be fertilized in months that have no “R” in other words, fertilize in May, June, July and August ONLY.
- Citrus plants could do well with a bit of tending, cut away any brown shoots, dead opt dying wood, cultivate the beds and give a drink of specialty citrus fertilizer.
- Does it seem I’m hooked on fertilizer? YES! with all the rains we’ve had here in Southern California this year it has left our soils thirsty for nutrients, and many times too much water will cause a washed out pale look on your plants, this is due to iron defficencies from the rains washing this vital nutrient out of the soil.
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