"GARDENING EFFORTS CHANGE NOW FROM MAINTENANCE CHORES TO ACTIVITIES CONNECTED WITH PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING"
Plant or Transplant
" Install containerized trees and shrubs. Plant mums for fall color.
Local nurseries have plentiful selections.
" Fall is great for planting bulbing onions, garlic, greens, kale,
leeks, parsley, peas, radish, rutabaga, spinach, and turnips.
" Cool season grasses such as fescue and rye. Over-seed lawns with
perennial rye for best results. Plant Elbon seed rye cover crop for
nematode control in the garden.
" Sow wildflowers seeds this month.
Diseases
" Look for Brown patch on the lawn. Circular yellowing/browning
areas signal this fungal disease. Treat with a turf fungicide. St. Augustine
is highly susceptible to brown patch.
" Spray for peach leaf curl when the leaves pull off easily when
you run your hand along the branches. Use a copper fungicide.
Insects
" Control pecan weevils early in month with Sevin.*
" Many insects that over winter indoors will begin to enter homes
with advent of first cool weather, pest proofing for rodents as well
as insects is a good idea.
" Control fall webworms in shade trees with Bioworm, Depel, and
other controls.*
Weed Control
" Apply pre-emergent weed-control to reduce annual cool-season
weeds in the lawn. Do not apply if you are going to over-seed with rye.
Fertilize
" Last Application of fertilizer for warm-season lawns. Use a quality,
slow-release nitrogen fertilizer early this month.
" Treat iron deficient plants such as red oak for the last time
this season.
Pruning
" Remove dead limbs on shade trees while they can still be identified
prior to leaf drop.
" Support and cable tree limbs as needed before winter ice storms.
*Read and follow all label directions when using any pesticide or fertilizer!
