Webinar: What to do in your Garden this Month — May, June & July

Here Comes the Sun (May)

• Where should we be?
  • Planting of Summer edibles and annuals
    •  Pumpkins, squash, peppers, herbs, melons
    • Sunflowers, petunias, marigolds, begonias, zinnia
  • Garden-ready show-offs
    • Dahlias, hydrangeas, perennials (salvias, lavenders, etc) and hanging baskets
    • Start new or freshen up old containers (thrill/fill/spill + sloat potting soil)
  • Clean-up
    • Right tools for the right job (hand tools, gloves, hats)
    • Stake tall perennials (dahlias, gladiolas, sunflowers)
    • Deadhead spring bulbs – leave foliage
    • Prune spring flowering shrubs – after bloom to control size & shape
    • Beneficial nematodes to manage grubs, ladybugs to help control aphids/mites
    • Mulch beds w/ forest mulch + to control weeds & moisture
• Feed me:
  •  Indoor – maxsea acid or tappin roots all stages
  • Rhodis, azaleas & camellias – eb stone acid
  • Veggies – eb stone tomato/veg food