With the days still warm and the evenings gradually cooling, now is the perfect time to implement a few essential tips to maintain the vibrancy and health of your plants until the season’s end. Check out our expert’s best practices to sustain a flourishing garden before the season changes.
Garden
- Enjoy the fruits of your labor. Remember to pick plants clean of produce, and do not allow fruits and vegetables to drop and decompose on the ground.
- Pull plants and dispose of them as they finish producing.
- For fall gardeners, plant fall radishes, beets, broccoli, and cauliflower this month for production before hard freezes.
Lawn
- When mowing, leave the blades taller, around 3-3.5″. This will provide better insulation and water usage. Roots also grow deeper in relation to the height of the grass blade.
- Continue to water your lawn, ensuring it receives 1-1.5″ of water per week.
- Towards the end of the month, going into September, consider applying fertilizer. Do not fertilize if the grass is not actively growing. If you want to apply a weed killer at the same time, use Fertilome Weed Free Zone. For lawns with no weeds, apply Fertilome Classic Lawn Food.
Perennials, trees and shrubs
- There are many perennials and shrubs that should be deadheaded at this time (cutting out the dead and faded blooms). Watch for daylilies, spirea, and garden phlox to finish flowering.
- Some plants will start to go into dormancy. These should be trimmed down when completely brown. Spider mites are often a problem in evergreens. If you have spider mites, you should spray with Bonide Systemic Insect Control.
