- Yellow or undersized foliage on your trees indicates a lack of nourishment. Feed them regularly, but don’t overdo it.
- Fertilize your houseplants frequently to ensure vigorous growth.
- You can sow a fall crop of bush beans now. Plant seeds two inches deep to protect them from the hot sun. You can sow other vegetable seeds for an autumn yield, too, by planting them just a little deeper than you did in the spring. The best time to plant is after a rain shower.
- Continue to dead-head (remove dead flowers) your annuals to encourage continued blooming.
- Summer blooming shrubs should be pruned for shape immediately after they have finished flowering. Remove any dead or diseased branches.
- Fertilize flowering shrubs like rhododendrons, camelias and azaleas immediately after they have finished flowering with a ‘Rhododendron’ or ‘Evergreen’ type fertilizer.
- Begin enjoying the harvest of your homegrown fruits, vegetables and herbs!
- Fertilize June-bearing strawberries after the harvest, and ever-bearing varieties half way through the season.
- Raise the cutting height of the mower. Taller grass cools the roots and helps to keep the moisture in the soil longer.
- Keep the weeds pulled, before they have a chance to flower and go to seed again. Otherwise, you will be fighting newly germinated weed seed for the next several years.
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