Gardening Tips from Sunshine Garden Center

September Green Ideas

For Your Lawn

• Go ahead with a fall weed and feed treatment.  It is also a good time to reseed or repair patches in your lawn.  If you do any seeding, however, avoid the weed killers and go with a starter fertilizer.
  

For Your Flower Beds

• Annuals:  Continue to deadhead as needed.  If the plants are looking sorry, it is time to pull them out and replace them with mums, pansies, snapdragons or other frost resistant, cool weather plants.  
• Perennials:  Pinch spent flowers here as well.  If they are looking too stressed, cut them back to a few inches.  The plants will come back stronger and healthier. 
• Fall Bulbs:  Plant your bulbs once the daytime temperatures cool down.  Don’t forget the bone meal.  Bone meal will feed the bulb now so in the spring it will have stronger flowers and stems.  

For Your Trees and Shrubs

• Feed your landscape with a low nitrogen, winterizing fertilizer.  
• It is time to give your rose bushes a shot of bone meal.  This will feed the roots for the winter.