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Scalping Your Lawn March 24th, 2010

It’s spring time again, and that means lawn care responsibility is about in increase. That isn’t a bad thing either. Just make sure you know the proper steps to take as you start your regular lawn care maintenance.

The first step of the new lawn season is scalping your lawn. Scalping encourages earlier healthy grass growth and also helps prevent thatch and weed growth throughout the summer.

It is so important to scalp your lawn at the proper time. Scalping to early can have a negative effect on your lawn. When you scalp, the frost season needs to be completely over. For Georgia, waiting until the 2nd or 3rd week of April is a perfect time.

To scalp your lawn, lower your mower’s blades to the lowest setting and mow your lawn. Make sure you bag your clippings for this process. If your grass is thicker and taller you might want to mow it twice, once on a higher setting, then on the lowest.

Once you have done this, maintain a regular mow on your lawn.

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Weed Pro – July Gardening Calendar July 9th, 2009

-Be sure to uncover any irrigation heads in your landscape that are covered with pine-straw mulch, this will prevent damage to your heads and insure proper water coverage to your plants.

-Check for water leaks or wet areas in the turf and landscape beds. Also, keep lawns at about 2 or 3”, to protect from summer heat.

-Regularly water your flower pots on average every two days during the summer. Use a moisture meter purchased from a local hardware store to help determine moisture levels.

-Remove faded and dead flowers from zinnia, salvia, coneflower and petunia’s. This will encourage new bushiness and more flowers. Do a final pinching by mid-July, of fall blooming flowers like mums and asters.

-Attention Hydrangea lovers! Remove all old stems that support faded flowers on your plants; shorten droopy, flowerless stems by one-third to promote new growth that occurs on next year’s blooms. Also, depending on your variety, try a 0-30-0 fertilizer to help promote blooms.

-Plant your cosmos, cleome, and dwarf sunflowers now before it’s too late. They’ll make a spectacular flower display in about six weeks. Also, focus on heat and rain resistant flowers like: coleus, hibiscus and zinnias. Give plants a mid-season feeding or side dressing to get them through to the fall.

-Bermuda, and Zoysia grass sod can be successfully installed in bare spots now. Make sure to loosen the soil six inches deep before putting the sod in place and keep it very moist. Mow grass growing in the shade one-half to one inch higher than the normally recommended height. Plants need as much leaf surface as possible to take advantage of any available light.

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Weed Pro – June Gardening Calendar June 2nd, 2009

FIRST WEEK

*Weed Pro (Your Selected Lawn Care Treatment Program Application)!
(Round #4 June/July) http://weedpro.com/Traditional/traditional_plus.html or http://weedpro.com/Organic_Lawn/organic_service.html
Post-emergence Weed Control for Turf and Beds. http://weedpro.com/Traditional/herbicides.html
Perform a soil test for fescue lawns. http://weedpro.com/Traditional/soil_test.html
Fertilize, Hand Remove Weeds and Deadhead Flowers in Landscape
Complete All Flower bed Installations! http://weedpro.com/Flowers/flowers.html
Keep your shrubs watered with one gallon per foot of height for best results. http://www.urbanagcouncil.com/
It’s ok to remove one fourth of the foliage of any healthy tree during the growing season if low limbs are hanging over sidewalks or driveways etc.

SECOND WEEK

*Weed Pro (Your Selected Tree & Shrub Program)!
(Round #3 May/June). http://weedpro.com/Organic_Tree_Shrub/organic_tree_shrub.html
Consider using soaker hose irrigation or drip irrigation for all your annuals, perennials and shrubs.
Check your lawn for “Brown Patch” Fungi, if you see circular, dead, brown spots call Weed Pro for an evaluation. http://weedpro.com/Education/edu_video.php?sec=2
It’s time to Mulch your vegetable garden! Try using newspaper to cover the ground around the plants, then cover with a mulch product.. http://weedpro.com/Maintenance/mulch.html http://weedpro.com/Maintenance/pinestraw.html
Ask your friends and relatives to save their emptied medicine bottles. They can be re-labeled, keeping plant seeds dry and easy to store.

THIRD WEEK

Collect the seeds from foxglove stalks. Scratch the soil around the plant and cover the seed with a bit of soil. Water occasionally and the seedlings will bloom next year.
Keep your outdoor houseplants watered regularly. Also invest in a water moisture meter, they work great for Flower pots and will help you from over watering. Over watering causes root rot!
Plant your summer annuals near the entry of your home, the visual impact is sure to impress your friends. http://weedpro.com/Flowers/flowers.html

FOURTH WEEK

Prune Azaleas after the Bloom Cycle.
Keep your mower height high based on your grass variety, this will help your turf withstand dry hot weather. Also, keep your mower blades sharp to reduce ragged cuts.http://weedpro.com/Education/edu_video.php?sec=1
Prune your hydrangeas back after the blooms have faded. This will increase new flowers in the fall season.
Water your lawn once per week if restrictions allow. http://www.urbanagcouncil.com/
Prune all shrubs (Based on Horticultural Requirements)
Remove Tree suckers and any Vines Growing on Shrubs

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Weed Pro – May Calendar May 7th, 2009

FIRST WEEK
*Selected Lawn Care Treatment Program Application
(Round #3 April/May)

Post-emergence Weed Control for Turf and Beds
Apply post-emergent weed control as needed.

*Tree & Shrub Program http://weedpro.com/Organic_Tree_Shrub/organic_tree_shrub.html
(Round #3 May/June)Pruning of All Shrubs (Based on Horticultural Requirements)

Cut Back Spring Bulbs after Foliage Dies Down
Prune Spring Flowering Shrubs after Blooming
Remove Tree Suckers and Any Vines Growing on Shrubs
Fill the ruts and low spots in your lawn with a 1:1 mixture of sand and topsoil. Sweep with a broom afterwards to expose growing grass blade

SECOND WEEK

Snip off sprouts from the base and lower trunk of crepe myrtles that are being trained to grow in an upright tree form.
Remove leafless limbs from shade trees. If they don’t have leaves by now, they won’t be coming back.
Prune early-flowering azaleas now that they have finished blooming. Remove tall sprouts at their base, inside the shrub.

THIRD WEEK

Pinch out the growing tips of rhododendron limbs now that flowers are gone. You’ll get many more flowers next year.
Place a newspaper mulch 10 sheets thick under tomato plants to prevent leaf diseases. Cover with pine straw.

FOURTH WEEK

Get in the habit of wearing a hat and sunscreen whenever you work in the sun. Skin cancer cases are on the rise.
Plants need an inch of water per week. What’s an inch of water? If rainfall or irrigation fills an empty soup can to a depth of one inch, that’s just what plants need.
Don’t put rocks in the bottom of houseplant pots. They actually decrease drainage and aeration for the plant roots.
The best time to water is between 10:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. This allows the grass to dry before nightfall the next day and prevents disease.

• Control fire ants http://www.weedpro.com/Traditional/fire_ant_control.html

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