- Enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables from local farms
- Fertilize your roses the first week of the month and then don’t fertilize them any more this year.
- Be alert for wasp nests when mowing and gardening.
- Deadhead annuals to keep them blooming.
- Control weeds before they flower and produce seeds.
- Gather herb leaves before their flowers bloom.
- Divide overcrowded spring-flowering perennials.
- Make plans for your autumn planting of trees, shrubs and perennials.
- Early September is an ideal time for sowing grass seed or establishing a new lawn. Prepare now to renovate that tired lawn.
- Divide and transplant garden lilies and lilies-of-the-valley.
- Sow seeds of California poppy, columbine, delphinium, and gloriosa and Shasta daisy.
- Take cuttings of begonias, coleus and impatiens for winter houseplants.
Adapted from “Seeds of Hope… Harvest of Pride!” – Gardener’s Checklist, www.bright.net/~gardens/index.html