• 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