Gardening Tips
Flowers:
- Root cuttings of favorite summer annual to winter-over indoors.
- Plant pansies, adding compost and fertilizer to the bed.
- Divide and transplant spring perennials.
- Dig up tender summer bulbs, dry them for a week, then store them in peat moss in a dry location protected from freezing.
- Fertilize azaleas and camellias by mid-October, if needed.
- Add more mulch to beds if necessary. Fallen leaves make great mulch.
- Plant container and balled and burlapped plants - cooler temperatures will make it less stressful for plants to establish roots.
- Transplant evergreens, making sure roots are kept moist.
- Plant cool season grass when daytime temperatures average 70 degrees and nighttime temperatures average 50 degrees.
- Water warm season grasses until they go dormant.
- Plant onion sets now until mid-November.
- Harvest sweet potatoes before the first frost.
- Cultivate the top few inches of soil to interrupt the life cycle of insects that over winter in the ground.