Horticulture Hotline 04/22/19
By Bill Lamson-Scribner
Here is a quick list of questions about events in the yard:
Soil tested? Custom
Program written? Apply the products that your soil needs instead of guessing.
Doing soil tests are cheaper and provide better results than random
applications. With the heavy rain events the last 3 years, many nutrients have
been leached from the soil. Why do you think farmers with hundreds of acres’
soil test?
“I started using Possum’s recipe for my
lawn 3 years ago and I have never had a better lawn in the 35 years that I have
been trying to grow the perfect lawn. Possum’s is awesome! I have the best lawn
in the neighborhood.” Greg Lienert
“The Best!
Cookbook program very user friendly—plus the support!!”
Bernard Arnold, O.D.
“Great products for my lawn. 15-00-15 Lawn Food! My lawn never looked better! Better than Scotts! Great Products!” George Bryant
Mosquitoes? Do you have a plan?
Prune and fertilize azaleas, camellias and other spring
flowering plants after they bloom? Wait on Gardenias for now.
Fertilized your trees and shrubs? 17-00-09, 08-02-04
(organic), Professional feeding?
Huge fleshy leaves on new growth of camellias and azaleas?
Leaf gall? Remove infected leaves and destroy.
Is Powdery mildew attacking roses, crepe myrtles, dogwoods? Neem PY (organic)
Large Patch Fungus in turf – get an early start – prevention
is cheaper than curative. Fame, T-Methyl, and Prophesy are a few chemical
controls. Crab Shells, Serenade, and Natures Blend are organic controls that
“fix” the problem.
Adult mole crickets are tunneling and mating – manage them. Intice
Bait.
Fire ants are starting to forage – manage them. Lebanon Insect Control, Extinguish Plus.
Grubs are near the surface – manage them. Some of these
grubs will emerge into Japanese beetles that will shred your plant’s foliage in
a month (especially roses and crepe myrtles). Kill them now! Lebanon Insect Control, Grub X.
Get a “jump” on fleas this year. Lebanon Insect Control, Bug
Blaster outside. Precor 2000, Alpine Flea Insecticide with IGR or Ultracide all
have an adulticide as well as a growth regulator and are labeled for indoor
use. Prefurred Plus to apply to pet.
Plant a vegetable garden?
Plant a flower garden?
If you applied preemergent in February, it is time for your
second application (depending on the rate and product you used the first time).
Remember the ornamental beds!
The leaves have fallen – new mulch?
Fertilized Palm Trees with 07-00-09 (the most awesome Palm
Fertilizer)?
Tested your well water? Many are getting salty.
Pruned holly fern, cast iron plant, and monkey grass (Liriope)?
Moles? Mole Patrol, Traps, Repellex?
Checked your irrigation?
Always read, understand, and follow product label – it is a
Federal Law.
