TOO EARLY FOR DORMANT FEEDING, PRUNING OF TREES, SHRUBS, PERENNIALS -The key word for all these activities is “DORMANT”. While the plants in our landscapes are still in their active growth stage, feeding will stimulate new growth, which will not harden off before winter. Trees, shrubs and perennials will continue to push new growth that
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Control Broadleaf Perennial Weeds – The first job for homeowners on lawns in the fall is to make the lawn free of all broadleaf perennial weeds. No matter how thick the lawn is, weed seeds (dandelions, clover, plantain, etc.) have blown in over the spring and summer, and the immature weeds are growing in your
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For the first 7 months of 2019 and for the second year in a row, we experienced significantly higher than normal rainfall in Bucks and Montgomery counties. This produced several notable growing situations, some good, some not-so-good. On the good side, we had record rates of growth on lawns, shrubs and smaller plants in the
August and September in the landscape are for planting of fall mums, perennials and shrubs, for cutting down or removing leggy/overgrown annuals, for scarifying crusty spring mulch and pulling weeds from the beds, and applying fresh mulch for the fall and winter blanket. Until we’ve had a killing frost (around late October) it’s still too
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Crabgrass, Japanese Stiltgrass, and Yellow Nutsedge – As mentioned above, because of the excessive summer rainfall, we’ve noticed a lot of breakthrough in late July and August of annual grassy weeds such as crabgrass and Japanese stiltgrass, even on lawns that were treated pre-emergently in April and/or May. The control products simply ran out of
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