Monthly Bodacious Garden Tips

Apply a slow-release fertilizer to all of your shrubs and trees. We recommend using 10-10-10 or 10-20-20.
Get out and get those grasses and perennials cut back!

Spray your roses with a combination insecticide/fugicide rose spray.
Prune out any dead, diseased, or dying branches. This will trigger your shrub or tree to grow.
Weed and feed your lawn before the weather becomes too hot.
Watch for Gypsy Moths - Spray with Sevin.
Watch for Sawflies on Mugo pines, Austrian pines, and any other hard needle pines. They look like very small worms. Also spray with Sevin.
Spray insect and disease control on your roses and ornamentals.

Liquid feed your annuals, perennials, and hanging baskets with Miracle-Gro. And never let your flowering hanging baskets dry out.
Prune out any dead, diseased, or dying branches. This will trigger your shrub or tree to grow.
Weed and feed your lawn before the weather becomes too hot.
Deadhead your Knockout Roses, Salvia, Coreopsis, and many other perennials to get more blooms. Learn all about deadheading here.

Now is the time when powdery mildew begins to set in on your perennials and shrubs, particularly bee balm, lilac, roses, and even annuals. Treat with a rose and flower fungicide.
From now on and through the rest of the year it is best to use a liquid based fertilizer, such at Miracle-Gro, for your perennials, annuals, and hanging baskets.
On your reblooming daylilies, make sure to cut spent blooms all the way down to the bottom of the stock.

Plan for fall color. We have lots of perennials and shrubs in bud and bloom for fall.
Keep deaheading your daylilies. Make sure to cut spent blooms all the way down to the end of the stock.
Watch for powdery mildew on roses and shrubs. Spray with a rose and flower fungicide.

Get your extra large hardy mums, fall planters, pumpkins and more at Rave's!
Apply grub control to your lawn if you've had a lot of beetle activity over the summer.
Keep deahheading your butterfly bushes for more blooms.

Apply a granular fertilizer, such as 10-10-10 or 5-10-5, to your shrubs and trees. Always follow package directions.
Trim your shrubs and trees. Take out any crossing or rubbing branches on your trees. See our Pruning Guidelines

Cut back your perennials and roses. Perennials can be cut back to the ground. Knockout roses cut back to about 12-15".
Apply an anti-desiccant, such as Wilt-Pruf, to your broadleaf evergreens. This helps reduce winter burn, whereby the plant loses too much moisture over winter from the cold winter winds and plant tissue can become damaged.
Water all new plantings and evergreens thoroughly before dormancy.
Apply deer repellant.