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Aphids
Feed Your Lawn
Sweet Peas
Magnesium Sulfate

Navlet's Timely Tips

Here at Navlet's Garden Centers, we love to keep you informed about timely gardening tasks and to share our gardening experience and enthusiasm. Below you will find helpful articles and tips on how to care for your garden this season.

Timely Tips Archives
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September, 2006

Be on the lookout for aphids

You should be on the look out for the fall invasion of Aphids. Aphids will attack the new growth on a variety of plants, however they are easy to control with a couple of applications of Insecticidal Soap.

Fall is the most important time of year to feed your lawn

Fall is the most important time of the year to feed lawns. During the winter months, grass develops the underground stems for next years' growth. Depending on the variety, new roots develop to fill the bare spots and thicken up thinning lawns. Two applications of complete lawn food are recommended between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. A turf that is properly fed will not turn an ugly yellow/brown color in January.

Sweet Peas

Sweet Peas planted now will be in bloom for the upcoming holidays. Most varieties need support to grow. Instead of a traditional trellis or netting, try planting them in front of climbing roses, letting them use the rose canes for support. As the rose(s) defoliates with the winter cold, the attractive Sweet Pea foliage and flowers cover the bare canes.

Magnesium Sulfate for dark green leaves

Now is good time to feed roses Magnesium Sulfate. Magnesium Sulfate is applied twice a year for dark green leaves and to encourage the basal shoots or breaks at the bud union. The new basal shoots provide choices for replacing the older canes. Each rose bush should receive between a 1/4 and 1/2 cup of Magnesium Sulfate per bush. It’s not necessary to cultivate it into the soil.