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Some of the flowers, such as petunias, that you enjoyed into June will probably not tolerate the heat and humidity of summer.
Water is the best tool against heat. Keeping the soil consistently damp down into the root zone ensures you’re giving plants ...
If weeds grow again, remember: Weeds are one of the few things in life that provide a second chance; if the root survives, many weeds will grow again. Carol Cloud Bailey is a landscape counselor ...
For Northeast Florida, you want to make two applications, 60 days apart. The first application should be around March 1, or when we have a few 70-degree days in a row. Choosing the herbicide can ...
A mild winter kept the weeds growing; control now before they become too plentiful. 38 . Renew mulch layers and consider use of a preemergence herbicide to prevent weeds.
Sen. Rob Bradley’s Senate Bill 82 prohibits a county or municipality from regulating vegetable gardens on residential properties, voiding any current regulations regarding the produce patches.
In Northeast Florida, March 1st is a good target date. However, the more specific answer is when day temperatures reach 65°F–70°F for 4 or 5 consecutive days. What about “weed-n-feed ...
Helen Laurence’s pond garden is shown on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, at her Lake Worth Beach home, one of the stops on the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society’s Native ...
I just remove weeds by hand. But I have not found hand weeding successful in a large daylily bed infested with Florida betony. I did succeed in removing the weed without herbicides, however.
Maintain a mulch in the garden and use microsprinklers or soaker hoses to conserve water. 58 . Keep bananas and papaya moist and feed monthly to have flowers by late summer.