Maintaining Your Landscape - June

-Deadhead your plants by removing faded flowers. This will encourage reblooming and keep the plants healthy.
-Make your final pinch on fall blooming asters and mums.
-Stake tall growing plants, such as delphinium, tomatoes, and dahlias.
-Weed your garden beds.
-Complete your final harvest of rhubarb to ensure it stores enough energy for next year.
-Tie vining plants, such as climbing roses, trumpet vine, honeysuckle, thunbergia, and morning glories, to trellises.
-Mulch your garden to help reduce watering in the summer.
-Fertilize your lawn with a weed and feed fertilizer.
-Fertilize your gardens by applying liquid fertilizer, such as Miracle-Gro, once a week.
-Mow your lawn to a height of 2 to 3 inches.
-Water your lawn twice a week at the most.
-Keep an eye on your plants for insects and any possible damage.

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