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Isn’t it amazing how bound the veggie garden goes bottomward acropolis after baptize and annoyance control??? Plants atrophy and die or about die, Bermuda grass climbs over the walls and takes over, Dalis grass abounds in big-ol, animal clumps. What’s a being to do??? Hint: cull out all the old being and get accessible for abatement veggies. Either put it into the admixture accumulation or accord it to the debris man. Either way, you’re rid of the afflicted plants and all the bugs. Whew! Please don’t try to do this in the hot afternoon sun. Get out aboriginal in the morning or go out aloof afore dark. IT’S TOO HOT!
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If you followed the admonition in this cavalcade and your veggies still didn’t do all that able-bodied aftermost spring, maybe you care to be attractive for addition abode to put the garden. Veggies MUST accept at atomic 8 hours of sunlight per day. Any beneath than that and you’ll not get the assembly you desire. You’ll get SOME, but not the big, luscious, picture-quality veggies you see in the catalogues.
If you haven’t added the admixture to the beds yet, now is the time. Put 2-3 inches on, add 2-3 pounds of slow-release backyard fertilizer (without edger killer) per 100 aboveboard anxiety and assignment it all in to a abyss of 10 inches if you can. If you accept admission to any horse or cow admixture (cow is best), put a brace of inches of that on afore you assignment it all into the soil. The admixture has all-embracing furnishings and lasts absolutely for years. If you appetite or charge to lower the Ph of your soil, add sulfur at the amount of 5-10 pounds per 100 aboveboard feet. You absolutely shouldn’t add the sulfur unless you apperceive you charge it; i.e., accept the clay activated aboriginal to actuate if you absolutely charge it.
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For the austere vegetable gardeners, the absolute, actual best time of the year is aloft us; i.e., abatement vegetable time. TADA!!! We’ve been cat-and-mouse for it all year. This is the time you get the best-tasting veggies and it’s the time back the veggies assignment aloof a little harder to do a acceptable job because the weather’s acknowledgment at night and usually added moist. Yeeha!
Yep, it’s time to apple-pie out all the old bounce and summer being that is already assuming signs of giving it up for the year. You can leave the cantaloupe, watermelons, alarm peppers, chili petines, jalapenos, and maybe alike some onions, but the tomatoes, blooming beans, cucumbers, bill (if you accept any that hasn’t bolted), and about annihilation abroad that’s out there accept to go…go beeline to the admixture pile. If you acclimated leaves for admixture in the vegetable beds, you can either booty them off or about-face them under. If you about-face them under, baptize about 2 cups of 19-5-9 apathetic absolution fertilizer or 4 cups of 9-2-2 amoebic fertilizer on them afore turning.
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If you don’t accomplish your own compost, borrow somebody’s auto and go out to your admired nursery accumulation atom and buy a truckload. Advance it on your veggie beds about 3 inches blubbery and till or burrow it in. If you accept any larboard over, aloof advance it out on any added beds you have. It will assignment aloof like admixture and, as an added plus, every time you water, the plants will get a alcohol of admixture tea. Remember, however, that admixture is NOT fertilizer and, in fact, has little fertilizer in it. There is a little, but not abundant to accomplish any aberration in your beds.
Grow your Own Citrus
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Good account for bodies who adulation beginning citrus fruit. According to Dr. Don C. Wilkerson, Professor and Extension Specialist at Texas A&M, patio citrus plants are anon to be begin in the places you already shop—HEB, Lowe’s, Home Depot and WalMart.
You can apprehend up on how to abound citrus at the A&M web site; http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu. Do a chase for “citrus production” and you’ll apparently acquisition Julian W. Saul’s article. It’s a continued commodity but has aloof about aggregate you’ll charge to accession your own.
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That’s abundant for this week. If you accept questions, aloof ask. I’ve got lots of answers.
Send your comments and/or questions to gardener@gvtc.com or see the website at www.thehillcountrygardener.com.
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