Landscape Tips

Baron Brothers Nursery has created the list of landscape tips below for your pleasure. Just look each month for different landscape and garden tips.

Camellias

Keep Camellias well watered this month to prevent them from turning brown and dropping flowers this winter or next spring. To get the largest blooms possible now it the time to disbud by removing all but one flower bud at the tips of the branches. Try to leave mostly downward facing buds for less sun damage and when it rains it will run off the back of the flower rather than soaking into the center and causing rot.

Preparing Lawns for Winter

When preparing for winter, you will need to aerate the lawn first. Mow, and aerate, either by hand or machine. Spread 40lbs of gypsum and 15 cubic feet of organic soil amendment for every 1000 sqft of lawn. Rake minerals into holes and water deeply.

Winter Veggies

Plant veggies such as carrots, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, and swiss chard. To prepare soil, aerate and add soil amendments including manure, seaweed and humus. Wait until november to plant strawberries and globe onions.

Rabbit Repellent

To keep rabbits from terrorizing fall annuals, use moth balls. If you have small, children use moth crystals, as the balls can be mistaken as candy. The smell also deters cats, dogs, oppasums, and skunks.

Citrus & Avocado Trees

Be sure that citrus and avocado trees are deeply and evenly watered in September, if their roots dry out to much the fruit will split. Make sure there are not fluctuations in water and fertilizer at this time of the year to have best fruit production. If you haven't eaten all of your 'Valencia' oranges yet continue to pick them before they turn green again in fall through a process called "re-greening". Now is also the time to treat lemons for brown rot by keeping the ground clear of dead fruit and debris that fungi reproduce in and by spraying the tree with an organic fungicide.