Karen's Garden

Calendar: September

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1011 N. Woodlawn

Kirkwood, Missouri

63122

314-965-3070

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Karen Collins, a longtime Sugar Creek employee, has identified
things you can tackle in your garden this month:
    • Roses: Keep spraying roses to control diseases. Sugar Creek Gardens carries a variety of products to aid in maintaining healthy roses. Stop feeding roses to allow them to start to hardening off for winter protection. Avoid cutting plants too heavily; they over winter better if most growth is allowed to remain on plants.
    • All plants that have finished flowering should be cut back heavily. Plants that have become overgrown may be divided now so they will reset new roots before cold weather sets in.
    • Prepare soil deeply for new plantings or resetting divided plants by adding extra organic matter such as Cotton Burr Compost and Espoma Triple Phosphate.
    • Peonies: Peonies are best divided this month.  Do Not set peony roots too deep. They should have no more than one inch of soil over the top, otherwise flowering may not occur.
    • Iris and daylilies may still be planted, but do so immediately.
    • If foliage is showing yellow in the leaves of acid-loving plants such as holly, azaleas and rhododendrons, apply Espoma Sulfur and Espoma Epson Plus now to improve color by spring. Mulch plants well, if needed.
    • Herbs such as parsley, rosemary, chives, thyme and marjoram can be dug from the garden and placed in pots for growing indoors this winter. Sugar Creek Gardens has a wonderful selection of pots for your herbs.
    • Spruce spider mites proliferate in cooler temperatures of fall and can cause substantial damage to spruce, hemlocks, and junipers. Examine yellowing needles now for these mites. Treat if necessary with Ortho Orthenex Insect & Disease Control Concentrate or Ortho Rose & Flower Insect Killer. Also, whitefly can become numerous at this time of year. Treat with Schultz Garden Safe Rose & Flower Insect Spray.
    • September is a perfect time for new plantings. Sugar Creek Gardens has a wonderful selection of perennials for you to fill those empty areas in your garden. Stop by when you have some time, wander through the aisles, and ask our staff for ideas and advice. Don’t leave without purchasing some of our beautiful selection of fall bloomers such as mums, pansies, kale, etc.

    “Make hay while the sun shines.” ~~~ English Proverb 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   

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