April Checklist
ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS: Continue planting warm season annuals and perennials. Work compost into the beds before planting and apply fertilizer such as MicroLife 6-2-4 or 8-4-6 after planting. Water the planting in well. Add large colorful pots of combination plantings to your landscape. Be sure to include tall, medium and trailing plants- also known as “the thriller, the filler and the spiller”!!! Check for insects such as Aphids, Caterpillars and Mealybugs regularly. Use Safer Insecticidal Soap, Spinosad Soap or Captain Jack’s Dead-bug Brew as organic options, or consult out staff for [...]
August Gardening Checklist
August Gardening Checklist Gardening in August in Central Texas is always a challenge. However, there are some timely activities that can and should be addressed this month. Watering should take center stage, with infrequent, deep watering preferred to frequent, shallow watering. Watch our video on how to determine how long and how often to water your lawn HERE. Annuals and perennials: There is still time to plant heat-loving annuals in those bare spots in the landscape. Many of the heat-lovers, such as Vinca, Angelonia and Penta will thrive all the [...]
December Gardening Checklist
December Gardening Checklist Vegetable Gardens: Plant lettuce, radish and spinach from seed or transplants. Cover whenever frost or freeze is expected. Prepare for January planting of onions. Make a planting plan for spring that includes crop rotation. Lawns: Water lawns with 1” of water if it hasn’t rained 1” in the last 2-3 weeks. Remove any leaves that have fallen so that water can get to the soil and the leaves don’t shade the grass (especially St. Augustine, which may have some green leaves) during the winter months. Winterize your [...]
February Gardening Checklist
February Gardening Guide for Central Texas What to Plant, Prune, and Protect This Month February is a pivotal month for Central Texas gardeners. While winter isn’t quite finished, the soil is warming, cool-season crops are thriving, and proper timing now sets the stage for a successful spring. Here’s what to focus on in your vegetable garden, landscape beds, trees, and lawn this month. 🌱 Vegetables: Plant Early, Protect From Freezes Onions Onion transplants should be planted before mid-February for best results. Getting them in the ground early allows bulbs to [...]
January Gardening Checklist
ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS: Continue watering and fertilizing cool-season annuals to ensure productive flowering. Use NutriStar Color Star time-release fertilizer once a month for continuous feeding. Pansies are particularly heavy-feeders, and will always respond to fertilization with added blooms. Continue planting pansies, violas, ornamental cabbage and kale, snapdragons, dusty miller and cyclamen (protect cyclamen from freezes). VEGETABLES: If you plan on growing transplants for spring planting, count back 6-8 weeks from the last average frost date to start tomato and pepper seedlings. This is early to [...]
July Gardening Checklist
Vegetables: Believe it or not, it is time to plant tomato plants once again! Tomatoes may be successfully grown for a fall harvest in Central Texas if planted this month. You can purchase transplants or use your spring tomato plants again if they are not infested with insects or disease. Read how to grow Fall Tomatoes in our blog HERE. We suggest choosing either a “determinate” type tomato (see info sheet), or a variety that has 60-70 “days to harvest”. I have also grown some 80-90 “days to harvest” varieties [...]