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Monthly Garden Care

 
  Follow these monthly steps to ensure a showplace quality for your Austin area lawn and garden.  
 
January
  Corn Gluten
Top Dress ***
Compost Tea
Cut back plants
Trim trees (if needed)
 
 

February
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Top Dress ***
Compost Tea
Natural Stimulus Spray (Seaweed with Iron, Soil Activator & Molasses)
Corn Gluten
Starting on the 14th - Prune Roses
Cut back plants

 
 

March
 

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Aeration
Compost Tea
Natural Stimulus Spray
Beneficial Nematodes
Sulfur
Mulch beds
Dry Molasses
Fertilize Plants
Start Mowing (2nd half of month)

 
 

April
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Fertilize Lawn (after two mowings)
Lawn Food Spray
Fertilize Plants
Mulch Beds
Aeration
 
 

May
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Natural Stimulus Spray
Compost Tea
Sulfur
Fertilize Plants (not shrubs)
 
 

June
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Fertilize Lawn
Natural Stimulus Spray
Lawn Food Spray
Beneficial Nematodes
Fertilize Plants (not shrubs)
 
 

July
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Natural Stimulus Spray
Compost Tea
 
 

August
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Natural Stimulus Spray
Compost Tea
 
 

September
 

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Corn Gluten
Natural Stimulus Spray
Compost Tea
Dry Molasses
Sulfur
Beneficial Nematodes
Fertilize Plants

 
 

October
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Fertilize Lawn
Natural Stimulus Spray
Fertilize Plants
 
 

November
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Corn Gluten
Natural Stimulus Spray
Compost Tea
Top Dress ***
 
 

December
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Corn Gluten
Natural Stimulus Spray
Compost Tea
Top Dress***
Trim Trees (if needed)

 
    ***The best month to top dress is November or December  
 
 

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