Flower Power Garden Hour 151: August To Do & Listener Q&A

Flower Power Garden Hour

Lots of tasks during the hot summer season, including:

• Plant cabbage, carrots, beets, celery, kale, onion seeds, potatoes, mustards, chard, collards, leeks
• Deadhead flowers
• Hose off whiteflies, sticky traps
• Clean up old fruit on trees, ground
• Still time to summer prune fruit trees
• Order fall bulbs
• Support melons on the ground or on vines
• Continue to deep water young, newly planted trees
• Deadhead, cut back mophead hydrangeas

A wide variety of listener questions are addressed, including:

• How to control Leaf Miners on cucumber
• What type of milkweed for Monarch butterflies
• Lawn clippings for mulch?
• How to get rid of green hornworms
• Yellowing leaves on mandarins & limes
• Bubbles from the soil while when watering potted plants
• Pepper plant with black at the base of stems
• Do sunflowers stunt the growth of surrounding plants

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