Monthly Suggestions...

Here's what to do this month and for the rest of the year to maximize your home garden:

September

• Re-seed your lawn
• Apply fall lawn fertilizer
• Plant mums

October

• Plant Spring-blooming bulbs
• Pick-up leaves
• Fertilize your lawn
• Apply manure to your vegetable garden

November

• Prune your evergreen shrubs
• Cut back ornamental grass
• Pick up leaves
• Cut back perennials

December

• Finish fall leaves clean-up
• Spray Wilt-Pruf on broadleaf evergreen shrubs
• Apply Deer-netting if necessary