Its July now is the time to:
Early maturing vegetables such as leaf lettuce, radishes and spinach turn bitter and go to seed in Julys heat. Pull them up, add a little fertilizer, and replant with broccoli, cabbage or cauliflower to harvest next fall. Or, instead of vegetables, you could sow a green manure cover crop -- clover, buckwheat, or annual rye-- to keep weeds out. Then turn them into the soil in the fall, before they go to seed, to add nutrients and organic matter for next year.Make a habit of deadheading (removing faded blossoms) whenever possible from flowering annuals and perennials to prevent infection by the gray mold pathogen, Botrutis. (this disease is favored in warm, humid weather typical of July and August.) Flower infections can ultimately lead to the death of the entire plant. Of course, deadheading keeps plants looking better, too, and encourages them to keep blooming.Summer lawn tips: Raise the height of your lawn mower blade to 3 and mow when the grass is 4 to 4 tall. Water the lawn thoroughly when walking across leaves footprints that dont spring right back.Wait to fertilize until late August or September when temps cool and grass grows actively again. Dig up weeds now, but dont spray the lawn with herbicide until fall. Becker County Master Gardeners are available to help answer your gardening questions at the Plant, Pest and Gardening Clinics every Monday (May-September) and Friday (June-August) from 9 a.m.-noon at the Extension Office (1120 8th St. SE, Detroit Lakes) or call 846-7328. http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEzWEpeuErFmXpg5GDZ0czQ8Gj1kw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=vV1yV7j_B9C-qAL2jqjIAg&url=http://www.dl-online.com/news/4061680-master-gardeners-july-gardening-tips
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