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| Winter
Landscape Tips (2005-2006) |
- It’s too late to preventatively
treat for winter weeds in your lawns and flower beds, but now
is the time (early to mid January)to treat for your spring/summer
weeds. I like to use a fertilizer combination with Barricade
for lawns. There are many choices to use and where to purchase.
Read the label!
- If you haven’t mulched yet, go ahead and do so with
pine bark mulch. I don’t like using hardwood mulches because
they can actually pull Nitrogen from your soil which is the
main nutrient your plants depend on. Pine bark is also acidic
and all our soils in Houston need to have a PH of about 6.0-6.5
for most plants to do well.
- It’s time to think about fire ant prevention for the
coming season. March is the best time for a broadcast treatment
of your beds and lawns. Go ahead and treat individual mounds
as you see them. Remember never kick a mound to see if there
is activity. Doing that will only cause the mound to likely
split up and create new ones.
- Also January-February is a good time to use a granular insecticide
to perimeter treat your entire house for roaches, spiders, etc.
As soon as Spring flushes, so will the critters.
- Remember the 3 P’s - plants, pipes and pets when a good
freeze warning is on us. You could be sorry if you don’t.
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