• Turfgrass from plugs, sod, sprigs, or seed.
• Roses from containers.
• Container-grown fruit and pecan trees.
• Warm-season flowers including (sun) periwinkles, cosmos, portulaca, copper leaf, marigolds, zinnias, lantana; (shade) caladiums, coleus, begonia, impatiens, and nicotiana.
• Warm-season vegetables including melons, okra, southern peas, corn, squash, beans, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes.
• Container flowers, in pots and baskets. Use a potting soil mix containing compost.
• Summer and fall-flowering perennials.
• Herb garden plants in beds, pots, and hanging baskets.
• Re-pot houseplants if needed.

• All planting areas deeply but infrequently during dry periods.
• Potted plants as needed.

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• Summer-flowering shrubs and roses with organic fertilizers.
• Spray rose foliage weekly with Garrett Juice, Epsom salts, and garlic tea.
• Foliar feed all plants with Garrett Juice.

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• Release green lacewings for thrips in roses and glads as well as for general insect control.
• Snails, slugs, pillbugs: diatomaceous earth and garlic-pepper tea, beer traps or citrus sprays.
• Release trichogramma wasps for pecan casebearers.
• Ticks, fleas, and chiggers: diatomaceous earth, sulfur and beneficial nematode.
• Bacterial leaf spot of peaches and plums: Bordeaux mixture, baking soda and water, or garlic-pepper tea.
• Aphids: sugar water blast followed by release of ladybugs.
• Black spot on roses: Garrett Juice, garlic, and potassium bicarbonate spray.
• Fruit sprays: same as above.
• Fire ants: Drench mounds with manure compost tea, molasses, and citrus oil.

• Spring-blooming vines and shrubs immediately after bloom.
• Pick-prune hedges to be wider at the bottom for better light and thicker growth.

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• Mow weekly and leave the clippings on the lawn.
• Turn compost pile.
• Continue to add new vegetative matter and manure to existing and additional compost piles.
• Mulch all bare soil.
• Feed the birds!