• Pansies, violets, pinks, snapdragons, flowering cabbage and kale, English daisies, Iceland poppies, wallflowers, garlic, and other cool-season flowers.
• Complete wildflower plantings.
• Trees, shrubs, vines, and spring- and summer-flowering perennials.
• Strawberries.
• Cool-season grasses.

• Newly-planted wildflower area if no rain.
• Newly-planted annuals.

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• All plantings with an organic fertilizer at about 20 lbs/1,000 sq ft.
• Foliar feed all plantings and lawns with Garrett Juice.

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• Brown patch in St. Augustine: cornmeal and compost.
• Peach leaf curl: Bordeaux mixture, garlic-pepper tea or Garrett Juice plus garlic.
• Cabbage loopers in garden: Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)

• Pick-prune shrubs as needed, but save major pruning for winter.
• Remove dead and damaged wood from trees.

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• To re-flower a poinsettia, give it uninterrupted darkness 14 hours each day and light for 10 hours until December, then move to a well-lighted location.
• Mow weekly and leave the clippings on the lawn.
• Build new compost piles and turn old ones.
• Use completed compost to prepare new planting beds.
• Use partially completed compost as a top-dressing mulch for ornamentals and vegetables.
• Feed the birds!