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JANUARY
| FEBRUARY | MARCH
| APRIL | MAY | JUNE
JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER
| OCTOBER | NOVEMBER
| DECEMBER
Excerpted
from Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening. 1998, Gulf
Publishing Company
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SEPTEMBER:
| PLANT |
WATER |
- Cool-season,
leafy root crops such as carrots, beets, turnips, etc.
- Wildflower
seeds.
- Finish
warm-season lawn grass plantings by early September.
- Transplant
established spring-flowering bulbs, iris, daylilies, daisies,
and peonies.
- Perennials.
- Cool-season
grasses.
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- Water
deeply during dry spells.
- Potted
plants and hanging baskets regularly.
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| FERTILIZE |
PEST
CONTROL |
- All
planting areas with an organic fertilizer at approximately
20 lbs/1,000 sq ft.
- Foliar
feed all planting and lawns with Garrett Juice.
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- Brown
patch in St. Augustine: cornmeal and compost.
- Webworms,
tent caterpillars: Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
- Grub
worms: sugar and beneficial nematodes.
- Cabbage
loopers on broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts:
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
- Aphids
on tender new fall growth: garlic tea or sugar water blast
followed by release of ladybugs.
- Spray
compacted soil with Garrett Juice.
- Fire
ants: manure compost tea, molasses, and citrus oil.
- Roses
for black spot and powdery mildew: garlic-pepper tea or
Garrett Juice plus garlic and potassium bicarbonate.
- Iron
chlorosis (yellowed leaves, dark green veins, newest growth
first): chelated iron. In calcareous soils, apply sulfur
at 5 lbs/1,000 sq ft twice per year, or Texas greensand.
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| PRUNE |
ODD
JOBS: |
- Root-prune
wisterias that failed to bloom.
- Remove
spent blooms of summer-flowering perennials.
- Remove
surface tree roots if needed, but no more than 20% of
root system per year.
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- Mow
weekly and leave clippings on the lawn.
- Turn
the compost pile.
- Feed
the birds!
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