Month-by-Month Planting & Maintenance


JANUARY | FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE
JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER

Excerpted from Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening. 1998, Gulf Publishing Company

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.
  • 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.
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.
  • Mow weekly and leave clippings on the lawn.
  • Turn the compost pile.
  • Feed the birds!
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Excerpted from Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening. 1998, Gulf Publishing Company

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