(July 12, 2006)
We are in the hottest part of the Summer.July and August are the months to keep things alive. Hold off on your planting, or you can wait until September when it begins to cool down.
It's important to continue watering your lawn and plants 1 inch a week; pots need water every day.
This extremely hot weather has damaged many of the older trees and shrubs; many of the limbs and branches are withering and dying, usually the roots have been damaged.
If you place a soaker hose around the trunk of the tree or shrub and let it run slowly overnight, it may be saved.
Place a 1/4" layer of COMPOST around the drip line and water it in. Add 2 - 3 inches of mulch around the tree roots.
Continue to water deep every 10 days.
Most of the CRAPE MYRTLE trees have bloomed one time.
To help them bloom again, remove as many of the dried buds as possible. Fertilize and water deeply.
They usually bloom until frost.
Im grateful to the KBB group for keeping the plants watered and weeded while I have been recuperating from Knee Replacement Surgery.
Thanks to Suzette Connell, Glenn Johnson, Susan Moore, Retta Martin, Glenn Page, tom Philips, and Cordelia Willgren for being faithful.
At this time I do a lot of sitting and pointing. I'm very glad to be back on the job.
- Judy Dorsett
