Here are some tips to prepare your lawn and garden this month:

- Pick fresh flowers to enjoy indoors - after all, you worked hard all spring for this. This will also encourage more blooms on most perennials.

- If you plan to do some landscape planting this fall, now is a good time to decide on the plants to use and how to arrange them.

- Scatter perennial seeds in a row or in open beds this month so that the young seedlings will be ready to be transplanted into their permanent spot next spring.

- Fall is a good time to select and plant trees and shrubs. Fall planting encourages good root development, allowing the plants to get established before spring. If weather is dry, provide water up until the ground freezes.

- Stop fertilizing your trees and flowering shrubs to allow this years growth to harden off before winter.

- Fruits and vegetables should be checked regularly for ripeness. A little practice and experience will tell you when your produce is at it's peak of flavor, and that is when it should be harvested.

- Allow plants to finish the summer growth cycle in a normal manner. Never encourage growth with heavy applications of fertilizer or excessive pruning at this time. Plants will delay their dormancy process that has already begun in anticipation of winter in the months ahead. New growth can be injured by an early freeze.

- September is one of the best months of the entire year for seeding or sodding new lawns.

- Over seed old lawns with fresh seed to help fill in the bare spots and crowd out weeds and mosses.

- Pick your accent plants for your landscape autumn colors. Trees that have red fall color are flowering dogwood, red maple, sugar maple, Norway maple, red oak and scarlet oak. Shrubs with red fall foliage include sumac, viburnum, winged euonymus and barberry.

- Fall is a good time for improving your garden soil. Add manure, compost and leaves to increase the organic matter content. Check out  Perm-A-Mulch

How to Seed Bare Spots And Thin Areas - Provided by Scotts
Summer heat and drought usually cause thin brown spots in the lawn. Luckily, fall is the best time to seed and it’s EASY! Follow these simple steps and you’ll have a thick, green lawn.

 
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