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• Feed Roses, Flowers and Shrubs with Bayer Advanced 2-in-1 Rose & Flower Care, a combination granular fertilizer with insect control, or Bayer Advanced All-in-One, a liquid combining fertilizer, insect and fungal control. Top-dress the soil with Worm Gold Plus, adding John and Bob’s Soil Optimizer to stimulate organic activity. In addition, for Roses, adding Epsom Salts will help with basal breaks, forming new canes on older rose bushes. |
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• It’s not too late to prune your Roses and Fruit Trees if you haven’t done so already. Use Lilly Miller Kop-R-Spray mixed with Lilly Miller Superior Type Spray Oil to prevent Peach Leaf Curl, insects and diseases. Grangetto’s carries Backpack and Hand Sprayers to make spraying easy. |
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• Fertilize azaleas, camellias and gardenias with slow release Lilly Miller Rhododendron Evergreen & Azalea Food 10-5-4, which contains Cottonseed Meal for these acid lovers or Dr. Earth Rhododendron Azalea & Camellia 4-5-4 Fertilizer. |
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• Fertilize citrus, avocado, berries and grapes with Best Triple 15 or Dr. Earth Organic Fruit Tree Fertilizer plus Citrus & Avocado. Shrubs, ground covers, and trees need feeding as well. |
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• Use Gardner & Bloome Soil Building Compost for planting all bare root fruit trees, shrubs, roses & landscape plants.
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• Feed lawns with Best Nitra King 19-4-4 for green, healthy grass and follow up with Green Light Crabgrass Preventer for control of broadleaf weeds. It stops weed seed from sprouting. |
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• For an all-in-one, quick and easy fertilizer and weed killer use Best Turf Supreme 16-6-8 with Trimec. This amazing product fertilizes and kills select broadleaf weeds in turf. |
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• In flower beds use the Flexrake Hula-Ho to first clean up weeds, followed by applications of Granular Green Light Amaze. Preventing weeds saves many hours of labor spent in removing them later. |
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• Control winter weeds with Roundup Quickpro. Winter rains will encourage rapid nuisance weed growth. Both products are rainfast in one hour. Soon available at Grangetto’s, a more concentrated, 30-minute rainfast weed control - Roundup ProMax! |
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• Looking for a natural way to prevent weeds? DeWitt Weed Barrier Landscape Fabric prevents weeds without chemicals. It still allows air, water and nutrients to through. Get 20% off all 6yr and 12yr DeWitt Weed Barrier this month! |
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• Finish pruning of deciduous fruit trees and roses. Remove crossing branches and dead wood. Clean up all leaf litter which can harbor insects and disease. Replace old worn tools with Corona Pruners. See our ad for pruners on sale this month! |
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• Gloves make pruning an easier especially when pruning those Roses. Ouch, spikes! Get 15% off all Boss Gloves this month with your Preferred card. Not a Preferred member? Sign up in any of our four locations or sign up here. |
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• Do you want to improve your soil, retain moisture to save water and soften hard clay soils while filling the air in your yard with the sweet fragrance of cocoa? Then use Blommer Cocoa Mulch by Kellogg. On sale this month at Grangetto’s. Use new mulch regularly around plants, vegetable gardens and trees. |
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• Use Macabee Traps or The Original Blackwhole Trap to rid your garden of gophers. These pests cause much damage, eating roots from lawns, shrubs and ground covers. |
