Planting:

• May is a great month for planting new trees & shrubs. Use Gardner & Bloome Worm-Gro when planting.

• Plant irises, canned roses, tropicals and tuberoses.

• Plant a giant pumpkin for Halloween.

• Transplant potted bulbs into the ground.

• Plant zinnias and other heat loving flowers.

• Plant morning glories.

• Plant warm-season lawns. Performance Tall or Dwarf Fescue Sod is always a great buy at just 35¢ per square foot  NEW Varieties Available Soon; Paspalum and Hybrid Bermuda

• Replace cool-season bedding flowers with summer-season flowers. Seeds & pony packs available!

• Continue to plant summer vegetables from seed or pony pack. We carry a huge selection of Stover Quality seeds and Do Rights Pony Packs

• Replace parsley if you haven't already done so.

• Purchase, plant, and transplant succulents.

• Pinch back petunias when you plant them.

Fertilizing:

• Fertilize both cool season (fescue) and warm season (bermuda & St. Augustine) lawns using Best Turf Supreme 16-6-8 or Best Super Turf 25-5-5 (lasts for up to 12 weeks!). Lawns should be fertilized every 4-6 weeks.

• Citrus needs micronutrients for good fruit development. Apply Grow More Citrus Growers Mix.

• Feed citrus trees, avocado trees. Use a good all around fertilizers such as Best Triple Pro 15-15-15

• Feed fuchsias, azaleas, tuberous begonias, water lilies. Feed roses, ferns, flower beds, camellias after they bloom. Magnum Rose Food 8-10-8 is on sale this month! Another great choice in fertilizer is Lilly Miller Azalea, Camellia & Rhododendron Food.

• Side-dress vegetable rows with a good organic fertilizer such as Dr. Earth Tomato and Herb Fertilizer. Fertilize peppers when flowers first show.

• Feed all container-grown succulents with a well-diluted complete liquid fertilizer such as a 20-10-20.

• Watch for pocket gophers making a mess in your yard! Use Wilco Gopher Bait and a Gopher Probe to insert the bait right where you need it. Grangetto’s tall or dwarf fescue seed can repair gopher damaged lawns or can be planted to establish a new lawn. Gives year round lush green color.

• If squirrels become a problem, trap them with a Squirrelinator trap. It can catch dozens of squirrels in a matter of hours. Humane trapping.

• Warmer weather brings out animals such as skunks, raccoons and opossums.  Trap them and move to another location with Havahart Traps.  We carry a large supply.

• For established plants; apply at least 4 inches of mulch to hold in moisture & help prevent weeds. We recommend Gardner & Bloome Soil Building Compost

• Stop pinching fuchsias if you did not do so last month. Remove berries (seed pods) from fuchsias after flowers fall.

• Thin out fruit on deciduous fruit trees.

• Pinch dahlias back when the plant has three sets of leaves; tie the plant up as it grows.

• Continue to pick and deadhead roses.

• Divide and repot cymbidiums that have outgrown their containers.
• Cut off bloom spikes from cymbidiums after flowers fade.

• Prune camellias if you have not already done so.

• Clean and prune azaleas.

• Divide and mount staghorn ferns.

• Prune winter- and spring-flowering vines, shrubs, trees and ground covers after they finish blooming. Corona & Felco are some of our most popular pruning tools!

• Continue to tie up and sucker tomatoes. Sturdy Cage Tomato cages are available!

• As the weather becomes drier, be sure to water most garden plants regularly. Try using a Rain Wand for easy watering.

• Do not water succulents.

• Taper off watering those California native plants that don't accept summer water.

• Control rose pests and diseases. We recommend Bayer 3-in-1 Insect, Disease & Mite Control.

• Spray junipers and Italian cypress for juniper moths.

• Control mildew. We recommend Monterey Fungicides or E-Rase

• Control pests on vegetables. Use Green Light Lawn & Garden Spray with Spinosad. Best of all its OMRI Listed for Organic use and 20% off this month!

• Control weeds among permanent plants by mulching or cultivating.

• Control weeds among vegetables and flowers by hand-pulling.

• This month is a good time to replace old hoses with Gilmour Flexogen Garden Hoses, available in 50 ft., 75 ft. or 100 ft. sizes. They come with a lifetime replacement policy and are on sale this month!

• Harvest vegetables regularly.

• Don’t forget Mother’s Day this month - May 10th.  Surprise her with beautiful pottery, gloves, a special new hand tool or let her choose with a Grangetto’s Gift Card!