Flower Power Garden Hour 151: August To Do & Listener Q&A

Flower Power Garden Hour

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Lots of tasks during the hot summer season, including:

Plant cabbage, carrots, beets, celery, kale, onion seeds, potatoes, mustards, chard, collards, leeks
Deadhead flowers
Hose off whiteflies, sticky traps
Clean up old fruit on trees, ground
Still time to summer prune fruit trees
Order fall bulbs
Support melons on the ground or on vines
Continue to deep water young, newly planted trees
Deadhead, cut back mophead hydrangeas

A wide variety of listener questions are addressed, including:

How to control Leaf Miners on cucumber
What type of milkweed for Monarch butterflies
Lawn clippings for mulch?
How to get rid of green hornworms
Yellowing leaves on mandarins & limes
Bubbles from the soil while when watering potted plants
Pepper plant with black at the base of stems
Do sunflowers stunt the growth of surrounding plants

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