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Now is the time to feed and reseed your lawn for winter | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
The most important time to feed a lawn in Western Washington is September and October.
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Pruning in August: If it’s yellow, let it mellow, if it’s brown, cut it down | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
You can start cleaning up the summer garden by cutting back perennials past their prime and pulling any…
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It’s the best time of year to bait for slugs and snails | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
August is also a good time of year to dig, divide or transplant early summer perennials like iris,…
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Don’t worry about your lawn, think of the rhodies | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
If the soil is dry in August you’ll have fewer rhododendron blooms in May.
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Summer travel brings garden tips from around the world | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
Summer travel means you can glean gardening tips from all over the world. This summer we led a…
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Time to check on those hanging baskets and container gardens | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
Most hanging baskets will need water every day by mid-summer, sometimes twice a day if the weather is…
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Time to hit the ‘rewind button’ on summer flowers | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
Cut back delphiniums, Shasta daisies and leggy petunias now.
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Still time to plant vegetables with a short growing season | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
In the vegetable garden you can still plant seeds of beets, bush beans, carrots and chard as well…
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Fertilize perennials and potted plants, but not the lawn | THE COMPLEAT HOME GARDENER
Beginning this week, the Renton Reporter will begin running Marianne Binetti’s gardening column in the paper and on…