• Fall color such as mums, asters, marigolds, zinnias, and celosia.
• Fall-flowering bulbs such as spider lilies, fall crocus, and fall amaryllis.
• Finish warm-season vegetable plantings of beans, corn, cucumbers, melons, and squash.
• Cool-season vegetables, including broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbage, spinach, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, beets, radishes, and English peas.
• Finish planting warm-season lawn grasses: buffalo, Bermuda, St. Augustine, and zoysia.
• Wildflower seed.

• Water deeply and as infrequently as possible. Your garden and landscape will usually need more water this month than any other.
• Potted plants and hanging baskets daily.

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• Foliar feed all planting and lawns with liquid organic fertilizer.
• Spray Garrett Juice on all plants.

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• Grub worms: good soil culture is the best control. Beneficial nematodes and molasses.
• Chinch bugs: diatomaceous earth.
• Aphids: garlic-pepper tea. Sugar water blast and release of ladybugs.
• Fire ants: drench mounds with manure compost tea, molasses, and citrus.
• Chewing insects: diatomaceous earth, garlic-pepper tea and citrus oil spray.
• Cabbage loopers: Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
• Borers in peaches, plums and other trees: soil health and Tree Trunk Goop.
• Release beneficial insects if needed: praying mantises, ladybugs, and green lacewings.

• Trim spent flower stalks and blossoms of annuals and perennials to stimulate regrowth of stems and blooms.
• Remove dead and damaged wood from shrubs and trees.

• Mow weekly and leave clippings on the lawn.
• Turn compost pile.
• Feed the birds!