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August Gardening Tips - Colorado

  Keep your yard and garden in top shape with these timely and seasonal gardening tips.

• Remember to water in the early morning so plants can absorb water before the soil dries.

• Start to plant late-season annuals for fall color (mums, flowering cabbage, kale).  Cut-back overgrown annuals and perennials.

• Prune or shear flowering trees-shrubs when flowering has faded.

• Protect and mark your location of bulbs and perennials once they go dormant.

• Routinely check for insects and pests, and remove spent plants that provide a shelter for insects, and disease.

• Roses require heaving feeding.  Fertilize and prune to encourage fall growth and winterizing.
  
  
• Keep the compost pile moist and aerated.  This will hasten decomposition.

• Prepare lawn for re-seeding. Treat bare spots generously.

• Plan ahead for fall bulb plantings.  Order bulbs now.

Need a good landscape contractor or gardener?  See my affiliates list.  If you'd like a referral from other sources like Angie's List, call or email me.

Michael Dagner is an expert in Denver-Area home sales.
Call today, (303) 514-4000, for help with your home sale or purchase.

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