![]() – Watch out for cabbage butterflies and sucking insects and control them with Sevin liquid mist spray. – Spray plants lightly with water wand each evening. – Use a layer of peat moss in the furrow to help retain moisture. Here are a few hints on setting our cole family plants for productive results: Use the spray mode on the wand and apply a light spray around base of the plants. The secret of their growth is to use the water wand to cool them down each evening after sunset to refresh and cool the plants and the soil. You can plant them even though the nights and days are still very warm. You can purchase them in four, six, and nine-packs. The cole family of cool weather vegetables are now showing up in hardware, nurseries, seed stores, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Ace Hardware. Wait until late afternoon for the sun to dry off the dew before mowing the lawn.Ĭabbage, collard, and broccoli plants are in hardware and seed stores. Add all this with the promotion of rust and tracking wet clippings into the house. ![]() It also piles up a mess of ugly clippings to rake up. It causes grass clippings to stick to the mower housing as well as to your shoes and clothes. Never mow dew-laden grass not only because it is wetter and cooler but it is also stickier. With the dews of the month of August growing wetter and cooler means that it will be lingering around longer and the sun will take longer to dry it up. Pinch off all faded leaves.ĭo not mow grass laden with morning dew. Water the coleus every evening and feed with Miracle-Gro liquid plant food or a handful of Flower-Tone organic flower food every ten days. To promote more leaves to grow, pinch off these flowers so that the strength of the coleus plant will be devoted to producing more leaves instead of flowers. ![]() As we reach mid-August, they have flower seeds which are lavender in color. The coleus of “Joseph’s Coat” has been producing an array of pink, yellow, red, white and lavender foliage since early June. Keeping mid-summer coleus full of colorful foliage all the way until frost.
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