- Garden Guy Hint -
Water more frequently

Trees	Every 1-2 weels 3ft deep around the drip line
Shrubs	2ft Deep
Groundcover	1ft Deep
Lawn/Turf	Every 3-5 Days in the morning 6" deep

Summer Time Hints -

Dust your lawn and gravel with Extreme Insect Control to kill ants or any other insects problems.

Foliar feed lawn shrubs and trees with extreme juice to create heat resistance.

Use Corn Gluten before the monsoon season to reduce weeds in your lawn and garden

Foliar feed lawn shrubs and trees with Extreme Juice to create heat resistance

Thin peaches, plumbs, apricots, all fruit trees full size & cover your tomatoes to protect them from leaf hoppers. Cover soil around all trees and shrubs with at least 4-6 inches of compost at the drip line of the tree and beyond to prevent stress during summer! Wait to prune roses until September.

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Calendar for Organic Gardening - July

Water

• Outdoor potted plants twice a day.
• Deeply and infrequently.

Prune

• Shrubs and trees need dead and damaged wood removed.
• Blackberries' new growth to a 3 foot height to enhance side branching after harvesting.

Fertilize

• Use organic fertilizer on all planting areas.
• Apply Texas Greensand to help with iron deficiency, which results in yellowed leaves.
• Use an organic fertilizer on all potted plants and annual flowers.
• All plantings and lawns should be sprayed with Extreme Juice every 2 to 4 weeks.

Pest Control

• Dust with natural diatomaceous earth or release beneficial nematodes for fleas, ticks and chiggers.
• Spider mites can be controlled with Extreme Juice sprayed every 3 days for a total of 9 days.
• Release trichogramma wasps for bagworms and other caterpillars. A spray with Bacillus thuringiensis will work also.
• Garlic-pepper tea or summer weight horticultural oil will remove lace bugs and elm leaf beetles.
• Use Extreme Juice plus garlic tea for black spots on roses.

Plant

• Pumpkins for October harvest.
• Palms and cacti.
• Start fall tomatoes from seed.
• Desert trees, shrubs, palms and cacti.
• Bermuda and St. Augustine lawns.
• Periwinkle, lantana, cosmos, verbena, portulaca, amaranthus.
• Tropical colors of hibiscus, pentas, mandevillas, bougainvillea.

Odds 'n Ends

• Leave clippings on lawn as you mow weekly.
• Add new matter and turn compost pile.
• Add mulch to all bare soil.
• De-thatch your summer lawn if needed.
• Start harvesting grapes.