Move the lawn mower setting up to high.Apply by hand or with a rotary spreader, early in the morning, when grasshoppers are feeding. Both contain a protozoa called Nosema locustae which is impregnated in bran flakes sweetened with sugar. Effective baits include Nolo Bait or Semaspore. If you wait, you won’t be able to deal with them. Walk the garden in early morning to pick off stink bugs and largus bugs from tomatoes.Remove damaged leaves to the trash (not the compost pile). Aphids and other insects can create sooty mold on plants, a fungus that develops from their secretions (honeydew).Ladybugs and green lacewings will be chomping down those aphids, so watch for them and their larvae.Be sure to get the undersides of the leaves. It’s easy to spray them off with a hard blast of water. Fertilize every few weeks through growing season. Citrus with high nitrogen fertilizer like Citrus-tone.Foliar feed flowers and vegetables with liquid seaweed.Spring blooming bulbs while you can still see them!.Remove sucker shoots from tomato plants to get earlier, larger fruit.Prune spring bulbs only when foliage is brown.Cut back fall blooming perennials like aster.No need to apply pruning paint to other trees.Trees: DO NOT prune red oaks and live oaks unless damaged.Spring flowering shrubs, vines, and roses that bloom only in spring.Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Vegetable Planting Guides (Central Texas).Cantaloupe, okra, Southern peas, sweet potato slips, pumpkin, summer & winter squash, watermelon.Basil, catnip/catmint, comfrey, fennel, horseradish, oregano, thyme, rosemary, Mexican mint marigold, peppermint, lemongrass, lemon balm, lemon verbena, bay laurel.Top new containers with light layer of mulch to conserve water use decomposed granite, pea gravel or other grit for potted succulents.Clean up and replant containers-annuals, perennials, herbs, hibiscus, vegetables in larger containers.Ornamental (clumping) grasses like muhly and Mexican feather grass.Crinum lilies, cannas, caladiums, ginger.Perennials & vines: (shade them for a week or so).Annuals: zinnia, cosmos, sunflower, celosia, penta, periwinkle, gomphrena, portulaca and other “ice” plant succulents, Mexican sunflower, salvia coccinea.
To combat this, loosen the planting area with expanded shale, and even consider planting on berms. In droughty years, this won’t be too hard, but in years with lots of winter and spring rain, the plants may rot, especially if you have any amount of clay in your soil. The stems of Echinacea remain entirely just below the soil surface, so you’ll need to be extra careful that this beauty doesn’t stay too wet. There are lots of cultivars out there, and most of them do well in the same planting environment as the native, but may not provide seeds for native birds. You may be tempted to dead-head, but try to resist that urge: the seed heads are a great food source for small birds. The flowers are long-lasting and attract lots of pollinators to nectar and pollen, but are pretty unattractive once they fade. Producing striking individual light pink to purple flowers from spring all the way through fall, Echinacea is very drought tolerant and should be watered sparingly, in only the hottest, driest of times. In the right conditions, coneflower will seed out for even more. Purple coneflower can reach a height of about 2 feet, and perhaps an additional 12 to 18 inches, including its flower spikes, but each plant stays very compact in width, at only a foot or so.Ĭluster in groups of 3-5 for the most impact. Native coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, is an easy-care, herbaceous perennial for sun to part/bright shade.
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