Johnson's Garden Centers

Now is a great time to incorporate water conservation into your lawn care routine. Mowing higher can improve drought tolerance, and applying water slowly and steadily prevents runoff, especially in heavy clay soils. Optimize irrigation by splitting run times into shorter cycles with breaks for absorption. During droughts, allow lawns to enter dormancy to conserve water. We also recommend applying Hydretainto pull moisture from the air to the turf’s root zone.

In the vegetable garden it’s time to seed beets, carrots, collards, lettuce, mustard, radishes and spinach. There’s still time to get in peas, onion sets, and onion plants, too. Perennial and biennial herbs such as caraway, catnip, chives, lavender, mint, parsley, sage and thyme can also be planted now.

Use ferti•lome Tree & Shrub Food on all types of established trees and shrubs now to help them get off to a good start. Apply the proper amount, based on the size of your plants, under and past the drip line, then just water it in. This feeding will not only aid in recovery from past damage but will build up plants to withstand adverse conditions this year.