August
Lawn • If you see grub damage, apply a grub killer. Merit and Mach 2 are grub preventers and many not be effective on late in-star grubs. The grub killer must be watered in within 24 hours or effective-ness drops. It’s beginning to look a lot like crabgrass. Did you treat in early April? If […]
July
Lawn • Raise your blades on the lawn mower to its highest setting. Longer grass blades are better able to shade their roots. • Mow bluegrass and tall fescue around 3 to 3 1/2 inches • Mow zoysia at 1 1/2 inches • Watch for grubs. If they begin to hatch, an insecticide may be […]
June
Welcome to June at Grimm’s Gardens! Blueberries are just right around the corner, and we are enjoying the sunshine! Right before everything turns hot here, June comes in with light breezes, LOUD thunderstorms, and lots of native perennials blooming along the roads. June is usually Native Plant Month for the Start of Kansas, and a […]
May
Welcome to May at Grimm’s Gardens! This is the month of old fashioned flowers blooming in the garden. Peonies, iris, mockorange, and all of mom’s favorite flowers are now blooming! I look forward to May because this is also when most of the pollinators start showing up – bees and butterflies! And I really love […]
March
March is the beginning of the garden year for most of us. True, some of us do start even earlier (I begin my garden cleanup in February). March is when trees begin to bloom and other unique things happen outside around us. It is when we first hear our spring peepers (which are frogs) […]
