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Autumn Chores

Getting your garden ready for fall

After the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, fall may seem a long way off, but September will soon be here and when the kids start heading back to school there are some garden tasks you should put on your “to-do” list. This should help get you started:

After a long growing season Roses can get stretched out and ragged. Cut them back by about one-third and give them a good feeding in order to encourage another round of bloom (which will come about 60 days after you cut them).