VOLUME 3
ISSUE 8
The Ladera Bulletin
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTER
August Gardening To Do List Not a great time to plant. If you must, shade newcomers and water daily if soil is dry. Prune Lawn • OKAY to prune red oaks and live oaks until February. • Keep that lawn mower setting on high. Keep the roots cool by Spray immediately with clear varnish. leaving the grass long. Don’t remove more than 1/3 of the top at • No need to apply pruning paint to other trees a time. Leave clippings on the lawn to naturally fertilize. • Dead head flowering plants • It’s very important to keep the grass high in August. If September • Late August to early September: lightly prune perennials brings cooler weather and rain, weed seeds will start to germinate. and roses to encourage fall blooming Prep • Cut stalks of plants like coneflower to the rosette • Start planning the fall garden. Clean up debris in the vegetable Fertilize garden. Apply compost and mix in organic slow-release granular • Foliar feed flowers and vegetables with liquid seaweed fertilizer to get ready for fall plantings • Container annuals • Explore native wildflower seeds to plant this fall • Citrus with high nitrogen fertilizer like Citrus-tone. • Think about next spring and the perennializing bulbs to add this fall Fertilize every few weeks through growing season. Other tasks Insects • Deeply water new plants. Even if rain comes, check the soil to • Watch for aphids and spider mites. It’s easy to spray them off 3” deep to make sure their roots have water. A brief shower doesn’t with a hard blast of water. Be sure to get the undersides of the leaves. mean it penetrated to the roots. • Aphids and other insects can plague crape myrtles and other Tips trees in summer (“raining trees” are due to the honeydew • Prune herbs often to encourage new growth secretions). Blast with water hose on regular basis. • Water fruit and nut trees deeply to avoid fruit drop-off • Aphids and other insects can create sooty mold on plants, a • Accept August! Plants are hunkered down, like we are. fungus that develops from their secretions (honeydew). Wash off They’ll perk back up soon. the culprits and the leaves. Remove damaged leaves to the trash (not the compost pile).
The History of Bee Cave (So Far) Bee Cave was settled in the early 1850s by Dietrich Bohls, who relocated near the confluence of Barton Creek and Little Barton Creek and founded what became known as Bee Cave, Texas. The town was named for a large cave swarmed by Mexican honeybees that lived on the creek banks and encompassed much of Western Travis County. A post office
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opened there under the name Bee Caves in 1870 with Martin V. Lackey as postmaster. By 1871 Will Johnson was operating a trading post at the settlement. In the mid-1880s the Bee Cave community had a steam gristmill, a cotton gin, a general store, a church, a school, and twenty residents. The population fell to ten in the early 1890s but rose to fifty-four by 1914. (Continued on Page 3) The Ladera Bulletin - August 2018
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