Great Time For Color In Your Garden

COMMENTARY

• Cool season annuals.  Perennials for pollinators.
• Vegetables in the ground.  Different types spaced out over the season.
• Certain fruit need a certain amount of chill hours.

Lawn Care

COMMENTARY

• Consider water conservation, look and use of the lawn to determine rye or bermuda grass.
• Another alternative:  artificial turf.  Must kill off bermuda before installing turf.
• Fertilizer care for winter months of current or underlying lawn.
• Best practices for holiday lighting on your trees.

LISTENER TEXT

• Has a bermuda lawn with no plans to put in a winter lawn.  Should they water it occasionally to keep it healthy?

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Turf Royal:  Winter lawn fertilizer with nitrogen for colder temperatures.

Roses

COMMENTARY

LISTENER TEXT

• Question about St. Augustine grass lawn care.  Can you put a winter lawn over it?

RECOMMENDATIONS ON ROSES

• Light grooming, pull of dead heads, fertilize.
• Mid-January is heavy pruning time even with roses in bloom.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• The World’s Largest Rose Tree/Tombstone, AZ