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May 2010, Newsletter
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In this issue:
- News and Featured Products
- Specials
- Events - Your Health
- To Do List
News and Featured Products
New Plants and Flowers!
Decorate your garden and home with over 26 new plants and flowers from Green Mama's garden.
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Plants and Flowers
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Herbs
Choose from a huge variety of herbs, especially basil:
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Basil Varieties
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Mexican Ceramic Pots and Art
Beautifully crafted pots and artwork for inside and outside your home.
More Iron Art for you Garden
Decorate your garden with some beautiful iron work.
For Your Pond
Fish: Koi, butterfly koi and mosquito fish; High-fin sharks and plecostomus for algae control.
Pond plants: Lilies and bog plants of many varieties!
Abamectin Carpenter Ant Bait
Ants invade your home foraging for food or seeking shelter. Control them with Abamectin Carpenter Ant Bait.
Seeds
Lots of flower and herb seeds including plenty of Larkspur seed and moon flower seeds.
Specials
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Events at Green Mama's
Share these Saturday mornings with us for FREE lectures on a wide variety of topics, given by professionals.
"What your body says about your health" with Tonja Wells, CNHP, NHC
Saturday, June 19, at 11:00 a.m.
Which plants and herbs nourish the body? What does the color of your tongue say about your health, and what do nail grooves and lines mean? Tonja Wells will answer these questions and more.
May To Do List
- Plant, plant, plant: great time to plant shrubs and trees before the heat of the summer, give the roots a head start.
- Plant summer bulbs such as cannas, glads, and caladiums.
- Hot weather vegetables such as southern peas, okra, and melons.
- Bougainvillea, Mandeville, Allamanda, Penta, and Hibiscus for that tropical look in pots.
- Warm season annuals: portulaca, marigold, zinnia, periwinkle, lantana, cosmos, and verbena.
- Time to prune: spring blooming shrubs that have finished their bloom. Cut mums back to forsythia after blooming by removing dead wood and 1 in stems that have flowered. Pinch back fall blooming perennials to encourage compact growth (asters and mums) salvia greggi after first bloom by 1/3rd. Lightly clip grey/silver evergreens such as lavender, santolina, and artemisia to keep compact.
- Time to fertilize blooming shrubs and perennials, feed roses and azaleas, Foliar feed with Agrispon and Bioform/John’s Recipe.
- Release beneficial insects as needed, praying mantis, ladybugs, and trichagramma wasps.
- Check trees and evergreens for bagworms, pick off and destroy, or use BT spray if necessary.
- During a wet spring, begin to treat crape myrtles for powdery mildew.
- Plant summer seeds, soak overnight before planting.
- Don’t forget to mulch! Remember this helps to regulate soil temperature, reduce weed growth, and reduce watering requirements.
- Replace your hummingbird feeders with fresh nectar twice weekly.
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