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There are many evergreens, berries, and branches that make beautiful and fresh displays. It’s also quite fun and rewarding to walk through your garden with your pruners cutting from plants you’ve grown yourself to use during the holidays.

Decorate wreaths, garland, centerpieces, cut arrangements, mailboxes, mantles and much more! Planting these trees and shrubs in your garden will not only add beauty to your garden but will also ensure you have beautiful Christmas landscape displays year after year.

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• Continue to mow, edge and water as needed.
• The best time to mow is in the evening when the grass is dry and temperatures have cooled.

Raise the Blade….to raise your mowing height!

• 2-3 inches for Fescue & St. Augustine
• 1-2 inches for seeded Bermuda
• 0.5 – 1.5 inches for sodded Bermuda & Zoysia.
• After the last cut, clean down the lawn mower and – if necessary – sharpen the blades or book it in for a service for some time before February at your local mower repair specialist.

Let it Breathe!

• Aerate the soil if it has been heavily trampled over the summer months
• Then top dress the soil.

To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize?

• Fescue should be fertilized towards the middle of the month with a Pike Lawn Fertilizer
• Bermuda will benefit from a “winterizer” fertilizer applied six weeks before you estimate the first frost. (Do Not fertilize Zoysia, Centipede or St. Augustine grasses.)

Plant Fescue seed.

• As with other plants, sowing fescue seed in the fall allows the grass to root in and become established before the stressful heat of summer returns.
• Reseeding creates a denser lawn, and helps prevent broadleaf weed growth.
• Use 6 pounds of seed per 1000 square feet and mulch with wheat straw to hold soil moisture and protect the seed from birds.
• To reseed use a broadcast spreader and apply at the directed rate.

Apply a pre-emergent

• To control winter weeds such as poa annua (annual bluegrass), henbit, chickweed and others, apply a pre-emergent Pike Crabgrass Preventer to your Bermuda or Zoysia lawn around mid-month.
• Do not apply to a fescue lawn if you plan to sow seed in the fall. Not only will it prevent weed seeds from germinating, but it will also prevent the grass seed from germinating.

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