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A.  It’s too late to apply corn glutin, but plan for it in September. It is also a waste of time and money to spray weeds with herbicides. Keep mowing them down, catching seed heads in the lawn mower bag to discard. Persistence will wear them down when hot weather arrives to end their life cycle. This summer maintain a thick turf by leaving on your clippings. You can fertilize this coming week.

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Narrow-leaf zinnia (Zinnia angustifolia)

Few annual plants provide dependable summer color like this one! This heat tolerant cousin of the standard garden zinnia is virtually pest and disease free, and produces a profusion of 1” blooms in orange, white, or gold. They make excellent color border plants in a sun to part sun location and are equally suited to a container planting, where their non-stop blooms cascade down the sides all summer. Mass them for an 8 to 12 inch groundcover that will steal the show all summer.

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• It’s time to fertilize the lawn! Use a high nitrogen product, since we have plenty of phosphorous in the soil already. You only need ½ pound per 1000 sq. feet.
• Check out the Grow Green free fact sheets on Lawn Care and guide to Lawn Problems at your local nursery or by calling the Extension office -- Call (512) 854-9600, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Sign up now for the fall Master Gardener Class -- Call (512) 854-9600, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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