Caladiums and Vinca!
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Caladiums and Vinca are now available!! A Fungicide is crucial for seasonal color success!! NELSON COLOR STAR is a fertilizer and fungicide in one. Apply to the ground before planting your seasonal color. A fungicide suppresses and controls soil borne funguses that cause root rot.
Plant Tech now carries Crystal Blue Pond Care Treat and enhance the color of your ponds.
These products are safe on your fish and wildlife.
Kill Duckweed, Muck, Algea, Lilies, grasses, & Cattails
SedgeHammer is one of the only selective herbicide that will kill nutsedge in turf grass or landscaped beds.
Bring in your baskets from last season
WE CAN REPLANT THEM
Please check out our May newsletter, and contact us if you have any questions about these products.
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Spring Color '15
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- Written by Kristin Braud
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SPRING COLOR
Locally grown Spring annual color available NOW!!!!
Angelonia, Begonia, Coleus, Celosia, Dianthus, Geranium, Salvia, Impatien, Lantana, Marigold, Petunia, Verbena, and Zinnia.
4” Flats, 6” and baskets available!
Fertilize your seasonal color
TROPICALS and Citrus are HERE !!
Tropicals: Bougainvillea, Cordyline, Dipladenia, Hibiscus, Mandevilla, Macho Fern and Boston Fern
Citrus: Orange, Satsuma, Fig, Lemon, Kumquat, Lime, Grapefruit
Locally Grown VEGETABLES and HERBS
7 types of Tomatoes, 7 types of Peppers, Cucumber, Zucchini, Squash, Eggplant and Herbs.
***Know where your food is coming from.***
Bag compost, manure and Organic Fertilizers are also available at Plant Tech.
Caladium, Penta, and Vinca coming in MAY
Seasonal color are heavy feeders.
Apply a granular fertilizer to keep them looking healthy!!!
PRUNING: Time to prune your BOXWOODS, AZALEAS, and HAWTHORNES. Wait until they are finished blooming this spring then trim them back to promote new growth and control their size.
Please check out our April newsletter, and contact us if you have any questions about these products.
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Fertilize
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Your plants need food !!!
Introducing 13.6.6 specially blended for our Plant Tech customers. A dose of this nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium rich fertilizer will green up, stimulate blooms and enrich the roots of your plants.
Use on your bedding plants, trees and shrubs. You should fertilize your lawn and shrubs 3 times a year with these slow release granular products. — MARCH / JUNE/ SEPTEMBER
LAWN:
The most important thing you can do for your lawn is feed it!. A wellfed lawn can better withstand heat, cold, drought, mowing, foot traffic and other stresses. Feeding your lawn in the spring strengthens roots and provides a good start for the heavy growing season.
****If you sprayed your weeds in January fertilize your yard with the GroSmart spring fertilizer program.
Lawn Weed and Feed is also available at Plant Tech
Apply a weed and feed product AFTER you have cut your lawn twice.
Stop weeds and bugs before they happen
Dimension is a pre-emergent herbicide that prevents weed seeds from germinating in your flower beds and lawn. Apply to your existing beds every three months year round for best results.
Bug Blaster is a granular insecticide that should be applied to your flowerbeds and yard to keep out most bugs and insects. Controls Fleas, Fireants, Ticks, Mole Crickets, Chinch Bugs and many more.
Spring Annuals, Perennials and Vegetables
Available mid-March
Time to Prune your Camellia Sasanquas. Cut when they are done blooming and apply a slow release fertilizer.
Please check out our March newsletter, and contact us if you have any questions about these products.
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Cut back Knock Out Roses
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Cut back Knock Out Roses 3 times a year to have full, bloom filled shrubs. February is the time to cut Knock Out Roses the hardest. Cut the shrub back to the desired height and fertilize. Pruning allows the roses to flush out and become full, and well shaped.
Our Louisiana weather can be unpredictable. We recommend waiting until the middle of March to prune back any other shrubs or winter damage in your yard.
Prune your Crepe Myrtles
Crepe Myrtles bloom on new growth BUT there is no need to butcher your trees to get more blooms. Pruning correctly prevents turning a beautiful Crepe Myrtle into ugly stumps. Follow these simple tips for proper pruning.
*Never cut more than 12– 15” off of each branch.
*Never cut a branch that is larger than a pencil.
*Prune any suckers coming from the base.
*You can also prune any side branches growing from the main trunk, but be selective.
Correct pruning can create a well spaced main branch with nice bark and beautiful blooms.
Now is still a good time to spray your weeds in your lawn. Spray a combination of atrazine and weed free zone.
Instead of spraying for insects in the spring put out a Systemic Insecticide NOW!
A systemic is a granular applied to the base of the tree or shrub. It incorporates itself through the plant and into the leaves.
Thus preventing Aphids and Sooty mold!!!
Please check out our February newsletter, and contact us if you have any questions about these products.
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