June To-Do List for your Home and Yard
Watering Tips
Be Observant
It is always a good idea to keep an eye on the weather as temperatures start to increase consistently, leaving your yard needing more water with higher temps.
Take Your Time
Always remember to deep water your plant material. Small and short applications are ineffective and can cause issues to your plant’s root system. Long and slow applications are best as you want the water to penetrate far into the soil to reach the roots.
Not only does this help your plants right away, but it also helps long-term development and can increase drought tolerance.
For more information on deep watering practices, download our water to guide help you get a better idea on how to take care of your landscape.
Fertilizer Tips
June is a tougher month than others on the material in your landscape as it transitions to warmer days. Now is an ideal time to give our landscape the best nutrients and care so that it can thrive and look gorgeous all summer, with minimal upkeep.
Give your trees, palms, and shrubs a boost they need.
In addition, there also is fertilizers that can assist with plant material that may be dealing with stress from weather changes or newly planted materials that need a little extra help getting established in their new environment.
Tree Protection Tips
Sun Protection
Trees, just like us, can be burned by the sun and could use some protection from the sunlight. Young trees, especially citrus, need protection from the sun when temperatures increase. You can protect the trunk of a new tree from sunburn with Protective Tree Wrap. Available at any Moon Valley Nursery location.
Wind Protection
To further protect your tree, young or old, you can stake them to provide more stability if you are prone to high winds in your area.
Weeding Tips
Continue to use the right products for your yard to keep the weeds away. It seems as if they can take over your yard overnight, but if you continue to pull weeds as you see them and apply pre-emergent products in problem areas, the weeds will not be able to keep growing!
Pruning Tips
The summer is a good time to leave the citrus and other sun-sensitive plants alone and not prune until it gets cooler, as this can expose them to sunburn.
You should examine and remove faded/dead flowers and branches from your trees and shrubs so that the plant will encourage new healthy growth. This will also help get more sun on your plants.
Lawn Care Tips
A lawn will grow faster in the warmer weather. For a healthy lawn, you need to make sure that it is getting a healthy trim regularly with a well-tuned mower or the mower might be causing damage. Make sure your mower blades are sharp and set high so that you do not cut the grass blades too short.
Give your lawn a boost with specialized fertilizers. In most cases, you will see results in just four days, and it gets stronger as it goes to work greening up your lawn.
