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520 W. Warner Rd

Tempe, AZ 85284 (Directly across from Home Depot)

Hours: M-F 8AM-5PM

The Home Made Weed Control Recipe:

• 1 Gallon White Vinegar (Pickling if possible)
• 1 oz Orange Oil (Zeps - Home Depot or Lowes)
• 1-2 Drops Joy Liquid Dishsoap
• Mix Slowly and use in a sprayer for weeds. Spray of weeds in the hottest time of the day

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Water

• Deeply and Infrequently.

• For better light and thicker growth, prune hedges to have wider bottom.
• After bloom, prune spring blooming shrubs and vines. Avoid pruning your cassia and sages into lollipops.

Fertilize

• For newly planted trees and shrubs, apply Extreme Juice monthly in small amounts, to soil as root stimulator.
• Roses and summer flowering shrubs.
• Use Extreme Juice on all plant foliage, adding garlic tea in minor unsect or diseases exist.

Pest Control

• For control of thrips on glads, roses, citrus trees and other flowers, release green lacewings or spray with neem.
• To combat ticcks, fleas and chiggers use natural diatomaceous earth when weather is dry or apply beneficial nematodes anytime.
• Trichogramma wasps released will help control caterpillars.
• Dust around plants with a combination or cedar flakes, hot pepper and natural diatomaceous earth, spray garlic pepper tea or use beer traps for snails, pill bugs or slugs.
• Blast with water mixed with 2 oz. of molasses per gallon for treating aphid invasions. Use beneficial nematodes to control ants. (arbico.com)
• Garlic juice plus Extreme Juice is used for treating black spots on roses.

Plant

• Container grown roses, fruit trees and pecan trees.
• Turf grass from seed, sod, plugs or stolens.
• Warm season vegetables: lettuce, large tomatoes, eggplant, beans, cucumbers, squash, corn, black-eyed peas, okra, melons and Chinese long beans.
• Warm season flowers: periwinkles, marigolds, zinnias, lantana, coamos, portulaca, copperleaf begonias, caladiums, coleus, begonias, nicotiana, 4 o'clocks.
• Flowering perennials summer/fall.
• Summer herbs.

Odds 'n Ends

• Continue turning compost pile.
• Use mulch on all bare soil.
• Use a mulching mower.
• Deadhead roses.

Email Dave, the Garden Guy, with your gardening questions!

To book the Garden Guy for your upcoming events, please contact Jen via
e-mail at beth@gardenguy.com. She'll get back to you within 1 to 2 business
days to get the exact details and let you know Dave's availability.