To Do This Week

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Week of October 24th, 2009

• Divide spring-flowering perennials like coneflower, Indian blanket, and yarrow.
• Keep an eye out for vegetable insects. Apply Bt to cabbage loopers on blue-leaf crops, like cabbage, broccoli, and kale.
• Continue planting wildflower seeds.
• Get spring-flowering bulbs to plant in a few weeks in the garden or to force indoors.
• Get ready to move your outdoor plants in. Drench them with diluted orange oil or soap to kill any pests that want to come in, too.
• Continue planting your food garden.
• Plant trees, shrubs, perennials and herbs. Now’s the best time to plant everything, except tropicals.
• Mulch marginally cold-hardy plants.

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