
Garden Tips from Fox's

Humic to Break Down Thatch in Lawn

Humic acid is a wonderful soil conditioner for our soil. It breaks down organic matter and returns it to the soil making nutrients more available to plants. You can use it on the lawn this time of year as a substitute for power raking. Humic will help break down thatch and although it's not a fertilizer you will see your lawn green up due to nutrients being returned to the soil.
Roses are ready to be pruned back. Prune Hybrid Tea Roses down to 6 inches above the ground and climbing roses to 2 feet. Make your angled cut right above a new bud. After pruning is a great time to fertilize. We recommend Bill's Rose Food because it contains chelated iron and sulfur, both of which help to combat our high alkaline soil.
We now have our seed potatoes, onion sets, Walla Walla onion plants and asparagus roots. These can all be planted anytime now.