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Gardening with Job's Nursery LLC
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Greetings!
 The weather outside has ranged from summer to early spring weather, even though it's mid spring. We have been working hard getting shipments, arranging the nursery and making sure everybody has been staying moist between the wind and heat, we have had this month. The selection of shrubs, perennials, and annuals are looking great because of it! May hours are Monday to Saturday 9 to 5 as well as Sundays 11 to 4. We will be closed May 27th for Memorial Day. |
What to do for May in Gardening
 This May we have been seeing a lot of aphid activity due to the mild winter. If you have them as bad as this photo you will want to spray them or apply a systemic. Here is a list of chemicals that can be used to control them: Neem Oil, Insecticidal Soap, Eight (Pemerthrin), or Malation.
May is a month full of planting and gearing up for summer. After mother's Day you can plant your annuals and not worry about frost. Also tomatoes, peppers and other warm loving veggies. So if you haven't planted yet there is still time for squash, cucumbers, tomatoes.
May is a great time to feed the lawn, if you use a mix like the Southwest Green Maker it will feed for with both quick release and slow release nitrogen, a good complement of iron (green without growth) and sulfur to acidify out alkaline soil to allow the lawn to easily absorb the nitrogen and iron your applying. Memorial Day is a great day to fertilize trees, shrubs, perennials and trees with the Ferilome Rhody Food (feeds 6 weeks) or the Fertilome Start N Grow Fertilizer (feeds 12 weeks).
Be sure your sprinklers are working properly and that you giving you newly planted plants extra water through the warming trend to summer because their roots are only located in their root balls and are just now starting to reach out to your yard's soil.
Also you can trim out the dead stems or branches that you have been hoping would leaf out but haven't; like my butterfly bush at home that has been needing a trim.
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Classic May Flowers  The Peony family are usually in bloom from Mid May to Memorial day. They are perennial and sun loving. There are few groups of them out on the market now Garden, Itoh, and Tree. Garden Peonies are the classic old, fragrant favorite but sometimes need to be staked because their stems can't hold their large blooms, they come in colors from red pink to white. Itoh Peonies are stronger stemmed and larger growing than Garden Peonies so they don't need to be staked; their colors are yellow, pinks, and copper colors! Tree Peonies are a group of slow growing shrubs that don't need to be cut back for winter. They have colors in purples, pinks and whites mostly.
Mockoranges are a late May bloomer of white blooms that have a citrus fragrance. They smell really good and like full sun. Easy to care for too!
Korean Lilacs are an early May bloomer that are smaller sized shrubs than their traditional cousins but they are just as fragrant and they don't sucker as profusely. Their colors range in lavender, light pinks and whites. They are also available as small grafted trees.
Rhododendrons are a shade lover in our area that need to have the soil acidified. However it is worth the color in spring for the shade garden with a number of varieties that bloom reds, pinks, purples, yellows, and whites. Just remember to keep them to the shade in the late afternoon and mulch them with cottonseed meal or an acid planting mix to keep them happy.
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Remember to Adjust Your Watering Based on Temperature
 In the first growing season, all new plants (including the drought resistant ones) need extra water to allow them root into the surrounding soil. Make sure to deep soak the plants enough with a sprinkler on a hose; so that your soil is moist to 12 inches below the surface of the dirt a day after you have watered. You want your moisture to soak in this deep so that your plantʼs roots develop deep and can handle not being watered for a few days in case there are problems with your irrigation system. If in doubt, you need to dig down 12 inches with a shovel, trowel or use a soil probe to make sure you are soaking in deep enough.
A general deep soaking schedule for sand loam soil (the main soil texture for Tri-Cities) it is listed by day time high temperatures
50 ̊F or less once a month for evergreens, check every two months for deciduous plants
50 to 70 ̊F deep soak once every two weeks after foliage emerges or drops on deciduous
70 to 85 ̊F deep soak once a week for one hour 85 to 95 ̊F deep soak twice a week for two hours
Above 95 ̊F soak three times a week for two hours After all wind storms when temperature highs are above 85 ̊F go check the soil moisture.
**For Clay or compacted soil you will need to shorten you water run time and increase the amount of times you water to get the same effect. Run to the point where you get almost to run off.**
Remember to check your sprinklers, filters and drip emitters regularly. A plugged sprinkler or drip emitter will not a water a plant adequately, if at all. Also to prevent fungal disease, try to avoid watering late evening and night on a daily basis, fungus likes cool and moist conditions.
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Well that's all for now, remember to connect with us on Facebook, Pinterest, and Youtube!
Thank you for your interest
Alex Job
Job's Nursery LLC
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May Hours Monday-Saturday 9 to 5
Closed May 27th for Memorial Day
4072 Columbia River Road
Pasco, Washington 99301
509-547-4843
    
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