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   Get It Growing
 Home>News Archive>2007>August>Get It Growing>
Get It Growing: Make Plans For Moving Houseplants Back Inside
(For Release On Or After 09/28/07) As we move toward October, it is not too early to make plans for houseplants that spent the summer outdoors. You will need to bring them back inside when it starts to get cold, and there are a variety of jobs you can look at doing now.

Get It Growing: Once You Have A Bromeliad You’ll Probably Want More
(For Release On Or After 09/21/07) Bromeliads are a beautiful group of tropical plants. With their many shapes and colors and their ease of culture, once you have one bromeliad you are likely to want more.
Get It Growing: Prune And Fertlize Now, If Needed
(For Release On Or After 09/14/07) In late summer gardeners need to think about two important points of landscape maintenance – fertilizing and pruning.

Get It Growing: September Is Transitional Month In Vegetable Garden
(For Release On Or After 09/07/07) September is a transitional month in the vegetable garden. Toward the end of this month we should see some relief from the intense heat of mid- to late summer. Still, September can be quite warm, and daytime highs in the 80s are common well into October.
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Get It Growing: Prune Roses In Late August, Early September For Beautiful Fall Blooms
(For Release On Or After 08/31/07) In Louisiana our ever-blooming roses fortunately provide us with two really great seasons of bloom, and now is the time to prune in preparation for one of those seasons.
Get It Growing: Sharing Plants One Joy Of Gardening; Rooting Cuttings Is One Way
(For Release On Or After 08/24/07) Sharing plants is one of the pleasures of gardening. When gardeners get together and a plant is complimented, it is not unusual for the admirer to be offered a "piece" to take home and root.
Get It Growing: You Can Freshen Up Tired Flower Beds
(For Release On Or After 08/17/07) Flower beds that are past their prime and overrun with weeds can be a common sight in our late-summer landscape. But you don’t have to just give up and accept such sad-looking elements in your landscape, since there are ways you can freshen up these tired beds.
Get It Growing: Container Plants Enhance Outdoor Landscape
(For Release On Or After 08/10/07) Growing plants in containers outdoors is popular for a variety of reasons, and such plants can be used to enhance your outdoor landscape.
Get It Growing: Heat Takes Its Toll On Plants; Watch For Late-Summer Pests
(For Release On Or After 08/03/07) Our yards and gardens generally look a little frayed around the edges by this time of the year. On top of heat stress, plants also are more vulnerable to insect and disease problems now.
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