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Costello Landscaping in Central CT.

New equipment this year which allows us to stay ahead of the storms.

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How to Grow a Poinsettia. Costello Landscaping

Poinsettia Tips

With some patience and commitment, you can make your poinsettia bloom again next winter.

From Extra Dirt  BY: Michelle Leise
Follow our tips and enjoy your poinsettia next holiday season.

After the holidays: Place the poinsettia in a very sunny indoor spot and keep soil barely moist. Fertilize as package recommends.

March: Trim to 6 to 8 inches tall after its leaves fall. Continue to water and fertilize.

May: When poinsettia shows strong new growth, repot and bring outdoors. Give plant six to eight hours of sunlight daily. Protect from harsh afternoon sun. Fertilize weekly.

Mid-July: Trim one-fourth of growing tips to encourage branching. Leave at least 2 to 3 large leaves on each stem. Continue watering and fertilizing.

Early autumn: Bring indoors when nights fall below 60°F.

October 1 to December 15: Place your poinsettia in complete darkness from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m. in temperatures around 65°F. Any light—even for a moment—will ruin your efforts. Place in a sunny location during the day.

Mid-December: After bracts start to color, a long night is not as necessary, but keep giving poinsettia six to eight hours of bright sunlight until completely colored. Then stop fertilizing and place the plant in its holiday location. Your poinsettia may not be quite as lush or bright as those in the nurseries, but it will still be beautiful.

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How to water a lawn, heat stress, drought stress CT

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How much water does a lawn need?

In general, turf grasses need about – 1 inch of water per week to maintain green color and active growth. During times of heat stress 1 ½  - 2 inches. Use a straight edged cup or can (coffee can, soup can) or at your local garden center they have Rain Gauges to see just how much water your applying.  You may be surprised that you maybe under watering. However, during certain times during the summer when high temperatures are the norm, you should allow lawns to naturally slow down in growth during those extreme conditions. You may let the lawn go almost completely dormant in hot weather. Many factors such as the soil and weather all have a role in the lawn's water needs. Here are a few guidelines to follow:

• Decide before hand.
  Decide before summer heat and drought conditions arrive, to either water lawns consistently as needed throughout the season, or let lawns go dormant as conditions turn hot and dry. Do not rotate back and forth. In other words, don't let the grass turn totally brown, then apply enough water to green it up, then let the grass go dormant again. Breaking the lawns dormancy actually drains large amounts of food reserves from the plant.
• When is it time to water?
  The first few warm days of summer does not automatically mean to water lawns. In fact, allowing lawns to start to go under mild drought stress actually increases rooting.
  Watch for foot printing, or footprints remaining on the lawn after walking across it (instead of leaf blades bouncing back up). Grasses also tend to turn darker in color as they go under drought stress. Sampling the root zone soil could be another option.
• Water as infrequently as possible.
  Thoroughly water when you do water so moisture soaks down to the roots. Exceptions to this general rule would be for newly seeded lawns where the surface needs to stay moist, newly sodded lawns that have not yet rooted into the soil, or when summer patch disease is a problem (look up lawn disease)  Otherwise, avoid frequent watering that promote shallower root systems and weeds (e.g., crabgrass) excessive thatch and disease activity.
• Water early in the day if possible.
  Given a choice, water early in the day when lawns are normally wet from dew. Avoid midday watering due to excessive evaporation, and at night due to potential increased chances of some diseases gaining a foothold. The exception to this guide is when you are in extremely hot weather and nighttime temperatures don't go below 68 degrees. Then it is better to water in the late afternoon or early evening, providing you don't have watering-time restrictions. Early or late in the day reduces the amount of evaporation that takes place during the very hot day, allowing more water to reach the root zone.
• Spread the water uniformly across the lawn.
  Sprinklers vary in distribution patterns, and require spray overlap for uniform coverage. Placing coffee cans or similar straight-sided containers on the lawn can help measure water application rates. Avoid flooding areas, or missing other spots. On heavy clay soils and slopes, watch for excessive runoff; it may be necessary to apply the water in several applications to allow for adequate penetration.
• In short, watering once or twice a week heavy is better than watering lightly every day.
• MOWING…Mow  high.  Use a ruler check mowing height.  Mow at 3” and higher if possible in heavy sunny areas.   

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These work pretty well for larger areas.  It’s a “Water Train” which travels across the lawn while watering.  Available at larger hardware/garden centers.

How to water a lawn, heat stress, drought stress CT.  Looks funny but these really help.  I have personally noticed a great deal of improvement in our customer’s lawns after they get one.   Watering, in my eyes, is all about convenience and these make watering much easier.  

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Changes to Lawns and Landscape in CT

A NEW LANDSCAPE:  Due to all the storm/tree damage over this past winter your landscape may have changed from shady to sunny.  On some properties many large trees had to be removed.  So what does that mean for the remaining landscape?   Well, the remaining trees, shrubs and grass in some cases have gone from dense shade to full sunlight.  This could cause some problems over the summer months with sun scorch, drought and heat stress.   

So what can be done now?  Carefully fertilize, mulch and water shrubs.  Re-Plant or add verities of shrubs which are more sun tolerant.   As for the lawn pretty much the same thing.  Adjust pH(if needed), proper fertilizers (after soil testing), watering properly and introduce new grass types which except more sunlight.  Some areas may adapt to the extra sunlight but these extra precautions will help.

Landscape Services today Spring Clean-Ups in Farmington and Plainville CT

Getting the equipment out of storage and getting head start on Spring Clean Ups in Farmington and Plainville.   Also looking at some early spring seeding jobs in Southington, New Britain and Avon.  Dumpster Rentals for this spring doing very well also.   Looks like Spring Fever is contagious !   

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Lawn Care in Farmington CT… means More Training

NO SNOW…means More Training
This past week we were pretty busy attending two Training Seminars one with the University of Connecticut, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and over the weekend at Manchester Community College for CT-NOFA (Connecticut Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association).  Both very good seminars.   A lot of it was a refresher course but there are some new safe products which are available.   On a side note at the NOFA Seminar it was a “Pot Luck Lunch” there must have been over 70 dishes of extremely healthy and natural meals…all were very good…I feel younger already

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Costello Landscaping in Plainville CT

This is always a frustrating time of year.  Do we start to put away our winter equipment and get our equipment for spring clean-up prepared?  Only Mother Nature has the answer to that and she’s not telling….

This week we will be attending a couple of seminars to find out about the latest and greatest and safest products available.