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                   Tips, Updates and Potted Friends
September 2009
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The Contained Gardener will be relocating the office this week. If you try to reach us from now through Tuesday, September 22 and we do not respond, it is because one of our systems is down. Please call 733-3359 and leave a message. We will check our messages regularly and get back ASAP!
 
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Greetings!

September seems to be starting off HOT but I hope that you have enjoyed the cool mornings we have had the last few weeks. As we move through the month, I want to ask you - "How are you using your patio?" I know mine has gone largely unused during these hot days but I am chomping at the bit to be able to sit out there and enjoy our outdoor living room and get as many more days out of our pool that I can.
 
Some of you have seen my pots on the Master Gardener Home Tour or in the recent article in Phoenix Home and Garden and understand what I mean when I say that my garden draws me outside - either to do some work in it or to simply sit down and take in the things that fill my senses. I experience a wonderful sense of peace there and hope you share in that experience in your own home.
 
To Tucson Outdoor Living!
Marylee
Marylee Gets Around Town with her Potted Workshops

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Present...

September 19    What makes for The Perfect Pot ?
    October 24        Successful container gardening

    November 21      Potted Gift ideas for "do it yourself" container Gardeners
             (Take home a finished gift - materials fee)
(Workshops will be held on the lower level in the air-conditioned space next door to the Bose store, across from Crate & Barrel. Free - No registration required. All classes begin at 9am)

Tucson Botanical Gardens - Follow this link for more information
Let's Plant!  Successful Container Gardening hands on class; October 17; 9-10am
Creating Great Potted Gardens - November 14 9-11 am

Desert Sports and Fitness
October 12              Handling Cactus in pots
          November 9             10 Common Mistakes made in Container Gardening
Waiting for Fall

September's Garden Notes
  • This is the time of year you should begin monitoring your watering schedules. Unless we are blessed with some late monsoons, you will need to make sure your landscape plants get enough water.
  • A single morning watering schedule should be enough for your Potted Gardens. The mature plants should by now be providing your containers with enough shade, that you should not need a second watering late in the day. If the temperatures remain high (95-100) over the next few weeks, you may find you get some afternoon wilt. If they have recovered by the next morning you will know if the wilting is caused by heat stress not water stress.
 Rose Care for September  
  • Mid-September Grooming
    • Remove the top 1/3 of your roses and dead canes
    • Clean up all the dead/fallen leaves and debris.
  • Keep up your watering schedule.
  • Only apply organic fertilizer like Max Magic Mix, Mills Magic Mix. Hickman's. compost etc. or half-strength liquid fertilizer.
  • Apply full strength fertilizer when it starts to cool down at least at night.
  • Give your roses a fall dose of Epsom Salts. Use one half cup per standard rose and ¼ cup per miniature rose.
  • Water your roses well before and after fertilizing.
  • Unless you have a bad case of bugs or mildew, don't start weekly spraying for pests and mildew until early October.
  • Spider mites are still a possibility, so continue to blast your roses with your water wand two or three times a week.
  Rose Society of Tucson
Stay Tuned for New Products and our all new website!

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Coming October 1!

No matter what the job is - large or small, seasonal or year round call us if there is any way we can help you. Our goal is to create your special oasis of color with unique potted gardens providing you with beauty, peace and pride 365 days a year.
 
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The Contained Gardener 
6152 East 22nd. Street
Tucson Arizona 85710
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