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Dave walks you through the tasks you can perform in late May to get your garden ready for Memorial Day and describes some plants that bloom this time of the year.

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[Music Playing] Well after we get past mothers day, there continues to be a lot to do in the garden. I am going to give you the three W’s this week to talk about. They are watch, water and weed. So what do you want to watch? You want to really watch your garden. Watch to see what plants are doing well, what plants are not doing well, look for the disease, look for bugs, take care of those as soon as you see them crapping up. The other thing is you need to water. Now, water is one of those things that it really defends on the weather. If you get plenty of rain there is no need to water but if it does not rain for a week or two at a time, you should water. You want to water early in the morning, you want to water longer and less frequently, so fifteen minutes every day is not a good thing but maybe an hour and half on your lawn once a week is a lot better. It will encourage deeper root growth, that is very important and you want to weed. I literally walk around the yard with this little trowel all the time just weeding were I see weeds crop up because once they get a head of you, once those weeds crop up and they get a head of you, that is not a good thing, it takes a long time to catch up once again. Couple of plants I want to talk about that bloom this time of the year. One is the Blue Baron, an amazing Rhododendron it is probably the bluest, if not the bluest of the Rhododendron. It is Margery Hardy in zone six, so that means that you really need to put it in the sheltered spot if you want to try it. Zones five and four, sorry but this probably will not survive the winter. The other plant is the Delaware Valley, which is a great white variety of an Azalea, blooming spectacular right now and really the standard for white Azaleas. And the last one I want to talk about is Purple Gem that is a wonderful plant and look at these great little purple colors. This is a perfect foundation plant because it stays low and you can plant free of them in a nice little cluster, and they look great next to your front door. Remember, just keep on top of things, and feed when you need too. If you have an idea soil test, you can still do that and watch out for dead branches, walk around with your little handy-dandy saws and just be cutting of all the dead stuff as we are now getting closer and closer to the beginning of June. [Music Playing]