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Kids Gardening Contest  Get the kids involved in growing a vegetable garden and learning where their food comes from. Encourage your children to start a garden. Cultivate the green thumb in your child and have some fun in the dirt! Stop by the garden center for Heirloom tomatoes, vegetable plants, seeds and seed starter kits to get the kids growing.
Send us digital pictures of the kids in their garden so we can post them on our website. Vote for the best children’s garden online at www.rencks.com. Winner will receive a $50 gift certificate from Renck’s Garden Center and an assortment of gardening gifts. We will need contact information ex. child’s name, address, phone number and email address. (Only names will be listed on website for voting purposes.) Digital pictures: Showing child working in their garden Pictures will be displayed on www.rencks.com and voting will be announced in later newsletters. Get those pictures in early and tell your family and friends to go online to vote. Another fun activity for this spring at the garden center is the Girl’s Night Out Party! 
While you are planting the vegetable garden maybe you can share the harvest! Go to http://www.acfb.org/projects/community_garden/plant_a_row/ Support your local food banks, soup kitchens, and service organizations to help feed America's hungry. April SALES get your coupons online to save in April! APRIL 11-19 KNOCKOUT ROSE EXTRAVAGANZA
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No guarantee on discounted plants, not valid with any other sales, coupons or landscape payments. The grass is green and so are the weeds – To Make Your Life Easier use Ferti-lome Weed Free Zone Weed Free Zone kills over 80 of the nastiest broadleaf weeds in the yard. Included are weeds such as dandelion, henbit, thistle, ground ivy, poison ivy, chickweed, wild onion and many more tough weeds in your lawn. Weed Free Zone can be applied in the spring, summer and fall season. Ideal time is spring and fall to reduce the risk of stress on the lawn if temperatures are above 90 degrees in the summer. Reseeding areas can be done two weeks after application of this product. Always read the package instructions and proper application are important when using any chemical. For more information on this product visit our website and click on the link to Ferti-lome. Another product to save your back from the pain of hand weeding is Weed and Grass Stopper with Treflan. This granular product stops the germination of seeds in the garden and landscape beds for up to three months depending on weather conditions. |
April Landscape Tips - Maintain all landscape beds with 2-3” of mulch. Fertilize landscape and perennial plants.
- Prune evergreen shrubs. Prune flowering shrubs after they bloom.
- Fertilize spring flowering bulbs after the bloom to build strong bulbs for next year’s flowers.
- Divide perennials if needed remove any damaged or diseased root stock. Fertilize new and established beds.
- Remove protective covering from rose bushes after the threat of hard frost is past.
- Fertilome Dormant oil can be sprayed on fruit trees in early spring and on evergreens in the landscape to prevent spider mites.
- Clean leaves and debris from ponds. Check pumps and filters before start up.
- Start feeding fish when water temperatures gets to 50 degrees.
- Divide water plants if needed and fertilize.
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