Now that the weather is getting cooler and we are welcoming the first sprinkle of the season, it is time to prepare for Fall color and feed the azaleas and rhododendrons. As a budget gardener, we usually use the household available products ( left over acidic juices, very diluted vinegar to feed these plants. You will also find a lot of beautiful blooming azaleas coming in for sale. Just pick up a small one and transplant them into a semi-shady area with good drainage. Be sure to prepare the hole big enough to put some garden leave droppings, organic mulch, pine needles, and all yard shredded left overs to give the plant a good base of acidic mulch foundation. If the soil base is moist and well drained, the azaleas can live forever and very disease free with very little care or trimmings (Only remove dead flowers and dead branches) . Some are early bloomers and some bloom during spring. When we first started to landscape our yard 12 years ago, we did not know all that and killed over 6 five gallon cans of expensive azaleas ! Our problem was our base soil - all clay and no drainage ! No matter how much we fed them, they got killed by our poor soil base.
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