- bring in houseplants (early)
- band trees for fall cankerworm (early)
- bring in summer bulbs for storage
- plant spring bulbs
- plant garlic (late)
- harvest mature green tomatoes for ripening indoors before first
frost
- Turf
- complete seeding by October 15th
- Don't worry: zoysia turns tan with first frost
- handpick bagworms sacks off juniper, arborvitae, Colorado blue spruce, and other plants
- control hemlock woolly adelgid
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- deer tick adult peak activity (to early
December)
- winged yellow ants
- boxelder bugs on sunny exterior walls
trying to get into the house
- western conifer seed bug trying to overwinter in house
- Asian lady beetles trying to overwinter in house
- normal yellowing and dropping of white pine needles
- osage orange (green-brain) fruit found along roadsides
- leaf-loss on weeping figs a couple of weeks after being brought
indoors
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