As the leaves begin to fall it is time to give some of your plants a little preventative maintenance. All fruit trees, cane berries, and roses would benefit with an application of “dormant” spray. This natural oil based spray will suffocate late season insects as well as thier eggs thus reducing the population for the season of 2009. You might also give a spray to your lilac if you have had bloom problems in the past spring. Liquid copper spray combined with “spreader sticker” will help prevent disease that inhibits glorious and fragrant late spring blooms. Now is the time. Just make sure temperatures are above fourty degrees and there is no rain predicted for the next twelve hours.

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