Tips on best ways to mow and water in the heat of summer

Here it is early summer, and I’m looking to avoid extra garden work in this heat and humidity while going proactive for a better autumn.

I will get to ways to reduce our two most demanding chores in a minute. But most of us are preoccupied with spotted foliage, wilted plants, black sooty mold on crape myrtles and gardenias, leaf-footed stinkbugs, and tomato blossom end rot. We’re busy with little routines like deadheading zinnias, cutting back overgrown blueberry bushes, goldenrod and mums for more flowers and less flop later, and replacing exhausted flowers and vegetables.