Experts
Tips from Tom Ross
May 2025Our Ross Spring Wildlife Mix is ready! It is a proven Oklahoma blend that attracts deer and gamebirds. This season, our mix contains: Cowpeas, Soybeans, Mungbeans, Sorghum Sudangrass, Millet, Wildlife Sorghum, Buckwheat, Peredovik Sunflowers, Sunn Hemp, Lab Lab, and Okra. We recommend planting 50 pounds/acre, May through July.
We still have plenty of garden seed! May is the perfect time to plant squash, cucumbers, okra, cowpeas, watermelon, and cantaloupe. Get growing!
This month is a great time to plant tomatoes, peppers, and other veggie plants. We carry many varieties adapted for our growing area! When planting your tomatoes, we recommend you follow the steps in ‘Granny’s Tomato Recipe’.
If you haven’t already done so, fertilize your shade grass now. We recommend Scotts Lawn Pro or our Ross 21-5-8 fertilizer blend. Be sure and give your fescue (shade grasses) a little drink during dry spells this month.
Give your lawn a “Shot in the Grass” …now is the time to fertilize your Bermuda grass. We recommend Ross 21-5-8 with 4% Iron, Scotts Lawn Pro, 34-0-0 11S, and 46-0-0 fertilizer blends.
Both stores have new plant shipments arriving weekly!
Apply soil amendments to your flower beds and garden for better results. We suggest: Peat Moss, HUMALFA Nature’s Prescription, Cotton Burr Compost, The Cow Organic Compost and Manure.
Keep your flowers and veggies thriving by following a regular fertilizing schedule. Doing this will promote more blooms and fruit.
We have Grade A Cedar and Redwood Mulch, in 3cf. bags, to brighten up your landscape and protect plants from hot weather.
Weed-B-Gon, Trimec, and other broadleaf herbicides can be applied to control spring weeds.
Now is the time to implement fly control for your animals. We recommend ADM Summer Beef Mineral with IGR Rumensin, and Garlic. Also available with CTC.
