The city of Peoria is offering fall landscape and garden tips to their residents.

• If you are planning to vegetable garden this fall, September is the time to get the planting beds ready and seeds planted. Here is a local planting calendar to help you decide what will grow well this season.

• Sprucing up your landscape with winter hardy plants and trees that are not prone to frost damage? Later this month is the perfect time to get them in the ground, so roots can become established before the heat and stress of next summer.

• Did you know that every three or so years Bermuda grass needs to "rest" over the winter by not being overseeded with Rye? Overseeding stresses Bermuda and makes it struggle to come back full and healthy in the spring. Landscape experts recommend resting the Bermuda, or not overseeding, every few years. It can also save 8,000 gallons of water per 1,000 square feet of grass not overseeded. Here is a summary of the benefits of skipping overseeding this winter.

• This intense summer may have caused plants to die in the landscape. The rule of thumb for trees is to see if and what comes back this fall before we heavily prune or remove. With shrubs it is best to wait to prune back until the weather is less stressful, then prune and see if it can come back.

To search for publications on pruning and other plant advice, check out the U of A Maricopa Publication site: https://extension.arizona.edu/pubs.