Fertilizer Fumbles

Skip Richter answers your questions all morning long!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Casey R. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Crazy. Just watch him as world many past the supposing

(00:30):
not a Sunday.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Sun bean and here we go. Well, good morning, congratulations,
you are up, maybe maybe not bright eyed, maybe not
bushy tailed, but you're with us. I'm your host, Skip
rich Or. You're listening to guard Line, and we're here

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to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape
and more on in the process. At least that's that's
my goal. Gardening should be fun. Let's see if we
can make it that way. If you'd like to give
me a call this morning. Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Had a good time out

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at Bearings Hardware yesterday with folks at nitrofoss. I appreciate
everybody that came by, looked at a lot of little
bags of weeds and things and see what else do
we Oh? We had several people brought some really helpful
pictures too. That's always good to It's kind of like
playing Sherlock Holmes to get to the bottom of who
done it, what's wrong with that, what's wrong with that

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lawn and everything. We've had a lot of real cool
cool things for folks too. By the way, thanks to
the folks at Nitrofoss for sponsoring us there and for
bringing so many cool giveaways. We give away the Nitrofoss
three step as well as some other things. The Nitrophoss
three step is the Fall Special fertilizer. It's a winterizer,

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meaning we're getting our lawns ready for winter. It's an
eight twelve six eight of six fertilizer high and potassium.
Potassium helps with winter hardiness. And you don't just put
potassium on your lawn. You put potassium with other nutrients.
And it's important to have nitrogen with the potassium, but
not so much. And that's why Fall Special Winterizer was
designed the way it was designed because it's perfect for

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what law needs going into fall and therefore coming out
of winter stronger. It is the most important fertilization of
the year. I think is a fall fertilization because it
prepares the lawn going into winter and coming out of
winter stronger. All right, Second step barricade, That fist barricade
stops the weeds. If you remember back the last spring,

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you probably had crab not crab, excuse me. Cool season weeds, clover,
a henbit, chick weed, cleavers, a lot of different things
like that attack our lawns in the cool season. You
don't notice them until spring when they take off growing
like our blue bonets do. But if you put down
the barricade in the fall, you can prevent that from happening.

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Then you're not having to ask, well, how do I
kill a weed without killing my Saint Augustine lawn or
whatever it is. Use the barricade ahead of time. That's
the second step. Third step. Eagle turf fungicide goes down,
ridges take it up, and when the diseases try to
attack the lawn, that particular product is going to be
present in the grass to stop. Brown Patch specifically is

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the one that hits the best. And brown patch makes
us big brown circles in your lawn. Whi's now called
large patch. So I'm having to say both words because
I kind of want to get us back on the
what it's actually called. Now other things are called brown patch,
But I digress anyway. Eagle turf fungicide number three nine
to fives, three step winneriser barricade and eagle turf fungicide,

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nitrofuss fall special winneriser. So anyway, they donated a couple
of those. We got those done. And by the way,
if you're looking, if you're looking for those, you're going, hey,
where can I buy those products? We can buy them
a lot of places. We have a number of places
that carry them. Certainly Bearings a hardware in West Timer
where we were yesterday, in shanty gardens down in Richmond.

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Rosenberg carries night foss products, as does plants for all
seasons on Highway to forty nine. Wherever, wherever you prefer
to shop, you're going to find these night foss products.
You know, they say that what a stitch in time
save nine and an ounce of prevention is worth a

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pound of cure. You've heard all those kinds of sayings.
It's really true. For your lawns. It is much easier
to prevent a weed than it is to kill it
when it's existing without doing secondary damages. It is much
easier to get your protective fund to side down before
the large patch of brown patch attacks than to try

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to deal with the circles. Once the circles happen, you
can't make them green when the weather worms up in spring,
the grass will regreen. Those circles aren't dead, they're just ugly.
And so by preventing them, you have green grass all
the time. You don't have to worry about that. Better
to prevent them than it is try to cure them.

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You are listening to garden Line and if you'd like
to give me a call seven one three two one
two five eight seven before I got a number of
people that are sending emails or have send emails, can
be calling in as we go through the day here.
If you have a question, you can call my producer,
call our number that I keep giving out and ask

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for an email to send that picture to so you
can follow up then with a call. That is important. Uh.
And if when you describe something in an email, I
can't necessarily know what it is, You're like, my plant's sick, Well, okay,
I can't. I don't know what sick looks like. And
it matters what it looks like. So don't be afraid

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to send an email. Let's get let's get a photo.
Let's take a look at it. Also, I'm gonna I'm
going to be in these these appearances that I do.
I'll be in a number of places around the area
of this fall and if we if you can bring
a sample to one of those, we can really get

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to the bottom of some of these problems. I've had
several people that ask, you know, how can I get
a sample to you? Well, the best way is to
show up or I'm showing up. And so, for example,
on next Saturday, I will be at Sienna Ace Hardware
kind of southwest to Houston, CNA Ace Hardware, and if
you want to bring a sample, you can do that.

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I'm going to get something posted to the website. It's
not up there yet, but it tells you how to
take a sample, and that's very very important. I can
do diagnosis, but I can't do autopsies. What does that mean. Well,
that means that if the if the plant is sick,
I'm much more likely able to tell you what's wrong
with it. And that's certainly true with lawns, whether it's

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insects or disease problems or whatever. But next Saturday, from
one to three Sienna Ace Hardware, I'll tell you more
about it as we go through. You know, there's Ace
Hardware's everywhere all over the place in the Greater Houston area,
and by greater I mean all the way from Orange,
Texas down to Rockport, Texas. ACE Hardware Texas dot Com

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is the website you need to know. Ace Hardware Texas
dot Com. You go there, you find your hardware store
that's closest to you. Are the ones that are closest
to you and you're in business. ACE Hardware takes care
of their customers, provides plenty of everything you need. That's
Cenna Ace I'm going to be at coming up here
next Saturday. Just a great store. I was there when

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they were first getting it opened up and everything. Oh
it's nice, very nice. And it is typical for Ace
Hardware to provide you with something that is, you know,
just really really convey and it carries everything you need.
I need fertilizer, I need, we can draw, I need
disease control. I want to beautify the patio and a
beautify things inside the home. ACE has got you covered
all season days. I've been Willis on I forty five North.

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There's an example of that Child's Buildings supply on North
sixteenth Street in Orange, Chalmers, ACE on Broadway down in Galveston,
and Bay City ACE on seventh Street down in Bay City.
Just a few examples of the mini stores that you
can find at ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Let me
take a little break here and I'll be right back
in a moment. Hi, good morning, and wake up. I

(08:37):
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the lights aren't on, you need to go bang on
the door and tell them they're missing garden Line. They
will rise up and call you blessed. Well maybe not
this morning. They may call you something else this morning,
but hey, you know it's it's a neighborly thing to do.
I'm glad you're listening to us this morning on garden Line.

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Here's the number seven one three two one to five
eight seven four if you'd like to call and ask
a gardening type of question. I talk about all the time,
the importance of building a foundation for your plants to
have success. That is so important anything you're building, you
know you're build a house, You don't just go lay
two by fours in the dirt out there and start building.

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You create a foundation first. And that is true for gardening.
It's it's as true for gardening, if not more, as anything.
And I see so many people PLoP a poor plant
into an unprepared plot when they could have prepared the
plot and created the foundation for success. And the foundation
is the soil. It's all about the soil, very very important.

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The soil needs a whole moisture, but not too much,
and he stood rain well. In other words, the soil
needs to have good organic matter content that would be
called compost and bed mixes and stimulating microbial activity which
helps the roots. That's how nature works. How did how
is it that sequoias in the coastal California can be

(10:04):
so dead gum big when no one's running through their
fertilizing them all the time. What is going on there?
Nature's going on there? What about the Great Plains? When
the Conestoga wagons came across from east to west, they
said that the grass was deep as a horse's belly. Well,
how did that grass get like that? Who was taking
care of that grass? Nature the system designed to work.

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It's an ingenious system and a genius design. But it
basically organic matter decomposes to feed the roots. Microbial activity
gets busy. It protects roots. It helps form the soil
into particles that clump together, so air and oxygen can
get done in the soil. Well, we don't have eighty
years to wait, like to create a tropical rainforest or

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a high plains savannah soil. We can do it right
away by mixing organic matter, by purchasing bed mixes them
on the ground, and that's how we do it. That's
the shortcut. It's easy because you want a beautiful garden
this fall, you want beautiful flowers this cool season. You
want to plant those trees and shrubs and things in

(11:13):
a bed that where they're going to thrive. And Airloom
Soils can fix you up on all that kind of stuff.
If you go to Airloomsoils dot com, you will see
all of the products that they lost and you will
also see a calculator that will tell you how much
soil you need for the sized bed and the depth
of bed that you're going to put together. Airloom soils

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is available by the bag all over town. Airlom soils
is available for you to go out to porter and
pick them up with your truck and trailer. You wish
to do that, and Airloom Soils can deliver. They can
dump it on your driveway. They can bring it in supersacks,
which are when qbicyard sacks that they set on the
driveway nice and neat and clean. However you go about it,
just give them a call. Check them out first, go

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to Airloomsoils dot com. That's where you find everything that
you need and then go from there. But do not
put in the plants until you have prepared the soil
with a quality mix like they have at Heirloom Soils.
Very very important. You know, once plants are established, if
it's a vegetable garden or flowerbed annual flowerbed, well you

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know we'll just mix up some soil and for the
next planting. But what if it's a rose bed. You're
not going to pull the roses up and fix the
so oil and put the roses back now. I mean
you could, but guys, you don't want to. Why not
fix it up well beforehand. Just something to think about,
Just something to think about. I was yesterday traveling around.

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When I go places like yesterday, I was done at
Bearings Hardware with nitrofiles on this and that. And I
always go through neighborhoods when I can, you know, I
know sometimes you know how you got to get on
the highways and get there and all that, But I
love to cut through neighborhoods and just see what people
are doing. And it's really interesting. You see some wonderful plants,

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You see some great ideas and designing and laying out
a landscape. And it may just be one little aspect
of somebody's landscape that you like and you say, I'm
gonna take that and replicate that at my house. I
think it's a great way to go about it, and
that is important. It's also important to get good plants.
You need plants that are going to thrive where you live.

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You need plants that want to be here in our area.
You need plants that are likely to be healthy, maybe
even resistant to some diseases and things. Well. Go to
a good quality independent garden center. And Enchanted Forest is
an example of that kind of garden center. And Channel
Forest is down in the Richmond Rosenberg area. It's on

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FM twenty seven to fifty nine, so it's south of
fifty nine sixty nine. It's south of that, it's south
of the Brasses River on twenty seven fifty nine. When
you go there, we're going to find such a good selection.
I always make the rounds, you know, I got to
go look at the vegetables that they've gotten in because
they always good. They got great fall vegetables right now.

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And the herb house is just amazing, so many kinds
of herbs. You know, it's not like do you have time,
It's like how many kinds of time do you have?
And that's how it is at Enchanted Forest. If you
love bees and pollinators, and you love butterflies, and you
love hummingbirds or any of those things, you just go

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there and they can show you all the plants that
are going to be attractive to those kinds of plants,
of insects and birds. It works really really well. Lots
of good plants, many good natives, and then all the
supplies you need to go with them.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
I talk about these fertilizers and things and how important
it is to prepare the soil, and they carry all
that stuff at Enchanted Forest. Let me give you the website.
That's the best way to figure out, you know, where
they are. Get the phone number, and sign up for
their new letter so you can stay up to date.
Enchented Forrest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchented Forrest, Richmond, TX

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dot com. We're going to go to Cypress now and
visit with Mike this morning. Hello Mike, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
Good morning, and Gigham.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Uh been a big, big fan of this, Yeah, I've
been a big fan of the show for years. This
first time to call in that getting up early this
morning and past so week or so, I've noticed I've
got a large oak tree in the front yard and
it's probably twenty five thirty years old. I mean it
was planted by the builder, you know, as a mature

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tree twenty years ago.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
So it's a large oak.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
And but I'm noticing in the mornings the windshields and.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Tops of all the vehicles have like a sap mist
that's being dropped by that oak tree. And so I
want to make sure I didn't need to get an
arboriussed out or if that's normal this sum of year.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, that mist is actually it's the juices from the tree,
but it's going through a bug first. There are little
bugs called plant hoppers that well, there's several types of
bugs that'll do this, but aphids will do it, mealy
bugs will do it, scale will do it, white flies
will do it. Plant hoppers will do it. But they
basically are sucking the sap out to get the nutrients

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in that sap, and they don't care about the sugar
and all the liquid. They're just kind of filtering through
to get the nutrients, and so they pee out these
little tiny droplets of that sugary water. And that's one reason.
Sometimes you'll see like city mold growing on a plant
that lack city mold, and that's coming. It's growing on

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that sugary water. But you see it on your windshiels too,
And there's not a there's first of all, there's not
a need to control them. There's not a good practical
way to control them. I mean, trying to blast a
whole tree to kill the bugs in it. You probably
have a lot of unintended consequences there. So I don't
recommend doing anything about it o than just washing the

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cars sometimes. But it can be a little annoyance. Cool.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yeah, I just want to make sure I didn't need
to check it out. I said, I've always.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
Enjoyed the show and followed you, and I know you're
an Aggie and I actually have a daughter that's an
aggie horticulture major right now today.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
And m so, oh, how nice you might be good?

Speaker 6 (17:36):
Yeah, you might be following in your footsteps.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
So all right, I hope. So we need more somebody's
guy come in here and cleaning up beast when I'm done.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
So you've had Hey, thank you having good morning. I'm
on the on the way to church this morning, so
you have a good day.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
We'll go oh you as well. Just one little tip
when you go out with your glass of iced tya,
put a little umbrella and it that'll kind of help
keep that little bug pee out of your top of
your glass of tea, so that that's the only I'd
give you. Thanks a lot, take care, yes, sir, bye bye.
All right. Yeah, I actually filmed those bugs one time,

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and I've got some on my crpe myrtles right now.
And I can sit in my house and in the
background is a dark like a live oak, the neighbor house.
And so when the sun shines through that area, those
little droplets of bug pee, I mean, it's just like
it's raining out there, and not not with big rain drops,
but just a little you just see them a little

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dropping by. And one time I went up and I
saw a bug and I just got my little camera
on my phone out and videoed it, and I think
that this bug was putting a little drop a pee
out every eight seconds. I think we figured out. It's
like these things are just like boom boom boom, shooting
that stuff out. Yeah, but the trees survive it. It's

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not a big deal, but it is interesting. You know,
nature has a lot of things where you kind of
go hmmm, well that's one of them. Hey, pest Bros.
That's the company you need to know about. They cover
the Greater Houston area and they cover all kinds of pests,
from varmints outside, uh, to the mosquitoes and fire ants outside,

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to the termites at each your house, to the cockroaches
that run across the house and terrorize everybody in the house.
They can control them with the safest possible way. They
know how to do it, and they know how to
do it in the safest possible way. Now here's what
you do. You give them a call two eight one
two oh six forty six seventy or go to the
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com two eight one two o six forty six seventy.
I gotta take a little break here when we come back.
We're going to talk to Houston, art In to Frank
in Houston already. Let's get back here and get going
on guarden line. The folks at Medina have so many
excellent products to choose from, and I mean, really, I

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could just sit here and go through them all and
it would take a long time because there's so many
of them, but they really work. One of them that
I like a lot is Medina Plus. You know, Medinasol
Activator has been around a very long time. It's kind
of like the original UH and Medina Plus. They take
Medinasol Activator, which is a great product, but they add
to it essential micronutrients and seaweed extracts, so you get

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all the natural soul building advantages. And these extra ingredients
also make it a good folio feed. Spraying upward I
would I would recommend if you're going to use it
as a folio feed, go out in the morning when
it's very cool still and spray upward from underneath, because
the primary place where nutrients can get into a leaf
or through the stomachs, which are on the bottom sides

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of the leaf. So spray up from underneath. But early
in the morning when it's cool and you can. You can.
If you've got plants looking a little on the yellow side,
you probably probably goodness can't talk. We'll see a green
up just from that fulier application. Now, in general, you
want to put it on the soil because that's where
all the action is happening. That's where the roots are,

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that's where the microbes are active in helping the roots.
And Medina plus will help the microbes to help the
roots and provide all the things that your plants are
going to need to kind of give them a boost
to get them going again, make them look good. Medina
Plus from the folks at Medina. Let's go out to Houston.
Now we're going to talk to Frank. Hey, Frank, how's

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it going.

Speaker 8 (21:34):
Yeah, I got a red tag on my door for.

Speaker 7 (21:39):
Grading without a permit.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
I've lived there all my life, sixty five years by
the U of h And I got a red tag
on the door for having two yards of sand in
my front yard. So I've never heard of that, you, now,
I haven't.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
I mean, you have to get your HOA. They've got
their guidelines and I guess you'd have to look and
see what they We don't have that in my neighborhood.
You don't have an h o A.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
No, no h A.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Who gives those who gives those red tags?

Speaker 8 (22:19):
The city of Houston, this Harrison County, they're always driving
up and down the street looking for anything instead of
going to take care of the homeless people or the
problems on the street, the people on drugs, they got
to come down in a lot of people in the
Greater Charles Estate.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well, I never heard that. I never saw that anywhere
when I was living there, So that's that's news to me.
But I would talk to them and find out what
that's all about, or go to I'm sure they've got
whatever posted on the website telling you that's news. H
I don't know. There's there's going to be devils in
the details there, so I'd like to hear the details

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and find out what's going on on that.

Speaker 8 (22:59):
But anyway, yeah, I'll get back in touch with you
and let you know how it goes. I just want
to let people know that they're out there, the city's
out there, and they're looking for people installing installing sand
dirt and malts.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
I guess now, thank you, sir. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know, all right, Frank, you take care very
interesting to see the I think it's some possible reasoning behind.
I mean, you know, if you major lawn hire and
send all your water over to your neighbors or something,
I can see how that you know that could be
an issue or something. I don't know who knows. It

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beats me.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
One thing I learned is not to not to assume
too much but until I got all the facts. And
so that's that's important. You are listening to Garden Line
and we're here to help you out success. That's the
bottom line. We want you to enjoy your gardening, and
we want you to have good success with your gardening.
That's important. Uh, if you are if you've got some

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rose bushes and they're not looking good, I'm getting quite
a few calls on roses that are you know, the
leaves are yellowing kind of, especially the older ones and
maybe even the new leaves. They just don't look real
pretty green and healthy. We are entering a cooler season
coming up here when and the roses should be putting
on some new growth. And if you haven't given them

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a little boost a fertilizer, I would give them a
little one not too much, just a little one, give
them a boost. Uh, get water, water in them very well,
and uh just just see how they do. October is
a big rose bloom month for us. Uh, things start
to cool off a little bit and we get we
get a nice show in October. And having a little
boost a fertilizer is helpful. Normally I would say back

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late August, maybe go ahead and do a shearing. Could
do it. You could do it in early September if
you live down the southern part of the listening area. Uh,
do it in early September. And what that does is
it stimulates new growth. Roses bloom at the terminals on
new growth primary even if it's blooming all along, like

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you have a climbing rose and it's got a long
not a vine, but a long stem, and you see
roses all along it. Well, it's a little side shoots
coming out of that where the roses are putting their
bloom on real short little side shoots, but terminals. So
the more terminals you create, the more ends of shoots
you create, the more blooms you have. Salvia's that way.

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A lot of people their salvia sort of plays out
and it's still inefogrants blooming. It's still blooming, but it's
just not much of a bloom. And then the bush
is looking a little bit I don't know, brushy, you know,
a little twiggy, and it's just not that impressive. Well,
you can shear shot. Shear Salvia's back too. They bloom
at the ends of shoots. So think of it this way.

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You've got one shot coming up and has to bloom
on the end, and that blooms don't gonna last a
certain amount of time. Fore it's not not attractive anymore.
And you share it back. And now when you cut back,
what happens when you prune a branch back You get
shoots that come out from below where you pruned. So
it may be two or three shoots that come out
below where you pruned, and each of those now is

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a terminal that can have blooms. So where you had
one bloom, now you can have three blooms. Plus you
have a more compact plant from the shearing. And that's
what I'm talking about. And a lot of plants are
that way. Roses that way, Salvia is that way. We
have other plants that just bloom the terminals. So if
you you know, want to spruce things up a little bit.

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We do that. I'll prune my salvia's back in late winter,
through my roses back to in late winter, and then
I will come back again typically about May. Now roses
do a big spring bloom and then sometimes there's a lull.
Some roses are pretty good at just keeping on going,
but there's a little bit of a lull. And if

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you shear them back fertilize them, you get a fresh
new growth and here they go again. And then I'll
do that again typically like I said, late August, possibly
early September, and get a flush of growth so that
I can have a fall show too. So just keep
that in mind. If you've got salvia greggyye, that's one
that's kind of a sub shrub. It's a perennial but
doesn't dive back to the ground fully. And you know,

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it depends on the weather where you live, but it's
one that benefits from cheering, fertilizing, watering, and getting a
fresh flush of growth. So there's a little tip for
you something to consider. Boy, the folks at RCW are
really really offering you the deal of the century right now.

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You know, RCW is the Garden Center that is where
Tomball Parkway comes into belt Way eight. You've probably been
there before, but it's been around a long time. Excuse me,
since nineteen seventy nine, I believe, is when they opened it.
Lots of great trees. By the way, their trees are
fifteen percent off, and they got them everywhere. You got

(27:54):
fifteen gallon trees all the way up to huge trees
and containers two hundred gallones in size. By the way, Yes,
they can come plant it for you, and so definitely
want to get them to do that, do a professional
job like they do, and that's excellent. Now they're also
it's not just trees that are on sale right now.

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They've got cajun hibiscus or fifteen percent off. Kripe myrtles
and citrus are thirty percent off, as are select roses.
Not every rose, but select rows is thirty percent off.
And then all their metal yard arts, signs and arbors
and trellises thirty percent off for the month of September.
So we're coming toward the end here, it's time to

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get out there. You know, fall is the best planning
season of the year, especially for trees and shrubs and
woody vines and perennials too. The best planning season of
the year. So get out to RCW and take advantage
of this. I mean, you're not going to find a
better time to plant than now. And this is an awesome,
awesome deal. And while you're out there, enjoy looking at

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all their fall to core arrivals that they've got in,
just really cool stuff. They're loaded up on flowers and
and you know you want vegetables and herbs and things.
They got you covered on all the standard stuff you
would expect when you go out to a garden center.
It's a great place. They treat you right RCW, Nurseries
dot Com, Tamball Parkway and the belt WAG eight. We're

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going to be right back after a quick break. Here
we go, all right, folks, welcome back to the garden line.
Let's uh, let's here. If you need a phone number
to call, it's seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three fifty eight seventy four.
It is hummingbird season around our area, and you know

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they're doing their fall migration coming through. Here are our
our weather and stuff, our temperature, so so mile we
we have strange things we have hummingbirds that stick around
when the rest of them go out and head out
of there. But I just it's one of my favorite birds.
They're so dainty and they are so entertaining. They're so

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beautiful really and amazing. You know, you think about something
beats its wings sixty times a seconds. That's a lot
of flying. But anyway, wild Birds Unlimited as the place
you go for all your bird supplies, of course, and
that certainly is true with hummingbirds. They've got the nice
little high perched hummingbird feeder, meaning it's a flat disc

(30:20):
with a little railing around it that the birds set
up on. So no matter where bird sits around that feeder,
you can see it. That's cool. I like that. Plus
it's easy to clean mine is just pop the lid off,
clean it out, put some fresh sugar water in there
so they can have something to enjoy. Don't put dyes
in the water. You don't need red dye in the water,

(30:42):
just sugar water and one other ingredient that is nectar
defender from wild Birds Unlimited. You put a little cup,
I put about a typic, a little put about a
cup in my little feeder. We don't have a lot
of birds coming out to it. They will, they'll find
it and figure it out. But about a cup in
it time, and it takes a capful prick up as

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you're getting it all ready to go, and it lasts.
That sugar water doesn't go bad like it normally would
normally in a few days, it's getting funky, but when
you put the nectar defender in, it doesn't. Now you're
gonna find wildbirds in six places around the Greater Houston area.
If you live up in Cypress, there's one on Barker Cypress.
If you're down in the Memorial Drive area, there is

(31:26):
one on Memorial Drive. There's also one on bel Air
on the west side. Excuse me, Pairline's got one on
East Broadway, clear Lake, on El Dorado. And out in
Kingwood there is one on Kingwood Drive. And guess what,
I'm going to be heading out to Kingwood to the
wild birds out there in November, November eighth, So those

(31:48):
of you who are out in Kingwood listening, make a
little note November eighth, I'm gonna be out there at
Wallbirds Unlimited in Kingwood. All Right. The main thing is
just go and enjoy it and learn ask them questions.
They are they know birds and they can help you
so much, and it just makes it so much more
fun with particular bird blends, bird seed blends that you're

(32:09):
looking for, bird houses, bird feeders, all kinds of cool stuff,
even books, really nice books on birds. Let's go to
like Conrad now and we're going to visit with Joanne. Hey, Joanne,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (32:23):
Thank you today. I sent you a picture of my
star Jasmine during the week and you asked me to
call back. It was looking kind of I don't know,
brown spots all over. I think you commented on the picture.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
I'm looking for your email right now. There we go. Okay,
let's see here.

Speaker 9 (32:48):
Princess.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Nope, that's something else is named Frances. Yes, hang on
one second. There we go. Okay, I found you and
there it is. Oh yes, uh huh, I remember this star.
Jasmine's wonderful, by the way. I love that. I've got
some myself, I know. But it's just not blooming. Yeah. Well,

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how much sunlight is it getting?

Speaker 9 (33:13):
Well, it faces east and unfortunately I put it in
the ground, so it's climbing up a post that I have,
But it gets a good amount of sun.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Okay, Well, the symptoms that you sent me are symptoms
of water not making it to the leaves, and it's
a called tip and margin burn, where diseases don't know
where the tip of a leaf is or where the
edges of the leaf are and stuff. They they're random

(33:50):
in a leaf. But when you lack water, the part
of the leaf that is laughs to get the water
as it's moving through the plant, that's where you tend
to see the browning and the die back. And so
either some roots were damaged or it could be soggy conditions,

(34:11):
but probably not with these symptoms. It's probably they got
a little on the dry side. I don't see any
sign of infection on them.

Speaker 9 (34:21):
Should I water it at the ground?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Yes? Or just put the water No, put the water
on the ground and don't wet the leaves. Jasmin's not
star Jasmine's not prone to diseases. But any planet you
keep the leaves wet, you're going to have more foliage diseases.
So I would I would water the ground, give it
a good soaking. And I think at some point this summer,

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towards the end of summer, it just got a little
too dry, and I think that's probably what you're seeing there.
I think it'll be fine. I wouldn't fertilize it really
right now, but just get it some water. If you
wanted to do a very very light fertilization, that's fine.
But these plants do really well without a lot of
extra fertilizer.

Speaker 9 (35:06):
When can I tran I'd like to move it to
another location. Would that be in the fall? Late fall?

Speaker 3 (35:14):
No, but yes, November would be the time you want
things to cool off enough to where it really is cool.
You know, October is almost a summer month here in Texas.
Sous joking aside, November gives you a little bit better,
and November would be a really good time. You want
to dig it, get as much of the roots as
you can do, not let them dry out. Already have

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the whole dug for where you're going to put it.
So this what do well in a pot? I sit there?

Speaker 10 (35:43):
What did do well in a pot?

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Pot? A huge pot? You can get it to grow in,
But as far as it's not going to be very big,
and it is very going to be very prone to
drying out because the slave pot is so confining.

Speaker 9 (36:00):
So I pray, oh, make sure it's next, thank you.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
All right, there you go. Thanks, I appreciate your call. Alrighty.
I love Star Jasmine, wonderful fragrance. By the way, it's
also called uh. Confederate Jasmine has two names, Star Jasmine,
Confederate Jasmine. There's a lot of plants called jasmine. There's
a lot of plants that are have jasmine in the name, uh,

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and then they aren't Jasmine. And so anyway, that just
the FYI Star Jasmin's present. Well, this means that we're
going to take a little break here. We'll be right back.
Hope you grab you a cup of coffee in the meantime.
And I want to remind you that next Saturday, I'm
going to be at Siena Ace Hardware south and west

(36:52):
of Houston, especially west out from Houston there and Style
the say Hardware is a fairly news store. It's a
great Ace hardware store. I'll be there and if you
have any samples you want to bring out to have diagnosed,
this will be a good time to do it. I
will give you more instructions on how to take samples
as we go through here, But the fast answer is

(37:13):
I need to see sick plants, not dead plants. So
if you've got a lawn and an area that is dead,
go to the zone between healthy and then take a
little plug of soil inside out there and put in
a zip lock and bring it to me. With that name,
you think, well, maybe it's a fungicide to kill brown butt. No,
it's not. What it is is it's a fertilizer that's

(37:34):
chock full of all kinds of beneficial microbes. Now, beneficial
microbes do help fight disease, or they can, many types do.
Microlife is built around microbes. That's why the name is
micro life, right, because microbes rule the world. They really do,
and they basically are what keeps our plants healthy and happy.

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They work with the root system, they do a number
of different things. But Microlife brown Patch is the kind
of product that, like other Microlife products, it's going to
have a nice load of the nutrients that plants need
for fall. In this case, Microlife brown Patch is for
fall applications, and that's where we are right now. It's

(38:17):
a light brown bag. It's really easy to see. It's
a five to one to three fertilizer. Five one three.
They move, they move up that potassium a little bit
and the nitrogen down just a little bit. That's what
we're looking for for fall. It helps fight the disease
by not not only just keeping the plant healthy, but

(38:38):
not pushing just a lot of fast growth, which we
don't want to have. You would like it to be
a nice, gradual growth, and that's what it does. And
so in addition to providing those microbes and the nutrients,
it's going to give you that nice growth pattern that
is better for our plants than the fall. Now, I
like organic fertilizers in that they're made from organic materials.

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Microbes have to get in there and break them down
in order to release those nutrients to the soil. And
that's exactly what happens with the Microlife brown patch five
to one three. So go ahead and get it down.
If you notice my schedule, I've got the organic fertilizer
a little bit earlier than the synthetic fertilizers. The Microlife
round patch starts in late September, whereas most fertilizers, I'm saying, okay,

(39:25):
let's start those at the beginning of October. So the
reason for that is just to give it a little
bit of time to begin, you know, to break down
in turn loose, so we get a reasonably comfort comparative
comparable really release of those nutrients in there. So in
other words, you need to buy it now. You can
start putting it on now. You put it on anytime

(39:45):
now through I'd say about mid October ideally, and if
you want to go a little later and that, that's
just fine too. And you're going to find Microlife products
all over the place. If you go to Microlife Fertilizer
dot com, Microlifefertilizer dot com, you're going to find the
places that you can buy it, which is basically everywhere
feed stores, hardware stores, ace hardware stores, the independent garden

(40:10):
centers all over town. They all carry it. It's a
good product and it works. The other day, I was
checking out some plants at Buchanans Native Plants. I always
like to visit our sponsors and go see what's happening.
What's going on there Buchanans Is. It's just a fun

(40:30):
nursery to go to. It's I love the layout. I
just enjoy walking around in there. You know, there's this
the houseplant Greenhouse, one of the first places I go to.
I know it's in the back, but that's kind of
where I start, because they have so many cool, really
cool house plants that you have never grown before. If

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you're into strings, string of pearls, string of whatevers, they've
got lots of strings, lots of different types. If you're
into tropical foliage types of house plans, they have a
lot of types of those. I like Chinese evergreen also
called aguli onema. Well, they got a number of different
ones to choose from. So basically you're gonna walk in
there and you're gonna find a plant you don't have

(41:11):
any need. That's how that works. Right now. What's happening
in Buchanans is fall color from flowers to foliage. You know,
someone called about croton yesterday. The crotons are beautiful. That's
like the plant designed for Halloween, just with all the
colors and stuff. It's really beautiful. Bulbs. Important to get
bulbs planted in the fall. And then there's a lot

(41:35):
of plants, a lot of natives too, and that, by
the way, Buchanans has the highest collection, highest number of
natives anywhere I've seen in the region. It's excellent. But
you can walk in there and ask specifics, like you know,
I've been talking about it's hummingbird season. Well, hummingbird feeders
are great. Why not also plant some things in your

(41:55):
yard that attract hummingbirds, things like turk's cap for example,
crust spine for example. The red yuka is another one
that they like. Bottle brush, they like Mexican fire spike,
they love that, the button bush, the kufi is, the justichies,
the pentas. There's a lot of plants they love and

(42:15):
you can get all those at Buchan's Native Plants in
nights on Eleventh Street. Go to Buchanansplants dot com. Check
out their website. Oh gosh, you got to sign up
for the newsletter. I get the newsletter all the time,
and I tell you there is so much helpful information
on their Plus you find out when they're having a sale,
or you find out something else going on, like who's

(42:37):
going to be showing up for you know, whatever event
is coming up. By the way, in fourteen days is
their shindig for the fall to call the Fall Fest.
There'll be things for kids from face painting to crafts
and whatnot. Lots of stuff for the adults to live music,
just lots of good They always put on a good

(42:59):
show there if buchan As Naty plants two weeks though.
The Fall Festival and Buchanans is October fourth, Okay, so
don't miss that. Well let's see here, I in my
vegetable garden have got the soil ready to go now,
and it's just a matter of me actually getting out
there and getting some plants in the ground. Fall is

(43:21):
my favorite vegetable gardening season, and one reason for that
is that vegetables that ripen in the cooler days of
fall are better. So back in August and early September,
we were already planting warm season vegetables and those are
the ones that can't take a frost, but we want

(43:41):
to get them ready so when they produce, it's fall.
Green bean's primary example of that. You grow a green
bean in the spring, maybe you plant it a little
late in the spring and it starts to ripen. The
beans are ready when it's hot, starting to get hot.
They're good, but the quality is not as good as
one that is ripening as the days are cooling just

(44:04):
a little bit, cooling off a little bit. Falls. A
great season for gardening. Falls, the time when we plant
a lot of the most nutritious vegetables we grow all year,
you know, the greens, the cool season greens, the blue
leaf vegetables. They're called cold crops or cruciferous vegetables. By
the way, do you know why they're called cruciferous vegetables.

(44:26):
I'm gonna let that be a mystery until we come
back from the break. We'll be right back. Oh, the
sun's coming. The fact it's shining right now, maybe you
can where you are. All right, Welcome back to Guardline.
Good to have you with us, all right, I know

(44:47):
you are dying to know the mystery of why cruciferus
vegetables are called cruciferous vegetables. Those vegetables, by the way,
have more names than a convict on the lamb. I
mean it is. They're called a blue leaf vegetab some
people they're called cold crops, not col d co o
l e uh. And they're also called crycifer's vegetables. And

(45:09):
the reason is the flowers on them have four petals
in the shape of a cross an X shape. Okay,
And that's why they're called cruciferus vegetables. There you go,
the mystery is defined. It's a good, good fun fact
for Sunday morning. Well, they are very healthy for you,
so many you know there there's there's the minerals we

(45:30):
need in our bodies, the nutrients and things like that,
but there's also a lot of compounds that build our
health and they're in our food. Uh there's a thing
called corstin that Uh. Texan and m plant breeding years
ago began looking for ways to put more of those
nutrients in. I'm just kind of wandering here, but I'm

(45:52):
gonna keep wondering the who was it was? It was
it Apocrates that said let your food be your medicine,
and your medicine be your food. It may have been.
It sounds like something he would have said. Anyway, Uh,
that's the idea. And so they've been looking at building
carrots with higher beta carotene content, you know, by selectively

(46:16):
breeding for higher beta carotene content, higher corstan content. I
think the corcident I believe that was an onions that
they were doing that. And so the bottom line is
our food gets healthier for us as they as they
do that. And Crucifer's vegetables have a number of compounds
that are cancer fighting. They have a number of compounds

(46:38):
that do other beneficial things for our bodies. Very good, though.
Kale is a cruciferous vegetable. It's a blue leaf vegetable, right, Kale, collie, cauliflower,
co robbie cabbage, kale collars. How am I doing here
so far? Broccoli? I'm forgetting some anyway. That those are

(46:59):
the crucifer vegetables, and then the greens, healthy greens, you know,
spinach and lettuce and a rouged you lah and mosh
and sorrel. If you've never planted sorel before, you should
do it, even if you just have a little container
on the back patio plant some sorrel. It is a
lemony flavored leaf vegetable. You pick the leaves and they

(47:24):
have a tangy lemon flavor, and you can just think
of a lot of ways to use that in cooking.
It's really good. I like it in soups especially. All right,
Well enough about that, let's actually go out and talk
to a gardener. We're going to go to Seay and
talk to Kim this morning. Hey Kim, good morning, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (47:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (47:44):
I had a problem with weeds and a fairly new
yard about five years old. We have a Bermuda hybrid yard,
and I can get everything to go except the grass. Okay, yeah,
the weeds are doing great. But I've tried improving the soil.

(48:06):
I've tried, you know, using barricade and bonot weed beater, ultra,
you name it. I've tried it, and I can't get
the yard to cover enough to prevent the weeds from
coming up. I've got okay, properties on either side of
me that had absolutely no yard here, like not even

(48:31):
watering it, and so we have plenty of what weed
seeds that come come our way.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Any help, Well, density, density is your friend. I don't
know what the percentage is, but the vast majority of
weeds when you have a dense lawn, they come from
seed and they cannot come up. There are weeds that
consist in the lawn, you know. Dandylion is an example.
I mean, even if you have a dnse line, you're

(48:57):
going to probably see dandelions in it, and Virginia button
we eed, dollar we eat if it's too wet, those
kinds of things. I think, first we need to figure
out what's wrong with the grass, why it's not growing
and staying dense hybrid Bermuda makes a really good dense lawn,
and bermuda is a pretty tough grass, but when it's stressed,

(49:19):
it's not a dense grass. If you keep it watered
and fertilized and mow it a lot, you end up
with an incredibly dense grass. I mean that, you know,
the ultimate example of that is a golf course green
with a dwarf bermuda being mowed every day, and so
that you can't beat that in terms of density. But

(49:39):
I would say the fertilizing and the watering, yes, but
the mowing on a frequent basis and a regular basis
is the most important. Bermuda is like a pine forest.
If you've ever walked into a pine forest, all the
green is way up on top of the pine trees.
It's not down the trunks, and then you know lower,

(50:00):
the lower is all shaded out by the top, and
so the green's all up on top, and bermuda is
that way. When you mow bermuda, you've got the leaves
are up high, and if you come in and don't
mower a regularly and cut back, it looks kind of bad.
Every greens it sprouts back, but you take off all
that green top so that's why frequent mowing is really
important with it.

Speaker 11 (50:23):
Yeah, that's a really good job of that of mowing
and taking care of it. I think part of the
problem is our backyard looks a lot better than our
front yard, but our front yard has tree and I'm
wondering if they're just especially in this one of the year,
there's sucking up.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Well, Bermuta does not like shade. It's it's Bermuda is
one of our most intolerant turf grasses for shade, so
that could be a part of the thing going on
there in terms of the density that would that would
definitely be the case you can't fix out of than
doing printing on trees that makes more sunlight get down.

Speaker 11 (51:04):
Every other year we have the canopy up and up
and that seems to help. But the weeds are just
I mean, it's like every year we have a different
set of weeds. Last year it was burweed and goose
grass and horthrb and this year it's dove weed, yellow
wood sol and nuts it. Well we did something different.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Okay, well, uh, the dove weed, the love weed and
the yellow nuts edge both like wet, So watch out
on watering too much. That the sun gets a little soggy,
those those weeds really love it and proliferate. You know,
I don't know fertilizing. Do you are you guys? Do

(51:47):
you have copy of my schedule on window? Okay, okay, we.

Speaker 11 (51:55):
Use the natripas fertilizer.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Are great products. Just uh just follow the schedule on it.
I guess you have been. Uh. So here's the deal.
Bermuda grass, sunlight, uh, moderate moisture, more fertilizer than we
put on Saint Augustine, uh, and uh regular mowing or

(52:21):
the things. And it sounds like maybe sunlight could be
one of the limiting factors.

Speaker 12 (52:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
If the soil is a very dense, tight clay that's
maybe a little compacted, then aeration helps. They airate golf
courses all the time for that very reason, because they're
almost all bermuda here in Texas.

Speaker 11 (52:42):
Yeah, we had aired when we put the compost.

Speaker 13 (52:48):
Do that we haven't been that stance, so that might
be okay.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, I think you know, we're we've kind of gone
around the circle on the things that that could be
going on. You can always send me a pick. Sure,
if it's a close up, I may or may not
see something on it, you know, based on our conversation. Okay,

(53:12):
to tell you those are the keys, the ones I
just stated are the keys to a nice dense permut.

Speaker 13 (53:20):
Well, okay, well you take care.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Yeah, that's interesting because grass is a sunlight so important
on grass. Even things like Saint Augustine that can take
some shade, they do better in the sun. They are
not Saint Augustine is not dense as you get into
shady spots, it is not. It's dense. It can be
dense in the sun. But anyway, Southwest Fertilizer down in

(53:49):
the southwest part of Houston, of course. It is the
corner of Bisonette and Runwick. It's been around since nineteen
fifty five. Nineteen fifty five, this is our seventieth of
our Now, you don't last seventy years without taking good
care of your customers. And what does that mean. That
means being nice to them. That means been friendly to them.

(54:09):
That means when they walk in there, they get service
from people that know what they're talking about. It's not like, well,
let's see this product got a picture of a dead
bug on it. Why don't you try that? No, they
don't do that way they know what they're talking about.
You bring them a sample, you bring them a photo
of something, and they'll take you to a product that
is necessary to have the best success with that with

(54:33):
controlling that problem, or maybe it's fertilizers for your lawn.
Southwest has has you covered on everything, tools, seeds, even
small engine repair. They've got it. They have it all there.
And I like to say, if they don't have it,
you don't need it, because they have it. They have
everything that would be a good product that I would
suggest you're going to find it at Southwest Fertilizer Southwest

(54:55):
Fertilizer dot com, corner of Bisonetton Runwick seven to one
three six six six one seven four four seven to
win three six six six one seven four four. We
were talking about fall being fall gardening being such a
good time of the year when we have some of
the healthiest vegetables we grow a year. We also have

(55:18):
milder temperatures to get out there and enjoy in the fall,
it's actually pleasant again. You know, the blastpernace is getting
turned down and that is important.

Speaker 14 (55:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
And fall gardening is a time when we can also
grow a lot of wonderful flowers. You know our summer
flowers are are Let me change out our warm season flowers.

Speaker 8 (55:37):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Marigolds in the summer gets spider mites that turn them
to toast marigols. In the fall, the spider man populations
are crashing doing due to day length and probably temperatures
to some degree too, and they just don't bother your miragols.
The spider mites don't in the fall season. So I'll
plant marigols in late late August, get them up and

(56:00):
growing in things, and they just look so good in
the fall. If you're down in the southern part of
the listening area, I mean, you could even go into
early September to plant them, and they'll carry you all
the way up into the first frost and that fries them,
turns them to toastness time for the cool seasoned vegetables
to go in. But that's just an example. Flowers are
prettier when the weather is cooler. You may have noticed

(56:22):
this that in hot weather something that should be red
is kind of pinkish rather than red because of the heat.
As we get into cooler weather, you get the most
vibrant colors of blooms that that species genetics will allow.
It's just a better time, so many more things, and
it please please. If you're going to plant any woody plant,

(56:45):
a rose bush, a shrub, a tree, a woody vine.
If you're going to plant perennial plants too, plant them
in the fall. It's the best time of year to
do that. And I like to say that fall is
also an economical time to play. And here's why. If
you were to compare let's say a four inch pot
perennial or a six inch pot perennial, compare that to

(57:08):
a gallon pot in price, it is a significant difference.
But if you planted the smaller plant in the fall
and then the bigger plant the costs more in the spring.
By next summer, you wouldn't able to tell the difference.
And so fall is a good reason to plant for
that too. Hey, if you want some help with your designs,
if you want some help with your maintenance, Piercescapes is

(57:29):
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Speaker 7 (57:47):
It is.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
It is really good. But if you just want maintenance,
they come out. They have a quarterly maintenance program, so
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irrigation is working. They do everything you need to do.
They can change out the color because it's gonna be
time to do that. But you got to call them
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about their quarterly maintenance program as well. Time to take
a break and I'll be right back, all right, both
thought it Back to the garden Line. Glad to have you
with us this morning. Here on garden Line, I'm your host,
Skip Richtor, and we're here to help you have success
and enjoy gardening in the process. We're gonna head straight

(58:29):
out the phones and talk to Rich this morning. Hey, Rich,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (58:35):
Good morning, Skip.

Speaker 15 (58:36):
Looking for some guidance and clarification regarding all three steps
of the Texas three Step, especially for those of us.
I was guilty of fighting the Texas root rot, so
I or take hall rout rot. So I applied ropa
conaissel and a Zaxi strobin about forty days ago. Would

(59:00):
I apply the fungicide now.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Again if you do? If you do that, I would
not do the the the fungicide and the three step
because you're already doing it. You don't need to triple
up on fungicides or double up even on fungicides. So
if you have the propaconazola, there's actually stroben there you

(59:29):
could you could do that one, that one in place
of the the amita cloprid.

Speaker 16 (59:34):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
That that is I'm not amita cloprid. My clobe mute
neil that is in the three step, So okay, that
would be the trade off if you're doing that. The
October and November are important months for fighting with the
takeof root rot, and the springtime is also a time
when we put it on. It's on my schedule in
the spring. It's not like every year everybody needs to

(59:57):
do all those by any means, but when you're deal
with it, uh, then I would. I would use those
as a good resource. You need to get them down
in times so the grass plant can take them up.
That's important because they help fight from the roots all
the way up into the plant. Those products are going
to work. They're gonna help you with your brown patch also, and.

Speaker 15 (01:00:21):
I'm very good appreciate your guidance. Skip, thank you, yeap?
Is that it okay?

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Yeah? Those three steps a great a great program and
especially that uh, that switch we do in the three
step when we get to fall for the fall fertilization.
It's an excellent blend for that especially. All right, Thanks
rich good sir. Thanks alrighty. Here's the phone number if
you'd like to give me a call. Seven one three

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will go down to South Houston and talk to Jim
this morning. Hey, Jim, this is uh, thanks for taking
How can we help? Yeah, you bet.

Speaker 10 (01:03:29):
I have a beautiful crape myrtle that's like the foundation
plant to my front yard. Burgundy Lee's gorgeous, beautiful ballooms.
But I'm badling suckers. I think they're called to keep
coming up from the bottom of that plant. I'm constantly
out there clipping them, and it seems like the more
I clip, the more I get. I heard you a

(01:03:49):
few weeks ago talk about something I think called sucker stopper.
If I'm not mistaken, I did.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:03:56):
My question to you is should that? And I know
it is a costly product, so I want to make
sure I use it correctly. Should I use that after
I cut on basically the stems that are left, or
should I put it on the actual foliage of the suckers,
let them die and then clip them and hopefully that
will be the end of that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
No, what you do is you cut off the sucker
as close as you can cut it off to the branch,
because at the base of a sucker a whole bunch
of buds waiting to spoil the party, and so close
and then immediately just to just squirt some some sucker
stopper or dab it on. There are spray bottles. For me,

(01:04:40):
the spray bottles put out too much. Sometimes I'll squirt
it with a spray bottle and then I'll use a
little foam brush to kind of move it around a
little bit better. But you can't do it either way,
but on there and then that sucker is not going
to come back. It just I've done it. I've done
it on Texas. I'm sorry Vitex, which is a horrible

(01:05:00):
thing about sucker. You cut av Tex limb off and
you're gonna get tons of suckers and they just keep coming.
I had of Iext. I did that too, because I'm
always experimenting to learn, and I cut it back and
cut it back, and cut it back and cut it back,
and it just kept resucering. And I put the sucker
uh sucker stopper on there, uh and it you'll have
a second come out somewhere, but it won't be where

(01:05:21):
that cut was. It'll be a sucker that's doing that
on its own somewhere else. But I have no text,
and I don't I don't have to use this.

Speaker 10 (01:05:29):
Very often, and it's not harmful to the parent plant.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
Right, Well, No, there is on the label there's like
a maximum that you would use or anything something like that.
But if you use it as directed, no, there's not
a problem at all.

Speaker 10 (01:05:45):
Okay, Now, I didn't know. I didn't know whether or
not to use Like I say, I didn't know whether
to use it directly on the leaves or on the cuttings.
What was yourmaining after.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Yeah, definitely not the leaves. It's a kind of a gooey,
sticky like melted marshmallow kind of thing when you squirt
it out there on it, uh, and then it dries
not white, it dries dries clear. But do not spread
it on foldage and stuff. Just put it. Put it
down on the stem where you're concerned about that sucker.
And in fairness too, there is another product called sucker

(01:06:24):
Punch by bon Eyde and both of these products are
the same thing. Well, both of these products have a
hormone that tells the plant you don't need to grow that.
Plants are driven by plant growth and everything like that
is driven by hormones. And so either sucker Stopper or

(01:06:46):
sucker Punch by Boneide will we'll do the trick of
what we're talking about. I think sucker punch comes with
a little a little little stem. The cap has a
stem on it that has a brush on the end,
so you can you can just pull it out and
just wipe it on those little spots where you want it.

Speaker 13 (01:07:06):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
And and we're a sucker stopper generally you're purchasing it
as a spray a spray bottle.

Speaker 10 (01:07:12):
Okay, I appreciate that you'll know what I'll be doing
later this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
All right. And then again they're the exact ingredient, exact
same concentration. All right, Well, good luck, you take care,
good good, good question for sure. Let's see here, why
don't we uh see, I'm gonna have to go to
a break. When we come back from break, Glenn and

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to Glenn. Hey, Glenn, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:09:06):
Nice camp. I hope my pictures came through, all right,
my pictures going to go ahead?

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
And uh did I have sent him a wild just.

Speaker 7 (01:09:17):
Now within the last ten minutes?

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
Uh hmm, Okay, I did not get your pictures. So
let's go ahead and try to talk about it without
them what.

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
I don't even know the name of the the bush, okay,
but that's my yard. Man tells me that the bite
them in their their their lives and within them in
it yet fifteen state long, but a lot of them
green and the rest of them looks like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Let's do this. Let's do this, gun. I'm gonna put
you on hold, talk to my producer. Let's make sure
you got the right right email, and let's get because
I do want to see the photos and talk to
you and then just call back or hang on or whatever.
But try. Let's retry that. Sind We're going to go
now out to Lon Lonnel and Spring Branch.

Speaker 13 (01:10:13):
Hey, Lonel, good morning.

Speaker 17 (01:10:17):
I have, excuse me, three questions. The first one is
about Eagle's Hurst. Excuse me, I did not get it
down soon enough. So my grass is looking kind of bad,
and I'm just wondering if I should retreat it after
a few weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
I wouldn't do a few weeks. I'd probably give it
probably three to four week, but probably four weeks before
I would retreat with the eagle. I don't I don't
think you need to come back that fast, Okay, I
don't know what. I don't know why it looks I
don't know why it looks bad. That that's also part

(01:10:58):
of the problem. It could be something we'll fix, and
it could be something eagle doesn't fix.

Speaker 17 (01:11:03):
Well, I did have someone check it at a nursery
and they said it looked like I had great leaf spot.

Speaker 13 (01:11:09):
Okay, and that's all right.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Well, it takes a while to grow. It takes a
while to grow out of that. So wait, wait four
weeks and then do the eagle again.

Speaker 17 (01:11:20):
Okay, but only yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
Yeah, only if it doesn't look like it's getting better.

Speaker 17 (01:11:28):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
The second one, if you have a radio, If you
have a radio on, go ahead and turn it off
in the background.

Speaker 17 (01:11:36):
Hold about a second, m Okay, is that better?

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Yes, there we go.

Speaker 17 (01:11:47):
Okay, I'm getting a little I'm getting a little back,
thank you. Okay. Second question, I.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Just lost Gelona Orlano. Excuse me. Okay, now you're cutting
out and I'm not hearing. I'm gonna put you on
hold and I'm pretucer. We'll check and see what's going on,
and I'll come right back to you. All right, folks,
there we go. Hey, Nelson's they have got some excellent

(01:12:20):
products and for fall transplanting, which you are going to
be planting in fall, herbs, vegetables, flowers, shrubs, trees, you
name it, you need to know about genesis transplant mix.
Genesis has micariza and bacteria another fungi that benefit that
whole soil microbiome that we talk about all the time.

(01:12:43):
It's design to mix into the soil when you're planting.
So if you are bumping something up from one sized
container to another sized container, if you're planting in the ground,
if you're planting in raised beds, whatever you're planting, you
mix genesis into that soil that you're planting into, or
that you're filling back in the hole, if you will,

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and it works good. It doesn't burn the roots. Genesis
transplant mix works well, getting them off to a good start,
and then you continue on after that with whatever kind
of fertilization you're going to be doing over time, but
start with genesis in the soil. I'm going to head
back now over here to lonel Hey, lonel Or, is
this gonna work?

Speaker 17 (01:13:24):
I don't know. Here's something in the background. Can you
hear me?

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Okay, I can hear you find now?

Speaker 17 (01:13:31):
Okay, Okay. The second question is boneye trees dumb remover.
I put some on a crape myrtle that I cut
down that was too close to the house, and I
was just wondering. I've applied it twice and I don't
know when I can start seeing some disintegration. I guess
of the root or the trunk.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Well, that's going to take a while, and if you
can keep it wet, that would be better. If if
you could throw a little like a little dirt or
compost over the top of it and kind of keep
it moist, it will decompose a lot faster.

Speaker 17 (01:14:11):
Okay, okay, I can do that, but what am I
looking at? Six months a year?

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
What depends on the size of it and how moist
you can keep it. But bono is it's a tree
stump remover is just designed to help speed that up.
But basically you need when wood stays wet, it rocks faster.
So I would throw a little compost over the top,
moisten it as fast as you can. It will take

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you know, it just depends on if the if the
stump is still alive, it's not going to work very
well on it. But once it's you know, been cut
for a year or so. That's when it really does
its best job. But in the meeting, have any.

Speaker 14 (01:14:55):
Greens or anything recently? You talk to someone to out
road road Road and I have the same problem.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
All right, Ulna, I'm gonna have to put you on hold.
We're they're they're about to take the mic away from me.
Hang on.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
Welcome to k r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
It's crazy trip.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Just watch him as many goes to suprays.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
All right, let's jump in here. We've got a lot
of folks to talk to. We need to go ahead
and jump in on the calls. Welcome back to guard Line.
I'm your host, Skip Rictor. We're here to help you
have success. That is what we're all about, and we
are going to help you if you give us call
seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
I'm going to go back to lonel in spring Brands Lonell.

(01:16:05):
I think you had a second or a final question.

Speaker 17 (01:16:09):
Yes, about the rose rosevettes and the roses. If you
have to take the roses out of the bed, do
you treat the soil with anything after you take them out?

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
No, No, there's nothing to do you need to do
to the soil. Just just give it a little a
few days, please, well, give it a few days or
a week, you know, just there's there's going to be
some of the little mites that got shaken off the
bush that had the rose rosette, and you just want
to have that them time to kind of dissipate before

(01:16:42):
you just stick another plant.

Speaker 17 (01:16:43):
Right in there, roses, or plant something different.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
You can replace roses.

Speaker 17 (01:16:51):
Okay, all right, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
All right, thank you for the call. Appreciate that a lot.
I'm going to just keep moving here and go straight
to Glenn. Glenn, thanks for waiting patiently. You've been You've
been waiting a while. I appreciate that. How can we.

Speaker 7 (01:17:04):
Help, Well, the you see, the hedge. Part of it
is just as green as could be, and the other
it looks like it's been hit with some kind of
a disease. They're on the east side of the house.
They get plenty of sun and they seem to have
equal water. And if you break one of the branches, shit,
they look like it's alive. As suppose you drive and

(01:17:29):
although it's some kind of a disease, it may have
hit that part of the hedge. But boy, it should
watch them out fast.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Well I don't. I don't see if it's a disease.
It's a root rot. And as I look at the pictures,
you know, I can't tell from a distance if it's
root rod or not. But uh it it also could
just be due to a lack of water. It appears
to me by looking at the photos that does that

(01:18:00):
bed slope downward where the healthiest plants are uphill and
as you go down a.

Speaker 7 (01:18:09):
Little bit higher, yes they are.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Yeah, I'm thinking Glenn, that you know how moisture moves downhill,
and I'm just thinking that bottom part of the bedstaind
a little too wet sogi And if that's the case,
roots can't get oxygen and they will die or a
root rot can often move in because of that. And
you may be looking at that. I would take a
little knife, go to the very bottom of the just

(01:18:34):
above the ground, on those stems, and scrape it back
a little bit underneath the stem. It should be a creamy,
creamy white color, not like paper sack or pecan shell brown.
It should be more of a creamy white color. And
if the other is the case, then you've got a
root rot and if you were to pull one up,
you would see that the roots are soft and the

(01:18:55):
outside is kind of slipping away off the root because
it's rotted right away. And the only solution to that
would be to change a watering schedule or possibly to
have some sort of a subsurface drainage that like a
French strain that takes takes the excess water away. You know,
it could be your watering schedule that's doing it, and

(01:19:15):
it also could be run off from a roof or
whatever that's just keeping that area too darn wet.

Speaker 7 (01:19:24):
Okay, well, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Yeah, you bet, and good luck with getting the bottom
of that. If you any follow ups, feel free to
call back. All right, thank you sir. You know we
think about plants and eating waters, like, how can too
much water be a problem? You know, roots live underground.
I couldn't breathe if you covered my face up with
a dirt. How can roots breathe? Well they can. There

(01:19:49):
is so moisture in the ground and that absolutely will
provide them, you know, enough oxygen to survive. But when
water fills all those soil or spaces, now they can't.
Now why do roots need oxygen? Well, all plant parts respire.

(01:20:10):
They essentially are you know, we think of plants as
putting oxygen in the air. For us, they breathe in
carbon dioxide, they breathe out oxygen, and that's true, that's
the bulk of what happens. But plants also use a
little oxygen as part of the respiration process and they
have to have it. And if roots stay soggy wet,

(01:20:33):
it will kill them. They cannot survive without the ability
to take in that oxygen also, and so that's what happens.
That's why wet soils can be deadly to plants. Now
there are plants through various mechanisms that are able to
see Cyprus in a swamp, and how they live, well,
that's an exception to the rule. The way they the

(01:20:54):
way they're able to do that exception to the rule.
But in general, oxygen is important. And just like I'm
always saying brown stuff before green stuff, it's all about
the soil. One of those about the soil is that
it drains well. Either you put a subsurface drainage in
to get the excess water out of there, so oxygen

(01:21:14):
can move down into the soil where that water was
filling up the soil pores. Now it drains out and
oxygen comes in. Or you put a raised bed in,
and that's the simplest way for most of us to
do it is a raised bed. We'll drain away down
to the lower soil that would stay soggy, and at
least your plant roots could have some plants could have
some roots up there in an improved bed of soil

(01:21:37):
above the ground. So those are just a couple of principles.
Every now and then, I like to just go a
little bit horticulture nerdy here on you. If your lung
has been struggling through whatever summer diseases, insect issues and whatnot,
and it's thin, one of the best things you can
do to get it back is to do a core

(01:21:58):
aeration and a compost top dressing. Corrooration pulls a plug
out of the soil. Oxygen can get into the root system.
It's like breathing life in the soil. Compost top dressing
covers the surface of the soil. You know, compost You
know why it's good. It releases its nutrients being on
the surface. It will help a little bit with your
weed problems because it is sort of a little mini

(01:22:18):
moltt right there at the surface. So it's not going
to make you know, night and day difference, but it
does help. But as it decomposes, as it falls in
those core aeration holes, your soil gets better. And especially
when it's a clay and it's compacted in things. This
is a very important step. And professional turfs they are
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in general. Uh, you know, they don't draw a line
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Here's the phone number. You want to write this down
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(01:23:44):
it's better to do this sooner rather than later, so
give them a call eight three two three five one
zero zero three two. Let's take a quick break and
we'll be back with your calls at seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. All right, welcome
back to Guardline. Good to have you with us. Yezomte

(01:24:06):
azel mite. That's what we're going to talk about next.
We're going to go out to San Leone and talk
to Ted. Hey, Ted, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
Hey, good morning man, I just got thirty minutes of rain.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Oh well, that's good.

Speaker 7 (01:24:23):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
Talk about crop rotation, particularly my tomato plants do as
a mite, yes, eliminates the need for crop rotation.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
No crop rotation is done. One of the reasons it's done,
or one of the main reasons, is because of diseases
or insects that might be related to the soil in
that spot. Okay, And so as you rotate you know,
like if you planted things in the tomatoes the family
tomatoes are in, which would be peppers and eggplant. If

(01:24:54):
you planted those three crops over and over and over
again in the same spot and you add a disease
that might attack those, you're just going to get it
really built up or solving soil problem. And by rotating,
you know, you go to things that they don't get
that disease or that insect or whatever. Yeah, as it's

(01:25:16):
for micro nutrient supplement, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:25:19):
So but it's always a good idea to put my
tomato plants in a different place every year.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
It is to degree you can do it. If you've
got a smaller, like say normal sized garden these days
where people have a little raised better two or three,
it's kind of hard to rotate just because there's not
much room to do that. But if you've got a
bigger garden and you can rotate sections of it, that
would be better. But it's not lay in day and

(01:25:47):
it depends. If you don't have a particular kind of
problem in the soil, then the rotating is unnecessary because
you're rotating just to keep from building up that problem. So, yeah,
we generally recommend it as a general principle.

Speaker 7 (01:26:02):
Okay, all right, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
All right, good luck, take care. Thanks to call. I
appreciate that. Yeah. Azemitte is an excellent products mined up
in Utah, actually, and it has all kinds of micronutrients
and all kinds of trace minerals in them. And when
we say micro and trace, what we mean is a
plant needs a little What we do not mean is
the plants can get by without it. It is essential.

(01:26:30):
Micronutrients are essential. They have to have them. They just
don't need as much. Okay. So whereas with well people
call fertilize. These are all fertilizers, but what people call
the main fertilizers, you know the three numbers on the bag.
We're putting those out often because we need a lot
of them, okay, And but the micronutrients not so much.
But you still have to build that bank account micro

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The azemite itself is going to provide the micro nutrients
that you need. Us a forty pound bag covers six
to twelve thousand square feet because we're just using them
in small mounts. And you can also put in a
vegetable garden because you're gonna eat the vegetables, and you
want them to be chok full of all the nutrients
that our bodies need too, and that would be ten
pounds per thousand square feet. Godaesemite Texas dot com. You

(01:27:13):
can find out more about them. Very important. You'll find
it on my schedule, you know, the micronutrients supplements. I
got them on the schedule because they are very very important.
I was checking out Nelson Water Gardens is a few
weeks ago. Stop buying, visit a throf over there and
just looking at all things they have, and my gosh,
they are chalk full of all kinds of fall vegetables,

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all kinds of vegetables where they're ready to go. So
go out there and get them and get them home
and get them planted. I've been telling you today you
need to plant the fall vegetables. They also have a
wonderful selection of flowers for this fall season, things that
will last all the way up to frost, and some
things that are a little frost tolerant as well. They

(01:27:59):
have an unbelievable selection of herbs, a lot of herbs
you probably haven't heard of and haven't grown. And then
version of herbs that versions or varieties of herbs that
you haven't tried before. You need to do that. You
need to check them out and see what they have
out there. And while you're out there and enjoy that water,
oh my gosh, the sound of water, you're gonna want

(01:28:21):
to bring it home with you and they will. They
can sell you like a disappearing fountain and the grate
that goes on the ground and everything like that, you know,
the pomp that circulates it. And you go build it yourself,
or if you're not a do it yourself, or have
the folks that Nelson come out and build it for you.
The main thing is just do it. When you go
out and said it Nelson's go out and sit it.
Nelson Water Gardens and Katie by the way, it's on

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Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of by ten. Go
sit there and listen to the water and ask yourself,
would I like it to be like this when I
sit in my backyard And the answer is going to
be absolutely yes. I know I feel that way. Nelson
Nursing Watergardens, Nelson Watergardens dot Com, the website, and on
Katie Fort Benroad out there in Katie. That's therapy man,

(01:29:07):
That is therapy. You're listening to Guardline our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
give me a call. We can talk about the things
that are of interest to you. Remember, your fall weeds
are going to be germinating once we get a cold front.
You know, on my schedule, I have to put it

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on a certain spot on the calendar. But the weather
doesn't always line up with the calendar, right, I mean,
when does when does the first frost occur? What depends
on what year?

Speaker 12 (01:29:38):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
The first free what depends on what year? When's the
last free? Same thing? So we we give it a
good guide. And if you look at my calendar, that's
when we're doing our fall feralization, that's when we're doing
our fall weed prevention, and when we're doing our fall
disease prevention. It's a very busy month and it's right
around the corner. And I suggest you go ahead and

(01:29:59):
stock up the things you need in order to have
success with that. That is very very important. And the
Nitropus three step is exactly what we're talking about. Night
Fuss three step has all three of those activities packaged
into the three steps, and you're going to get night
Fuss three step products all over the place. You know

(01:30:20):
you're going to find them. For example, you're going to
find Nitrofoss three steps at the Arburgate and Tombalt. You're
going to find some of the night Foss products there.
Fissures Hardware and Laport and Stanton's Shopping Center down and
Alvin they all carry night Foss products. Here are the
three steps, the fall special winter Riser twelve or excuse me, eight, twelve, sixteen.

(01:30:42):
Those are the three numbers. See how that last number
is kind of high. That's what we want. Higher last number,
the first number lower than we've been fertilizing with all
summer long. High potassium is important. Night truss barricade prevents weeds.
So let me ask you this. Do you put night
Fuss barricade down before weeds show up? Or do you

(01:31:03):
put them down after weeds show up? Let me ask
you the same question in a different way. If you're
playing baseball, do you swing when the ball is on
the way to the plate or do you swing after
the catcher has the ball in his mit? That's a
silly question. Right, barricade goes down before the weeds sprout.

(01:31:24):
The weeds will sprout when we get a good coal
front and we get some rain and the temperatures drop
down and the soil is moist, they're gonna hit. They're
gonna come on. That's when brown patch will come on.
That's when weeds will come on, and you need to
ride away. Get down the barricade if you haven't already.
But in general, I would say put it down in

(01:31:44):
early to mid October, and that way you're going to
get ahead of it most years. But if the weather
sneaks up on you right after that rain and cold front,
get it down and shut them down right then and there.
Turf fungicide, eagle turf fungicide, same thing. Get it down
ahead of time. Put put it not October, early to
mid october's best. Uh. But if you get a call

(01:32:06):
front and some rain, follow right back behind it and
get that barricade or get that eagle turfund just side
down and you'll be good to go. All right, We're
going to head out to Jersey Village now and talk
to Jim. If I can push the right button, Hey, Jim,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:32:23):
Hey, good morning, skiff, Thank you for taking a call
this morning. Have a quick question about doug weed. I've
had it for a while. It seemed fairly benign, and
then earlier this week I woke up and went up
to my truck and looked on like purple flowers. All right,
so it verified, or at least I think it verified.
It was doubwed.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
Right.

Speaker 18 (01:32:46):
What is a good course of treatment for that, Skiff?
I mean I normally run with bonne eyed the weed beater,
both the liquid and the granular where that's the fine.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
Yeah, I don't think you're gonna get good results on
doveweed with the Bonneye weed beeter ultra I would use.
After the fact, you can use celsius on it. But
let me just tell you. Once doveweed goes reproductive like
it has now, you know you got the ballooms and
the purple flowers that is, and the seed pods. Even

(01:33:17):
celsius is not going to be super effective against it.
It's a tough weed to control because it's in a
class of weeds. It's kind of different than the grasses
and the broad leaves are in general, what you want
to do on doveweed. It's a late Sprouter, it wants
the weather to really warm up before it sprouts. So
when you like, with my schedule, we're putting down the

(01:33:39):
barricade in February early to mid February to prevent all
those warm season weeds starting to germinate. That barricade will
be winding down about sixty days later, depending on the
rates and everything. But so that would be April. So
and I would say in mid to late April, I

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would put another barricade down for the dove weed that
will germinate once we get into late April May in
June that season to prevent it. And that's the best thing.
And you know with every product and every weed, they
you know, it doesn't match up where everything controls everything.
So if you have any trouble with that, you give
me a call. We'll talk about other options that we have.

(01:34:22):
But I would I would do the barricade for a
second time next year.

Speaker 7 (01:34:26):
And lady fantastic, Thank you so much, skin.

Speaker 18 (01:34:30):
I really appreciate it. Yes, sir, you bet, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
Thanks for the call. Appreciate that a lot Cia Malts.
What a great place. You know that any place that
helps you have better soil makes me happy. Cia Maltz
makes me happy, and they're a great place to go visit.
I love the way they treat customers. There are a
one stop shop really for anything. Soil from composts, blends

(01:34:55):
like veggie and herb mix and rose soil. If you
need rock stone, gravel, sand, you know, flagstones, they've got
all of that, and mulches as well. They carry Medina,
they carry Microlife, they carry Natropas, they're carrying Nelson. They
carry azumite. You hear me talk about those all the time,
as well as airloomsoil products. Sienna Multch dot com Cenamultch

(01:35:21):
dot com. They're on FM five twenty one near Highway
six and two eighty eight south of Houston, Sienna Maltz
dot com. Go check them out and then go there.
They deliver within about twenty miles, or you can just
go by there and pick it up yourself and you'll
have fun doing it too. By the way, it's a
fun place to visit. Check out their bigo beds they
got set up and growing up front. Hey, we're gonna
take a little quick break. I'll be right back, all right.

(01:35:43):
Welcome back, folks. Good day to be with us here
on garden Line. If you've got a gardening question, give
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You've heard about him on guard line for a very
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are booked up and so there actually is some November
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(01:37:12):
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explaining and all that. But just down coming, come out
and do a bid that's free. But if you're going
to do any pre construction care, call him, get him
out there to do it. Do not put a trench
around a tree. Do not put a sidewalk or a

(01:37:35):
driveway or a house slab. God forbid over a tree's
root system without having Martin come out and do some
consultation on pre construction care. There's a lot you can
do to help a tree before you do the damage. Afterwards,
your options get really, really small. So give him a call.
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number of plants. I had a bunch of plants that
were hanging out on my front porch. I know I

(01:38:39):
supposed to do that. It looks horrible, but anyway I was,
you know, I'd get a plant. You know how you are?
How I will how let me say we are you
go somewhere you get an opportunity to get a plant,
it's the one you didn't have before, you want it.
Or a friend came over and goes, hey, would you
like a plant, and it's like, how is the answer
to that? Ever? No, I mean it's always yes. Of course.

(01:39:00):
We're plant collectors. So I had them on the front
board and I've been moving them around, putting the more
they go. Getting them planted. Oh not nice. I don't
have the water in the container every day and we've
been doing that. I've got a few more to take
care of and do that, but it's it's hard. Now.
I have a sister that is worse than me. She

(01:39:20):
there is no such thing as a plant that she
will pass up. It could be in a dumpster in
the back of a garden center, a ninety nine percent dead,
and if she can pull it out of there and
take it home, she's gonna That's what we're talking about.
And so she sent me a picture of her asked
me a question about a plant the other day, like,

(01:39:41):
oh my gosh, Well, it is okay to say no
on plants sometimes, and it is okay to give up
on a plant sometime, like doctor J. C. Ralston says,
to be a good horticulturist, you got to kill a
lot of plants. So don't be afraid to do that.
We know where we can get new ones. We've got
a lot of good nurseries here in the Greater Houston area.
You know, a good example of a good nursery here

(01:40:03):
in the Greater Houston area is Arburgate. In fact, it's
a great nursery here in the great Greater Houston area.
They're up at tomball a mile and a half west
of two forty nine west of you know the main
intersection there in Tomball on twenty nine on twenty and
twenty mile and a half, so out on the west
side of town. Now Arburgate. I love going there because

(01:40:25):
every time I go, I see stuff I've never seen before.
Because they're always getting in new things. Arburgate is always
going to be on the cutting edge. Arburgate is always
going to have things that you haven't heard of that
aren't that common here. Of course they have all the
meat and potatoes plants as well, but when you're looking
for things that are really unique and special, they've got

(01:40:46):
you covered. Beautiful, beautiful bulbs too. You know, we can
grow a lot of good bulbs here that naturalize here
in Arburgate. They are actually growing some bulbs now for
Southern Bulb Company. They're at the nursery and they had
a shipment or they had a picture they put them
on a social media of one of their little bulb
grown beds and it's a plant called blood lily. And

(01:41:12):
how do I describe it? Imagine fireworks going up in
the air and exploding in the air, and you create
this little whatever fireworks are called a puffball or whatever
up there that's red. That's what a blood lily looks like.
You know. It just looks like a dandelion seed head,
but except that you're red, okay, And it's big, big, big, beautiful.

(01:41:35):
Skeedoxis is the proper name for it. But they have those.
They have other naturalizing bulbs, the ones that you buy
them and you plant them and they just grow and
grow and grow and keep looking good. One of the
popular plants these days is mongavi mangavi sort of an
agave looking plant, different than agavi but sort of like that.

(01:41:56):
Very drought tough. They even have colorful folio. They're really cool.
Some of them have wavy, colorful folded just a great,
great plan. In fact, there was an article in July
August issue of Texas Gardener magazine called Mad about Mangabbies.
People go nuts over these things. They love these plants.
Does Arburgate have them? Of course, Arbigate has them. Absolutely,

(01:42:18):
they do. Well. There you go, Oh, I want to
tell you about upcoming class that they're having out there.
This will be September twenty seventh, That is next Saturday,
September twenty seventh, at ten am. Angela Chandler, who we
had on garden Line this summer is going to be
doing a class on fall gardening. And this lady knows

(01:42:39):
her stuff. She does and go out if you want
to learn about growing vegetables. And she'll throw in strawberries too,
because that's another thing we plan in the fall bed prep, fertilizing,
winter protection, the whole nine yards. So pride to you
a gardening calendar as well fall gardening. But here's what
you gotta do. There's only forty spots with these classes
at the Arborgate. They fill up fast. It costs ten dollars,

(01:43:03):
which is a incredibly good deal to go hear the
kinds of lectures they have. Uh, but you got to
call and reserve your spot and pay for it. Pre
pay for it because they want people to not just
go yeah, I may come out there. They want you
to show up. So pre pay ten dollars two eight
one three five one eighty eight fifty one call the
Yarborgate two eight one three five to one eighty eight

(01:43:23):
fifty one to sign up for any of their classes
and they do not disappoint. I promise you that. All right,
I gotta go to a little break here. We'll be
back with your calls at seven one three, two one
two fifty eight seventy four. All right, we're back. Welcome
back to guard Line. Glad you're listening today. By the way,
we do not take that for granted. Thank you very much.

(01:43:45):
Hope you're enjoying it. I hope you're getting some good
helpful information. And I just want to thank again all
the folks came out to Bearings Hardware this Saturday yesterday.
That was a good time. Next Saturday, I'm going to
be out in Sienna area, south and west of Houston
at Sienna Ace Hardware and we'll be there from one

(01:44:07):
to three and I hope all of you folks have
that direction. We'll come on out to see me as
we did and do every time I do an appearance
out on a Saturday. You can bring samples in, put
them in a bag. Bring me pictures on your phone too.
That's always helpful, and let's take a look at them.
If you're dealing with lawn issues, here's what I want
you to do. Take a four by four inch plug

(01:44:31):
or a four x six inch plug and cut down,
get some soil and root, get the roots soil with it.
And slip it into a ziplock bag, zip it up.
Not the be zippop brand. You get the idea, I
don't want anything to escape. And bring it in with
you and let's take a look. But you have to
take the sample. Got to listen to this. You have
to take the sample in the zone between healthy and dead.

(01:44:53):
I need sick grass, not dead grass. I can't do autopsies.
I do diagnosis. Okay, So look at this area and
you've seen in some not so looking good looking grass.
Maybe it's yellowing, maybe it's starting to die down or
starting to decline right there. Take a sample four by
four inch, four by six inch, get some soil, put
it in a bag, plastic bag, seal it up and

(01:45:13):
bring it with you. Come see me at Sienna Ace
Hardware next Saturday, one to three pm. I went and
visited the store pretty soon after they had kind of
gotten opened up out there. It's a great store. You're
gonna love it. Come on out and we will have
a very good time out there. We'll be doing some giveaways.

(01:45:34):
We got a lot of good things that we're gonna
be given away as well. And yeah, well just get
a chance to meet I'll have copies of my schedule
on hand, I'm gonna bring some copies of the Texas
Gardener magazine. If you haven't subscribed to Texas Gardener, you should.
It's an outstanding magazine, really really good magazine. I have

(01:45:56):
written for Texas Gardener for years. They have a lot
of authors, by the way, a lot of authors. Uh.
The folks that write for Texas Gardener are Texas gardeners.
There are people that understand what it means to garden
in Texas, what it takes to garden successfully in Texas.

(01:46:17):
They're very very good at that.

Speaker 8 (01:46:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:46:19):
And uh, I can't recommend a magazine more. It's one
of the fact that may be the only magazine in
the country now that is an independent magazine for a state. Uh.
You know, there's not a North Carolina Gardener or a
Kansas Gardener or whatever I mean. Texas Gardener is it.

Speaker 18 (01:46:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
There are a couple that are magazines that are more
plant society oriented out there for for areas. But yeah, anyway,
you need to you need to check it out. And
I'll give you free copy so you can take it
home and look at it. And I think you're gonna
like it, and you're gonna want to uh subscribe for sure?
Is for sure? I love that magazine. Well let's see

(01:47:05):
here we are going to be what am I going
to be doing after this? Oh, today, I've got some
things to get out and do. Oh I tell you what,
I've got to taste them at Sienna Ace this coming Saturday.
I'm going to be giving away uh uh some fertilizer products,

(01:47:25):
some other gifts and specialty products that they're going to
be providing there at the store. You're not going to
want to miss that. There's gonna be really cool. Get
We have a lot of good stuff yesterday and we'll
be doing that again at this at this Sienna A store.
So please please do come out to see us. Uh
if you got a question, five or seven to one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy four, that's the
number you're going to need. Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four Give me a call. Let's
talk about the things that are of interest to you.
Nature's way sources up there toward Tomball. It's on Interstate
forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Ignolia.

(01:48:06):
You turn right or go the opposite direction to the
east crossover. The tracks and you're right there at Nature's Way.
Now that Nature's Way has got a really cool shindig
coming up. It is a special event. They do these
things pretty much, do them on the in the fall
season every year. I've been to them a number of times.

(01:48:28):
I'm going to be out there speaking at the one
that's coming up, and by the way, that's going to
be on Saturday, October eleventh. I'll be there from twelve
to two. The event will be going on at a
much longer time than just that. But Nature's Way has
gotten in a nice selection of milkweed now the really
beautiful plants. They do carry a lot of native plants effect.

(01:48:50):
They have a nursery garden center out there. If you
haven't seen it before, you need to. You definitely need
to go out and see it. I was out visiting
with Ian the other day. We're just talking about their
products and the mulches and things, and they do bulk delivery.
You can give them a call. They'll they'll give you
a price on it. If you need leaf mole compost.
First of all, that's where leaf moonll compost originally was born.

(01:49:12):
Is a Nature's Way. Well, actually I shouldn't say that
it was born in a forest. Nature did it. But
as far as the commercial product, leaf will compost is
born in Nature's way. So go ahead and see them.
Here's the website Nature's Way Resources dot com Nature's Way
Resources dot com. Go check them out after after the show.

(01:49:35):
One of the things I need to be taken care
of today this afternoon. I'm gonna do this for my
garden is I have got some issues where the weeds
have come into some areas where I didn't keep a
mulch on the garden surface. And you gotta keep a
mulch down. Now, maltch doesn't stop every weed. Nuts edge

(01:49:56):
will pop out a mulch bermuda grass will pop out.
A I have some nut seedge, don't don't turn off
the radio, just listen. I do have nutsedge in my
yard in a flowerbed. But it is captive nutsedge that
I'm doing experiments with. It's a labrat for me, that's right.

(01:50:17):
So what I tell you here's the way to control nutsedge.
It's because I've done it that way, and so I'll
let them grow. I'm trying some other things to it.
I'm not going to go into all the things that
I'm trying with it right now, but I'll I let
if you live, and then I just manage them and
try different things and learn from it so we can
all do a better job. By the way, if you
have nutsedge and you're dealing with it, go to my

(01:50:37):
website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot
com and look at the two publications. The one I
would like you to look at though, is called Nutsedge
an in depth look. It's only a couple pages, but
it goes into the detail about the different types of nutsedge.
Did you know there's more than one type and they

(01:50:58):
don't behave the same there are so see there that's
a reason to go there. And it talks about how
we control it, how nutsedge grows, and how why we
do what we do and when we do it is
so important and then what what do you use to
control nutsedge? So it's all in there in the publication.
If you will follow that, you will get rid of

(01:51:20):
your nuts edge. Now you may have one pop up
later that got missed or whatever, but you can win.
It will if you let it up for air, it
will get worse. Let me give you an example of
why I say that. One year I had a nuts
edge plant. This is when I was over in the
Austin area as an extension horticulturist over there, I had

(01:51:43):
a nutsage but I left and I waited until May,
and I carefully dug it up with all the nutlets
that had formed the daughter tubers that it had formed.
There were eight on one nuts edge plant that it
hit a stage where they were viable tubers. They could
live on their own and be their own plants. So

(01:52:04):
if you had controlled nuts edge in early on when
it came out and taken that one plant out, you
would have avoided an eight hundred percent increase by May.
Let that sink in a little bit. When you let
nuts edge up for air and you come back to

(01:52:25):
it later, you're going backwards. And that's why people say, well,
I sprayed it and it didn't work. No, you use
what I tell you to use in the publication. You
do it as I tell you to do it in
the publication. It does work, but you let it up
for air. Just like that example, I gave you by
May eight hundred percent more nuts edge in a bed

(01:52:49):
than there would have been earlier in the season if
you jumped on it all right, Well, I think I've
beaten that horse to death. But it's an important point
to make because that is that we have a handful
of weeds that are uh they are problems and nuts
edges at the top of the list, I would say,
depends on where you're looking at it, and lawns, it's
gonna be things like Virginia button feed and basket grass

(01:53:13):
and dove weed. Those are like, uh, they're a paid
They're very difficult to control. All right, let's take a
little break here. We've got some calls coming in if
you would like to join them for our last segment
of the weekend that's coming up after the nine o'clock news.
An me call seven one three, two one two five

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eight seven four. Don't forget next Saturday from one to three,
so you got time to grab lunch first, Calling out
to Sienna Ace Hardware and let's talk. I'll be there
for an appearance for two hours, answering your gardening questions,
giving away some really cool prizes, and mainley just kind

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of having some fun.

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Speaker 3 (01:54:50):
Okay, let's come back here and do this again. Welcome
guard Line. Good to have you with us this morning.
By the way, thanks for tuning in. We really appreciate that.
We really honestly do that. We do not take that
for granted. And you know when you when you tune in,
I hope you're learning something, but I also hope you're
having fun. That's the goal. That's why, you know, we

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joke around a little bit and have some fun with
our callers to and play some music. Sometimes it's a
little different, like yesterday, those of you listened in enjoyed
a little bit of yodling. You found out how the
yodel was born too. By the way, you don't know that,
you need to go find a group called Writers in
the Sky and play that song how the Yodel was

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Born and you'll learn. It's a painful experience, but they'll
tell you exactly how it happened. Well. Acehardware Texas dot
Com is how you get to all your local Ace
Hardware stores Ace Hardware Texas dot com and when you
go to Ace. And by the way, I'm going to
be at ACE Hardware, Sienna, Ace Hardware next Saturday, one

(01:55:53):
to three. When you go by there, come see me.
You'll see what I'm talking about. You're going to find
unbelievable selection of everything. The standard hardware. You remember Grandpa's hardware store.
You could go get a piece of pipe, you could
get some wiring, you get a light switch, and all
the kind of hardware stuff. ACE Hardware's got that, of course,
but they go way beyond that. They have some really
cool things, even things that are great gifts, wonderful gifts

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that would be giving, and things you would want too.
The barbecue pits and things to make the patio iice,
I like, the strings of lights that go around them,
and the patio furnitures and all the different stuff that
you want to have a beautiful, beautiful outdoor setting. Now,
when it comes to landscape, we already know that, you know,
fertilizers and pest control, weed control, disease control. ACE has

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got you covered on all of those things, for sure.
But ACE has so much more. Each ACE store is
independently owned, so I mean they can put in a
whatever they want into the store because it's up to
the managers of the owners of what they're gonna do
at an ACE Hardware store. So you're gonna find quality tools.
You know, there's battery quality tools from brand. It's like

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de Wault and Craftsman and Black and Deck or Stanley Milwaukee.
Ace has its own brand of that. If anything you
need to maintain and to enhance a beautiful home setting
indoors and outdoors is at ACE Hardware. If you, for example,
let me give you a few examples of ACE Hardber.
You go to Crosby on FM twenty one hundred and

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Ace Hardware. There's an ACE Hardware in a Taskasita on
timber Forest Drive, another one in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive.
There's all Star Ace out there in Magnolia. If you
go to the southwest of Houston on Mason Road, just
near Richmond and Rosenberg area plantation, ACE Hardware you'll find

(01:57:42):
it there. Wharton Feed and Ace is on North Richmond
Road in Wharton. I was out there for an event
after they kind of did their grand opening, or it
was part of the grand open Oh my gosh, that
place is great and it just bout I talked to
some from there the other day. It just keeps getting
better for those of you and Warren are lucky to
that Ace hard Restore. We already know that it's a great,

(01:58:03):
great place. Basically has an ACE on Seventh Street. You
go up to Brenham North Austin Parkway, albe at that
one later this year Brenham Ace on November twenty five
or October twenty fifth, and then there's Cyper day Ace
on Jones Road. I used to live right by Sapor Sae.
We went in there all the time. That is one
amazing store. So many Ace Hardware stores go to Ace

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Hardwrore Texas dot com find yours and then go in
and see what I'm talking about as it being a
very cool and special place. Let's go to the Woodlands
now and we're going to talk to Peta. I believe.

Speaker 7 (01:58:37):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
Am I saying that right? Peta?

Speaker 16 (01:58:39):
A beautiful home setting indoors and outdoors?

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
Is it all right? Peta? Hello? Hello? Hello? Yes, please
turn off the road. How can I help you today? Yes? Yes,
can I help you? I sent you a picture in
yesterday with a certain kind.

Speaker 7 (01:58:57):
Of grass which I do not know that it is.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
Okay, let me find it. Would it have would the
email of the PETA. Do you know what the email
address would have been? That I don't see a peta
on my emails.

Speaker 17 (01:59:17):
Yeah, it's peak.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
Thanks at some Yes, I do have it. That is
called doveweed, and that is a problem grass at this
stage of the game. First of all, let me ask
you this is it all over the lawn or is
it just in certain spots more limited.

Speaker 11 (01:59:44):
On certain spots.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
Okay, at this point in the year. If it were mine,
I would get down there and I would pull up
as much as I could. And here's why it's going
to be having blooms soon if it had asn't already
and setting seeds for next year. Pulling it will not
get rid of it, but you'll get rid of all
of those above ground parts that will be throwing out

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seeds to make next year worse. So that's one step. Uh.
They're the best way to uh peta. I need you
to turn the radio off for me, please. The best
way to control the best way to control doveweed is
to use a pre emergent herbicide, a pre emerging herbicide

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in mid to late April, that is, yes, yes, get
some barricade and in mid to late April. Put that
down because dove weed sprouts late in the season in
the It doesn't sprout when our spring weeds are sprouting,

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and so there's not something on my schedule for doveweed.
I need to add that to the schedule. But it's
already cut full as it is. But if you do that,
you'll help prevent it from sprouting and establishing. And then
once it's if you see some up, you can spray
them with a product called celsius. But you need to

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do that when they're young and starting to grow. If
you wait until now, you're not going to get as
effective of control out of that.

Speaker 17 (02:01:25):
Okay, Now what kind of flowers?

Speaker 7 (02:01:28):
Does it have?

Speaker 3 (02:01:30):
Tiny purple tiny purple flowers?

Speaker 11 (02:01:34):
Yeah, yeah, you have seen them in some places.

Speaker 15 (02:01:38):
Yeah, m hmm.

Speaker 13 (02:01:41):
Okay, well there you go.

Speaker 3 (02:01:44):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's a problem.

Speaker 7 (02:01:49):
Yeah. I appreciated.

Speaker 11 (02:01:50):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (02:01:53):
So can you can you repeat against what bless the name?

Speaker 17 (02:01:59):
Then I see.

Speaker 3 (02:02:03):
Dove like the bird weed?

Speaker 7 (02:02:06):
Okay, okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (02:02:10):
Thank you for your call. Y all right, thank you
very much. Our phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Uh So Nitrofis is three step.
I've been talking about it all day to day because

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it is time time, time for all three steps. What
is the Texas three step by Nitropos. It's a fertilizer,
it's a weed prevention, and it's a disease prevention. Okay,
fertilizer night Fast Fall Special eight twelve sixteen. Important to
get it down in the fall, the most important fertilization
of the year. Second step night off us barricade to

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prevent weeds. You get it down before the weeds germinate.
And if you look at my schedule that says put
it down or Notctober, I would say that if we
have a coldfront come through and we get some rain
with it, go ahead and put the barricade down right
after it water it in because you're gonna get weed
sprouting starting for sure. The same is true with Eagle
turf fungicide. It says October on the schedule. But if

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we get a cold front come through and the temperatures
drop and we get some rain, you're gonna see brown
patch popping up. So Eagle turf fungicide is best used
before you got the big brown circles because once they're brown,
they're brown and they're going to stay that way until
spring when they green up. So ahead of time, that's
it for the night to Foster three step. Where do
you get it? Well d and defeeding. Tomwaal carries night

(02:03:37):
Foss products. Lake Hardware in Angleton carries night Foss products,
as does Fishers Hardware in mont Bellevue. Let's go to
a quick break. I'll be right back. Hey, good to
have you with us. Welcome back to Guardline folks. We
are in our final hour of the weekend. So if
you've got a question, now would be a good time

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to ask. I want to tell you about something coming
up here. The Strawberry Jamboree at the Brazoria County Extension
Office in Angleton is coming up next Saturday, September twenty seventh,
from ten to two. Now. Mission is free for this.
There's gonna be a lot of family fun activities, suffer
the kids, local foods and so on. They have their

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regular famous strawberry shortcake contest. I had that last time
I was out there. Then, believe me, it's good. In fact,
it's too good. It ought to be a controlled substance
but anyway, Alfred Froburg from Froberg Strawberry Farms in that area.
Quishing of Froburg's been to have a long time. He's
gonna be talking about thirty years of strawberry growing experience

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there at Froburgs. You're gonna learn a lot. Yeah, the
opportunity while you're there to pre order some very strawberry plants.
So if you want more information, go to the Brazoria
County Horticulture Facebook page or called them. Ready got a pen?
Here's the number nine seven nine six four fifteen fifty eight.
While I'm talking about this, and you get your calendars

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out and your pen in hand. Fig Toberfest, Yes, I
said that right. Fig Toberfest. It's going to be Saturday,
October fourth, from eight am to noon at Lakeside Park
in Angleston. Again, admission is free. You're going to learn
all about ground figs from people. You're going to learn
the history of figs in the Greater Houston area. You're

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going to go beyond the basics of just okay, here's
the fig put in the ground. The doctor Tim Hartman,
taxa and m fruit specialist, we'll be talking about the
latest on fig research here in Texas. Delicious fig treats
local vendors. It's just going to be a fun festive
day at fig Toberfest. For more information, Braseria County Horticulture

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Page or nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty
eight nine seven nine eighty six four fifteen fifty eight
two events though here we go. We going just review Saturday,
September twenty seventh, Next Saturday into two at the Brazuria
County Extens Office. Strawberry Timbaree Saturday October fourth, from eight
to noon. Figtoberfest at Lakeside Park in Angleton, same contact

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number nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight.
There you go. It's a lot of information, but those
are good programs. They do a really really good job
doing that well. Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center,
both out there in Kingwood are open seven days a

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week and they are stocked up and ready for you
to come visit in the fall. Warrens always does a
good job, so I as Kingwood Garden Center. They're just
fun places to go visit. I always love it when
I get to go and stop in and visit with
them because they've just got such good, good plants, just

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a variety of plants. You know. Do you want fall color,
do you want fall veggies? Do you want fall herbs?
It's time to plant shrubs. Yes, they've got plenty of
that as well. For tealiver of pumpkins, you know, the
the ceramic types of pumpkins, and all kinds of crazy
colors for decorating. They've got you covered for that when
you're out there. When you go visit their website, check

(02:07:12):
out the newsletter, a signer for the newsletter. Lots of
good information. I always read through it and just yeah,
that's that's good timely information for gardeners in the area.
They've got they got you covered there right now. They
got a good stock of the Nelson turf Star ten
ten twenty corporate talk carbe load. It's got a premierge

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in it, and it's got the perfect fertilization for a
fall fertilizer, you know, lowering the nitrogen higher in the
potassium or potassium the third number they've got. They've got
a good supply of that. So you can take care
of anything you need from your lawn to your garden.
Do you name it? Out there? At Warrens Southern Gardens
in Kingwood Kingwood Garden Center. Warrens is on North Park Drive,

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Kingwood is on Stone Hollow Drive. Both open seven days
a week. We'll got a head now to Cypress and
talk to Debra this morning. Hello Deborah, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 19 (02:08:06):
Good morning. I needed to ask about a yellow Lady
Bank if Neil I should trim it back as far
as I didn't get a lot of blooms on it
last spring, so I was wondering if it's because we've
cut it back last year.

Speaker 3 (02:08:28):
It could it could be. The answer to your question
is absolutely not. Do not prune it now. Lady Banks
sets its blooms in late summer and early fall, so
like it's got its blooms already hidden in the buds
for spring. Everything you cut off is cutting off looms.
Wait until after Lady Banks blooms and the flowers are gone,

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because Lady Banks will not bloom again the whole year
until next the next spring. After it blooms, you can
prune us as you wish, all the way up to
I would say about the first of July, just to
be safe. Finished by the first of July or end
of June and then stop, don't print anymore for the
rest of the here.

Speaker 19 (02:09:13):
Wonderful. I knew I didn't want to cut it back,
and he wants to, and I said, no, sire.

Speaker 3 (02:09:21):
I am the middle of a marital spat. But oh no.

Speaker 19 (02:09:26):
No, it's perfect.

Speaker 17 (02:09:29):
It's perfect.

Speaker 19 (02:09:30):
I have a a Bridle's wreath again, same thing.

Speaker 3 (02:09:36):
Just I've seen someuff.

Speaker 19 (02:09:38):
That are so beautiful. Good, That's why I've been holding
on to him.

Speaker 7 (02:09:44):
They're unruly.

Speaker 3 (02:09:47):
Yeah, and Deborah and everybody else listening. If a plant
only blooms in the spring, print it after it blooms.
If it blooms into summer, then you can print it
in winter or fall if you need to do. But
I generally don't prone involved because it stimulates growth and
then if we had a good coal front come through,
that tender succulent growth could get damaged. But yeah, if

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it only blooms, it's only in spring. In it after
it blooms, bridal wreath, flowering quints, ladybanks, rose, red bud trees,
you know that, anything that just blooms in spring. All right,
thank you for the count. I appreciate that.

Speaker 19 (02:10:26):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (02:10:27):
You take care. Sorry I ended up hitting the hang
up button there a little quick on that one. So
I was telling you about Nelson's fertilizer there, carver load
and whatnot. It's it's going to be time to get
that out. Remember it's got the pre merging in it,
so if you're going to use it, I would wait

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for sure and put it out probably in early October,
being ideal. It's not the end of the world to
put it down late September, but I generally in October
have got my schedules for fertilizing and we control and
stuff at that time. It's a ten twenty or ten
ten twenty purple bag. Easy to see an available a
lot of places. I would just saying they had it

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out at Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwood. You'll find in
a lot of other places. Another product by the folks
at Nelson's and their products work, whether it's the turf
Star line that's for lawns, the Nutri Star line, which
is specific jars and fertilizers for specific plants, Nutristar plumeria,
Nutri Star vegetable, Nutri Star rows. You get the idea

(02:11:29):
or color Star if it has blooms on it. Color
Star is a good fertilizer for it. It's the most
popular blend they've had been around for almost forty years now,
color Star. So there you go. Let's head now to
friends Wood and we're going to talk to Charlie. Oh Charlie,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (02:11:48):
Morning to you skip. Hope you're doing well.

Speaker 7 (02:11:51):
I do have.

Speaker 13 (02:11:52):
A question concerning her concerting our lawn. I know it's
time to fertilize for false fertilization now and I discovered
it in a shed or about four bags of fifteen
five ten nitro fause that we didn't get out put
out in the spring. Is it okay to put that out?
Or do I need to go to the tall fertilizer

(02:12:16):
And would it be okay to hold that off till spring.

Speaker 3 (02:12:21):
Well, you've got those bags. You can use them in
the spring. Hold on to them for now. That kind
of bag of fertilizer, you know, if you had more
than you needed of it, you could use it in
your vegetables or flowers or a lot of other places
as well. The nitropous imperial, that's the what you're talking about.
That is fine to use in a lot of different places.

(02:12:42):
But hold off till spring on it because it's got
a lot of nitrogen compared to potassium. Get there. Yeah,
the Fall Special honorizer is better because it won't push.
You don't want to push a lot of nitrogen growth
in the fall because we deal with the patch and
it loves it when we overfertilize with nitrogen. That's why

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they dropped the Fall Special to eight twelve sixteen. Excuse me,
sixteen a twelve sixteen. Lots of the potassium, not as
much nitrogen. You need a little, but not a lot.
So I do the Fall Special now it's a brown.

Speaker 13 (02:13:19):
I believe you answered my question. And excuse my wife
lader on that.

Speaker 3 (02:13:25):
Anyway, that's what we'll do, all right. That you are
a wise man, I can pay. You've been married more
than a good word, johny Okay, okay, there you go,
Well gig them all right. That's funny. Hey, I got
to go to a little break. I don't have time
to take a call or say much more. But Angela

(02:13:47):
and Humble, you will be our first stop when we
come back out of this break. Don't forget next Saturday.
I just keep telling you this because people tune in
and tune out. I want to make sure I catch
you one to three pm next Saturday, be at Sienna
Ace Hardware south of Westages. Sienna Ace Hardware, We're going
to be doing some cool giveaways where we are going

(02:14:09):
to be answering your questions and if you want to
bring these samples and bags, I can actually look at
them and give you a really good, accurate diagnosis. That
way even better than sending me just a photo. So
hope you can make it out to Cnace Hardware. I'll
be there again from one starting a little late this time,
from one to three pm. All right, welcome back to Guardenline.
Good to have you with us. We're gonna go straight

(02:14:32):
out and actually want to I wanted to talk to
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the product I'm talking about is a generator, specifically Generac
automatic standby generators. These things come on when the power

(02:14:54):
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How many places have you gone and not gotten good service?
How many times have you not liked the way you
got treated? You were told something that wasn't true, you
were given the run around? Yeah, me too, you get

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(02:16:20):
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Let's go out to the phones. We're gonna go to
Umble and talk to Angela. Hey, Angela, very good morning.

Speaker 17 (02:16:54):
Yes I have a quest regard.

Speaker 20 (02:16:56):
Yes, I'm here. Hello, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (02:16:59):
Thank you? Yes? You bet.

Speaker 20 (02:17:03):
Perfect, Thank you. I have a sycamore tree. It's about
eight and nine years old and it is started to
turn in during it's around June or July. Their leaves
start turning lighter brown, and then later like at this

(02:17:23):
time of year, they most of the drips. Most of
the leaves are brown and they are dropped so I
send you some pictures. I don't know if you can
tell me what you think perfect I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:17:38):
I got them. The number one problem on your sycamore
is on sycamore is all around town by listening, it's
got sycamore here, listen up it is. It is a piercing,
sucking insect that gets on the bottom side of the
leaf and it sucks the juices out, and that's why
your leaves start to go from green to kind of
a speckly yellow tan bronze color, and then they keep

(02:18:03):
going downhill. That is called a sycamore lace bug. Lace bug.
If you got a little magnifier, you could see them
on there, and they look they have little flat panels
like solar panels on their back, but they're lacy. They're
kind of a shiny, like a clear plastic kind of
look to them, and the bugs are black. And that's
what does it. Now sycamars can live with us. The

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tree is not going to be killed by it or
anything like that, and so you can do nothing. The
other alternative would be to put a systemic insecticide on
the ground so that the roots pick it up and
anything that sucks juices out of the tree gets that
poison and it kills them. So you could do that
if you choose to. Most people ignore it, but a

(02:18:47):
systemic insecticide, if you choose to go that route. I
can give you a suggestion for a name of an ingredient, but.

Speaker 20 (02:18:55):
You just have to let you yes, please, I would
like to do this make exercise. What would that be?

Speaker 3 (02:19:02):
Okay? So do you have a do you have a
pin or pencil handy?

Speaker 20 (02:19:06):
I am ready?

Speaker 3 (02:19:08):
Okay, D I N O the first four letters in
dinosaur d I N O T E F T e F.
You are a N. Now I'm gonna say the whole thing,
dino tef furan dino teffer. That's the ingredient that you're

(02:19:30):
gonna want to use. Ingredients when when when you go shopping,
you know, you know you're in you're in Humble, Uh
so you know you can go to an ACE hardware
store up there. They got some ACE hardware is in
the area that probably will carry that for you. Uh
if they don't have that ingredient. I'm going to give

(02:19:50):
you one more and it's I am I D d O.

Speaker 20 (02:19:57):
Can you do that again? I'm sorry, I am I want.

Speaker 3 (02:20:02):
I AM I D O C l O t R
I D p R I D. I'm gonna say it
in mid O klo pred that's it. That's the that's
another one that will work. I prefer the dinner teph
run for this, but a middle CLOPPERD will also work.
And somebody's gonna carry one of those two out there

(02:20:24):
in area. That's what you did. Do it earlier though
you said this shows up in mid July and stuff.
That's normal. But so you're gonna be probably probably in June.
You're you're gonna be getting this down and drenching it
in the soil according to the label. Uh, and so
you'll prevent this going later in the season. Okay, I've

(02:20:44):
got to run to some other calls, but good luck
with that.

Speaker 17 (02:20:47):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (02:20:50):
You bet you take care. Let's go out to Galveston
now and talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Nice you.

Speaker 7 (02:20:57):
I sent your.

Speaker 16 (02:20:57):
Photo by lawn forgot Why why I had this brown
area in the world? What actually do about?

Speaker 3 (02:21:06):
Okay? Uh, let's see here I think I opened it.
Oh Bill, You've got what looks like classic take all
root rot that has killed the grass and a lot
of area and some of that that you see yellow
is going to continue to decline no matter what you do,
because it's too far gone. I tell you, if it

(02:21:27):
were my lawn, do you like having a mix of
Bermuda and Saint Augustine or would you rather.

Speaker 13 (02:21:34):
Just have I.

Speaker 16 (02:21:36):
Don't care.

Speaker 3 (02:21:38):
Okay, Well, if that's the case, then if you get
my schedule, which is on my website, Gardening with Skip
dot Com, uh, you can go into the October and November.
I've got two applications of products to control take all
root Rot. That's when you put them down. Now it's

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not going to be as bad on your Bermuda, although
it can attack Bermuda, but it hammers Saint Augustine. And
so with the amount of lawn you've lost, it's going
to take a while next spring when it warms up,
before that lawn starts crawling back in. The Bermuda is
already doing that coming into the Saint Augustine. So I

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would follow that schedule at Gardening with Skip dot Com.
Also Bill at that website, there's a publication called take
All root Rot and End Depth. Look and if you
will look at it, you can read it on your computer,
you can print it out whatever you want. It explains
the disease and the things we do to combat it.
And it's not just applying the chemical the fungicide. There

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are other things that you can do to be helpful
and to understand what kinds of things causes it. Basically,
something stressed that Saint Augustine, it got weak and the
disease moved in because of the stress. But check that out,
and I think that will be your best shot at
getting things green again out out there out front.

Speaker 16 (02:23:03):
Okay, so start go back and business schedule in October November,
and then what you said.

Speaker 3 (02:23:11):
Okay, yeah, take all rout right and end up. Look
they're all at gardening with skip dot com. But uh yeah,
And if you look on the pest, weed and Disease
management schedule, I have two schedules. One is for like
fertilizing your lawn and the other one is for fighting problems.
It's the fighting problems when on the fun just side
of the disease row. You'll see two treatments for takeoff

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patch one in October one in November. All right, sir,
I'm gonna run take some other calls here. Thank you
very much for the call, you bet, Thanks I appreciate
that a lot send them won't take calls. Actually, what
I'm gonna do is go to a break and we'll
take calls and we come back. Be right back, all right,
vote for back. Guess what we got a few minutes
left for the show today. Glad you've been joining us today.

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We've got plenty more to talk about those stick around. Well,
I just was about to go to a phone call
and it disappeared. That's interesting. There you go. Well you
are listening to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to discuss all the kinds of things that
you need to know. One thing you need to know
is where in Chaned Gardens is down in Richmond Rosenberg.
It is on the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond, and

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Janet Garden's been around a long time and they know
how to do it. You go there and you visit
and just you see what I'm talking about, beautiful spread.
Every time I get out of the car in the
parking lot and start walking toward it, it's just like,
oh my gosh, this is like Disneyland for plants, lots
and lots of beautiful plants. There is this nursery's an

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unforgettable experience. It's a place where you go in and
the team is so helpful, so enthusiastic. You can bring
them photos and samples and everything. Take a look. They'll
give you expert advice. They've got all kinds of things
from cute yard art, really cool stuff, but like right now,
talliver pumpkins, all the stuff you want to decorate for
the for the fall season, They've got you covered. They

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understand brown stuff before green stuff. So when you go
in there, if you want microlife or nitroposs or Nelson
plant food or medina, if you want nature's waste soil,
if you want airloom sauce, they've got you covered for
all of those. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com that's the website.
Go there, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. It's on FM
three fifty nine on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond.

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Just go see see what I'm talking about. Every kind
of plant you could want, expert advice, and I promise
you have fun, Grab some friends and go out there.
You know, make a party out of it, because it
is a party. And Jenny Gardens, Katie Fullshir's out of
Richmond and Jenny Gardens Richmond dot com. That's it. I
uh good. While back, I was in Southwest Fertilizer and

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I was looking for a product that I was on
the market, and I just say, yeah, I wonder if
I wonder if they got it here. Well, silly me,
they got it there Selfwist Fertilizer has everything you would need.
If they don't have it, you don't need it. But
sure enough, it's brand new product out on the market,
and they had it. They had it there. When you
go into Southwest, you're going to talk to people that
know what they're talking about. Take them a sample. Help

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them out, you know. Don't just go well, I got
a plant and it's dying, or I got a weed
and it's grain. It's kind of hard to help with that, right,
But take them a sample of the weed in a bag.
Take them a picture of the weed or a picture
of the plant up close, make sure it's in sharp focus,
and they'll take you right. They'll tell you what the
problem is, if there's a problem, and if there's a
product needed to control it, they'll take you right to

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it because they do have them there. Every fertilizer that
ever comes out of my mouth and more are at
Southwest Fertilizer. If you're looking for you know, like, for example,
maybe you want a mulch from Nature's Way Resources or
airloom sauce, they've got those there at Southwest Fertilizer. When
it's things like asamite, they've got them at Southwest Fertilizer.

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If you're an organic gardener, the biggest selection of organic
products I'm aware of in the whole region as Southwest Fertilizer.
They've got a huge, huge selection of that. What do
you You just need to go there and look at
it and see what I'm talking about. You need to
experience it while you're there. If you got a little
small engine that needs repair, column and make sure and

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get set up to take that in. If you need
blade sharp and stuff like that. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com
corner Abyssinet and Renwick and here's the number you need
to call seven to one three six six six one
seven four four seven one three six six six one
seven four four simple as that. There you go. That's

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all you need to know. Well, if you are going
to be out and about this week, I would invite
you to stop in at some of our great garden
centers that we have out there. We got them north,
southeast and west, and they're fun to go to. I'm
going to be going to several different places this fall,
starting of going forward from here albeit Sienna Ace Hardware

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from one to three on this coming Saturday, So you
definitely want to come out then, I'd love to meet
you and see you and help with some questions you
might have. We're gonna go to Coke now and doctor Rufus,
Hey Rufus, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:28:19):
Morning.

Speaker 12 (02:28:21):
It's that time of year. Fruit trees, good morning, can
you hear me now?

Speaker 3 (02:28:26):
Yes, sir, are you there? Yes, I am here.

Speaker 7 (02:28:30):
Oh, good time here.

Speaker 12 (02:28:32):
You know your fruit trees are quit putting fruit on
this up and we're getting ready for the winter. And
I was just wondering what's a good fertilized to put
out on my fruit trees for the fall and winter.
Usually I just throw whatever's left over in the garden.

Speaker 3 (02:28:45):
I usually don't. I usually don't fertilize in the fall.
And here's the reason, the reason why. Uh, Now, if
your gant was really struggling with a nutrient deficiency, well
let's fix that. Let's put put what it needs down
for that. But when you fertilize in the fall and
we get some rain, a little bit mild spell, which
we're gonna have my weather, warm weather for a while,

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they're gonna start to grow and that tender succulent new growth.
If we get a good hard early freeze, it's a problem, okay,
and it just isn't needed. I would in the spring
start off with fertilizing them as a new growth gets
going on the plan. I'd probably do it again in
the summer, but I'd finish up my fertilizing by the
end of August for sure. Uh, and just let those

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trees settle, settle in and that would be best for them. Okay.

Speaker 7 (02:29:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (02:29:32):
Well, I did have a bunch of left over stuff,
and I said, y'all just throw it after.

Speaker 3 (02:29:37):
We do that. You can do that, save it though.
It's good stuff. You're gonna need it somewhere.

Speaker 7 (02:29:44):
Yeah. Yeah, all right, thank you very.

Speaker 3 (02:29:47):
Much, Thank you, appreciate its call. Appreciates call very much.
We're gonna go down to Clear Lake and talk to Jim. Hey, Jim,
welcome to garden line. Hey, Hey, Skip, how you doing, Bud?
I'm doing great. I'm doing great, great, good deal.

Speaker 21 (02:30:03):
I sent you that email and the photos that you requested.

Speaker 13 (02:30:07):
I was curious.

Speaker 21 (02:30:07):
About that weed growing up that I cannot seem to
uh eradicate.

Speaker 10 (02:30:14):
I thought you'd have some suggestions.

Speaker 3 (02:30:17):
Is this j L in the in the email address,
Jake K in the email? Hum, JK Vincent? Okay, let me,
I'm looking. How long could you send me this?

Speaker 13 (02:30:38):
A couple a few couple of days ago? Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:30:42):
Well, well, let's see here I'm looking. I'm trying to
find it. Can you describe it to me while I'm working?

Speaker 18 (02:30:51):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (02:30:51):
Well, it's just all I can say is it's the
weed growing up between the cracks of the concrete that just, uh,
I cannot get rid of. I've tried multiple applications.

Speaker 3 (02:31:07):
It doesn't even put a dan in it. What what
that was? I do remember seeing it now I'm trying
to find it. That was a weed called spurge. If
you grab the weed and pull on it, it breaks
right off. It breaks right off most of them. And yeah,
most of them do. And you'll see you'll see white

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sap and then out of them. Okay, but anyway, the
music's playing, I got to go fast here. What you're
going to do right now is just pull it. It's
got tons of seeds on it, get them out of there,
Do whatever you can to get them out of there,
and that will that will take care of it. So
the the I found your finally found your pictures in

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this in the spring, when we get to about April,
you need to be putting down a pre emergent herbicide
for it because it germinates late. Yeah, it's a late
It doesn't germinate with our other spring weeds, and so
you definitely want to use a like barricade. Do a barricade,
but do that in in early April. Okay, that'll that'll

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prevent next step. But for now, yes sir, yes, barricade.

Speaker 13 (02:32:18):
Okay, all right, thank you, yes sir,