Ideal Practices for Fall Planting

Skip continues to offer useful advice for keeping your plants strong going into the fall season.

Episode Transcript

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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarilyendorse any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to ktrH Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's
crazy. Just watch him as somany well. Good morning, good Sunday

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morning. As a matter of fact, I appreciate the fact that you are
up at this hour. I hopeyou got a cup of coffee in your
hand or whatever it takes to getthe motor running. We're gonna be talking
gardening today. There is a lotto talk about. I had a great
time out yesterday at the Arburgate Nurseryand Tomball just got to meet a lot
of folks. Boy, you guyswere a steady line coming through and it

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was just so nice to get to, I don't know, help people with
their gardens and get to meet people, find out what kinds of things they're
interested in and growing out in thegardens, do a little bit of diagnostics
and all the kinds of stuff wedo with those appearances. Those of you
who were fortunate enough to win thegiveaways a fertilizer from Arburgate and from nitrofoss

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uh that that was also a niceaddition to the to the event. As
well. And by the way,that parking lot is the most wonderful thing
I had to get there. Igot there a little early just to go
back out and you know, tryit out, see how things are going.
It's it's so dead gum convenient.And I'm I know those of you
love Arburg Gate, which I wassuspect to most everybody listening is you're excited

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too about the fact that you canbe able to go in there and when
have a big event, you know, a lot of people come in.
It just real convenient right in theback, simple as that. But thanks
to Beverly and the team at Arburgratefor hosting us out there yesterday that that
was a good time. We're gonnatalk about all kinds of things today.
I wanted to start off just alittle bit making some mention about birds out

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in our landscapes. I was checkingout my bird baths, you know,
the where we where they have theirwater supplies and they really need that.
By the way, it's still hot. It's still a little hot out there,
and birds need to supply of water, so make sure you're you're providing
that for them. I noticed oneof my feeders was empty. I kind
of neglected keeping an eye on thatthing, and so fortunately the birds were

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not tapping on the window going didyou get out here please? But we
got out there and got some moretaken care of. You know that my
favorite feeder is one that Wildbird does. It's it's one that excludes squirrels,
and it is just I don't knowwhether I like the fact more that if
I want to feed a bird,I can make sure my food goes to
a bird, or the fun ofjust watching a squirrel trying to get into

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that thing, the squirrel excluder feeder. They can't. They can't handle it.
But enough of those things, youknow, it's it is umming bird
season and I had some swing throughjust the other day. They you know,
there's a lot of things we canplant that attract hummingbirds. But the
feeders are cool because I mean youcan put them up instantly in any location
and they just they show up there. And my favorite, I've told you

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this before, is my high perchfeeder from Wall Birds Unlimited. And I've
got several feeders, and it isthe one it's easiest to see the birds,
it's easiest for the birds to youknow, get in there and they
seem to love it. They reallydo seem to enjoy that feeder. Always
remember don't put don't buy colored waterfor your hummingbirds. Just take four parts

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of water, one part of whitetable sugar. I heat the water up
just to make it easier to dissolvethat much sugar and water. Four parts
water, one part sugar, andjust plain white sugar. And it'll last
in a feeder the last couple ofdays out there. And if you buy
their nectar defender, if he dropsin there, it'll carry it out to
ten days. You know, becauseyou think about the sugar water in warm

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weather. I mean there's a lotof little microbes would love to take off
growing in sugar water, so youwant to keep that clean. Wildbirds also
has a little cleaning brushes to keepyour feet are clean. Just makes it
a live even a little extra special. And you know, Wildbirds are everywhere.
I don't know if I've mentioned thislately, but they have seven stores
here in the Houston area, onein Cyprus up on Barker, Cyprus,

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one down on bel Air in Houston. They're on the west side Memorial Drive
in Houston. Out in clear Lake, there's Wildbirds and Katie. There's Wildbirds
on West Timer Parkway. Kingwood hasone up on Kingwood driving them Parland Parland
down down in Pearland on Broadway Streetthere's Wildbird's unlimited, so easy to find
one, and they are really reallynice. You're ever looking for a gift

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for somebody too that I have utilizedthem a number of times because it's it's
such an outstanding gift. You know, you wonder what do you buy for
somebody who has everything already? Well, go into Wilbirds. Let them answer
that question. You will be reallyimpressed, and so other people you give
the gift to, by the way, it's just it's really special. Well,

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we are here to talk to yourto you about gardening, and I
think it will probably help if Igave you a phone number, wouldn't it
seven one three two one two fiveeight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Youknow that the fall season is here.
It is, I mean officially onthe calendar, this is fall. But

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we've had a warm day and yesterday'sa little on the warm side, but
it is gradually cooling off more andmore, and I'm just excited. I
was excited at ninety five. Ithought that was pretty special. We're going
to keep going on the way downand down in temperatures and it's gonna eventually
get real nice and pleasant. Let'sgo out to sugar Land. We're gonna

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talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hello, good morning. I'm wondering
the difference in the three products thatare in not false Okay, and then
and then the product that you wouldbuy from, like Helen Chemical, don't.

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I don't know which you're talking about. Helen is a big chemical company,
So I'm sorry. The like thethe Fall special yard fertilizer. Okay,
the Fall Special is from nitrofoss.It's a brown bag and it has
a good load of potassium that's thelast number in it, and drops the

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nitrogen down a little bit, andthat combination goes in the plant well and
fall, and instead of stimulating justtons of green growth, which we don't
want to do in the fall,it helps the plant produce carbohydrates to go
into winter and come out stronger.So that's that. That is the plan
of any fertilizer that you would calla winterizer or a fall fertilizer, is

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you want to have enough potassium thethird number to be able to really really
do the good that it can do. But would the potassium that the large
chemical companies have. Do they furnishpotassium to nctro fause company? Oh?

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I don't know that. Does itall come? Yeah, I don't know
how the sausage gets made on that. It's just there's their number of forms
of potassium that fertilizer can use,from organic forms to synthetic forms. There's
a lot of options out there forgetting that out into the plant. Did
you have another question about about thefall fertilizing mic No, just you know,

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I've used the Medina products, butbut one of the recommendations to get
rid of of the sticker birds isgo heavy and heavy with nitrogen, and
Medina products don't have nitrogen. Uh, that's not no, that's not true.
They do have. Medina has afertilizer for the lawn that has a

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higher amount of nitrogen in it.But that's something that we would need if
we're going to go into grasp orthat would be a whole another question.
We can do that, but I'mgonna have to have you hang on after
break to do that. All right, If you'd like to continue the discussion.
Yeah, we're going to take abreak right now. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven fouris the number we are talking gardening,

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and if you're interested in giving usa call, it's seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.I was mentioning being on at the Arbigate
earlier, just a moment ago,and while we're out there, we gave
away some of their their organic food, the complete Organic four four three.
It's got some calcium in it,it's got a lot of other good things

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in it. It's I was jokingwith somebody, they said, what can
I use it or not? Gowell? If the plant has roots,
don't use it on silk flowers,But any plant with roots it'll work well
on and do a pretty good job. They've also got part of their one
two three system at Arbigate is theorganic soil complete and they're going to compost
complete. And both of those productsare loaded with organic matter that's just rich

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and microbial activity. Also, theyhave that expanded shale in it, and
that expanded sail is important every timeyou get a chance to add expanded shell
to a clay soiled In the GreaterHouston area, the Upper Gulf Coast.
It's a good idea because expanded shellhelps the things that clay is not so
good at, like draining, aerationand things like that. We're gonna go

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out now to Kima and talk toCheryl. Hello, Cheryl, Hello,
good morning. I took your advice. I put the nitro foss sweet green
okay and hundred degree. I hadto have faith in that yard. Guy
didn't want to do it, okay, but he did it. He put

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it in the spreader and the yardlooks great. That was about a month
ago. Then I used weed beaterbefore he I mean about a week or
two weeks ago. I used we'dbeat it right before we got the rain,
like a day before. And whatI did, and I think I
made a mistake, But I liftedup the weeds that were just lying there

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because he hadn't cut for like sixweeks. I wouldn't let him cut the
yard because you know, too tootoo much skinning it, you know.
So and I lifted up the weedand I sprayed the stock kind of down
into the ground towards the route.But I think I made a mistake.
I think you're supposed to spray thaton the on the leaves, aren't you.

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Yes, on the foliage, andjust barely wet the foliage. You
don't need to drench him, justjust get him wet. Okay, I
think I heard that. Yeah,I think we just met easier for you
because you went through there. Itwas a little bit of work. Yeah,
exactly. H questions that Texas threeSteps does that include the pre emergent

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herbicide in there? I'm sorry,Texas you talk. Sorry, I missed
your question. Sorry, go ahead, true, Okay, On that Texas
three step program is does that includepre emergent herbicide? Yes, yes,
there there is the pre emergent herbicideas one of the three of the nitropos

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Texas three step. Now, whenis the last kind of date? I
can do that because I don't wantto be loading stuff on top of stuff.
And well there's no problem, youknow, doing things on the same
day, that's not a problem.But here's how it works. Your winter
weeds are going to start germinating.As we get a little bit of a

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cool front through and little rain,you'll start to see all them begin to
germinate. And that'll happen in October. It can also be going on in
November. But if you wait untilafter weeds have come up to put the
pre emergent down, you could missthe opportunity to prevent them. That how
it works is it doesn't allow agerminating weed to establish a weed plant.

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And so that's why we don't wantto We don't want to find out how
long can we wait? We wantto go ahead and get them down.
I would do it, and downin your area. You could do it
sometime in early to mid October.If we have a year that comes a
little cool front a little early inthings, then maybe you'd want it to
get it on a little bit earlierthan that. Okay, early to October.

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Thank you so much. Yeah,I really appreciate it. All right,
Cheryl, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. I hope
that was helpful for you. Italk about the importance of soil all the
time, and and it is nicenow. I remember the day when you
could buy a big positive compost,but that was about it. But now
our soil providers, and boy dowe ever had a great soil provider in

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a greater in this greater Houston areahere, they have created blends that are
just magical for all kinds of things. If you do want to blend for
roses, do you want, youknow, a rose soil, Well,
we've got that. Do you wantsomething that might be good for containers.
We've got blends designed for containers nowavailable. Do you want something to be
for veggies and herbs? Maybe you'reputting a raised bed in and you just

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want to ready to go drop itin the box and let's hit the ground
run. And we've got that.And Airloom Soils carries all of those.
They carry them in bulk, theycarry them in bags. They'll deliver a
supersac which is a cubic yard toyour door if you if you like that,
you can go get it. There'sa lot of options. Go to
Airloom Soils of Texas and look atthe product line of what they have.

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While you're there, there's a littlecalculator online. It's an outstanding one where
you can figure out exactly how much, how many cubic yards do you need
to buy? Well, how wide, how deep? You know, the
calculator will figure that out. It'lleven come down to five callon buckets of
composts. I mean, if youwant to figure it down to that it's
a very very helpful thing. AndAirloom Soils with their product range, product

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line and availability all over town,it's just a winning deal and you will
find that your green thumb gets greenerwhen you use a quality soil like Airloom
Soils for your plants. We arehitting let's see, Okay, I wanted
to I wanted to mention something aboutgeneral lawn and plant care this fall.

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As we bring our plants out ofthis brutal summer that we went through,
you want to remember a couple ofthings. Number One, you want to
create a setting where that plant canrecover and thrive. Think of a hospital
room, you know where you haveplenty of ivy fluids and you know what
I'm saying, You're getting the patientback on its feet. Well, that's

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what we're doing, and so weneed adequate soul moisture. Number One,
If it rains, great, Ifit hadn't rained in a week, and
you need an inch, then goahead and put it down. As we
go into fall, we're going toback off of that inch a week to
about a half inch a week becauseit's cooling off. But today it's still
warm enough to where I would waterif it needs to water and then again

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to gradually provide those products that we'retalking about when you're putting in your fall
plants. For example, when Ido transplanting, I always water them in
with a quality product, and oneof my favorite is has to Grow six
twelve six. I've talked about itbefore. Put it in a watering can.
Mix it according to the label.You're going to be adding six percent

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nitrogen, twelve percent phosphor six percentpotassium. You're also going to be adding
me dinostral activator which stimulates the biologicalactivity. You're going to be adding humic
acid, You're going to be addingseaweed extracts. All with that watering in,
those roots have the best chance possibleto establish quickly a week later,
do it again a week later.It I do mind three times to water

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men. But has to Grow isone of those products. It's just easy.
You're not going to burn your plantswith it, and it provides beyond
just MPK the nitrogen, phosphor potassium. It provides a lot of other things
that are helpful for that plant,getting a good root system and getting started.
I would in courage you to thinkabout that when you're putting plants in.

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We want to give our plants.We want to set them up for
success. We don't want to putthem out there and go, well,
I hear you're a tough plant.Good luck. Let's see if you make
it. We want we want themost out of them. If they have
blooms, we want blooms. Ifbeautiful foliage, we want foliage. If
it's a lawn, we want densityand health for the lawn. And that's
why we take care of our plantsin those kind of ways. Some of

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you the summer, it probably decided, you know what, after this kind
of summer, I'm going to moveto some more native types of plants.
And I don't blame you for that. There's a lot of great natives out
there. These are plants that havelived here a lot longer than we have,
and they know how to survive.They've been through you know, for
us, this may be like,oh my gosh, that's the worst summer

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ever. Well not for them.They've been through it many many times over.
They know how to live here.And Buchanan specializes in those kinds of
plants. In fact, their nameBuchanan's Native Plants, ought to tell you
that they're in the Heights on EleventhStreet. Buchanans doesn't just sell natives,
so they have everything you can imagine. I think their houseplants selections one of

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the best I've seen. It's justreally really cool that Buchanans is a kind
of garden center. You go into, You've got knowledgeable staff, you have
an incredible selection, and you addadd to that where they grouping plants,
like here's a table just a Houstonnatives, or there's an area just for
shade loving plants. Or check outthe gift shops too. While you're there.

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It's easy to find what you needand to find really cool quality stuff.
When you go to Buchanans Plants onEleventh Street in the Heights, you
are listening to Garden Line. Ourphone number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four, orif you like to spell with letters seven
one three two one two K TR H. That makes it a little

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bit simpler as well, doesn't it. We are gonna we're gonna talk a
little bit more later. I'm goingto mention a few things about some fruit
and also some of our vegetable gardeningand stuff. As we go a little
further into the morning, but justto just to kind of lead off her.
Fall is a good time to plantanything, pretty much except maybe a

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plant that only lives in the summer, like basil. Basil is not a
freeze tolerant plant. But when yougo beyond that, all the perennial herbs
and pretty much everything else follow isa good time to get them planted.
And I encourage you to don't delay. Uh you know, I know this
summer fried our landscapes and fried ourbrains and patients as well. But now's

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the time to turn it around.And by preparing your soil now, by
getting the right plants now and gettingthem ready to go, October and November
are just super big planting months comingup. We are right on the doorstep.
In fact, you don't have towait till October. Today is a
good day to plant. But goahead and get set up for that,

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because I know, I know whatit felt like coming out of summer.
But trust me, false false here, Winter's coming and when next spring comes,
the things you're doing now will makeyour law the most beautiful it can
be. That make your landscapes beautiful. Uh, don't delay. There there
is what did Uh? What's thesong? There is a time and purples

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from ecclesiastic time and purpose for everything. I can't say the name of the
song. I just went blank.Oh yes, anyway, yes, that
one. There's a time to atime to laugh, a time to cry.
Yeah, And now's the time togarden. I mean it is.
It's the time to prepare everything becausethat way, when it comes to fall,

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we may have a gully washer rainfor a week and if you've already
built your beds, you can getout there and plant. You don't have
to dig up the soil, whichwe shouldn't do when it's saggy wet.
But now turn, turn, turn, Thank you. My gosh, my
brain was going blank on that one. There you go. But there's a
time and now is the time fordoing your fault garden for getting the most

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success, and that's what you want. You're spending money, you're spending time.
Why not reap the rewards for thatfor years to come. And now
is also the time for the NickiNews Network. And so I'm going to
turn turn, turn it over toNikki. Yes, a time to plant,
and this is the time to getready for planting all kinds of things.

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Hey, if you live up inthe Tumba area, your hometown feed
store is DND Feed. DND Feed. The Dover family has been running DND
out there on Highway twenty nine twentywest, just about three miles west of
two forty nine outside Tumball. They'vebeen doing this since nineteen eighty nine.
They have quality feed for your pets, for your livestock. Do you need

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products for your yard? I'm talkingabout fertilizers. I'm talking about composts and
bag products like that. Do youneed you know, pesticide, secticide,
fungicide, herbicide. They have allthat. DND feed stay stocked up and
they help you have a beautiful,successful landscape as a result of that fact.

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You know, the last time Iwas out there, I always like
to go and check out what's new. And there's always something new, you
know, expanded this summer and itjust keeps getting better and you get the
kind of service that we would expectfrom our hometown feed stores. And that's
D and D for all of youup in the greater Tomball area. Go
by there and see what I'm talkingabout. You will be impressed. And
seasonally they get plants through there.It's really nice to be out and shopping

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around. And I think that onething I've noticed when I go into dn
D is there's always the product thatI'm looking for to deal with whatever it
is I'm trying to deal with,whether it's fertilizing or managing a past or
whatever. That's nice to be ableto walk in and know that that is
exactly what you're going to get.Our phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four sevenone three two one two five eight seven

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four. Your lawn, I suspectif it's like mine, And boy,
if I showed you a picture ofmy lawn, you turn your radio off
right now and go somewhere else.This summer, I traveled and the water
didn't come on when it should,and one thing led to another, and
I've got a big area out frontthat just looks horrible. Let's give me
a chance to experiment with a lotof different things. I'm trying to,

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you know, see what works.So as I give you advice, it's
not just like, well I readthis in a book somewhere, but no
I did it. It worked orit didn't work, and I can advise
you better. Anyway, now's thetime when I need to get out and
go ahead and move forward with aaeration and a compost top dressing. Our
lawns are struggling, and they havebeen struggling. Some of you may have

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been able to water enough, somemay not have been able to. When
you do a core aeration on yourlawn, you pop those plugs out of
the ground and you end up witha nice open, deep core that's been
taking out of the soil. You'reaerating the roots. And then when you
compost top dress, compost moves downin those aeration holes as well, and

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you're building your soil and it justgets better and better. And Greenpro does
that. The folks at Greenpro forfive minion and nine plus sales tax depending
on your location and size. Theythat is where they start, depending on
you know, if it's big lawn, it's gonna cost a little more and
there are other factors in it,but Greenpro knows what they're doing. You
can go to greenpro dot net greenprodot net and see exactly what compost top

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dressing looks like in aeration as itgoes over your lawn, or give them
a call two eight one three fiveone forty seven thirty three. I need
to do that, and you knowit. Just in general, anytime we
can top dress our lawns of thequality material is good, and anytime you
get a good aeration in there.We got to get those roots stimulated,

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and we got to get the plantsgoing, get them back on their feet,
get them going again. And that'sthe goal. And we have one
month that is key for all ofthat in your lawns, and this is
October. This is the and sofertilizing and pest controls and disease controls and
aerating, compost top dressing, andall of those kinds of things need to

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happen sooner rather than later, especiallythe compost top dressing part. By the
way, you are listening to GardenLine our phone number seven one three two
one two ktr H seven one threetwo one two kt r H if you
haven't done your fall fertilization yet,and don't worry, you're not late.

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You're not late. And just incase you haven't, now is a good
time to get that done. Now. The summer fertilizers are high in nitrogen
because we're pushing growth. We wantgreen, we want growth. We want
vigor in the fall. We donot want to push growth. We do
not want to push vigor. Wewant to increase the strength and health of
the grass plant. And that takesonly a moderate amount of nitrogen and a

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decent a good amount of potassium.The third number, and Nelson Plant Food
has packaged something just for that.It's called carbo load. Carbo Load is
a ten ten twenty fertilizer. Youput it out there, it gets you
know, at twenty that's a veryhigh, high concentration of the potassium,
and that is very good for yourplants. So what's going to happen.

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You're gonna put it down. You'regonna get a little bit of a green
result from it. But mainly what'sgoing to happen is the grass plant is
going to take up the compounds itneeds, including nitrogen potassium to get a
good strong plant going into winter.And that is critical because the strength that
ere long goes into this coming winterwill be the strength that it comes out

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of winter. In fact, itcould even come out weaker if you don't
take care of it. Now.Take care of it now, get it
boosted, get it strong. Don'tpush a lot of fresh new green growth
that just aggravates brown patch, butuse a quality fertilizer. Carbo Load is
an outstanding example. Also has apre emergent herbicide in it to help with
some of the weed issues that arecoming up. But that's another reason to

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get it on sooner rather than later, because we don't want to delay getting
the pre emergent down if you're goingto use one in your lawn. Yeah,
there's there's a lot to talk aboutwhen it comes to laund right now
because we just we just have alot of things going on. I did
a video for Aggy Horticulture the HotCulture Department Facebook live up at A and

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M, and I just posted itto the other day to our Facebook page.
And so if you go to thegarden Line Facebook page, I hope
you do. I hope you hopeyou follow that one. We're always posting
stuff to that and check out thevideo. It's about seven minutes long.
So but it's not you know,it's not going to sit there a long
time. But what I do isI cover what have our lawn has been

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through and what's happening with them asa result, and then what about fertilizing,
what about diseases, what about weeds? You know, what are the
things that we're needing to look atand deal with right now? And it's
an overview. I'm pretty concise withit, but I think that you will
find it to be very helpful.I'm going to also get that video over
the website as soon as I canhere, but in the meantime, you

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can see it on our Facebook page. Please please do go check that out.
I think that you will find itvery helpful. And it also just
reminds us that October's the big month. It is the big month for our
lawns in the fall. If youlive down south of the Houston area,
let's say you're down in the LeagueCity area or maybe Dickinson, San Leone

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or elkom Into Real Bay, Cliff, Webster, Santa Fe, all of
that area. League City Feed isyour hometown feed store. The Thunderbergs he
began with the dad. Actually thestore began and forty years ago in an
Okra patch, which I find tobe humorous. And you know, anything
that starts in an Okra patch's gotit turned out now West and Madison and

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sister weren't run the place, andit's just that old time feed store.
It's the service you expect. Butalso when you go in there a push,
you're gonna find feed. It's afeed store, quality feed. It's
that kind of feed store. Butyou're going to find everything you need for
your lawn and garden. Two youneed fertilizers, I'm talking about them today.
They've got the ones that we talkabout there. If you need a

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insecticide or a herbicide or a fungicide, they've got it there. In your
backyard chicken deal, I mean thatis popular now, and the Thunderbergs at
League City Feed have got you setup on that too. Monday through Saturday
nine to six pm, closed onSunday phone number two eight one three three
two sixteen twelve to eight one threethree two sixteen twelve, and they will

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get you set up on everything youneed. So you're fortunate down there by
the way. League City Feed ison Highway three, a few blocks south
of Highway ninety six, so it'sreally easy to get in and out of
and be an open till six afterwork. You can just swing by there
and pick up the supplies you needfor your weekend warrior activities. You know
you're one of those lawn rangers.Right, well, it's time to take

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a break. Here our phone numberseven one three two one two KTRH seven
one three two one two KTRH.Give Josh a call and he'll get you
on the board for when we comeright back. Everybody's saying hooray for our
side. You're listening to garden Lineand we are looking forward to your calls
today so we can talk about whatyou are interested in. That would be

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the phone number seven one three twoone two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour. I've been talking about lawns a
lot this morning, because everybody's concernedabout their lawn right now. I also
want to mention a little bit abouttrees. I posted something to the website
a while back on understanding tree stressesand how stresses affect trees and how we

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alleviate those stresses. And boy,have our trees ever been through stresses?
Oh my gosh, we had.You can go back to February twenty one
when it got so darn cold andthat heard a lot of plants around here.
We had a brutal summer last summer, a brutal summer. This summer
we had an early free in December, and each of those have taken its
toll in different ways on different onesof our species, if not all of

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them, And as a result,our goal is to get those trees back
on their feet, so to speak. Trees are resilient, but when you
weaken a tree, things that canjust flat kill it show up and take
it out, and so our goal. You know, those things that just
flank kill it we can't control.I mean, hopoxal and canker on oaks,

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there's not a spray for that.But what we can control is alleviating
stress and keeping the tree healthy asbest we can, and good tree care
is a big part of that,making sure it has the nutrients it needs,
making sure that if there's sole compaction, that we're doing something to alleviate
and avoid that. When we watera good deep soaking to wet the soil
eight or ten inches deep if wecan, and then don't water for a

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while, trees do not. They'renot like a little African violet sitting on
the window where every day they gota little drink of water from Now,
we're talking about a plant that isresilient, So give it a good soaking
and then let it go. Don'ttry to make it dependent. But your
trees are valuable, of course,they're important, of course, and that
kind of care is really really important. And I would, if I would

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encourage you, go go to mywebsite. It's gardening with skip dot com
and I've put that information on treestresses, and also there's one on lawns,
the same kind of thing, what'sbeen going on with lawns this summer
and check check those out, readthem. I think you'll find them to
be very helpful and at least it'llgive you the mindset so as you're thinking

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about treecre going forward now with yourlandscape, you kind of have a way
of thinking that helps you do thethings that help and avoid the things that
don't. That that is kind ofwhat it really boils down to. Soil
and soil and soil is so soimportant for everything. And if you're going
to plant anything, whether it's apotted plant, whether it is a new

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garden bed, whether it's putting ina rose bed or a shrub bed or
a flower bed, Nature's way resourcesup in Conro area. They absolutely have
super quality soils. They you know, they're inventors of the rose soil,
inventors of the leaf mold compost,and they know how to make quality soil,
and that's exactly what they do.Take the time to do it right.

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That is important. Anybody can shovea bunch of organic matter and a
pile, wet it and wait untilit turns dark, and then try to
sell it. But it's something elseto blend it right, to do it
right, to take the time todo it right. And that's what Nature's
Way does. By the way,next Saturday, stop the presses, get
out the pens and paper Next Saturday. I will be at Nature's Way on

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September thirtieth, and I'm going tobe out there after the show so you
can come out and see me.I'll be there from eleven thirty to one
thirty, spending a couple hours outthere. They're going to have one heck
of a shindig. It's called theFall Garden Festival. Now, I hope
you come out so I get tomeet in see and we answer your question.
They're gonna have Latin food, livemusic, local vendors, adult beverages.

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For the kiddos, there's a littlekid's scavenger hunt, They're even gonna
have a demo class in the morningbefore I get there, creating enchanting fairy
gardens and learn the magic of aminiature garden. Mark your calendars September thirtieth.
This is a Nature's Way. Whileyou're out there, you can grab
some bag products or put in anorder for a bulk delivery of one of

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the many, many products they have. And don't forget, they're still having
their fungal Friday sale ten percent offthe bag product, twenty percent off the
bulk on Fridays of the fungal compost. That's one of the many quality products
at Nature's Way. We are goingto now head over to Cyprus and talk

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to Sandy. Hello Sandy from Cyprus. I skip, good morning, how
are you well? Thank you?I just wanted to ask you. I
have an oprah that's been a container. It's got three stalks in it,
and although the production is still going, but it's slowed down. How can

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I prune it because I've got newgrowth at the bottom, but the top
is like the one stock looks likeit's almost brown, right, but at
the bottom of it it's green.Well, Sandy, at this point in
the season probably not much benefit,and trying to prune the ocra, We're

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we're gonna we still have some monthsor another month or so of ochre production,
but it's gonna get so slow,and if you prune, it's I
don't have time to regrow and setocra pods and mature them. So what
going into future years if you havemore than one container or more than one
plant. When we get into oh, let's say early August, you could

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do a cutting back of your ocra, cutting it back even by half,
and it'll resprout new growth that willthen set okra pods. But I wouldn't
do the whole thing. What I'lldo in mine patch is I'll prune some
of them in August early August,and then not others. And that way
you're still getting ochre from the onesyou didn't prune, and by the time

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the ones you pruned resprout and startproducing, they carry you on into fall.
But at this point we're a littlelate. Okay, Well, thank
you so much, Skip have awonderful day, you too, have a
wonderful time out there in Cyprus withthe ochre patch. Love love ochre.
Hey up, you are wanting totake care of your lawn. You're wanting

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to take care of your garden.You're wanting to put in maybe some herbs,
maybe you want to put in somecontainer plants. Where do you go
and get everything that you need tomake those plants have success? Well,
Ace Hardware, it's an easy onethere. You need Furlijer lawn with the
winterizer, the fall furlizer. We'retalking about Ace Hardware. They carry them,
They carry all the ones we have. Do you have issues with brown

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patch or do you have issues withweeds, or do you have issues with
some insect problem? Ace Hardware theyhave everything you need, including the tools
for your landscape, and they alsohave everything you need to make that outdoor
area even more enjoyable. And isn'tit nice to finally see on the horizon
the days of sitting outside and enjoyingthe temperatures outside. Ace Hardware will get

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you set up for that. Goto Ace Hardware dot com, find their
store locator, their store locator.We'll help you find the thirty nine Ace
Hardware stores here in the Greater Houstonarea. So no matter what the supplies
are that you need, you cango to ACE Hardware and you will see
why I'm so excited about and whyI keep bragging about what all they have.

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I know it's hard to I can'tdescribe it, and you imagine it.
Walk in the store, take alook and be like, oh,
I did not know they had that. That is really cool. And believe
me, you may go in therefor a bag of fertilizer, but you're
going to find a lot of reallycool stuff to make your homescape and enjoyable
place to hang out and to makeyour plants healthy and successful in the process.

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Well, you're listening to garden Lineand I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer your gardeningquestions. I'm about to take a
little break here for the news,and if you would like to give us
a call seven one three two onetwo ktr H seven one three two one
two ktr H. Josh will getyou on the board and you'll be first
when we come back. I don'tforget again. I mentioned this is a

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minute ago, but next Saturday,September thirty, eleven thirty to one thirty
I'll be at Nature's Way Resources andthe shindig they are planning out there is
really cool. You definitely need tobe there for this, They've redone a
lot of their native plant nursery area, put in some water feature and a

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lot of other cool things. Iwas visiting with John and Ian the other
day about it, and I can'twait to get back up there and see
it. They're always taking things astep forward up there. Nature's so what
a great idea. Go out thereon Saturday, Let's visit, Let's do
diagnostics or whatever kinds of things.Questions you might have, love to meet,
you, have fun at the party, go home with some products,

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because it's time to begin getting oursoil ready to rejuvenating our plants. And
it all begins in the soil,and that's what Nutrius Way is all about.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorseany of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to KTRHGarden Line with Skip rictor so Smelly.

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Just watch as mid Sunday morning,gardeners, we are looking at the glow
in the eastern sky as that suncomes up. Quick care. We're getting
a little bit of light shining through. That means it's gonna be a good
day, you know. I thinkif the sun comes up, that means

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it's going to be a good day, right, it does. That's the
way to look at it. Atleast, Hey, every day is a
good day in the garden. Ienjoy getting out in the garden, and
even you know, you can findyou can find pleasure and a lot of
different activities in the garden. Andif you let things get away from you,
and now you've got eight hundred acresof weeds to pull and while fire

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ants climb around on you. Wow, that's no fun. But you don't
have to let that happen. Youcan mult your plants. I can't tell
you how many times in fact,the last week back yesterday, just talking
to gardeners yesterday, over and overagain, people will be talking about there's
this weed and here's a picture ofit, and what do I do?
And I'm looking at bear dart withweeds coming up. Wherever sunlight hits the
soil, nature plants of weed.Just remember that. So how do we

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control weeds? Well, there's alot of ways, but the first way
is the way nature controls weeds.And what does it do. It drops
leaves on the ground and it coversthe soil and it doesn't let the sun
hit the soil. That protects thesoil in a lot of ways for erosion,
from crusting, from excessive summer temperatures, from very cold winter temperatures if
we have one of those kind ofwinters. It does all that, but

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it blocks the weeds. And nowthere are weeds. It'll come through mulch.
But why not get rid of allthe weeds. It won't by just
putting organic matter on the soil,because it's a When when you put it
down it does its thing, Ithink it looks beautiful and on top of
it all, you get all thebenefits of it. So let's deal with
the weeds it can control, thatcan overcome a mulch cover, which is

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the smaller group of weeds, andjust make it really easy. And so
again I'm here to help anyway wecan. But when I see a whole
bunch of bare dirt and weeds andpeople are going, what do I do
about these weeds, It's like,well, don't invite them in the first
place. That's the easy part.One way that we deal with weeds in

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our lawns is by building a good, dense, healthy lawn, and Nitrofosts
has their Texas three step it's aone two three system, very easy to
do. I mean all you dois, first of all, there is
a nitrofost fall special winter riser fertilizerthat has that right chemistry in it to
put the right nutrients and the rightratios into your grass to strengthen it without

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pushing a lot of lush fall growththat's going to be more of a brown
patch problem. So it's fertilizing smart. It's feeding the plants in a way
that helps them prepare for winter,overcome drought, and come out strong in
the spring. Number two, youwant to deal with the weeds. The
nitrofosts barricade is a pre emergent herbicide. Now, if your lawn is thin

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and we and sunlight is setting thesoil, a pre emergent herbicide will help
prevent weeds from getting established. It'seasier to deal with the weed before it
starts than it is to take aweed that's already knee high in the spring
and try to kill it. That'sno win deal back then, so why
not now make sure you prevent It'stoo late to build turf density this fall,

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Although fall fertilizing gets you set upto build it next spring, so
you may have to deal with thoseweeds. Barricade is designed to do just
that. And then finally, NitrofusEagle turf fungicide. That is a fungicide
that is systemic, it's a protectingit also does some curative effects in the
lawn and with large patch season comingon, with take all root rot reinfections

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coming on, with the cooler weatherarriving soon, that helps to prevent that
problem because we don't need to addinsalt to injury. Let's get the patient
healthy, let's avoid the things thatattack it. Nitrofus Texas three step,
one, two three, all threeare available at Katie Hardware, at RCW
Nursery or at the arbor Gate andTomball Nitrofus products widely available for the things

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you need. Let's go out toKingwood and we're gonna visit with Joe this
morning. Hello Joe, good morning. Skip. Before I get to my
main questions real quick, you werejust talking about the NCROTHOSS three step.
I'm planning to apply barricade in earlyOctober. Should I apply the fall feeding

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special a few days after that,like a week after that or before?
Or does it matter it does notmatter. You can do them the same
day. In fact, you're outthere doing it, just go ahead and
knock it all out. Just don'tput them both in the same fertilizer spreader.
Particle size is different, the settingwill be different for applying each of
those correctly, so apply them separately. But you can do it the very

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same day. Great. My mainquestion was I'm in a month or so
getting ready to plant some replacement hedgesof about five plants each of wax leafs
augustrum, boxwood and sunshine augustrum.Okay, and I've heard you recommend medina
has to grow for plants to helpthose plants get set up early, and

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I had a few questions about that. The direction say to mix one allance
per gallon of water. How muchshould I use per shrub? I would
just use the amount of water thatyou're watering them in with. Okay,
so follow the label on the medinashas to go six twelve six. Mix
it in water according to that concentration. But then just water the shrub in

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really well, so you would justa good soaking like you would water a
new plant in. But you're usingthat that concoction. Is that roughly half
a gallon per per shrub or whatsize is the containers for the shrubs?
They're probably gonna be three gallons?Okay, Yeah, if I would just

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say even a good a good gallonof water would probably be enough to water
those those in a three gae Ifwe're so one gallon for a three gallon
shrub, what if if I geta seven gallon shrub? How much for
that? But a little bit moreon? Okay, I mean, there's
not a magic number. Here's whatwe're trying to do. We're just trying
to wet the soil thoroughly around thatnewly planted shrubs root ball or roots cylinder,

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and we want to wet it witha solution that contains the product at
the label rate. And so ifyou were to put four gallons on,
it wouldn't hurt anything other than youmaybe just be overwatering you And you say
it's best to use like a littlewatering can rather than a pump up sprayer.

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Oh yeah, because you can drenchyou can drench the root ball.
A pump up sprayer just you know, barely wets the surface. Yeah,
I mean, I guess there isa hose en version of that product.
I generally use just the regular onewhere you pour it out and mix it
up, but there is a hoseinversion, and you could walk along if
you had a bunch of shrubs,and you could just took it up to

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the hose end through the settings likeit tells you to do, and then
and then just use your hose tosquirt and water that. But you're going
to need to water one, moveto the nexon and water arette. Moved
to the next and waterett and thencome back to the first one, because
at one point in time you're hosein sprayer, it may be putting it
out faster, the liquid faster thanit can absorb. Yeah, I've noticed

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that even with the watering. Canyou know you try to dump one gallon
instantly on a plant, you maynot get it all in the ground.
And for storing the products like hasto grow or soil activator, do you
usually store those inside in your houseor is the air condition or is it
okay to keep those in the garage? I keep everything in the house.

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You know, there are things thatcan tolerate the heat, but my garage
gets blazing hot, and so whereverpossible I'll put stuff, especially like liquid
products, whether it would be tocontrol insects or diseases, or weeds or
you know, things like that.I would usually put those inside because freezing
and excessive heat are both enemies oflong long, long term life storage life

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for those kind of products. That'sgreat tip. SKIP. Really appreciate your
help on those. Thank you verymuch. All right, thank you,
Joe. I appreciate that call.Well, it is time for us to
head out and do a little bitof business on the news here. We're
gonna be right back our phone numberseven one three two one two five eight
seven four. Hey, good Sundaymorning. Welcome to Garden Line our phone

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number seven one three two one tofive eight seven four, talking about our
garden centers and whatnot around here.The folks that enchanted forest, they have
a wonderful selection of moms that havecome in. They got more coming into,
by the way, but just thecallers. I mean, when you

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think of a chrysanthemum, they've gotthat. But they also have ones that
you look at and go, whatis that a chrysanthemum? Is that a
daisy? It's beautiful. They're absolutelybeautiful. I've got a good stock of
them in and oh my gosh,the pumpkins came in. And if you
want a deck rate for fall,you got to go check out all the
different types of pumpkins they have outthere at Enchanted Forest. Of course,

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when you're out there, it's agood time to buy and plant herbs.
This is a season for that.It's a good time to buy and plant
a lot of things, including gettingyour fertilizers and your soils, and they've
got all of that out there.By the way, the Enchanted Forest.
If you're in Richmond and you're headingup toward Sugarland direction, they're off to
the right down south of fifty nine. They're really easy to find. Enchanted

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Forest, and Danny and Clay Lenderman, they have really created a place that
is a It's just it's so muchfun to visit. The quality of the
staff, the quality advice, theway they take time with you to help
you find and know how to plantyour things and care for them so you
have success. That's important to themand that's why customers keep coming back there

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and Enchanted Forest out there in Richmond. I need some pumpkins this fall.
I think it's time to get thefront door decorated and be ready to go
for that. Hey, let's itout to League City and talk to John
V. Hello John V. Goodwarning, skip and garden line. Yes,
I've got a little bit of athree part question now. This flower

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is famously the largest flower species inthe world and is called Rephusia are a
F F L. E. Siaflower is on the capul that I imagination
of enormous specs of red pele titlesand a risk of extinction. And re

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research has warned us on Wednesday therefuse is actually a parasite that lives in
the tropical vines across the parts ofSoutheast Asia, producing blooms that are large
in the world. Is something ofenigma, this flower emerging unpredictably as a
batumous as a limited propagation as outsideof natural environment us. One important thing

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about that flower the smell. Yes, it says one of these species of
the flowers currently classified quickly endangered accordingto the International Union of Conservation of Nature.
Right so well, yes, Isaid, right now, they're working
at forty The botanists examined forty twoknown Raffisia species in their habitats and Brunei

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Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Well, I'll tell you that is
a very unusual flower. It's actuallykind of attractive. But boy, hold
your nose because it smells like rottenflesh because they attract flies for pollinating,
so they they smell like rotten meat. Yes, And so I wanted to
see what what genetic engineering and geneticcoating needs to be done to be able

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to you know, save species ofendangered species. And then the third part
question is, uh, what kindplanetary rules and regulations are there in place
for as I know, like thereis a black market and the economy,
and there's a black market on thespecies ride as well. So you know,

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John V. I, I don'tknow on that what kind of things
are doing. And as far asgenetic engineering on these, I don't know.
I think it's just a matter ofprotecting habitat and that it's the same
story it's been true for plants throughoutthe ages that sometimes they'll find they'll get
a place it's kind of a preservewhere people can't come in and do things,
and and they'll try to protect themthat way. But that's a little
bit outside my area of expertise.But that is a very unusual flower,

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that is for sure. Yes,thank you, it's magnificent. I saw
just this article just a few daysago, and so I'm like fascinated,
and so I'm really excited about gettingconnections with everybody on the article. And
yeah, lord, what's very veryinteresting stuff. Hey, I appreciate I
appreciate the call out there. Soundslike you're doing some some research out there

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online. Thank you. Thank youall. Have a wonderful Sunday. All
right, all right you as well. Thank you. I appreciate that very
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my dollars count I am really changinglife. It's compassion and action. That's
Star of Hope. We uh youknow. We're here to answer your gardening
questions and if you would like todiscuss anything related to gardener, you can
give me a call at seven onethree, two, one two five eight
seven four seven one three two andtwo fifty eight seventy four. I was

(53:52):
visiting I think with you a littlebit yesterday. I talked to somebody in
there. Here is their take.It's like some are just about killed a
minute, did kill most of theirlawn and their plants, and they're just
like man, I it's hard gettingthe energy to want to get back out
there and do something. Well,that's fine. I wish I could talk
you in to getting out and doingsomething because it's good, it's fun,

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it's enjoyable, it's healthy, andseeing the visual change is mentally helping too.
But if you need some help withthis, just call pier Scapes.
That's what they do. I betyour irrigation system needs some work. Most
systems are not efficient. And aftertrying to keep plants alive this summer,
when the system it's not working right, no more, get it. Let

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them fix it. They can dothat. Do you need a designed sprinkler
system? Do you want led lightingfor outside? Do you want to replant
and redesign some landscapes? Call pierScapes two eight one three seven zero fifty
sixty Pierce Scapes dot COM's a website. Give him a call and say,
look, I need you to comein. We need to do some revamping

(54:57):
here and I want plants that aremore dropped tolerant than the ones I just
lost. What can you suggest,take some pictures, sit down with them,
walk through it. Fall is forplanting. Now is for calling them
and getting an appointment, getting inthere, getting them working on it,
so that by the time we reachthe holidays, you've got something that is
beautiful happening in your landscape. Andwhy not just go ahead and pull the

(55:21):
plug and get that done because theycan really turn it into a magical place.
You can go online go to theirpearscapes dot com and look at pictures
of the kind of work that theydo. You are listening to garden line
the number seven one three two onetwo ktr H seven one three two one
two ktr H. I mentioned thatmy new lawncare schedule is online at gardening

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with Skip dot com and you willsee on there that fall is a big
month. Whether you apply organic orsynthetic fertilizers. It is the month to
get it done. If you needaeration. It's an important time to get
all that important time to get traceminerals put out too. If you haven't
done that this year, make sureand get that done as well. And

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asomite is a product. We talkabout it a lot, but it is
a mind trace mineral product. Asamitecomes out of the ground and it is
chock full of all kinds of thingsthat you don't think about when you're fertilizing.
Like have you ever grabbed a bagof fertilizer and gone, I wonder
if there's manganese and boron in thisThe answers probably no, But you need
to think about that because all ofthese minerals are essential, and asomite provides

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those trace minerals that you need somuch. Don't put it in the same
hopper as your fertilizer because it's adifferent particle size. But do your fertilization
and then follow with an application ofazamite. It doesn't take a lot.
These are trace minerals. We're notputting a ton of it out there.
But the fact that they're needed insmall amounts does not at all change the

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fact that they are absolutely essential forplant health and growth. I was take
care of some areas in my landscapeand in my garden too, there will
need a little bit of extra care. I've got a little automatic watering system
in the garden, and boy doI ever love that. It just comes
on. It's a hose end deal. It's not a little fancy clock on

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the wall in the garage. It'sjust a hose end deal. But it's
a timer and I can set itto water what days I want for the
amount of time I want, Andthat just takes a lot of the difficulty
out of that, and I thinkit makes it just makes it a lot
easier for sure, to take careof your plants and keep them going.
I don't know, you're like me. You end up running around doing a

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lot of different things, and sometimesyou all of a sudden go, oh
my gosh, I haven't gotten aroundto do in that in my garden or
in my lawn, and I needto Well, anything we can put a
timer on and make it easy,that sure is a good idea. Well,
let's head out to Magnolia and we'regoing to talk to Michael. Hello,
Michael, good morning to Skip.How are you doing. I'm well,
what's up? Hi? Hey?I need to We have put in

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a pool in the backyard and theyard is just tora up bad, and
I want to put down some SaintAugustine. But we have very as you
I'm sure you know, very sandysoil. Okay, So I want to
put down something I want to putin, and I want to top top
dress or bring in some soiled thatwould be good for the Saint Augustine.

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Do I need to Can I justlay that on that on top of the
sandy clay soil that I have now, or do I need to till it
into the eat of the sandy clay. If you can scratch the surface between
the two a little bit, likea little bit of a light telling,
maybe you put a lot of thenew soil down, or a little of

(58:45):
the new soil down, do avery light telling, and then put more
of the new soil that breaks thatsudden transition zone between the two. And
if I were you, you're you'rejust down. You're not very far away
at all from nature's way, I'dgive them a call. They have a
number of different blends, from justregular top soil to other blends that I
think they could kind of key onein on your specific site and what you

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might need to make that happen.Okay, we're talking about eventually doing about
two acres with that. They dothey have the bulk or is it?
No? No, no, nono. They're very book, very book.
And it may be that you're justpulling little compost down and mixing it
in too with the soil you have. But they they can help you with

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that. Uh, here's the phone. Let me give you a phone number
for I forget about it. Ninethree six three two one sixty nine ninety.
Just just give John or Ian acall over there and just explain to
them what you're trying to do,and say, I need to figure out
the best way because I got alot of area to cover here. So
that's going to be part of thefactor. Okay, okay, Is this

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something that I would want to doduring the fall in preparation for laying down
the Sign Augustine in the spring?You you could, now, I probably
would just wait until it's closer towhen you're gonna lay down the Saint Augustine
a little bit closer to that.That way, you know, you get
one or rains gullywashing through there orwhatever. It just gives you a low
way to hedge your bet Hey,Michael, I'm gonna have to run it.

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We're on a hard break here,but good luck with that, and
thank you for the call. Iappreciate that very much. Our phone number
is seven one three two one twofifty eight seventy four. Well, good
Sunday morning. You are listening togarden Line and what are we doing.
Well, we're talking about anything you'reinterested in regarding gardening that is important.
And speaking of important, the mostimportant plants in your landscape, in my

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opinion, or your trees. Andthat's because it takes a long time to
grow a big beautiful tree, andit doesn't take a long time to kill
him a big beautiful tree by notcaring for him properly, by letting weather
do what weather did to us thissummer that stresses trees, and the folks
had affordable tree care. Martin spoonMoore, you know that he knows what
he's doing. He've been doing thislong time. His dad was in the

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business. And when you were lookingat a tree that's turning brown, it
needs to come out of there.I mean it, very few times when
a tree goes brown, is itgoing to bound track back, especially if
it's going brown in the midst ofsummer. Essentially what's happening is everything's collapsing
and the final thing you see isthe browning. Well, Martin can get
it out of there. You needto remove it. Maybe it just needs

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pruning. Maybe have trees that justneed pruning. He can take care of
that. If you want to geton the pruning schedule, you need to
call him up because you know,once we get into the winter season,
it gets really busy with things likepruning, and someone like Martin that does
a good job for a good price, they stay booked up. Tell him
you're from you listen to guardline,so you get up at the front of

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the list. But seven one three, six, nine nine twenty six sixty
three seven one three, six ninenine two six six three. Have them
come out and look, if you'regoing to do anything around your plants,
especially around your trees after the summerwe had, like let's say you need
to trench or bring in so ortake soil away or anything like that,
have them come out first because youcan do a lot to protect plants before

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the damage gets done. But afterthe damage it is very difficult to make
a huge difference. So avoid thatby having someone that knows what they're talking
about, like Martin, come outand help you with that. We're going
to go out to Spring right nowand talk to Rake. Hello, Reike,
good morning, Skip. How areyou doing? I'm well. How

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are you today? Well, I'mfine. My question apparently is going to
dovetail right into what you've just beentalking about. I've noticed that probably sixty
percent of the magnolia trees in theSpring area, whether they're in someone's yard
or in an esplanade, are turningbrown and dying. And I've got one
that's nice and big, nice andhealthy. I keep it well watered.

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But if there's some sort of blightthat's affecting the trees, is there something
that I can do to prevent it? You have already done it. This
is a water deal. This summerwas long and hot and dry, and
it really is coming after other brutalissues that these trees have gone through.
And I just think I've noticed thatall over town Magnolia's hit a point where

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they just flat ran out of adequatemoisture to keep the plants cooled off,
to keep them adequately hydrated in orderto make it through the summer, and
a lot of them just you're right, complete brown. Usually, no,
you're not that deeply rooted that itcan reach the water table. Well,
it's moderately deeply rooted. But thething is, the deeper you get in

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the soil, the less oxygen thereis and the less root activity you can
have. And because of the lengthof the heat and the drought, those
reserves even reserves down deeper or gettingdepleted, and you hit a point where
the tree cannot pump water fast enough. It's got limited water and it's doing
its best to get it absorbed andup in the plant, but the demands

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are just way too high, andas a result, it crashes. And
when you see a magnolia turn allbrown, I don't see it coming back
well, mind still nice and green. How often during the week should I
water? And for how long didyou you know? If you water a
tree once every ten days to evenfourteen days during the summer, with a

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good soaking where you've wet the soileight inches deep or more, that gets
it through the regular watering like youdo for your lawn. Don't do that
for the trees. They don't needthat. They need a good soaking and
then drying out, and you've alreadydone that and right now, to be
honest, right we're we're kind ofthrough this, maybe for another few weeks.

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We kind of watch it a littlebit with some rescues if it does
rain, but in general, oncewe cool off and we get some rain,
then that supply is going to bethere to carry something like a healthy
magnolia on through winter. Okay,well, I'll just keep watering it.
And I appreciate your advice. Thankyou so much. All right, thank
you. I appreciate appreciate that callvery much, very much. Hey,

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folks, done in Ciena Plantation,sun Creek Estates, Rochera, and Manville
all the way down there. CNAMulch is your hometown mulch and rock supplier,
but not just mulch and rock.Do you need the fertilizers I talk
about on garden Line. They've gotthem. They have a wide variety of
products. They have sand stone,gravel, beautiful beautiful stone on palettes.

(01:05:24):
They'll deliver in bulk. You know, maybe you want a rose soil,
maybe you want a compost, maybeyou need some hardwood mulch. They also
have bag products. They're available atCNA Maltz Sienna mulch dot com. It's
as easy as that, just northof Roschera near Highway six and two eighty
eight on FM five twenty one.They're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to

(01:05:45):
five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sunday, and later this
fall. I'll tell you about itmore later, but I'm gonna be out
there. I'm gonna make an appearanceout there, and I hope you'll be
able to come out and see methose years down in that part of the
countryside. Siena maltch, quality products, friendly service too, and always everything
you need, everything you need tomake things go. We're gonna head out

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now to Montgomery and talk to Dave. Hello, Dave, Yeah, high
Skip. How you doing. I'mgood. What's up? Hey? So
I've been in this house about ayear and I've had the lawn guy,
which I think is using just reallyyou know keeper malts, these malts twice

(01:06:28):
but and I still get a tunnelweeds. So I'm about to upgrade and
you know, do a really goodmalt. My question is is it worst
scraping all the old malts chat outthere before I remolt season a quality malt.
No, you just just put theput the new on top. That
old stuff will eventually rot and uhyou know, and I mean unless you

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had just like what they call atoxic mold, something that's made and the
way they make it a well,let's I'm just going to drop that conversation.
You're not going to have that kindof malts in the situation you just
described me. Just throw fresh mulchon top. Think of the forest floor,
old stuff riding on the surface,new stuff dropped on top. That's

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exactly how to take care of yourplants. Excellent. I was not looking
forward to doing that. Yeah,we save you some work. Now you
got time to find something else todo out there to have fun. Thanks
all right, thank you, Dave. I appreciate that call very much.
You know, Ace Hardware stores specializein having what you need when you walk

(01:07:30):
in the door. Here's what Imean. Do you need a fertilizer?
I heard this on garden Line.Do you have it? Of course they
have it. Ace Hardware does that. They carry what we talk about.
Do you need a fungicide and insecticideand herbicide? Do you need tools for
your lawn and garden? Do youjust want to do things outside that are
that beautify and make it a moreenjoyable outdoor area. You know, I

(01:07:51):
was bragging on their barbecue equipment,and now that it's cooled off a little
bit, I'm getting outside on thepatty. I'm doing some grilling and oh
my gosh, they have everything youcan imagine for that. Do you want
to beautify that outdoor sitting area.It's all there. It's one stop shop.
You walk in, you're gonna gohome with all the things you need.

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And with thirty nine eight stores,it's not hard to find one in
your area. Ace Hardware dot Comdo their store locator and you'll see what
I'm talking about. There's gonna bemore than one near you. And when
you walk into ACE, you walkout with what you need to have.
A beautiful lawn, a bountiful garden, a gorgeous landscape. It's all right
there waiting for you. Well,it's time to take a break and we're

(01:08:33):
gonna do just that. If you'dlike to get on the boards. Seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. Well, good morning,
you're listening to garden Line. Ourphone number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Iwas just visiting, you know, with
right up and spraying about a magnolia'sand he's keeping his trees alive while a

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lot of them are not staying alivearound town this this year. You know,
watering a tree properly is important.And when you water, here's what
you want to do. You wantto focus your water on the area underneath
the branch spread. So think ofthe sun straight up overhead, twelve o'clock
high, and where's the shadow ofa tree. That shadow tells you where
to water. You can water alittle beyond that, but a focus your

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watering attention on that, because here'swhat we're doing. We are not trying
to provide a tree with ever dropof water it might ever want. We're
trying to provide enough of a rescuetreatment to keep them healthy until rain returns.
Trees are resilient, they have hugeroot systems, and so an extended
drought one hundred degrees no rain,days and days and days and weeks on

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end, yes, it depletes thesoil and we need to help them.
But other than that, don't thinkthat trees need your water hose in order
to stay alive. They don't.They do just fine on the rainfall we
get here. It's just the exception. And when we need to water a
tree, you're not going to finda better device than that than the tree
hugger sprinkler. And the reason Ilike them. You put them on a
hose and it goes up to yourtree and he kind of goes around the

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tree. There's like three sizes.There's a seven eleven inch and a fifteen
inch size, and you can turnthem on a little bit and water just
that new planted trees root ball justbarely have them come on. To do
that. You can turn them on, crank them all the way up,
and you can water a very largearea. But it's a circular area around

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the trunk and outward from the trunk, not so much right there, but
outward that gives the soaking we need. And you may run it a while,
have it go off and soak,run it a while, have it
go off, and so it's easyto do. But tree hugger is a
way to do it. And it'sinsurance. I know. The name says
tree hugger. It's also a rosebush hugger. It's anything you want to
plant and put that thing around anykind of woody ornamental rose, shrubs,

(01:10:45):
trees. It'll take care of them, and it is a good way to
save not just keep the plant alive, but to help it thrive, because
that's the goal. Right. Butwe're gonna head out to College Station now
and talk to Brenda. Wello,Brenda high Skip, how can we help?
I have some three I have threemature post oaks, okay, in

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a native area behind my house.It is it's a city drainage easement,
but they've left it native and wooded, and all of a sudden, I
noticed that the leaves on all threetrees, almost at the same time,
are yellowing and kind of turning brown, and they're they're dropping. Yeah,

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So am I losing these trees?Or is it early leaf drout? Maybe?
Well, I'm afraid that you maybe losing them, but I'm not
making a call that. Okay,let's give up that they're done just yet.
Post Oaks are resilient trees. Theylive in the gravelly post oak belt
that goes north and south from donat Quero all the way up you know,

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way past north of College Station.And they do well except when they
get into stress, they have problems. And when we you know, It's
fortunate are not in a landscape becausethat's where we create problems for post oaks.
But out in the wild like that. You'll notice driving around town a
lot of post oaks up in theBryan College Station area have died this year.

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They just turn brown. And here'swhat's happening. The tree is resilient,
but it hits a point where itgets weakened to a point where it
essentially just collapses. And it seemsto happen overnight, but it actually takes
longer than that for it to happen. But when you see the browning,
that's usually not a good sign.Now, the fact that yours are turning
yellowing and some browning, we've gotsome cool rains that have come through.

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I suspect you had rain at yourspot right recently in the last couple of
weeks. We did. We gotabout an inch and a half last week,
and that is all that they needfor now. Don't don't go well,
they're in a natural area. You'renot going to water them anyway.
But if we can just get anotherrain like that in a few weeks,
they'll go on into winter. Andif they're gonna come out, you'll know

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it in the spring. If youdon't see them in the spring come out,
then than I would make the call. They're probably a lost tree.
Okay, does I've noticed they dohave some acorns on them? Is that
a good sign? Or is it? Does? It not matter? I
know, it's just part of thelife cycle on all of our oaks.
And uh, you know that's it'sneither here nor there. Okay, just

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part of part of their cycle.But yeah, that they're they're a nice
tree. It's just they're persnicketty.There's a reason why you you will not
go into any garden center and finda posto tree for sale that just that
doesn't exist. Okay, So Ijust need to hope for a flowering spring
and rain here. Yeah, Ihope that the hope the damage and stress

(01:13:41):
was not too great and then itcan bounce back. I just watching so
many die up through that whole regionthis summer. It's uh, it's a
wait and see in my opinion.Okay, all right, thanks for the
call, and good luck with that. Good luck with that tree. I
hope. I hope that turns outreally well for you, you know,
for your lawns out there. It'stime for fall fertilizing. October is the

(01:14:04):
month to get that done. Andthe sooner you do it in October,
the better off you are. Andhere's why it gets. We've got a
bunch of months of really wonderful malwinter weather that your grass will love coming
up. But then when we getinto November and December, grassroots are just
essentially stopping their growth. They're shuttingdown. It's cool at the days are

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shore temperatures are cooler, and it'snot moving. Get the fertilizer on now,
Get it on early October and havethe most time possible for it to
do the most good building up thatcool season resilience and Nelson Plant Foods carbo
load does just that. It's aten ten twenty, so it's got a
good third number that's potassium, andthat's important for drought stress. It's important

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for winter heartiness, and it's importantfor building up the energy and your grass
plant so that coming out in springit comes out strong. It's already weak.
We don't need to let it getweaker. We need to give it
that nutrition and carbo load ten tentwenty will do just at It also has
a pre emergent herbicide in it.So if you get it on a little

(01:15:10):
earlier because it's got that product,you can make sure and be ahead of
the weeds that are going to begerminating in October as well. But don't
delay. Just look for carbo loadten ten twenty for your lawn. We're
discussing a number of different things today. A lot of it still is related
to the elephant in the room,which was the brutal summer we just went

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through. But I just want toremind you that now's a great time to
put in fall color. You know, if you've got some warm season plants.
We have a good ways to gobefore we expect to see a frost
here in the Greater Houston area,and you can go ahead and get some
of those in too, and thencontinue to enjoy those. It's a good
time to be able to do that. And where do you get Where do
you get plants? Now? Ifyou're not in Kingwood, You've got two

(01:15:54):
places. You've got Kingwood Garden Centerand you have Warren's Southern Gardens. I
just love visiting both of them.I mean, excellent selection, excellent supply.
The gift shops are wonderful. Kingwoodespecially just got a Kingwood Garden Centers
gift shop just amazing, and Warren'shas their own gift shop as well.
You know, it's just easy togo to places like that because you have

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trained staff who know what they're doing. They guide you, they answer your
questions, they point you to theplants that you need to do their best,
and you just can't do better thanthat. And I would check them
out. Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwoodboth went through their interview, interview their
inventory. A couple of weeks ago. They open back up. I think
it's last Sunday. They already openagain and they are going full steam ahead.

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While you're there, pick up soil. Member, don't buy a plant
without buying some soil to make itsurvive and thrive. As a matter of
fact, always get a good qualitysoil. Maybe we need a Texas law.
Talked about this before. If you'regoing to buy green stuff, you
have to also buy brown stuff.It's just it's the law. It's kind

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of like can't drive by BUCkies withoutpulling over. That's the Texas law.
By the way, I don't ifyou need that, but you gotta buy
the brown stuff when you buy thegreen stuff. Why because the brown stuff
makes the green stuff do what youbought it for. When you buy that
little plant, you're you're imagining blooms, you're imagining foliage, color, you're
imagining fruit, You're whatever you're buyingthe plant for. That's your mind's eye

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picture, that's your dream. Thebrown stuff makes it happen. The compost,
the leafmo compost, the mixes likea rosemegs or whatever. That's the
secret sauce, so that the beautifulplants do what you wanted to do.

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(01:20:49):
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I mean, I grew up goinghere, my family lives here, so
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(01:21:11):
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(01:21:57):
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Just watch him as Woody Good,good morning, Good morning on a
beautiful Sunday morning. Oh my gosh, look outside, the sun is shining,
little breeze blowing, clear skies.Gonna be a good days, Gonna

(01:23:30):
be a very good day. Youknow. We uh when it comes to
gardening, our our desire is tohave beauty, is to enjoy ourselves in
the process. Our desire is tocreate that kind of setting that we just
want to live in. I mean, know, it's a beautiful lawn,
it's a beautiful landscape, it's outdoorsitting areas, it's being out in the
garden, it's picking fresh produce,it's it's a thousand things all the way

(01:23:54):
into beautiful house. Plants to decoratethe indoors part of the house. And
we can provide that kind of successwhenever we purchase plants that are made to
do well here. And that's whatAna Plants and Produce sells if you go
up to the Montgomery area Lake Conroarea, that's where ANA is. They're

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just on the east side of Montgomery, right up there on Highway one oh
five, and they serve that wholearea. And boy, you're fortunate if
you live anywhere around Lake Conro orMontgomery or Conro itself. An A Plants
and Produce is going to have thatkind of selection. They're going to sell
things that do bo here right now. They're Boy, they're new selection of
a bunch of moms coming in upthere. Just looks great. And I

(01:24:38):
think they really specialize. In additionto ten bazillion kinds of plants and quality
staff that can help you, Ithink they really specialize in bling you.
If you're looking for a gazebo andarch atopiary kind of thing. If you're
looking for decorations, oh my gosh, there their fall decorations are unbelievable.
It's going to take you a whilejust to go through and seble a and

(01:24:59):
a plant to produce. Well wortha visit. Hey, that's a good
thing to do. And get outthere and do this afternoon. They're open
seven days a week from nine tofive, go out to A and A
plants and produce right on the eastside of Montgomery. Heay, Well,
let's step back to the phones now. Our phone numbers nine, seven nine,
excuse me, seven one three twoone two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eightseven four. We're going to go to

(01:25:23):
the woodlands and talk to Veronica.Hey, Veronica, good morning. I
have a question about grass. Wehave a large area that needs to be
resided, like fourteen tallots of sides, so I don't want to go that
route. I've heard that there aresome grass seeds that will take and I'd
like to know your thoughts on whichseed and when to plant. Okay.

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Is this a very very bright sunarea or is it partially shaded or what
it's partially shaded? Okay. Thegrass that I would say you could plant
from seed would be the dwarf bermudagrasses. There are a few types.
So there's one called Sahara that's abermuda that can be seated, Saint Augustine,

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no, Zoisia no, and soit's just a bermuda. But bermuda
doesn't like the shade. It doesn'tdo well doesn't make density in the shade.
Also, Bermuda is an invader offlower beds, and so that's one
that I'm not real crazy about forthat reason. So that takes us back
to having to choose sodding. Ifyou're trying to make the dollar go a

(01:26:30):
little further, you can cut sidechunk side blocks up and plant them in
strips about a foot apart and eventuallyget coverage over that area through the course
of a season. That's a lotof labor and then you're dealing with the
weeds and between the strips in themeantime. But if you're trying to go
from the expense of a full siddingand maybe looking at seating, that side

(01:26:54):
strips would be kind of an intermediateoption. So if you do go bermia,
what time of years should you plantthat? You want to wait until
it really warms up, and soI would say probably about mid April I
would I would start putting those out. These are little tiny seeds. They're
gonna come up and they're gonna beweeds around them and rain splashing and washing

(01:27:15):
soil and things, so you kindof have to work with them a little
bit. It may take more thanone planting. I've seen people plant and
they get a gully washer and allthe seed washes down into one spot,
and so you've got to go replantthose other spots. So that's just part
of the touch and go of theseeding process. Okay, great, thank
you, all right, good luckwith that. Have fun up there in

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the woodlands with that long If youare out in mont Bellevue, you are
fortunate because you have one of ourbest feed stores we've got around the area,
and that is Texas Feed Stop.Texas Feedstop is on north on Highway
one forty six, just north ofI ten, just a few minutes north
of I ten one one forty sixin mont Bellevue. So if you're on

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in Baytown, Texas Feed Stop isstill your hometown feed store. They're not
very far away. You will notfind better customer service than Brian and Hope
Rhodes make sure happens at their store, the Texas Feed Stop. They carry
the bags out for you. Theyhave what you need. You walk in
there and it's not like, well, we don't have any more of those.
They stock all the fertilizers we talkabout, and they stock soil mixes.

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They like heirloom for example. They'vegot that on hand there. Mosquito
dunks that I brag about a lotof other things. Do you need pest
control, disease control, weed control, They've got it. You can walk
into Texas Feed Stop and you headhome and you've got what you need to
have the most beautiful lawn that youcould have, or a garden if that's
what you'd like to do. Again, just a few minutes north of Ytown

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on Highway one forty six, TexasFeed Stop out there in mont Bellevue,
serving that whole region. We're gonnago now up to north Shore and we're
gonna talk to Donnie. Hello,Donnie, Hello, Damn miss Skip,
good morning morning. Let then toyour show. Got streat things you just
putting out there? Being on thenorth short side, that Texas Feed Stop

(01:29:08):
would probably be the closest uh feetstore to me or Kingwood probably, so
yeah, I'd have to get amap out to see which is closer to
you. But yeah, I thinkI think Texas Feed Stop not too far
away. What are you looking for? Okay? But several things. I've
got a large area of grass thathave turned brown between my house and the

(01:29:30):
neighbor's house. Okay, I havea sprinkler system, but I've been doing
more water than the neighbor, andI've been raking dead grass, trying to
get some sunshine in there and letthose uh Saint Augustine roots started to spread
again. I see little patches comingup. So am I going the right

(01:29:55):
way with that? Yes? Ifyou've got living spriggs, then we can
get those things healthy and they'll coverback over for you next spring when it
warms up and the grass really startsgrowing right now. You just want them
to go into winter as strong asthey can, and you need to get
a good fall fertilizer for that.That's one that has a lower first number
than we've been fertilizing with all throughthe summer, but it's got a good

(01:30:17):
third number amount in it. Andthere's a lot of good products you know,
that are out there for that.Whether you gardener, I don't know
if you gardener organically or synthetic orwhatever, but there are options no matter
what for that. Okay, Yeah, Well, I used to work for
an agricultural chemical company that produce dackand nail. Huh bravo, yep arsenates

(01:30:42):
and back all stuff for golf coursesand okay, ornament ornament plants and stuff
like that, but they are nolonger in business. Okay, well,
you know, I was just lookingat them. Matt Bellevuees is probably your
closest place to go out there forthat if you want to head out that
direction out I ten you were sayingKingwood versus Mont Bellevue. Mont Bevue be

(01:31:02):
a little bit closer for you.The Texas feed Stop, Texas feed stop
out of Mont Bellevue. Yeah,if you're if you're looking for fertilizers that
they're gonna have them, and justask them for their fall fertilizers. They've
got. They've got more than oneoption for you. What about plants for
the fall to those, they carrya few stock of some vegetable plants usually
out front. Just give him acall and check them out and see they

(01:31:25):
probably have some on stock there forit. They're pretty good about carrying that.
Okay, all right. I've heardseveral people talking about the trees,
the leaves turning brown. Yeah,yeah, branches brown falling down. Yeah.
You say the best thing for thatis the water around the shaded area

(01:31:45):
of the tree. Yeah, underneaththe branch bread. Hey, Donny,
I am I'm pushing past a littlebreak here if you want to hang on
and keep this going otherwise, Ido appreciate your call. Our phone number
is seven one three two one twofifty eight seventy four. Give me all
and we will talk to you whenwe come back. All right, Good
Sunday morning, on a great dayto be outside, for sure. I

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hope this afternoon you're planning on gettingout and getting a little bit of activities
done around the yard, maybe perhapsvisiting a few garden centers. Hey,
if you're out in the kingwod ifyou're out in the Richmond area, you
want to swing by and check outin Chanted Gardens. In Chanted Gardens is
the garden center that is. You'rein Richmond, going up toward Katie on
Highway three fifty nine FM three fiftynine. They are on the Katie Full

(01:32:32):
Shure side of Richmond, and boy, oh boy, if you go there,
you will see why I am alwaysbragging about in Channic Gardens. It
is a beautiful place. It isa just absolutely chock full of everything you
need for your plants, from theproducts that help the plant grow, like
your lawn fertilizers to a huge varietyof plants. I mean we're talking about

(01:32:54):
everything from flowers and herbs and fruittrees and house plants and shrubs and vegetables
and just on and on and ondown the line. I mean, it
never stops. I was looking theother day. They even had a nice,
really nice selection of some beautiful herbsout there. They got some great
succulents that they brought in, andthen the pumpkin patch has arrived. Oh,

(01:33:15):
really cool collection of all that falldecorating stuff that you have and that
you're interested in. Hey, andChanted Gardens is in chant The website is
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That'sthe one we're talking about. Monday through
Saturday eight am to five pm.Sunday ten am to four pm. So
a good afternoon. We've ordered greatweather for you, so go ahead and

(01:33:39):
head out there and check them out, and you will be all set up
for taking care of your lawn,for getting your fall plantings done this fall.
We're gonna head out now to AustinCounty and talk to Doris. Hello,
Doris, good morning, how areyou. I'm well, what's up
with you today? I'm thinking aboutputting barricade out. Okay, what setting

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do I use on my scutspraighter youneed to chang? Okay, go ahead,
and also do I water it inafterwards or just wait until the frame
or system comes on. Okay,So you follow the label, flip the
bag over, whatever kind of informationit gives you on setting. Barricade is

(01:34:25):
a pretty small sized particle, soyou're going to have your setting down a
little bit tighter where it's not puttingout so much. If in doubt,
whenever you're applying anything, whether it'ssomething like barricade or a fertilizer, I
always go a little bit less inthe setting, and that way, as
you go over your lawn, youdon't realize, oh my gosh, I
ran out and I've double dosed,you know, because I had it open

(01:34:49):
too much. If you have alittle lecture, then you can come back
crossways across the lawn and apply thesecond half of it. But I always
go a little bit light, justto be sure, because on something like
barricade, you want to get itout at the right rate, but not
double or triple the rate. Okay, that's very important. Now as far
as watering it indoors, you canwater it in that very same day.

(01:35:11):
Or if you wanted to sit thereand you know it's gonna rain todays from
now, that's fine. There's noit'll be fine just sitting there. But
it does need about a half inchof water to get it down in the
soil so that it does what you'rewanting it to do. And that's prevent
the October weeed germination of cool seasonweeds. Okay, what about the brown
Banks fall fertilizer. Okay, thefall fertilizer fall Fall special is going to

(01:35:39):
be a perfect blend for the healthof your of your grass plant going into
winter. We need to strengthen ourplants and get them ready for winter so
they're hardier. But also when Isay our plants, I'm about our turf
plants. The springtime when it comesout is so much better. If you

(01:36:00):
do the fall fertilization now and againlook at the bag, and then with
whatever kind of spreader you have,look at the bag and follow that,
and again, if in doubt,go make the opening a little smaller because
you can always come back over againcross ways and make sure you get it

(01:36:21):
out evenly. Okay, yep,that to do it all right. We'll
have fun out there in Austin.Keunty. That's a beautiful country you're living
in out there. Yes, itis all right. Thank you for the
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(01:37:06):
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Home Products of Texas its Quality txdot com or seven one three Quality.
Now that's the time to do that. You're listening to garden Line and our
phone number is seven one three,two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two and two fifty eightseventy four. Hey, if you are

(01:38:34):
looking to get your lawn rejuvenated andyou would like a quality natural product that
gets that done, Microlife Fertilizer hasgot you covered. Microlife has a wide
variety of options for their fertilizers andtheir other products that are good for the
lawn. But the two that Iwould focus on right now is the microlife

(01:38:57):
brown patch. That's a five onethree fertilized that's a good one to put
down in the fall, and inaddition to providing the nutrient, it provides
a lot of microbes, and microbeshelp protect our plants. Now, the
other thing that I would do withthat is the bioinoculant that's kind of a
purplish violet colored bag. The bioinoculantis only put out at about ten pounds

(01:39:19):
per thousand square feet because we're notfertilinging with it. We are innoculating the
plant surfaces with microbial activity. Andthe goal is to have those surfaces filled
with good microbes so that when abad microbe would land to cause a plant
disease, you have a very hostileenvironment there for them. And plus there

(01:39:40):
are a lot of good microbes thatjust directly fight diseases and issues. But
let's make it simple. Microlife brownpatch that is a orange dark orange bag
five one three with Microlife bioinoculant,the violet colored bag and those two together,
water them in really well and getthat done. Now, by the
way I would, I would doit right away. I mean, you
could wait until October, or youcould just just go do it right now,

(01:40:03):
because we want to get those down. We want to start releasing their
nutrients, and we want them tobe in place helping with the lawn health
before the arrival of the brown patchwhich is coming this fall. Microlife Fertilizer
dot com you can find them allover town. Not difficult at all to
find Microlife fertilizer products. I hada call, you know, a little

(01:40:27):
bit earlier from up in College Stationaryand it just reminded me that my favorite
feed store up in that whole regionis the Grimes County Feed. They're out
in Carlos on Highway thirty. Ilike, if you're in College Station you
head out, head out Highway thirtytowards Carlos. They're about two miles west
of FM two forty four. Now. The Roy family has been operating this
store and they're doing an excellent jobof it. They carry the fertilizers we

(01:40:51):
brag on here. You're going toget your tree hugger sprinklers there by the
way too. They're going to havethe mosquito dunks there too. They have
a lot of things. Of course, it's a feed store. You've got
feed for your dogs, your cats, quality feed, you've got livestock feed
products, and you've got things totake care of your pond. Maybe you
need to deal with weeds in thepond or fish food or something. You

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know, they do fish stocking twicea quarter throughout through the Grimes County feed
out there as well. Not goingto do better than that. So all
you folks that are listening out inthat part of the woods, Iola and
beat Eyes and Roans, Prairie andRichards. If you're in Kingwood Oak or
king Oaks, or if you're inMere Woods subdivision, this is your hometown
feed stores just right around the corner. And the stuff you need to have

(01:41:33):
a beautiful lawn and to keep yourtrees healthy is all there waiting on you.
Let's set out to Clear Lake.Now we're gonna talk to Lane.
Hello, Lane, Hi, goodmorning. Get. I was wondering if
I can use try as a sideinsect chiller for lawns and landscapes. You
can then put I can right now? You can't, well you can if

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there's an insect you're going after rightnow? Are right not full of fire
ants? Are we talking about fireants? Yeah. Now then now it's
all over. Okay, well firerance, yeah, it'll it'll control those.
I would if it was fireants,I would go with a bait instead
of that. Try the triside youmentioned is a is an insecticide, a

(01:42:16):
contact insecticide. I would get agood fire ant bait and put out at
the label rate H and that willtake care of about eighty or ninety percent
of the mounds. And then ifsome are missed, you can just go
after those with the other insecticide.Okay. There's not any time of the
year you use this. Uh,fall is the best time to fight fire

(01:42:40):
ants, but we fight them prettymuch year round, but fall is especially
important going into winter. So thismorning, next month important times to get
the fire at control done before itgets too cold, okay, okay,
and then then put down the feedin the fertilizers for the ask. Yes,
well you can do. Yeah,you don't mix. Don't mix fire

(01:43:03):
at bait with fertilizer in a hopper, but you can put them both on
the same day. I would waterin the fertilizer and then put out the
fire at bait. Okay, okay, great, thank you, thank you.
Lane. I appreciate that call.Hey, you're listening to garden Line
and we're gonna take a little breakhere. We'll be right back. Our
phone number if you'd like Josh toget you up on the board, so

(01:43:24):
you'll be first up when we comeback to talk. That is seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour seven one three two one two ktr
eight. Good Sunday morning. Itis a great day outside and boy,
I hope this afternoon you'll get outsideand do a little bit to take your
lawn to the next level, right. I mean, we definitely need to

(01:43:44):
be doing that right now. Andone of the things that our lawns will
really benefit from at this point intime after that brutal summer is a good
deep tying aeration with a compost topdressing. Deep tin aeration punches holes through
the hard clay soil or hopefully it'smoist in order for the aeration to work
well, but it'll get some holesdown in there in the clay to provide

(01:44:05):
oxygen for the roots system, andthat's important for grasses to thrive in our
area. Now. Secondly, followingit with the top dressing of composts that
is going to give you the organicmatter down in those holes as well as
on the surface, and it justis a win win When you fertilize,
someone is going to move down inthose holes as well as you wash that

(01:44:27):
fertilizer into the soil, and thelawn just gets better and better. And
who does that well? Greenpro doesthat. You can go to greenpro dot
net. Greenpro's prices start at fiveninety nine plus sales tax depending on the
size and the location of your property. But they come in and they do
it right. Go to greenpro dotnet. Greenpro dot net. You'll see

(01:44:47):
a little video on there of thekind of work that they do with their
compost top dressing. It is probablythe single best thing you can do to
culturally bring your lawn back out ofwhat we just went through and to if
it the best chance it can forsurviving. I would get that done soon,
sooner rather than later, and thenfollow it up with your good fall

(01:45:08):
fall application of fertilizer that we've beentalking about. Either way you go,
you're it's gonna be a win winfor your long with greenbro. I'm gonna
go out now to Katie and I'mgonna talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn,
Good morning, skipod Morning, Goodmorning. I've questioned for you.
I have a cottage stall house thatsits off the ground. I had some

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azelias planted around the base of thehouse, on the sides of the house
to keep from being able to lookunder the house. The heat killed him.
They were old, They're probably abouttwenty three twenty five plus years old,
and they finally died out. Iwould like to replace those. Could
you give me some recommendations on sometypes of shrubs I can plant around the

(01:45:53):
house, okay, to replace those. I'm assuming you're you're inferring to me
that you would rather not go backwith azalias. Is that I love those
values. But if you had somethingelse that you could recommend another okay,
point, that would be great too. I would like to do some options
if possible. Tell me about thesunlight in that spot. Is it dappled,
is it deep shade? Is itpretty bright? What do you see?

(01:46:15):
It's pretty bright? Okay? Well, we have a number of different
plants. There is a there's onecalled Chinese witch hazel. It has a
burgundy maroonish kind of foliage color,real pretty in the spring. It has
a little shaggy hot pink blooms.They're very unusual looking. You can go
online and search for it. Youwant to check the varieties where you go

(01:46:39):
shopping and make sure you're getting adwarf one. They can get quite cable
in time, but there are somethat stay a little smaller and then you
just keep them sheared and they lookpretty good. So if you've got decent
light, they will bloom for youand look good there. If it's a
little too shady for them, youwould probably have to go a different direction.
But there are some hollows that cangrow down lower in the shade.

(01:47:02):
They're just an evergreen shrub and soyou know, there's not necessarily blooms or
anything on those, But hollies willbe another good option for that as well.
Great, and they will take thewinner, the cold winner, all
of those will take the winner.Yes, that's beautiful. Great, Okay,
that's great, all right, thankyou, skip good luck out there,

(01:47:25):
and Katie with getting that all sprucedup around the house out there.
Yeah, you're listening to garden Line. And our number, by the way
is seven one three two one twofifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four yesterday, I was out and about around town
and I stopped by RCW Nurseries andI always like to stop into our CW

(01:47:46):
because they have a great supply ofall kinds of things. I would just
wandering through, and you know,Henry thought about this before, but the
big beautiful shade trees all around,and just wandering through and enjoying the shade,
you know, as of ninety fivedegrees yesterday to a little on the
warm side, and it was justa pleasure being out there and enjoying that
and looking at their trees. Itreminded me a lot of folks are wanting

(01:48:11):
to get trees and shrubs planted thisfall, and r CW has an outstanding
selection. They grow their own treesup in Plantersville on their farm up there.
And I mean, if you needa tree and you need one that
grows well here, an adapted speciesfor our area, for our soils,
r CW will get you set upon that. They got the supplies you
need to go with your tree,you know, the roots, stimulators and

(01:48:32):
other things that you might want touse. As you're getting that established,
they can come out and plant itfor you. You can plant it yourself.
Just be careful if you get verybig root ball that your caropractor's kids
are going to have a free ridethrough college based on your numbers. So
either hard them to come out anddo it, or do it yourself.
Either way, do it right.They'll tell you how to do it.
They give you the right kinds ofplants list to choose from, and they

(01:48:57):
help you with that. R cW Nurseries dot Com. Now all the
bling of fall is there all youknow. I was looking at their their
herbs or perennials or flowers and shrubsand everything. They've got it all there.
They carry the products to the fertilizers. I recommend they're there at at
our CW Nurseries again Tambo Parkway whichis two forty nine where it comes into

(01:49:19):
Beltway eight. Very much worth astop. Our phone number is seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. If you haven'tdone a soil test in a while,
you ought to do that, becausea soil test tells you what's already there

(01:49:40):
in your soil, so you canfertilize accordingly. Maybe there's a nutrient that
is way too high or way toolow. And our standard recommendations don't always
fit the bill perfectly in every time. If you know that from a soil
test, then you can fix itaccordingly. And one thing I was visiting
with Bob out in Southwest Fertilizer whileback. He's got a soil probe that

(01:50:01):
he loans out and that is sohelpful. Trying to get a good lawn
soil test without a soil probe isa little bit of a challenge to do.
But with a soil probe, youpush it in. It takes a
core of soil out. You puta bunch of them in a bucket,
mix it up and send it tothe lab. And then when you come
back, take Bob your sample resultsand say here's what it said, and
he will pair it with the perfectfertilizer for that. Now at Southwest they

(01:50:25):
have everything that you need. Ifthey don't have it, you don't need
it. That's how I like torefer to it, because when it comes
to fertilizers and secticides, pesticides,herbicide, if you're an organic gardener,
you want organic, they've got it. They've got the best selection in town
of organic. Southwest fertilizer dot comand there, as the name implies,
on the southwest side of town,that is near the corner of Bissonette and

(01:50:48):
Renwick. Everything you need is thereat Southwest Fertilizer. I need to get
out and do some salted I haven'tsoil tested my yard in about three years.
It's time to get back out thereand to do that so I can
fertilize a little bit more accurately.When I go about it again, the
number seven one three, two onetwo five eight seven four seven one three

(01:51:11):
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Chashi call, He'll get you
on the board. You will befirst up when we come right back.
Good Sunday morning, folks. Youare listening to Garden Line, and that
is what we're all about here.We are here to help you recover from
this summer. If your lawn isstruggling, if your trees are struggling,

(01:51:31):
if you've lost inspiration, and Iknow some people do, I get it.
I mean it was a brutal oneto walk through. The good news
is fall is here. We officiallyhit the first day of fall. It
is only ninety five degrees yesterday.You know, I said when it dropped
five belies degrees below one hundred.That's call fall here in Texas, and
we're going to run with it.Well, it's gonna get cooler and cooler

(01:51:54):
as times go on. Our plantsare going to get happier and happier as
we take care of them. Ijust want to remind you that don't wait
until the inspiration bug re arrives.Act. Now. Now's the time.
Now's the time to get your soilready. Now is the time to do
all the things we do to havesuccess. And timing is important because think

(01:52:15):
about this. Let's say it wasone hundred and five outside right now,
that would not change the fact.Then in order to have a vegetable crop,
get in and get out and getplanted and do the things it needs
to do. It has to bedone right. So the weather may not
respect the calendar, but when welook at when the first frost is going
to occur, when we look atthe temperature changes that are happening and things

(01:52:36):
like that, we have to honorthat and respect that. And fall is
for planting, and so get ready, get ready. Now, now's the
time. You know, the folksget quality feed. Kin and Chris that
they have got a excellent selection ofnew vegetables in a whole bunch of new
transplants have come in. They alsohave an unbelievable selection of garden seeds.

(01:52:59):
So if you want to you're intogrowing in your own food, which I
hope you are, but you're notgoing to eat any healthier than that.
They've got a wide variety of heirloomseeds that they carry there, and so
this is the time to go.I mean, it's it. We're planting
cool season crops like Broklyn cabbage,cauliflower, collars, corabi, spinach seasons,
lettuce seasons coming up here, carrotsand all the different things you would

(01:53:23):
want to grow for fun and forhealth in your garden. They've got it
right there. A Quality Feed theyby the way, the website is quality
feed coo dot com. They're oneighteenth at eighteen thirteen Luzon Streets, near
the intersection of Equipment and Illusion andthey're open today, by the way,
from eleven thirty to four. Agood time to get out. Say hey
to the folks. Ken and Christhey're at Quality Feed. While you're there,

(01:53:46):
pick up the fertilizers I've been talkingabout all day and every week that
I talk about. Pick up someof the quality soil mixes that we brag
on. Here Ken has them.They've got them in stock right there at
Quality feed. If you need anythingfor pest control, weed controlled, diseases
things, they've got that as well. It's just an easy one stop shop.

(01:54:06):
But please do consider doing a vegetablegarden this fall. Fall is the
best season in the world for growingvegetables. I love it, absolutely,
just love it. You're listening toGarden Line. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eightseventy four seven one three two and two

(01:54:28):
five eight seven four, and Ihope you will give us a call talk
about things that might be of interestto you. One of the things we
talk about a lot right this seasonof the year is how to have a
beautiful lawn. What do you needto do to your lawn? The folks
at Nitrofoss have come up with areally good one two three step system.
It's the Texas three step. Whatis the Texas three step? Well number

(01:54:55):
one. It's a fertilizer four falldesigned for fall, to designed for our
soils, designed for our lawns.It's called nitrophosphall special and the nitrofosphall special
will provide some phosphate for the rootdevelopment and growth. It'll also provide the
very important potassium along with a loweramount of nitrogen, which is what you

(01:55:15):
want for fall, so that theplants get stronger and stronger going into winter
and come out stronger in the spring. This is the secret sauce, folks.
It's a secret sauce to having healthyplants. When you put potassium in
a plant along with some nitrogen,winter heartiness goes up, drought tolerance goes
up. Potassium has a critical rolein both of those. Switch out from

(01:55:40):
your summer fertilizers do the fall special. Now that step one, step two
nitrofhosp barricade that is a pre emergentweed control. Your lawn may be a
little thinner because of what it justwent through. When sunlight hits a soil
nature plants of weed. Barricade putdown and watered in creates a barrier on
the soil ser and the weeds cannotgerminate and establish. Follow the label carefully

(01:56:03):
on how much to apply, onhow to apply it, and on how
to water it in. Those areall three very very important if you want
success. And then third step isthe Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide. Eagle is
a systemic protectant. It's a curativefungicide as well. We've got large patch
brown patch season. It's coming.It will get here when we get a

(01:56:25):
coal front and low cooler temperatures.You're gonna see the big brown circles before
they appear. Get that eagle down. It is best to use before you
see the circles, and so earlyOctober is a good time to do that.
One two, three steps the Texasthree step Nitrofoss Fall Special, Nitrofuss
Barricade, Nitrofus Eagle turf grab oneof each three when you're out shopping and

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where do you get it? Well, Cyperus Ace has it, fish Or's
Hardware and Laport has it. PlantationAce Hardware out in Richmond area. Has
it easy to find nitrofus products inour area. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eightseven four seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. Hey,I want to remind you that next Saturday,
please write this down on your calendar. This is one heck of a
shindig you do not want to miss. I'm going to be out at Nature's
Way. Nature's Way Resources is upforty five. Like you're going to Conro

(01:57:26):
about where fourteen eighty eight comes in. You just turn right across the railroad
tracks and you're Nature's Way. AndNature's Way is the home of all kinds
of great products for your soil.Rose soil. We're talking about soils like
a fungal compost like just you nameit. They have it composts and other
mixes. That's what they specialize in. But on next Saturday they're going to

(01:57:47):
have the Fall Garden Festival, andthis is a big deal. I'm going
to be out there answering your gardeningquestions, visiting with You'd always love to
meet the folks from different areas.So if you're up in the Conro direction,
please come out for sure out thereto Nature's Way. They're gonna have
Latin food, They're gonna have livemusic, they're gonna have local vendors,
they're gonna have adulpt beverages. Itold you it was a shin dig for

(01:58:10):
kids. There's gonna be a scavengerhunt. They're gonna have a morning class
at nine am before I get outthere creating and enchanting fairy gardens. I'll
be out there from eleven thirty tillone thirty. I hope you'll come out.
Hey, here's a phone number formore information. Nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety nine threesix three two one sixty nine ninety This

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is free. It's a free event. Check out their native plants too when
you're out there that They just keepmaking that area even better. Let's head
out to Porter now and we're gonnatalk to Margie. Hello, Margie.
Oo, how are you this morning? Well, I'm good. I'm good.
I'm officially calling it fall, soI'm all excited. Yes, long

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as the temperatures would go down some, it would be nice. That's coming
next week. I put in there, Okay, I have a highbiscus and
I was out putting water in theI have it in a pot putting water
in. It's morning. I noticedI have some ants in there. I
have a bag of soil mender.It's a white like powder stuff that starts

(01:59:15):
with DA. Don't ask me topronounce it, okay, And and it
has earth in it too. CanI put some of that nibiscus plan or
would that hurt it? It won'thurt it. I don't know how much
good it'll do for the for theinsects, dietemacious earth. Think of it
this way. It's like broken It'slike broken glass shards that are real time

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like a dust like material. Sowhen insects walk through it, it gets
caught in the joints, you know, of their arms, their legs and
their bodies, right, and itlaceerates and cuts and causes fluid to leak
out. So it's kind of ait's like you walking barefoot through glass,
is what it amounts to for theinsects. Okay, so it helps,
but it's not you know, ifyou're trying to control answers other ways to

(02:00:00):
do it? Are these fire antsany chances? No? They are a
little small looks like black ants.I stepped in time yesterday and oh they
do Okay, Well, yes,I don't know. I might. I
might just try. Another option wouldjust be to drench them with an insecticide
through that area. If they're inthe pot, that might be okay.

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That might betide anything that's labeled forkilling ants. There's a lot of products
out there. It just depends on, you know, the kinds of things
you want to use. I wishI could determine for sure if they're fire
ants or not. It doesn't soundlike they are. But like I say,
these are small little ants, okay, and they do? Why all

(02:00:43):
right? Well try the datamasia serf. See if that runs them off first.
That would be the simplest, leasttoxic product. Hey, I'm having
to hit a break. It's timefor the new the top of the hour
news. But thank you, Margie, good luck. We Oh, I
have one. I have one morequestion. Hang on until we come.
I'll thank you our phone number sevenone three two and two fifty eight seventy

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folks. It is a beautiful dayout there, and we have arrived
at the doorstep of fall. Itis time to begin doing all the things
we need to do to a getour struggling plants back on their feet.
And b put in new things becausefall is the best planting season of the
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had them planted, Maybe they needto be moved to the shade. Fall
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probably, it's about the best timeto make a move like that. Maybe
you've got an area that a shrubthat needs more sun, or maybe you
want to replace a shrub something that'sa little more drought resilient. Fall fall,
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six nine eighty two forty. We'regonna go back out to Porter now and
continue a conversation with Maggie. Hello, Maggie. Hello. Okay, So
I have a yesterday, today,and tomorrow plant and it has survived this
heat, okay, which I'm surprised. Can I trim it back though?

(02:10:13):
Can you trim back? You can? It's a summer bloomer. But when
you trim a plant and the mildweather we're going to have the next few
weeks, it's going to try toregrow, and that regrowth is going to
be very cold tender when the firsthard freeze comes. So I would wait
and do that trimming at the endof winter if you could. And yeah,

(02:10:35):
I still have some bloom a coupleof blooms still on it. So
that's right. That's a beautiful plantfor those that haven't seen. Oh,
I love it. Yeah, brunefelsy with the way that the reasonings call
that for the other folks listening isthe flowers change each day. That's why
they call it yesterday, today,and tomorrow. It looks a little different
each day it does. And Ihave one more question on fertilization, so

(02:10:58):
both by brown patch. I puthumates down too before I put that down
or not? Yes, you can, you sure can. I would.
I would consider their bioinoculant product.It's kind of a violet colored bag.
It's used at a very low rate, just ten pounds per thousand square feet,
but it has a lot of themicrobial activity to the surface out there

(02:11:20):
of the plants, because we're aboutto hit head into the season where things
like large patch or brown patch canreally be a problem. So that's okay.
They're all good. You could usethem all at the same time if
you want. They do different things. Oh, I can use that bio
and I can use hummates and thebrown patch too. Yes, the humans
are going to get down, they'regoing to overtime as you do humates year

(02:11:43):
after year and your soil, you'rebuilding and improving the soil. Now the
brown patch is going to have microubsin it, but it's also going to
have the nutrients for fall that weput down. And then the bio as
you said, bio stuff, thebio monoculant. That's okay, that's okay.
Bio stuff is just good. Wecould abbreviate it, but that would
get a little weird on a Sunday. So yeah, the bios would.

(02:12:05):
The bio stuff is an innoculant,so that's a different purpose. But those
are all good products. Uh yeah, But I don't want to put in
I don't want to put all threein the spread or at the same time.
I need to do one at atime. But I can do it
all on one day, absolutely.Yeah. Because in a spreader, whether

(02:12:26):
it's insexticide, fungicide, herbicides,aisam, whatever you are, fertilizers,
whatever you put down, it's haddifferent particle sizes, so each application needs
to be set for its own particlesizes. Yeah, okay, okay,
okay, that's what I need,so I'll probably put down pre emergent first
and get that over with, andI can do it anytime in October,

(02:12:48):
right, I would do it earlierin October. You, well, I'm
going to try because I'm gonna begone the first two weekends in October.
Okay, well you could, youcould. I mean, you could do
it at the end of before yougo for the first two weekends. But
your way up in the northern hinterlandsof Porter, so fall comes a tad
bit earlier than it does for folksdown. Let's say, really, okay,

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know what, I'm bout out oftime here on this segment. Jim and
Steve, you're the first two up. When we come back, I don't
have enough time to do justice toyour call right before we go to break.

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So I'm going to go ahead andwe're just going to head to a
little break here and we will comeback and we will join up with you
in just a moment. Our phonenumber is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. We'll beright back and when we do, we'll
get to your calls. Plus,I got a couple of the things I
want to add today as we windup on last segment of the weekend,

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the last hour of the weekend hereon guarden Line. Well, good morning.
You're listening to garden Line, andwe're having a good time today because
summer is past and we are celebratingthe fact that all that miserable is gone.
Forget the fact that it's in thenineties today. We're okay, we're
on our way down. We're headingin the right direction, and it is
time to kick into gear and getthis stuff done. For example, if

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you need to fertilize your lawn,if you need to do fall activities for
your lawn, Nitrofuss has put togethertheir Texas three Step. Texas three Step
is absolutely an ingenious combination of threedifferent things that are designed exactly for the
problems your lawn has. Right now, here's what I'm talking about. For

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example, Texas three step starts offwith nitrofoss Fall Special. That is a
fertilizer designed for the soils and theconditions that your lawn faces in the fall,
and it's exactly the right mix toprovide cold heartiness, to provide recovery
from drought, and to strengthen thegrass so that coming out next spring it's

(02:16:26):
better off. The most important fertilizeryou put on all years in the fall.
It really is. If you hadto pick one time you're gonna do
fertilizing, this will be it.And it's because it sets you up for
next year once a grass gets growingnext year and everything's moving along. Yeah,
we fertilize, we do things likethat, but it's not going to
come out of winter like it willwithout that fall fertilizer. So secondly,

(02:16:50):
second step nitrofost barricade. It's apre emergent weed control. Your lawn may
have thin areas sunlights hitting the soil, therefore weeds begin to come up in
those spots. Barricade prevents that fromhappening. You got to get it down
before the weeds come up, whichmeans, let's do that in early October
and watered in. Follow the label. Always follow the label. Listen.

(02:17:13):
It is really important when using anykind of a product that you follow the
label. A teaspoon on the labelmeans a tea spoon applied, not a
tablespoon. You're not going to extrakill weeds. You cause problems when you
over dose things. It shouldn't beoverdose. I mean, do you take
a bottle of aspurn or do youtake the number of aspurn that's prescribed to

(02:17:33):
fix the headache? Right, it'sthe same kind of thing. A good
thing. Overdone is not a goodthing. So let's do it right and
barricade will do exactly that for you. Secondly, or thirdly, night Fuss
Eagle is a turf fungicide. Whatdoes that mean? It means it protects
your turf against take all root rotcoming this fall. It'll be reinfecting and

(02:17:54):
also the large patch, the largepatch we deal with also called brown patch.
That's the common name for it.Well, that's what it's designed for.
One, two, three fall SpecialBarricade Eagle All three from Nitrofiss.
Where do you get them? Jim'sHardware and Montgomery Ace Hardware, Memorial Lake
Hardware include all places that you canget this great combination of products to take

(02:18:18):
care of your lawn going into thecool season. We're gonna head out now
to Jim and Meadow Springs. HelloJim, Hello Skip. I've got a
problem with sedge weed infestation in myflower beds. I know you can kill
it with round up, and I'veused round up on it in the borders

(02:18:39):
where I have no plants and inthe yard, but okay, I'm a
little luctant to spray the round upin the flower bed with the flowers in
it. Yeah, yeah, youought to be it. I mean that
it'll kill whatever you get it on, that's for sure. So when there
are several different kinds of sedges thatare out there and so kind of it

(02:19:00):
would be good to know exactly whichone if it is something like nuts edge,
purple nuts edge, or yellow nutsedge, those are harder to kill.
There's some other sedges that are easierto kill. But there's a few
products gym that are designed for sedgecontrol, and they'll have names like sedge
ender or sedge beater or things likethat. And when you go to a

(02:19:20):
quality you know, garden center ora supplier of products that really, you
know, really knows what to carryand carries the wide variety. They're going
to have something specifically for sedges,and I would I would use that.
Sedges are a little they're different thangrasses and they're different than broad leaf weeds.
Yeah, I will the barricade.I'm getting ready to do fertilizer and

(02:19:43):
barricade and the fung aside next week. Will the barricade help stop them or
I should treat them first? Notreally, it's a pre emergent and the
sedges that are there or they're probablyperennial. They're just those plants are to
come back. Now. I guessif you had some seeds of the sedges,
the barricade might work on those.I'd have to check the label.

(02:20:05):
It's primarily a grass and broad leafweeat control. As far as how well
it would work on sedge seeds,I don't know, but I know if
you've got sedges, you need tojust kill those plants. Okay, what
were the two products you recommended?Well said, I gave examples of sedge
beater and sedge ender. Uh,they' you'll see sedge in the name.

(02:20:28):
There's one called sedge hammer. Sedgehammer that's also labeled. Okay, but
just read the label on all thesebecause each is going to be labeled for
different parts of the yard. Maybethe grass, maybe not flower beds.
Maybe flower beds but not the grassand so on, so just pick it
accordingly. You're in meadow springs?Is that? Are you talking about the
Kingwood meadow springs or meadows place?Okay, okay, all right, I'm

(02:20:54):
just trying to figure out who wouldbe close to you? Were you?
What about a heavy duty after Itreat him a heavy duty cover with the
black velvet mulch. It's always goodto put a mulch down. Now,
multiple stop weed seeds from coming upthrough it. If you got a strong
existing you know, plant a littlemulta over the top it and will kill

(02:21:16):
it. But it will prevent weedseeds. Plus, it moderates slow temperature,
It prevents crusting when it rains,it prevents erosion when it rains.
It just has a lot of goodreasons to It's always a good thing to
do mulch. Okay, all right, Well, I appreciate the help.
All right, Jim, you takecare hope that works out for you.
Yeah, that is for sure.Hey, do you have a little piece

(02:21:37):
of property and you've been thinking aboutgetting a tractor, but you just haven't
gotten around to it. You needto call the folks at Landsdown Moody because
here's the deal. This is onlygonna last till October thirty. First,
we got about a month left ofthis deal. But I've never seen anything
like it. It is zero down, zero interest, seven years, eighty
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right now. We're gonna head backout now to Steve and the woodlands.
Hello Steve. Hi. Yeah,this is just a real quick guy and

(02:22:43):
might have been bad. But duringthe middle of the summer, we were
planning some boxwoods and watering them.They looked like they were doing well,
and then all of a sudden,I was getting all these yellow leaves and
I have one boxwood that's completely dead. I was speaking to my neighbor.
He said the same thing was happeningto his and it was a fungus.

(02:23:03):
And I've never heard of funguses forboxwoods, So one, what could it
possibly be on fungus? And whatcan I do about it? Well,
I wouldn't jump as to fungus asthe most likely cause here's what's happening to
your boxwoods. Moisture is not gettingup into the leaves from the roots,
so that the first thing we thinkabout is is too dry. It needs

(02:23:26):
watering more, and we've had towater a lot this summer to keep things
happy because the demands have been sogreat. The second thing it could be
is too much water. If youdrowned a root system and it can't get
oxygen, roots dye and you endup with the exact same symptom as if
it was too dry, because itcan't get water if it didn't have roots.
The third thing that it could beis nematodes. Nematodes attack box woods.

(02:23:48):
If you've got a sandy soil,you're up there in the woodlands,
there's a little bit of sand hereand there. Nematodes can proliferate and they
end up making the roots system lessand less efficient. All the little knots
and wounds they create on the roots, water has trouble getting through, so
you end up a drought symptom.And then the final thing would be a
sea born fungus which plugs the plumbing. Boxwoods can get that and that would

(02:24:13):
also create So what we know iswater's not getting to your plant. Exactly
why, we don't know for sure. If you feel like you've given good
deep soakings on an infrequent basis,then we're going to eliminate that it didn't
get enough water. If you feellike you didn't overwater, we're going to
eliminate that. And now we're lookingat we'll do we have nematodes on the

(02:24:35):
roots, you can take a hoseand wash some roots out near the surface
and look for little knots on theroots. That's a symptom. Or if
you see roots that are brown,kind of almost like a cigarette filter,
that gray, brown stain looking thing, that's a symptom of the fungal diseases
of the roots. And so it'sgoing to be one of those things.

(02:24:56):
Okay, let's me know what Ineed to check for then, because I
don't think I overwatered, because I'vegot a few that are still doing fairly
well. And I've got and Iknow I didn't really underwater because when I
first planted them, i'd give thema little bit of water twice a day,
okay, and then it was oncea day after about a week and

(02:25:20):
this was over a month ago,and things looked like they were don't fine,
And then we got the rain anda few looked fine, and one
died and another one looks like it'sabout to die. Okay, Well,
the one that's about to die beforeit's fully dead, you may just want
to kind of get a shovel underit and lift it up when things cool
off a little bit here and takea look at the roots like I'm talking
about. All right, Hey,son's great. I hope that helps.

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Thanks a lot. I appreciate yourcall. We're going to run right now
out to Katie and talk to Ray. Hello, Ray, good morning,
Escape, Good morning. I justhad a quick question I have. I
have my grass on the side ofthe house. It's really patchy, dead
grass, brown grass, but stillit's trying to grow. And I was

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I was going to ask you aboutthe three steps you were talking about.
Yes, how long after I putall three ill watered them in, how
long should I leave the grass alonebefore I mow again? Because I think
that I've been doing it wrong.I'll put the fertilizer down and a couple
of things. After that, I'llbe I'll be still mowing, okay,

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and it's counterproductive what I'm doing,I think. All right, Well,
a good question, but not somuch for you to worry about. We
put the fertilizer down and we wateredin to get it in the soil so
it starts working. So you know, you can put the fertilizer and mow
or mow and put the first itdoesn't matter, just whenever you want it.
Just remember it's got to be wateredin barricade. The second step,

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the weed control, It has tobe watered into work. So if you
wanted to fertilizer lawn and then comeright back and get the hopper, change
the setting and put the barricade out, and then water, I'm both in
with about a half inch of water. You could do it that way or
you could do them separately. Thenthe fungicide though, that we're going to
put in on the surface, andI would rather not water right after I

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put the fungicide down because it's protectingthe grass plant. It's on the grass,
but it's also getting into the soila little bit and being taken up
that way. So I would domy watering and the fungicide would come after
watering. Okay, And the samewith mowing, go ahead and mow and
then put the fungicide on what yougot left. Perfect. Thank you,

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Skip, Thank you for everything.You have a great week. Thank you
for everything you do as well.Also, uh, you know, if
you want to put in a vegetablegarden as fall, and I hope you
do. If you want to putit in a flower bed or a herb
bed, Vego Gardens is the absolutebest garden bed you're going to buy.
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(02:27:50):
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an L shaped bed. You putit together like you want, very simple,
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by imposters. Go to Veggo gardendot com, v Ego garden dot com,
think of Legos. That's what we'retalking about. You put it together,
it's easy, it works at last. You can't do better than that.

(02:28:33):
I cannot recommend anything higher than aVego bed. We're going to take
a break right now, Gilbert,you are there and the first in line
when we come right back. Well, good morning. You are listening to
garden Line and we are entering ourlast half hour of the weekend. So
now it'd be a good time tocall if you've got some gardening questions.
You'd like to visit about seven onethree two one two fifty eight seventy four,

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and we're gonna head straight out toKatie and talk to Gilbert. Hey,
Gilbert, thanks for waiting. Hi, Skip, I just purchased a
second property and home in Tulsa.Do you think the lawn care schedule will
work that far north? Uh?No, the scheduling concept of it will
work, but the timing is goingto be way off. So because for

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example, are right now we're talkingabout putting on fertilizer because this is the
month for Saint Augustine at this locationnorth south through the country. If you
go all the way up to Tulsa, fall comes way earlier up there.
And also you're probably not going tohave Saint Augustine. You're probably gonna have
some zoysier bermuda grass up, maybeeven fescue bluegrass mixes up in that area.

(02:29:43):
And so that would be a wholedifferent monster. Okay, But I'll
tell you what I would do.The Oklahoma State Extension Service has offices in
all the counties. I would goto the OSU their website and look for
lawn care information, talk to thecounty agent up there in the county you're
in in Tulsa, and they're goingto have a lot of local information that

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can help you. Perfect. Okay, thank you, yes, sir,
you bet all right. Well let'ssee here tree time. It is time
to plant trees in the fall.It is the best time to plant trees
in the fall. You can planta tree in Houston any month of the
year. I mean, you reallycan any month the year you can plant
it. But if you were tolook at and say, okay, i

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just want to know what the besttime is, I'm flexible. I can
plant now later whatever. When's thebest time? Fall falls it It gives
all winter season and spring for theroutes to get established and get ready for
that next brutal summer. We're along way away from it, So why
not get them into ground this falland do that. Bredett Tree Farm grows
a wide variety of trees that arethat are chosen because they do well.

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Here Bredett Treefarm dot Com. VE R D A n T Treefarm dot
Com. Now you're going to findthat they're verdant tree farms wherever you are.
I mean, if you're out inWest Houston, bark or Cypress.
There's one down in pear Land onBroadway Street, there's one up in the
Heights where Yale comes into a ten. There's a Verdant Tree Farm there too.
They have a wide variety. Theyalso specialize in palm trees. I

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mean they're selection and palms unbelievable.But on all the other trees up to
seven hundred gallons. I mean,so if you want a real quick zippy
I mean instant pizzas, they cando it. They can absolutely drop a
tree in there that looks good theday after they plant it. Now they
know how to do it. Theygive a one year warranty with installation.
There's a ten percent discount for militaryand first responders. Another good reason to

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go to Verdant Tree Farmstead. Outnow to pear Land and we're gonna talk
to Glinda. Hello, Glenda,Hello, Hey, how are you?
How can we help today? Thanksfor taking mark call. I'm not gonna
tell you who did it. Idon't want to play fire or in trouble,
but somebody's rade my yard to killthe weeds and it totally killed the

(02:32:03):
whole area. There's the grass.I meant, unbelievable. So who would
you recommend dear to uh come inwith a backhode dig it out and uh
plant new grass. Well, they'renot gonna definitely not gonna use a backcode,
but they'll get that old grass outand put it down. I would

(02:32:24):
get Pierce Keps the call and seeif they could could do a job like
that. You are a little bitfar south. I don't know if they're
covered that far, but it wouldbe worth talking to them because if they
don't they can. They can referyou to someone who does well. I'm
sure would appreciated. The rest ofmy yard is dropped dead beautiful. That's
just a shame. I'm so sorry. You don't do you happen to know

(02:32:46):
what product ingredient they used that sprayed? I think they accidentally picked up the
wrong container. Okay, produced weeds. Okay, I think eight got the
one for everything? I got you. Okay, do you have their phone
number? Live? Let me lookhere. I'm gonna have to find it

(02:33:07):
while we're talking, but i'll grabit for you, all right. Yeah,
Pier Escape's folks again. I don'tthinking you're a little far south for
him, but it's worth it's worthgiving them a try. It's two eight
one three seven zero fifty sixty twoeight one three seven men. Wait a
minute, I'm running down. Hey, you're two quick for me two eight

(02:33:30):
one three zero fifty sixty. Yougot it, you got it. While
I live in fair Land and youhave a bliss Live and I love to
see your yord I Noah's gorgeous.Well, thank you, Hey, I
appreciate the call, and good luck. We're getting that mess fixed up.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Oh Achuly new me and God,

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we'll get it all right. Thereyou go, all right, have a
bliss Live. Thank you, appreciatethat. Glinda, oh my goodness,
for sure. You know I'm gonnahave to tell you when you're looking at
a lawn that is in need ofhelp, not dead like Glenda's law,

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but just struggling. The Microlife folkshave got a combination of products that will
really help turn it around. Andthat's important. It's all about cultural control.
So here's what I would do.We're going into fall. I would
get their Microlife brown patch. That'sthe orange bag, dark orange bag.
It's a five one three fertilizer,so you get the nutrients you need down

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to get ready for fall. That'svery important. And then it's got lots
of microbes on that material as well, so you are also inoculating as you
do that. But then I wouldcome back and additionally do the micro Grow
bioinnoculant. It's only used at aboutten pounds per thousand. We're not fertilizing
with it, we're inoculating with it. And when your turf has a good

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supply of beneficial microbes around it thatare protecting it, us like disease problems
become less. And that's just it'show nature defends against diseases. Is you
just get a lot of the goodguys around and it's it's a very inhospitable
place for the bad guys, thebad diseases to be able to do what

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they do. So Microlife, MicrolifeFertilizer dot com. You're going to find
it all over the place. Youcan learn more about these two key products
for fall, which is the brownPatch five one three orange bag and Microgrow
bi Inoculant, which is a violetcolored bag. I would do both of
those, and I would do themsoon because it's time for those things to
get to work so they can benefityour plants. We're going to take a

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break right now. Our number isseven one three, two, one,
two, fifty eight, seventy four. We got one more segment left.
Reese and Jackie, you are goingto be our first folks up when we
come back from break, and wewill see you shortly. Well, good
Sunday morning, and you are listeningto Gardenline. We are having a good
time here talking about all kinds ofthings because we're excited about fall. We

(02:36:01):
we we survived this summer. Weought to make a T shirt. I
lived through the summer of twenty twentythree somehow, and my plans most of
them did as well. That wouldbe a good T shirt to where,
Hey, we're gonna go out firstthing here to sugar Land and talk to
Reese. Hello, rece do wehave a race? All right? I'll

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tell you what. It would helpif I took him off and picked the
phone up, wouldn't it? Hey? Race? How you doing morning?
Skipping? Doing good? Okay?We got some operator error going. It's
been a long week. What's up? Well, I've got uh. I
restarted my lawn back in this pastMay, of course, not knowing what

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kind of try we're gonna have.It's been difficult, but I've got it.
It's it's a rowing. I've gota lot of nuts edge in it,
and I wanted to get some sedgenderto use on it. But the
literature says that it it should bea well established lawn, and I wanted
to see if that's you know,since it's been it's been growing. I've

(02:37:11):
keep keeping it water. It's growing. Yeah, I've mooded, you know,
over the summer. But should itbe well established from May to now?
Yes? Yes. What they're reallysaying is, don't put on side
that doesn't have roots quite in thesoil yet and then apply that product.
Let's get them, let's get itrooted in, and it's well rooted in
the long time, it's yeah,you can use it. Okay. There
are a number of different products thatcontrol nuts edge and turf. They each

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have their pros and cons. Butyeah, staying after it is going to
be important. Going into fall isa very important time because that nuts edge
is pulling in carbohydrates to store inthose underground tubers that make it so difficult
to control. So we would loveto spray it and haven't take that product
down into the tuber and do somedamage. Okay, well it sounds good,

(02:37:58):
I will do that, you bet. Is it Is it pretty widespread
or is it in just in certainareas? It's a certain area. Yeah,
well if you can focus on thatarea, that would be good.
Also, just kind of notice,is that area a little wetter than normal?
In other words, is it lowlying? Is it a heavy clay?
Does a sprinkler double lap over thatarea or something? Because the wetter
you keep it, the happier thenuts edge is. So just letting it

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dry out kind of gives you alittle bit of an edge as you work
toward getting rid of the nuts edge. Okay, okay, yeah, it
does seemed to be more the grassis growing more in that area also,
Okay, yeah, it's probably probablya little bit better conditions, and so
well that ought to do it.Just be ready to stay with this for

(02:38:43):
a while. It's not going tobe a one and done. Nuts edge
control is not just you spray itonce and it's all gone and you kind
of have to stay with it.Probably, Okay, Skip appreciate it,
Yeah, Reese, thanks for thecall. I appreciate that very much.
Let's see we are going to alsonow go out to League City and talk

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to Jackie. Hello, Jackie,Hi, I have a question. I
have an oak tree that's probably i'dsay forty or fifty years old, and
around the oak tree. Years agoI used to pile mulshop, which I
know that's a bad thing, andI don't do it anymore. But I've
noticed in the last while, Idon't know, a few years, there's

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kind of a dark, very fibrous, I don't know what to call it,
stuff growing on top of the groundand like you can tap on it
or like hit it with something.It almost sounds hollow. And then you
can take and like take a cultivatoror something and kind of pull it in
it that it pulls back in likea sheet almost you know, it's all

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together. What is that it's onthe ground or it's on the it's on
the ground, and it would belike, you know, how I'm on
the bottom of a tree. Hownormally you would see roots going into the
ground and you would see the topof the wood and the roots and the
all that this covers it. Italmost looks like dirt covering it. But

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if you try to like cultivate it, like to dig it up or something
like that, it comes off inbig pieces like they're all together. Okay,
I think what you're looking at isyou're looking at a decomposer fungi.
And there are a number of differenttypes. They look very different each one.
One of them looks like scrambled eggson top of the ground. One
of them now that looks black,looks like it looks black and fibrous like

(02:40:33):
it's and it's real tough. Youcan't pull it apart. Right, You're
probably talking about a decomposer fungi.What it's doing is fungi break down woody
tissues, things that are hard tobreak down. So in our multus,
in our mulches or even the deadouter surface you know of bark and roots
and things like that, they breakthat down and they form this this kind

(02:40:54):
of a matted network that is almostlike a crust or a shell, or
it can turn. It can turnloose mulch into this chunk that you pick
up. And they're not diseases.They don't hurt the plants. You can
just ignore them. They tend tocome and go. They're going to go
through a cycle where they break thatdown. That's what they're there for,
is they're the reason that the forestoutside of town is not a mile deep

(02:41:18):
and tree trunks after thousands and thousandsof years of tree growth. They turn
everything, They turn everything back intosoil. Okay, okay, all right,
I should just leave it alone thenand let it do its job.
Yes, this is the best newsyou've got here all week. You don't
have to worry about it. Yeah, it is really Thank you so much.
We'll hang up here and you andI both will go work on world

(02:41:41):
peace and other big issues because thisis not Yeah, I don't have to
worry about that. All right,take care of Jackie. Do you have
a great weekend, you too,Bye bye bye bye. Yes, we're
going to head up to Conro nowand talk to Stan. Hey, Stan,
Hey, good morning. Thanks takingthe call. Yes, sir,
I have I've been listening to yourshow this morning, and I believe I

(02:42:05):
have some crab grass. Okay,in some areas where there is no grass,
the half of my yard has SaintAugustine. Yeah. I don't know
what happened to the other half.I guess the drought really did a number
on it. But the crab grassis still thriving, and I was just
trying to figure out what to dobesides you know, pulling it out or

(02:42:28):
you know, an easier way totrying to prep it for next next spring.
So you've got there are several thingsyou could be doing. The first
one you probably don't want to hear, but it's the one I have to
lead off with, and that iswhen we have weeds like crab grass,
they have a lot of seeds onthem right now. And if you can
take a little hoe and take itout or hand pull it out or anything,

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not to get rid of the crabgrass, but just to get all
those seeds out of there, youwill be way ahead rather than having to
deal with all those weed seeds nextspring when crabs re sprouts again. So
hand pulling. I had someone comein when I was at Arborgate yesterday and
brought in a number of different weedsand all of them were loaded with seeds.

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There was the spurs that has alittle milky sap that spreads out flat
on the ground. It was justloaded with seeds. Well, to get
those out of there, it givesyou at least a head start. Now
the next thing is to remember allthose weeds or worm season weeds, and
they're going to go away with thefirst frost. They're not here for long,
so Spraying them isn't going to helpa lot. They're not long for

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this world anyway. Getting the seedsout as helpful. But spraying won't kill
the seeds, and so I wouldnot worry about it. I would mow
it and ignore it for now.But next spring, when we get into
February, a pre emergent herbicide willbe in the soil protecting against crab grass
trying to sprout in March, inApril and May. So you want to
do that in February, because yeah, you've got air soil, you've had

(02:44:01):
weeds, they've made seeds. Theywill be back. Unless you can get
that lawn to fill in very thicklyso that there's no sunlight hitting the soil.
Then you don't have to worry aboutthe pre emergent on them. The
lawn is choking them out at thatpoint. But in the meantime, bear
dirt means you've got some weed controlto do. Okay, all right,

(02:44:22):
I just want to get them inside. I appreciate it. I have a
great rest of the day, allright. I wish I could give you
a good recipe for crab grass,because we could feed the world if if
that was an edible plant. Itloves my backyard. I know that.
I know it does. Stand havea great rest of your weekend in the
week as well. Thank you.We'll go bye bye. Oh my goodness.

(02:44:45):
Yeah. Weeds. Uh, youknow, there's different ways of looking
at weeds. First of all,what is a weed. A weed is
a plant we don't want where it'sgrowing. So, for example, if
you've got a corn patch and SaintAugustine got in there, Saint Augustine would
be a weed in your corn patch. Right. It's important to think about
it that way. It's not likeweeds are certain plants, they're bad plants,
and so they're weeds. It's likewe don't want them there, So

(02:45:09):
they're weeds. So what do wedo well? Number one, stop sunlight
from hitting the soil. That's themain thing we can do. That is
that is called good lawn care.My lawn schedule online on gardening wiskip dot
com talks about mo watering, andfertilizing, as well as a few other
key cultural activities that help that longget denser and denser. Then the weed

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discussion in many situations goes away.We have perennial weeds that are very that
are very able to hang on andthat soil. But most of our weeds,
when we make a good dense sunlightcan hits the soil, they're not
going to be able to survive inthat kind of grass. And that's that's
our step one and we take careof that. And there's times to do
all that, and it's it's it'spart of the deal. Our lawn's coming

(02:45:56):
out week. They're struggling and we'regoing to see more issues with those lawns,
like weed control issues. That's justpart of the deal. Well,
we've had a good time this weekendhere on garden Line. I'll be back
next week. Remember a garden Lineis a show that you can listen to
both on Saturday and Sunday from sixam to ten am. Tell your friends,
family about it. We are availableby podcast if you miss something on

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the show. But here's what Iwant you to do before we go away
today. Ride down next Saturday atNature's Way Resources up north Interstate forty five,
up toward Conro. That is aplace where you get all kinds of
good quality soil mixes. But they'regoing to have their Fall Garden Festival on
Saturday at nine am they're going tohave a class on creating enchanting little miniature

(02:46:45):
ferry gardens. They're going to havestuff to the kids, like scavenger hunts.
They're going to have food, musicvendors, adult beverages. It's quite
the shindek. I'll be out therefrom eleven thirty to one thirty. All
of you up in that whole region, that whole listening area. I hope
you'll come out. Bring me somesamples of plants to identify or to diagnose,
Bring me some photos of things wecan look at and make suggestions.

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