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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Richard's shoes.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hey, good morning, I'm hearing myself echo in my headphones.
That's weird. Well, I'm glad to be here this morning,
and then I hope you are too. We are. We've
got a lot of things to talk about, as we
do every Saturday and Sunday. You know, the gardening world

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just keeps going on every time we turn to a
new week. There's new things. We've got diseases that are
coming and going. We've got things to plant, things to prune,
things to take care of, and we're going to talk
about all those things today. If you've got a question
that you would like to ask about, why not give
me a call seven to one three two one two

(01:20):
k t r H. Seven one three two to one
two k t r H. All right, Well, I wanted
to talk this morning first of all about I'm going
to be at Nature's Way Resources up near Conroe, up
on I forty five. I'll be there today from eleven

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thirty to one thirty, so basically over the noon hour.
They're having their big Fall festival. This is a shindig.
I tell you, the Fall Festival is your opportunity to
come out have some fun. They're going to have food,
they're going to have music, they're going to have a
number of different people out there. Let's see. Like I said,

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I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. The
whole event goes from nine am to two pm, so
if we can to it. We've got to do something
about this echo in my ear. It's kind of like
having an annoying sibling that every time you say something,
they repeat you until it drives you crazy. Have you
ever have you ever had had one of one of

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those things? Well, anyway, I'll be out at the event,
and I hope you'll come out to see me. We're
going to be giving away some cool stuff. By the way,
the folks at Nature's Way are providing a bag of
their fine textured leap mol compost every half hour while
I'm there, so we'll giving weigh four bags of that.
They're also going to be giving away a gift certificate

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that is worth one hundred and fifty bucks, so that
alone is worth as they say, the price of admission.
If you'll come on out anyway, put that on your
calendar to day eleven thirty two one thirty. It's time
to make sure you get your fall fertilization on the
lawns this and here's here's why I say that. Now,

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if you look at my schedule at gardeningwith Skip dot com,
you will see that October is a big month for
doing that. The sooner you do it, probably the better
off you are. And here's why. It gives it a
chance to get down in the soil and up in
the roots of the plant. Now, it's still warm outside,
but when we start cooling off, the grass root nutrient

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uptake slows down at the roots. System just kind of
starts to slow down because it's cool and our warm
season grasses don't do a lot of growth in the
cool season. So if you get it down now, you
have more opportunity for those nutrients to move into the plant.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Nitrofoss has a fertilizer called the Fall Special and it's
part of their Texas three step system. The Fall Special
has the high level higher level of potassium, which is
critical for good cold hardedness. If you're trying to make
your lawn cold hardy, what you do is you give

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it a little bit of nitrogen, not a lot like summertime,
and you give it a little bit of potassium and
those together go into the grass plant and create the
essentially ana freeze in the plant and the form of carbohydrates.
So that's part of their three stuff. The other two
parts are nitrofoss barricade which prevents weed seeds, and again

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do it now. In fact, these last two are even
more important to do asap. The nitrofoss barricade prevents weed
seeds from germinating. Now. I don't see a cold front
in the near future, but one is coming, and when
it hits and we get some cool weather, some rain,
cool season, weeds are going to sprout in your lawn.
Prevent them by having barricade down and watered in ahead

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of that. If you ain' to the weed drout and
growing a pre emergent is not going to be helpful
because it's a pre emergent meaning before they come up.
So get that down now. The third one also important
to do soon. Nitropuss eagle turf fungicide. This is a
systemic product. You put it down, the grass takes it up,
soaks it in, takes it up and the fungicide itself

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makes that grass resistant to a disease attack by fighting
any disease it tries to attack. And the diseases fall
are the large patch, the big brown circles. We call
it brown patch. It's hard to change that name. The
new name's large patch. But either way it prevents that.
If you wait till circles up here, it's late. It's
too late to stop that brown area. You have to

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wait till spring for that brown area to grow back
in again. So get it done now. Nitrophuss three step
Fall Special Barricade and Eagle Turf fungicide. You're going to
find it at Court Hardware in Stafford, katy Is Heart
where has it, Plants and things in Brenham Growers Outlet
up in Willis or all places you can get the
Texas three step. So don't forget that. Don't forget that.

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I mentioned being up at Nature's Way Resources. You know
Nature's Way still has their fungal compost sale on Fridays
going on. You head up on a Friday and it's
called Fungal Friday at Nature's Way twenty percent off their
fungal composts. Fungo compost is good for compost top dressing.

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Fungo compost is good for adding to the soil. It
is a high quality compost. They screen it down to
a good particle size, so you can put it over
your lawn and have it fallen in the little holes
for narration or just nestle in around the grass runners.
And it's just a good thing to do for your

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lawn for winter time. I wouldn't say the top dressing
gets rid of all weed seed sprouting, but it helps
because every time you shade the lawn a little a
little more, you make it more difficult for weed seeds
to get the light they need to germinate and succeed.
And so in addition to the fact that it feeds
protects the soil, it also is going to enhance the

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biological activity in that area. And we know biological activity
is critical if we want to have success with anything.
That we are trying to echo is back. So I'm
going to turn. I'm going to make that go away
there where it won't bother me. All right, folks, welcome
back to Garden Line. We are glad to have you
with us today, looking forward to talking to you. Give

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us a call seven to one, three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two ktrh.
That's another week you can go about it. Uh Intented
Gardens Done in Richmond is stocked up with all kinds
of cool stuff. I was I was just checking them
out and they have the multicolored have you seen those?

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It's like a big pot. Well it comes in they
have three different sizes, I believe, But anyway, it's a
pot and it's got three different moms all planted together.
So when you look at it and it hadn't bloomed yet,
you just have those buds. It just looks like a
bunch of buds everywhere, and all of a sudden it
starts blooming and you've got you know, some pinks and
orange or white or yellow, whatever the colors are in

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that particular pot. It is gorgeous. I mean, these are
showstopper beautiful, really really nice. They also wanted to mention,
by the way, today they're going to be having a
program on culinary herbs, using cooking, growing and using culinary herbs,
and that's kind of cool. You know, here comes Halloween,

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I mean, Thanksgiving and Christmas, all the holidays. You're doing
any kind of cooking. This would be a really really
cool thing to go to and learn about. They are
stocked up again on houseplants and we are entering I
call it houseplant season because you know, as you spend
more time in the house, you have time to tend
those plants. And I don't think we have enough houseplants

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in our homes. I mean that there were many years
where I just had a houseplant or two just because
you're supposed to have a houseplant. And I've gotten into
it so much now that some of our areas look
like little mini jungles because there's so many different kinds
of plants in there. But I'm telling you, it is
bringing nature inside it, just having that presence of something

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that's not so sterile as just you know, furniture and
things like that. Having life in the room is really
cool anyway. China Gardens always has good stuff going on,
always has good things. So if you need any fall color,
they've got it. Ornamental cabbage and kale and dusty miller

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and alyssam and petunias and dianthus and snap dragons and
of course moms and crotons, crotons, the color of fall.
All the things you need for that while you're there
or when you go take the kids and let them
see their pumpkin house. It's really cool too. And guess
what's arriving. I believe it's arriving today. There are pansies
and Viola's for the cool season color as well. So anyway,

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check them out and Jenny Gardens. They're on the Katie
Folscher side of Rechmond on FM three point fifty nine.
Katie Folscher FM three fifty nine. While are you there,
you can pick up the fertilizers you hear me talk about.
You can pick up soil products that you hear me
talk about as well. And remember, don't go home with
plants without going home with the brown stuff that goes
in the ground that makes those plants happy. I'm going

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to head out to the phones now and talk to
Almanda and Richmond. Hello Almanda, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Hi.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
My question is I bought some huge moms for my
wife that my mother in law take care. Well, she's
in out of town and they're looks like they're drying out,
and so it wants me to take them back because
he said they're drying out. But I don't know if
I take something like that, and how do you take
care of that?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah? Probably probably not that that's kind of a it
looked good when you got it, and if you know,
if you don't keep it going, then.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
That to talk to him, that guy. I've just started
watering them every day and it's only been a week
since I've had them.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh okay, all right, Well I'll leave that between you
and where you got them. Moms I find to be
a little tricky. We have a big mum in front
of the house, and watering it once a day is
not enough. It needs needs more than that, especially if
it's in quite a bit of sun, which mums like
to be in some sun. So we put a big

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old tray underneath that that I can fill with water
and it wakes it up. And if I see that
tray empty, I know to fill it up again. Just
keep water in that tray all the time. That's helped
me not overwater. The other thing with mums is you
don't want to top water them.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
They the new mums have been pinched and bread to
form really tight mounds, which is gorgeous, but when you
put water on there, it just is this wet rots
and things like that start. And I last year had
a whole section of mum that just started rotting out

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because I was top watering it. I know better than that,
are you there? I believe we lost him? All right,
Well that's all right. Well anyway, those of you who
are getting moms, Okay, if you didn't, if you weren't
quite listening on that one, just here it is in

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a nutshell. Keep your mums adequately moist. And that can
take quite a bit of water, especially if they're in
the sun and there, because they packed those mums into
that pot and it doesn't take long to dry out.
Don't water them from the top. If you've got a
little watering device, put the spigott down underneath the foliage

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and water the soil rather than drenching the top. And
my other suggestion is if you can put a tray
under it, it makes it a little more easy. I
get busy and I'm gone for a day or something,
or maybe a day and a half, and I come
back and ugh, it doesn't do well in that, you know,
without the regular watering. So I put a tray in

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her mind, and always keep about an inch or so
of water done in the bottom and that'll wake up
in there and it's kind of like your rescue just
in case you forget all right anyway, Secrets to Success
with Moms Nelson. Plant food has an outstanding fall fertilizer
and they call it carbo load. Now you're thinking about

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why would you call it carbo load. It's a fertile
it because what makes grass winter hardy is carbohydrates, and
it takes nutrients and sunlight to do that, especially the potassium.
When we go into the fall, we lower our nitrogen
and raise our potassium, and that is what carble load is.
The other thing that does is the carbohydrates store over winter,

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not only giving cold heartiness, but helping it come out
in the spring. That's what carbo load does. Now, forty
pound bags is going to cover five thousand square feet.
When you put it down, you have to water it
in because carbo load also contains a pre emergent. So
if you use carbo load with its pre emergent that
is in it, you don't also need to use a

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different per emergen that it is its own. So I've
had a lot of questions about that. Well, if I
do that also, no one pre emergent choose your pre emergent.
Use that carbo load provides a preventative surface barrier that

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prevents weed seeds from coming through in the cool season,
and it'll lasts a pretty good while in there, but
you got to water it in to do that. You
want to water it in to get the fertilizer nutrients
in as well, but also you definitely want to walk
in to make sure and get that pre emergent in
the surface of the salt where it can do its work.
Very important to remember, which reminds me we just need

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to read the label, right, isn't it important to read
the label? I find that so many folks grab a
product and it's no fun reading the label. You know that.
It's like I know how to use this, and they're
just going to use it. And the other thing we

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tend to do is, hey, if a teaspoons good, isn't
a tablespoon better? Right? We know you know you're driving
a nail. Get a bigger hammer and you can drive
it better. Well, it doesn't work that way with pesticides,
With insecticides, spongicides, herbicides, you can damage your plants. By
not reading the label. You can cause environmental damage to

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creak rivers. That's in people. If you don't read the label,
always read the label and follow it carefully, and there
you will learn things like do not put a herbicide
that's pre emergent down without watering it in, because it
doesn't work until water takes it into the soil surface.
So read the label, read the label, and then follow

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the label.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
And there's something in my family I call stupid tax.
I call it. I say it about myself. And I
used to always tell my kids, well, you're going to
pay the stupid tax if you do that. What that
means is you don't do the thing you should do,
and you get to pay for it, and then you
hopefully learn so you don't have to pay stupid tax again.
Don't pay stupid tax. Read the label, follow the label.

Speaker 8 (16:40):
All right.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm off my soapbox. Meanwhile, back at garden line seven
one three two one two kt r H. Seven to
one three two one two kt r H. That's how
you get a hold of me. Let's talk about the
things that interest you. I love Ace hardware stores, and
I have a hard time passing one with not going

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in because Ace Hardware stores are independently owned So although
it is a chain of stores and you've got the
ACE products and you have a general mix of things
that you would expect from any ACE, each store is
privately owned so they can do things that maybe another
store doesn't do. So you see some really interesting things

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at ACE Hardware, and I guarantee you you go into one.
If you haven't bet a known ACE hardware recently, you
go into one and you're going to go, oh, I
didn't know they carried that, or I've never even seen
that before. What is it? They just have cool stuff,
And of course you're going to go in and get
everything you need for your lawn and garden and your landscape.
You know, the fall fertilizers I'm talking about, they've got them,

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the fire ant control falls, fire ant season and extension.
We used to say agrolacri extension. We used to say
tackle fire ants in the fall. And the idea was, hey,
fall is football season, so we're going to say tackle
fire ants fall two. The best season of the year
to get in there and knock your fire ants down

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significantly is in the fall. Baits are the way to
do that. Individual maund treatments apply more pesticide in the environment.
Baits apply very little pesticide in the environment. There's organic
and there's synthetic baits. You have options, but do the
baits and suppress the large area. If you can get
your neighbors to do bait. When you do bait, it

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is way more effective. It really is. We did some
studies in agur Life years ago where one of our
some of our entomologists went out and they would hoa
or something would bring them in and they'd have a
meeting for all the homeowners and say, look, we're gonna
here's the bait, and here's how you do it. And
if everybody does it, it really affects you. I mean,

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if you're controlling your fire ants and the people around
you aren't, well you know how that works, they're just
going to come on in. But when everybody does it,
it is much more effective. But remember Bates. Remember ACE
forty stores in the Greater Houston area. All you have
to do is go to ACE Hardware dot Com, find
the store locator and you can find the store near you.

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We are Let's see here, what are we on? Time?
John in League City. I'm gonna have to hold Hill
right after this break, so I have time to give
your call the time and attention that it deserves. I
want to remind you one more time phone number seven
one three two one two kt r H. I'll be
right back after we take a little break here for

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some news. In the meantime, look out the window and
it's Starkat said. If your neighbor's lights aren't on, you
need to go bang on the door and tell them
they're missing garden Line. They will rise up and call
you bless it. Maybe not today, they may call you
something else today. I'll be right back.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
All right, we're gonna head out to League City and
talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 9 (19:58):
Yeah, hey, good morning.

Speaker 10 (20:00):
So about two weeks ago, my wife and I planted
some skyward yopon hollies.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (20:07):
And they're pretty bigger, like seven feet tall. They were
two seven and a half gallons and one fifteen gallon.

Speaker 8 (20:13):
And we planted them.

Speaker 10 (20:14):
You know, I kind of dug them like Randy always said,
you know, two wide, two times wide, one and a
half deep, and put some expanded shale in with the soil.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
What do you recommend though, as.

Speaker 10 (20:23):
Far as watering. They're in the sun a lot and
I just with like, you know, how much should we water,
et cetera.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
And this is a yopon, not not a different type
of holly.

Speaker 10 (20:35):
It's a yop It's called a skyward yop on holly.
It's it's uh, it goes really tall, goes up to
maybe like fifteen feet.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
That's the kind of holly it is. Yeah, Well, I
would water on them regularly as long as we're having
warm weather. And when I say regularly, I mean think
of it this way. That pot was sitting in a
garden center and they were watering it every day, because

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the whole root system is in the pot you put
in the ground, and it's going to take months and months,
if not a couple of years for that thing to
fully extend a good root system out there. So early on,
it's almost as if you sunk the pot in the ground,
meaning the roots are all still in the same spot.
So while your soil could be moist, that that area

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where the roots are can get dry, and that's the
only place the plant can get water is from that
area where the roots are. So just a light watering,
don't drown them, But about every day every other day
when we're having ninety degree temperatures. Then you know, you
can back off as we start to cool off a
little bit, to the point where in winter you're just

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you know, maybe once a week giving them some water.

Speaker 10 (21:54):
Okay, Yeah, we've been putting like a trickle down there
every day for maybe fifteen minutes or something, and it's
kind of really moisten that rootball. But if we didn't
know if that was enough or in this hot weather
or what we should be doing.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, just it. You know, it's hard to tell someone
how much to water because there's quantity and there's frequency
both and so if you're in a sandy soil, you're
gonna water a little more often. If you're in a
clay soil, you're definitely water less often. So I would
I use my hands and I dig down in the

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soil a little bit, maybe three inches and feel the soil,
and if it's moist I don't water, but if it's not,
I do. That's kind of the best way to tell.

Speaker 10 (22:41):
Well, right there in the rootball or close by that
you just kind of dig with you, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Kind of right on the outside of it, just feeling
right there. You know, It's it's not like a rocket
science or you got to get it just right. It's
just a matter of trying to gauge that I'm keeping
it moist. That that's the important thing, you know, I said,
sand or clay. It's also true if it's in a

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lot of sun or not much son, that dramatically changes
how much water.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
It is sun right now, So yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, okay, So they're just a lot of factors that
go into it. Just the main thing is remember where
all the roots are and will be all the way
through next spring. For sure. You got to take care
of that base of the plant. That that's where the
plant can take up nutrients. And okay, all right, good,

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you don't put good luck with that. Yeah, okay, did
you say, did you ask me something?

Speaker 10 (23:36):
Well, I say, you don't want to put fertilized down
or anything on it? We have not even to put
water down, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
No, don't worry about that right now. Let's get it
in spring when it starts coming out, we can begin
to put a fertilizer around it and kind of scratch
it in the soil surface and water it in real good. Okay,
thank you, all right, sir. All right, folks, if you'd

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like to give me a call and talk about something
that is of interest to you. Well seven one three
two one two kt r H seven one three two
one two k t r H. Buchanan's Native Plants is
down there in the Heights. I first of all, I
don't know who is listening right now that was out there,

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but it seems like everyby this is the guard line
showed up. It was a It was a great event
that they had with their their fall event at Buchanans.
It was a week or so ago and it just
was there were kids ever are having a really good time.
I was a kid there having a really good time
as well. I got to meet a lot of listeners

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and I appreciate that. It's always fun.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
They're on eleven Street in the Heights and if you
haven't been by, you need to go. You need to
go check out Buchanan's Native Plants. They specialize in natives,
but they don't just sell natives. While they have one
of the largest native selections you're going to find anywhere,
you also are going to find houseplants and herbs and
vegetables and flowers and things for shady areas, and they

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you know, the shrubs, trees, vines. I was taking some
pictures of some go fritillary butterflies that were laying their
eggs on some of the passion vines that they had there.
Kind of cool. You're going to find microlife products, Nature's way, resources, heirlooms, soils,
landscaper's pride, and then those fertilizers you hear me talk

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about here on guard Line. They're all there at Nature's
excuse me, at Buchanans Native Plants. When you go to Buchanans,
allow yourself some time so you can go around and
visit with some of the folks there. They have some
of the most knowledgeable staff and that is so important
when you want to have success with your plants. Buchanans

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is on Eleventh Street in the Heights. The website Buchanansplants
dot com Buchanansplants dot com. Go to the website and
check out the educational till they have there's excellent. Also,
subscribe to their newsletter. It is excellent and I would
highly recommend that you take care of that already. Let's see,

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We're gonna go now to Ed in Conroe. Well, Hello, Ed,
and welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 11 (26:18):
Than y uh looky show.

Speaker 12 (26:21):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (26:21):
I was going to get with you for the last
couple of seasons I've had. When I plant my college greens,
I was gonna plan a few here forwards here soon.
And I have little bugs that eat I mean they
just eat them down to the to the tub. And
I've tried every I'm going to the hardware store and

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asked for ay and told you this is that seven
done field. I have not I have not had. The
first year I grew up, I had some many I
couldn't couldn't give away. And the last two seasons, the
age been just divided by the pest.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Okay, so are you seeing the pists?

Speaker 11 (27:07):
You think now they're a little bitty I mean okay, topic,
I mean they will. Yeah, they just like you took
the whole punch. It just punched every every leaf.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Okay, that's a beetle. Then uh uh and and it's
uh it's probably the yellow margin leaf beetle. But it
really doesn't matter which one it is. And there's there's
two approaches in the future. When you're gonna plant, I
would put a row cover over the planting after the

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seeds are in, and you you can use a little
bit piece of PVC to hold it up, kind of
make a hoop of tunnel going down the row. And
that roe cover is very very light, very very fine
textured spun bound polyester. So I is tell people that
are have kids raising kids that it's like the stuff

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lining a disposable baby diaper. If you've ever looked in
at gloves or Huggies or Pampers or something, there's the
absorbent material, but then there's something that's right up against
the baby, and that literally is the same material. A
company that makes I think it's Pampers also makes one
of the commercial road covers the same thing. But anyway,
that's like putting a screen porch over it so the

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bugs can't get in. Now that you've got them in,
you you know, you don't put a roll cover that's
just trapping them inside. I would get a product containing spinosaid,
and I will spell that out. It's spi no sad, yeah,

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spino said, And so I'm going to have to run
to a break here ed. But that comes in many brands.
It's easy to find, and it kills anything that's chewing
on your plants. It's also an organic product.

Speaker 11 (29:01):
Okay, And where would I get that any.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Any garden center, Ace hardware store, any place like that. Spinosa. Yeah,
all right, take care, Yeah all right, folks. I'm sorry
I had to run some fast, but we got to
go to a break. I'll be right back if you
would like to give me a call. Seven to one
three two one two k t L right seven one
three two one two k t R eight. I was

(29:29):
checking out some of the heirloom soil products the other day,
and you know, there's a number of them that I've used,
and every time I use one, I find it to
be very successful for my succulents that we're repotting a
while back, Cactus and succulent. That is the one that
is very gritty and it drains super extra well, and
it's good for those plants that don't want to have
wet soil. It just drains well. The Works potting soil.

(29:54):
Visiting with someone the other day telling them they have said,
what what potting soil do you recommend? I said, well,
get the works. It's good and it's easy, it's very
well made. I use it for a lot of my
indoor potting.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
The roses in Bloomers Blend is just one of those
good multipurpose soils. It says roses on it and bloomers.
But I would use it for if I was doing
a bed, you know, just for a lot of different
kinds of blooming things. It would be an excellent choice.
One of my favorite products they have is a veggie
and herb mix. Veggie and herb is kind of a

(30:26):
standard for any kind of gardens like that. I put
it in my vego raised beds, I put it in
the ground. I've mixed it into the soil itself, just
to enhance the soil, kind of give it an extra boost.
And you know, I could sit here just talking on
and on all day because they have so many products.
Fruit Berry and citrus mix, the landscape mix, expanded shale,

(30:48):
expanded shell with compost. You see what I'm saying, age, leap, mole, compost,
They got it all. Airloom Soils is available to many
many garden centers. If you want to go online and
see more, I would highly recommend you do that. Go
to heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. You can learn

(31:09):
about these products. You can find out where to get them.
If you live in Timbuctu there's gonna be someplace near
you who that rhymes that is going to carry heirloom soils,
and I highly recommend them because I've used them and
they work. Soil so a brand stuff before green stuff. Right,
If you want to have success with plants, you fix

(31:31):
the foundation and then you put the plant in it.
And fixing the foundation means you put the nutrients that
they need, You put the organic matter, you improve the drainage,
you do all those things that you need to do.
By the way, D and D Feed in Tomball, I
don't want to forget this. D and D Feed in
Tomball is having a kind of a celebration. I'm gonna

(31:56):
tell you about it in just a little bit. First,
I want to just tell you what D and D
feed is. For those of you who haven't that out
there to see it. D and D Feed is your
hometown feed store. It's on the west side of Tombull,
the west side as you're going out twenty nine to twenty.
You are going to find when you go there, the fertilizers.
I talk about the soils, I talk about high quality

(32:18):
and really high quality dog food, and of course it's
a feed store. They got animal food they got dog food,
they got all those kinds of things. But D and
D Feed is always a place that you know when
you go, you're going to get quality products and you're
going to get treated right. They're gonna carry your bags
out for you if you need to do that, They're
happy to do that. They will take care of you
at D and D Feed. I did want to mention

(32:41):
while we were talking about D and D Feed that
they've expanded their store. They did this god so summer
or more ago, and it's just even better. The selection,
the supplies, everything is just outstanding there at D and
DE Feed. I hope that you will check them out.

Speaker 11 (33:04):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
The last time I was in there visiting, I was
going and check on them periodically, see how they're doing,
what's going on out there. When you head into D
and D Feed, what you're going to find is everything
you're looking for and people that know what they're talking about.
If you've got some pest issue or a weed issue
or something like that that is difficult, you know, difficult

(33:25):
to manage, go into D and D and talk to Jeff,
talk to some of the folks there, and you're going
to be really surprised at the kinds of products they
have that you're not going to find in a lot
of other places, and that is well worth, as I say,
the price of admission to be able to get that
kind of service. All Right, Well, I'm gonna let's see here.

(33:49):
We're going to head out to northwest Houston and talk
to Ed. Hey, Ed, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Good morning, Hey bout them about Hello, yes, sir, about
some sedge hammer.

Speaker 8 (34:07):
And I want to know what's the best way to
apply it, whether it's early morning or does it matter
what time of day? And I believe you told me
something about maybe putting a little water on before I applied.
I need to refresh your course on it.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Okay. So the only thing about putting water on is
if you've got stressed weeds of any kind with any herbicide,
you want to get those weeds actively growing because that
allows the herbicide to move in and be taken up.
If the weeds are stressed, they're not likely to take
up the herbicide as well. Okay, so that would be

(34:47):
the only thing about watering. The time of day doesn't
matter with sedge hammer, Okay. I would you know it's
got a does it say Is it just sedge hammer
or is it such hammer two or such hummer plus
or any kind of things like that.

Speaker 8 (35:06):
I think it's got an X on it or something.
I bought it at Southward.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 8 (35:10):
This is the one that has just a fact and
then yes.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
It's got the surround. Okay, that's critical, especially for a
slick weed like nuts edge. Yep, you don't have to
do anything else and just mix it up according to
the label, spray it on the weeds. It's not gonna
hurt your lawn. I would do it in the morning myself,
just because it's cooler, more pleasant to be out, and
it's always better to apply her. Besides earlier in the day,

(35:35):
just because if there were a risk of some kind
of damage, it's going to be decreased, you know, to
a lawn or something. But with sedge hammer, you don't
have to worry about that much. Okay.

Speaker 8 (35:46):
Well, I bought two applications because I figured as much
of it as I have, I'll need that second application.
How far in between applications would you say I need
to be concerned?

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Well, first of all, be patient. Sedgehammer takes a while
to show that it's doing anything. It's going to take
you a couple of weeks and before you really see okay,
I think it is taking these weeds down. So I
would say probably about six weeks. If you needed to
reply it, I would. I would give it some time.

(36:22):
Here's the problem with this time of year. You've got
winter coming on, and so six weeks from now you're
not going to have a real, actively growing nuts edge
plant most.

Speaker 8 (36:34):
Likely, right, And if I don't do a good job
of eradicating, Now, when do I expect to see it
come back at me again?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Well, to the degree you don't control it, it is
reproducing and you're getting more and more daughter plants, so
it will be back in the spring. But if you
had one, let's just say you had only one nutsedge
plan in your yard right now, when it comes out
in the spring with new growth, you need to hit

(37:09):
it right down or by May you're going to have
eight times that much nuts edge. And that's that's that
reproductive potential. I put something on my website, the website's
gardening with skip dot com, and it's a thing. It
says nuts edge a closer look or I can't remember
what I called it, but it's a thing on nuts edge,

(37:29):
and if you will read it, it explains some of
that how the weed itself is working and therefore how
you have to go about controlling it.

Speaker 8 (37:38):
Okay, yeah, I found out how it worked in my
bed year before last, and I dug it out fain
by vain, and I've also applied some fedge hamming. Boy
it worked fine, but you can't do it in Saint Augustine. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
all right, I read read Thank you sir.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
All right, good luck with that. I appreciate, appreciate that
very much. I was talking about D and D a
second ago. D and D on Saturday the nineteenth of
October from eleven am to two pm is having their
thirty fifth anniversary Saturday, the nineteenth of October, eleven to
two They're gonna have lunch, They're gonna have prizes, they're

(38:19):
gonna have specials. I mean, they have giveaways from a
dozen different places that they're going to be providing. That
will be a great day to go buy D and
D thirty fifth anniversary. By the way, congratulations, folks. That
is an accomplishment. His family owned operation just keeps getting better.
Saturday the nineteenth, eleven to two their shin Dig out

(38:41):
there in d and de Feed. Well. I hear music,
so I'm gonna have to go to music Freedom when
we come back. You will be our first up. I
just want to remind you that today after the show,
from eleven thirty to one thirty, I'm gonna be at
Nature's Way Resources. I'll be there from eleven thirty two
one thirty answering your gardening questions.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richard.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
It's just watch him as set.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back. Good to have
you with us today. Hey, I was talking earlier about
some things I wanted to mention on the air about
soil and beds and things. If you are wanting to
do a vegetable garden or a flower bed, or if

(39:53):
you've never had one you want to build one, or
if you have one and you want to replant, always
remember to take your the soil by adding compost with
each transition. Every time I pull out a section of
flowers and replant, I put in about an inch of
compost and mix it into the soil. And that's assuming
that I had good soil to begin with. You know,
if you're going into a poor soil spot and you're

(40:15):
trying to create a bed, you need a lot more
than that, but at least keep its bruced up, if
you will. In that way in the vegetable garden, I'm
always adding to the soil. Always improve in the soil,
because with each transition it just gets better and better
and better. And so keep that in mind. If you're
building a soil that is for a let's say a

(40:35):
long term plant, let's say a rose bush for example.
You can't lift the rose up and put compost in
and put the rose back down every year. That's ridiculous.
You wouldn't do that. But you can start off with
a good quality rose soil blend. But also mixing some
expanded shale down into the clay soil is very helpful,

(40:57):
and it takes about three inches to make a signal
magnificant difference immediately to a clay soil. If it's a
soil that you're going to be working over the time,
you can just keep adding expanded show it sticks around
while compost decomposes away. But expanded jail is one of
your tricks for having success in clay by opening that
clay up. But it's not just a little sprinkling of

(41:18):
expanded shell. Put two or three inches on there and
work them in deeply to get the good effect. Let's
go now to Frida and Pasadena and Hello Frida, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 13 (41:32):
Thank you. Got another question about my hibistus plant. It
is just loaded with beds. It's in a pot and
it's just loaded with beds. And one morning I worked
up and they had all dropped off under the ground.
So I was wondering what I did wrong? Did I
water too much, not enough? Or is something bothering it?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, this is the tropical hibiscus, the kind with all
the beautiful colors of flowers. Or is that the perennial
one that basically comes in white, pink, and red.

Speaker 13 (42:06):
It's red. I think the blooms are red.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Or the blooms the size of a dinner plate or
are they more like the size of your your fester
a little bigger than your fest Right, that's it, Okay,
it could be. It could be any kind of a stress,
A drought stress, a temporary drought stress can do that.

(42:32):
Any issue that stresses the plant, you know, soggy wet conditions, stress,
a plant. It could also be there's some insects that
can cause that, and then certainly certain temperature things can
cause trouble with those tropical biscuits keeping their blooms. But
I think if I were you, I would just watch
the sole moisture, try to keep it evenly moist. Is

(42:52):
this plant and a container or the ground? If you
said it, I.

Speaker 13 (42:55):
Missed that it's in a container.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, okay, Well, in a container it's easier to you know,
if the draining tools are plugged, it's easy to have
soggy conditions, and in a container in general, it's easier
to have dry conditions because the roots are confined to
just the soil in that container. So I'm going to
guess that it may be a soul moisture, but there
could be insects involved, But I would just watch and

(43:23):
see how they do. I think as you give it
care and give it good sunlight, you should see it
recuperate and give you a few more balloons before things
cool off too much.

Speaker 13 (43:34):
Yeah, well it's I got it on the front porch,
and not on the porch but the front and so
it gets plenty of sun you know, water morning. But
maybe I'm not giving it a nut.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
I don't know, well, you know, it's it's hard to
quantify and say how much I give it. I water
mine until the water comes out the bottom of the
of the container, and then don't don't water a little while.
But that would be my best recommendation for you. I
wouldn't fertilize it at this time. Wait until next spring,
and then we'll begin fertilized and that thing again.

Speaker 13 (44:08):
Okay, okay, Sarah, thank you.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
So much, you bet, thank you, Fred. I appreciate the call.
RCW Nursery is the garden center that is there where
Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes into about what a
eight and RCW is They always have stuff going up
right now. They're lantana's or gorgeous and you ought to
see the bees and the pollinators and things, the butterflies

(44:33):
visiting the lantana's. I got some lantana's from RCW, and
oh my gosh, I look out the window and it's
just there's all kinds of different unusual butterflies that I
haven't seen before that are on those plants. They really
really like those rcw's loaded on croton. So you talk
about the color of fall, they've got it. Do you

(44:54):
need vegetables for the cool season, you know, leafy greens,
root vets, all those kinds of things, they got them.
They still have their sale on trees fifteen percent off
all trees. You can buy something a fifteen gallon size
so you can take it on planet yourself, or you
can get all the way up to two hundred gallons.
By the way, RCW can come out and plant for you.

(45:15):
They can do that. They can provide you the products
you want to put down when you're doing the planting,
and certainly the advice they know about trees. They grow
their own trees. Basically, that's essentially what's going on there.
Beautiful moms, very pretty mums that RCW color everything you need.
So fall is the time to plant, especially roses and

(45:36):
woody ornamentals and citrus. By the way, they have citrus
that already have froot on them. This is the time
to get it planted. So let's get that done now.
Go out to RCW Nursery, take advantage of the sales
that they have going on on trees and shrubs, and
I think you will be very pleased with the results there. Again.

(45:58):
RCW Nursries Dot com is a way website. They're located
where Tomball Parkway high Way two forty nine comes at
about way eight. I talk about the importance of the
brown stuff all the time, and if you are south
of Houston, Cienamultch is the premiere place to go to
get everything you need for the soil, which I refer

(46:19):
to as the brown stuff. Premium hardwood mulches to go
on top of the soil, native hardwood, double ground mulches,
two inch screen mulches, just wonderful, a bulk of Landscaper's Pride,
black velvet, of rose, soil, of organic compost, of sand,
gravel stone. They deliver within twenty miles for a small fee.

(46:41):
And then if it's fertilizer, part of the brown stuff,
microlife Asamite, Nelson's, the heirloom soils, nitrophoss, Landscaper's Pride medina,
they have it all at Siena, Maltz. They are on
FM five point twenty one just north of Roe Sharon
Highway six and two eighty eight. Cienamalts dot com. Time

(47:05):
for me to go to a quick break. When we
come back, Beth, you will be our first up. No
sweltering heat today. You hear me talk about Southwest Fertilizer
all the time, and it's because I am so impressed
with that place. You know, sometimes you run around town,
you're looking for this, you're looking for that, and you
go here and they don't have it, and you go

(47:26):
there and they don't have it. Sallos Fertilizer has everything
you could possibly need when it comes to controlling pests,
controlling diseases, controlling weeds, fertilizing your lawn or your flower
beds or your vegetables. Tools. Eighty foot wall of tools there.
That's a lot of tools. And my little skipsweedwiper thing

(47:46):
that I put online at gardening with skip dot com.
They have the regular weed wiper itself with the little
suction cups on it. They've got those so you can
build your own. And the instructions are right there on
the web for free. The instructions are for free on
the web. You can't beat that. Southwest Fertilizer has been
a tradition in Houston since nineteen fifty five. I mean
they've been They've been a sponsored garden line since back

(48:08):
in the Dewey Compton days before I was even called
garden line. Every fertilizer I talk about is there. So
go get your fall fertilizer. Go get any kinds of
pre emergent weed control that you need, any kinds of
disease control for your lawn. You can find them all
right there at Southwest Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. That's the website,

(48:30):
the location corner of Bissinette and Runwick in southwest Houston.
Save yourself all the driving around everywhere and just go
to Southwest and get what you need. I'm going to
head out to tom Ball down and talk to Beth. Hey, Beth,
Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (48:44):
Hi Ski, Good morning, Skiff, Thank you so much for
taking my call. We have some property. It's actually out
and through all Texas, so it's like thee often and
at College Station, undeveloped. But we have planted five apple
trees out there and so far they're doing fairly well.

(49:06):
We've had a little bit of issue with you know,
just bugs and all that kind of stuff, so we've
been working with that. But right now what we're concerned
about is there is so much sticker birr we all
around the trees and it makes it hard to manage it.

Speaker 13 (49:26):
All.

Speaker 14 (49:27):
We were just wondering, is there anything we can do
to get rid of those sticker birds without herding the tree?

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (49:34):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Now is this a grass burr that you're talking about?

Speaker 14 (49:39):
Yes, yes, you know, like those prickly things just walk
through the grass and it's I think it's all coastal
kind of grass in there that we want to keep.

Speaker 8 (49:48):
But the weedy.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Stuff is you know, the the weedy stuff kind of
blends in a sense. It's a grass and it's growing,
growing in the grass. Yeah, is that right? Okay? All right,
So here's what you need to do as far as
killing it right now. No, because if you kill the
grass burr, you kill the grass the bermuda that you

(50:12):
have there. Now, fruit trees hate to have grass as
a competition. So if you could give them as wide
of a bed of weed free soil as possible and
moult it really well, they will do ten times better
for you. Plus it keeps the lawnmower and weed eat
are away from the trunk. But that is the first

(50:33):
thing I would do, is kill everything there. I mean,
you could use a general purpose killer, or you could
use a grass only killer. If you go to my
website Gardening with Skip there's a publication on it says
herbicides for the weed wiper, but it talks about different
herbicides for each kind of plant. And there's like three
different options for grass control around your plants. And you're

(50:55):
kind of you're located close to plants for all seasons there,
and I know they carry these here in plant rail seasons.
You can just pick some up when you're back this
way or when you're home, but follow the label now
going forward next spring, same website, gardening with skip dot com.
I have my lawn care schedule, okay, and I know

(51:19):
you're not trying to grow a lawn there, But on
the lawn care schedule and on the disease excuse me,
insect disease and weed schedule, that's a separate one. You're
going to find things to take care of turf grasses
and also to prevent the problems. And in February is
when you put down a pre emergent herbicide like barricade

(51:41):
to shut down grass bur when it tries to get started.
So I would do it in late February and your area,
and then I would do it again about sixty to
ninety days later because grasspur will continue to germinate on
through the summer. But those two pre emergent applications is
how you're going to get it out of all the area.

(52:03):
And I talked about killing it around, killing everything around
the trees to have the trees not have that competition,
but have nice mulch. And then the pre emergent in
spring to kill the grassberg before the seeds can establish.

Speaker 14 (52:17):
All right, yeah, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Perfect, All right, thank you appreciate that. Now on garden line,
I don't charge for advice, but I do ask you
to bring me half the apples when you get production,
to drop them off the studio. We'll call it even well, take.

Speaker 11 (52:36):
Care, very fruitful.

Speaker 14 (52:37):
So yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
All right, you take care. I appreciate that. Yeah, I
mentioned plans for all seasons. They're right there on Highway
to forty nine, just north of Luetta. Two forty nine
is Tomball Parkway. So you're going from Houston toward Tomball
exit Luetta crossover Luetta and it's right there, right hand
side of two forty nine, easy to get to. It's
a family owned rated business since nineteen seventy three. They

(53:02):
are lawn and garden experts, you know, and When someone
like Beth walks in there and says I've got grass
burs how to prevent them, They'll walk you right to
the wall and give you the product you need to
use that's going to be effective against them. Because they're experts.
You can bring in samples. You know, I'm trying to
figure out what kind of burr weed is it. Just
bring a sample in or bring a picture in and

(53:22):
they can help you with that. As they like to say,
they're at Plants for all seasons. Get your green on
at Plants for all seasons. Highway two forty nine just
north of Lueta. Plants for all seasons. Dot com Plants
for all seasons dot com Just talking about, excuse me,
making sure you get your weed control things and your

(53:45):
disease control and insects and things like that. Nitrophos's three
step kind of covers everything you need for fall for
your lawn. And here's the thing, and fall we fertilize
with a different blend of fertilizer. Nitrophos calls it the
Fall Special Winter Riser, and it's made for our climate,
for our soils, and for the way our grasses warm

(54:09):
season grasses here in Texas, the way they take up
there and when they take up their nutrients, it is
a perfect fertilizer for doing that. They also have step
two of their three step is barricade to prevent weed
seeds from germinating. I was just telling Beth the BARRICADEI
stop grassbers applied in spring. Well, now you're putting barricade

(54:29):
down to prevent all the cool season weeds chick weed
and clover and hen bet and carpet weed and cleavers,
and they're just unfortunately, we have a whole lot of
them out there in the yard that we have to prevent.
And then nitrofoss Turf Eagle is a fungicide that's step three,
and turf Eagle put down ahead of time, just like

(54:50):
we put herbicides that are pre emergent down ahead of
weed germination, ahead of disease appearance. We put down eagle
turf fungicide. It soaks end of the tissue, so when
brown patch tries to make circles in your lawn it can't.
It prevents take all root rot from getting the upper
hand infecting and getting the upper hand on your turf

(55:12):
as well. Three steps nitroposs, three steps fall special barricade
and eagle turf fungicide. You can find it at Bearings Hardware.
You can find it at all spa Ace in the woodlands.
You're going to find it at Lake Hardware in Angleton
and in Lake Jackson, and you can also find it
at RCYW Nursery. Widely available night Foss products makes it

(55:34):
easy to do. You were listening to Guardline our phone
number seven one three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
I was discussing the preventing weeds for fall. I've been

(55:55):
noticing around town a blooming weed. That is it's not
a cool season, it's a summer weed, but when we
get to fall, it blooms, and that weed is a problem.
It's called aster. Sometimes it's called roadside aster or black
land aster. There's a lot of different asters out there.

(56:16):
There's even ornamental asters we plan on purpose in our gardens.
But this roadside aster, this black land aster, is a problem.
You will notice it in the lawns that are drought stressed.
The lawn is basically brown and the aster is a
blue green color. It's kind of like you know broccoli
and cabbage, that blue green color, but even darker than that.

(56:38):
And you may see it all through a lawn, but
I in my lawn it's green. And I got a
neighbor that has a weedy lawn and they don't control them,
and so the weeds end up coming over to my side,
and I'm always having to deal with it over there.
But you see these little, tiny, let's say, dime size
kind of white to light leavin under blooms that look

(57:02):
like little daisy flowers, little skinny daisy flowers. That is
fall aster, and it's blooming now. Now. Just to give
you some advice and prove the fact that I'm a
gardening nerd, one year, I picked a past bloom astor
blossom that already had seeds, and I opened it up

(57:22):
and I counted the seeds, and there are fifty seeds
in that thing. Now, Astor can form clumps on your
lawn as big as a steerwool of your car. And
I saw plants that had almost one hundred blooms on them.
Fifty times one hundred is five thousand. If you leave,

(57:45):
you're blooming asters there in the lawn, five thousand potential
new plants are being left to come back next year.
Have I made a point. Yes, I hope I have
get rid of it. Don't You're not going to spray
it now with a post emergent herbicides too late. It
is too late when weeds become reproductive, meaning they're blooming

(58:07):
in setting seats, too late to do the post emergence.
But you got to get it done. And I get
out and I hand pull it. At this stage, hand
pulling it. An area as big as a steer roll
in your car could just be one plant with one
taproot coming out of the ground. If the soil's not wet,
water it, get it wet, soften the soil and you

(58:28):
can reach down and find the words coming out of
the ground and just you grab it. And I kind
of wiggle my hand back and forth because I don't
want to just break it off. But if you wiggle
back and forth as you're pulling it, it comes right
out of the ground pretty easy, really very easy. And
I have five gallon bucket and I just kind of
hands and knees in it there. But if you stay

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with it like that, you can prevent it. If you
don't remember the reproductive potential of that plant, it'll be
worse next year by far. If you don't get the
blooms and seeds out now, don't wait too long, because
after it's bloomed a while, then as you're trying to
pull it up, you're knocking seeds loose from the plant.
So word of the wise, hope hopefully that's helpful for you.

(59:15):
I've talked a lot about fertilizing in the fall. You know,
Azamite is the product that we put down for micronutrients,
and I anytime you're adding nutrients, you can call that fertilizing. Okay.
I like to refer to asamite as building the soil
bank account because when I say fertilized, you think it's
going to make my plants grow, And fertilizer does primarily

(59:38):
because of the nitrogen in it that boosts that growth. Asumite,
you put it down, and it's not going to make
your lawn grow and change, you know, like you gave
it a boost. What it's going to do is get
in the soil and all those nutrients needed in trace
amounts are there and the plant can take them up

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and they're essential for gro You put your fertilizer down
and you don't have micro nutrients in the soil, plants
can't grow. Hazem enables that hazmite Texas dot Com is
a website. It's widely available. You're going to find it
all kinds of places. And guess what's time for me
to quit talking? Turn the mic over to the news.
I'll be right back. All right, folks, welcome back to Guardline.

(01:00:23):
Glad you're with us today. What do you want to
talk about? You got some questions, you got something you
want identified, or maybe some suggestions for a particular area
of the garden or landscape. Give me a call seven
one three two one two K T R H. I'll
be happy to help.

Speaker 8 (01:00:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Speaking of happy to help. B and B turf Pros
is your go to place for compost, top dressing and
cor aeration of your lawns and manda. They do good work.
I love BMB because of every aspect of that company,
from the fact that they are about customer satisfaction. They

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are it matters to them. It's not just we did something,
give me the money, I'm leaving I'll see you sometimes. No,
it's it's they care that you're satisfied, and they care
that they do a good job and go to their
website bb turf Pros dot com b B turfpros dot com.
Check out the work that they do. Now they're located

(01:01:22):
kind of south in a little to the west of
the Houston area, and they serve that area because you know,
when you're hauling a bunch of compost around, you got
very expensive equipment coming in to do quality aeration and
quality compost top dressing. You just can't it's not worth
it driving all over the creation to do it. So
Siena malt Or Siena, Texas, Missouri City, sugar Land that's

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kind of the far western end and the eastern end
pair Land, and then all the things in between, Iowa
Colony and Arcola and Manville and Fresno and parts of Houston,
South Houston, so weth Houston down there to bbturf pros
dot com. Go look at that, check out the website,
look at the gallery, look at the work they do.

(01:02:07):
They go above and beyond to make sure number one,
that they make a customer connection, but make sure you're
happy and they use only the products that I recommend
here on garden Line, like for example, CNA malts, the
quality mulches and quality composts and things from Cnamulch. That's
what they use at BnB turf Pros. So from the
top to bottom, from customer service to quality materials to

(01:02:29):
quality work to you being happy, that's BnB turf Pros.
That's what they do. Here's a phone number seven to
one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven
one three two three four five five nine eight. If
your lawn has been struggling this summer, there's no single
better thing you can do. Then get a good good

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aeration and a compost stop dressing on top of that lawn.
And people sometimes will ask me questions like well do
I fertilize before or after that? It kind of a
matter whichever way you want to go about it. You
can do either way. If that if you were you
going to do your typical lawn fertilizing, just do it
when you want to do it, and don't worry about

(01:03:11):
the compas stop dressing and aeration timing. It is sudden matter,
all right, This as simple as that. Well, we're going
to run out to the phones now. We're going to
talk to Joan in Baycliffe. Hey, Joan, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (01:03:22):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (01:03:25):
My question is I have been in this home for
thirty years, and two years ago I noticed a new
It looked like a kind of leafy fence climbing plant
that wasn't too big a nuisance. But over the past
two years it is just rampant. And I think it's

(01:03:46):
cucumber weed. That's what my little plant app told me
that it was. And I'm trying to get rid of it.
And it is the healthiest thing I've.

Speaker 15 (01:03:57):
Seen, but I haven't had it, okay.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Years and years and years.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Okay, So is it? Is it in your lawn too,
or just flower beds or where are you seeing that?

Speaker 7 (01:04:08):
No, it grows up the fence line and it it
acts like an ivy and it'll get on any plant
that's there and just totally cover it, just you know,
kind of build a little kent over it. Yeah, Well,
got a bear like a berry looking. I guess that's

(01:04:28):
the seed. It doesn't blue, it doesn't green green green,
and the seed is green too. Quite it looks like
a little green berry on it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
All right, you know what, I can give you some suggestions,
but let's do this. Will you send me some pictures
of it so I can look and make sure that
my answer is accurate. I'm going to put you on
hold in just second and Crystal pick it up, and
he will give you an email to send me. Make
sure the pictures are in good our focus. Maybe one

(01:05:01):
of the whole thing, the whole vine on the fence,
and then some close up so the berries that are
in focus and the leaves that are in focus, and
I can tell you what to do, my quitte. My
hesitation right now is this is this an annual or
perennial uh And and so if we can determine that
my suggestion for control is going to vary a little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:05:21):
Okay, okay, I'll be happy to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
All right, I'm putting a whole crystal picket right up
and we'll be on our way. Thanks for that call. Uh.
Jorge is Hidden Gardens down in Alvin, Texas. Is your
hometown garden center down south of Houston there. Uh always
has good things coming into the place. He's got a
lot of good fruit trees in you know. He always

(01:05:45):
is centrus, and he's got things like peaches and whatnot.
U and their quality and you fallow as the time
to plant them. Don't wait till late winter to plant.
If you can get a plant now and get it
in the ground. Get it in the ground now. Now's
a good time to do that.

Speaker 8 (01:05:59):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
He always has good shrubs and trees too, outstanding and
some huge ones as well, and he'll come out and
plant them for you. Just it's just part of the
due part of the negotiation of it's actually not a negotiation.
But you know, you buy the plant, you say, well,
I need you to come out and plant it. Okay,
this Swiss going to cost and have him come out

(01:06:19):
and do that. He does a good job of it.
And Jorge is just continuing to expand you know, his
garden center now carries the tree stabilizer, So if you
get a tree, you got to get a tree stabilizer
to hold it in place until it gets its root
system well established. All at Jorgeshiad and Gardens. Now his
fall hours are He's closed on Mondays, so be closed

(01:06:41):
after this weekend first day, and then Tuesday through Friday
nine to three, Saturday and Sunday eight to four. So
nine to three during the week Tuesday through Friday, and
then we're going to add an hour on each end
eight to four on Saturday and on Sunday seventeen seven
twenty one Elizabeth Street and Texas, just south of Highway

(01:07:01):
six Jorges Hidden Gardens. We're going to go now to
Larry and sugar Land. Hello Larry, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:07:12):
Good morning. I've got some boxwoods that are deciding to
die on me. You know, they started getting yellow and
then it becomes they're going.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Mhm okay, Well, boxwoods have a lot of problems. I
am becoming less and less a fan of boxwoods just
due to some of the issues that they have in
the soil. Nematodes attack the roots make them very inefficient.
I posted something to Facebook Guardline Facebook. A good while back.

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I dug some out in front of my house that
I didn't plant. Their previous owner planet I'm full of nematodes.
They have some soil borne diseases with fungal wilts is
what they are. They get in the room in the
plumbing of the plant and they cause it to decline.
If you're looking at your plants over this progression, does
it start off with like one branch goes down and

(01:08:06):
then other branches or does the whole bush go down
to kind of together at one time. No, it's progressive, aggressive, okay, Yeah,
it could be those sections that are like that. Take
a knife and as they're dying before they're dry and
dead and everything's brown, slice through the bark vertically, in

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other words, the length of the direction of the branch,
and look underneath the surface. And if you see streaking
of brown and gray, that kind of thing that is
a fusarium or verticillium type of wilt that is affecting them.
If you don't look down and look for splits or

(01:08:49):
cankers on the branch. So you got a green bush
and over this branch is now dying. Follow the dying
down to where it joins the healthy and there should
be a canker or something right there. Larry, I'm gonna
have to run to a break on this. If you
want to hang on, I'll come back to you when
we come back. I just leave. Yeah, let's just leave

(01:09:09):
it that way and I'll be right back. All right, folks,
Just hang on a second. We'll be right back. Guardline. Folks.
Good have you with us. We have a lot to
talk about and lots of folks to talk to as well. Hey,
I want to remind you I'm going to be at
Nature's way resources today from eleven thirty to one thirty,
part of their Fall Festival. Fall Festival runs from nine

(01:09:31):
in the morning till two pm. I hope you'll come out.
It's free to get in. You're gonna have Latin food,
You're gonna have local vendors. There's gonna be plant sales
out there, live music, and plenty for kids to do,
lots of children's activities. Again. I'll be there eleven thirty
to one thirty answering your gardening questions. Everybody up in
that whole direction, come on out and see me. I

(01:09:51):
don't care if you live in Timbuck two, if you drive,
come on out and see me. Bring your samples, bring
them in a plastic bag, let me look at them,
bring me photos to look at. However you want to
go about it. We will get your garden questions answered
and on the air. I have to kind of move fast,
talk to us, meet people as I can. But when
I'm there live you got me. I had I, so

(01:10:13):
come on out. Let's spend some time like that. I
wanted to mention that Wildbirds still has their annual feeder
swap at all six locations. What does that mean? That
means you find some feeder. You get one of your feeders,
it's just falling apart, and no matter what condition it is,
you bring it in. Twenty percent off a new feeder

(01:10:34):
when you trade in an old feeder, and they mean
any feeder. Now that's at all six Wildbirds locations. You
can go online to WBU dot com wb U dot com,
Forward Slash Houston, Forward Slash Houston. You'll find the six
Wallbird stores. There's one near you. And when you go

(01:10:56):
in there, in fact, I need to get back. I
just use up the last of my birds. C putting
some seed in my feeders and my mother in law's feeders. Yeah,
I'm in charge of stocking those two U and Wilbirds
has a best seed. When I say best, I mean
there's no junk. When you buy a pound of wildbird seed,
you get a pound of stuff that goes into a
bird stummy. That's how that works. As opposed to getting

(01:11:16):
kicked on the ground like cheap bird seeds often do
wilbirds unlemited. Check them out. I'm gonna run back. Now.
We were we were talking to Larry over about some
box woods, and Larry, uh, you do, I would do
that slicing and if you see the brown streaking in there, Uh,
that is a soil disease. You can't do anything about uh.

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And so you just have to plant something other than
boxwood in that area. If you were to wash out
some roots and you see and you see knots and root.

Speaker 5 (01:11:49):
Okay, that's the reason I wanted to hang on UH.
In the in the backyard, for example, we have some
sunshine and la gustum that have done very well. But
you know this is the front of the house where
it's it's shaded. And so, yes, you got any suggestions
for something that would replace the box foods.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
Uh. Dwarfyophon does pretty good in a shaded area. It's
a native plant to our area and so it does
pretty good. But it likes sun. But it'll put up
with a little bit of shade. If how tall can
the plant be? What's the top height in this for you?
Limits it a lot. There are some hollies that are compact,

(01:12:35):
but two foot is pretty low. Uh, So that that
would be that would be an option. You might go
with a taller groundcover if you're just looking for dark uh.
The asparagus, fern, the foxtail types, they'll put up with
some shade and they they stay down low. Uh, that

(01:12:56):
would be one you might want to consider. But the
other thing on the box would before we go, and
I need to run to some other calls here, But
before we go, the plant clinic at Texas A and
M can analyze a plant and tell you what's wrong
with it and what to do about it. And so
we could sit here and guess, or you could, you know,
cut it open and look and stuff. If you've got

(01:13:18):
a plant that's dying, if you could dig it up,
it still needs to be alive. In other words, it
needs to be sick, not dead. Uh. And you you
can drive it up to College Station or or you
know from your area. You may want to mail it,
but you go to plant Clinic dot T A m U,
dot E ed U. Now they're going to charge a

(01:13:39):
fee for that analysis, like any clinic would. But if
you've got a whole bunch of them, it's very expensive
to replace all those plants, so that fee is probably
well worth it for you to consider. And Larry, I'm
sorry to have to run, but I need to need
to head out.

Speaker 5 (01:13:54):
That's fine, I'll consider doing that. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Thank you, all right, sir, thank you, thanks for the call.
Appreciate that you know. Microlife fertilizer has all these options,
both dry granular fertilizers like their brown Patch and liquid fertilizers.
There's a seaweed, there's a fish emulsion type. There's one

(01:14:19):
called biomatrix. It's outstanding. When you get Microlife products, you
get microbes loaded in them, and microbes good microbes help
fight back bad microbes. They're one of the many factors
that we put together to create plant health. And so
for example, I would put down the brown patch now

(01:14:40):
it's time. That's their fall fertilizer. It is loaded with
microbes that help outcompete the brown patch on your turf.
I would also put out micro Grow bioanoculant. That's a
maroon colored bag, a burgundy colored bag. Micro Grow bio inoculant,
sixty three different strains beneficial microbes. And I could spend

(01:15:02):
the rest of today's show just talking about each of
these strains and how they work to help your plants.
It is very very effective micro Grow Biinoculant and micro
Microlife brown Patch. Now's the time to buy them, Now's
the time to get them on widely available. Ace hardware
stores Southwest fertilizer, your garden centers and nurseries we talk

(01:15:24):
about on garden Line. Feed stores. Micro life products are
widely available, easy to find. I'm going to head out
to Mac in Jersey Village. Hey Mac, Welcome to garden Line.
How can I help? Oh, good morning.

Speaker 17 (01:15:38):
About six months ago I started about eight hundred square
foot area with San Augustine. A couple of months ago,
started seeing brown patch. I put down a layer of
compost top dressing from Nature's White. Seemed to help, but
now it's come back week ago. I don't know if

(01:16:02):
I did the right thing, but anyway, I sprayed with
a hose and spray with bio advanced fungus control for lawns.
And then last week I heard you talk about the
natural foss eagle. So yeah, I'm wondering can I put
down the egle today because it's it's it's just just

(01:16:23):
not I'm just not seeing anything any results.

Speaker 8 (01:16:28):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Uh, And to manage a brown patch, you need to
avoid over watering. Can't control the rain, but avoid over
watering and avoid over fertilizing with nitrogen, which is important. Uh.
You if you used you said what did you say, Uh,
the it was what was the product you put on

(01:16:52):
boid Advanced? I yeah, yeah, I think that has propacannasole
in it, which is effective against brown patch. Uh. The
eagle is also effective, So you may want to just
try that as an extra if it is just out
of control. But just remember every area that's already brown
is going to be brown till spring. You can't turn
those around. Okay, okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
All right, I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
All right, take this way in, all right, I hope,
so come on out. Yeah, look forward to that. Thanks
a lot. We're going to have to go to a
break or sherry. Hang on just a minute. I'm going
to try to get through the producer I think an
answer to your question, and if that doesn't solve it,
I'll talk to you when we get back after the
top of the hour. News here, just hang on for
me one second. I want to remind everybody that I

(01:17:38):
am going to be at Nature's Way Resources today from
eleven thirty to one thirty as part of their Fall Festival.
I officially designated this as a shindig. Shindig is an
important word you need to have in your vocabulary that
means we're going to have fun Latin food, plant sales,
live music, kids activities. There'll be lots of venders there,
and I'll be there answering your gardening questions, diagnosing. I

(01:18:01):
even have some good handouts. They're going to give away
one hundred and fifty dollars gift certificate and some bags
of their fine leaf mole compost.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
To Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Rickards.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Just watch him as well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
Let's just jump right back in here and get going again.
We got a lot to talk about, so touch base
on a few things for you. I wanted to I
haven't talked about Moss Nursery a lot lately, and I
really wanted to mention that it is a destination place
that you have to go. I don't care where you live.
And I really mean that. You know, I talk about

(01:18:53):
gardening tourism all the time, and uh, this would be
an example. You know, Houston here, we've got garden centers north, south, east, West, Central,
I mean, really, we do garden centers that are worth
taking your family to when they visit town. And certainly
if you're a gardener, worth visiting, Moss is down there
in Seabrook, Texas. It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook. Anyone
who lives in that region knows about Moss because it's

(01:19:15):
been there a long time. A family garden center that
is just a wonderland. It's you go and wander through
and every time you turn a corner you see stuff
you've never seen before, as well as all the familiar
things that you're looking for. You know when you go
to Moss Nursery you're going to find their houseplant greenhouse
is incredible, incredible. Whether you like succulents or tropical foliage

(01:19:40):
or whatever, they've got it. When you go to Moss Nursery,
they're containers. They every where you go there's piles of
all kinds of unique, cool containers that you can put
your plants in. That is a lot of fun just
picking out something new to try out. Good supply of vegetables,
good supply of annual color are for fall color right now.

(01:20:01):
They are ready to go. They are loaded up and
ready to go. Trees, shrubs, fruit, trees, anything you can imagine,
not Moss Nursery is going to have it. And so
if you're looking for a special host plant for maybe
a room that's a little on the dark side and
you need something that can put up with a little
less light. Go by there and check it out. If

(01:20:21):
you need any kind of products and supplies, they are
stocked up as well. But when it comes to fall
falls for planting, and Moss Nursery is forgetting everything that
you need to plant again. Moss Nursery dot com on
Toddville Road in Seabrook. If you've never been there before, Hey,
today be a good day this afternoon for an outing

(01:20:43):
to run by Moss Nursery and check them out. I
always like going in there. Jim goes on these trips
and brings all kinds of stuff back, and there's no
telling what you're going to find at Moss Nurse. I'm serious.
Do you need a totem pole with carved faces in it? Yeah,
they got those as well as everything else. It's kind

(01:21:04):
of cool. I was talking about Ace hardware earlier and
the fact that they have plenty of fire at baits available.
You know, when we approach fire ants season, and this
is a big fire ant season, you want to knock
them down going into the winter. That's important. It gives
you an upper hand coming out in spring, people use

(01:21:24):
usually use fire at mound controls, and those are fine.
They work on that mound, but fire ants reproduce and
they'll be somewhere else in the yard forming a new colony.
And it hadn't if you will boiled up to the
surface where now you got dirt up on top of
the ground. You know there's a fire at mount. They're
not there yet. So if you just use mound treatments,

(01:21:45):
you're playing whack a mole with fire ants. You kill
this one, one pops up over here, You killed that one,
one pops up over here. Baits cover all of it.
Those mounds you can't see. They have workers. They have
to feed themselves. They have workers that are out there
getting food. And the food is the bait you put
down laced with the firemant control product. There's organic bait,

(01:22:06):
synthetic bait. You get your choice, just like individual mound treatment,
you get a choice. Ace Hardware's got that covered. Every
fall fertilizer that I've been harping on this fall is
at Ace Hardware. They have them all and then some
anything you need. When you hear me talk about controlling
your lawn weeds with barricade, pre emergent. When you hear
me talk about Eagle turf, funge aside, and any other

(01:22:28):
kind of product, it's there at ACE Hardware store. Ace
Hardware is easy to get because there's forty of them.
Just go to acehardware dot com, find the store near you,
and there you go, and allow yourself a little time
when you go in there, because you're gonna see a
lot of cool stuff. You're gonna walk through Ace Hardware
and you're going to go that would be a perfect
gift for you. Fell in the blank. It is, it is.

(01:22:52):
It is really cool to go into an Ace Hardware store.
Plus the fact that you know when you go, you're
going to get the things you hear me talk about
on guarden Line. I'm gonna head over to Humble now
and we're going to talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
SKIP.

Speaker 8 (01:23:07):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
I good, sir?

Speaker 8 (01:23:10):
Have I have an.

Speaker 18 (01:23:12):
Issue with twenty year old like gustrooms in it. All
of a sudden they seem to be wilting on me
Because we've had drier weather, I've turned up the water.
I think I may have exacerbated the problem. So at
this point I'm trying to figure out.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
What to do.

Speaker 19 (01:23:31):
You know, do I do I shove the water off
on them? Or do I? Is there is there something
that you know? Maybe there's there's something going on in
in the upper northeast Houston area in the soil that
that's new this year that hasn't been around.

Speaker 18 (01:23:47):
So I'm kind of picking your brain on those.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Okay, the gustrooms are pretty resilient when it comes to
root issues. We don't have a lot of them. If
they've been there twenty years, it's unlikely that some root
rot just showed up overnight, you know, to hit your leagustrooms.
It's probably a soule moisture issue.

Speaker 8 (01:24:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:07):
Too much water, the roots can't get oxygen, and roots
that can't get oxygen dye and roots that are dead
can't take up water. So it's kind of weird. But
you can have a plant standing in standing water that's
wilted for that reason, which is kind of weird. But
it could be too dry too. I would get a
trial dig down about three or four inches and feel

(01:24:27):
the soil. See what you think, you know? Is it
too wet or is it not wet enough? I'll tell
you this, I know you know telling somebody. To replace
a whole bunch of shrubs means money, right, and time
and effort. But lagustrum, in my opinion, is not a
great long term shrub. It has some issues. You probably

(01:24:49):
have seen leaf spots on your lagustriums. I was at
a house just yesterday looking at some shrubs and the
leaves were just yellow spots all over them. Is a
disease that plagues lagustriums, and the only way around it
is to rake up all the leaves and spray every
time it rains. When the when the rain stops, you
go out and spray. And nobody almost have to do

(01:25:10):
that to shrubs. Lagustrooms get big and overtime they outgrow
and then they get thin underneath. They got foliage on
top of it, not underneath, And so I would no,
I know, but I know lagustriums and that's exactly what
they do. And so I guess you know you're you're
calling me about them wilting, and I'm saying, hey, why

(01:25:31):
not replace them. There's a lot of great shrubs out there,
and falls the best planning season, so you know you
don't have to do it, but it's your yard. But
this would be kind of a moment where it might
be good to decide, why don't I try something different?
You know, maybe the area has grown more shady over
time in those twenty years. Maybe, I don't know. You

(01:25:52):
fill in the blank after the word maybe. But there
could be other reasons why a different shrub would do
better there as well.

Speaker 18 (01:25:59):
Yeah, well, Greg, hang on they.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
I was just reading a quote. You know, I love
gardening quotes. Feel free to send me gardening quotes and
I collect them. And I just read one that said
that which people sow, they shall also reap. You've heard
that before, right, does not always apply to the pictures
on seed packets. That is true. I have been there, right. Hey,

(01:26:31):
gardening is for fun, guys. You got to laugh at
yourself sometimes. And I'll tell you this. To be a
good horticulture, she got to kill a lot of plants,
so have fun. Get out there. We don't kill plants
on purpose, but hey, man, things happen, right, things go wrong.
It's okay. That's why we have spades and rototillers. You
can always do it again. You can always try again.

(01:26:52):
You always learn and get better. That's true. And I
guess that's the thought for the day. Something like that.
Medina Products out in Hondo, Texas, has been probably the
longest term sponsor of Guardenline that we've had. Medina Products
are well known all over the state and really beyond

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Texas as well, because they have great products. They have
products that work really well. One that I think you
ought to give a good hard look at and actually
get some in use this fall is Medina Plus. Now
Medina Plus. It's fortified with essential micro nutrients, those little
small things that you need, the things that you need

(01:27:36):
in small quantities rather in order for plants to succeed.
It's got growth hormones from seaweed extract in it. It's
an excellent fol of your feed. You're not going to
burn your plants with it. So you got a tree,
a shrub, a lawn, Yes, you can put in a
hose in use it on your lawn. It has Medina
Soil Activator in it, the standard original product there, but

(01:27:58):
Medina Plus also has forty trace elements. It's got natural
growth hormones. As I said, it's got a number of
different vitamin type materials that all are part of the
concoction that makes Medina Plus work. It's going to increase
blooming and leaf growth. It's going to promote fruit. Set
on things that produce fruit. If you're going to do transplanting,

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you need to get some. Just mix it up, follow
the label. Mix it up, put it in a watering can.
Put that plant in the ground and water it in
really well. Then fill up the soil around that plant
and water it in again with Medina Soil Activator. Medina
excuse me, Medina plus that contains Medina Soil Activator. You

(01:28:42):
are going to be able to soak seeds in it
and help them a lot of the things in it
will be helpful for that seed as it begins to sprout.
I would water my little seedlings when I'm trying to
get them to come up, and as they sprout, water
them again with Medina Plus. Again, it's got a lot
of uses very and like other products from the folks
at Medina, it's gonna work. You were listening to garden Line.

(01:29:07):
My phone number if you'd like to give me a
call seven one three two one two kt RH seven
one three two to one two kt r H. When
was the last time you went to Enchenned forest out
there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. You know, if you're
in Richmond, h and you're heading towards sugar Land. It's
off to the right. It's on FM twenty seven fifty

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nine F twenty seven fifty nine. Enchanted Forest is the
garden center.

Speaker 5 (01:29:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
I like in Chenned Forest. In fact, I love it.
It's always exciting to go there because there's always new
things right now. The color, it's color galore all over
that place. Uh. They are loaded up with pumpkins and moms.
They got all their fall veggies in. They have shrubs
for the shade of shrubs per sun. They've got trees

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like holly's and oaks and maples and the Chinese, just
to name a few of the trees that they have
in there. By the way, if you're gonna plant a
shrubber a tree, do it or a woody vine, do
it this fall. It's also good time to plant perennials,
but especially for those woody ornamentals. If you get them
done in late October and November, you're going to have

(01:30:18):
way head start over next summer's heat and stress on
our plants. Now, they also have Chinese fringe, and I
if you've never seen or grown Chinese fringe, you need
to I like it because it's not so huge as
big shade trees. So a lot of our lotz these
days aren't huge like they used to be in many

(01:30:39):
decades past. Chinese fringe fits that it bloom's ever spring
with shaggy, fragrant ballooms, and they've got them in a
chanet for us to go buy, talk to them. Do
look google around, look at look at that thing online
and see what I'm talking about. It is awesome. We
used to have a Chinese fringe at the extension office
in Bear Creek Park before two floods pretty much put
an end to that whole thing. But it was it

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was huge, bigger than any Chinese friends I've ever seen.
It's probably twenty five feet high something like that.

Speaker 8 (01:31:07):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
It was big. It's beautiful, maybe even a little larger
that that took a long time to reach that. By
the way, today and in Channon Forest, Deston, my friend
Destin note the Texas Garden Guy is going to be
doing a talk on fall gardening starting at ten am today.
Those would be down south in that area, you know,
swing by there, Deston, Texas Garden Guy in tenned Forest
topic fall gardening ten am This morning, be there or

(01:31:30):
be squared. When he gets through talking, come out and
see me. You have to all you have to do
is drive all the way up to Nature's Way up
in Conroe. But hey, road time, windshield time, right, Uh yeah,
in Chenny Forest's a great place. I love to do that.
I had someone talking to me the other day about landscaping,

(01:31:51):
and I was telling them things they should do, and
I could tell you know, when you're telling somebody something
and you know that they are politely listening, but they
have absolutely no intention of doing what you're suggesting. I
can see it in the eye, just like when I
go into a place to shop and I ask someone
who works there a question, and with the first few
words out of my mouth, I can just tell you

(01:32:14):
they have no idea. They're not going to give me
an accurate answer. They're going to give me an answer.
They're going to talk for a while, but I might
as well go, Thank you very much. I'm already done
before I finished answering the question. Well, anyway, I was
talking to someone and I knew they weren't going to
do what they're gonna do because they just weren't interested
in getting out and digging holes and planting drubs and
doing some things. And I have an answer for that. Peerscapes.

(01:32:37):
Call Peerscapes. Peerscapes makes magic out of your landscape. I
don't care if you have a bed that I need
to replace it with some drought hardy, disease resistant shrubs
and things so I don't have to worry about them.
That's what my conversation was about. By the way, well
they can do that. Do you need do you need

(01:32:59):
landscape lighting? Do you have poorly drained areas? Do you
want a patio? Do you want like a barbecue brig
barbecue or rock barbecue enclosed patio? They can do that.
You need to go to their website though, to see
what I'm talking about. Pierce Scapes dot com, pierscapes dot com.

(01:33:21):
There's so many things they can do. I can't even
say them all here on the show. At this point,
you just need to call and see go to the
pierscapes dot com, see what they can do, and then
give them a call. Two eight, one, three, seven oh
fifty sixty. Now they do good jobs, so they're always
scheduling ahead of time, so don't delay. You want to

(01:33:42):
get this work done soon and you need to give
them a call so you can get on the schedule
and get the work done. You got issues with your
sprinkler system, they can do that too. Pretty much, anything
that's a problem in your landscape or that you just
have dreamt of I've always wanted to have you fell
in the blank cal pier scapes. That makes it real simple,

(01:34:04):
real easy. I was visiting with some of their designers
a good while back, just talking to them about plants
and design and things, and looking at all the things
they had out, you know, these beautiful landscape designs that
they had done. It's just like, Yeah, I'm impressed with
these Folks'll tell you what. Let's go out to clear

(01:34:25):
like and we are going to talk to Jim. Hello, Jim,
Welcome to garden Line. Good morning Skip.

Speaker 20 (01:34:30):
I was out in the yard about two three weeks,
right at the end of September, and I put my
herbicide down and I did a really light brown patch feeding.
But the bag says twenty pounds per thousand square feet.
My yard's about twenty three hundred square feet. I'm wondering
if it would be all right put the rest of

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that down on the on the lawn.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Now do you remember what the product was you used?

Speaker 11 (01:35:00):
Brown patch?

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
Oh, the microlife brown patch right? Yes? No, no.

Speaker 20 (01:35:09):
At the time I put the herbicide down, I put
a real light uh yeah, application, and I want to
finish up the bag.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Now do you have brown patch currently in your lawn?
Do you see the circles?

Speaker 5 (01:35:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
Oh? Yes, I do? Okay, good, okay, well, yes, a
s A P. I would get that done because once
the disease infects, it's hard even with you know, chemical
fungicides to kill the disease in the in the grass.
It's better to be ahead of it. And the microlife

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is going to work by populating the exterior of the
grass plant parts with the microbes that help not only
fight against the disease, but we way I put it
is create a hostile environment for diseases trying to land
because you've got such a proliferation of good microbes that
are in the spot. So I would, yes, I would

(01:36:07):
definitely get it on. You might you might, you know,
as I think about it, you might want to use
their bioinoculant. It's called it's micro grow bioinoculant that has
a whole lot of different groups of microbes as well.
And that's something that you could also put out there
on it if you want to stay, if you want

(01:36:27):
to stay toward the organic end.

Speaker 20 (01:36:30):
Okay, and so I can do the bio inoculator and
the brown patch together.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
Yes, the bioinoculator is not a fertilizer. It's it's a
product that just puts all these different kinds of extra
microbes out there and you watered in really good both
of them. You can apply them both. Don't put them
in the same hopper. It's always better to apply products
one at a time. You can do it at the
same time, same day, you know, same hour, but just

(01:37:00):
and then water men really good. That'll give your grass
the hopefully there's not too much infection that's already occurring
that you're not seeing. Uh, but if you're going to
stay on the organic end, that would be the approach
to take.

Speaker 20 (01:37:13):
Alrighty well, thank you very much, have a great weekend, all.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Right, Jim, thanks a lot, appreciate your call. You are
listening to garden Line our number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. You know Arburgate, Arburgate
dot com is a website. It's the garden center just
west of Tambul, Texas on twenty nine twenty And if

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you walk out to Arburgate, now your jaw is going
to drop. The color that they have, the plants that
they have in the decorations, the fall. The gift shops
are unbelievable right now. They're even getting in some of
the Christmas stuff coming up later. If you're going to
go to visit someone for Thanksgiving, take them a plant
from Arbigate. Take them a gift from Arbrogate. When you

(01:38:04):
go to Arbigate. You know my broken record, mantra brown
stuff before green stuff. Grab a bag of organic food complete,
Organic soil complete, and organic compost complete. Those are three
different things. They contain the nutrients that plants need for
the roots, they contain the soil contains expanded jail as well,
so does the organic compass complete. It's three bags. You

(01:38:27):
put those three bags in the ground, follow the label
and then put your plants in the ground. Or you
can use a fertilizer later. But you've got to take
care of the foundation so those plants will succeed in Boy,
what does Arbrogate ever have some outstanding plants right now.
Go check them out arbrogate dot com just one and
a half miles west of forty nine on twenty nine twenty.

(01:38:51):
I'll be right back. Good to have you with us.
We are talking about all things gardening, and you know
that's what we do here on garden and we answer
your questions. By the way, another reminder, I'm going to
be at the Fall Festival speaking of answering your questions
at Nature's Way resources up in Conra. So if you're
heading up Interstate forty five toward Conra from Houston where

(01:39:14):
fourteen eighty eight comes in, this is going north from
the left fourteen eighty eight from Magnolia, you turn right,
cross over the railroad tracks and then turn right again
and you're at Nature's Way. That's how you get there. Now,
they're going to have their Fall Festival, which I think
should be called the Fall Shindig because it is a shindig,
which means we're going to have fun, children's activities, live music.

(01:39:38):
There's going to be local vendors there, plant sales and things.
They'll have some Latin food, and I'll be there answering
your gardening questions. The whole event is nine am to
two pm. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty,
so basically kind of over the noon hour time doing
Q and I. You can bring me questions, bring me
samples for identity, for diagnosis. I can even perform last

(01:40:00):
rites on dead plants, but that won't accomplish anything for them,
but you know, we got to catch them before they die.
Seriously joking aside, We're gonna have a good time and
I hope you can make it. And while you're at
at Nature's Way, make sure you got room in the
car the pickup, bring a trailer if you need to
pick up some of the quality resources that they have.
Nature's Ways been doing quality soil resources for a very

(01:40:25):
long time. Many of the things we talk about all
the time now on garden Line we're born at Nature's Way,
such as rose soil such as a leaf mold, composts
for example. And I could I could mention others, but anyway,
come on out and see me today over the eleven
thirty to one thirty I'll be there and Junior Gardening.
You can bring samples and also bring pictures on your

(01:40:47):
phone to that works just as well if you've if
you have struggled in the past falls with diseases like
large patch brown patch. If you've dealt in past spring
with the proliferation of cool season weeds, and if your
lawn just struggles at times, nitrofoss has got you covered.

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They got something called the Texas three step.

Speaker 5 (01:41:11):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:41:11):
Remember you do the two step on a dance floor,
you do the three step on your lawn. The three
step is Fall special wind riser. That's the fertilizer, perfect
blend for fall. The three step is nitropos barricade to
prevent weeds. Get it down as soon as you can
now call it's going to take is a coal front
and some raine and we're gonna have cool season weeds

(01:41:33):
germinating and you will get to pay for that and
fall if you don't stop them now. And the three
step is Eagle turf fungicide a head of brown patch
infecting so that when that disease or take all root
rout for that matter, tries to infect and cause damage
to your lawn. The fungicide, the systemic fungicide is there
three steps, Fall special Barricade, Eagle turf fungicide. You can

(01:41:56):
find it in a chanted forest in Richmond. You can
find it at a Hardware City Memorial Drive, at Gym's
hardburd Montgomery, and at the Stantons shopping Center down in Alvin.
Let's head back to the phones. We're going to go
to Bay City now and talk to Keith. Hello, Keith,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 21 (01:42:14):
Morning, Rick, Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I've got
a highbiscus. I've headed my house for probably eight or
nine years.

Speaker 18 (01:42:22):
It's been a beautiful plant.

Speaker 21 (01:42:24):
Every year it would grow up to at least six,
maybe even eight foot tall ballooms all over it. This
year it's knee high, and once in a while we'll
get one or two balloons and that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:40):
Huh. Getting plenty of sunlight.

Speaker 21 (01:42:44):
Uh, it's on the east side of the house and
it gets sun for you know, till probably one.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
Or two o'clock. Uh like it like it always has.

Speaker 21 (01:42:55):
Yeah, I mean I've been feeding it the same stuff.
It gets watered every day, or not every day, every
every other day. And uh, I mean I've changed anything, Okay, sure?

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
So well, other than it's short, do you see any
other symptoms or the leaves smaller? Do you see coloring
in the leaves or lack of coloring or two stems.

Speaker 18 (01:43:22):
All the all.

Speaker 21 (01:43:23):
The leaves are green and pretty except for two stems,
and they're taller than the rest of them, and they're
kind of yellowish. They're not yellowish pale green, Okay, they're
not a bright green.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
Well, Michael, I don't I don't know what to tell
you on that. When a plant is dwarfed more like that,
usually something's wrong in the roots in the soil. Uh,
you know, not enough water to supper growth, not enough
nutrient you're telling me. You know, you're watering it and

(01:44:01):
you're fertilizing it. Yeah, and you know, I don't know
what else would dwarf it. You know, very light doses
of certain kinds of herbicides can kind of stunt a plant.
But you usually see weird leaves when that happens, and
you don't have that that it could be a root
rot in the soil that is working on some of
the roots, but not real extensive. Kind of unusual for

(01:44:25):
a plant that's been happy for so long and now
suddenly root rot shows up unless it went through a
very soggy, wet period. So that those are observations from me.
I don't have a crystal ball though to know what
exactly is happening on that plant.

Speaker 21 (01:44:39):
Yeah, okay, that's just totally give it a track, because,
like I say, my wife she loves that bush and
it always comes out every spring and it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Just grows up. Is beautiful this year? Yeah, high you
might try getting a a garden hose and trying to
wash out some of the surface roots. You know, just
where you can see the roots are they are they plump, white,
creamy colored, healthy looking or do you see swollen spots

(01:45:15):
all over the roots?

Speaker 8 (01:45:17):
Well?

Speaker 21 (01:45:17):
No, if you would keep mulch on it, and so
I really don't.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
Well I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting you, Yeah, pull back the
mulch and just get some of the roots. I don't
want you to tear them up. I just you know,
use the spade to loosen the soil and kind of
wash some soil. See if you see knots. And if
you do give me a callback, we can talk about that.
But that that's about as far as I can take
that one based on the information I got to go

(01:45:43):
on at this point, Keith. But I wish you well
and look forward to talking to you more. If if
you can get some more if you notice some other things, thanks,
thanks a lot for giving us a call. I do
appreciate that the folks at Landscaper's Pride make quality soil.
It's as simple as that. And when I say quality soils,
I mean things like their compost peet made from locally

(01:46:06):
screened pine It is excellent for improving structure, adding their
organics into the soil. They have something called planting mix,
and it's a blend of locally sourced pine bark but
also with the sandy loam and the organics in it.
And a planting mix like that is so widely adaptable
that you can use it to grow just about anything

(01:46:26):
you want to grow. Now. They also have the course
the black velvet mulch. Always twelve months out of the year,
the ground should be covered because where sunlight hits a soil,
nature plants a weed. Black velvet mulch is a beautiful color.
It's not dyed, it's naturally dark, and it just looks good.
You can go to Landscaperspride dot com or follow them
on social media to find stores and to find a

(01:46:48):
lot more information about their other mini products. As they
say at Landscaper's Pride, let's grow something together. Let's head
out now to Alvin, Texas and talk to Michael. Hello, Michael,
welcome to garden line.

Speaker 22 (01:47:03):
Hello, Hello, I've got this rather large Arizona ash tree,
almost almost three feet in diameter.

Speaker 23 (01:47:14):
It's a big one.

Speaker 22 (01:47:16):
And up, okay, around up around the six foot up
on the main trunk.

Speaker 23 (01:47:22):
The bark is starting to separate from.

Speaker 2 (01:47:25):
The I know it. I know what you're talking about. Yeah,
I know it's talking about. Hey, Michael, I'm at a break.
I'm gonna go, but when we come back, we're gonna
we're gonna answer that question for you. Just hang on Alan,
You'll be the next up after Michael. We'll be right back. Folks.

Speaker 13 (01:47:43):
What once was?

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
I love going out to Nelson Water Gardens, which is
out in Katie, Texas. If by the way, if you've
never been there, just go to Katie out I ten.
When you get to Katie Fort Bend Road, Katie for
Ben Road, turn north and it's just a hop, skipping
or jump down the road on the right hand side.
Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens Number one is awesome nursery.

(01:48:08):
When you walk in the store, you are among one
of the most beautiful low collections of house plants. I've
seen they are in They're unusual, they're colorful, they're in
awesome shape. I always have to stop there before I
can get back into the rest of the nursery. The
beautiful plants, all the kinds of plants you would want.
I mean, do you want for a trees, Yeah, they

(01:48:29):
got those shrubs, trees, they got vines, they got herbs.
I purchased some herbs there a while back. Just really
really quality plants. And then there's the water gardens. There
are the koi ponds and the various kinds of fish
that you would put in upon like koi or like shabunkin.
And then there are the plants that you put in
water gardens, and of course the water features. Anytime you

(01:48:50):
can bring the sound of water home, you are going
to have an outstanding setting. I was just out in
my backyard yesterday visiting my wife and and talking about
the sound of water. We have two water features in
the backyard, and it just is so relaxing. And when
you go to Nelson Water Gardens, you're gonna you're going

(01:49:10):
to see that. After you pick up your vegetables and
your flowers and all the kinds of things that you
might want just stop in and sit and enjoy the
sound of water. You will find features that you got
to have in your house. Every time I go by there,
it's like, yeah, I need one of those. I can't
get enough beautiful, beautiful at Nelson Water Gardens in Katie.

(01:49:35):
Let's do this. Let's go to Baytown and we're going
to talk to Alan. Hello, Alan, Welcome to garden Mine.

Speaker 9 (01:49:42):
Good morning. My question is like third time I calls
about New Sode. My house was built in a foball
on in July and.

Speaker 5 (01:49:52):
Nothing's been done to it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
But I'm six.

Speaker 9 (01:49:54):
It's just the yards begging for the fertilization schedule to start.
That's going to happen tomorrow. Okay, I'm noticing to building
all these these holes around me. The whole front yard
is nothing but sand. They laid the saw down in it.
Would it benefit my yard if I and lay some
top soil down or combination sicky sicky soil and sand,
or don't worry about it?

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Do you know?

Speaker 9 (01:50:14):
Grass is growing?

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
What's what's underneath the grass right now? Do you know?

Speaker 9 (01:50:19):
I think if I'm looking at what to do for
the rest of the homes they're building, there's nothing but sand,
I don't see any of the kind of soil being
brought out there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Well, no, it wouldn't help to put that out. What
you need to do is get my schedule from gardening
with skip dot com and follow. I have organic and
synthetic fertilizer options that are outstanding day. A good one
right now would be Nelson's carbo load.

Speaker 5 (01:50:48):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
It's it's designed for fall and it also has that
pre emergent in it. So if your lawn is you
know a little bit then in places rather than winter
weeds sprouting, it's going to prevent those and you kind
of kill too birds with one stone with that the
Nelson carbo load. Uh. The fertilizer is important going forward.
Anytime you get an opportunity to do like an narration

(01:51:10):
or compost stop dressing something along those lines, I would
go ahead and do that. That also helps your lawn.
But primarily it's water and fertilizing and regular mowing.

Speaker 5 (01:51:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
You want to go on a regular schedule at a
at a good height.

Speaker 9 (01:51:28):
Well that's what I do. It's getting all of that
and except for the fertilizer. For fertilizer yet, because I
didn't get into July the house until I'm waiting to
like probably today or tomorrow. And I've already already. I
know you've mentioned the Nelsons already about the nitrofiles. So
but I can go ahead and do that, okay, and
at the same time, the same.

Speaker 2 (01:51:48):
Day, yes, not in the same hopper, but same time,
same day nitrophiles fall special and barricade or an excellent
combination to accomplish the same thing in your lawn.

Speaker 11 (01:52:00):
All right, okay, well, thank you, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
Yeah, and then just next summer when it's dry, give
it a good soaking periodically, and I think you'll get
that lone in good shape.

Speaker 9 (01:52:11):
Okay, all right, I just didn't like to see just
to say I note that needed some good dirt underneath it,
or not so very good.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
We're going we're gonna make it easy. We're gonna make
it easy, and you follow my schedule online and you'll
get there. Thanks a lot for that call. Uh yeah,
I was. I was mentioning that that carverload. I've been
wanting to tell you guys about another product from Nelson,
and that's the nutri Star Genesis. Now that's a little
it's a it's a clear plastic jar screw top lad

(01:52:38):
that we use it for transplanting. So when I'm last year,
I grew some tomato transplants and I bumped them up
to bigger pots. Before I planted them, I put Nutrishar
Genesis in, and it's a good thing. I wasn't standing
over them. They took off growing so fasty to hit
me in the chin. I'm seriously telling you this stuff

(01:52:59):
really works. If you're gonna put rose bushes in, put
some in the hole, mix it in. This is not
a salt based fertilizer. It's gonna burn plant roots or anything.
It just works well. Later on, you can follow that
up with color Star or Nutral Star some of the
other Nelson plant food products. But any planting you're gonna do,
just have a jar of Genesis on the shelf Nutristar

(01:53:20):
Genesis from Nelson and use it every time you plant.
Mix it into the soil, set the plant in, water
it in real good, and then you watch the results.
Let's head out to Fairfield. We're going to talk to Marty. Hey, Marty,
welcome to guard Line Morning.

Speaker 5 (01:53:34):
Skip.

Speaker 8 (01:53:35):
Hey.

Speaker 24 (01:53:35):
I was going to see if I could put some
Basillosteria gensis on my cabbage plant and my.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
Callflower.

Speaker 24 (01:53:46):
They got looks like they're eating snails are eating the leaves.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
Okay, so you're you're not talking about snail bait. You're
talking about BT. Yes, putting it on okay pillar yeah, yeah,
if it's caterpillars, BT works if you can spray upward
from underneath the leaves. A lot of those caterpillars hide
under the leaves. When I see any of those kinds

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of vegetables in my garden and some leaf areas are missing,
I turned the leaves over, and there's always going to
be a little looper under there that's doing it. Now,
if it's caused by snails, of course you'll see the slimy,
dried trails from them. And that's where a snail bait
would work. But BT won't touch a snail, but snow
bait will. But yes, BT caterpillars.

Speaker 24 (01:54:36):
Yeah, okay, I didn't know. I thought maybe it would
kill both of them, all right, So I don't know now.

Speaker 2 (01:54:46):
The snail baits. There are snail baits with like a
poison in them, a chemical poison kind of thing, But
a lot of snail baits are just iron based. They
basically take iron and put it into something. The snails
love to eat a bait, and then they end up

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getting so much iron that it causes a terminal case
of constipation. Isn't that an interesting thing to happen to
the snails. It's kind of if you think about it
too much, it's a little scary. But no, seriously, the
snail baits are very safe and as a result, I
like those iron based baits. Slug O is just an

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example of one of the brands.

Speaker 24 (01:55:30):
Well, I don't see a caterpillar and I don't see
any snail slime. It's just big little chunks and big
chunks are out of the leaves.

Speaker 2 (01:55:40):
Turn over a bunch of leaves, look good, and then
go out, go out tonight with a flashlight. We do
have pasts that are nocturnal. They kind of hide out
during the day and then they come out to feed
at night, and a number of caterpillars are that way.
That's how the sod webworms and our lawns are. They
hide during and then they come out at night to
feed primarily. But anyway, find out what it's doing it

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and then you'll know what to do about it. Okay,
thank you, all right, Marty, Thanks for the call. I
appreciate that very much. Bye bye, thanks a lot. Well,
I just want to remind you that I'm going to
be at Nature's Way Resources today. I hope you come
out and see me. All of you out there and

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Conroe and Willis, come down from Huntsville, those of you
in North Houston out to the east and west Montgomery direction,
come on by. We're going to be answering your gardening questions.
I'm going to be giving away four bags of the
famous Nature's Way finely screened leaflold compost. That stuff is

(01:56:46):
gold flat gold works for about every thirty minutes. I'll
give away a bag of that. They're gonna give away
one hundred and fifty dollars gift certificate, which is super cool. Boy.
That will be fun. Leave some room in your car,
bring a truck, bring a trailer, and take home some
quality materials from Nature's Way so that you can build
some cool stuff. That's going to be quite the shindig,

(01:57:07):
lots of fun. We're gonna come on and see me.
I'd love to meet you, shake your hands, and help
you with a more in depth approach to your gardening questions.

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
As the world.

Speaker 2 (01:57:33):
Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you're here.
Thanks for thanks for listening. I appreciate that. I hope
you're having fun. I certainly am. Uh you know, talking
about gardening. I can only do that forever, all day,
every day. I love it. Kind of like eating enchiladas.

(01:57:53):
I think if I eat enchiladas ever meal, I would
I would be just be happy. That would be good.
I don't know if that way, but I sure feel
that way. Welcome back to garden Line. You know the
folks at RCW Garden Center Nursery RCW Nursery, it's the
garden center there at Tombol Parkway in about way eight.
They just have the best stock of trees and shrubs

(01:58:17):
and always of roses that you're going to find anywhere.
And they've got sales going on and it's always a
good time to go out to RCW. You know RCW
they grow Williamson Tree Farm grows trees up there in
the Plantersville area, and so you go buy RCW and
you're getting the trees that are grown there, and as
a result, they have got outstanding stock. They know what

(01:58:41):
trees grow here. They're not going to grow some species
it's not going to do well here. And they know
how to plant them, they know how to advise you.
They can point you at the right ones. They have
trees down to fifteen gallon size all the way up
to two hundred gallon size fifteen percent off right now.
The trees at RCW, and they're outstanding. You out to
sea southern magnolias that they have. Oh they're gorgeous, burrows,

(01:59:03):
lace bark elms, and on and on and on. They're great.
And this is the time to plant it. So if
you would like to have shade, it's time to get
that done. Is I like to say, you know the
best time to plant trees forty years ago. Second best
time is today, and the absolute best time of year
is in the fall. Get that done. You have all
winner for that tree to get established. It gives you

(01:59:25):
a better chance of success. It just simply does. RCW
also has shrubs. They've got a great crop of cetrus
in with fruit on the cetrus trees. Is that cool
or what? And you just find all the plants you need.
You do you want landscape color like crotons and lanannas
and all the other annuals that we put out for

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this time of year. Do you need vegetable transplants? Whatever
you need is there, including the fertilizers that you need
and the other products that help that plant have success.
Go to rcwnurseries dot com w nurseries dot com. Again,
they're the garden Center. We're about Way eight and Tomo
Parkway FM two forty nine. Come together, easy to get

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to and you will enjoy shopping as well. Plus you
have a lot of good landscape bling. They always have
some fun stuff there for the landscape. You are listening
to Garden Line and our phone number is seven to
one three two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Talking

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about trees, I had somebody ask me just earlier today
during the break about Affordable Tree service and hiring someone
to come in and do arbor work on their trees,
and his hands down, absolutely that's who I would send
you to. Go to Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree.

(02:00:53):
He's been doing this for a very long time. He's experienced,
he knows what he's doing, and we are now entering
into the pruning season that we prune any time of
the year. We need to, but the best pruning season
of the year, Martin gets booked up, so don't delay
give him a call. Even if he just comes out
and does an assessment of the landscape. What if these

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trees need is there any work?

Speaker 5 (02:01:18):
You know?

Speaker 2 (02:01:18):
For one hundred and fifty can come out do an
assessment and that is a money well spent because it
goes right back into the price of doing any kind
of work that you might need, whether it's pruning, you know.
He also does root feeding. He also does consulting advising,
like okay, I want to put it a driveway. He
look at this beautiful tree. I don't want to hurt it.
Oh gosh, you have to call ahead of time. Do

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not do work trenching or putting in slabs around a
tree without having someone that knows what they're talking about,
like Martin that's helping you with that. The phone number
you want to write this down seven one three six
twenty six sixty three seven one three six nine nine
two six six three. I'm gonna give you the website.

(02:02:04):
If you like websites, afftree service dot com you can
go to you can find out about them that way
a ff tree service dot com or call seven one
three six nine nine two six six three. We're gonna
head out now to talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 12 (02:02:25):
Good morning, said a couple of questions. I just put
in some new sable palms after the hurricane took out
all my existing palms. Uh. In anyway, I'm just wondering
about care for them, Like I said, I've just they've
been in for about three weeks and just too much water,
not enough water. Should I fertilize them? Uh? And they've

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been established. They're like seven eight foot twelve foot trunks.
So just a question.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
Okay, tell me again, what what kind of palm do
you have?

Speaker 12 (02:02:56):
They're sables?

Speaker 2 (02:02:59):
Sable? Okay, good, that's a great palm. Uh. So not
a lot of care is needed. You want to make
sure they have adequate water. So always water the base
of the plant if for some reason your soil, you know,
for some reason, if your soil is heavy clay, you
want to be careful not to put them in a
swamp by overwatering all the time. Right, But I would

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I would just make sure and give them adequate moisture
to keep that root ball moist once we get into
the wintertime. The demands go down a lot on all
kinds of plants, and so we don't have to worry
about it as much, but we just want to help
them get established well with adequate watering but not overwatering.
Some people will actually put a PVC pipe in the ground,

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like a two inch PVC pipe vertically straight down into
the ground. Maybe put it a couple of feet deep,
you know, or something like that, and when you when
your soil gets water logged, water can move up in
that pipe, and so later on you can come in
with a stick like one of those little yard sticks,

(02:04:07):
but the square kind that's about an inch square, or
just a dowel rod, and you stick it down in
there and pull it out, and you can see where
the water table is. And so if you got a
water table that's up within a foot of the surface,
that stop stop watering that you don't want to drown them.
But that's one way you can find out what's happening underground,

(02:04:28):
because that's not good for trees. So that's just a
little trick tip. You could have people ask me all
the time, how much do I water? How long do
I wader? How often do I water? And it's just
there's so many variables that it's hard to answer that question.
But with that PBC pipe you kind of know on
trees if they're getting too much or not right.

Speaker 12 (02:04:49):
Well, the other part of that was we had the
limbs tied up, of course, and they said leave them
tied up for about two months before you undo them.
But a lot of them have started dying off, and
he said, don't worry about that.

Speaker 2 (02:05:01):
He said, I kill them.

Speaker 8 (02:05:03):
What I bought them for.

Speaker 12 (02:05:04):
Me said, you know, I typically I would cut them
all off, but people like to see a little bit
of palm fronds when they first buy tree.

Speaker 2 (02:05:11):
You spend that kind of money, so yeah, he said, really, yeah,
just leave them well when you open them up, when
you when there, you take the tie off, or whoever
does that takes the tie off and they expand out.
Always leave See, if you think of palms as having
a rounded top, uh you in your pruning, you you

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want the problem not to take more than horizontal out.
In other words, if it's a clock you're looking at
from three o'clock to nine o'clock, you don't want it
to go up any higher than that. The branches you
want at least horizontal freedom and it can hang down
even more, but never prune more than than that horizontal

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line across the thing. Hey, I've got to I've got
to take a little break. But I hope that helps.
And good luck with your plants, and thanks again for
that call. We are entering. We're in the middle of
our last hour for the day. I'm going to be

(02:06:17):
heading to Nature's Way Resources after the show, So eleven
thirty to one thirty, come by and see me at
the big Shindig, the fall festival there at Nature's Way Resources.
Bring me your plants, your disease infested, your insect infected,
your what else is on a planet nutrient star plants
yearning to breathe free. I'll pretend that I'm am Elazarath,

(02:06:40):
writing a horticulture poet here about the statue of Liberty.
I'll be happy to diagnose them and help you in
any way that I can. We're going to start this
hour by going or this segment by going out to
Tracy in Houston. Hello, Tracy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 8 (02:06:56):
Hello, how will you today?

Speaker 2 (02:06:58):
I'm well, thank you to help awesome.

Speaker 7 (02:07:01):
I'll be quick, Okay, two things, Can I go ahead?

Speaker 2 (02:07:05):
And I know it's February.

Speaker 8 (02:07:06):
But can I go ahead and trim my knockout roses?

Speaker 2 (02:07:09):
They look absolutely horrible. Well, they're gonna look horrible because
of a number of different things that have been going
on with them. A lot of roses are looking a
little worse for the wear. I'm a little concerned about
stimulating a lot of growth with cold weather coming so soon.
I'd normally do my trimming back of roses like in

(02:07:30):
late August to get a good October show out of them.
But I think at this point, if you need to
trim a little back just for the size of the
bush or whatever, go ahead, But I would mainly wait
at this point. Now, I would wait and do most
of my printing at the end of winter. I think
February would be a good time to do that. Okay.

Speaker 7 (02:07:52):
Last of all, this running vine that keeps wrapping itself
around my roses, it's a constant thing, sometimes three times
wrapped around.

Speaker 2 (02:08:01):
What causes that?

Speaker 8 (02:08:02):
And how can I kill it?

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
I need to see what it is if you are
able to send me. Are you able to send me
a photo you take of the vine up close? Run
and see the leaves?

Speaker 22 (02:08:14):
No, Because I got out of six o'clock and kill them,
to them all off on row.

Speaker 2 (02:08:20):
Okay, that's fine, Tracy, you're not wasting time out there. Well,
I don't know what it is. It's probably a broadly fine.
If it's a perennial and you break it off and
it comes right back out of the ground when you
cut it off. If you will paint a certain kind
of herbicide on the stem of the vine, you don't

(02:08:41):
want to spray it because you don't want to hurt
your plants. But there's one called the ingredient is triclope here.
And if you go to my website Gardening with Skip
dot com, there's herbicides to use on skip'sweed wiper, and
all the products that contain triclopp here are listed on there.

(02:09:01):
And you just wipe it either on the cut surface
or on the base of the vine itself, and that
moves down in the vine. Don't spray it, wipe it
on and then it'll it'll kill the vine. Okay, all right,
thank you so much for that information. All Right, you
take care, Tracy, have a good rest of your weekend.

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You are listening to garden Line and we are here
to answer your gardening questions if you want to give
me a call. It's seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. I'll be happy to do just that.
I want to remind you we're in fall fertilizing season.
This is the time to get it done. Microlife Fertilizer
has a product called brown Patch. Now that's not a

(02:09:44):
fung just side that is a herbst fertilizer. It's a
it's a fertilizer that is loaded with micronutrients. So you
put it out there and it makes lawn healthier. That's
one thing it does. But the the microbes that are
in and it does have micro nutrients in it too
because it's a natural product. But the microbes that are

(02:10:05):
in it help out compete that brown patch organism as
it tries to infect your lawn. So that's the way
that it works as a disease. It didn't kill the fungus.
It helps keep that plant healthy and helps it defend
off the fungus. And that's what organic gardening is all about,
is making our plants healthy and providing the good stuff

(02:10:28):
they need to accomplish that. And Microlife brown Patch is
that good stuff. You'll find it on my schedule at
Gardening with Skip dot com. It is a very very
effective product and from the folks at Microlife means also
that you're going to find it everywhere, real easy to
find Microlife brown Patch at this point in the season.

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Let's heat out now to Pasadena and we're going to
talk to Randy. Hello, Randy, welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 22 (02:10:56):
Hello.

Speaker 23 (02:10:56):
How are you this morning?

Speaker 2 (02:10:58):
I'm good, sir. How can I help today?

Speaker 23 (02:11:00):
Well, I have a question. I'm long has been part
of my lown has been inundated with the button weed,
the whatever it is. I've got the ro my product
that you'll recommend or Furtolan rather it's a spray. When
do you pull the trigger to do that? Because everything
says wait till the weather's cooler.

Speaker 2 (02:11:23):
Yes, Well, you know, if you're we try to apply
those products when it's below let's say the mid eighties,
certainly the below the upper eighties if possible.

Speaker 18 (02:11:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
But if you get out early in the morning when
the temperature is that it's coolest and we're going to
get some breaks in the weather, and you can go
ahead and do that right away, when when you can
get it out and it has a few hours before
the temperature is going to get up in you know
up into the mid eighties or higher. You can get
by with it that way if you if you want
to go do the button weed just.

Speaker 23 (02:11:57):
Next spring for sustain or this is brutal, it is
just inundating my low well.

Speaker 2 (02:12:04):
And I that's a weed that's tough to kill, and
it can be killed, but it's going to take multiple applications,
and it's hard around here to find times it's not
too hot to apply it. Because in the winter the
button weed isn't going to take up a herbicide. It's
it's in a semi dormant stay. So that's why I.

Speaker 23 (02:12:24):
The windows in. Then probably in the next few weeks
when we start getting some cooler weather in the mornings.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
Yeah, go ahead and get it. Go ahead and get
it out and get it on there. And then in
the spring, first tant you get when you see the
button weed, apply it. It may be getting too warm.
That's why I usually tell people to get celsius herbicide
for that, because you can use celsius when the temperatures
in the lower nineties and it's just fine. It gives
you a bigger window.

Speaker 23 (02:12:48):
And Augustine, no not if you not, if you was
just directed Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:12:55):
All right, sir, thank you, you have a good day.
Good luck with that. Appreciate that if you are seeing
cracks in your driveway, in your sidewalks, in the brick
on the outside of your home, on the sheet rock
on the inside, if you got doors sticking, something shifting,

(02:13:16):
and our clay soils are in this area, they shrink
and they swell, they get dry, they shrink, they get
what they swell. Fix My slab foundation repair is who
you need to call, and I will tell you this.
Ty Strickland is the owner. He's been doing this for
over twenty three years now. He knows what he's doing,
and ty does not you know, jump out there and go, oh,

(02:13:39):
something's wrong you got to do with this big job.
He'll tell you if you need it or not. I've
talked to Tye about jobs that he said, you know what,
that movement is not enough to worry about at this point,
and they'll keep an eye on it or whatever it
may be, that it is something that needs to be done.
Telling me your guardenline listener, because because you get a
free estimate if you give him a call, tell him

(02:13:59):
a guard line listener just hadn't come out and look
at it. Uh, because putting your head in the sand
like an ostrich doesn't it doesn't get better. Okay, So
go ahead and have him come out and look at it.
Don't be afraid of that. It's okay. Tye will show
up on time, he'll fix it right, and he'll charge
you a fair price. Those three things. What more can
you ask bar from any service provider for your home

(02:14:21):
fixmslab dot com is the website. Here's the phone number.
Please write this down two eight one two five five
forty nine forty nine. Two eight one two five five
forty nine forty nine fix my slab foundation repair. We're
gonna go out now to Michael and Alvin. Hey, welcome
to garden Line. Michael. Yes, sir, I'll call it in

(02:14:45):
a little while.

Speaker 22 (02:14:45):
Ago I got drops somehow, but uh, I got this
ash tree Arizona ash that the bark is separating from
the from the trunk.

Speaker 2 (02:14:55):
About six foot up. It's a very large.

Speaker 22 (02:14:57):
One, about three foot in diameter. And I was one
what I could do if anything?

Speaker 2 (02:15:03):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry about that. I remember your call.
So something has killed the bark on that side. We've
seen a lot of that from some past freezes. We
had a few years ago that killed bark, and then
it just progressed and the tree now is trying to
heal over from the sides. Like if you pull pulled

(02:15:25):
the dead bark off, the loose bark needs to just
come off there and you'll probably see the tree trying
trying to heal over. Now, a big giant tree like
that doesn't have the vigor kind of like us, you know,
we had more vigor when we were younger, Michael, But
it doesn't have the vigor to close that wound real fast,
you know, and heal it over. So you're gonna have

(02:15:46):
to kind of watch it. It may be a very
long term thing. That's a very problematic. There's nothing to
spray on it. There's nothing to do for it other
than avoid stress. So in summer heat and drought, adequate
watering so that tree maintained vigor to close that over
is important. Fertilizing is always helpful, but when a tree
hits that stage, it's hard to get a lot of

(02:16:09):
benefit out of the fertilizing for the sake of the tree.
So ash trees are notorious for having problems as they
get older, And that sounds like one that's been around
a very long time, and it may ultimately end up
being something that has to be taken down. You might
want to call Martin spoon Moore with Affordable Tree, have
him come look at it and just make an assessment.

(02:16:29):
Ash is not a super strong tree, and so you
start to get decay in there, and now you've got
a hazard that gets a little worse each year, the
potential for injury. Okay, good to have you with us,
Thanks for hanging around. Guess what we have got thirty

(02:16:50):
minutes left today in Guardline. I'll be back tomorrow morning
from six to ten. Every Saturday and Sunday six to ten.
Tell your neighbors and friends you've got family in other
parts of the country. They're welcome listen if they don't
like to. We do have listeners from other states as well.
So yeah, the more the merrier, let's join in warre

(02:17:10):
in Southern gardens is out there in Kingwood, Texas. Orrens
and Kingwood Garden Center are two outstanding garden centers in
the Kingwood area. And when you go, you're always going
to find the kinds of things you hear me talk
about on garden Line. So when I talk about fertilizers,
and you talk about soil quality, soil products, they've got
that kind of stuff. If right now you're looking for

(02:17:31):
fall color, oh my gosh, they are loaded with fault
loaded with fall color. They have the fertilizers I was
talking about the fall special earlier, I was talking about
from Nitroros and Nelson's carbon load. They got both of
those there. By the way, they have things that are
organic like Nitrofossis, Sweet Green and micro Life sixty four.
They carry those. If you need to knock out weeds,

(02:17:54):
they've got the products to do that as a pre emergent.
And of course Azemte I talked about that forest fall
color is concerned. How about a beautiful mom loaded with
moms out there. They've got ornamental kale and all the
other snapdragons and other beautiful flowers that we need to
carry us on into the cool weather. This far south,

(02:18:14):
we get to cheat a lot on fall. We can
carry things a lot further than you can as you
move further north in Texas. And that's just an extra
special deal. Pumpkin patch is open and ready for you
to pick your perfect pumpkin, as well as plenty of
stock of those vegetables. Now, I need to tell you this.
If you spend one hundred dollars or more at war

(02:18:36):
On Southern Gardens, tell them SKIP sent you, and you
get twenty dollars off your purchase. That is a twenty
percent discount. That is a great deal. Twenty dollars off
if you spend one hundred. Now that doesn't include sale
items or clearance items, and it's only effective through tomorrow.
So today or tomorrow, you've got to go buy there

(02:18:57):
and say I sent you. Spend a hundred, it's like,
you know, it's like you're only spending eighty because you're
getting twenty backs. So you spend one hundred and you
end up only having spent eighty dollars. That is a
good deal. A good time to stock up. Sign up
for the newsletter while you're there, or go online and
do it because it also is outstanding. We're going to

(02:19:17):
head now out to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Diana.
Hello Diana, and welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 15 (02:19:23):
Good morning. SKIP communicating with you a lot for the
last two months trying to restore our yard. And there
was a caller that called in earlier and they just
called the tail end of it. But you were recommending
something like a three and one. I think you said
eagle turf. What was that that you were mentioning to them.
I think it was about the pre emergence and some
other What was that product?

Speaker 2 (02:19:44):
Yes, it was three different products that are part of
nitrofoss Fall three step program. Okay, and so the car step. Yeah,
the three products or a fertilizer, a weed prevention, and
a disease prevention. So the most time important ones right

(02:20:06):
now are to get the pre emergent we'd prevention in
other words, product barricade down, and to get the disease
prevention product, which is called eagle down because weed sprouting
is going to happen as soon as the weather drops
and we get a cold front and the disease arrival,

(02:20:29):
the brown pats, the big brown circles you're seeing people's
yard and take all those infect in the fall too.
And then the eagle tour fungicides, I mean the fall special,
which is their fertilizer, is good to get down because
it gives your grasp more time to get strong going
into the fall winter season.

Speaker 15 (02:20:47):
Okay, So it's the disease prevention and it's all by
Nacha Falls.

Speaker 2 (02:20:55):
Yes, it's by Nitrofas. It's all three fertilizer free, disease, ease,
and weed. So if you want just the name of
each one to so when you walk into a place
you can find them. First, Here's what I would do.
I would go online to gardening with skip dot com.
That's my website, and there print out my my lawn

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care schedule that's got the fertilizer on it, and then
my insect disease and weed schedule that's got you know,
the other stuff on it, and you can carry it
with you where you go shopping. Where we're what part
of the Cypress area are you in.

Speaker 15 (02:21:32):
We're over off of Far Road between let Creek Parkway
and Tapperton, Okay, on the on the on the east
side of the Grand Parkway. It's not very far back.

Speaker 2 (02:21:43):
Yeah, well you've got some You've got some Ace hardware
stores they always carry those nightro Fosh products. Just south
of you, there's one on Barker Cypress. As you go south,
uh Barker Cypress kind of in the.

Speaker 15 (02:21:57):
Calm Creek Langham Creek a.

Speaker 25 (02:22:01):
M.

Speaker 2 (02:22:01):
Langham is going to have all all three of those.
You walk into Ham Creek.

Speaker 15 (02:22:07):
Okay, all right, well our yard is making a little
bit of progress. That's it's just gotten cooler, you know,
with the other things that are break down, and so
we just wanted to find out with just help prevent
it from anything else happening. But thank you so much
and appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:22:23):
As much as you want. We're going to get that
yard in good shape for you, all right, take care.
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Take a break now, I'll be right back. Only a
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(02:24:10):
I've talked about a number of different things today, and
you know, wisdom hopefully to help you have a better
success rate and all the things you plant and want
to grow. Uh. You know I mentioned that for those
of you who tuned in a little later, I talked
about the fall aster that is now blooming in area lawns.
It's the little tiny dime sized white and light lavender blooms.

(02:24:34):
White and light lavender. You got to pull those up, folks.
There's no spray that's going to kill them. At this stage,
the blooms turned to seeds. One plant can have five
thousand seeds on it, literally it can.

Speaker 8 (02:24:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:24:46):
They're tap rooted, so they're easy to pull. Water the soil,
get it good and soft, so you can grab that
weed at the base, at the base of the or
at the top of the root base of the plant
and wiggle it right out of the ground. And there
you go. You are in good shape in terms of
getting hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of weeds. He's
out of your yard. That'll be back next year. If

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you don't deal with them. That is important. You gotta
deal with them. And a lot of people put things off.
I know that I do that myself, and it's just
not right. You're making a mistake. You do not want
to do that. Get those things out of there.

Speaker 5 (02:25:22):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:25:22):
There are not a lot of weeds that I'm going
to say, oh, you got to go hand pull it.
This is one. It just it really shows up in
the fall. The foliage is blue green color, dark blue
green color, I don't know, kind of a teal, but darker,
much darker, uh, And it spreads out and covers a
lot of area. You notice it when the flowers show up.

(02:25:43):
That's when it really shows up. So anyway, but I
hope you're enjoying gardening. By the way out there, I
am having one of the best years in the garden
that I've had. And it's not because everything's growing right,
It's just because, you know, as little by little I
continue to develop my landscape and develop my garden and

(02:26:03):
try new plants and enjoy the new plants that we
have out there. It's just fun. And you know, gardeners
are optimists. They really are. Gardeners are the ultimate optimists.
I mean, take a packet of seed and dump those
seeds in your hand and look at them. What do
they look like? I mean, it's detritus, it's debris, and

(02:26:24):
it's lifeless, but inside is life. And you put it
in the ground and it sprouts and it begins to grow,
and it's just amazing that you can put a tomato
or a green bean or a zenia flower seed in
the ground and you did that, You created that thing,

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and it's it's wonderful. Gardeners are always you know, there's
a quote from an English aristocrat from back in oh
I don't know, a late eighteen nineties or maybe early
nineteen hundreds. It says the most noteworthy thing about gardeners
is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied.

(02:27:06):
Isn't that the case? It's true, and continuing the quote,
they always look forward to doing something better than they've
ever done before. I can tell you this next spring,
when I plant a tomato, it's going to be the
best tomato season ever. It's always that way. When you
put a peach tree in the ground and I hope
you're planning some fruit this winter, can you just taste

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the peaches and can you picture a tree loaded with fruit?
That's how we are as gardeners. We're always optimistic, and
we went never satisfied, not in a negative way, just
in I can do better. I'm going to get better
at this, and that's how it works. That's how it works.
I think Abraham Lincoln had a pretty good way of
looking at things. And he wasn't just talking about gardening,

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but he used a gardening analogy, and he said, we
can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can
read joice because thornbushes have roses. Gardeners look at it
the second way, the upside of things. It's always going
to get better. I know I'm getting philosophical here and
droning on, but sometimes I think we get lost in

(02:28:15):
all the how tos and the y too's and all
of that, and we just forget the wonder and the
joy and the rejuvenation and the restoration that comes with
a wonderful hobby of gardening. All right, enough of me.
Let's go out to Champions and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt,
welcome to garden Line. Thank you, good morning.

Speaker 26 (02:28:36):
I've got a backyard that's getting pretty much overrun with
Virginia button weed, and can I just leave it there?

Speaker 2 (02:28:43):
It doesn't look bad or I've heard yeah, it gets
worse and worse and worse. Two things, Matt. Number One,
the more you can drive that area out, the better.
It can't control the rain, but you can't control irrigation,
so that slows button weed down when it has to
struggle with not enough water. Lawns can live on less
water than button weed. It's going to thrive on. Secondly,

(02:29:06):
there's a product called Celsius that you can spray and
you're going to want to treat it. You could treat
it now we're going into fall. I would definitely in
spring treat it. Any of the button weed you can
get out of there. And if it's so thick, this
is impractical, I understand. But every time you pull a
little strip of it out, you're not getting rid of

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the button weed. But all along that string you pull
out is little buttons that are the seeds, and so
you cut down on next year that way. So that
would be helpful. But if you just want to go
the easier route celsius, do it in the spring when
it warms up enough for button weed to be actively growing.
Do it again about probably three or four or five

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weeks later. Do the celsius again.

Speaker 26 (02:29:52):
Okay, I've got a lot of it. If I do that,
it'll kill the button weed. And will I be just
left with fair dirt? Do I have to resider while
the Saint Augustine come back?

Speaker 2 (02:30:03):
There's a lot of I miss the very first part
of that what you were saying. Say it again.

Speaker 26 (02:30:09):
All right, I have a lot of button weed. If
I spray it with celsius, will it just leave bear dirt?
Will the same come?

Speaker 5 (02:30:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:30:21):
Your lawn can can take the celsius as long as
the temperature is not above the low nineties. But yeah,
you can use that. You just want the button weed
to be actively growing, so the celsius works best. And
that's why the longer we get into fall and it's
cools off and it starts turning kind of purple looking,
that that is not as susceptible as a celsius. Okay,

(02:30:46):
I'm running a kind of short on the time, so
I'm gonna I'm gonna run. But good luck with that.
And that's my best advice for you on the button weed.
Let's go to clear Lake and talk to Nef. Hey, Nef,
welcome to gardenline.

Speaker 16 (02:30:58):
Hey, good MORI skip real quick. I'm fixing the laid
down my fungicide this morning and do my pre emerging
herbicide probably.

Speaker 25 (02:31:06):
In a couple of days. I got two smaller dogs.
I always battle with this. How long until after I
water it down.

Speaker 16 (02:31:15):
After I've sprayed it or whatever, not sprayed it, but
laid it down the granules?

Speaker 2 (02:31:21):
Can the dogs go out there? Look at the label
and it'll tell you if there is a restriction on
something like that. Uh, tell me again the name of
the product, please.

Speaker 16 (02:31:33):
It's it's all nitro fast that I use. It's the
fungicide pre emerging herbicide.

Speaker 2 (02:31:37):
Be the eagle. Yeah, on all of those. On all
of those, you're gonna apply them.

Speaker 8 (02:31:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:31:43):
And the barricade, you're gonna water in. The fertilizer, you're
gonna water in. Uh. Let let the spray the the
eagle on the ground or no, it's a granular Apply
the eagle and then water it into and you should
be good to go because the grass takes the go
up through the roots. Also.

Speaker 25 (02:32:02):
Yeah, but how long until it's safe for the dogs
to go back on the grass?

Speaker 16 (02:32:06):
Is what I'm asking?

Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
Okay, Well, the best answer, because it's the law, is
the label. So whatever the label says. But I would say,
if you watered in really good and let it dry,
then that's fine to move on out there. But go
to the label instead of my comment there because I'm
not the I'm not the official one day answer. Okay, label,
All right, I appreciate it. Thank you, Skip, Yeah, thanks

(02:32:32):
a lot, appreciate you being a listener. Thanks for calling in. Well, folks,
here we are. We're at the big end of the
deal today. We'll be back tomorrow six am. In the morning.
In the meantime, come on out the Nature's Way Resources
Fall Festival. I'll be there from eleven thirty. It's already
going on right now, start at nine o'clock, go till two.

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I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. And
guess what we're gonna be doing. We're gonna be given
away four bags of they're super high quality, fine textured
screen down, fine leaf mow compost. That stuff is black gold,
four bags, one every thirty minutes. Will be giving that away.
They will also have one hundred and fifty dollars gift

(02:33:14):
card for me to get away out there, so wow,
that's cool. They also have a couple of books, a
couple of books that are being giveaways or kind of
nature related books, kind of cool stuff. I'll be answering
your questions. I'll be diagnosing, I'll be identifying. Or if
you just want to sit there and shoot the ball
and brag about things that we grew last year, we'll

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do that too. Come on, I'd love to meet you,
all of you that have some time on your hands
and are able to get away. I hope you'll come
on out because in when Nature's Way puts on a
fall festival. It's a shindig. And when you come, make
sure your car or pick up his empty seat and
bring some bags home with you, or bring it better yet,
bring a trailer and load up falls for planting, brown stuff,

(02:34:00):
for green stuff. See where I'm going here, Nature's very resources.
You're going to be there. Why not bring that home,
Get those bed ready to go, whether it's vegetables, herbs,
perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees, vines. We're in the season,
the optimum season for success with that. Take advantage of

(02:34:21):
it all right, But I will see you in the morning.
Thanks for being a listener. Look forward to talking to
you tomorrow.