Fall fertilization preperation

breeze through here, had one the other day. Everybody thinks, yes at last, and then summer comes back for low wall. That's just part of the deal. But fall is coming. And one thing that is important to remember is that if you want to have a successful fall planting season, you got to look at the calendar and not the temperature at the moment and do what you got to do when it's time to do it. For example, now is an excellent time to plant things like marigoles for

a beautiful fall season. They'll last all the way up into the first frost and that'll turn them to toast and then you pull them out and put in your cool season plants. That is a strategy and they work really, really well. I was checking out Jorges Hidden Gardens recently and oh my gosh, he has got some beautiful, beautiful miracles. The you know, the deep orange ones, the kind of in between orange and yellow and the full yellow ones

and marigoles in the summer, or spidermight magnets. But when we hit fall like this spidermight populations due to the day length changes and temperatures and things, they're starting to go down and they sort of disappear and they're not a big deal in the fall. So your miragles glow, they will way out glow your mums that you put out, and we know falls for mums and asters, that's an

awesome time. Don't forget miracles. That's a good quick instant color in the landscape that, like I said, I'll carry you all the way to fall. Yeah, or hey, for those of you haven't been out there. They're on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas, and just go check it out. They they're easy to get to, and he's always got cool things. He's huge trees. I was looking at some of his magnolias are just giants of the magnolias, so gorgeous,

absolutely beautiful, beautiful. And they have a lot of other trees that right now, you've just gotten some more peaches, the peaches that grow down south. So you know, fruit trees have a certain thing called chilling requirement. And if you were to take a peach that grows let's say up in Huntsville, Texas or Dallas or whatever, and try to plant them down here, they wouldn't get enough winter winter chill. It's a forty degree hours in that range. But Ray's got the ones that grow down south, And

so go by there and check it out. Fall is an excellent time to plant a container grown fruit tree, like a peach, for example. He's got plenty of those as well. And while you're by there, check out some of his other things that. Hey, he's got those tree stabilizers to hold your tree in place when you plant any kind of a new tree, and they work so so well. You hear me talk about those all the time here on garden line. I was out in my

garden a harvesting okra again yesterday. I think I've told you before I do okra breeding, okra crossing, and I'm always I think it's fun. I enjoyed doing a little bit of plant breeding, because when you create something new, it's something that didn't exist before that you created. Now, you can't just cross new things and then take the seeds out and go here. I'm going to name all these seeds a different variety name. It takes a while

to develop something worth keeping and that stable. In other words, when you get somebody seeds, what they plant ends up producing the kind of flowers or fruit that you were hoping that they would. But anyway, I was out doing some of that and just noticing my okra has a bunch of aphids on it, and they were mostly all

cast skins. You know, aphids shed their skin like a snake does, and so you see these little dried aphid skins all over, and I was looking for a living aphids and there were very very few, and I saw why I had some surfit fly larva on there. There was a crypt beetle, a skimness crypt type. It's a little tiny type of lady beetle. Their larva were on there, and then there were some regular lady beadle larvae and they were just munching out. They just cleaning up my

aphed problem for me, and that's always good. You know, sometimes you're wondering if the cavalry is going to ride in to rescue the fort before before it goes under, and boy, they sure did this time for me. Keep that in mind when you're out there in the gardens, that it's not just you versus the pests. It's not just you versus the pests. That is an important lesson

to learn. I love getting out and watching that. Sometimes I'll see a few pests on a plant and I'm just kind of well, I'm not going to hurry up and spray. I just want to watch and see what's going on. You learn a lot that way. You know, at some point you got to step in if it's going to become a big problem, got to take care of things. But in the meantime, take advantage of that

opportunity to learn. That's all part of you know, organic gardening and whether you know, if you are not an organic gardener, maybe you just it doesn't matter you use organic, you use other things, but you're not just organic. At least consider the principles of organic gardening because that is very very important. Those principles. Whether you garden using synthetics or not, those principles of organic gardening are still things

you should follow. Like I just talked about, why get out there with a spray and kill the lady beetle larva, the skimness or cryptbet larvae a type of lady beetle the what do I else say? Oh, the surfit flies were on there, and there's also lace wings that will be on there too. Why kill those when they're doing work for you? Whether you use an organic like soap that will kill them or a synthetic, why do that? Why not work? Learn how nature works, and work with

nature as best you can. That's what microlife fertilizer is all about. Microlife has, in every way, shape and form, designed their products to build quality soil loaded with microbes, microbes that are good ones. You know, not every bacteria is bad. Many types of bacteria are good. They're good for the roots, are good for the soil. You know, there are bacteria that actually produce any biotics that help protect the plant roots. There really are, absolutely there are,

and it's really cool stuff. So you get something like micro grow liquid, for example, that comes in a quart, comes in a gallon jug, kind of a maroon label, you know. Microlife labels all their stuff by color, and it's kind of the maroon label one, So naturally I'm drawn to that one. But seriously though, I mean, it's not a fungicide. It's not like a fungicide to kill fungus.

What it is it has eight extremely dominating beneficial microbes, the Streptomyces, the Trachiderma, the Bacillus, all of those good guys that are out there helping fight against problem disease microbes but also colonizing those surfaces of the plant. So it's just a hostile environment for them to try to move into. It's kind of like being a rabbit and

moving into a penful the coyotes. It's not going to end well, right, So when of course they're the good guy and bad guy are kind of turned around, you get the idea of what I'm talking about. Micro Grow Liquid a from Microlife. You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find out more. Well, it's all every time for me to take a break. Hey, hang around, I'm going to be right back at a time. Lard line. Glad you are joining us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

and we are here to answer your gardening questions. The way I like to put it is, we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. And gardening is a fun hobby. And if you're not having fun, let's talk. We got to fix that because this is not something that we fret about and comment that we have brown thumbs. You don't have a brown thumb. If anything, you got an uninformed thumb. And that's why we're here to inform your thumb. It

just turns greener and greener as you inform it. I think that's kind of one way to look at it.

call from wherever you are. We get calls sometimes from pretty far away folks that listen to the show, and we're glad to take the time to help you find the best way to success. Maybe it's a plant or a bug or a disease that needs to be identified and some sort of control suggested. Maybe it is a plant or disease, excuse me, a plant that you need suggestions for what to put in area, like do I what will grow in the shady kind of area on the north side of the house, you know, and so on.

We'll help you fix that. We'll give you some ideas to do that kind of thing, you know. Or maybe it's just other kinds of general advice. What's wrong with my lawn and what's wrong with my trees? The two biggest teas of the three t's the third ones tomatoes, by the way, that make the phone ring here on Garden Line and at your county Agro Life Extension office too, in all two hundred and fifty four counties here in Texas.

We I've been doing this for thirty five years, and I'm telling you, uh, number one, I can pretty much tell you what calls are going to be during each season, because I've been a lot of seasons, many I have been many moons answering gardening questions. But at the same time there's always new questions. I had some last week. It's like, Yeah, I had never been asked that before. That's a good question. And then people are always coming up with new plants. You know, it seems like we've

discovered every plant there is now. No, no, no, there's a whole bunch more we have yet to experience. So anyway, give us calls seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, I wanted to mention plants for all seasons. Up on Tomball Parkway Highway to forty nine, just north of Luetta, right there on the side of the road. That has been a garden center for that general community

since nineteen seventy three. Now they have people that travel aways to get there because it's that kind of garden center. You're going to find everything you need right now. It's fall season, so stock up, find the things you want to do to make your landscape glow this fall, and they've got it all of there. They also have excellent advice. They have excellent service and they can point you to

the product that you need that fixes the problem. It's not like some of these stores you never hear about on garden Line that are national chains where they've got a wall full of stuff and nobody in the store that knows what they're talking about when it comes to which product for even knows which pest or weed you're bringing in. Not Appliants for All Seasons. You get the service that you need accurately, and they are just experts

at that. Plants for All Seasons dot com is the website get your green on there at Plants for All Seasons. I'm going to head out now to Brian and we're gonna excuse me to Cyprus and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, Good, Welcome to garden Line.

damage to that succulent new growth coming out. But if that happens, you just print out the new growth because you remove that they remove the limbs, so you don't need little sprouts all over the place in that same spot in winter. Just remove any sprouts that formed there around those cuts. It's not that not the right time to prune. They should they should know better than that. But it's not the end of the world on the tree. It's not going to go into any kind of a shock or anything.

I gotta go run and get some. Because anytime you got standing water, and you will have standing water after a rain, it's going to be somewhere in gutters. It's going to be in the You know our well, our bird baths always have standing water underneath the catch basins. On your pot you got standing water. And then some people just have areas that don't drain. Well, a little

bar ditch behind the house, and here they come. You throw a mosquito dunk in there and for it'll cover one hundred square feet and it'll last about a month, which takes us into a little bit of a cooler season here. You always just keep those things in the garage, keep them handy, you know, storm wherever you want storre them in the house if you want. But mosquito dunks are a disease of mosquitos, isn't that cool? It only affects mosquitos and fungal gnats, both of which fungus gnats,

we don't like either one of those. So a bird drinks of water, it's okay. The pet drinks the water, it's okay. A lady bug drinks it's okay. It only affects mosquitoes. Mosquito dunks and mosquito bits. They really really work, and it's the simplest way to deal with mosquito. Breeding areas or rainburrow will be another example. A hole in a tree. You got a tree, a little hollow spot. Rain's going in there, and it's standing, and mosquitoes think that is heaven as a breeding spot, and they they'll

drop their eggs right in there. And here come the mosquitoes out to spoil your little late day party one evening. Mosquito dunks is the way we get away with that. And so here I am the guy saying you got to get mosquito dunks, and I didn't have any to go to the store, gets more mosquita dunks. You are listening to garden Line if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. That makes it really really easy get a hold of us.

you know, was, is that like fertilizing in the fall. Well, it's okay, it's putting nutrients down, but I don't think of it in the sense of fertilizing that most people when they say fertilizing, they're thinking, I'm going to put those big three numbers nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium three numbers on a bag. I'm going to put it out and it's going to boost my lawn to grow. That's what the nitrogen especially does. Well, it's not that you put

asmite down and it doesn't like push new growth. It builds the bank account of the soil with micronutrients needed in trace amounts, so that when your plant roots need it, when you're fertilizer, when you're nitrogen pushes growth. There are all the other things that are necessary to make plant leaves, roots, stems, fruit, flowers and everything else the plant has, they're the nutrients necessary to do that in the bank account. And that's

how as might works. So just think of it as a trace mineral or a micronutrient however you want to turn for your plants. It also, I think it's good in a vegetable garden, because when we eat vegetables, we want a good quality nutrient source there. We want the minerals,

all the minerals that our body needs. And I'll put it out in the vegetable garden probably, I think generally, well, in a lawne you're going to use a forty four pound bag will cover about six to twelve thousand square feet, and a vegetable garden about ten pounds per thousand is what I would put out about ten pounds per thousand in the vegetable garden. But I you know, not that difficult to do. Just don't put it in the same hopper as your fertilizer because particle size is different. But

it's far to put your fertilizer out for fault. Portrays might out for fault. It's a good time to do it. Hopefully that clarifies a little bit if they're if you're having a little misunderstanding about it, that will clarify things a little bit for you. So I mentioned I was out doing some grow work and harvest and stuff. I've got a bunch of weird summer vegetables in the garden, things that most people don't grow, you know, there's vegetables

like molakia. Now, if you're from anywhere from Mideast, across India, Pakistan through that whole region in there, molechia is very popular, a very popular vegetable. It's used in a lot of lamb and rice dishes and other things. But I like to grow it because it laughs at summer. I've got malabar another one. It laughs at summer. It's a very large kind of fleshy leaf plant a little it's mucilaginous,

which thickens, helps thicken soups thick and smoothies too. By the way, I have what else is in the garden right now? Oh gosh? Anyway, some emoranth. There's a type of amorant that has an edible leaf that I grow. The There's a type of silosha. Actually people call everything spinach that's not spinach, and they call the silosha that we Egyptian spinach. I don't know why, but anyway, have some of that out there and a number of other things, and I'm out picking mostly. I just picked the leaves

and use them in smoothies and things. Because you're getting vitamins and nutrients and minerals from all of those things, and I know it's not time to plant them now. We're going into cool rather than warm. But when summer comes, just remember you can grow vegetables twelve months out of the year here. You know, there's a trade off no matter where you live and what you can grow. But down this far south in the country, we have truly

twelve months of growing that we can do. And there ought to be something you can bring into the kitchen and put into a healthy diet every month of the year. Here in this area, we're fortunate in that way. Let's head out to the woodlands now and we are going to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line.

But and then there's larva turned into pupa that kind of look like miniature fish scales stuck to the leaf, very tiny, and then they come out as adults. So in those first three stages, egg, larvae, and pupa, you can spray upward from underneath the plant with like a horticultural oil. Insecticidal soap will help against especially the larval stage. But you have to turn the spray or nozzle up to spray upward underneath the leaves and get the bottoms of the leaves and you can shut them down there.

Those are are easier to get to stages than the adults. But either way you go about it, just keep in mind the life cycles so that you don't just wait until you see the adults to try to spray. It's harder to you know, they fly around, it's harder to hit them and do as much good as you can on the first three stages.

So you may also have that. Now, if you have that, then the name the as a directin type of name would be the one to use because it goes into the tissue and the thing chomping the inside of the leaf will be affected by the asidactin.

fixens to build your own scarecrow. It's really cool. So you basically you buy the supplies you're going to get. You're going to bring your old clothes, you know, some old clothes that are on their way to goodwill or whatever or even less less attractive than that. You bring those. They're going to get you the skeleton of it, which is basically you know, the stick that goes inside. They're going to give you the stuffings for it. They got to, you know, all the stuff you need to put together.

Scarecrow is like a little kid and kids can do this and it is fun. You know, there's a little video online if you go to the the Anchinna Gardens. Some of their social media and whatnot tells you how to do that, whether it's Instagram or Facebook, and your kids can build their own scarecrow for decorating for fall harvest season, both through Halloween, Thanksgiving. All of that. It's really cool. And they also have a supply. They have everything, so I never know what to talk about with them,

but they have a supply of things called airplants. Airplants are things like ball moss. Have you ever seen ball moss up in trees or southern moss that hangs down. Well, airplants are like that, but they have all kinds of exotic types of airplanes. Now, if you can't crun airplant, I can't help you. You're gonna have to go buy silk plants or something, because it's so easy. You just

dunk them in water basically. But they've got cool stuff like that for those For the plat person who has everything, I bet they don't have talentsius, which are the airplants. Let's take a little break here by the way, and Jenny Gardens is on FM three fifty nine. The website it's on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. The website is Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They are open today from eight to five Tomorrow from ten to four. Go

check this out. Take the kids with phone number if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two kt RH seven one three two one two k t RH. You know, we love feed stores here on guard Line. And for those of you down in the Greater League City area. When I say Greater League City, I mean Santa Fe, Webster, Clare Lake City, elkam Into Real Sandling on the Mark Baycliff, Dickinson. This

is a hometown feedstore for you guys. It's been around for forty years down there and it if she that old time service that you would expect, you know, the third generation now Thunderberg's run in that feed store and I love going in there. And when you go in, by the way, they're open Monday through Saturday from nine to six and closed on Sunday. So if you need to get some shopping done, this weekend. Now's the time

to get down there and do it. I like that six pm because every day after working, just swing buy and get what you need. Here's a phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. You're going to find all the things you need to control pests, weeds and diseases, premium pet foods that they have there. If you got backyard chickens, they got you covered on all the supplies you need for that. And they have every fertilizer and some of the soil blends that I talk

about here on Guardline. How much more could you want. It's time for fall fertilization, So swing by League City Feed and grab the ones you need for the fall, whether you're gardening organically or synthetic or however you go about it. League City Feed's got you covered. For example, they have you know, night fross Ha their three step program. Now, the Nitropus three step is basically a fertilizer, a weed

control and a fungus a disease control. So fertilizer that is the Nitropos Fall Special Winter Riser Fall Special Winderizer. It is. It's got plenty of that potassium that we need in order to build cold heartiness and to help that grass come out stronger in the spring. Remember spring growth, the first earliest spring growth on your grass is based on stored energy, not what the roots are taking up. Then, so your fall fertilization is critical for winter hardiness but

also for spring growth. Then it has the barricade which prevents all the cool season weeds that will be sprouting in October and November. So you want to get that stuff down in October. Just follow my schedule online gardening with skip dot com and you'll find that. And then the third of the three steps is the Nitrophus eagle turf fungicide. That's a systemic products into the grass tissues, so when the disease tries to attack, it has its protectant.

They're already built into the plant. Now, brown patch or large patch as it's now called, it's going to appear when we get a little cold front in here, in some rainy, cool weather. You're going to start to see the circles. You have to get down ahead of that in order to have success. Don't wait until the circles appear. Follow my schedule. Get it on early October is what I would recommend for that to have success. Now you're going to find night Foss products at Court Hardware and

Stafford Katie Ace Hardware. You'll find them at Plants Something, Plants and Things up in Brenham and up in Willis at the Growers outlet. Also, we're going to go now to talk to Carl. Hello, Carl, where are you calling from.

affected than the other two. But they're all kind of doing the same thing.

essentially is like dry roots. Because you don't have roots, you can't take out water. It's gonna be one of those things going on. It could be a root rot disease that's around them. It's hard to know for sure. If you were to have one that was pretty much gone and you look at us like, this thing is

not coming back, don't wait until it's completely brown. Pull it up and take a knife and slice down through the trunk, bark at the base, you know, and just like you're whittling it down, and look underneath the tissues. Instead of being creamy white, you'll see some streaking of brown and gray in there. That's a sign that you had a root a root disease. Or when you pull it up you to see all the roots are rotted.

You have green leaves on some green leaves still left on top That's why I say, don't wait too long. And then you see rotted roots. Now you know what you're dealing with, and you could go get a drench of a fungicide to drench over them. But because those causes are so different, I hate to send you out to buy a product when that may not be what you need.

I don't think it'll be dry right now, but it might be, so just kind of check that if you just want to be you know, take Since you don't have a magical cure right here, you could just get a drench and put it on and drench it down in there. But go by Southwest Fertilizer. They're pretty close to you out there in Southwest Houston, and they're going to have a wide right Tell them what you have. Tell them. We talked on guardline. You might have a

root right in it. That would be the only other thing I could suggest.

on irrigation systems to get them right. They can do hard scapes, they can do landscape lighting. They can create patios and outdoor barbecue areas that you just wouldn't believe. Pierscapes dot com is a website and I encourage you to take a look. They also do quarterly maintenance wherever quarter they come in and weed and fertilize and check your irrigation and change out the color. So you know we're going into fall now it's time for new color change,

and then for winter we'll have a color change. They'll do all that. Add mulch to your beds. All from Pierscapes at peerscapes dot com. We're going to go now to Manvil and talk to Adolf. Hello Adolf, good morning.

If we haven't had a freeze, bring them in, put them in the freezer overnight, take them out, let them thaw, do it again, freezer overnight, come out, let them thowt If it's a if it's an a stringent type, if it's a non astringent type, once it turns really nice deep color orange that you can pick them and eat them. At that stage, you just have to figure out which type you have. If you want to hang around through break. We can continue the discussion, but we got to go for now.

all your perennial herbs and arbrogates. Stocked up on that. If you're looking for decorations, if you're looking for just your indoor supplies for holidays, you know, from gourmet things to gifts to whatnot. We've got Thanksgiving coming up here, and certainly all the decorations outdoors for you know, everything from Halloween to harvest season. Arbigate's got that all loaded up. You just need to go. If you've not been, you

need to go now. I'm a horticulturist. I'm into their plants and the products that they have, like their one two three easy system for soil for anything with roots. It's a fertilizer for anything with roots. It's the compost for anything with roots, which is everything we grow. But you ought to see the gift shops. They are gorgeous. They are gorgeous, and we've got all kinds of holidays coming up here as we go through the rest of

this year. And I promise you when you get into Arbrogate, you're going to see things that's like this is the perfect gift for so and so fill in the blank. Right. They absolutely are loaded on everything that you can imagine like that. Plus when you go to Arburgate, you get excellent advice, advice from people who know what they're talking about. Beverly and Kennon and the whole team out there at Arburgate. They are experts. I talk to them all the time.

Sometimes we collaborate on questions that have come up from a customers, like here's a very unusual questions. They are up to speed on all that kind of stuff, and I just to really appreciate working with them because they are the kind of folks that love plants, they love people, and you will really love your trip when you go out to Arburgate there on the west side of Tombull. For those of you haven't been there before, it's twenty nine to twenty. That's the farm to market going west

out of Tombull on the left hand side. Arburgate dot com. Go to that website Arbrogate dot com find out more about it, but mainly go out there and get ready for fall. At Arburgate. I'm going to go now to Jersey Village and if I can get my there, we go. We're going to talk to George. Hello, George, welcome to garden.

that are up near the surface. But anytime you want to harvest them, I would get, you know, a little your fingers and some soil, a little trol or whatever kind of scrape the sow back and see what kind of roots you got. Do you need a little longer or are they good to go? Maybe you harvest one hill and then harvest another hill. There's not a right or wrong on that one. Just don't wait until it's frisen.

bit later why that is. But you put it down now, it gets into your plant, and just think of it as this. It's like putting anafreeze into the plant. It makes it more cold hearty. Potassium plays a huge role in cold heartiness of any plant. Also, by going into fall strong, it comes out strong, and carboload is designed

for that. You will benefit from your fall carboload application in the spring when the grass starts to green up and grow, because your fall application will be fueling that early green up and growth of the Saint Augustine grass or zoizia or bermuda, whatever you are growing. It also contains a pre emergent herbicide. Now, because of that, you want to make sure and get that done early. If you look at my schedule, fall fertilization is all through

the month of October. Well, get it done in early October. If you're going to do the carboload, get it done now. You can even do it late September, which is where we are right now. From now on into the early part of October, get that down because you want when the weed seed start to germinate for winter, which is the hindbitten chickweed and carpet weed, annual bluegrass, all the different things like that. You want to have that carboload

down with that pre emergent down. Now. Nelson Products has it, and Nelson products are widely available, easy to find them. But just remember for your fall fertilization that carbe load and get it down sooner rather than later. All right, I hope that makes sense. It's important to make sure and get that done. I was talking to somebody just the other day, just in fact, yesterday who had a

tree problem. I do a little consultat consulting here with folks, and I was out on a site looking at a tree problem that they had, and I was looking at the pruning job that had been done, and it was not a good pruning job. They had some big wounds that were not healing. They left stubs, they cut some things too close to the trunk. They didn't know how to prune. That's why I keep telling you guys, call Martin spoon Moore at Affloridable Tree Care and listen. Martin

does a good job. That's why he stays busy. And that's why you don't need to wait until, oh it's February, winter's almost over. It's too late. I mean the guys, it's going to stay booked up all the time for some period of time. If you want to make sure and get into the best pruning time, that's October through February here in our area. You need to call Martin now and get on the schedule. Tell him you heard about on guarden line. Helps you get up to the front of his list.

You need to call Martin. Here's here's the number seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. That's seven one three, six ninety nine two six sixty three. If Martin or Joe don't answer the phone, you've called the wrong number. Seven one three sixt' nine nine twind your landscape. You can give me a call it three two one two fifty eight seventy four. And if you've listened to garden Line once, you have heard me talk about the importance of building your soil. That is where

success starts. I know, you go into a garden center. I go into garden centers and see all the color and it's just like, I gotta have one of all those. That's what attracts me. Not a bag of mulch or soil mix or bed mix off to the side. But the most important thing in that garden center are the products that build your soil, and then come the plants that go into it. Yes, we want those plants to

be beautiful. But if you want success, why not build a bed with roses and bloomers blend from heirloom soils or with veggie and herb mix for vegetables and herbs, and it works good for flower bits too, by the way, from heirloom soils, or with fruit berry and citrus mix. Why not fill your containers with cactus and suculent mix if it's cactire succulents or with the works potting soil. All of those are from heirloom soils. I want to tell you something going on this week. This is a

a kind of a short deal. But at the Porter Location, which is where airloom soil is made up in Porter, Texas, they have a limited time special. You can either go up there and pick it up or you can have them deliver it. And you need to listen carefully. This airloom soils rosesoil, which is good for any kind of landscape beds that you have, heirloom soils, rose sooil or veggie and herb mix in bulk. When you go up there, you'll receive a free bag of Microlife six to four

the Microlife fertilizer. Now you can go to the web to Airloomsoils dot com to learn all about it. If you want to know about that particular location, then go to rock inmlts dot com. That's rock the letter in malt dot com. Rockinmltz dot com. That's the Porter location. There's a soil yard up there, you know where they do the airlom sols. They have the Rock materials as well up there, so anything you need to deliver it or go pick it up, but go ahead and do

it now. It's a short term. Plus you need to get the beds made quick heirloom. So this is you get the rose soil by bulk or the veggiean nerb mix by bulk, pick up her delivery. You receive a free bag of Microlife six to four, which you'll also need when you get those products. We're going to go back to the woodlands now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, we got some more questions on white flies.

I keep forgetting to mention. Today I'm going to be at A and A Plans and Produce out there in Montgomery. I know that's not your back door, but it's not too far away. I'll be there after the show today. So if you get a chance, just swing on by, I'd love to meet you. And if you got any samples or plants you want to bring by for us to look at, give us some eye to eye face to face time to get that done. I just want to mention that for I turned you loose.

just talking about. You can buy it by the bag of D and D Feed. Do you want a night to five fertilizer like sweet Green or super Turf for the Imperial or the Saint Augustine's Weed and feed things tree intra barricade for the for the the pest problems that you have. D and D Feed carries all of that. Plus they just their feed store. They have quality feeds, quality feed for your pets too. By the way, they've expanded the store and it's just a nice place to visit.

It's really convenient and easy swinging out twenty nine to twenty just out west to Tom Ballaway's and you're gonna find what you need there. Absolutely, they and good friendly service too, by the way, is what you would expect from D and D feed. I was talking about that nitross, you know, the the nitrofoss one to two three completely easy system that is called they call it the Texas three step. You probably heard of the Texas two step, right,

we're talking about the Texas three step, And what is that. Well, it's a fertilizer. It is a weed control and it is a disease control. So the fertilizer is their fall fertilizer. It has got a good boost of the potassium the third in it. That's what creates winter hardiness and helps your plant come out stronger in the spring. The second step is the weed control product that's barricade. You got to get it down before weeds germinate. They will germinate

in October. I don't know exactly when I'll tell you two things. Number one, it varies between weed species a little bit. And number two, it's very dependent on the weather. Weeds don't have calendars, and they look, oh, it's time to germinate. When it cools off, get a little rain. That's when those cool season weeds sprout and begin to grow, just like our blue bonnets do the same thing. You got to get the barricade down before them. So do

that early in the month of October. You can go ahead with the fall fertilizing from night fruss as well, right now, if you'll do that. And then finally, the third one is the eagle turf fungicide. Egle turf fungicide is a product that will get in the grass as a systemic okay, so it moves into the tissues of the grass. And when it does that, then when the brown patch or large patch tries to infect, you've already got in the system of the plant the protectant against that.

Excuse me, I lost my mic there for just a moment. But anyway, that eagle turf fungicide is what needs to be done ahead of time. It's also going to be helpful for take all root rot which its primary infection period and control period is going to be in the fall nitopas three step No where do you get it? Well Bearings Hardware both on Bessinet and Reck and west Timer have it. You go to RCW Nursery you're going

to find it. Lake Hardware and Angleton and the one in Lake Jackson and Alspa Hardware or Ace Hardware up in the Woodlands is also going to have your nitrofoss texas, your three step one two three, the fall special winter riser, the barricade for weeds, and the Eagle Turf fungicide for diseases. That makes it really really easy. Hey, if you would like to give us a call, our phone number here is seven to one three two one two ktrh. That's seven one three two one two kt r h.

of soil and leaves it on the surface. It aerates, it makes roots just very happy by bringing oxygen down in there. And then you follow that with a compost top dressing and that falls down to the holes. So now you've got organic matter decomposing down in there. It's a way to gradually, over time help your soil just get better and better and better, and greenpro can do that. Now, Greenprose serves an area about forty five miles from Magnolia.

Within that range, so we're basically talking northwest Houston. If you look at Interstate forty five and Interstate ten, that's basically the area so Spring and Cyprus, the Woodlands, Conroe, willis down or over to Magnolia and up in Montgomery off to the west and then down to Katie West Houston kind of central area and north central Houston that is basically at the northwest quadrant by Greenboro. Now right now through fall, they're going to aerate your lawn for

free when you purchase a compost top dressing service. Now the price is start at five seventy five plus tax. It's heavy duty or not heavy duty. It's very high quality equipment that can do this job right and then haul in the compost around and everything. That is an expense for them to do. But you have to do

a two yard minimum for this offer. So if you do a two yard minimum of compost, they will come out and they will not charge you for the aeration, but you pay for the just the compost top dressing service. Two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. Let me say that again. Two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. Or go to the website greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net. When was the last time you were at Nelson Watergardens. I love going on

Nelson Watergarden. You know, it's actually Nelson Nursery and Watergardens. I think of them because they've always been a nationally known watergarden place. But they have an outstanding nursery out there as well. Fall is here and they are loaded up on everything that you would need. They have one of a kind plants, they've got pots, the fish, the fountains, the disappearing fountains, which are my favorite of all the things out there, of the types of fountains, but they

can get you stocked up. They're at eighty Fort Ben Road, just north of it Katie Freeway, So you head out west on it. When you get to Katie Fort Benroad, turn north and it's just a hop skipping and jump up the street there. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Check out that website, follow them on social media. This is the kind of garden center that you want to take friends to. It's a destination and you just have to get there to see what I'm talking about. But they're ready to go

for fall. Stocked up. A good place to visit. I'm going to take a quick break when I come back. Ronnie and Kim, you'll be our first. Good to have you with us today. We are talking all kinds of things gardening. I appreciate you tuning in if you've got a question. Seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. When it was the last time you were at Buchanan's Garden Center in the Heights. That's that garden center right there on Eleventh Street in the Heights,

and it is just a special place. And those of you who have been there that you know that, let me give you. I want to give you their website. First, they're located on eleven Street, but you need to go check out the websites Buchanans Plants dot com, Buchanansplants dot com when you walk in there. They specialize in native plants. In fact, the proper name I should say is Buchanan's Native Plants. That is the name of the garden center.

They have way more than native plants. But when it comes to natives, I don't know anyone that has the diversity of selection and expertise in native plants. They have natives that are just from the Houston area. They have natives that are from the region. Whatever you need, they can set you up. Now. When it comes to dealing with issues in the garden, they have plenty of products to help fight anything that you might be dealing with.

And they lean toward the organic side of things. You know, they have a wide variety of stuff organic and non organic, but they lean toward that direction and I think that makes it nice for those of you want to garden more naturally. For example, they have some excellent information on the website. That's why you need to subscribe to the

newsletter too. Lots of good information. For example, there was a whole list the other day of native seeds that you can plant now that are favorites of pollinators, that are wildflower seeds, that are seed for bird lovers that attract the birds into the landscape. They just know what they're talking about. They've been doing this a good while and they're experts in at Beginnis Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights, all the products you need for success

in your garden. They know to begin with the soil and then move on to the plants and they can get you set up with both of those. I'm going to head now out to the phones and talk to Ronnie ed Magnolia. Hello, Ronnie, welcome to Garden Line. Lawrence, yep, I'm good sir. How can we help Hey? A couple of questions.

about that. I recommend multing, multing, multing, you know, just always keep the sole surface covered with mult except when you pull the multi back to plant seeds or transplants. I think that's the best way to go about it as opposed to the pre emergent route.

of January. The way I like to tell people is when you have family over for the holidays and they don't leave, it's a good excuse to get out of a house. Go get that done.

The folks at Medina have been you know, they've been Gardenline sponsored since the nineteen fifty since before it was even called garden Line. They were around doing that. And those of you who know Medina products, you're very familiar with Medina the hash to grow. Well, do you know about Medina plus Medina plus basically think about Medina Plus as Medina soil activator plus. We're talking about trace eneroals. We're talking about things like side of cainan, which is

a natural hormone that occurs people typically. That's one reason we used seweed extract on it, Magnesium, iron, zinc, just on and on and on. It's loaded Medina plus. So if you want to put a plant in the ground and water it in really good and get it going, use Medina plus one ounce per gallon, it's all it takes, and just pour it right over the plant leaves and all drench that root system and help it get started falls planting time, whether it's a vegetable garden, an herb garden,

a flower bed, trees and shrubs. Get some Medina plus. Have it always on hand. Anytime you need a plant. You can use it as a folier. It's not going to burn your plants. Just fine Medina Plus from the folks at Medina. We're going to now go to Kim in Alvin. Hello, Kim, welcome to garden Line.

to get on the schedule. Telling me you heard about it on Guardenline and you heard that you can get up, move up in the list a little bit being a guardline caller, and make sure that you get that done, because yes, take care of that tree. Hey, I'm hitting a hard break. If you need to hang on afterward, that's fine. If that's it. I do appreciate the calls right to have to go so quickly. Here we're back back again. If you are in the area of Magnolia,

Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown feed center. It's on twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine to seventy eight, just a few minutes away from Grand Parkway Highway two forty nine. You're going to find there the full line of fertilizers, you know, the turf Star, the Microlife, the Nitroposs and whatnot. They've got it all there anything you need for your lawn and your garden, whether it's controlling weeds, pests,

or diseases. When you walk in, one thing is one of the things I really like about Sprint Creek Feed is they're so friendly. Number One, you walk in and the first thing you do is your jaw drops open because it's such a cool, beautiful place inside with all kinds of stuff. You know, this isn't just an old feed store. This is like a really special place purchasing gifts and everything you can imagine. But they have a garden center that has everything you need for success and

friendly folks to greet you. If you're FFA or four h They've got discounts for those kiddos raising livestock, animals, military, senior citizens, also discounts for you as well. They can special order again. They're on twenty nine seventy eight in the Magnolia area Spring Creek Feed. We're going to go now to David up in the Woodlands. Hello David, Welcome to garden Line.

second one, replanted it in the same position. Within about eight days, the second one is starting to have the same symptoms of the leaves turning light color, then panned, then basically dying. So I pulled it out yesterday, put it in a pot, and this morning it's multiplied two fold in dying from dying. Can this be compomination in that particular part of the ground.

on drought. And but if if it were drought that killed it, it would probably die back and then come back because it's got underground storage tubers that can fuel my growth.

your three sixty tree stabilizer. It grabs a hold of the tree trunk loosely to allow movement, which is very important. You can put a post in, you can put hammer a t post in if you want, and it'll attach to those You're going to find them at Jorgeshaden Gardens don in Alvin Up at Arborgate in the Tomball area. Buchanus Native Plants in the Heights RCW Nursery where two forty nine comes into belt wag eight plants for all seasons on two forty nine Southwest Fertilizer down Southwest Houston.

These are all places that carry the three sixty tree stabilizer. I would not plant a tree in the fall without getting one. They are their new invention in the last few years and they just really really work and they take care of your tree. They hold it right, but they also allow movement so you don't have stuff cutting into those branches. Stea tree stabilizers. If you're going to plant a tree, you need to get one of those two and they last. You can use it over and

over again. We're gonna go now to Mike in the Woodlands. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.

good start. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm just not able to hear any more on it, Chris, If you will go on, if he wants an email to email his question or some photos, we can take it from there, Mike. But sorry, just the audio just just wasn't working on that. When was the last time you went down to in Channet Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg. You know, Enchanted Forest is one of my favorite garden centers in the whole area, and The reason is it just always has a stock

of the best plants in the world. I mean just everything you need. Like right now, you're not thinking maybe about house plants, but here comes one or right a good time to stock up on houseplants. And oh my gosh, they have some gorgeous plants, absolutely beautiful ones. Do you need little starts for the potatoes, for shallots, for yellow onions and garlic and white onions and red onion. They've got all of that ready to go, and now's the time to get them in the ground. So take care

of those things. Make sure you do that. Are you into desert roses? Boy, they are the hot items. It seems like everybody's talking about desert rose. If you don't know what they are, go buy and chanted forest and say, let me see these desert roses. Skip what was talking about. They're beautiful, They're very tough, succulent, they don't require a lot of pampering for them to do well, and they just bloom beauty. They're not a true rose, it's a different kind of plant. I'm more of a succulent type

of plant. Do you want fall color with crotons and many many other things. They've got that. Do you want to plant a tree, Hey, consider a Chinese fringe tree. They've got plenty of those that been shenting for us. And it blooms in the spring with a honey like fragrant, little shaggy white ballooms so beautiful, so beautiful. By the way, the first pumpkins are there too, along with mums and asters.

And in fact, you better take your pickup and have a friend brother pickup because there's so many things you're going to want to haul home from engended for us, including these fertilizers that I've been talking about and the products for fall. They got them all. Well, you are listening to Garden Line. We're gonna take a little break here for the news and we will be back. I

hope you will join us again. I just want to remind you that on October fifth, Saturday, Oba Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance is putting on so you want to grow your own good food program. They're gonna have doctor Bob Randall, who is an expert who's author of UH Year Round Gardening, which is a book you need to have if you're going to vegetable garden too. But it's gonna be on October fifth, from eight to three.

noon to two pm. I'm going to be given away samples from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer and the folks at excuse me, pardon me, unprofessional to cough on the radio Medina. Folks at Medina, and the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. We've got some really cool stuff. Nelson's got some of their drag canisters, the granules of Drive fertilizer becoming a little one pound canisters. Got a few of them there.

And also the folks at Medina are providing some of their liquid products, those in type products that they have, so come by you might win one of those. We'll have some other things to provide for you as well to take home consolation prizes. Bring me samples of plants to identify, to diagnose, put them in a ziplock bag, so suck then and crawl away. Bring things on your phone. Let's talk about it. Listen. If you're in the Montgomery County area in general, anywhere up there, I hope you'll

swing by. If you want to come from a little further than that, sure, good to have you as well. You know, Lake Conroy area has a lot of beautiful gardener homes that just I always like visiting up in there. Swing by, let's talk about some of the things going on on your area. I hope you will always like to meet folks that listen to Garden Line. While you're up there, you can stop in because you know, A and A Plants and Produce is always going to have

your nitrofoss products like the three step program. I was talking about this earlier. But the three steps are a fertilizer, a weed control, and a disease control one two, three, and it's all done in the fall. The fertilizer is Nitroposs Fall Special. It's a winter riser. What does that mean. It means it's got higher potassium in it and that helps strengthen the plant going into the cold weather. It also means they've got the weed control, which is barricade

to prevent the weeds. It's much easier to prevent weeds from ever sprouting and establishing then to wait until spring when they're blooming, choking out, the grass, shading out, the grass taking over, and you're trying to use a post emergent on them. It's better to do it in the fall with barricade. Also in the falls, when the big brown circles appear, brown patch and when take all root rot has one of its main infection periods of the year in the fall, and that's why we have nitroposs

eagle turf fungicide systemic. Now ahead of time. You got to do these things ahead of time. Don't wait until the brown circles appear. Do it before they appear. That's early October. Get that done, barricade. Don't wait until the weeds sprout. Do it before they sprout. That's early October. Get that done that way, when they sprout through the rest of October and November. They can sprout even later, but you have that barricade down that's doing the work

for you. And then the fall fertilizer. You want to get it down before the grass just it gets cold, and the grass didn't taken much of anything up. Get that done, one, two, three, you're going to find it a hardware stores all over the place to jen Ace Hardware City up on Memorial Drive, Gym's Hardware, Montgomery, Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin, and also Done and enchanted for us. I was talking about them a minute ago. Done in Richmond.

They carry the nitrofost products. Let's head out the phones now, and looks like we're going to go to Montgomery and talk to Justin. Hey Justin, welcome to guardenline.

a side. I would do that. I would just go ahead and do it right now. Let's see you are yeah Montgomery, Yeah, I would go ahead and do that right now. Get that eagle to a funge a side down. You may need to. In fact, I would repeat Eagle again in late October or early November, just because we

got to shut this down as best we can. I would grab a product that contains micros in a sprayable form, and you just have to you know, you are up in the Montgomery area, by the way, Come by and see me today at A and A Plants and Produce and bring me a sample of that. I want a sample of sick grass, so I want it to be yellow but still alive. Well, four by four plugs slick goodness, Slip it into a quarter gallons uplock and bring it by. Let me look and one hundred percent here, I'm about

ninety five, but let me be one hundred percent. Heure, I'll take a look at the sample there. But a micro sprayable I know Ferdlom has one. I don't know the name they put on it, but it says micronutrients on it, and that is basically like an IV for grass that's lost its root system. To get the nutrient right into the grass. Put it on a hose, end sprayer, get it sprayed, and be ready to do it again

this fall and again. What we're trying to do is stop something that is very far pro grassed right now to save whatever grass we can, and you're gonna need to plug. Be ready to plug some in next next spring, okay, I will.

for the fertilizers that I'm talking about. It is the place to go for some of the soil blends that we talk about here on Guardline. If I talk about

control pests or diseases or weeds. ACE is going to carry those products because they make sure that when you walk into an ACE, whether you need stuff were inside the house, you know, paint and plumbing and lighting and all those kinds of things you would expect from a hardware store, you can also walk outside the house and get everything you need to and that would include the fall fertilizer that's needed to be put down now. Your

local Ace Hardware stores got them in stock. The fall fertilizers I recommend on garden Line are there at the forty Ace Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area. Go to Ace Hardware dot com, find the store locator and find the store near you. I've griped about mosquitos earlier at my house, Well they've got the mosquito dunks there and they've got other kinds of foggers and things. If you want to have a little out are gathering and the mosquito are still around, you can take care

of that. Fall is the time to control fire ants. You knock them out in fall with a bait. That's very important to get that done soon because then coming out in spring you will have significantly reduced, if not eliminated, the fire ants on your property. So whatever you need for the outdoors to make them enjoyable, Ace Hardware's got you covered, including I love to talk about the barbecue pits because they have so many cool ones and I

love doing outdoor grilling, especially in the fall months. At ACE Hardware you're listening to Guardenline, and we're going to head out now to Robert and Conroe. Hello, Robert, welcome to garden Line.

can way back off that. But the demands right now, we're just trying to get a root system from the sod into the ground, and all that takes is enough moisture to have available moisture for those roots. More is not needed.

soil and if it's moisture good, you're good. But all you need is water that root ball for right now, you're just trying to keep it alive until it gets roots in the ground and then as soon as you can back off the lawn watering. You know, in a couple of weeks, you can be already backing off that lawn watering. So I can't tell you if it's too wet or not wet enough, but I can tell you the root ball in this ninety degree temperature is pumping

water fast. And even though the soil is moist around it, that root ball, the only roots that tree has, or that cylinder that went into the ground, that's only they haven't moved into the soil yet. So you got to keep water in that cylinder spot that went in the ground. That that's my best advice for you, Robert.

save that to you. That is a beautiful, beautiful type of red bud. I think you've picked a good one. Thanks for that call very much. You know, the storms you had this summer scared folks a lot because we went for a long time without power twice this summer. And everybody's interested in the generator, and for good reason. It's good to have a generator, a whole house generator, especially in quality home products. That is what they do, that is what they specialize in. You can get a

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we're going to talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie, good morning.

Uh my guess is take all and they either way it is, they're gonna have the product, the right product for it. That'd be my best, quick guest. Unless you want to jump in a car and go on a little vacation today and come up to A and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery, bring me your sample. I'll be happy to look at it for free.

color plants and house plants even. I mean, they have it all right Now, I want to talk about their trees because they grow their own trees up in Plantersville. They've got fifteen percent off trees at our CW Nursery. That is an outstanding sale. They have a large variety of trees too, every kind of tree that needs to get planted here, they've got them. Okay, seven gallons all the way up to two hundred gallons. And by the way, yes, you don't have to pick up a two in our

gallon tree. They'll complant that. They'll come plant trees for you as well. They got Mexican white oaks. There are some gorgeous other magnolias. Just swing by there and check them out. But do it now for two reasons. Fifteen percent off and there is not a better time to plant these trees than fall. It gives them the most time possible. We were just talking about that red bud

that Robert had planted up in Conroe. You know, when you get a plant planted in the fall, it has until next summer to get that root system ready to go for summer so it can survive and you're not watering just the cylinder like we were talking about, by the time it gets hot again. RCW Nurseries, Tomball Parkery go to RCW nurseries dot com. RCW nurseries dot com. We're gonna head up to Magnolia now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, Hey, Skip Hey, how can we help?

bit wider than the branch spread of the tree. Okay. So if you got one that's the size of a broom handle, we're gonna say that's about an inch thick, So we get two cups. If you got one, when that tree is the size of a coke can, it's going to get about six cups a fertilizer because it's about three inches in diameter. Just use your thumb and use the trunk of the tree to tell you for every thumb with but two cups of Arborgate fertilizer on

that tree. Be with us our phone number here if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, or if you like to dial by letters. Make it easy seven to one three two one two kt r H. That makes it easy, easy to do. We're happy to visit with you about whatever kinds of things we can do to help you have success. I was telling you earlier about Nelson plant Food. They have the car carbo Load, which

is their fall fertilizer. And the reason they call it carbo load is infall, your grass hopefully is producing carbohydrates which helps it be winter hardy and helps it have the energy to take off in the spring. That's why they call it carbo load, because it helps your grass to do just that. Now all, they also have a product that I want to I want to tell you it. It's called Nelson Nutristar Genesis. Genesis is a transplant product. It comes in a plastic jar with a screw top load.

If you will use it anytime you're transplanting a plant to mix in to the soil of what you're putting the plant into. So, for example, I used to I've told you this, I've used it before for tomatoes. You buy a little six pack of tomatoes, you bring them home, and you're going to grow them out a little further, maybe put them in four inch pots or something bigger. You just mix this genesis into that potting mix and then transplant them into it and they will do very well.

You can do that with a a container of plants, a patio container. Anytime you're going to plant a patio container of plants, puts some Genesis nutri Star genesis from Nelson's into that mix. If you're gonna put a rosebush in the ground, same thing, mix it up in the Normally I will tell you don't put fertilizer in the planting hole. This is an exception. This is a natural type fertilizer. It's loaded with microhizo backteria other fungi. It's not going to burn your roots. And you're not just

dumping it and then setting the plant on it. You're mixing it into the soil around that plant and then putting the plant in the ground and you will have success. Just another quality product from Nelson Plant Food and they have a good stock of those Nelson products also up there at Ana Plants and Produce, which is on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five, where

I'll be today from twelve to two. Twelve to two, So come on out, let's head to the phones now and we're going to go to Friendswood and talk to Costas Hello, Costas, Welcome to garden line morning.

the market. Bob's going to have it, because, as I like to say, if he don't have it, you don't need it because he has everything every kind of product you need. Do you grow organically or do you just grow however, organic or synthetic. Either way, Bob's got that all the lines of fertilizers that we promote, and then some he has herbicides, fungicides, insecticides. You need a tool.

Do you need mulches and composts and soil amendments like the asmight I talked about, or Nature's Way or airlim soils. They've got all that kind of thing. Even has some plants out front seasonally, the kind of plants that are appropriate for the season. We're coming to the end of mower season. Why you go by there, just drop off your more blades, have them sharpen them in the back. Have they have a little repair shop for all kinds

of you know, lawn care equipments. Yeah, you go to Southwest Fertilizer, give them a call first, ask them the questions you need to ask seven to one to three six six six seventeen forty four seven one three six sixty six seventeen forty four Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Head now to Cleveland and we're going to talk to Cynthia Hello, Cynthia, good morning.

heard from you. There's no other info or situation going on there. They're probably gonna be okay.

it on the surface of the swell. That's the proper way to air air a lawn. And then accompost top dressing. B and B turf Pros is somebody you need to know about now. They serve the south and southwest part of the listening area, so they go all the way from over around Pasadena, all the way over toward Sugarland direction, and all down through that area. If you've kind of follow Highway six down through there, that's prime time for them.

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dot com. And the phone seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. We're going to go now to Frida in Pasadena. Hello Frida, welcome to garden Line.

was it. Now, if you walk through your lawn and there's all these little moths like I described that are just taking off and they fly a little bit and they settle back in the lawn as you're walking, that may be side web worms, but they're they're not white, and they're not that big.

and then. So that's that's what I was concerned about, is the yellow leaves.

that one, and ghost cactus have arrived there. If you've got a planner, they've got all the plants you need to create a beautiful fall planting. Or how about this, drop your planter off and let them do it for you. They can do that as well. Five dollars off Microlife, five dollars off Microlife brown Patch and also sweet Green from Nitrofoss and asamite through the end of this month, so time's running short on that one. Pick one of those up, you know you need those anyway, five bucks

off a bag. And then there's just a plain little sale on Bugginator and Nitrofoss, superturf and other things. And a great thirty percent tree sale for limited time on any of the trees they carry, and they have some beautiful trees. And also while you're there, grab you a tree hugger to hold on to those trees and help them stand firm enough to get well well established. We're going to head out now to Spring and talk to Chuck. Hello, Chuck, welcome to garden Line. Good morning, sir, how are you

and well? And I got your pictures. You know, you want to know what that is. Yeah, that's spurge, prostrate spurge, spurge. If you look at the picture you sent me, every little bump on there is either a flower or a seed pod. And that's why spurge is such a problem. It produces a bazillion seeds and they come up, and so the only thing you can do for it is

pull it up. And if it's in the bricks, you can do what they call flame weeding, those little devices that hook up to approping little propane canister, and you can do that, or put a pre emergent down a barricade from nitrophoss. Spurge is listed. Prostrate spurge is listed on the label of barricade. Spurge likes warm weather to germinate. So you don't go ahead.

come out and see me. Let's talk. Let's help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.

and they're there. They're on a vitex that I have out there. I've got a turk's cap, which is a native plant with big red flowers. You know, hummingbirds love that. It's like a neon sign for them. And then of course at the feeders, if you want to attract hummingbirds, go buy Wallbirds Unlimited and get there. They have a number of beautiful hummingbird feeders now work, but I have the High Perch. It's my favorite one. I actually have a couple of different models from them and they work well.

You can go to WBU dot com, which stands for Walldbirds Unlimited WB dot com Forward Slash Houston Forward South Houston tells you the six Wallbirds stores here and it is bird time. I mean there are the orioles have been coming through. We of course got the hummingbirds feeling up to cross the Gulf of Mexico. There's always things to be done there at Wabirds Unlimited. I was down at the One and Clear lag the other day and

a couple of people were in their shopping. What kind of feed we'll keep the squirrels out?

That's the place you need to go. You will be inspired, I promise you. In fact, I might out our will warn you. It can be addictive. It really can. It's a lot of fun bringing music into your landscape. We're going to go to northwest Houston now and talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie, welcome to garden Line.

We've got our basis.

might have it. If they don't, I would go back to them because they are more up to date on who carries what and what they carry and everything than I am. But that you went to the right place to begin with, because rcwas to go for those.

Nitrofoss barricade. You have to get it down before the fall weeds germinate, which would then become your big time weed problems in the If last spring you had weeds that were just taken over the lawn, those would have been prevented by an October fertilization. Excuse me, October barricade application because that's the germination window. So do that. Number three fungicide eagle turf fungicide. It's systemic. Again, you got to do it ahead of time. Listen. We control and

disease control is like playing baseball. I bet you're wondering, where's he going with us? Here's how it's like that. If you're batting and you wait until the pitcher has the ball in his mitt, it's too late to swing. Is that that makes sense? Right? You gotta swing before the ball gets to you in order to hit it right, because here comes the bat and here comes the ball and they meet and go over the fence. Nitrophiz barricade and nitrophas eagle or that way you want to hit

the home run. You got to get them down. So when the problem shows up, when the weed is starting to germinate, barricade is saying no, no, no no no. When brown pat or large patch or take off patches trying to infect eagle is a eagle, turfundicide is saying no, no, no, no no. That's how that works. Nitrofis Texas three step widely available. You're going to find it added in Chennet Gardens. You're going to find it a shade of Texas up there in the woodlands, plants for all season. Talmball Parkway

is going to have it. A and A plants and produce another place you can get nitrofoss product products like the three step you know. I'm going to be at A and A today, by the way, from twelve to two. Please come out and see me if you live in that area, if you got plant samples, bring me. You're tired, you're weary, you're suffering, masses yearning to be diagnosed. I will help that and provide you something to remedy the

problem that you might have. Because A and A's got all the Nightfis products, all the Nelson products, all the micro life products, all the airloom soils, Nature's Way, leaf mold compost fine, and they have the whole thing. They got to clean up. A crew that'll come in and fix up your landscape for you up there in the If you were in the Conroe area, just come out to an A. Let's talk, let's f forget what's wrong, Let's suggest some plants for you. Let's have a good time.

And while you're there, grab your night Foss three step program. Let's head out now to Rose Sharon and we're going to talk to Susie. Hello, Susie, welcome to garden Line.

for the soil. Rose mix is an example. They have their premium potting mix. It comes loaded with a nutrient source in it. That's just a really good combination. Premium potting mix. Indoor plants. Outdoor plants use the same thing topsoil. You got some lower areas in your lawn, maybe you lost some areas along you're gonna have to reside. Now's

the time. Get some landscapers Pride topsoil. Put it out there in the lower areas, fill it up, get it all leveled out so when you're running the mower after you get your new lawn in, you don't hit bumps and gouge out the grass and everything. It makes it smooth and easy. And then finally, of course black velvet mult it's always a good mult is not just for hot weather. Mult is for twelve months out of the year.

And black velvet is beautiful. It is not dyed, it is naturally black velvety color and it works really really well. Another product from Landscaper's Pride. And you're gonna find these products all over the place. You know they're widely available. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find out more about it, or I tell you what how about rundown to Ciena Maltch. Ciena Maltz carries Landscaper's Pride black velvet. You can get it right there. You know, Sienna is

a place for quality materials. They you need bulk deliveries and things. Do you need any of the fertilizers that I talk about on guardline. Basically as I say, brown stuff before green stuff, Ciena Malt is the brown stuff place. They're down near Roach Sharon, just north of Roach Sharon on FM five twenty one. I would suggest you right down there their website address because that's the fastest way to find out how to find them, how to call them,

and a lot more information Sienna Mulch dot com. Sienna Mulch dot com. You can pick up those fall fertilizers that I've been talking about while you're down there at Ciena Maultch. Friendly Folks is just an easy, easy place to shop and they take care of you and you know when you leave with the product from there, it's going to be a good product that does what it's supposed to do in your garden and in your landscape. Let's see, I'm going to go now to if I

can find the right mouse. Susie, thanks for patiently waiting. I'm still doing I'm still too excited to pay attention to the clock. So it's your turn. Now, how can we help you?

And if you will go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip you when you get there, you're going to find a publication and yet to scroll down a little bit. It's there if you say view all publications on the website. It talks about just the season to be freezing, that's what the name of it is. And it talks about hair protect plants against the cold, and it gives you all the detailed instructions.

ace hardware stowing nearby. Uh, and there's one over oh gosh, one over in Alvin I know area. Oh great, well then then you're you're good to go. All you need to do if if you're already you know in that area is go over on West Willis Street and Patco Hardware and Lumber is going to have a product. And the ingredient is in meadow cloprid. But instead of trying to write that whole word down, just it's I am, I d O I mid dough and that is the ingredient.

That means it's a systemic that you drench into the ground. The crank myrtle takes it up and it will it will kill the scale.

need a product, I don't care where they are. I just send them to an ACE Hardware because I know at ACE you're going to find every fertilizer I recommend on Guardline, you're going to find all the things you need to control past weeds and diseases out in your landscape to make a beautiful lawn, a beautiful, bountiful garden. Ace Hardware is the place, they say, that's the motto, ACE is the helpful place. Well, it's the place for your lawn and your landscape and your vegetable garden as well.

Acehardware dot Com find the store locator. It's as simple as that. Find the one near you, mark it on the map because you're going to want to shop there. We're going to head now out to Bob in Friendswood. Hello, Bob, welcome to garden Line. Hello, thank you. I have two small trees that have problems.

that kills entire shoots. And the leaves don't initially fall off, they just hang their chocolate black brown colored.

drought conditions it could cause that. And if you had soggy conditions so that roots lacked oxen and dyed, you might see a symptom like that. Also, I can't tell you which of those is doing it on your tree, but pears are very prone to that. And in many cases with pears it's not a big deal. It's not meaning you're about to lose the tree. They can show

that symptom, but something is stressing that tree. The other thing I would I would just check and watch for is make sure there's not a root at the base of the trunk that is strangling the trunk. That happens sometimes a root grows in a circle around the pot they were growing the tree in, and then they keep moving it to bigger pots, and the trunk gets bigger and the root gets bigger, and suddenly the roots starts

squeezing and embedding itself into the trunk. And that also is a problem that's common with ornamental pears like the Cleveland.

Way Resources is right in your backyard. And Nature's Way is the birthplace of things like rose soil and leith more compost for example, and many other types of quality products. John Ferguson started that many years ago and now his son Ian running the place, and the quality just continues with the products that they have. They have got their fungal compost sales still going on. It's called Fungal Friday. Every Friday, you can say twenty percent off of their

fungal compost. So that is a very good deal. And remember we talk about leap mool compost as a compost top dressing. Fungal compost is also suitable to use accomplosht top dressing if you don't do that. Also, one more thing. I'm going to be there on the tenth of October Nature's Way Resources. That's Interstate forty five north almost to Conro, right where the road from Well fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left hand side from Magnolia, you turn

right and go to Nature's Way. It's called the Fall Festival. They're going to have Latin food, local vendors, certainly plant sales, live music, children's activities. It's going to be a shindig. That is officially a shindig. Go look that word up. I'll be there doing a Q and A from eleven thirty to one thirty and there'll just be a lot of fun stuff going on. So the whole deal itself goes from nine thirty to two at Nature's Way Resources. Here's the phone number nine three six two seven three

twelve hundred. Nine three six two seven three twelve one hundred gets stocked up this fall Fall is for building the soil, because fall is for planting twenty percent off fungal compost only on Fridays, but every Friday Fungal Friday sale at Nature's Way Resources. We're going to head back now to I think we were talking to Elizabeth. Is that correct? I go back to the right call. Yes, Hello Elizabeth, Welcome to garden.

it up. I put the air raidar and all of that, and it still reverts back to this hardness.

matter on the surface of the soil. Always have composts, decomposing, mulch decomposing, And that's the best thing you can do for those oak trees.

It's natural. It doesn't take much, just two to four ounces per gallon. You can spray the foliage. You can do it as a folier. You can also put it down on the soil, drench it into the soil. Either way is good. It's just another one of those liquid products from Microlife. This one happens to be the hot pink label. You know, I was kind of going by color. I love doing that because it makes it easy you have to memorize a name. Look for the hot pink label.

Microlife Soil and Plant Energy go to Microlifefertilizer dot com and you can find out about all their products. And I can tell you this, they are widely available when you are out shopping for places, at places I talk about on garden Line, there is a very high likelihood that they're going to carry the Microlife line of products. We're going to now go to sugar Land and talk to Don. Hello, Don, Welcome to garden Line. Do we have a Don? All right, I'm gonna put Don back

on hold. There we'll come back to you Don. We're going to go to Parland and talk to Kay. Hello.

center place. Dip it into the powder and then make a little hole. Take I take a pencil and make a hole in the rooting mix and put it in there so that when you push the cutting in you're not wiping all the powder off, and then just gently push the mix up against it. I will take pearl light and mix it with a potting soil type material, about two or three parts of pearl light to one part of the potting soil. Because you want optimum drainage,

not mucky soggy. Needs good oxygen down around that cutting. Put a clear cover over it and put it in a bright area, but not direct sunlight. It needs lots of light, but the sun will cook it inside that clear cover. So if you do all that, rosemary will root. It is a very easy to root plant given that process.

for you. So hang around for tuning in. We got plenty of things to talk about. We're gonna run straight out to talk to Don in Sugarland. Hello Don, and welcome to garden Line.

It's not just changing the bullets in the gun, like I'm going to quit buying synthetic pesticides and buy organic pesticides. Again, that's part of the deal with organics, But it's the soil. If you don't get the soil right, you're not You're going to be struggling. Your plants are going to be struggling to survive, and then you do have more disease problems, you do have more insect problems. Begins with the soil.

The brown stuff composts in the soil, organic matter, good drainage, quality, nutrient ingredients, and the soil bank account that helped provide it. After that, when you run into problems, Yes, if you want to use inseexticidal soap or some other organic pesticide, that's fine. But don't just start with how to kill the bug, how to kill the disease, how to kill the weed. Start with the soil. That is what organics is all about. I'm gonna run northwest Houston now and

talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, welcome reguard line.

that's where I would start. Certainly fertilizers important, Certainly water is important, but let's start to work on that hard soil you're talking about, well near the aor yeah, yeah, you can. Sometimes the ones you rent aren't the best ones. You can hire somebody to come in and do it. But if you want to do it yourself, you can find a place to rent one and do it. But it's a lot of hard work to do it. So I would I would recommend hiring somebody.

going into fall. You could try doing it now, but the most important thing is next spring when you start seeing the Virginia button weed, spray it with celsius and be ready to repeat that spray about I would say three or four weeks later. You may have to do a repeat of it. It's not an easy weed to control, but Celsius in research trials has done better than anything else at controlling Virginia button weed.

fall fertilizers. The nitrogen is lower, the potassium is higher. That's the third number on the back. First number goes down, third number goes up. That is a fall fertilizer. It creates inter freeze in the grass plant. It creates carbohydrates, and when you do that, your grass is more cold, hardy. But even more important is in spring when the new growth starts out. It's stored energy that's doing that, and that is where the fall fertilization kicks in strong with

that new spring growth. Again in the spring, then we begin the nitrogen fertilizers again as things warm up and the grass is growing. But fall fertilization is the most important fertilization of the year. And that's why. All right, folks, you've been listening to Garden Line. I'm about to jump in a car and guess where I'm going to Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery, Texas on the east side on one oh five. I hope everybody listening up north,

certainly northwest. Heck, I don't care where you're coming. If you're coming from Galaston, come on to save me at Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery. Bring samples. This is your chance to get an eye to eye with me. Diagnostics, recommending products, bring me pictures of that landscape area that aren't doing well. Let's talk. I'm going to be giving away the fertilizer product from and the canisters from Neilson Plat Food, and also some really cool stuff from Medina Products,

some of their liquid hose en products. So you come win some stuff there and also pick up the supplies you need today and a while you're there, twelve to two today, be there a B square see you. Thanks for listening to the Guardline. We'll be back tomorrow morning,