Fall Fertilizers, Soil Prep, Pre-Emergence Herbicide Tips!

prime time for getting that done. October big month, big month that as we go further into fall, grassroot growth slows down, and we would like to get those nutrients down so they can take them up so that grass plant can be as strong as possible going into winter and coming out in spring. And that's something that's hard for people to follow or to I guess, well, get

their head around. Maybe is the idea that we think about fertilizing like we think about eating us for example, like if I go eat breakfast this morning, that food is taking care of me today, but not so much tomorrow. I have to eat again tomorrow. Well, when we fertilize our turf, we're not just feeding the grass in the sense of we put it down and the grass takes it all up and eats it like I would my breakfast.

What we are doing is we're putting it in the soil so that as the grass day by day by day by day needs nutrient, it's taking those nutrients up day by day by day by day. So the sooner you get it down, the sooner it can begin to do that. And with our nice warm temperatures right now, it will take it up very rapidly. And as we go further and further in fall, once we get into mid November and so it slowed down a lot, a lot, and so get those fertilizations done now. Night Fist has

their three step program. I like that term three step. It's kind of like you dance on the dance floor, the two step, you dance on the lawn. The three step and the three step is number one in the fall special fertilizer. It's a winneriser. It helps your grass get ready for winter and therefore come out better in spring. Secondly, the second step of the three step is barricade, which

is a pre emergent weed prevention. All the weeds that you saw taking over your lawn last spring, late winter and spring, they sprouted in the fall, and barricade stops at If you put it down now watered in about a half inch of water, then those weed seeds. When we get a col front and a little bit of a rain and a cold front, those weeds are going to sprout because the sul tent drops down to where

they can it triggers them to sprout. You want the barricade down before that because that way, when they try to sprout, barricade is there forming a barricade over the ground and they can't. Second or third excuse me Nitrifus eagle turf fungicide. Eagle turf fungicides is a stomach. And one thing about preventing diseases in the lawn that's different from preventing somewhat different from preventing diseases in our bodies, is that we get sick and you go the doctor

and they give you medicine to fix it. Unless it's a virus or something well in the lawn. We have to put that down ahead of time, so when the disease shows up, the preventative is there in the grass plant, okay, or on the grass plant. In the case of nitrophoss eagle, it's a systemic It moves in the plant. So when again here comes a cold front, some cool temperatures, and those big brown circles start to appear in your lawn.

When the circles are there, that means the leaves have been rotted off the runners and you're gonna have a brown circle all winter, and when it warms up in spring the grass will regreen. But you look at the circle all winter. The sunlight hits the soil all winter, the weeds are sprouting, and other issues happen. Go backwards in time before that, put the eagle down, and now when the disease shows up, it's prevented from infecting the grass. Same thing is true with take all root rot, which

also occurs in the fall. So here's what I'm saying, do the three step and do it now, especially doing the barricade and especially getting the eagle turf fungicide down.

Buchanans and the folks that came out yesterday. We had a really good time there. Boy, their fall fest was outstanding, those of you who are there. I mean it was something every time everywhere I went, Every time I turned around, there was some kids activity and kids are getting their faces painted there were painting pumpkins. I mean, it was just on and on and on. It was a blast,

had a good time. Loved meeting all the folks out there, and so it's kind of fun meeting people that listen to garden Line and helping folks with their questions and directing the things and quite the shindig there. Thank you Buchanons for having me out and for everybody for coming out. That was those of you who came, no just how much fun that was, and it really really was fun.

tail pumpkins which are flattened. They kind of look like What'srella's coach or something like that, miniature pumpkins and gourds and everything native plants. I was directing people to native plants all day out there lots of really cool things, including things to attract butterflies, things to attract hummingbirds. And of course we spend time in the houseplat Greenhouse. My wife loves strings, a string of If they created a new string of, I think we'd be out there buying

it the next day because we love strings at our house. Anyway, They've got you set up for all that and more out there at Buchanans Native Plants in the Heights on eleven Street. By the way, Buchanans Plants dot COM's their website Buchanans Plants dot com. You need to go check that out. Their newsletter is outstanding, their website is outstanding. There are monthly to do lists on there. There are other kinds of resources, you know, how to videos, gardening articles,

garden guides and so on. Makes it easy, makes it really really easy. This is a call in show, and you know what the first thing that a host should do on a call in show is give you the phone number. How about I do that? Maybe not first thing, how about second thing? Seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three two one two ktrh. You'd like to give me a call talk about the things that are of interest to you. Hey, let's do that. Let

us do that. We're going to take a break right now and I'll be right back.

so much enjoy. And when you're dealing with pests and weeds and diseases, ACE is a place for that as well. Ace Hardware stores forty of them in the Greater Houston area. So if you're listening to Guardline, there's an ACE Hardware store near you. And ACE Hardware stores are going to stay stocked with those things that you need to have

that gorgeous landscape, to have that bountiful garden. So just check it out Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator, find the store near you, and everything you need is there. And oh, the holidays are coming, holiday decorations, lands are lighting and all the I'll be taking a lot about that really soon because it's just around the corner and it's also available at ACE. I talk about fall fertilizing, and sometimes people get a little confused, like, well, why

not just use your summer lawn fertilizer for fall. Well, here's why. You know, you can fertilize with a summer fertilizer all year round, but the best fertilizer for fall is one that's a little lower in nitrogen, a little higher in the third number, which is potassium, and nitrogen pushes growth. That makes things, you know, take off green, grow fast and in warm temperatures. That's what we're doing

all summer to our lawns. But in the fall, we want things to slow down because they are slowing down, the days are getting shorter, the temperatures are cool enough, and we want less nitrogen and a little more potassium the third number. Those two nitrogen and potassium, the first number of the third number. They go into the grass plant together and they help build winter hardiness. They help the plant produce carbohydrates that prepare it for cold weather. Secondly,

they stock that plant with carbohydrates. The grass plant so in the spring it can take off growing. In the spring, the old root system is going away and the new root system is beginning to get established, and that early growth needs carbs that are stored in the grass plant to take off and do its. So your best early spring growth spurring along is done by your fall fertilization. Very important, probably the most important fertilization of the year.

That I would say, the fall fertilization. We want to get it down in October here in the gardenline listening area. That's the best time to do it. A little earlier better than is better than a little bit later. But go ahead and get those down and that's how those work. That's why we make that change in the fall. And it's all available on my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com. Youne see the whole thing right there. I was talking about things you could get at ACE Hardware.

Another thing you can get at ACE Hardware is azomite. You know. Asi Mite is the micro nutrient supplement that we put down to build the bank account in the soil. So when grass needs those obscure nutrients that you may have heard of but you certainly never see on the numbers on a fertilizer bag, it's in the soil and the grass is able to just continue growth as normal. There's twenty nutrients that plants need to do well and they're essential. When I see need, I don't mean it

would be nice. I mean they have to have them, and if you don't have them, if there's not enough, it limits plant growth. And asumite that's why we put that down to buy once a year's enough, do as sult test and then you know exactly what you need on every nutrient. That's the best. I mean, we give you guidelines and stuff, but in the absence of that, an ASMIE application about once a year is a good way to go. You can go to azmite Texas dot com.

Just remember it's a small particle sized product, So don't mix it with your fertilize other fertilizers, because you know, when you got large particles and small particles, they don't all get spread at the same rate. One of them settles and one of them comes up in the in the hopper as it bounces along. So do your fertilization and do your asmite applications separately. Do them separately, but you can do them the same day, you can do

them the same hour. Just just do them separately. As Mite's widely available, you're gonna find it pretty much everywhere you hear me talk about on garden line. Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer, all those kinds of places and more will carry the asmite. You are listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and the number, if you'd like to give us a call is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy

four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Now, one of my favorite things to say on garden line is brown stuff before green stuff. And why do I do that? Well, here's why it's easy to go to a garden center and get excited about plants. You know, here's all these green, beautiful flowers. There's a tomato I'm gonna eat like a king. I can't wait to put it in the ground. It's easy to get and good

for you. I mean, I get excited about that. But the success of any plant you bring home, and hopefully you're bringing one that's adapted and wants to grow here. This success up any plant is based on the soil. Think of it this way. Plants live in their roots. That's that's one way to think about it. That makes the point I'm trying to make, and that is when the soil is well aer rated, that could be expanded shale, that could be compost additions, bed mixes that you're buying

to grow the plants in. When it's well aer rated and well drained, it's going to thrive. When it can hole water but drain well. Also, when it can hold nutrients and keep them available, the plants have a chance to thrive. It's setting them up for success. You know. It's like you want to go on a trip and what you're going to take your car, Well, your car's got to have tires on it. Your car's got to have gas in the tank. You know, you see what

I'm saying. You need all that there, so when you go to go somewhere, you got everything you need to go. That is what we do. When we build the soil, we get those plants ready to go. The roots can thrive, they can grow in a big area. They have lots of zone to draw water and nutrients from. There's good root health. There's not soggy anaerobic conditions and root rots and stuff like that. It's all in the soil. Very very important. Cnamlts south of Houston, Ciena Malts is your

bronze stuff place. That's the way I'll put it. That means the composts, that means the expanded shill, that means every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline is at Cienamalts. It is when you drive in there and drive out, you have the foundation for success. Whether you're growing a lawn, a flowerbed, herbs, vegetables, you name it, it's all there at Cenamalts. Now. They're down on Highway near Highway six and two eighty eight, just north of ROAs Sharon on

FM five twenty one. Right down their website. Sienna Maltz dot com, cnamlts dot com Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sundays. But when you come out of Cienamalts, you're ready to go. You're ready to get it ready for a successful planting falls the best planting season. Now's the time to build your beds. Get over there to see them all and get the stuff you need. I see so many people. One of the main reasons people fail when they plant

things is because they don't prepare their soul first. That's one of the main things. Don't be that person. Get it ready to go before you get started. We're going to go out now to Kingwood and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela, welcome to garden Line.

H In Channa Gardens is the kind of place you go just you could go there just to see right now, I'm just to see what they have because it is so cool. There is like the Pumpkin House, but just wall of pumpkins on a building. Go see it. You'll see what I'm talking about. There's things for photo shop or a field photoshop, photo taking with kids. You need to get your picture made by the Pumpkin House. There's a big old butterfly that you stand in front of.

It looks like you got the wings. Kids are gonna like that kind of stuff. And then there's always plenty of things to do and purchase there. Right now, the fall color is unbe believable. You want, you want snap dragons, you want crotons, you want I mean, what are you looking for in the fall? It is? It is there at in Chanda Gardens and Chanted Gardens is the kind of place where you're gonna get good advice because they have trained people that know what they're talking about. And

it's expensive. Grab a friend or tooth, throw them in the car. Head out there. If you're already in Richmond Rosenberg, congratulations, that's a great place. You're gonna find everything you need and you're going to really really enjoy your trip to They just make it fun. Their shops are cool, that the containers that they have are just outstanding, outstanding containers,

really whimsicle. If you're looking for a gift for somebody through this holiday season, you're going to visit somebody, grab something from a Chenna garden to take it with you. But just know this that no matter what season you go out there, you're going to find the widest selection of all kinds of things. You're going to find any place. It is an outstanding place in Chenna gardens. Adam Richmond Rosenberg on three fifty nine FM three fifty nine just

north of the of Richmond. What let's head out to the phones here. We're going to go to northwest Houston and talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, Welcome to garden Line.

dying in the pots. Before they even you know, grew very much and so with in Buchanan's last Friday, and they had some beautiful spice besh plants, so I bought some more. So my question is how long should I keep them in their original containers? And then when I do RePOP them, what is the best kind of potting full to use? Because I mean I'm going to be putting them in cages, you know for the cats.

even cut some roots. But if you put them in the new container and watermen, well keep them moderately moist They don't want to be in a swamp, but they do need so moisture. Well you might have yeah, you absolutely might have their native from everywhere from over in central Texas across. They go the whole southeastern up to Oklahoma, all the way over to the east coast, even up into to Maine in Ontario. That's uh, spice bushes. It's

got a wide area, it tolerates dry sites. Once it's established, can take you know a range of different conditions, which that wide area would would give them a range.

All right, folks, I'll be right back. All right, Little Aretha Franklin this morning, on a good Sunday morning, Welcome to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. We are here to answer your gardening questions, whatever kinds of questions you might have to have a more beautiful lawn, more successful garden. Maybe you've never gardened before. This is a safe place. I say this often, but there's no stupid questions on garden Line. There's just stupid answer. So

the pressure's on me. Give us a call. Seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two two. Kid your age. I know, I know you're sitting there going, oh, I've heard stupid questions in life before. I well, okay, but we don't treat things that way. You know, if it's your question, if you're wondering about it, somebody else is too, and it's okay. We don't expect you to be experts here. We just expect you to ask me some questions. Let's help you have success. Gardening

is the best hobby I think in the world. I'm biased, but that doesn't mean, I'm wrong. It is a great hobby. It's good physical exercise, it's good mental exercise, and the benefits of gardening go on and on and on, and I mean that I talk about this often, but if you're talking about senior adults struggling with dementia, gardening research

proven huge, huge benefits. If you're talking about people that are trying to get out and get active but they can't play sports or go jogging or things, gardening is great exercise. I mean, we know we live sedentary lifestyles, and just getting up out of your chair and walking around over thirty minutes helps. We'll put gardening in there, and you've got even more of a benefit of that, and the peace of mind, the joy, the beauty, the hope.

Gardeners are forever optimists because every year is going to be the best. When I plan a tomato, it's always I can already tell you how many fruit it's going to have and how good it's going to taste. Even if it's not right, I still think I know because I'm hopeful. That is what we do as gardeners, and that in and of itself, as they say, is worth the price of admission. Plants for All Seasons is your garden Center on FM two forty nine Tombo Parkway just

north of Luata, right there on Tombo Parkway. It has been around since nineteen seventy three. And when you go in there, you're going to find all the plants of any season you need, like right now, fall color, yep, they got it. Do you need plant herbs followers for planting herbs, They've got it. Are you doing your fall fertilization of your lawn? They have a wide selection of the fertilizers I talk about on garden line. Do you need soil? Have I convinced you to fix the soil

before you plant the plant? They have got you set up at Plants for All Seasons. That's the website too, Plants for All Seasons dot com. If you want to give them a call two eight one, three, seven six, sixteen forty six, get in there and they will help you. As they say, get your green on at Plants for All Seasons. That's true. I was talking to somebody the other day that had some issues where they saw cracks in the sheet rock of their house and then outside

of their house on the brick call tie. That's what I tell people call Tie fix my slab foundation repair. And why do I say call Tie? I'll tell you why. He's been doing it for twenty three years. Here in the Greater Houston area. We have plenty of clay soils that shrink and swell as they get wet and dry and so on. When you see a crack, when a door is sticking, it's time to check into it. Tie will not jump to conclusions. He'll take a look at it.

I talked to him one time about a situation. He said, you know what, Yes, that's movement, but it's not enough to worry about. Let's just keep an eye on it. And that's how he is an honest fellow Free estimates. By the way, if you tell him you're a gardenline listener, you got a driveway? Do you got a sidewalk that's heaving and cracking? Call Tie. Ty is a native Estonian,

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Nobody wants to deal with foundation issues, but I'm telling you, putting your head in the sand doesn't make it get better. Let's go ahead and deal with it. Let's get a professional in there. Let's get some peace of mind. That is important. I was visiting with some of the folks from Microlife yesterday when I was at at Buchanan's Native Plants, and it just reminded me of the wide variety of products that Microlife has out there on the market. And

they do. You know, we talk about the green fertilizer all summer, the six two four green bag, green fertilizer, green bag. In the fall we switch to the fall fertilizer and it's called Microlife brown Patch because brown patch occurs mostly in the fall. It can occur in the winter and a mile see part of the season. It can occur in the spring as well, but Microlife brown Patch is your fall fertilizer. If you go to my gardening schedule at gardening with skip dot com. My lawn schedule.

Excuse me, my lawn schedule gardening with skip dot com. You'll see the microlife of brown patch on there. You need to get that down now, and you need to water it in because it's loaded with microbes that help populate the surfaces of your grass plant to make it a more hosp inhospitable place for something like a brown patch spore. Take all root rot things like that to infect. Now,

microgrow bianoculant. Is there burgundy or maroon bag that is loaded with sixty three different strains of microbes, a lot of beneficial. There's microbes in there that produce antibiotics to help fight disease. There's microbes in there that work with plant roots to enhance the growth of the plant and the disease resistant. Did you know that there are microbes that make a plant more disease resistant?

fight disease. Isn't that cool? Well, sixty three different strains I just named one right there of basillis and other good microbes. In micro grow bioanoculant, I would do both. I do the fertilization with brown patch and micro like brown patch, and then I do the bio ooculant. I think that you will find that to be very helpful for your long especially those of you wanting to garden organically and wanting to help suppress some of the issues that we do have here with diseases in our area.

You are listening to Guarden Line, We're coming out pretty close here on a little break, and if you'd like to give us a call, our phone number is seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. If you get on the boards and we're not able to come to you'll be first up when we come back.

But I would like to try to help with the kinds of questions that you do have, and I know I get by yesterday, I think I answered so many questions my brain turned to jello and kind of flowed out my ears. It was it was a great I love doing that. I love talking to gardeners and helping them have success because I know that when I give you a good answer to a question, one based on research, one based on my personal experience, that you can have success.

The thing that breaks my heart most is to talk to a gardener who says things like, yeah, I just have a brown thumb, or I tried to grow gardening once and I just killed everything. Okay, you got to kill a lot of plants to be a good gardener. Just accept that. That's okay, you can do that. We can help you get better and have more success because gardening is fun and you don't have a brown thumb. I promise you you do not. You may have an uninformed thumb, and we know how to inform your thumbs.

When your thumb gets smarter, it turns green. I'm just saying that's kind of how that works. It really and it really really does work. We're about to take a little break here. I can hear some music playing here in the background, So just a fun fact as we're heading out. Guess what happens next weekend. I'm going to be at Are you ready for this Nature's Way Resources up toward Conrod, Texas. Nature's Way is a place you

go for high quality, high quality soil products. You want to make your soil good, to make your plants good, to make you look like you have a green thumb. Yes, Nature's Way Resource. I'm gonna be there there having their fallfest. It is one heck of a shin dig it is. They got bands, they got music, and food and all kinds of stuff for kids. It's gonna be a blast.

I'll be there answering your gardening questions from eleven thirty to one thirty at Nature's Way Resources up Interstate forty five out where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia. I'll tell you more about that a little bit later this morning.

soil right. If you're going to grow something like shrubs and and uh perennials and flowers and vegetables and herbs and all the things you'd want a plant, you got to have good soil to put them in. For example, Landscapeer's Pride they have a two dozen different kinds of blends of soils and mulches and things. Their planting mix is a blend of locally sourced pine bark, sandy loam, soil and organics, various types of decomposed organic materials, which

just creates a root zone where plants can thrive. It is high quality stuff they're planting mixed from landscapers Pride. Now they also got something called compost Peat. It's made from locally sourced pine excellent soil additive. It helps with the structure in the soil, and that's important because that helps with internal drainage and getting oxygen in the roots. Roots have to have oxygen to thrive. It does it

very very well. Now on top of the ground, you always want to have a mulch, and their black velvet is probably the prettiest maults you're going to see. It is not dyed. It is naturally just dark, soft, rich, velvety color material. It keeps the soil cooler in the summer, which is a deal. It keeps a moderate soel temperature in winter too, for that matter. But it blocks the sunlight and when sunlight can't hit the soil, read seats can't get started. And maltz takes a lot of the

workout of things for you. Plus it just makes the place prettier. Also about maltz, it decomposes over time. So when you use black velvet after a while, if it's getting a little thinner, it's decomposing. Away. Put some more black velvet on top of it. Don't take the old away. The old is just getting to become good soil building stuff. Now throw some more on top and you do. Just find Landscaperspride dot Com is a website for all those products.

As they say, with Landscaper's Pride, let's grow together, and you're going to find their products all over the greater Houston area. When I talk about garden centers and feed stores and ace hardware stores and Southwest Fertilizer, those are all the kinds of places where you find Landscaper's Pride products and they're widely available. Someone had asked me about

fall fertilizer. What is fall fertilizer? What is fallfuri? What fall fertilizer is is it's basically a higher potassium a little bit lower nitrogen level fertilizer than we use in the summertime, and it's to help the plant build cold hardiness going into fall. That is very important. Now we don't need to push with nitrogen, but we need some nitrogen in the fall. So there is nitrogen in fall fertilizer.

It's taken up with the potassium to create in the plant with sunlight carbohydrates that make winter hardiness and put the energy in the plant. So coming out in the fall when the root system in this coming out of the fall, when the root system in spring is not taking off early enough to really create that early growth spurt. It's using stored energy to do that, and that's exactly

what faull fertilizers do. That's why on my schedule there are fertilizers for spring and summer, and then there's fertilizers for the fall. And that's why we go with a different blend. And that's why our quality fertilizer manufactur choose a different blend based on turf grass science and research for what's best for your lawn in the fall, and that is a fall type fertilizer. Some people call them win arisers. You can do that if you want fall

type fertilizer. Look at my schedule guarding with skip dot com and you'll find out more about them there. I recently I was looking at a listing of mascots. Mascots, yeah, high school mascots. And you know, mascots are supposed to be some formidable thing, like the hornets. You know they're going to attack you and the wildcats that are going to eat you up and stuff. I want to tell you about a few of the mascots that I found across the country. The snails. The snails. Now, doesn't that

strike terror in your heart? That you're going to go up against the snails. There's an the one. There's another one in Key West, Florida. The conks. Yeah, all that is is a saltwater snail underground. What are you gonna do? Slime them snails? I'd like to hear the fight song for that. Anyway. Hey, if any of you are from these places, my apologies, but really, you gotta you gotta work on your mascots. How about the mighty bunnies from Omaha,

Nebraska eat their vegetable garden bunnies, go go go? What I come on?

them garden. How about this the dustin California tillers. That's based on the farming community around Historically, the farming community they're on tusk in California. The tillers break up their soil, you know, dig up the weeds. I don't know, we need to work on that anyway, since it's football season. I thought you might get a kick out of that. Or it's just me. You know what do they say?

Simple pleasure, simple minds. You're listening to garden Line the phone number seven one three two one two kt RH to give us a call. Spare your friends these bad jokes. Nelson plant Food has the fall fertilizer that will do two things in your lawn. Number one, it will provide the nutrients like I was just describing, little less nitrogen, little more potassium to get that plant ready to go. It's called carbo load because it helps your plant produce carbohydrates,

which is winter hardiness and spring growth. That's what carbohydrates do. That's why sunlight shines on green leaves, and plants make carbohydrates for supporting that growth. Now, carbo load also has a pre emergent herbicide in it. You put it down, you watered in. You gotta water it in. Anytime you're doing fertilizers and pre emergent herbicides, you need get a little water on them, about a half inch or so, could be a little more, and move that down into

the soil and that's where it does its work. Also, because carbo load has the pre emergent, don't delay on my schedule for fall fertilizers. You will see that the month of October is a good time to put those down as well as for weed prevention. But you won't do it sooner rather than later. Those things last a while in the soil, and if you wait until we get a call front, some rain and the weed sprout, well, now you're not needing a pre emergent, You're needing a

post emergent fertilizer or herbicide. So carbo load, I'd get that done the next week or two. I'd do it in this week if I were you, Just to head your bet and get ahead of things. Because the analogy I use for fall disease in the garden fall weed control in the garden is baseball. You swing. You start your swing before the ball gets to the plate. If you wait until it's in the catcher's mitt to start your swing, you're never going to hit the ball. Right.

Let's just put it this way. The ball is on the way for lawn weeds, and the ball is on the way already for the lawn diseases, and just you need to get out there, get ahead of it so that when they finally arrive and it's just around the corner, you're ready to go. And Nelson carbo Load can do you just that. And they're available widely all over the area. Let's go now to north west Houston. We're going to talk to Ralph. Good morning, Ralph, good morning.

All right, Okay, that's what I need you to do. Yes, you bet well. They're telling me I got to go to a break. Okay, they're telling me I got to go to a break. Thank you for the call, Ralph. Take care. I'll be right back. Folks. Just consider this your moment is zen. You can thank me later.

fun together today on garden Line. Lots to talk about, you know, when it comes to every kind of supply of whatever, talk about here on guard Line, from fertilizers to pesticides, to disease control, insect control, weed control, you name it. Southwest Fertilizer has got it all and then some They stay so on top of things. When any kind of new technology in terms of pest management comes onto the market, they've got it. They just do. That's

how Bob is there. Southwest been doing it since nineteen fifty five at Southwest Fertilizer, and they're still the place. People drive good distances really to go there because they know when they get there, they're gonna have options. They're gonna have people that know what they're talking about. You know, you walk into Southwest with a weed and you go, hey,

what's this and how do I kill it? Or you take a picture of something you go is this some problem, and they'll say, no, that's not a problem, you don't need to worry about. Oh yeah, here it is, and they give you your options because they know their stuff. That's how that works. If you are organic, they have the largest selection of organic products pretty much anywhere you're going to find. If you don't care whether it's organic or synthetic, they've got the largest selection you're going to

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yellowbells looks good. The fire bush fire bush is one that has red tubular flowers. Uh, and it's a it's an attractive little plant that does good in an area like that. If you were placing an American holly, that of course that would be a evergreen screen plant. So there are plants that will give you, you know, good foliage cover that block of you. If that's part of the strategy too. Those some of the other evergreen shrubs could be used like that.

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come from a long way to go to Arburgate. I can tell you that I'm out there, and I always like to visit with customers when I'm at garden centers and find out where you're from, what you're looking for, stuff like that. You know, gardeners like to talk about plants. Well, at Arburgate, you're going to find the best ball color that you can imagine right now and it is. They are loaded, They're ready. Do you need decorations? Their gift

shops are just taken off. They're even getting ready even for some Christmas things coming up soon here at the gift shops at Arburgate, the bling for the landscape is there. But the plants, it's the plants year round. They sell fruit trees at Arburgate. You always get a free tree there at Arburgate. Shrubs and trees and herbs at everything. Arborgate is the place that you find everything you need to have that really unique, special place that's.

food complete, Organic soil complete, and organic compost complete. Those three bags are what I call the brown stuff to set the plants you take home from Arburgate up for true success. Those products work. I'm going to take a break and I'll be right back, folks. We've got money, all right, folks, welcome back to guarden Line. Glad you're listening in today. If you'd like to give us a call. Got a gardening question, that'd be a good time to

do it. Seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. I want to remind you that if you are interested in purchasing some quality composts this fall, Nature's Way Resources still has their Fungal Friday sale going on every Friday. You can save twenty percent off of their fungal compost. This is good for top dressing of your lawn, this is good for mixing into the soil. You can even put on top of the soil as a malt if you want. But fungal compost is just a high quality mix.

You know, everything they do at Nature's Way is high quality mixes. They a lot of the things that now just are like fixtures in the Houston area gardening world had their birth at Nature's Way, things like rose soil, things like leaf mole compost or the fungal compost. John Ferguson has for decades been a student of the soil, a student of quality composting, and I'm telling you the products show it. Ian his son a run in operation right now. It just continues that tradition. It always is

a good day to buy stuff for the soil. It's always good to buy stuff with the soil. And I really mean that. We get excited about leaves and flowers and vegetables and fruits and things, and those are great, but those only half and when the soil is right, those only happen when you have provided the foundation for success. And Nature's Way is the Foundation for success. By the way, next Saturday, please write this on your calendar if you are anywhere up north in the listening area. In fact,

I would say anywhere I find that. In these events people come from all over. But the Fall Festival is the Nature's Way Shindig next Saturday. Latin food, local vendors. Of course, i have plant sales, live music, children's activities. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Eleven thirty to one thirty next Saturday. Come and see me. Those of you in Conrod, those of you in Willis, the Woodlands, all through that region North Houston. Come from

wherever you want. Like I said, I'm always surprised. You know, I was at Buchanans this yesterday and I can't remember where it was. Somebody came from way down South Galveston direction to come up there for their deal. Come on out, let's meet. Bring me samples in plastic bags, Let's identify them, Let's help you diagnose them. Bring me pictures on your phone of things we can identify, diagnose. Or maybe you just have an area you like some advice with. Here's

your chance. You know, on Guardline, we have a short time to answer phone calls with you moving on to another caller or other information. But to I there, this is our opportunity to get your gardens in the best shape that they can be. And I'll be there Nature's Way next Saturday, that is the twelfth of October, and I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. By the way, the event starts at nine in the morning and goes till two. There's no charge for the event,

and it will be a good time. I've been there those before and they're always a good time. Ian and the team out there really knows how to put on a really good event, so I hope you'll make it. Come on out. I I've talked about a number of different things, and you know, I like to take the moment where we have a little bit of a break in the calls just to I guess, discuss some of the things that I think are important points to consider

that people really may not be aware of. And for example, I want to talk a little bit about pre emergent herbicide tips and I'm going to give you five and I'll do them real quick. Number one, you've got to get the right product for the weeds. There are pre emergent herbicides that just work on broadleaf weeds. There's some that work on broad leaf and grassy weeds. Barricade is one of those. It does both, but you've got to get the right product to go after the weeds you're

going after. Secondly, Tip two, Timing is everything. Like playing baseball. You got to start swinging before the ball gets to the plate or you're never going to hit the ball. Well. If you don't get your pre emergence down ahead of the seed sprouting, you're missing the boat. It's like swinging after the catcher's got the ball. And as I am saying these days, now that we're in October, the ball is on the way. The picture has let go, and the ball is on the way, it's time to get

that swing started, meaning get those things down. Third, put them at the right rate. Rates are important. You don't put enough, it doesn't work. You overdo a rate of an insecticide, a fungicide, a herbicide, or a fertilizer and you can damage plants. Follow the label. The right rate is critical. Fourth, uniform application. It works. The product works, but if you have twice as much in one spot, and not enough in another that's not a uniform application

and you're going to get spotty results. Fifth, and finally is watered in half inch of water or so to get it down into the soil surface. They stick to the surface right there in the soil, and when a weed seed tries to come through, they shut it down. For it gets started, for it's able to establish a plant. You gotta water it in dry premerent herbicide sitting on the soil doesn't control anything. When you watered in, it's

ready to go. And as they say, with the product barricade, it forms a barricade over the surface and weeds can't get through again. All five appropriate product for the weed you have. Timing is everything rate follow the label number four, uniform application number five watered in. There you go, ABC's of Success five tips for premerger and herbicide. Let's go out to Hurta in spring Brands. Hello Hurte, welcome to garden line.

water fluctuation thing. It could also be a lack of nitrogen that shows up on the older leaves, which would be the lower ones on the branch, or the ones closest to the toward the base of the plant. So it could be a lack of nitrogen. At this point in time, your chufflers are growing in the ground, right it's not in a pot or okay, well, if it's in the ground I don't want to push it with a lot of fertilizer right now, because you know they're not fully cold, hardy. You know, we get by get

you're getting by with them there. But in general, a houseplant put outside is going to freeze in the winter, and so I wouldn't want to give it a lot of nitrogen because that just makes it more susceptible to an early hard freeze. But it could be that there's a little nutrient lacking. I think it's a soul moisture thing. And you know that thing's been You've had it for a long time. And plants, you know, over time, things happen. You know, you can lose a branch, you can lose

a stem or. It's just kind of how plants are. So who knows over over time the things that happen in nature and just the age of the plant and stuff. Things can, things can happen. I think overall the plant looks good though, from what.

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I'm doing well, sir. Thank you.

that I would put. I'd lay it about four inches thick and mix it as deeply into the soil as you can. And if your area is not high and dry, if it's maybe a little poorly drained, I would then add another four inches on top of that, just to create a bed high enough to get those rose roots out of soggy conditions. Okay, where would you suggest I could buy that ad and report? You can buy it all over the place. If you go to heirloomsoils dot com.

Heirloomsoils dot com, there's a little button where to buy heirloom heirloom soils and so you know, whatever part of the area, and you can fill out a little thing there. But they they're widely available. You're going to find them, you know, at these hardware stores. You're going to find them at garden centers, you're going to find them. Southwest Fertilizer, just a lot of places to their products. We've got a great area report. So yeah, you sure do another question, uh real quick? Yeah, okay.

for acid loving plants as well. There's a fruit berry and citrus mix that would work really well for that also. But anytime, yeah, anytime you can acidify, add organic matter and get the roots out of soggy conditions. Your blueberries are going to do really really well. They like that, and then get you an acid loving plant food for them as well. Okay, we'll skip. I appreciate your time today, sir, Yes, sir, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. Appreciate that call

a lot. Yeah, that is the case. Where are we now? We are trying to watch the time and the callers. Okay, we'll go now to Sharon West University. Hey, Sharon, how can we help.

got some take all root rot in there. Fall is the time to treat for that. And if you go to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see the products to use, and you'll see the timing and you're going to want to do that in October and in November both twice. It's on the schedule that way, and then you want to treat it really good. With that, I would get some peat moss, some spagnum peat moss

that you buy in little compressed bag. They're like the size of a hay bale almost, but it's a compressed bag of se peat moss. You break it up and just turn a rake upside down and spread it over the lawn. Do you have a question, no, I said, I'm familiar with peat moss like that. Yeah, okay, So I turned like a soil rake upside down where the times are pointing up, and then it's like you're playing

shuffleboard on the lawn, just spreading it around. Or you can use a leaf rake to spread it around a bail. A three point eight cubic foot bail should cover about a thousand square feet. If you put it heavier than that, that's fine. Spread it over that and watered in really well. And with the first thing you're going to do, though, is spray the grass with the fungicide for the peep moss. It's on my schedule. Then I'm sorry for the take all, then put the peat moss down and then watered in,

watered in a little bit. You just a little bit of water to move that peete down around the root. That's going to give it every chance to try to start fighting that disease. And coming back. Now in areas underneath the tree where there's just no grass, I would look at making a big bed of some type of a groundcover under there, because I think it's just too shady. I see signs of some drought damage on it as well, but that could be due to the take all killing

the roots. And if you don't have roots, even if there's water in the soil, you have drought symptoms.

The grass is very much going downhill in a in a mid to lighter stage of the disease killing it out. And so you got to shut that down as a p that's that's the first thing, because you don't at the reside, and I'd hate to see you put a plastic lawn in, but that's your yard, all right, Okay, thank you, all right, thank you very much. You'll take care, you bet if you put a plastic lawn in, I'm going to show up with a hot glow gun and

put plastic weeds in your yard. Y'all have fun, Bye bye, all right, folks, we'll be back.

they would grow there. Satsumas are mandarin type oranges. They got the baggy skin, not many seeds like the little if you bought those little bags acuties in the store, those little small things, it's like a big version of that. So they are among the more hearty of the centrus types of trees. You could certainly do limes and lemons, but they are not very hardy. Usually people do those in containers and so that they can put a little dolly, strap it onto a dolly and roll it into a

garage when it's going to be real cold. With a dolly. It's not hard to move a container ceterris.

it tells you a whole thing. And in a nutshell, what it's going to tell you is you want to drape a cover that the wind can't blow through from the top of the plant straight down to the ground and then secure it with bricks, rocks, soil, whatever around the plant so that air is stagnant underneath there overnight. Then you put a little bit of a heat source under it, like a clamp light those things you get

at a hardware store that have ice. Hardware carries them, and put about a one hundred and fifty flood light bulb in there that produces enough heat and it goes up around the plant and keeps it just warm enough. We just have to remember we don't have to make it warm under there. We have to make it above thirty two under there. That's what we're aiming for, so that that can be done.

transplanting and seed treatments. Do you know you can actually soak seeds in that and all of the growth hormones and things that are in that material really helps with getting seeds off to a good start. You can water your little seedlings in with it when you're doing that

when you're starting your own seeds. But when you're doing transplanting, just get your big watering can put about I would say maybe six tablespoons or three ounces in a gallon of water and just drench it right over those plants. You can get it on the leaves, you can get it on the roots, have it soak in, do it

about every two weeks and it works really well. I'll often just take the little about an ounce of it in a gallon of water and just pour it all over the areas in a new transplant and it will give you good results. Medina products are widely available. Were going to find them all over the place, not hard to find it all. And they do, they do really really work, that is for sure. Well, I'm coming up here on a hard break and so I'm not going to grab the next call till we come back. But Anthony,

you'll be first up when we come back. And also we've got a Runnie and Lake Jackson and rich In Spring. If you can hang on, we'll talk to you right after the break. All right, folks, welcome, Welcome back to Guardline. We are going to get right to it here for this hour. I was tugged about an RCW nurserries yesterday and I wanted to mention it again. Fallows the time to plant trees and shrubs. It is absolutely the best time. The sooner you do it, the better off you are.

That's how that works. I mean, it really is. RCW has some great deals going on. Our CW that's the garden center that is where Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway up them two forty nine they come together. And so when you head to RCW, you are going to find every kind of plant you would want. I mean fall colors there, you know, snap dragons. I got some gorgeous snap dragons there. They've got a lot of good deals going on. You know, their Cajun hibiscus fifty percent off.

All their trees are fifteen percent off, all their shrubs are twenty percent off. So do you want a tree, maybe a smaller size that you can pick it up and plant it yourself, They've got those. Do you want something so big, they definitely gonta have to bring it in and plant, like two hundred gallon borough or lace bark elms. They've got those, and those are excellent trees. Listen.

They grow their own up in Plantersville at the Williamson Tree Farm up there, And so when you get a tree from RCW, you know you're getting a tree that, through their decades and decades of experience in this business, they know grows here and succeeds here. That's the only thing they grow, and they grow them right, and they will help you have success. Ceterris. They've got a good selection of Ceterris that has come in. Another reason to go to RCW website Rcwnursries dot com. You can follow

them on social media. Just remember they're the garden center there where Beltway eight comes in to intersect with FM two forty nine. Tombaw Parkway open Monday through Saturday eight to five and today from ten am to five pm as well. RCW they get it got a nursery. If they don't have something, just ask, I bet they can get it for you. We're going to head now out to Westbury, Texas and talk to Anthony. Hello Anthony, Welcome to garden Line. Good good morning.

are out there on the market. But you want to spread it out over the area, you want to mix it in as deeply as you can, and then you want to spread more and end up creating a raised mound. If you want to throw a little sand in there, if you want to throw a little bit of a sandy loam top soil in there, mixed mixing it in with it, all of those things helped create that raised mound that's going to be a little more stable over time to help the extra water drain away when it

rains too much. So that'd be my recommendation there, Anthony.

to create help create that mound. The fact that I would definitely do that one. Okay, I'll see that. We're at the place there on ruwink and yeah, that's it. I forget the name, you bet Southwest Fertilizer carries them. Yeah, okay, all right, sir, have fun, Bye bye. You take care trees. People are concerned about their trees, and they should be. The trees have got left after Hurricane Beryl and the other storm that came through. Uh, it's tree pruning season

all the way up and through February. Really is the best time to get trees pruned. The person you want to hire is Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree. He knows what he's doing. He does good work, but he stays busy because he does good work. So you need to give him a call and get on the schedule. Don't delay even if you're not going to get pruning done until February. Call him now and get on the schedule. So you've got a spot. Okay, tell him you are

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He'll check the overall health. They'll advise you if you're going to do a trench or a patio or something around a tree on how to not kill that tree. Don't just let somebody who shows up with a pickup a chainsaw on a business card, he sticks in your stick in your door. Uh to be turned loose on your trees. Bad pruning is forever need har Martin Affordable Tree Service seven to one three six nine nine two six six three. Now we're going to go to Spring,

Texas and talk to Rich. Hello, Rich, Welcome to garden Line. Good good morning. Skits.

online yourself, So I'll just tell you this. A lot of the pre emergents are called DNA type herbicides, dinitro anolenes, and those all work the same, and when you overdose with those, you can have stunting of turf roots because you know, overdosing is not following the label, and so if you use two different ones that had the same mode of action, you could create some problems. Now there's some there.

different than now. I've got on my gardening schedule, the pest disease and weed management schedule at gardening with Skip dot com. I've got a list of some pro emergents and the timing on them on there and I would follow that. Okay, we'll do. I appreciate your help. SKIP. Thank you all right, you take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate that you're listening to garden Line folks our phone number seven one three two one two kt r H

seven to one three two one two KTRHA. You know, a pre emergent, for example, would be barricade by Nitrofoss. That's part of their Texas three step. You know the Texas three Step by Nitrofoss that means fertilizer week prevention and disease prevention. So it's the Nitrovoss Well Special that's the first designed for fall. I've talked more than once today about what's the differtine a summer fertilizer and a fall fertilizer. This is a fall fertilizer Fall Special. Barricade

pre emergent controls most grassy and broad leaf weeds. It's got a broad range of things that it will prevent. It does not kill existing weeds. It is a pre emergent, so you got to get it down and watered in now so that when we get a cool spell and the weeds start to sprout, the barricade is there, creating a barricade to stop the weeds from coming through. And then finally Nitroposs Fall Special. That's their turf fungicide. It's a systemic it moves into the plant, so when brown

patch shows up, it's already there to prevent infection. When take all root rot shows up, it's already there to fight infection. And those three steps Fall Special Barricade, Eagle Turf Fungicide by Nitrofoss, We'll do the trick. You can get them at D and D Feed and Tambo. You can get them at Ace Hardware, Single Ranch Arbigate Up and Tomball carries nitofossproducts. Shades of Texas, by the way, in Southeast Houston on Genoa Red Bluff for places you

can get those Nitrofoss type products there as well. I was online the other day looking at Pierscapes because I always like to look at Pierscape's website, by the way, that's peerscapes dot Com, at the kind of work that they do, because they they just create magical environments around the home, like that lighting, that landscape lighting that just sets the tone like the sound of water you know, do you want a waterfall or something real nice when created?

They can do that like maybe an outdoor patio, hardscape, barbecue, pet walkways. Do you need improved drainage, everything like that. Pierscapes does it all and all you have to do is go to the website piercescapes dot com see the work that they do. They also do quarterly maintenance. If you want to hire them just to come out once a quarter and turn your flower beds into something special. They will do that and you don't have to worry

wry about it. Or you can give Pierscapes a call at three excuse me two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero. I'm going to take a break here for the halfway, not the top of the air or the bottom of the hour, and I'll be right back with your phone calls at seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back, Welcome back to garden. I'm good to have you with us. Hey, let's get going here. We got plenty to talk about. When was the last time you

went to in Channet Forest. I love going in in Chenneit forest, in fact, I'm going to be out there this fall. I am gonna be out there. I'll tell you more about it. We get a little bit closer to it, and Channet Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine Richmond address. If you're in Richmond heading towards sugar Land, it's off to the right on FM twenty seven fifty nine nine. Chennit Forest is the kind of place where there's always cool stuff happening. I mean right now.

They are stocked up on vegeta for fall. And you need to have a fall garden, even if it's just a container on the patio for crying out loud. Have some fall garden plants for good, healthy, yummy eating. They have mixed planting containers for fall that are gorgeous. You think mums are pretty, emboy, did they have mums. They got mixed containers that just stop traffic. They are beautiful And if you want to make your own, they'll tell you how to do it. They'll help you combine them.

You know, they'll say, well, why don't you put some of this with some of that with some of this. You can get a container there from them and everything. Okay, we're entering the season for Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus, you know those holiday cacti. Those things are blooming full of buds. You need one for your house. I've got plenty from

I keep propagating and having fun with them. Those are great plants and they're so easy to take care of through the year, and they make good good gifts as well. Do you need fall color for the landscape? Snap dragons, dusty mell or you know those kinds of things like Viola's and and whatnot. They've got it all asters. Oh my gosh, you're so beautiful. And I already mentioned I

mentioned the beautiful, beautiful moms Tallivera pumpkins. If you've never seen one, you got to go see one and go just go straight out to in Channed Forest Garden Center Channel Forest Nursery right out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area FM twenty seven fifty nine. Look at the Talivera pumpkins. You buy one of those now, you'll have it for years and it is so cool. I mean, they you cannot get more festive for a decoration for your front porch or back patio or inside the house. And one

of their Talivera pumpkins that they have there. I love that place. Let's send out and out to Pleasantville and I'm going to talk to Deborah. Hello, Deborah, welcome to garden Line.

a concern. But here's what I do see. And I've got this in my yard, so I'm not after you. I've got it in my yard. My lawnmower blade has gotten really dull this year, and as a result, instead of cutting the blade off with a nice clean cut. It just sort of rips the end of the blade off with that dull mower blade, and as a result, there's real shaggy in the turn brown. And when you multiply that times a billion, you look at your lawn and it just has a tan hue to the whole lawn.

And and and just sharpening the blade up would help without a lot. It's not making your grass sick, it just makes it look bad, and so sharpening it would make a lot of difference. Overall, it looks pretty good. I would do. Have you done your fall fertilization yet?

wouldn't know about it either. I just see holes in the leaves. What are we talking about?

think it's worth it. That may be old damage anyway, to be honest. In other words, the pests may already have moved on. You're always going to have a few pests, but they got to be around in high enough numbers to warrant control. So I thank you. I think you can relax and don't worry about that.

at bait. Fall is the time falls football season. Fall is the time to tackle fire ants with fire ant bait, and Ace Hardware has a variety of options for fire at baits. It's fall fertilizing time. I keep I've talked about that so much today I'm about to turn blue in the face as I say. Ace Hardware has every fertilizer you would possibly want to buy a need that

is going to give you success in your lawn. They got the fall fertilizers, They got the night fass, three steps, the barricade, and the Eagle turf funge asides at Ace Hardware, and they are so nice. They put an Ace Hardware store in your neighborhood. Forty stores in the Greater Houston area. You can throw a rock and hit one. Go to Ace Hardware dot Com find the store locator there near you.

But I warn you when you go you think you're going to go in there buy back a fertilizer, Allow some time, because when you get inside, you were going to see a lot of cool stuff you did not know Ace Hardware carried, and you're going to find yourself shopping and finding some great gifts too at Ace Hardware. Let's it out now, What time is it?

Texas and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Welcome to garden Line.

sides of the grass blades, that side web worms. And that means you should treat okay, the products containing spinose said or the least toxic organic option for controlling side web worms. There are many insecticides that will also kill them, but you spray the spinosid with a hoseen sprayer get it in the leaves. They it soaks into the grass tissue and when the web worms come out at night, it kills them. Now, I don't think that you have side web worms, but you could so go check the

leaves if you don't see leaves being eaten. There's a lot of different kinds of maths. I mowed my lawn this week and there were moths coming up, and I stopped several times to look at them, and they weren't side web worm moths. There were other kinds of moths. So let's just not rush to you know, spend the money and time on applying a product until your sure, and that's a way to be sure.

has a fertilizer for everything. You got turf, they've got Turf Star brand or Turf Star line. Excuse me, I've been promoting their carbo Load because I believe in it as a fall fertilization. If you have other flowering plants and things that are foliage plants that you want to fertilize. They have their Nutrius Star line. So there's a Neutral Star for roses for example, Nutral Star for roses, something you're going to apply pretty much monthly as a granular.

Any kind of roads you have, climbing flora, Bunda Grande Flora, miniatures, knockout roads, it's for all of those. This blend can be used for roses in beds. It can be used if you've got roses in a container that works just fine. It's got five different sources of nitrogen, and Nelson's really good about providing these chemistries that cover all the bases. And with five different sources of nitrogen, you are going to get a gradual release of nitrogen over time to

your plants to encourage vigor and healthy growth. And with roses they bloom, bloom, bloom, and it takes carbohydrates to do that, and you've got to continue to push them along with some nitrogen to get good leaf growth. Leaves in the sun, keep those leaves healthy, and you make carbohydrategen. You have a beautiful bloom and rose bush. And Nelson

Nutristar rose is a product that'll do just that. They also have a nutristra Azalia for acid loving plants like azelias, blueberryes, camellias, dogwoods, Guardena's, hollies, adranges. I would say use it on your magnolias, use it on your color beds as well. If you've got strawberry plants, that's another good one. I know it says acid loving, but strawberries will benefit from the Azalea platfood. Believe it or not, they do really well with that. I think

about things like that. People probably don't know, but yes, you can do that. I don't know if I mentioned Holly's, but yes, Holly's another good one for that one. All from Nelson Plat Food. Let's head out to pass Sidena and talk to Mary. Hey, Mary, welcome to Guardline.

sides of the leaves, a whole bunch of bites. And that's that's the sign. If you don't see that, you don't need to worry about it. And I mentioned spinosa because it's an organic product lower toxicity, and I like to start there when I can. But you can use a granule. You can use nitcrus bug out max granule and then you have to water it to get the pesticide off the granule into the thatch area where it can help control those. There are a lot of insecticides

that will kill that particular pest. Okay, you know, I just usually try to start with stuff that's a little simpler, but always I start with making sure you have it, because who wants to buy and apply pesticides when you don't need them?

for fall. They've got the nitrofossipall special. They've got Nelson plant food carbe load. You heard me talk about those today. They've got products by Microlife. They have azamite for example, all things you've been hearing me talk about today. You can get those weeds with a pre emerging herbicide like barricade out at Orange Southern Gardens. Now they've got moms and ornamental kale, all kinds of beautiful fall plants in stock.

They have beautiful fall planters that are already pre planted for you, or they'll help you pick out plants to make your own if you want. The pumpkins have arrived. Pumpkins have arrived. Oh my gosh, they're there. So get out there and have fun. Remember when you go to warns, tell them you spend one hundred bucks and say I sent you SKIP sent me, and you get twenty bucks off your purchase. Now that's not sales and clearance ies. But you gotta tell them SKIP sent you a hundred bucks.

Sign up for the newsletter too. Where you're out there. All right, Well, we're going to take a little break here. It's time for the top of the hour. Get some news. Don't forget next Saturday. Get your pin got a pin right well? Or just take your phone out put it on your calendar. Nature's Way Resources Saturday. Next Saturday, the twelfth, eleven thirty to one thirty. I will be at Nature's Way for the Fall Festival. Now, that Fall Festival goes from nine in the morning till two in the afternoon.

sixty three different beneficial microbes. I was telling you about some of the specific ones earlier today that do all kinds of things that basically help fight, prevent, outcompete diseases on your turf. And that is why I would recommend those things.

It is a natural product. Buy microlife so you know it's good. You know it's going to help build your soil, and you know it's loaded with microbes that you know when you buy a Microlife now Microlife Fertilizer dot Com. That is the website. You can go there and find out where to get it, or I can just tell you this, go to Ace hardware stores, go to Southwest Fertilizer, go to our garden centers around town. Life products are widely,

widely available and they work. Let's head now out to Silum Springs, Arkansas or Alaska.

going to have really good success with that. I talk about a lot of different products like airloom, soils in Nature's Way and Landscaper's Pride. Those are all good examples of mulches that will perform well. And I think here's why I like it, Doug. It's how nature works.

on your bermuda. Mow it really low, maybe late sometime in March you can mow it really, really low, and you're going to get fresh new growth out and it's going to look good. And the more often you know it, the better Bermuda looks. So that's kind of the cry off. I know, we don't like to mow every day, but the more often you know, the better it looks.

listening to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're in here having more fun than we probably should have have. You been A and A Plants and Produce up in Montgomery. You know that is the garden center right there on one oh five on the east side of Montgomery. So if you're in Lake Conroe, if you're in Montgomery, if you're in you know, Conroe itself, this is your hometown garden center and they always have good stuff there. Right now,

fall color is great. I was out there the other day and oh my gosh, the astors and the moms just we're outstanding. And they had the annual plants you put in your flower beds for good color. As we enter this cool season, I can tell you this, it is fall lawn care time. And A and A has got you covered. They carry every fertilizer I talk about. I'm talking about nitroposs, I'm talking about Nelson, I'm talking about microlife. They carry both of the heirloom and the

Nature's Way resources soil products as well. Out there Nature's Way Resources. They it's easy to get to, you know, just one oh five. It's right there in between Conroe and Montgomery. And just check it out from time to time, because you know, every time I go there's a new set of things that they brought in. Of course, they got shrubs and trees and fruit and whatnot. I was looking at some of the citrus that they had the other day out there. A and A plants and produce

on one oh five in Montgomery. Go check them out. It's a great place. You get good service, friendly people, and it's so convenient to get in and out. I am going to go now to Spring, Texas and we're going to talk to Paul Hell. Paul, Welcome to Gardenline.

crabgrass comes back from seed. And I'm assuming you do have crabgrass, because there's a lot of other grass, and just in my years of doing this, a lot of things get called crabgrass that aren't cribgrass. But let's assume it is the best way to deal with that is in the spring to put a pre emergent herbicide down in.

Let's see, you were in Okay in mid February, put a pre emergent herbicide down watered in, and then you may need to repeat that about sixty to ninety days later something like that, because crabgrass will keep sprouting on through the summer and extend your coverage. The main thing, though, and this is my approach to everything when it comes to gardening, isn't just what chemical will kill it, but

let's culturally try to avoid it. And so the way we avoid crabgrass is by getting that lawn so dense that there's not enough light getting to the ground for the seeds to come up and establish. And so low water fertilize is your way to do that. So I would do all the above in this case.

a molt on top of the ground. It's blocking some light, not all of it, but some. But yeah, I would. I would do the sod now. It's getting a little late, so don't delay. Go ahead and get that sod down. You're gonna want to water twice a day the first week, once a day the second week, and then every the day the third week, and it'll be established by then. Appreciate it, all, right, sir, Yeah, good good luck with that. Appreciate your call. Thanks a lot. Well, Uh, you are

listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter and our phone number seven one three two one two k t R H. I was outside yesterday and my bird feeder, my favorite bird feeder, which is my Wabird's unlimited squirrel excluding feeder. I know that's a lot of words, but oh my gosh, it is so cool. You got to have one. Uh it was empty and so shame on me. Anyway, I got to get back out there and feed it. But do you know Warbirds right now is having a

feeder swap. It's their annual feeder swap at the Wabirds Unlimited stores. You know, we have six Wabirds Unlimited stores in the Greater Houston area. You can go to the website w b U dot com forward slash Houston WBU dot com Forward Slash Houston. That'll get you to the wild Bird store nearest you. And if you take in your old feeder, I don't care what condition it's in,

just take it in. I saw a picture at a Wallbird's store and they had apoll of feeders that look like I mean, people brought in their old broke and every kind of feeder you can imagine, and you get twenty percent off a new feeder. And this would be a good chance to get you a brand new feeder. They've got all kinds of great feeders. You know, my favorite feeder is the is the squirrel excluding But they've got hummingbird feeders. They've got bird seed, you know, the

regular bird seed types of feeders of all kinds they've got. Well, just go to wildbirds. They'll show you what they want. You tell them what kind of birds you're trying to attract. They'll show you the kinds of feeders that work best. You know, for certain kinds of little tiny birds, the thistle type feeding birds. They got feeders just for that. Other things can't get the seeds out of the little feeders. That's what I mean by they've got every kind in

the world. Now, just remember this is knocking to go on forever, so go ahead and get that done. This is a short time for the all annual feeder swap. I couldn't say the word swap. Whatever kind of feeder you have, it's old, bring it in, just give it to him. Say hey, I want twenty percent off a new feeder and get going, get talking to them. They're experts, they know what they're doing, and they're really good at what they do. Hey, it's time for me to take

a break. I'll be right back with your calls at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

something that is sideweb worm. And you do need to treat. If you don't see that, ignore the moths. Nothing to worry about. I've got moths in my lawn. I mowed the other day. I was I'd stop every now and then to look at the moth to see what it was, and nothing was a solid web worm. So that I mean you don't have it. Just means if you don't see eating grass blades, you don't have webworm larvae out

there to treat. And we're getting late enough in the season where they should be dwindling here if they haven't already in your lawn, but they could still be around, but you got checked. Once you check, then you know. As far as fertilizing, it's time to put that fall fertilizer down. You need to get your fall application down. Now's a good time to do that, now that we're in October.

you're dealing with weeds. And then the last step is the fungicide, which is called eagle like the bird, and that prevents if you in the past, if you had big brown circles in the cool season in your lawn. The brown patch or not. No, okay, we need to worry about that. Yeah, okay.

nitroposs products. But it depends on what you're going after. Yeah, those are the three. They put them together because people deal with all those three things in fall. You know, not everybody has everything, but those are the three things that are important in the fall season.

in the garden. I like the fragrances of the garden, from fragrant flowers wafting through the air, to the sounds of the garden, like birds singing or the sound of water. We put a little patio fountain out in our backyard and it is just every time you walk outside, it just changes the ambience of the setting to have the sound of that running water going. And Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery in Katie, Texas is the place to go

to see all of that in action. I jokingly say they need to charge admission because when you go there and you sit among all those waterfalls and fountains, you know Nelson's are the folks that invented those big tall vases in the garden that have water spilling over the sides that recirculates back through. They're the ones in. They got those too. They'll come do it at your house if you want to haire them, or they'll tell you

how to do it. If you just want to buy the parts and go make it yourself, they can tell you how to do that too. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is in Katie off I ten. You head out to Katie Turn North on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just a hop, skipping or jump on the right hand side. And while you're out there, check out the plants because it is a nursery. Their houseplants section inside the store is beautiful. They have the most beautiful houseplants

in the absolute best condition you can imagine. It's great. And then you go outside and they've got their annuals, their vegetables, their flowers, their herbs, their fruit trees or shrubs. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. Grab a friend when you go.

It's a destination garden center and just go out and enjoy it and just tell them I said that they should be charging to have you sit out there and hear the sound of water, because I'm telling you it is absolutely so comforting to hear that quote I said. I think I said it yesterday or today. Is when I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out in the garden. It's cheaper than a shrink. And boy is that ever true when you got the sound

of water moving in the garden. All right, let's see here. We are going to go now to Brian, Texas and talk to Barb. Hell about Barb bye.

For them. They just mainly want to have constant moisture without being soggy, wet and causing rot and stuff.

the course of a growing season. That's a lot. But a big, big nest can do that. So I wouldn't worry about clarox in them or anything like that. They're fine if you've removed them, that's fine. If they were already in the in the branches, you could just blast the web off with some water spray them while they're up there in the branches. But it's an unusual time. I usually don't see tench caterpillars this time of the year, right, So that's kind of unusual.

that will kill the caterpillars, but not other things. Okay, all right, thank you for that.

about crazy high school mascot. Remember that. You remember the fighting snails and the fighting conks in Florida, which is basically a saltwater snail, underwater snail. What is it? What do you say when your mascot is the snails. It's like slime them snails or I don't know, eat their vegetables during night when they're sleeping snails. That's crazy. I forgot one. Of course, I was doing high schools, but colleges, Okay, this is my favorite. You know I have an obsession

with Okra, That's true. I do. I love Okra. I breed Okra, I grow Okra, I eat Okra, I love Okra. There's a college in Mississippi, Delta State Mississippi College. Their official mascot is the Statesman. Well, years ago they got tired of that, and so the students created a secondary mascot, the Fighting Okra. I'm not making us up. Go look it up. T Shirts got a Okra with boxing gloves on, and he does not look happy. I don't know what their chant is. Maybe it's make them real itchy okra

or make it slimy okra. I don't know. Anyway, just had to throw that in. I couldn't couldn't let that go being a fan of Okra. Let's go to Galveston. We're going to talk to Bill this morning. Hey, Bill, welcome to guard Line. Thank you. I have a generic spreader. I have no idea who made it. It's green in color, but I have no idea how to set you know, the settings for barricade and for fertilizer on this thing. Okay? Is this a walk behind? Is this a walk behind with wheels?

be five or six. If there ten, that would be two or three somewhere in there. Okay. So for pre emergent herbicides, about a notch above one quarter. If you're doing fertilizers, that's a different way we figure it. It's not a not a notch above one quarter. Does that help? Okay, So you're doing fertilizer, what would that be For fertilizer, you do it about one or two notches above half. So to use my example of twenty notches, then it would be eleven or twelve for fertilizer, not not pre

emergent says one or two notches above half. Okay, got it, Thank you very much. Fertilized. Now let me offer one more thing. It's always possible, you know, things are a little off, and you don't want to over or under apply. I often will put it way lower than that, and I'll go north south across the yard, and then look at how much I have left, and then go east west. Those are just example directions. In other words, crossways, uh,

and that way you get a more even spread. If you were a little off, you wouldn't want to run out when you were three quarters of the way across the yard, then you would have weigh over applied it. Okay, okay, okay, all right, Bill, thanks you bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate that We're going to go to Spring Branch and talk to Cheryl. Hello, Cheryl, welcome to the garden line.

have some issues. The fact that it's completely defoliated. I'll remove nematodes from the equation because you used a rose soil to grow it rather than something some sandy soil. So I'm just thinking somehow it's a water related thing. I wouldn't worry about it. Figs are very tough. Just continue to make sure it has adequate slow moisture, not soggy, but just give it a good soaking periodically, and I think it's going to be okay. I think it'll be

fine and come back. But that is an unusual symptom. It just indicates something stressed the tree. And I don't have the crystal ball broun.

have been it. Again, that's not a killer on the fig. It may try to resprout, which is what we would rather not do at this point in the season. But I think it'll be okay, I think you'll be fine.

what the right sound of a thump is. But thosem.

about these. Pull them out, get all the plant material out of there when you're done with the season, and next year look for a variety call to Cora c o R a cora that's resistant to that disease. And unless the disease evolves and changes in which happens with diseases, but cora is resistant to that phytopteral aerial blight, and once you've had it, in the spot. You either need to plant cora's there or plant some other flower. It

doesn't attack other flowers and put your vincas somewhere else. Okay, sir, very.

skip dot com. There are two schedules. There's a lawn care schedule and then a lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. If you look at the second one and you go down to weeds prevention, not killing existing, but preventing, you'll see that from late January through February, we put pre emergence down for warm season weeds in your area. I would say do it in about mid February would be best. Then then one, two three, about two and a half to three months later you would do it again.

And so that would be in May that you would again. Okay, because those graspers will sprout all through the warm season. And by doing those two applications, now after you apply them, they have to be watered in. So if this is a yard, you can do it. If it's a pasture, you got to wait for a rainfall and then apply it right for a rainfall to get it into the soil surface. Okay.

kind of thing. Okay, very good. All right, My timing and my schedule is still the same. My timing is still right for your area.

from eleven thirty to one thirty. They're having their Fall Festival. It is going to be so much fun. We're gonna have a blast, and I hope you'll come out because when you get there, what you're gonna find is that, you know, we can pretty much answer any question you got. If you bring me a sample, if you you know, bring me pictures of stuff, let's talk about it and let's solve it. For those of you looking for your ag Extension office, go to Agrolifepeople dot TAMU dot edu