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the cool thing about gardening. It is constant renewal, just the renewal of the seasons. You know, the traditional it's spring and the flowers come out, and it's summer and it's warm, and then it's autumn and its harvest season of pumpkins and fall colors, at least in some parts of the country, and in then winter. That's the change. But every day's a change. Every day is something new,

and there's a lot going on. I was visiting with a neighbor who's got an issue with his lawn not looking really good, and it's kind of a I don't know, a sharp truce, a light shark true color, so not yellow, but it's getting close to yellow, and I'm talking about what to do. It's tone. Well, you know super turf nightrofive super turf, the silver bag that'll do it. It's got a pack of nutrients in it and it's going to release so slowly. It's going to release them slowly

over time. It's easy to find super turf. When you look for the silver bag. You can stand at the front door of the garden center and look through the place and see it. Are your Ace hardware store, are your feed store, Southwest Fertilized. All these places carry it. You're going to find it up at shades of Texas in the Woodlands on fourteen eighty eight, for example, down in more Ace, Hardware City has got it, so it's

easy to find. Just know that when you put on super turfy, you're going to get that gradual release over time anyway, So that was just the point, you know, lawns sometimes just start to lack in the nutrients when we get a lot of water, for example, wash rain washes all the soluble nutrients through the soil or off the property in some cases when it's a gully washer, and so we have to replace them. That's kind of

how that works. Now, if you were just looking at your lawn as this wild place, then fertilizing so often wouldn't be as important. But when you're mowing it and trying to get density and trying to have you know, a beauty to the lawn, returning those clippings is important. But fertilizing regularly is important too. When I was out and about this week, I noticed in a number of yards where watering has not been done much. If well, it looks like none because we've had decent amount of

rain this year compared to a lot of summers. But there's some browning, and boy, the weeds showed through and interesting how the long grass turns brown and the weeds, a lot of them stay green. They are tough. Weeds are tough. Someone once said that if you don't know if a plant's a weed or not, pull it up, it comes back it was a weed. It's about right. They are. They're very tough and difficult, difficult to deal with. But now's the time to continue to stay diligent about that.

You know, we talk about herbicides and pre emergent post emergent herbicides and which one can I use for this weed in this lawn at this time of the year. The number one we control we do is building a dense, healthy lawn through proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing. And so if you don't do any of that and you just want to fight weeds, then you're just going to be treating your lawn all the time and your grass is

going to suffer anyway from it. It's better to start with a good, healthy, strong, dense grass and mow, water, fertilized. As boring as that those three are, that's the secret. That's how we have success. Another way you have success is getting good plants I was checking out in Channa Gardens down there. They are in Richmond on the Katie Fullsher side. So if you're in Richmond and you're going to go north toward Katie Fullsher direction on FM three

point fifty nine, that's Encined Gardens. In Chenna Gardens is a wonderland of places to go. I mean it is just it's a destination. People love to go there because there's always always something out there and in Chenna Gardens a beautiful place. Right now, your fall decorations, oh man, or they ever loaded up? If you need anything for Halloween and Thanksgiving and all that, that stuff is already arriving. They're at in Chenet Gardens. They also have some excellent

opportunities for color, some beautiful perennials. You know. One of my favorite plants is the bird. It's not Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados, also called red Bird of Paradise. I like Pride of Barbados better because we have another plant called Bird of Paradise. Beautiful deep deep orange, red and yellow blooms. And I'm telling you, every time I see that plant, I see butterflies, especially the swallowtail. The swallowtails love some of the swallow tails love that plant, and

it's just gaudy. I've been seeing them all around town at garden centers, different places. They got them there, chanted gardens, beautiful plants. They're perennials, so die the ground here in the winter. It's okay. Maybe the first year throw a little mulch over them, just to be sure in case we have a doozy of a winter, but a little moundu mulch over the top to protect that base in the winter. They'll be fine. They just come back here after hear and never gets too hot for them. They

put up with some drought. They're really a wonderful tough plant. Again. You can go to Chened Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open Monday through Saturday from eight to five and Tomorrow Sunay they'll be open from ten am to four pm. So it's a good day to get out there. And I promise you this, when you go, you're always going to see stuff that you cannot live without. That's my problem going to garden centers. There's stuff I can't live without.

to call early in the day. We get to the end of the day and pretty much everybody's going to be going, oh, I was going to ask this question, and the phone rings and sometimes can't get to everybody. So early in the day is a good time to give a call if you are interested in doing so. You hear me brag about Ace hard restores all the time because Ace Hardware is everywhere. I mean forty stores are in the Greater Houston area. It's easy to find

an Ace Hardware store. They're independently owned. Each has its own unique flavor, its own you know unique. It's got the standards. I mean, you're always going to find all the standards stuff at ACE, but each owner is able to do some things a little bit different as they wish bring in some different kinds of items and things. I think it makes it really interesting. In fact, I enjoy going to different aces all the time just so I can see what is at the latest. One. Langham

Creek Ace Hardware this weekend is a big one. They on Friday, yesterday they already began with their grand reopening. They gave away an Ego Power Tremor two hundred and fifty dollars one. They did a demo of Weber grills today today at Langham Creek Ase Hardware that's on FM five twenty nine in Cyprus at the intersection of Barker Cypress and five twenty nine. They're going to give away a Weber Spirit grill that is a four hundred and

fifty buck grill. They're going to do demos on the Big Green Egg and you've got to go see their guys need pizza oven, they're gonna do a demo with that too today. If you need a piece of steel equipment, fifteen percent off all still units today and then they'll be doing this again tomorrow with a painter of room

makeover giveaway and demos of Tregger Gross. You gotta run over there if you're anywhere near a northwest direction of Houston Langley Creek case Horderer five twenty nine, FM five twenty nine at the intersection of Barker Cypress and FM five twenty nine. All right, I'm gonna take a little break here for some information and I'll be right back. Welcome back to Gardener. Hey, good to have you with

us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to talk about gardening, to help you have a more beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape. And I'd tell you everybody seems to want a gorgeous lawn. Imagine that. Well, your lawn is the carpet of your landscape. It's one of the carpets, lawns, of groundcovers. I think they are the outdoor carpeting. And you want it to be beautiful, you want it to

be done. So one of the ways we do that is through periodic deep core aeration followed by compost top dressing. That's how that works. So here's here's what that means. That means we punch a hole in the soil and pull the plug out, not just squeeze a hole open, like you know, you're shoving a post down into the ground. To open a no it's it's pull a plug out, leave it on the surface. That leaves this hollow hole in the soil in the turf area down in the

root system of the turf. You follow that with compost top dressing, and it just over time, it just gets better and better. It's one of the single most important things you can do if you want to really turn a struggling lawn around, because it's struggling for a reason, and oftentimes it's compaction our clay soils. BnB turf Pros can handle that. BnB turf Pros. Here's the Here is the website, and you need to check it out because the website, their website's awesome. It says it all BB

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talk to Wendy. Hello, Wendy, Welcome to garden Line.

out into your garden. And so this is an unconventional way to do potatoes. Most people just cut them up and they drop them down in a trench. But I'm telling you, in the summer heat that soil, those fresh cut potatoes will rot even if you let them scab over a little bit. So transplant thing that I talked about, and you're doing that is just another option. If you have an acre of potatoes, you're not going to do it with the transplant way, that's for sure.

above that. They're not roots. So the roots go down and the stem comes up, and then we have to cover the stem so that the potatoes as they are offshoots of that stem, they have a place to go out and grow. So if you're going to use a container, you could do one or two things. I've seen people put a container on the ground, excuse me, and have holes in the bottom where the roots can go down in the soil from there, and then they just sort of fill that container as the potato stems come up,

so that they have to come up. You don't want them to have to crawl through like twelve inches of soil to get to the sunlight. That would not be good. So as they grow, where we call it heling them up, but we're bringing soil in around the stem. So you can do that in a pot too, or you could just use a larger pot and make room for it

that way. I've known people that drill the hole maybe the size of a gull off ball in a five gallon bucket and set the potato down at the bottom at that hole and then covered it up with about four inches of potting mix and just watered and the roots go down in the soil below where the bucket's sitting on the ground, and they just end up with a bucket full of potatoes.

sun good sunlight when they're growing. Once you get past this transplant stage, then you want to make sure they get adequate water, and then they you held them up and get as much If you can get about ten inches of soil above the seed piece above that potato you're planning, it's going to settle down. It won't be ten inches but if you want to give them a good section of soil there that they can send out roots in no need to get more than ten inches.

the knuckles it's probably ten feet. Yeah, So I'm one of those guys that cuts them down every year to the knuckles, and last year I got the little white aphid z on it, and I waited probably a couple of three or four months too long before I treated them, but I finally didn't.

myrtle bark scale. That's the number one. Those are little white flecks along the trunk and branches.

new one come up by the ground. If it's fun if it's dead that far back, Chuck, I'm not saying make sure it's not alive before you did that, but sometimes sure we've had to cut on back to the ground.

tell you something. Their nutri Star line and their color Star is just these fertilizers are very popular because people know when you put them down, they're going to work, and they last, and they provide you if you want one for let's say nutri star tree and shrub. Maybe you plant it a shrub or even a tree recently and you're wanting to give it a boost, you know, like we say, the goal is how fast can I hang a hammock in that thing? Well, nutristar tree and

shrub will help speed that process up. I mean, they've got products for tropicals, products for blooming vines. Nelson Plant Food's array of products that are in the canisters, widely available and very very effective. Now the thing I like too is a lot of our places now offer canister refill. So you buy that plastic canister with a screw top lid, and when it's time to go refill, you get a better deal on the fertilizer. Plus you're not throwing away plastic.

It just makes sense. Next time you go to the garden center, take your empty canister with you and refill it again. Again. A great idea, Nelson Plant Food. And look at all the different products when you're out there that they carry. There's one for pretty much anything that you would want to grow. We're going to head now back to Chuck. Chuck, I think you had one follow up real quick.

with them on it. And the more you allow that lawn to dry out a little bit between waterings, like a good soaking so there's a big volume bank account of moisture, and then let it dry out a little bit, that doesn't cause the dollar weed to proliferate, like when you keep it wet. It's hard to hold dollar weed back when you're keeping it soggy wet, because it loves living in that wet condition. So culturally, let the lawn dry out a little bit and then stay with it.

Follow up your early spring applications or whenever you did that product to with something like celsius as it warms up a little bit.

Cedars can't do that. And so when you lose that foliage, now what your to do is go in and trim out all the branches that have no living needles, and you're gonna end up with a very unusual looking tree. But so the options are either to live with that or to pull it up in plants, plant, replant, or do something like that.

little time if you want to be sure. I know I told you wouldn't like what I had to say, but.

that's how they are. So Christmas tree growers. They have this beautiful little Christmas tree they're making, and if one branch dies, it's gonna be a hole in a Christmas tree, which is not a syllable mystery. And so it's just the nature of the beasts. So always make sure that

those are tough. Cedars are tough. But I saw a lot of seedars throughout the Greater Houston area, especially up north and to the west where there's a lot of seedars out there that they're just turn brown, completely brown. The drought last year just was too much and it led to a bunch of things like that. Hey, you been to the Plants for All Seasons garden center right there on just north of Luetta on Highway two forty nine.

You ought to stop by and check them out. They always have good stuff going on, always cool stuff going on out there. Number One. When you go in, you know you're gonna get plants that belong here, that'll do well here, and you know you're gonna get advice on how to grow them successfully. The website is Plants for All Seasons dot com. The location just exit two forty nine for Luetta and it's just just north of Luetta

on the east side of two forty nine, right. They're easy to get to phone number two eight one, three seven six sixteen forty six. Go in there and you may think you have a brown thumb, but they'll they'll turn it grain for you with good advice and good plant You can also bring samples and questions you have and they're really good about helping all. Right, time for

a quick break. I'll be right back yes, today our phone number if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one two kt r H. You know, the folks at Medina have a number of great products that are out there, and it's been Medina's been around since the nineteen fifties, I believe, and gardeners have long known the benefits of the various products they have. One of them that I haven't talked about in a good while.

At least has to grow six twelve six plant food has to grow six twelve six. Yes, it's got six twelve six. That's an NPK nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in it. A good arrangement by the way for fruiting and blooming of plants to stimulate that. But it also has medinosol activator to stimulate the biological activity. It's got humate humic acid. You know, humus improves soul, structured improves nutrient uptake. It's got seaweed extracts which also help with fruiting and blooming.

You can use it as a folio. You're not gonna burn with it. It's not this salty, salty fertilizer you might mix too strong and sprowl. You just follow the label. It's real easy to use. But you can use it as a folier. You can drench it into new transplants.

In fact, that's a great way to use it. You put a new plant transplant in the ground and just watered in with a watering can full mixed with water and has to grow six trove six simple as that very effective and a good way to give a little bit of insurance to that plant that you just purchased and have now put in the ground. And by the way fall this planting season, so grab you some has to grow six twelve six, so you can have good

success with that. You know, when we pull a plant out of the pot and put it in the ground, the root system is still a cylinder of roots right shape of the pot, and it takes time for those roots to go out and get in the soil, and so you need to take extra good care of those roots. Everything the plant can get water and nutrient wise is

still coming out of that cylinder of soil. And then as we get a few weeks a couple of months into the line, now we got roots that are going out and they've started to move out into the soil around it, and we have a little larger area that we're taking care of. But just remember, especially in hot weather, when you plant, that whole root system is still wound up in that little container sized cylinder of roots. And that's where something you know is mentioning the haster grows

watered in. That's where something like that helps and helps it get established successfully. You hear me all the time talk about brown stuff before green stuff right here on garden line, and I don't know if that makes sense or not, but by basically all trying to say is this, get the soil right and ready and then put in your wonderful plants. I don't care if it's a tomato plant, a flower, a groundcover, a tree or a shrub or a perennial flower, whatever it is, you'll have better success

with it. And Siena Maltz, if you're down south of Houston southeastern area, just north of Roach Sharon, Ciena Maltch is down there and there your go to place. Let me give you the website because there you can find phone numbers, times, all that stuff when you need to know later. Sienna Multch dot com, Sienamultch dot com, all of you out there in a Iowa colony, Quell Valley, riverstone Man both any Point, Lake or Pomona and Lake Olympia both that whole region. Cianna Maltz is your one stop.

They deliver within about twenty miles for a small fee. You can buy bulk, you can buy bags, and all the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline are at Siena Mulch as well. I'm telling you the way to put it is when you drive off the property having visited Ciena Mulch, you have everything you need to make the brown stuff right, so you have wonderful success with the green stuff that you plant, the wonderful plants that you have.

Cenamulch is open Monday through Friday till five, seven thirty to five and on Saturday, that would be today from seven thirty to two pm. Close tomorrow. So we get through a garden line. You need to head out there and start preparing for fall. Important to prepare for fall. You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four r KTRH. Sometimes I give numbers, sometimes I give letters. I hate pecking through a phone looking for Okay, where's

that letter? You know, I don't know. I know it's not rocket science, but it just seems tedious to me. But it's easier to remember letters. So we'll do that. Seven one three two one two kt r H. When was the last time you were out at Kingwood Garden Center? Are at Warren's Southern Gardens? You know they're both out there in Kingwood. You guys are spoiled at Kingwood. You've got two great garden centers right there, right there in the same area. Well, both of them are two go

destination centers. You just have to go there. You got to see them. Warren Southern Gardens has a beautiful array of color right now and they have all the products you need to have success with it. Got some really good sales going on.

there's not a problem with that. Warren Southern Gardens. You got to go visit them just no matter what you're looking for, they're going to have plenty of it right out there, including the brown stuff in the bags that you want to take home with you to have success. And the fertilizers like the ones you hear me talk about here on garden Line. Warren Southern Gardens out there. They're actually out there on North Park Drive two eight one three, five four sixty one eleven two eight one

three five four six one one one. Or you can just go to visit them on the web. I mean you can go. Actually, the website's pretty pretty beautiful. They did a real new revamp of it. I kind of like the new the new look. It's Warren's Southern Gardens dot com. Warren Southern Gardens dot com. Go check it out. That's a really good helpful information. Well, you're listening to

garden Line. Let's see here we are about short on being able to take another call right now, But if you would like to get on the phones with Chris and we can have you first up next hour. Just all seven one three two one two k t R eight seven one three two one two k t R eight. I was visiting with one of my children. Who is buying a house and looking at some different things that you know, import on on the property in terms of having success and things. And I was just I always

kind of always check the outside. When you're gonna buy a house, check the brick and see if there's cracks in the brick. If you got a house, do the same thing. Cracks in the sheet rock inside, cracks running from the corner of a window down the wall. Those are all signs that you may have some foundation problems. And our clay soil that shrinks and swells and literally moves it wrecks havoc on foundations and sidewalks and driveways.

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it's your home. Buy of your home. Well, I want to talk a little bit about vegetable guarding. I think I'm gonna have to wait until we get into our next segment to be able to do that, but we will be right back. I want to remind you that I'm going to be at the Fall Home, an outdoor living show up in Conroe, Texas next weekend September seventh and eight. September seventh and eight. I'll be there on the seventh, that's Saturday, the DIF from twelve to two.

I'm going to be answering gardening questions. First of all, I'm gonna give a little talk on fall gardening, so come on in and hear that. Also, while you're out there, I'll be sticking around for lots of Q and A. You folks normally about whereby brain now with questions and answers. And I enjoy visiting with gardeners and meeting our show listeners and things, So come on out the Fall Home and Outdoor Living Show next Saturday, September seventh. They'll also

be going on the eighth as well. Let's see, it is at the Lone Star Convention and Expost Center out there across from the County Extension Office on Airport Road, Lone Star Convention and Expost Center, So anyone up in that region, hope you come on out. Given away a lot of really nice micro life products that have been provided and you need to kind of get some of those sample and try anounce yourself. We'll be right back.

of natives, and I mean they have. They had to post recently. You got to follow them on Facebook, by the way, and subscribe to their newsletter, but there to post recently about ten plants that you can plant for the cold and flu season, things that you know help with cold severity or boosting the moon immune systems, and all kinds of stuff. If you want to go in there and get the native plants from this area, they're going to have a wide variety and be able to

tell you how to do that. If you want to go in and say, hey, I like hummingbirds, what can I plan to attract hummingbirds. They're going to have stuff like that. That's the kind of place it is. And you're going to be surprised if you haven't been there and you walk in and you see the house plant greenhouse, it's going to be like, this is huge. Yeah. Yeah, I thought this was just a native No, it's not a native plant place only. It's a native plant place

and a lot more. I love going into Buchanans and you will too, those of you already go. You know what I'm talking about. Buchanans Plants dot Com on a lease. That's the website Bukinsplants dot Com on East eleven Street. They're in the heights today. It would be a great day to go and check them out. Let's go up to Willis, Texas and talk to Ann. Hello Anne, Hi, welcome to gardener.

put more down or whatever. But expanded shell lasts and so several inches of that and as far as the what was the bed mix you mentioned? Just roast soil, roasts oil, thank you. Yeah, and the roast soil. I would if you can go like at least thirty percent with the soil that you have. If you can go more than that, that's even better. So like, if you are you using a spade and fork or a rototiller to do this?

those two. And the bed just keeps getting higher as you do that, which is important for drainage. Also.

stimulating microbial activity and the soil. Sweet grain is available widely across this area. If you're up to hide and feed on Student Air Airline, you're going to find it out. RCW Nursery on tom A Parkway is going to have it. If you got to Kingwood to the Ace Hardware on Kingwood Drive, you're going to find it there. Sweet Grain from nitrofoss It works well at this point in the season. I would apply about half of it and a few weeks later apply the other half. Just kind of spread

it out a little bit more. You can apply it all at once if you want. That's also okay. Just know that we got fall fertilizing season coming soon and sweet grain will get you that quick boost for the end of the gardening summer gardening, lawn care season to give you a quick greening up of the sod that you have. So if your area is struggling and needs a little boost, sweet grain be excellent, excellent product just

to do exactly that. You're listening to garden Line, and the number, if you'd like to give me a call is seven one three two one two kt RH seven to one three two one two kt RH. Nature's Way resources up toward Conro. In fact, if you're going up Highway forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in, that's the road that comes in from Montgomery or Magnolia. Excuse me, Magnolia.

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number seven. Excuse me nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety You can go there and pick it up. You can have them deliver it either way you want to go. And while you're out there, if you go pick it up, check out their native plants and other plants in the nursery, a very nice little garden center of plants that they put together. Also out there on site, they're at Nature's Way Resources, and the whole crew out

there has done an outstanding job. It just keeps getting better every time I go visit. I'm just oh, look this is new. That's that's cool. I like what you guys have done. That's just how it's going out there at Nature's Way resources. I was wanting to talk a little bit about vegetables. You know, fall vegetable gardening is really kind of here, and when we come back, if I got time, I want to talk a little bit about what we can plant and when. So stay tuned.

I'll be right back or looking forward to talking to you. And if you'd like to give a scalt, the number is seven to one three two one two kt r H seven to one three two one two kt RH. I was talking about vegetables, and I just wanted to say that it's time. It's you know, we're already been playing for a while now. We've been planning tomatoes and peppers and eggplant for the fall garden. You know, they have to have time to grow and to set fruit.

And once we get a little bit of a break in the temperature, then things like tomatoes that don't like to set in the heat, especially the big slicer types, they'll begin to set. But you got to get them far enough along so when we finally do get the first frost, you've gotten a harvest in the meantime. That is important. As we get into September, we start to get a coal front in. That always reminds me, hey,

it's time to get out there. And by the way, a September coal front should be called a slightly cooler front. That's about what it amounts to, but tied to plant the coal crops, which are also called cruciferous vegetables, which are also I like to just say the blue leaf vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, a cole, robbie, collards, kale, Brussels sprouts. What did I leave out to say cauliflower. Anyway, those all begin to go in in September when it cools off a little bit.

More lettuce and spinach will be added to the mix as we go along into the cool season. Carrots also, they don't like the heat, to do a little bit better when we wait a little bit on planting them. But there's a lot of great vegetables out there. And now, if you don't have a vegetable garden, don't think you have to plow up the back forty to have one. All you gotta do is get you some good sized

containers and you can grow anything that we grow. Typically for fall, you can grow in a container at least five gallons I like to do that because it just makes it easy to care for them. A little bit of container. You're trying to water them twice a day when it's so hot and things, it's not worth it. About five gallons are larger. Larger is fine. You can grow carrots, You can grow all the things I talked about in a container. So if you got kids, especially

get them involved. You know, when kids grow their own vegetables, they are much more likely to eat them and maybe set them on their way to a healthier lifestyle. Which we know that our number one health issues are caused by the things we put in our mouth. Basically, that and a lack of moving around. Those two things. It's easy to fix those two things. Especially you're a gardener and all you need is some containers to be a vegetable gardener. You can do it. So never done it before,

Try it. Try it out this spring in Chanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are they would be a great place to go get your plants. They got a wonderful selection of herbs down there and their new vegetable I say house. It's kind of a pull barn type structure. Wow, pull Bard's not a good description of it. Anyway, they just put that up and it's loaded with vegetables. They're always going to have whatever's timely for the season.

And Enchanted Forest, and they're not just a vegetable place. I mean they've got every kind of flour and shrub and tree. I don't know, what are you looking for? Are you looking for shade plants? You're looking for blooming plants. You want things that'll bring in hummingbirds and things. They've got that down there. All you have to do. Chanted Forest. It's on FMS twenty seven fifty nine, So if you're in Richmond heading towards sugar Land up fifty nine, it's

off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. Check out their their website. It's Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X dot com. They have an outstanding website, very very good website, and it will give you a lot of good information and it'll inspire you want to go visit. And today'd be a good day to get out of Enchanted for us too. By the way, See, let's let's go back the phone here. We're going to

go to the Woodlands and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Welcome to Guardline.

And then when we get to the end of winter, if you want to keep those knockouts smaller, if you want to, you don't have to do this, but you can cut them back significantly at the end of winter, and then just be ready to prune them once or twice more as we go through the season with a lighter shearing to maintain a more compact size.

boost a fertilizer following the pruning. You're gonna have one heck of an October if you get that done real soon. I wouldn't put it off too much.

in the gardening part. They've got all the fertilizers that I talk about here on guarden Line. They're going to have some of the soil blends too, by the way, some real high quality they carry. I know they carry heirloom soils down there in the feed store. They also have the things you need to control pests and insects and diseases that are there. So it's really a one

stop shop. They're open money through Saturday, nine to six, closed tomorrow, closed on Sunday, but nine to six alives you to swing by after work if you need to. So all of you down in that whole region, Oh Comino, Ria, Webster Bay, Cliff, League City, Stanley owned Lamark all through there. This is your hometown feed store. Here's a phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. That's it. League City

feed Store. Just what are they now about? Just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three. It's real easy to get to. While you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. What are your questions? What would you like to talk about today. We've got a lot of things we can be visiting about, for sure. I was talking about vegetables and the things that we can be planting at different points in this fall season.

I just want to remind you with any kind of thing you're growing, but vegetables are certainly no exception, the higher quality the soil is, the better off you are. And that includes adding organic matter into the soil, bed mixes, veggie nerd mix those kinds of things. It includes adding nutrients to the soil quality fertilizers for example, asamite is a micro nutrient. And I talk about azimite all the

time for applying to the lawn, and that's fine. I mean that's primarily what people use asmite for applying to the lawn to give the trace minerals into the soil bank account so the turf grass can draw from that as it needs them. But you use azimite in a garden, I would say put it out. You know, if you're looking at a vegetable garden, about ten pounds per thousand square feet, one pound per hundred square feet and a vegetable garden. It goes a long way. But remember this

is a trace mineral. You know, it's not like we're putting out, you know, forty pounds of fertilizer for a lawn or something over an area. This is a trace mineral, so we doesn't need as much. Goes a long way. Azamite Texas dot com Asomite Texas dot com. That is the website. If you want to learn more, you're going to find this everywhere you go. There's a lot a lot of places here in the Greater Houston area. Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilized. All those places

you're going to find azamite. I always like it when people carry stuff, so, you know, the most frustrating thing in the world is to be told, oh, you need to go get some of this, and then you go and you can't find it. Well, we try to avoid

that from happening here on Garden Line. The Nelson Watergardens out there in Katie is a place that I suspect a lot of our listeners have not been out there, and I think this is a good road trip suggestion, and grab some people when you go, get some friends, gardening friends or whatever at Halm out there, because it is not just going to a garden center. This is a place. They have set up water gardens all through the back end of that property and you walk through there.

They ought a charge a mission just for the peace of mind. Maybe give you a lawn chair and charged mission just to sit among the sound of the moving water. Oh, it is therapeutic. It is wonderful. You're going to want to put some of that in your house, in your landscape or rather, and they're going to be able to tell you how to do it or do it for you. They'll do both. They have an excellent selection of plants,

always plenty of things to choose from there. And if you want to do a water garden or a waterfall or a disappearing fountain, which they invented at Nelson's by the way, they are nationally known for that. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Just head out ten to Katie Turn north on Katie Fort Benroad and it's just a stone's throw up the street there on the right hand side. I'm telling you that. I keep trying to talk everybody into going out and seeing the place

because it is really really cool. I put some water in my backyard. I have a little multi layer fountain in the backyard, and just the sound of that, and you know, you go out and you sit outside and it just it's wonderful. And birds hear that too, by the way. They hear the sound of splashing water and they come and boy along with my feeders. The birds just they love that, absolutely love it. And other things that are important to us need water, you know, like

beneficial insects. There's a lot of beneficials, including our pollinating bees for example, that need a place where they can get a little drink of water. And it is hot in some places, it's been pretty dry as well, and so it doesn't have to be hot and dry for very long for these insects and birds and things to need a place. So i'd encourage you to think about doing something like that. You are listening to Guardline. Our

phone number is seven to one three. Excuse me, let me give you the right number, seven to one three number seven one three two one two k t R H. The folks at Heirloom soils have a wide variety of great blends, including the fruit berry and citrus mix. They've got the veggie and herb mix. They've got cactus and succulent, which I was just using that as repotting some of our products here the expanded shale I talked about. You can get it from them Heirlooms Soils off Texas dot com.

Heirloomsoils of Texas dot com. Grab a bag too, are their works potting soil, high quality stuff all from Heirloom Soils of Texas dot Com. Widely widely available here in the Greater Houston area. You won't have any trouble finding it. Well, it's time for me to take a break for the news today. Hey, if you'd like to give me a call and talk gardening, well, here's the number you need

to do that. It is seven to one three two one two k t r H. Seven to one three two to one two k t r H. I was discussing doing some vegetable gardening in the fall, and it is time. It is time to start doing that. If you were going to start your coal crops by seed that again, coal crops, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, co Robbie Collared's kale am I forgetting Brussels sprouts. I love Brussels sprouts out.

You can start those seeds, but you need to get that done really soon because you're going to want to get those things planted. Definitely about four weeks after seeding. It'd be good if they could last a little bit longer. It's probably better at this state to just go ahead and get you some transplants. That makes it easy and may if you're planting an acre of it, okay, start some transplants yourself. But if you're just putting some plants out there and the gardener and containers, just go buy

a transplant and do it that way. It's off to a good start. When you get that transplant home, you want to put it in the ground and you want to give it a good start. And I would suggest that you take a product like Microlife Biomatrix that's an orange labeled liquid. It's a gallon or a quart, two sizes. You can buy Biomatrix liquid. It's a seven to one to three fertilizer. It would be great for watering those plants in. There are many other great microlife products that

you could use. Certainly the dry the dry fertilizers down into the ground. And this is you know, normally I'm talking about the green bag and say put it on your lawn and things. Use a green bag in your vegetable and if you want. But they have many others. They've got products for citrus and fruit trees, for example. They have products that are designed for different times of the year. For example, we're going to be talking about some of their fall fertilizer a little bit later on.

Right now, I'm thinking more in terms of transplants. You know, they've got the humates, plus they've got the the microlife molasses. They've got the Microlife ocean harvest, which is a fish based, the seaweed Microlife super seaweed, the combination. If you're going to do seaweed, I would do the ocean harvest and the seaweed together. Just get the right amount put in, put in a gallon of water, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, Put them

together and use them as a folier feed. They work really well. But back to the watering d there's a Microlife soil and plant energy product. It's kind of a okay, here I go I'm color challenged. Pink ish, maybe violet pink, I don't know what color that is. But anyway, Microlife soil and energy it works very well, as does the biometrix. Just by the way, I use biometrics on houseplants and it works super super well or for them as well. Offer microlife go to microlifefertilizer dot com. You find out

where to buy it, which is pretty much everywhere. In fact, if I talk about a gardens or a feet store, talk about Ace hardware stores and Southwest Fertilizers, all those places and more. Down at Ciena Mulch they carry these microlife products. So when you're down there, remember I said, that's a place where you get everything. You need to have good brown stuff, so you can have good green stuff. All microlife products also available down at Cenamulch. You're listening

to Guardline. Our number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four, and that'd be a good time to call. We've got some open lines here seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I want to remind you if you are into strawberries or you would like to grow your own strawberries, there's an event coming on out in Lake Jackson, Texas at the Lake Jackson Rec Center. The Recreation Center on at ninety one Lake Drive and Lake Jackson. This is September the

twenty first. That would be a Saturday from eight a m. Till twelve noon. I can annual Strawberry Jamboree by the Brazoria County Agrolife Extension Office Horticulture Department. Now the time to apply strawberries here is really you know, October is a great time to do it. Late September is okay too. October is a great time to do it. And if you go to this event, you're going to learn how to grow strawberries from a number of super speakers. I was at the event last year and very impressed with

the quality of speakers that they had. They're going to have exhibitors there and they're also going to have strawberry pluge that you can pre order if you'd like to do that. But here's the most important part of the whole event. Strawberry shortcake contest. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, if you think you can make strawberry shortcake, well step

up prove it. This is a free event. If you want more information called nine seventy nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight nine seven nine eight six four one five five eight, or just go to the Brazoria County Agra Life Extension Office, go to their website, give them a call. They can get you all set up with the information that you need to know. Don't delay, though, because these kind of things they tend to fill up, so I would I would go ahead and get that

done sooner rather than later. And I don't care where you live in the Greater Houston area, it's worth the drive over to Lake Jackson for the second annual Strawberry Jamboree September twenty first, from eight am until twelve noon. Need to you know, I always tell people when when I give advice on vegetables, that they have to bring half the vegetables or half the fruit that they produce to the to the KTRH and we'll call it even. That's fair enough, right, don't charge for advice. But I

can be paid in fruit and vegetables. Maybe I should be paid in strawberry shortcake on this one. That would That's just what I need is more more strawberry short cake to put in my mouth. I love that stuff. All right, Well we're gonna I'm gonna quit mumbling around. We've got to talk. We've got to share own tech Rose, Sharon, I believe and talk to Gary Gerry.

sandy land blue bonnet for up there. Sandy lands a little different than the blue bonnet you see down here in most places. Okay, you can go online, go online to those websites and you'll see the difference. I'm not going to try to describe it on the air, but it's a little different, but it does good in sandy soils. And then another option, I would get some seeds of

different kinds of puppies. I know that these places, I know wild seed farms cells like the red core corn poppy, but there are a lot of different kinds of poppies that will recede. I would not use the bread seed poppy in that big of an area that uh well, I don't know if we need to go into that or not, but I would use the corn poppy. Uh California poppy woil would all be good for you up in that area.

I need to pick up some products for some weed killing that I've been doing, and Bob just has a selection. If he Southwist doesn't have it, you don't need it. And I really mean that. That's not just a joke. That is serious because they have everything that you need to have success. Are you an organic gardener? Are you you know not organic? Don't you don't care? You use organic or synthetic? Bob has products for everything, fertilizers and

past control and weed control and whatnot. I was getting some stuff I'm still experimenting around on some different approaches to nutsedge control. We posted something to the garden line Facebook page just yesterday. Reposted something which, by the way, if you don't follow garden Line on Facebook, you should just go to Facebook. Do go type in garden line, what word garden line, and you'll find that post. It's

easy to find it as you scroll down. It's a picture of me with a shotgun in my MD pointing it at a nut sedge. Do you ever feel that way? Do a lot? Anyways? I put up their instructions on first of all, I put something that's a little linkedy. It's three pages, but it explains the different types of nutsedge we have, how they grow, and why that's important,

and knowing how to control them. Most people fail at controlling nutsedge because they way too long to start, or they do a good job starting and then they stop for a while, they get busy, life goes on. I know how that is, and the nutsedge has time to recover and then they go back again. And just remember nuts edge. If you cannot ever let it have air, don't let it up for air. Think of it that way when it sticks its head above the ground. Has

three to five leaves on it. You need to do something hand digging, spraying, whatever you do, you need to do something at that stage and you will wear it out and you will win if you use the right products. And this publication tells you all about it and it's free. Also up there as a publication on making your own weed wiper.

have to just be nuts edge. It could be poison ivy, it could be some grassyweed. It allows you to treat them in areas where if you spray, you'd hurt your plants. It also allows you to treat them without putting a lot of product out there in the environment. Takes very little when you just apply it to the sponges of a weed wiper. But Southwest Fertilizer has that tool and

they've got everything you need to go on it. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is the website Southwest Fertilizer dot Com and the phone number seven one three six sixty six seventeen forty four seven one three six six six seventeen forty four, and you swing by there and check it out. It's in Southwest Houston. Been ronsis nineteen fifty five corner of Bissonette and Runwick. We're going to go now to Port Natchus and talk to Janet. Janette. Yeah, hey Janet,

Welcome Toguardline. Hello, good morning, more, good question.

in a crisper or something. But make sure there's no apples or other vegetables in that crisper because those give off ethylene, or they can give off ethylene, and that messes up the bloom that's inside that bulb you put in there, So don't store them with fruits and vegetables. Then when we get to I typically would say between Christmas and New Year's you would begin to put them out. You want to get them in the ground and they'll get established, they'll get roots, and then they're going to

come up and bloom. And if you wait it until let's say February to put them out, it would just be so fast and it'd be so warm that your blood times even shorter. So I like to start between Christmas and New Year's. The way I like to put it, Janet, is about the time the relative that have been hanging out at your house over the holidays you start to get away from them. That's a good time to walk outside and plant your tulips. That's how you know when it's time to plant.

Because if you just go months sitting out in warm, hot weather in a garage or something, that's not gonna be good for you.

certainly be good. I wanted to. Since we're talking about bulbs and things, when fall comes it is prime time for planting bulbs, and I would encourage you this fall to add a perennial bulb to your landscape. I mean, certainly I had several different types, but at least one it could be the ox blood lilies. Those are the ones. They're also called schoolhouse lilies because they typically bloom in September.

You know, it's been parched, hot sun ground, and all of a sudden we get a little co front and some cool rain down on the ground, and here they come up with their little red tubular flowers. They don't last a long time, but they are tough. I mean, you see these in homesteads where no one is taking care of them for decades and they're still going strong. That's a great bulb to have. You could consider iris. The cemetery iris is a beautiful iris. It does just well.

Some types of bearded iris do well. There are certain daffodils that do well. The big larger flowered, and then the little clusters the paper white. It's the type of narcissus that they also there are certain ones that do well, and you go to a good here's another reason to go to a good independent garden center. They're going to carry ones that will naturalize you, or they'll be able

to tell you if they do or not. And to buy one that naturalizes is an investment because think about this, that bulb is just going to multiply over the years. It's going to come back every spring or every fall, or every whenever. The thing blooms every summer. Rain lilies

bloom typically in the summer, as do copper lilies. But there's a lot of great naturalism books, some of those garden our garden centers, as they may already start getting I was like, man, I suspend I hadn't, but anyway, it's a great time, great time, and it just gives you those rewards. I like to plant mine in a way where when they die down in the village, I cut it back to she hollowed and done. Uh, you don't even know that they are. All of a sudden surprise.

I walked around the corner of my house the other day, and I've got some ox blood lilies or scull block squaws lilies, and they were in an old black nursery pot, been setting up for years. The soil is almost all gone out of the pot from oxidizing, and the little boogers had balloons on them already because they got a

little rain the other day. That is the kind of blow by life like one of my mentors, doctor Bill Welts, says, get your flowers, find your flowers and roses and cemeteries, because if dead people can grow it, you can to.

by and check it out. They're open on Friday and Saturday and Sunday Friday from nine to three, Saturday from eight am to four pm, and on Sunday from eight am to four pm again, so it's easy to find all kinds of things out there. They really have a lot of different kinds of fruit trees too that you know contain our fruit trees. So whatever kinds of fruit you want for that area, well they've got the load shell stuff and that that's what you need for down there.

You need apples and things that don't require a lot of chilling hours, plums, pears, avocados, peaches, all of that they seasonally will get in their vegetab plants and tomato plants specifically Peggy Martin roses and just on and on. If you need a tree or a shrub, they're an outstanding source for those. You got them right there on site and they'll come out and plant them if you need them to, happy to do that. On Elizabeth Street

in Alvin. This is Horges Hidden Gardens seventeen seven twenty one Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of the Highway six. So all of you down there in Alvin and certainly Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, al Goo, Arcadia, Alta, Looma, all those communities. You got a little garden center there. You need to go check out, and I think you'll be very pleased with what you find when you get there. You are listening to garden Line and we're about to head out to the phones. Now to Spring Branch and

talk to Herta. Hello, Hrta, Welcome to garden Line.

have success. It's just so stressful to try to do it right now.

it goes into a bird's stomach. That's the kind of feed we want to feed the birds want to eat. Now, of course, there's things like sunflower seeds that they'll shell out and drop the shells on the ground. But you can even buy a no no waste, no mess. They call it blend of seeds. There it's hummingbird season though. You got to get your bird feeders. To go to Wallbirds and ask for the high perch hummingbird feeder. That's my favorite one. There. I've got several hummingbird feeders. That's

my favorite one high perch from Walbirds. You go to WBU dot com forward Slash Houston w BU dot Com forward Slash Houston that sells all shows you all six wallbirds that are here in the Greater Houston area. The hummingbirds are here. I've already had them in my yard, and you got to get those feeders out there, take care of them because they are a long trip ahead of them, and as some of them head down south further than this, so we need to get those taken

care of. Any kind of bird seed though, any kind of bird feeders, any kind of bird houses, and probably most important of all, quality bird advice. I always ask those Wildbird Unlimited manager soore managers and their staff bird questions every time I go in because there's something I need to know. All right, We're going to go now to talk to Dan. Hello Dan, and welcome to garden Line.

So I did some grass, some some medium bladed soyge of grass some in there, and if uh it has thrived and has filled in where I had take all patch and then killed the sat And so my my grass has been transitioned from Saint Augustine in spots to Zorzia grass.

okra problem. I don't know if there's a wing of the Betty Ford Clinic for Okra growers, but if there is, I need to be admitted pretty quick, because my whole garden is basically okra right now, because I breed okra, cross okra different varieties and then take the out from that and plan them out and pick the ones that are best out and cross some more, and just I'm always messing with okra, and I think it's fun. It's easy to do, and boy, it likes the heat. You

know what I was reading the other day. Okay, this is a let me nerd out here just a little bit. But a lot of people turn their nose up at okra because it's slimy. Well, first of all, let me expand your vocabulary. We do not say us okra. People do not say slimy. We say mucilaginous because it sounds better. But if we grill ours, put a little olive oil on the outside, sprinkle them with sea salt, put them on a grill two minutes on each, two sides, and

you're done. And it's not as a mucilaginous that way. When you cook it with acidic things like tomatoes and whatnot, it is not as musiclagins. But sometimes it's worth accepting the mucilage because it helps thicken soups and other things. I actually dry and grind the ocre up into a powder and my vitamins and basically turn it into something that could be added by the spoonfuld anything from a smoothie to a soup to you name it, and I'll tell you why this is important. Okra has two kinds

of fiber. One fiber soluble, one is not soluble, insoluble and soluble fiber. One type helps with things like heart issues, you know, when we're dealing with things like cholesterol and whatnot. Another type helps with your intestinal track. You know, we all know that fiber is important in terms of good healthy microbes and let's just say it, things function properly in the intestinal tract. And Okra does all of that and a lot of other things. So there's my little

mini Okra commercial. This was brought to you by the National OCRA Board. There's not one to my knowledge, but anyway, I'm basically like Rodney Dangerfield can't get no respect. I'm trying to get Okra some respect here because it is a it is a good vegetable and I can tell you a lot of ways to use it you probably haven't heard of before that are very helpful because it is a good, healthy, healthy thing to have. All right, thanks for thanks for bearing with me through that green

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come out and they'll do a good job. They are experts in the field and they will turn that soil that's compacted into something where your grassroots can grow. That's important. They use quality tompos compost, not top soil, high quality leaf mold composts. They put it down there, and as you build that lawn by improving the soil. That's you know, with a garden, you can rototoil compost into the soil.

What do you do for a lawn, Well, the roots themselves live and die and they add some organic matter. But the deep aeration, the core aeration, followed by compost top dressing. That's how you slowly, overtime build that lawn root zone healthier and healthier, and you get the roots healthy and your lawn's gonna look better. It's one of the most single most important things we can do for

our lawns. Not it's not cheap. It is not cheap to do, but it works and it gives long term results, and that is important if you want to have success. Let's see here, I am. We got a phone call here. I'm gonna take you just one second.

them now. If you look for herbs, for flowers like Mexican met marigold blooms in the fall, Copper Canyon daisy. I don't know if they count that as an herb, but it has. It's a fragrant one. You wouldn't eat it, but it's fragrant h And also Mexican met maragol blooms in the fall. Those are herbs. Make plans. Do an herb container, Put herbs at the end of your vegetable beds. Put herbs in an herb garden. Put herbs and flower beds herbs. You can grow your own tasty meal enhancing

herbs easy, easy here in the Greater Houston area. Let's see, I'm going to go out now to bel Air and we're going to talk to is it Zefel.

much more phosphorus. But as far as those weeds, the thicker you get your lawn, the less clover like weeds you're going to have, whether it's a medic or a clover or you know, all those kinds of plants that you're just gonna have lass. So that is number one. I've got a schedule. I don't know if you've ever ever been to my website. It's gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There's a schedule there that tells you. It's the mow, water and fertilized schedule. It's

a law. It's called the lawn Care schedule, and it tells you exactly how to do all the things you do to make that lun denser and these problems go away over time as you build density. Secondly, there's the weed Disease and Pest schedule. It's also free online, just download it, uh, And that one tells you about what products you would use to prevent weeds from sprouting and what products you use to kill existing weeds. And with

those clover utweeds, you can approach them both ways. You can prevent them with products like nitrofoss barricade, or you can kill them once they're growing. But you just have to follow that schedule because there are certain products that will hurt your lawn and you don't want to use those.

faire approach to lawn care, very lisi fair. And I realized that when I'm talking to a lot of people here on the air, right, it's not just you and me. And there's some people that are lawn Nazis. I call them the lawn rangers. On the weekend, they are going to have that long, perfect, immaculate, not a weed in sight, cut regularly, beautiful, edged, perfectly. Okay, that's one end of the spectrum, and good, go for it. If that's you, go for it on the other end of the spectrum.

Or people that just want something green out there. And I know that's you know, Felder says, why does he put it? Oh, if you want to make all your weeds go away, take off your glasses. It's true. You mow a weedy lawn and take off your glasses and look at it and it looks birty good. Now, some people aren't tolerant of that, and I think most of you probably fall somewhere in between the two. But it

doesn't matter how you go about. It's your yard. You can do what you want steen you and the homeowners Association, I guess, but we try to help you have as good a lot as you want to have here on Guardline and that's why we create these schedule That's why I put them both online gardening with skip dot com. I want to tell you about RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries is at Tambaw Parkway where it comes into belt Wag eight. Now the website, you want to write this down r

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eight to five, Sunday ten to five. I'll be right back in just a moment with more of garden line. I'm good to have you with us. If you would like to give me a call and talk gardening, that would be a good time. Seven to one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. The folks at Landscaper's Pride they have I don't know, twenty over two dozen, twenty five or six or seven, I don't know. Different

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three months of feeding. So when you get some landscaper spride potting mix, put it in a container. You're gonna have great root development in that container. And by the way, it's good for outdoor and indoor planting either one. But with that boost of nutrient additionally to it UH and then the pearlite to help keep it open, you're gonna have good drainage and you're gonn have beautiful color all

the way into the fall season. I would even plant vegetables in a container in that by the way, I think that would be an excellent choice for that now that there is a number of other products they have. The topsoil is a sandy loam kind of material with

some composts added to it. So if you want to feel divots in the yard, got some lower areas or sunken spots, you're trying to level it out, don't just youse straight organic matter for that, because it's just going to decompose away and you'll be back with a hole again. But this tops one mix with a little of the compost in it. But also that sandy loam is an excellent choice. And then on top of the ground, it's

always a good time to malt. The black velvet. It's not dyed, it's naturally very dark, velvety color and it's an outstanding product. Again, another of the mini products from Landscapers Pride. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find out more about the products they carry. You are listening to Guardenline and our phone number is seven to one three two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I mentioned this is

fall is a good time for herbs. Fall is a good time for everything, and I just I really want to stress the importance of fall planting. If I could change one, well, you know, one thing. If I could change ten things, this would be one of the ten. There's a lot of things I'd like to change in gardening, but this is one, and that is if I could take some of that spring fever and bottle it up and spring everybody's itching to get out and plant, and

everybody's a gardener, it seems like fall. We need to take that bottle of spring fever and put it in the water supply for fall, because fall is the best planting season of the year. Anything perennial, anything, woody trub trees, woody vines, any perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, a cool season color, all of that. Fall is prime time for that. And the reason is especially for these perennials and woodies, is they have all winter to grow a good root system

before next summer arrives. So fall gives you the biggest head start on that and you need to take advantage of that. We got all these folks you heard me talk about our sponsors that have quality saw mixes. Sponsor to have quality plants. That's how you go about it. We're going to go out to Baytown now and we're going to talk to Carol. Hello Carol, and welcome to garden Line.

fall fertilizing and things. So that's right, kind of caught in between. But you could do a little. If the lawn doesn't look good, go ahead and give it a little something that's quick release, right.

just hand dig those if you can. If there are too many of them. There's some other approaches to that.

We could talk about that maybe on another call. But and as far as you're asparagus, when we get into winter and have some really good cold weather, cut it back to the ground and then in the spring as it comes up, if they have a decent size shoot coming out of the ground, you can go ahead and harvest them, but at some point those shoots are going to get smaller where they aren't like pencil size, and then you got to stop harvesting and let that asparagus

plant send up shoots to capture sunlight to replenish its stored reserves.

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a very long time. And he knows what he's talking about. That's why here's our go to fellow. You're at garden Line Affordable Tree Service Afftree Service dot com. We are now going to go out to Beaumont and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to the garden Line. Do we have a mic? All right, Mike, I'm gonna have to put you on hole. We're gonna go to Janice in Katie. Hello, Jennis, Yes, Hi, good morning morning.

But the more you open it up and get good sunlight and it the better. And then here's the last thing. You need to thin those peaches so that if you were to open your hand as wide as you can, like you raise your hand, all your fingers are sticking out in all directions, from the tip of your little finger to the tip of your thumb. That's how far peaches should be apart on a branch. If they're closer than that, something's got to go. I know that's hard

to do. But when you make them stay at least that far apart, which is going to be over six inches probably across, you're going to end up with a bigger peach by thinning them out. So thinning and then adequate water. As we're getting into summer and it's hot. If the water lacking, the peach is going to be smaller.

those new shoots. It's using stored energy to grow new shoots and leaves, and when it uses that, then those leaves can capture sunlight and strengthen it before we hit real winter. Okay, but that's about water. What is in your control. Make sure it doesn't lack for water, but don't keep it soggy wet either.

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care of their customers. We're going to head out now to Genus in Hello Jennis, Yeah, Hello Ah, this is the Jennis that I was talking to while ago.

That means I got to quit talking, but not until I tell you that. Next Saturday, September seventh, Montgomery County fall Home an Outdoor Living Show Montgomery County Falling Out to Home Living Show Saturday, I will be there from a twelve until two. I'm going to be given a talk on Faulk gardening. Hope you can come and hear that, and then I'm going to be answering gardening questions till the cows come home. I don't know when the cows come home in Montgomery County, but I'll still be there

engine righty til two o'clock. Seriously, I'll be giving away some really cool products from micro Life Fertilizer, and you definitely want to get some of these samples in there, so show up, show up with your questions. If you got some samples, put them in a ziplock bag, bring a photo on your phone of something you need identified or diagnosed. We're gonna get it all done. Mainly, we're

gonna have a really good time. Fall Home an outdoor Living Show Montgomery County at the Lone Star Convention and Expo Center next Saturday and Sunday or that wows f Welcome to Katie R. H. Guarden Line with Scamp Richard.

fertilizers for everything hibiscus and flowering tropicals. That's one of their nutri Star fertilizer lines. Comes in a jar a jug, which, by the way, their jugs can be refilled at certain places that have the low refill stations. And if you don't know what a refill station is. You've been in a grocery store and you see that wall of little things where you pull the handle down and it gives you peanuts or whatever your you know whatever kind of

deal snacks. Well, that's what it's like, except that's got Nelson fertilizer in it. They've also got an indoor plant nutri Star. They they have some really quality stuff for outdoor trees and shrubs. The nutrient Star tree and shrub

is very very good. Nelson Plant Food makes quality products, that quality products that put the nutrients your plants need in the ground and in the case of nitrogen, releasing them over a period of time in many cases so that you get a continual, gradual feeding of the plant. That's how plants eat, that's how the fertilizer releases gets it in the ground. I would encourage you to do that. And one of the best, one of the best coolest things that kind of new to me over the last

five years as seeing these little refill stations everywhere. So you don't waste money on plastic, and you even save money on fertilizer when you refill those things. Just another good deal, another reason to go with Nelson's products. I'm going to head back to Katie now, Jennis, I found what we're looking for, and I think I had sent you, sir, I sent you a reply to your email back. This was a good while back. But anyway, what that was

a red bud tree right blooms in the spring. Okay, so that tree, there's nothing you need to worry about right now. I know it looks bad, but it's got lots of green leaves on it that are producing carbohydrates, and it's going to set bloom buds and it's going to bloom beautiful next spring. You had some old caterpillar

damage and they have moved on. And if you look whenever you see a leaf that's been chewed, if you get up in the morning and you go out and look at it, if it was a caterpillar that was feeding, you know, during the night or whatever, you would see fresh cuts on those leaves. But where you see the little brown edge around where the feeding has been done, it means it was done days ago. And now that edge has dried and turned brown. And so that's why

I'm thinking there aren't any check it over. But the culprit's going to be a caterpillar if they're still around, and if you find if you find one sprays a b T B as in boy Tea is in tom bt BT will control them. I'm going to put my money in the basket that says you don't need to worry about it. They're long gone. Some bird ate them, some wasp carried them away. Those paper wasp beat caterpillars all day, so who knows, they probably went in there and cleaned them up for you.

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from in the greater Houston area. I'm going to head now out to Spring, Texas, and we're going to talk to Carl. Hello, Carl, Hi, Skip, How are you doing this this morning? I'm good, I'm good. How can we help you before I have to go to a break here? I'm sorry.

should be okay. Make sure you give them adequate fertilizer and what it needs. I really have to run here, but I just wanted to get you that answer. Just fertilize and water and I think it'll be okay. All right, folks, I got a break for the news here and I'll be right back. If you are dealing with insects in the lawn that could be chinchbugs, that could be the fall not the fall web worm, side web worm, that's

the one that gets in the grass. You never know every year where it's going to be a bad side web worm year or not. But if it is, night Fross Bugout Max has got you covered. It kills over one hundred and thirty different kinds of insects within forty eight hours. It's done its work and it lasts. It's six round, so it's going to give you a number of weeks through really through that season of control. Nitro Foss Bugout Max is easy to find. You can go

up to the Arborgate in Tomball. You're going to go down to shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff in South Houston, or maybe out to plants and things out in Brunham, all places among many places where you're gonna find nitrofoss products like bug Out Max. I want to heading out of the phones. We're going to go up to Humble and talk to Bernie. Hello, Bernie, welcome to gardenline.

But I think you need to look at that tree and imagine it without all the limbs that don't have a green needle on them, And that is going to be the decision. Do I want to go ahead and pull it up because that's too ugly, or do I want to leave it and live with it?

be the bearer of bad news. But uh, the only other thing will be wait and watch a little bit. And maybe the plant proved me to be a liar, but I don't. I would bet my ys take the case. Sir, Thank you, thank you very much. We're going to go now to Mark in Cyprus. Hey, Mark, how can we help?

to a lower area. That's called a French drain. Or you can create that pit like what you described and have a sump pump in it that when it gets water in it, the pump kicks on and a pipe takes the water off somewhere else. That can also be

underground so you don't see it. But so either a natural gravity drain to a lower spot, or like a pit with a sump pump in it, to a lower spot and they make containers you sink in the ground that the water it goes through the grade, it goes into the container, and then when water gets in there, the pump kicks on just like a sump pump would normally work. Those are your two options for going past what you've already done.

all of that, but they also do drainage work. And here in Houston, where we have clay sools and it rains a lot, most years, we end up with these areas that stay two wet, you know, just like Andy's having to deal with out there, and Piercecapes can come out. They've got all the equipment to do it right, to make it work, and I would encourage you to get

them a call. You can go to the website. It's Piercescapes dot com, Pierce Scapes dot com, or you can call them two eight one three seven o five zero six zero two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. We're going to go now to the woodlands and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to Gardline.

branch or trunk. When the wind bends and stresses it, it just gets more lignant and it gets stronger.

to leave it for a while, that's fine. Just allow it to move a little bit. Just move in a little bit, is all. It takes a little bit. Yeah, And by the way, Miho's one you can I've seen satsuma's in half whiskey barrel size containers and you can grow them in that. They do want to get bigger than that, but you can do that. The grape root may be a little more of a challenge to keeping a really small container because it's an even bigger stature tree in nature, but you can give it a try.

Maybe at some point you have to you have to move it out of the ground. Just just keep an eye on it.

get some from it. You have to do a little bit of protecting it if we have a little bit of a frost and keep it going. But here's the thing about tomatoes. As we go into fall and the nights get cooler and cooler, the growth slows down, so that you know, I say sixty days to harvest in you and think, well, I got sixty days before the first freeze. But it's going to slow down, so it's going to take even longer than that normal time that it would take because it's getting cooler and cooler on it.

So it's a little bit of a roll of the dice. If you're determined to give it a try, I wouldn't talk you out of it, but in general I try to get that done a little bit earlier. All right, Well, thanks so much, Skip, take care, thank you. Let me let me Yeah, you bet, Thanks Andy, I appreciate I appreciate your call very much. All right, folks, Ana Plants

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to go to Valdo and Pasadena. Valdo, I'm going to have about thirty seconds here before I have to go to break, But can you just give me the initial question and then we'll come back to it.

it's it looks like a bush now. So my question is, outside of the aesthetics, do I leave it in there? Or should I take it out?

would become the new trunk. But in the meantime you're going to be taking away other branches and shoots from that, pruning and whatnot. And it's really set back. So again, going back to my first answer, I would replace it if it were mine. Okay, sounds good.

And if you go online to my website Gardening with Skip dot com, that's where the schedule is and it tells you when and what.

that's coming. But I want to talk a little bit about some of the other great products that Microlife has some outstanding liquid products, and they don't talk about those enough, so I just kind of will mention those a little bit. Microlife has one called Soil and Plant Energy. Now that is not a fertilizer, that is something to think of it as food for the microbes. And that is one. It's got over sixty three minerals in it. By the way, good good simulation of the root system. So drench it

in whenever you're going to plant a plant. And by the way, it fall, and I hope you're planning on planting a plant. Falls the best planting season of the year. Mix up some of the Microlife liquid energy. That's kind of a I got somebody. I gotta get somebody who knows colors to tell me what color this is. It's kind of a pink, kind of a periwinkle. I don't know. It's some I'm gonna quit. I'm I'm saying something I know nothing about. And that's the names of all these colors.

But anyway, that's the bottle. It's cork bottle. You can get in a gallon two and mix it up and put it in together. I also like a lot Microlife's Biomatrix. It's a seven to one to three fertilizer that'll give any plant you have growing a boost. You can use both of these foliar feet too, by the way, that you want. But when you provide these kinds of products for the soil. It's not just the nutrients and them,

it's the addition of microbial life. It's the addition of the things that stimulate root growth, that help the soil to be a better structure, to help it to form well, to help the roots to get off and get started. And that's the main thing. We've got to get those roots off to a good start. Good start on the roots, get them off to a good start, and you're gonna

have success. And you're about to be putting perennials, ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees, woody vines, lots of things are going to be going on the ground this fall. And when they go in, they need to be watered in like this to get them off to a good start. I like to jokingly say, you want them to hit the ground running, Just don't hold your head above the plant because it may take off growing so fast it hits you in the chin. Wouldn't it be good? Wouldn't it be nice if plants

grew that fast. By the way, those products are off of Microlife, and you can go to Microlife furlizer dot com if you want to learn more about them. They're widely widely available. Yeah, wouldn't it be great if plants took off growing that fast? I always say when you plant a tree, you know, my question when I plant a tree is how soon can I hang a hammock in it? In other words, how do I get that thing up to where it's a tree and not just

a broomstick out there in the yard. Well, take care of it, provide good soil, provide these good products when you plant them, and then continue to feed gradually over time, and it does well. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four R seven one three two one two KTRH. It's another way you go about it. KTR

makes it easy to dial in. We got oh, We're about to go to a little breaker in a couple of minutes and then we'll enter our last segment of the morning. If you got any questions today, and i'd be a good time to ask, We'll be back tomorrow morning. Remember that garden Line is here every Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am. If you're just choosing in, if you're just tuning in, welcome. We're glad to have you. Tell your friends and neighbors about it. I don't care

if they live here or not. We've got people that listen to garden Line from other states that they listen online. By the way, you can listen on your old radio, the old t way. We listen to a lot of things right still around. You can also listen online on your computer, go to the website, or if you like, you can go I said to call in, and I just watched the boards light up like a Christmas tree. Oh my god. Okay. You can also listen on your phone, and that's how I listened to a lot of things.

New Caney and talk to John. Now, Hey John, Hey, how you doing.

as I can get. You're out a new canny. You're not too far away from Kingwood over Warren's Garden Center there in Kingwood would be a place to go. I would call them first and say, do you guys have pairs in stock? I know they will by the end of the winter time, but they may have some now as well. But you can eed the plant. You can plant something now. The best time to plant is in fall or in late winter. And so that that is how I would go about it. Uh well, if possible, go ahead.

as to which one you currently have. But anyway that hopefully that will That's the best advice I can give you at this point with as much as we know right now, I think I'll just get any old par tree and see what happens. Sounds like a plan. Good luck with it. You can always use more pairs right.

one of those. If you go online to my website Gardening with Skip, I have a instructions on how to build a weed wiper which would allow you to treat bamboo. If you don't want to spray it. Maybe your spray would get on something you care about. The weed wiper is a way to do it. But even if you don't do the weed wiper way, you can go online and there's a list of herbicides for the weed wiper. And if you look under grass grass killers, it has a list of the different ingredients that will kill grass.

And Brent Bamboo's a grass excellent.

my producer, will give you an email. Send me those pictures. Let's take a look at them. It may be that nothing needs to be done. And on the other hand, that way, if something does need to be done, I send you in the right direction. Rather than waste some time and money, it needless spray all right, you bet. I'm going to put you on hold and Chris will pick you right up. Wow, Well, this morning I went fast. I don't know if we went fast for you, be

sure went fast for me. This morning. We're about out of time here on garden Line for the day. I will be back in the morning six am in the morning. Just a little tip, this is how it often goes

at the end. We got so many calls. If you want to call me first thing in the morning, it's a lot quieter right then, and you won't stress the host of garden Line as much by filling up the boards when I'm trying to walk in two gum At the same time, I want to remind you I'm going to be at the Montgomery County Fall Home and Outdoor Living Show next weekend. Next weekend, the show is Saturday and Sunday, the seventh and eighth. I'll be there on

Saturday after garden Line. I'll head that way from noon to two. I'm going to be getting to talking fall gardening. I'm going to be answering your gardening questions. And also we'll have some free giveaways from micro Life Fertilizers. You don't want to miss that. And most of all, we're just going to have a really good time. That's always a great show to go. There's that love going up there and doing that. If you listen where up in

the northern areas of the listening area. Come on out, love to meet you if you want to bring me samples. You know, we're just talking there with Connie about or not Conny anyway, talking about the lantana and the little bitty bugs that are on it. Throw that in a ziplock bags, zip it up and bring it up there. If you've got a picture, some good quality pictures. Remember that the diagnosis or identification is only as good as a photo. Give me a fuzzy photo. I'll give you

a fuzzy answer, and I don't want it. Mongemmy Canyon Home and Garden Show Next Saturday, drawled the two. Come on, maybe you'll win a micro Life giveaway