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one two k t RH. I know we have listeners who do this, but I just want to remind the rest of you that if you take your phone and go to the iHeartMedia app or whatever whatever app you use for connecting to radio, you can find the garden Line radio show and just listen to it on your phone. Some people go out in the garden in the morning, which is the time to get work done around here, right especially in the summer, and they just listen on

the phone as they were. Who knows, you might turn over some kind of bug and need to take a picture of it and send it to me for identification. Well here, we're here for that too. We can help recommend different kinds of plan we can help you diagnose different diseases and insects, we identify weeds, any kind of thing like that. We're happy to do it because our

goal is for you to have success. It's as simple as that I would in terms of how I look at this exchange between you and I here on the radio is I'm here to help you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That is the goal. And we were going to turn that thumb green topic by topic as we continue to cover the various things that are part of success in gardening here in the southeast, a greater Houston area and really across a good section

of the state to folks that listen. Done in this quadrant of the state. I this past week have been getting ready to head out of town for a little bit. I'm going to I've got some folks here who can do my watering of course for me and things. But there are a number of tips that I'm gonna give for helping you to maybe make a trip like that. What do you do when you're trying to get out of town and you need to, you know, make sure your plants are taken care of. Well, we're gonna do that.

For example. One thing that I do that just makes it really easy is I've got a number of different plants. I've got a couple of gingers, for example, that are in containers still the garden nursery container, and they just

don't like to get super dry. And so when what I've done is moved them where they were from where they were where I could water them every day, to run the back to a very very bright, shady spot with a little dapple shade through the day, but not much more than that, and put them in a big

old washtub, big old galvanized washtub. I put about maybe two inches or so of water in the bottom, depending on how far I'm how long it'll be gone away, and set them in there, and that gives them a bottom of watering where the water just wicks up into the plant and keeps them from going into major drop stress.

I also will throw some mosquito granules in. It's a little area like that's too small for a whole mosquito dunk, but you can break them apart, put some of the crumbles in there, and now when the mosquitoes come along, go oh boy, let's lay eggs in there. Well, you just have basically a disease of their larvae, then they

cannot take off and succeed. That works really well if you can have somebody, if you're going to be gone an extended trip, you could have somebody come by maybe every four days three days and just check on that and make sure you get enough water in it. Some people use a little three foot wide you know kids waiting pools, those little super cheap plastic things. Those are great for this. You put the water in there and you have even a better amount of water. Just think

of it this way. The bigger the reservoir holding that supplemental water for waking up into the plant, the less that water is going to drop. You're going to get evaporation from the surface anyway. But if you have a big old kiddy waiting pool on little one plant in the middle, well lasts a long time because that's a lot of water. They can wake up in there. Anyway. That's just one tip for when you're going on a trip.

Another one would be to make sure your bird feeders are filled up, or better yet, get one of the low bird compact bird cylinders.

to put on fresh, large, healthy leaves. When I see the black, that's now making me think that there's something that is sucking juices out of either that pepper plant or some plant above it and then dropping honeydew onto the foliage which is the black. If you turn leaves over underneath, you should see you may see aphids, you may see white flies. Meatia bugs can do that, but you would have already noticed the white cottony material from them.

But there are a number of little insects that feed underneath the leaf that can cause that honeydew which causes the black city mold. As far as the plant health overall, have you tried giving them a boost of some sort of liquid fertilizer.

then there's no curing it. If you would like, I can put you on hold and have my producer pick it up and give you an email address, and if you could send me some really good close up photos of that plant, the foliage, so I can see what you mean by small leaves or black leaves, and where it is on the bush and that kind of thing. Turn over a leaf for two and take a good, well focused picture of the bottom of the leaf, and I think I can get better nail it down to

exactly what's going on all right with us today? You know, we love feed stores here on guard Line. And if you are up in Tomball, especially out to the west direction, D and De feed is your hometown feed store. You just go out twenty nine to twenty and they're right out there on the left hand side, just a little bit outside of Tomball. And when you go to D and D you're going to find ever fertilizer that I

talk about here on guarden Line. So I mean, if you're interested in getting something that is going to feed your lawn for any season of the year, you follow my schedule. You see all the different products on there. Maybe it's you know, putting up barricade to prevent weeds or other. They've got it all right there at D D Feed. Now you'll also find the age leaf mol compost, an heirloom rose, soil of fruit berry, citrus, and veggie nerb mixes, all those good mixes from heirloom soils. They've

got those as well. The phone number is two eight one three five. You need to stop in there. They've got plants out front too, and inside a lot of quality feed. If you've got pets, you're going to find many, many options for very high quality feed for your pets there at D and D Feed. Just so easy to get in and out of there. I'm very very convenient again out on just west to Tomball's head out. Now we're going to go to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Rick.

and and in a short period of time. And the second question is is there a place out in that direction that you would recommend that could talk to me about native landscaping and things that would do well in that area.

beautiful country. Out there by the way, congratulations on on the and the property, and but there's just not a lot of you know, garden centers all over the place once you get out a little more rural like that. So Antiq Rose of you a good a good one to talk to. You know that as you come in toward the Houston area, we've got a lot of garden centers that are excellent when it comes to native plants. And so you hear me talk about those on Guardline

all the time. That's a little bit of a drive in to do that, but still worth worthwhile.

on as you need it. Red oaks there is a red oak called nuttall and u T t a l or Schumart s h u m a r d. Both of those red oaks will do very well. They get a good growth rate if you water them and fertilize them and keep the weeds away when they're young, let them have a mulched area around them. Those two would be good and then they're you know, just there's just so many other good trees. There's several different types of elms that are are quality, and a couple of that

are pretty easy to find. Like I mentioned, the seat around the lace bark elm or Chinese elm is another name for it. That is another decent tree. I would recommend on all these. You go online, take a look at pictures and see if that's what you like to look at. And we're talking about big shade trees, right, not not smaller trees.

single trunk tree and continue to maintain that form. So it's not like the three stems coming out of the ground typical krape myrtle bush, but it's more of a trained up into a tree like farm Chinese fringe. Fringe tree has white blooms in the spring, shaggy white blooms and a nice little pleasant honey like fragrance to the blooms.

That would be another good one. Vitex is a blue typically blue, dark blue to purple flowering plant that makes more of a multi stem shrub, but it will it's almost impossible to make it cooperate and turn into a tree form, but that would be an option. And then there's some others that are a little more touching go like red bud. They kind of prefer to be understory. Although they can grow in full sun. You just have

to keep them watered so they don't get stressed. And some of those have kind of burgundy like foliage instead of just green.

regimen is basically focuses on the silver bag. It's called super turf by the way, and super turf gives you gradual release of nutrients over time and you can still put that out now. It will prevent that flush of growth that an immediate release fertilizer can cause, which means you're mowing a lot more and you're essentially having the water to kind of keep up with that because excessive nitrogen is not a good thing. But super turf takes that nitrogen and it spreads it out slowly over time.

It's as if you're going out there every day giving a little bite d That's kind of what it amounts to. Super Turf's available in many different places. You go out to Katie Ace Hardware on Pinook, You're going to find it there. You're going to find it at Ace Hardware City or Memorial Drive in Houston. You can find super Turf at Stanton Shopping Center, North Taylor and Alvin as well. Super Turf just one of mini quality products from the

folks at Nitrophiles. I was getting my plants ready for vacation, as I talked about a little bit earlier, and one of the things that I noticed, you know, I tend to go out and find these plants I just can't live without, and I buy them and I bring them home, and then I do what I tell you not to do, you know, buy the plant, bring it home, and there's

no place to put it. Because remember brown stuff comes before green stuff, meaning the soil at its peak quality is your first goal, first goal, because then you put the plan in and you're going to have long term success. The other way around, bring it home and PLoP it into an unprepared plot is not a plan for success, and it's just an excuse for a lot of painful watching that plant not thrive and maybe even having to

buy another one. So anyway, I've got some plants that are sitting in pots getting watered by me every day, So instead of the garden center having to water them every day, I'm watering them every day. And so I've got some soil prep that I'm trying to get done, because you know, it is important to get it right, and soil prep means can mean different things depending on the soil you're dealing with pretty much any soil needs

organic matter, decomposed organic matter. We call that compost. That's what that's organic matter that we have decomposed on purpose to put into the soil. When you add compost to a clay, it takes that heavy clay that is dense and air and water can hardly move through it at all, and it loosens it up and creates clumps of soil particles, so there's airspace that can now flow through. The analogy I use for that is like a bowl of popcorn.

So a bowl of popcorn, you know, you've got all these clumpy looking individual things, but there's airspace in between them, and that's that is building the soil. That's done with organic matter. It can also be done with expanded shale. Expanded shale lasts a long time. Think of it as

just remember the old gray kitty litter. Think of that, but imagine it getting fired to a super hot, super hot hot level with steam that causes those particles to expand and sort of turn into Swiss cheese that mixed into your soil at about three inches takes a lot of it to make a difference in a clay, but about three inches mixed in will make a huge difference in a clay, or you can do small amounts over time as well. Well, it's time for me to take

a break. I'm going to shut up right now and I'll be right back in a minute with your calls at seven one three, two, one two, five eight seven four. Welcome back, Welcome back to garden LINEA glad to have you listening on a Saturday morning. It's going to be a good day. I'm looking forward to getting out today after the show and getting some things done. You know what they say, have you ever heard the turn the cobblers' kids go barefoot? Well, sometimes I'm glad you can't

see my yard. There's certain times when I'm traveling. I was out at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association this past week, their convention in San Antonio. Man, was that ever a great convention. Saw a lot of good folks there, just the ioids and I go into that. But when I go away, and then when I sit in here and talk to you about gardening, I'm not outside taking care of my own. So I'm really love catching up to do. But I can do that. That's okay, my

okra patch right now is looking great. It is. You know, Okra loves this weather. The more miserable you are outside in summer, the happier Okra seems to be. It can take hot, it can take humid. It's from It's from Africa, basically a portion of Africa up and kind of in the direction up toward I don't know, middle Eastern area, you know, kind of through there. And in fact, they've debated whether India, Africa where exactly did okra originate. But the bottom line is it loves Houston, it loves out

East Texas. It is very happy in the South in general, hot, humid, that's its happy place. Got something going on because I was gone. I had something that kind of got past prime. And you know, with okra, you don't want to let those things get past prime. Some some cultures pick okra. It's small, small sizes. In Turkey, they pick it when it's like a inch inch and a half long and dry it and put it on strings and then that string just think of it like a big old mop,

you know, with all the strands of a mop. They just put it in a soup pot and cook the ochre that way. It's like it's like a tea bag and tea bag making tea or something. But first time I saw that is amazing. I've got a little package of that. But we tend to pick it a little longer, when it's maybe three inches four inches long somewhere in there. In general, some ocres can go a little longer. Some don't go as far. But I'll tell you this, when you go too far, it is woody, it's got the

fibers in it. It is no longer a succulent little something you want to eat. Just a point about that also, though, is when you're harvesting okre, if you'll bend the pod, if it snaps cleanly in two with no low fibers hanging on, that's one sign that it's still at a good tender. And remember it's not the size that the pod achieves. It determines whether or not it's tough for

woody or tender. It's honey days since bloom, So basically when you get about three or four days past bloom, that ocre should be in your kitchen by that time. Sometimes you have little pods just the plant's stress. They're not growing very fast, and you go, oh, well, that's small enough. No, it's not this, it's not how long does that pod reach? It's it's honey days pass blooe. That's your tender. All right, let's go. We're gonna head straight out to Spring, Texas and talk to Phil.

So you might want to gradually move from three times a week toward once a week by applying a little more water when you apply it.

what do they say, know your enemy. You've got to understand how that little creature works so that you can provide good protection for it. Hey, that weed wiper. Questions have come in, Where do I get that little thing with the section cops. Well, they're pretty widely available. I'll tell you where I know you can get them. As a Southwest fertilizer. Bob's got those in stock over there now, and I say that if you'll do a run on it.

The next person that shows up you may say it's on order, but seriously, Bob has everything at Southwest Fertilizer, every fertilizer. I talk about every product you could possibly need for insects, diseases, weeds, fertilizing, supplementing plants. They're all there, organic, synthetic, the tools, everything you need, like the little device that

you would make your own homemade weed wiper. And go to Gardening with Skip dot com and see what that looks like and then swing by Southwest fertilizer corner of Bis and Nut and Runwick in southwest Houston. Well, I believe it's time for me to take a little break. When we come back, Alex, you'll be our first up. I was talking with Ty Strickland. He's the guy that owns fixed my slab foundation repair. Oh, I guess it is about week and a half, two weeks ago, I believe,

And I'm just asking him some questions. One of my daughters is building or purchasing a house over in another part of the state, and there were some issues on the foundation. And I'm telling you that Ty knows it all. He has been doing well. He's been doing it for twenty three years in the Greater Houston area. And you know, when it rains, these soils, these clays here in Houston, they swell up real big and then when it gets dry, they shrink up. That's where you get the big cracks

in the backyard and a heavy clay soil. Well, when that happens, it wrecks havoc on foundations and driveways and sidewalks. Ty knows how to go in do an accurate assessment, tell you exactly what's going on and whether you need it to be fixed or not. I'm telling you he is not just out there. Every time he shows up he tells someone they have to hire him to fix something. An honest fella, and he I was talking to him.

He says, you know, if if it hasn't changed more than certain such and such amount, then you don't need to mess with it. It's not worth going in to mess with And he'll do that. You call him, You tell him that you're a guardline listener. First of all,

that's going to get you a free estimate. Uh So, if you see cracks in your brick, cracks in your sheet rock, if you see doors that if you have doors that are sticking that used to you know, open and close real easily, all signs of potential foundation repair. Don't put it off. Go ahead and give him a call. Two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine two eight one two five five four nine four nine fixmslab dot com. When you call tie and fix my slab,

you know they're going to show up on time. You know they're going to give you a fair price, and you know that when they fix it, it's fixed. Right. That is important. Let's head out to Richmond. Texas and talk to Alex. Hello, Alex, thanks you are you? I'm good, sir. How can we help? Hey?

with a sun bacon down right right. Then I'd get up early in the morning and do it while we still have as cool as we're going to be, which is about eighty degrees around here, first thing in the morning, and so go ahead and do it at that time. But it is effective. However, Virginia button weed is a tough one and it's going to take more than one application most likely, so read the Celsius label carefully. You may have to come back a little bit later in

the season and hit it again. Very importantly. We'll be next spring when you're first seeing the good growth on Virginia button weed. It temperature is a little bit cooler at that time, and that will be the time to start next year. You have more effective results than you will typically trying to hit it in the middle of summer.

when it's hot. And the last thing we need is to stress our Saint Augustine trying to kill a weed and then end up will take our root rot infecting it because it got stressed and weakened. And that's how it works. Plants in some ways are like people in that if you don't take care of your body and you don't eat right, and you don't sleep enough, you know, and on and on, you don't exercise at all, you're more likely to get sick. It doesn't mean it will get sick and you won't. You can't get sick if

you're healthy. It just means you're more likely to. And there are diseases that are opportunists that they jump onto a weak patient and they're able to move in and take over and take all root rot on Saint Augustine. Is that kind of disease. You can have a perfectly healthy lawn, you go through some drought stress, you apply a herbicide that is not okay to use in the summertime. It weakens your grass and all of a sudden, take all it shows up. Where did it come from? It

was there? What had happened? The patient got weak and the disease moved in. The hypoxylan canker on trees causes the bark to fall off and kills trees. Same kind of organism we call those opportunists. I mentioned Ace Hardware, the plantation Ace down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. There's Ace Hardware's all over. Just go to Acehardware dot com and you'll find the one near you. Congratulations to the folks out at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Now that's

on five twenty nine in Cypress. It's the intersection of Barker Cypress in five twenty nine, So Barker Cypress North south five twenty nine east west. Right there Langham Creek Ace Hardware. They're having their reopening. They opened up and got going and then they did a revamp of the store and now is their reopening. Oh my gosh, listen, you need to do this. It's Friday, August thirtieth. Next Friday, Saturday thirty first, and Sunday the first, next weekend. Okay,

I say next. Excuse me, I'm two weekends away. My brain is shifting here anyway, thirtieth, thirty first and first, Why am I telling you about this? Lots of fun activities, vendor demonstrations. They're going to draw for really sweet prizes on There'll be a still discount day on Saturday. If you want still Power equipment, awesome quality brand, they'll have a discount special, really good discount on Saturday, and lots

of exclusive deals on many items. Like on Friday, they're given away an Eggo Power Plus straight shaft battery string Treamer two hundred and fifty dollars machine. Given it away. It's part of the giveaway. They'll be demos on Weber grills and on Sunday they're going to give away the Weber Spirit two gas grill four hundred and fifty dollars value and demonstrating the Big Green Egg and other things.

Do you see what I'm saying? Fifteen percent off still By the way, on that Saturday, August thirty first, and then on Sunday they're given away a paint, a room makeover, a two hundred dollars value and demoing trigger grills. It's barbecue season. You need to get by. But what a great opportunity, and that is Langham Crease Creek Ace Hardware at the intersection of Barker Cypress and FM five point twenty nine. Let's see here. I'm gonna go now, Janey

in Missouri City. Janie, welcome to garden Line. I've got a little bit of time here. See if we can get your call done. If not, well we'll finish it after the noon break on the top of the eye.

green right now. Maybe you want to design some outdoor living areas, like a nice hardescape where you could have things like a fountain or like a waterfall, or what like a barbecue pit designed in. Maybe you want landscape lighting. Maybe you got a spot that's soggy wet after a rain and it needs to not be because plants like good drainage. Well, Pierscapes can help you with that. Peerscapes does all all of those things. They can do landscape lighting, They can take a wet spot and dry it out.

And by the way, we had all that rain this year, so that ought to tell you where you had places that stay wet too long. Now's a good time it's drying out, and so you know, he can't he can't go out and fix the thing when it's as still a swamp. So this would be a good time to get Pierscapes a call. You can reach Pierscapes a number of ways. The two I would suggest, first of all, go to the website. I just really even if you're

not thinking I'm not going to do anything right. Go to the website and check it out pierce scapes dot com. You will get inspiration and ideas and you'll go, oh wow, that would be great in my yard. I could do that absolutely, or give them a call two eight one three, seven oh five zero six zero. Take your landscape to the next level, no matter where you are now, take it up to the next level, or maybe two levels off if you want to go all out piercescapes dot com.

I head to let's see, we're going to Magnolia, Texas and talking to Sunday. Now, Hey Sunday, welcome to Guardline.

probably just watch the soul moisture. First of all. A little nutrients are always important for roses, but right now I would hold off on that, especially if you've done any kind of fertilizing before, and if you use the biodvents that has fertilizer in it, mostly phosphorus, but it's got fertilizer in it.

form on the end of a new shoot. Okay, so the more when you cut them back and where you had one shoot, now it sprouts into two, you just double the amount of roses that you can have on that plant. Does that make sense?

You may want to buy something in a little larger bag because roses are something we do fertilize more than once through the season because again vigor equals more ballooms, and so we are feeding them regularly. But you are let's see, you're up in the magnolia Yeah, up in the Magnolia area. Yeah, I can come down your coat.

that bag. You want to sprinkle it around your roses, follow the label and scratch it into the soil and then water it in real well, okay, because it's an organic, it's going to be microbially broken down, so you need good moist soil around those particles and it will go to town. It's an excellent fertilizer for that.

us today. We are we're talking about all kinds of things gardening, and we are in the big middle of your calls as we try to help you have a more bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape. One way that you can have a more bountiful and beautiful garden and landscape is Medina Hast Supergrow Plus. Now Medina's got a has to grow line. There's regular has to grow, has to grow for lawns, which is a great product to use on your lawns. This is Supergrow Plus, another great product

for the lawn This one's kind of unique. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. A one court bottle hooks up to a garden hose. Covers about four thousand square feet, so you can ten minutes drag a hose around your yard and you're done. You've applied your fertilization too. It's got part of the nitrogen is in a slow release form. It also has seaweed extract, it's got molassets, it's got humic acid in it. Just a very very high quality

product that does cause the plants to respond positively. Some people, in fact, don't just use it for their lawns, they'll spray their gardens with it. A flowers, You got a little plant that's sitting there, kind of needs a little boost. We'll just squared it with some of the has to grow Supergrow plus. I bet you are going to see a very good response from it, especially if it's related to a lack of nutrients in the soil. Is from Medina, just another one of the many good products that you

will find with Medina. We're going to head out now to southwest Houston and I'm going to talk to Maxie.

the bottom. So what shall I do about my powdery mildew?

get some significant damage. The powdery mildey will also cause that damage, as you've seen on that I would There are a number of different products that you can use for it. There is an ingredient called beylaton b A y L E t O n b A y l l Okay. That is a fungicide ingredient that works pretty well. And Maxie, you are just a hop skipping a jump away from Southwest fertilizer on biss and ut and run. And I guarantee that has probably several types. Yeah, he's

got several types of beilaton. You can just tell him. You talk to me on guardline and and that, uh, you got powdery mildew. And I was suggesting he has that's not the only ingredient that will control powdery mildew, but it is systemic into the planet a little bit, so that it's not just a surface thing that washes off with the next rain, and it'll give you a little bit longer term control. I would suggest that one.

I mean, I could recommend other things, but I think that would be the one i'd start with in your situation on that particular plant.

warning on the label. But uh, it could have been could have been the on a day you put it on, and it could have just been coincidental that I don't know, for whatever reason, you happen to spray on the day that this problem was going to hit.

go to person for tree care here on Guardline. Martin is he's been doing this for a long time. He knows what he's doing. But I'm telling you I can't express enough the importance of proper tree care coming into the storm season. From the time you plant a tree until whatever day it is that you're looking at that it could be thirty years later. From that time, you want to make sure that tree was trained and pruned properly and right. Because you get people that don't know

what they're doing. They run it and there's no refixing it. You know, they can get turn somebody loose with the chainsaw. It doesn't know what they're doing, and you got a problem in your hands. Martin spoon More Affordable Tree Service can do it right. Seven one three, six, nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three, sixty nine nine two six sixty three, or go to aff Tree service dot com. When you call affordable Tree, you're going to talk to Martin or his wife Joe. The owners answer

the phone. If you talk to anybody else, just hang up. You've called the wrong Affordable Tree seven one three six nine nine two six sixty three. We're going to head out now to Highland area, I believe, is that right? Are we talking to Houston? Oh?

do you have a pan or pencil handy. Yeah, let me see here. It's met sulfur on methyl and I'm gonna I'm gonna spell that out because there are other herbicides that have met sulfur on methyl in them. Now, they're not going to be cheap, I can tell you that, but this is a unique situation. One of them is called ms M turf. But here's the ingredient m E T s u L. If you are O N met sull f on. If you are O N methyl U and one of the ones would be ms M turf.

Is that it makes stand with it? No? No, But you have to be careful and want and read the label carefully because that is one that you know during certain kinds of weather conditions and issues, and we were real careful with it. Uh. So don't just get in a hurry, but it does kill bhagrass, and it is labeled. It is labeled for for use if you it is but that, but remember this, and I just have to give these caveats because it doesn't matter. A product can be labeled for use on a plant, but if you

misuse it, you still hurt that plant. So it doesn't mean that it won't it can't hurt the planet. It just means, yeah, the other thing you need, Yeah, the other thing you need to be careful with is uh, don't overapply it and then watered in real good on around root zones of trees and shrubs, which is basically the whole yard. But if you get it down in the roots, it can do damage. Not kill the whole tree necessarily, but do damage to trees and shrubs. So

this is a specialized product with special caveats. But follow that label carefully and it will do the job on the pail for you. Thank you much, all right, sir, you take care. Appreciate that time for us to take a little break here top or for the half hour news. I'll be right back at seven one three two one two k t RH Welcome back to garden Line, Glad to have you with us. We are looking forward to talking to you about the kind of questions you have,

the kind of things you're interested in. You know, we love feed stores here on Guarden Line and down in League City. You've got a great one. League City Feed has been around for forty years now, and it's the kind of place you go in. It's that old time feed store that carries your products to you to the car, your bags or whatever you need carried out to the car. It's the kind that's going to have all the fertilizers

you hear me talk about on Guardline. If I say, well here, if it's on my schedule, you know, here's one. They're going to have it there. It also is a place where you're going to find pest disease and weed management products and quality pet foods as well. League City Feed is on Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway ninety six. So on Highway three a few blocks south. So if you're in League City, just head south on three.

It's not very far blow Highway ninety six. So all of those communities out there, Santa Fe and Dickinson and Lamar and Baycliffe, Clear Lake City, all of those this is your hometown feed store. They are going to have a wide variety. Also, they're gonna have some soils like heirloom soils, superquality airloom soils as well. They've got backyard chickens. They can get you fixed up on that as well.

League City Feeds open Monday through Saturday nine to six, closed on Sunday, so any day of the week I have to work on the way home, you can swing by there and grab what you need. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three two sixteen twelve for League City feed I was earlier talking about going on vacation and take care of your plants, you know, making sure they have adequate water. Also taking

care of the birds and being ready for that. You know, it's always a good time to put down mulch as well. Now most people don't think about, oh, I'm about to go up and hike the rocky mountains. I think I'll stop and put mulch down first. Well, when you have sunlight hitting the soil, nature plants weeds. And when nature plants weeds, you get to pull the weeds up or hold them. I'll hold them off if you need to

do that, but nobody wants to do that. I mean, ninety five degrees outside sun, bacon down fire, it's crawling up your arms. You don't be pulling weeds out there. Put down maltch. Put in a quality thick layer of mulch about three inches. It depends on the density of the mults. You know, if you get something real chunky and loose, you're gonna have to put a little thicker.

If you had something that's very dense, not much space between the particles as compared to a big old chunky malts, then you wouldn't have to go as deep, but about three inches. As a good general rule of thumb, I use all kinds of things that basically are organic based as mulches. We've got some super high quality mulches here

in the Greater Houston area. You got folks like Nature's Way that produces a beautiful mult Up there in the Conroad direction, we've got airloom soils out Porter direction produces a super high quality mult Landscaper's Pride produces good quality mulches for you. It's not hard to find and equality mulch, but we've got to use it. It's an inexpensive way to save yourself a lot of work, and I would highly recommend you do that. We're going to go back out to the phones now and talk to Hank in

West U. Hello Hank, and welcome to garden Line. Hello, Skip, how are you? I'm good, sir, awesome, So I got your.

to get roots. As you pull it up a little bit and look at those roots and see what you see. You might see roots that look like the Michelin man, all bumpy and naughty, and you know, like a string of pearls. Sometimes along a roote little knives instead of a normal root look. And that is nematodes. That is a possibility there. You may see on the stem splits at the bottom or other things that are the sign of a canker disease that is killing those I can't

tell you what is doing it. I can tell you things that could be doing it, which I just did. But I can tell you this. It is a root problem or possibly a base of the stem problem. That what you're seeing something is preventing the flow of water nutrients up into the shrub.

health of the of the target organism down. So it could be that it could also be there's a root rot that uh, the last thing I want you to do. If you don't see not on the roots, if you don't see splits in the stem, then take your knife a sharp knife could be a box cutter blade, and slice down through the stem vertically like you're splitting the stem, not cutting into it, straight into it, but the direction parallel with the stem. And look for strips of brown

and the tissues that should be creamy white underneath. That is the fungal disease. Once you find one of those, let me know and we can tell you what you can or can't do. Some things there's nothing you can do. Some things you can't.

The jury's out on those, and I don't think you're going to find the magical cure you're looking for.

going to head back out to the phone calls right away. Uh, and we'll start with Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, Welcome to guarden Line.

and of course they didn't trim that particular tree. I need someone there to come rescue these bees and give them a good home. Do you have any recommendations?

in Harris County. Uh, they the horticulture folks there should have access to a list of people that might be willing to come out and capture a wild hive or kill a wild hive, whichever you need to go about it. But that would be that would be my answer number three. And so I'll eat one one way or another. You can get this under control.

something online to our Facebook page. This week, I name and put it on the website about side webworms and what to do if I were you go out at night, get your little flashlight, get out on the hands and knees and anywhere you see grass blades being eaten, and they chew the sides of grass blades, They just chew them up. But they're nocturnal. The caterpillars are nocturnal, and you don't want to spray until you know you have

sid webworms be unnecessary. But when you do, then you can put an appropriate insecticide spray down and shut them down. You're a store out there, and Katie, they're going to have a lot of different options for side web or.

So there's there's more than one way to go about controlling them. But on my online have you ever looked at my lawn care schedules online by any chance? Yes?

hit Nelson Water Nursery and water Gardens. From there. Of course, they have nursery plants, they've got outstanding selection and a lot of great deals right now. You know, this is a time of the year when you can pick up some really good deals and they are loaded up on some things that save a dollar and get you some quality plants. Bring them home, take care of them. You can plan them now, you can wait and plant them in the fall. If you want to hold on to

them and water, it's up to you. Kind of like I was talking about my situation where I don't have the beds ready yet. Well I got the plants. They're just waiting to go into the beds. They have beautiful water gardens supplies. I mean, do you want them to come out and create a waterfall or one of those disappearing fountains where the water just circulates through the beautiful glazed pottery back into the rocky pebbles and things below it back into the plant the fountain again, I can't

even talk. They've got that. They invented that. By the way, if do you want to do it yourself, they can sell you the stuff you need to do it yourself and tell you how to do it if you want to go that route. But I'll tell you they have an excellent plant selection every time I go there, I'm surprised. Oh, I didn't know you had that. And they're just they just do first rate job. And summer is houseplant season in the sense of we spend more time inside because

of the heat. You should see in the foyer when you walk right into the store. Look at the houseplants. For me, I mean it is beautiful. I like something other than just green, and they have it. They've got a lot of irrigations and colors and things and house plants that you can choose. Nelson Watergarden and Nursery, Nelson Watergardens dot com, Nelson Watergardens dot Com. Out there in Katie Well, I hear the music playing, which means I need to quit talking and we need to go to

copy our of the break bill in spring. You are our first caller when we come back from break and we'll go to you first. I just want to remind you about my website, Gardening with Skip dot Com. There you'll find information on controlling nut set a brand new publication, two of them. As a matter of fact, you'll find information on how to build a weed wiper so that you can control weeds and hard to get spots. You just need to go check it out. I think people like what you're saying.

both are gonna be appearing. If they're going to appear in your lawn, and so it's it's the time they like the biggest population. There's several generations of chinchbugs through the course of the summer seat and the first one very very small. But then when you have the second one, or in some areas even a third, that's when you start to see the long brining out and you got big problems and that's when you need to step in

very quickly. So you got a spot in your lawn and it looks like it needs water, and you water and it doesn't get better. Get on your hands and knees, part the part the grass and look for a little black and white bugs about an eighth of an inch long. You go on line and see what they look like. But if you got chinchbugs, you need to treat sooner

rather than later because they kill grass. We have a lot of problems in our grass that don't kill the grass, but chinchbugs kill the grass and they only get worse, and you got to step in soon. And night Fruss bug Out Max is designed to do just that. It goes down it's granules, they go down into the thatch area. Then you water it and the insecticide comes off of those granules and it's now present out in the thatch.

So stuff crawling around in the thatch that would be the side web worms in the in the daytime, they hide down there and they come out at night, and the chinch bugs are down there all the time. And that is going to be an effective product. When you use nightro Vous bugout Max, you're going to have success in getting those under control, and you can find Night of Fuss bug Out Max. You can find in a

lot of places. Ace Hardware and Sinkle Ranch carries that particular product, a tascaseda Ace on Timber Forest Drive carries it. Lake Hardware and Clute and Jim's Hardware up in Montgomery, they both are all carry Night Fuss Bug Out Max. I'm going to head now to Bill in Spring, Texas. Hello, Bill, Welcome to garden Line.

And I've got mine. I had it in an area that was just the full brunt of the western sun for hours and hours, and I moved it to a little more protected spot because I couldn't watered enough to keep that container so adequately moist, and just even a temporary little drought period there, they'll they'll abort bloom. So you may be looking at that. You may be looking

at a little insight called thrips. If you get some blooms that you know, okay, this one is gonna open, but it's you know, it hadn't turned brown or hadn't started dying yet. Just take it and kind of put it over a white piece of paper and just tap the bloom and see what falls out. If you see some little, tiny, skinny, scrawny things that are hopping around

down in there, that is thrips. And they can affect ballooms. Generally, they don't cause a hibiscus bloom to abort, though I think it's more of a water problem.

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And all that's from Landscaper's Pride. Widely available products. You can go online Landscaperspride dot com and find out where you can get them. But I'll just tell you this. It's a lot of places widely available here in the Greater Houston area. Let's end out now. I'll tell you what before before we do, Curtis, I was about to move to you. I've got to run to it. I'm up against a break here. I'll be right back and you'll be first up. You can put on your lawns.

It has a good boost of nitrogen and stimulates biological activity. Sweegering Sweegering for Nait Fross is an example of that kind of product. It's got eleven percent nitrogen. It is on a molasses based molasses based so organic gardeners know you put molasses on the soil well. That carbon is rocket fuel for stimulating beneficial microbial development. For example, bacteria. Beneficial bacteria in the soil feed on that carbon and

it really kicks them into high gear. Nitrofoss. Sweet Green is available widely all over the Houston area, as are other night foss products. You're going to find it at Shades of Texas up in the woodlands, for example, Enchanted Gardens out there in Richmond. Rosenberg is going to carry that one also, as well as to Fishers Hardware, the one in southeaston on Southmore, the one over and Laporte on South Broadway Street. Both of those Fishers Hardware, you're

going to find night foss products like sweet Green. Let's go to the phones and we're going to now go to Friends Wood and talk to Curtis. Hello Curtis, Welcome to garden Line.

give you the website and I didn't finish. Agrolife Learn dot T A m U which stands for Texas A and M University dot E E d U which stands for education.

a bag. It's you know, you can take a big old chunk of leaves and tournamented composts, and you can take that big old chunk of composts and you turn it into humans and now you got very little of it because it's the final decomposition process. So that's something you put out periodically just to add the humus to the soil, just to improve slowly over time soil condition down there in the lawn. So it think of it as separate from fertilizing. It's kind of a different purpose.

Although the purpose of both is to make your lawn nice and healthy. It's working a little bit in a different way. So you can use them both and there's not an overlap issue there.

gonna have a fertilize boost. Okay, Well that's what I got you can use. I'm just telling you what the has to grow for lawns. You're getting the fertilization, all right, address to the other.

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check them out. You are listening to Garden Line and we're here to help you have more success in whatever you're trying to grow. If you want to give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, you can get on the board with Chris and you can be the first up when we come back from break, which we're about to head to in just one moment. I want to remind you of something

coming up or tell you about something coming up. The second Annual Strawberry Jamboree is going to be down in Lake Jackson, Texas at the Lake Jackson Civic Center. It'll be September twenty first, from eight to twelve. September twenty first, from eight to twelve. There are everything you want to know about success with strawberries is going to be in that program and you need to be doing the planting.

In October there'll be the opportunity to order some strawberry plants, if you'll be that wonderful speakers a freest or a strawberry shortcake contest. Now there, that alone is worth the reason to go. I'll tell you more about it when I come back. Right now, we're going to take a quick break the guard Line. We are glad to have you with us today. Hey, we're going to go out to Missouri City now and talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to guard Line.

I pulled up a lot of roots, but there's still a little fragment here, like residual stuff. Can I spray again with round up and then maybe in a week's time come back with the sod.

They talk about us anyway. The reason your water in the dirt is to get any bermuda, grass or other weeds that are under the soil that are gonna that are perennials that are going to sprout out. It's it's to encourage them to come on up and show their face. And once you have some foliage on those weeds, and I doubt you got all the bermuda with one spray, but that'll be your time to know, then spray it again.

grass right back in there after you reside. So we just want to make sure we got it all is. And that's what you called about is doing that.

Instead of sodding Saint Augustine, uh, thinking she's having someone come in to smooth the line out because when the tree people came in that there's a lot of ruts in the backyard and add some soil recommendation bermuta seed are instead of siding, but trying to do it economically because it's going to be most likely a house is going to be sold as is, but also wants to make it presentable the yard.

you're in the heights. You might talk to Bob out at Southwest Fertilizer. He does carry seeds of some different things and he probably has one. There is a website called Aggie Turf Aggie Turf on there in the lower left corner of it. It has like types of turf grasses, and if you click on that and then click on the bermuda and scroll down, there's a list of all the sodded varieties and there's a list of the seeded varieties,

and just look at that whole list. If you can find anything on that list, you know it's going to work. If it's not. If you find one that's not on the list, as long as you check it out and it's a semi dwarf bermuta, that'll work okay. But what they're going to have to do is water frequently, because tender little bermuda seedlings in the heat of summer turn turn to toast quickly if it dries out. They don't have a root system yet to speak of, so they just need to get sprinklers set up out there and

run them for a little while. And I'm pretty much every day just getting keeping the surface moist and because it's touch and go until that bermuda seed becomes a robust plant with rhizomes and underground storage and all of that. And at that point, and the more often you mow bermuda, the better it looks. Saint Augustine is forgiving of infrequent mowing, but if they put it on the market and want it to look good, they need to get somebody in there mowing at every five at the most seven days

to get it looking as good as it's going to look. Okay, question time for it? All right?

much time as possible. Okay, Yeah, I got a run to break. Thank you, Mike. I appreciate appreciate your call. When we come back Christ in Jersey Village and Morgan up in Spring Branch, we are going to come to you first, go back to garden line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, have you noticed that the hummingbirds are back? Yep. I looked out the other day and there was a hummingbird flying around? Did I have a feeder out?

to but red food color and a feeder. They also sell quality hummingbird liquid feed there at Wildbirds Unlimited. What you're gonna find is that it's a little slower to go bad. You know, in the hot weather, sugary water, sugar tends to fermat out there, and you don't want that happening. So you need to clean the feeders out. You need to replace. Don't put a whole feeder fold.

If you don't have a bunch of hummingbirds coming, you need to put After about three days out there outside, you probably need to go ahead and just wash it out and put some fresh in because it does go bad. But Wildbirds Unlimited WBU dot com forward slash Euston continue to put out your quality super blend and other quality feats from Wildbirds because the birds are molting. You should see how ugly the birds coming to my feet are. They're feathers. It looks like they ran through a weed eater.

They're just in their molting. They're getting their new foliage and they can't fly around. It's harder to fly around as much. So having a good feeder nearby where they can go and get a dependable snack is really really important. And Wildbird's Unlimited as you cover WBU dot com forward slash Houston WBU dot Com forward slash Houston for the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores near you. Let's go to Jersey Village now and talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome to

garden Line. Oh, thank you for taking my call. You bet Okay.

you would find it running off. So we do cycle soap, which means your sprinkler comes on, you know, however long, and then goes off for forty five minutes it comes back on again. What that does is it gets a good deep soaking, which encourages your grass to have a good deep resilient root system, which is important in the heat. And it also by not watering all the time, oxygen gets down in the soil between waterings better and that's also important for your root system.

be a good fertilizer. And you know, provide petrins to your soil or your garden. And here's what I want to do, because because the auth the grounds are so or so, they can they can come up. I want to use the clay kitty litter as an agitator, but as I'm spreading it out in my yard, and I don't know how safe kitty litter.

to do that. The only difference is a particle size is different, So as you try to put it in a spread or the small particles tend to settle down to the bottom and the large particles as it's bouncing along, tend to rise up. So you're not going to get a real good even spread that way, I think I would just take the coffee grounds, dry them out well and then put them in with those little hand whirllybirds. I don't know how many pounds of coffee grounds you got,

but it shouldn't be worried about if you hand whirlybird. Okay, well you could do that in two or three fills of of a handspreader, you know, just walking around. If you want to do that, it's called a wordlybird. Well, put fire ant bait. Fire ant bait. You hold it in one hand, you pull a trigger and you crank on the other side. It's got a little hopper about about half gallon sized hopper on them. It's it's got

the push and walk behind spreaders. It's it's a little handheld which just for a little bit.

little bit earlier this year for an event. They are on FM five twenty nine in Cypress at the intersection of Barker, Cypress and five twenty nine. So all of you up there in that Greater Copperfield area, this is your local ACE Hardware store, Langham Creek. They're having a big shindig. It is on Friday, the thirtieth of August, Saturday the thirty first, and Sunday, the first of September. Tons of giverways, demonstrations by vendors, prizes. On Saturday they're

having fifteen percent off Still units. Still is one of those power equipment companies that makes high quality equipment. They're there. The giveaway on Friday is an Ego battery string tremor ten or fifty dollars value though to be demonstrating Weber grills. On Saturday, they're giving away a Weber Spirit to gas grill four hundred and fifty dollars grill, giving it away as a prize. They'll demonstrate Big Green Egg and something called Guy Coney's Pizza Oven. Oh my gosh, it's really cool.

It's like you're a little private pizza oven. You can sit outside like you would you barbecue or whatever. All right, Well, anyway, Sunday they're giving away a painting room makeover two hundred dollars value in demonstrating trigger grill. This is this is a really nice deal. There are all kinds of prize demonstrations that still discount on Saturday, and then great deals, exclusive deals on a variety of other items, all at

Langham Creek Ace Hardware on FM five twenty nine. It's at the intersection of five twenty nine and Barker Cypress Road. Real easy to get to. Like I said, it's in your backyardperfield, and all of you around that area need to run over there and check out this revamped It's called the reopening because I was there when they were open earlier in the year. They revamped that place and

now it's like a grand reopening going on. He's hard We're gonna take a little break John in Memoria, our very first color up.

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junipers that are grown for that purpose. There's a variety of different trees that can kind of fit that bill. You want a plant that's going to be evergreen. Sometimes what I'll do when the property line is really limiting us is I'll use a trellis that goes above the privacy fence, so it may be tall posts. Then maybe a livestock panel or something stretched across and grow an

evergreen vine on that. So you end up with a really nice screen, but you don't have something that's ten feet wide sticking out in your lawn and on the other side of the fence.

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and a fungicide. Yeah, and so I would, I would wait, I would, I would wait. If you go online, I don't know if you've seen my lawn care schedule and my pest yeah, and management schedules. Yeah. Yeah, at gardening with skip dot com and look at that. And there's a fungus row as you go across from January to December, and it talks about the things we do and when on that, and I would more focus on that. But I'm not one to just want to nuke everything with

insecticides and fundicides every time I turn around. I'd rather try to manage it and use it when I need it. You know. It's like you're taking an antibiotic every day in case you might get sick some day. That's not a good plan. And so yeah, the watch the schedule. It is important to step in. Go ahead. Yeah, well let me see it's early.

Gary and Alvin. You'll be first up when we come back. If you want to give Chrystal, call seven one three two one two. Kat r H will get you on the board. We'll be ready to talk to you next and glad you're with us today. Hey, have you been down to Jeges Hidden Gardens. It's done in Alvin. You heard me talk about it before. It's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin and they're open today by the way, from eight to four and tomorrow again from eight to four.

When you get down to Hoorze Sidden Gardens, you're going to find a wide variety of things. Number one. They have a variety of products, for example, the tree stabilizer three sixty tree stabilizer. If you've got a young tree, that's the thing you need for that, and they've got them right there, including his own proprietary blend fertilizer products. He has got a good selection of fruit trees, lots

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They're at Horae Sidden Gardens. You're also at Hoges going to be able to find the things that you need to have success in terms of plants, for shade plants that are perennial that come out year after year, the tropical look you know, you like the big old elephant ear looking things, you like the the I like foxdale fern. He's got those. They are very tough plants to grow, very tough and resilient. Or he's got all of that. But remember today eight to four tomorrow eight to four

again or Haes Hidden Gardens there on Alvin Street. Excuse me, Elizabeth Street and Alvin, Texas just south Highway sixth seventeen seven twenty one Elizabeth Street. Go check them out. We're going to head now over to Alvin speaking of or Haes Hidden Gardens, and we're going to talk to Gary. Hello.

right now? Can we go ahead and put the rabbit maneuver on there?

Rabbit manure is typically not that hot. Now, can you put too much? We can put too much of anything, you know, anything, you can overdo it. But in general we don't worry about it burning like rabbits can do. I would say, if you put out you know, you know, maybe a half inch at a time, kind of scratched it into the surface, that would be a pretty good application rate.

regular worms to put in their verma culture bend. So I know you're not looking for another business to get into, but that's just another option. And they can take our temperatures better, uh than like the nightcrawlers can.

They hide under the leaf and they suck the juices out, and so getting a blast of spray up under there to kill them would be one option to try to bring those under control. But we have several different kinds of plants, from lace bugs to a little plant hoppers and others that can cause that kind of damage.

the bottom of the leaf. I don't know why.

You know, the the product isn't just wet there on the leaf where or the flowers where bees would be infected affected.

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on the surface. And for a lot of lawns that are struggling, when you do that, you're getting oxygen down into the soil. You're getting oxygen into the soil, and you're getting that compost done in the soil, and the soil just gets better and the roots thrive, and as a result, an old struggling drought stress, whatever it's struggling with lawn can be really greatly enhanced. Bbturfpros dot com. That's a website, eb purfpros dot com or seven one

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companies do. But anyway, so gli, I'm gonna use the word glyphosay because that's the ingredient you can find in a lot of other brands. I've been round up.

But those products you see products for brushyweeds, products for grass plants, products for plants with underground bulbs like wild onion and garlic in the lawn. But if you look there, you can find the products for each of those that work well and for grassyweeds. That's kind of what we've been talking about. Those products are there, even though that publications made for things to put on the weed wiper. Those are the products you would use to control to

get that bermua kill back. And then again, like you said, get water it good, give it some time to try to get it to come back up again, show its face. So do you have something else to spray a second time?

much better results. So just a final thought there, Okay, oh yeah, I got you. I'll take it down into the roots so it does better. Yeah, thanks Ben, you take care. Hey, our phone number if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four out at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association Convention in San Antonio that's this past week. Uh, well, that was a great convention. I saw a lot of

good friends out there. I ran into the folks at Nelson Plant Food, Dean uh the guy who created Nelson Plant Food, Dean Nelson, and also Shelby and some of the other folks that work with them, and we're just visiting about the different products they have, what all they have on hand. And they have a lot of quality products. You know, there's the fertilizer bag lines, that's the turf

Star line. That's where you find Bruce's Brew, which releases it's a perfect blend of nutrients and it releases them initially pretty good, and then it has some ongoing slow release. Slow and Easy is another turf Star product. That one. It releases some early, but it releases for three or four months going forward. I would say at this point, if you needed a fertilizer to hold you until we get to the fall, maybe a little Bruce's Brew would

be a good one for the lawn there. Now, when it comes to trees and shrubs, there's the nutri Star for tree and shrub. There's nutri Star for all kinds of for tropical plants, for vining plants. It's just a wide variety. So little jars, plastic jars, you can find them a lot of different places. The thing I like about those nutri Star jars, about the color Star jars, is that you can go to a garden center. Certain garden centers have the little refill stations. It's kind of

like when you buy peanuts in the grocery store. You pull the little handle down and fill up the bag. You know what I'm talking about. Well, it's like that, but you get a lot of really good savings on the fertilizer because they're not having to make a jar and sell it to you and the environments not trying to figure out what to do with even more plastic. Because you buy a jar in another jar and another jar, you can just refill them the Nelson plant few jars.

So just another reason that Nelson products are so handy and they do work very very well. I've used them myself. One of my favorites, by the way, is Genesis Transplant Mix. I'll have to tell you more about that at another time, But if you're going to transplant anything into the ground, mix a little Genesis transplant mix into the soil around there, then dig the hole and replant and you will see results. If you're going to pot something up, mix it into

the potting salt that you're about to use. Genesis Transplant Mix from Nelson just another good one. We're going to go to Spring now and talk to Nicole. Hello, Nicole, Hello, how are you? I'm good? How can we help?

to answer your gardening question. We speaking of gardening questions. We were just talking to Tiffany, no excuse me, Nicole in spring and Nicole that we just called chamber bitter and it is the weed of summer. It's slow to wake up in the spring. A lot of spring things pop up like crabgrass and they're growing. This one's a little bit slower, but when it shows up, it can be just proliferating through a thin lawn or through garden

beds and things. The answers to what to do about is, first of all, any if you can hoe or hand pull when it's first coming up, depending on where it's growing. You can't hoe in the lawn, but just taking a hole right underneath the surface, don't. You're not chopping with a hoe, you're just slicing it off under the surface. That's the best because pretty quickly it starts producing what you were calling a spore, that's actually the seed bop pod.

It has a tiny little bloom you'll never think of as a flower, and then it produces these seed pods all along the lea petiole underneath, their little balls all along there. And so once it's doing that, you're about to have a lot of seeds, and so you're gonna have to be dealing with it a year after year. So the earlier you can hand pull it, the better mulches will keep it from coming up if the mulch

blocks all the sunlight out. So that's another thing, and I realized we'd have to go back in time to do some of those steps, but that's FYI for next year. You can spray it with a product like Celsius for example. It does a pretty good job on it, but once it's getting really woody and established, it's hard to kill with sprays.

Most people I don't. Yeah, the newspaper for it. When it first comes up, you can lay newspaper on it, four to six sheets thick, and wet that newspaper so it sort of sticks down, and then throw mulch on top and you're done. That works really well because it completely blocks the light out. The newspaper does. Yeah, four to six sheets thick, just so it doesn't tear so easy. But you don't have to go buy newspaper, just gets

you a good mulge to smother it. I will often use like a rake in a garden bed, just kind of to really roughly rake the soil to kind of tear it up, and then throw a mulch on top of it. Whatever it takes. Just just don't give it sunlight, and then once it's up you're going to have to In a flower bed, you're not going to use celsius. But if it's a bear area without other desirable plants, you could use a glycysate type herbicide that kills whatever you spray it on, and that it would kill it.

Those post emergin will kill it even if it's getting a little bit older. But my big concern once it gets a little bit older is that you've already got viable seeds, So just to kill it isn't sufficient. I want those seeds out of there before they drop on the ground, right.

at any time. And sometimes there's extenuating circumstances where you can't wait that long, and that's fine too, But just remember that if it blooms only in the spring, like a climbing rose is oftener once blooming roses, or if it is like a dogwood or a red bud or a spyreea shrub or something that flowering quints it just blooms in the spring, you want to prune it in the summertime right after it blooms, or in the spring

late spring, early summer, right after it blooms. If you prune those now, they're trying to set buds for next springs bloom and you'd be cutting with the blue buds or the ability for them to develop a wooden time.

any time of the year. Ideally with woody ornamentals, we would like to do most of it at the end of winter.

roast them in the oven? How kind of Well, there's up some edges they're they're doing that, and one of them we think we've completely lost. But I'm trying to see what I can do to save these others. And then another question too real quick, is that our yard was beautiful. The back is still looks good, but the front started dying. Uh and our Saint August.

for her her whole life. For crying out loud, Diana, I hope that he'll listen on the next call. It could possibly be like like black spot of black Spot, which causes black spots and leaves. The leaves turn yellow and fall off.