Ideal Practices for Fall Planting

Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's crazy. Just watch him as so many well. Good morning, good Sunday morning. As a matter of fact, I appreciate the fact that you are up at this hour. I hope you got a cup of coffee in your hand or whatever it takes to get the motor running. We're gonna be talking

gardening today. There is a lot to talk about. I had a great time out yesterday at the Arburgate Nursery and Tomball just got to meet a lot of folks. Boy, you guys were a steady line coming through and it was just so nice to get to, I don't know, help people with their gardens and get to meet people, find out what kinds of things they're interested in and growing out in the gardens, do a little bit of diagnostics

and all the kinds of stuff we do with those appearances. Those of you who were fortunate enough to win the giveaways a fertilizer from Arburgate and from nitrofoss uh that that was also a nice addition to the to the event. As well. And by the way, that parking lot is the most wonderful thing I had to get there. I got there a little early just to go back out and you know, try it out, see how things are going.

It's it's so dead gum convenient. And I'm I know those of you love Arburg Gate, which I was suspect to most everybody listening is you're excited too about the fact that you can be able to go in there and when have a big event, you know, a lot of people come in. It just real convenient right in the back, simple as that. But thanks to Beverly and the team at Arburgrate for hosting us out there yesterday that that was a good time. We're gonna talk about all kinds of things today.

I wanted to start off just a little bit making some mention about birds out in our landscapes. I was checking out my bird baths, you know, the where we where they have their water supplies and they really need that. By the way, it's still hot. It's still a little hot out there, and birds need to supply of water, so make sure you're you're providing that for them. I noticed one of my feeders was empty. I kind of neglected keeping an eye on that thing, and so fortunately the birds were

not tapping on the window going did you get out here please? But we got out there and got some more taken care of. You know that my favorite feeder is one that Wildbird does. It's it's one that excludes squirrels, and it is just I don't know whether I like the fact more that if I want to feed a bird, I can make sure my food goes to a bird, or the fun of just watching a squirrel trying to get into that thing, the squirrel excluder feeder. They can't. They can't handle it.

But enough of those things, you know, it's it is umming bird season and I had some swing through just the other day. They you know, there's a lot of things we can plant that attract hummingbirds. But the feeders are cool because I mean you can put them up instantly in any location and they just they show up there. And my favorite, I've told you

this before, is my high perch feeder from Wall Birds Unlimited. And I've got several feeders, and it is the one it's easiest to see the birds, it's easiest for the birds to you know, get in there and they seem to love it. They really do seem to enjoy that feeder. Always remember don't put don't buy colored water for your hummingbirds. Just take four parts of water, one part of white table sugar. I heat the water up just to make it easier to dissolve that much sugar and water. Four parts

water, one part sugar, and just plain white sugar. And it'll last in a feeder the last couple of days out there. And if you buy their nectar defender, if he drops in there, it'll carry it out to ten days. You know, because you think about the sugar water in warm weather. I mean there's a lot of little microbes would love to take off growing in sugar water, so you want to keep that clean. Wildbirds also has a little cleaning brushes to keep your feet are clean. Just makes it

a live even a little extra special. And you know, Wildbirds are everywhere. I don't know if I've mentioned this lately, but they have seven stores here in the Houston area, one in Cyprus up on Barker, Cyprus, one down on bel Air in Houston. They're on the west side Memorial Drive in Houston. Out in clear Lake, there's Wildbirds and Katie. There's Wildbirds

on West Timer Parkway. Kingwood has one up on Kingwood driving them Parland Parland down down in Pearland on Broadway Street there's Wildbird's unlimited, so easy to find one, and they are really really nice. You're ever looking for a gift for somebody too that I have utilized them a number of times because it's it's such an outstanding gift. You know, you wonder what do you buy for somebody who has everything already? Well, go into Wilbirds. Let them answer

that question. You will be really impressed, and so other people you give the gift to, by the way, it's just it's really special. Well, we are here to talk to your to you about gardening, and I think it will probably help if I gave you a phone number, wouldn't it seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know that the fall season is here.

It is, I mean officially on the calendar, this is fall. But we've had a warm day and yesterday's a little on the warm side, but it is gradually cooling off more and more, and I'm just excited. I was excited at ninety five. I thought that was pretty special. We're going to keep going on the way down and down in temperatures and it's gonna eventually get real nice and pleasant. Let's go out to sugar Land. We're gonna

talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hello, good morning. I'm wondering the difference in the three products that are in not false Okay, and then and then the product that you would buy from, like Helen Chemical, don't. I don't know which you're talking about. Helen is a big chemical company, So I'm sorry. The like the the Fall special yard fertilizer. Okay,

the Fall Special is from nitrofoss. It's a brown bag and it has a good load of potassium that's the last number in it, and drops the nitrogen down a little bit, and that combination goes in the plant well and fall, and instead of stimulating just tons of green growth, which we don't want to do in the fall, it helps the plant produce carbohydrates to go

into winter and come out stronger. So that's that. That is the plan of any fertilizer that you would call a winterizer or a fall fertilizer, is you want to have enough potassium the third number to be able to really really do the good that it can do. But would the potassium that the large chemical companies have. Do they furnish potassium to nctro fause company? Oh? I don't know that. Does it all come? Yeah, I don't know how the sausage gets made on that. It's just there's their number of forms

of potassium that fertilizer can use, from organic forms to synthetic forms. There's a lot of options out there for getting that out into the plant. Did you have another question about about the fall fertilizing mic No, just you know, I've used the Medina products, but but one of the recommendations to get rid of of the sticker birds is go heavy and heavy with nitrogen, and Medina products don't have nitrogen. Uh, that's not no, that's not true.

They do have. Medina has a fertilizer for the lawn that has a higher amount of nitrogen in it. But that's something that we would need if we're going to go into grasp or that would be a whole another question. We can do that, but I'm gonna have to have you hang on after break to do that. All right, If you'd like to continue the discussion.

Yeah, we're going to take a break right now. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four is the number we are talking gardening, and if you're interested in giving us a call, it's seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I was mentioning being on at the Arbigate earlier, just a moment ago, and while we're out there, we gave away some of their their organic food, the complete Organic four four three. It's got some calcium in it, it's got a lot of other good things

in it. It's I was joking with somebody, they said, what can I use it or not? Go well? If the plant has roots, don't use it on silk flowers, But any plant with roots it'll work well on and do a pretty good job. They've also got part of their one two three system at Arbigate is the organic soil complete and they're going to compost complete. And both of those products are loaded with organic matter that's just rich

and microbial activity. Also, they have that expanded shale in it, and that expanded sail is important every time you get a chance to add expanded shell to a clay soiled In the Greater Houston area, the Upper Gulf Coast. It's a good idea because expanded shell helps the things that clay is not so good at, like draining, aeration and things like that. We're gonna go out now to Kima and talk to Cheryl. Hello, Cheryl, Hello, good morning. I took your advice. I put the nitro foss sweet green

okay and hundred degree. I had to have faith in that yard. Guy didn't want to do it, okay, but he did it. He put it in the spreader and the yard looks great. That was about a month ago. Then I used weed beater before he I mean about a week or two weeks ago. I used we'd beat it right before we got the rain, like a day before. And what I did, and I think I made a mistake, But I lifted up the weeds that were just lying there

because he hadn't cut for like six weeks. I wouldn't let him cut the yard because you know, too too too much skinning it, you know. So and I lifted up the weed and I sprayed the stock kind of down into the ground towards the route. But I think I made a mistake. I think you're supposed to spray that on the on the leaves, aren't you. Yes, on the foliage, and just barely wet the foliage. You don't need to drench him, just just get him wet. Okay, I

think I heard that. Yeah, I think we just met easier for you because you went through there. It was a little bit of work. Yeah, exactly. H questions that Texas three Steps does that include the pre emergent herbicide in there? I'm sorry, Texas you talk. Sorry, I missed your question. Sorry, go ahead, true, Okay, On that Texas three step program is does that include pre emergent herbicide? Yes, yes, there there is the pre emergent herbicide as one of the three of the nitropos

Texas three step. Now, when is the last kind of date? I can do that because I don't want to be loading stuff on top of stuff. And well there's no problem, you know, doing things on the same day, that's not a problem. But here's how it works. Your winter weeds are going to start germinating. As we get a little bit of a cool front through and little rain, you'll start to see all them begin to germinate. And that'll happen in October. It can also be going on in

November. But if you wait until after weeds have come up to put the pre emergent down, you could miss the opportunity to prevent them. That how it works is it doesn't allow a germinating weed to establish a weed plant. And so that's why we don't want to We don't want to find out how long can we wait? We want to go ahead and get them down.

I would do it, and down in your area. You could do it sometime in early to mid October. If we have a year that comes a little cool front a little early in things, then maybe you'd want it to get it on a little bit earlier than that. Okay, early to October. Thank you so much. Yeah, I really appreciate it. All right, Cheryl, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. I hope that was helpful for you. I talk about the importance of soil all the

time, and and it is nice now. I remember the day when you could buy a big positive compost, but that was about it. But now our soil providers, and boy do we ever had a great soil provider in a greater in this greater Houston area here, they have created blends that are just magical for all kinds of things. If you do want to blend for roses, do you want, you know, a rose soil, Well, we've got that. Do you want something that might be good for containers.

We've got blends designed for containers now available. Do you want something to be for veggies and herbs? Maybe you're putting a raised bed in and you just want to ready to go drop it in the box and let's hit the ground run. And we've got that. And Airloom Soils carries all of those. They carry them in bulk, they carry them in bags. They'll deliver a supersac which is a cubic yard to your door if you if you like that,

you can go get it. There's a lot of options. Go to Airloom Soils of Texas and look at the product line of what they have. While you're there, there's a little calculator online. It's an outstanding one where you can figure out exactly how much, how many cubic yards do you need to buy? Well, how wide, how deep? You know, the calculator will figure that out. It'll even come down to five callon buckets of composts. I mean, if you want to figure it down to that it's

a very very helpful thing. And Airloom Soils with their product range, product line and availability all over town, it's just a winning deal and you will find that your green thumb gets greener when you use a quality soil like Airloom Soils for your plants. We are hitting let's see, Okay, I wanted to I wanted to mention something about general lawn and plant care this fall. As we bring our plants out of this brutal summer that we went through,

you want to remember a couple of things. Number One, you want to create a setting where that plant can recover and thrive. Think of a hospital room, you know where you have plenty of ivy fluids and you know what I'm saying, You're getting the patient back on its feet. Well, that's what we're doing, and so we need adequate soul moisture. Number One, If it rains, great, If it hadn't rained in a week, and

you need an inch, then go ahead and put it down. As we go into fall, we're going to back off of that inch a week to about a half inch a week because it's cooling off. But today it's still warm enough to where I would water if it needs to water and then again to gradually provide those products that we're talking about when you're putting in your fall plants. For example, when I do transplanting, I always water them in with a quality product, and one of my favorite is has to Grow six

twelve six. I've talked about it before. Put it in a watering can. Mix it according to the label. You're going to be adding six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphor six percent potassium. You're also going to be adding me dinostral activator which stimulates the biological activity. You're going to be adding humic acid, You're going to be adding seaweed extracts. All with that watering in, those roots have the best chance possible to establish quickly a week later,

do it again a week later. It I do mind three times to water men. But has to Grow is one of those products. It's just easy. You're not going to burn your plants with it, and it provides beyond just MPK the nitrogen, phosphor potassium. It provides a lot of other things that are helpful for that plant, getting a good root system and getting started. I would in courage you to think about that when you're putting plants in. We want to give our plants. We want to set them up for

success. We don't want to put them out there and go, well, I hear you're a tough plant. Good luck. Let's see if you make it. We want we want the most out of them. If they have blooms, we want blooms. If beautiful foliage, we want foliage. If it's a lawn, we want density and health for the lawn. And that's

why we take care of our plants in those kind of ways. Some of you the summer, it probably decided, you know what, after this kind of summer, I'm going to move to some more native types of plants. And I don't blame you for that. There's a lot of great natives out there. These are plants that have lived here a lot longer than we have, and they know how to survive. They've been through you know, for us, this may be like, oh my gosh, that's the worst summer

ever. Well not for them. They've been through it many many times over. They know how to live here. And Buchanan specializes in those kinds of plants. In fact, their name Buchanan's Native Plants, ought to tell you that they're in the Heights on Eleventh Street. Buchanans doesn't just sell natives, so they have everything you can imagine. I think their houseplants selections one of the best I've seen. It's just really really cool that Buchanans is a kind

of garden center. You go into, You've got knowledgeable staff, you have an incredible selection, and you add add to that where they grouping plants, like here's a table just a Houston natives, or there's an area just for shade loving plants. Or check out the gift shops too. While you're there. It's easy to find what you need and to find really cool quality stuff. When you go to Buchanans Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights, you

are listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, or if you like to spell with letters seven one three two one two K T R H. That makes it a little bit simpler as well, doesn't it. We are gonna we're gonna talk a little bit more later. I'm going to mention a few things about some fruit and also some of our vegetable gardening and stuff. As we go a little further into the morning, but just to just to kind of lead off her.

Fall is a good time to plant anything, pretty much except maybe a plant that only lives in the summer, like basil. Basil is not a freeze tolerant plant. But when you go beyond that, all the perennial herbs and pretty much everything else follow is a good time to get them planted. And I encourage you to don't delay. Uh you know, I know this summer fried our landscapes and fried our brains and patients as well. But now's

the time to turn it around. And by preparing your soil now, by getting the right plants now and getting them ready to go, October and November are just super big planting months coming up. We are right on the doorstep. In fact, you don't have to wait till October. Today is a good day to plant. But go ahead and get set up for that, because I know, I know what it felt like coming out of summer.

But trust me, false false here, Winter's coming and when next spring comes, the things you're doing now will make your law the most beautiful it can be. That make your landscapes beautiful. Uh, don't delay. There there is what did Uh? What's the song? There is a time and purples from ecclesiastic time and purpose for everything. I can't say the name of the song. I just went blank. Oh yes, anyway, yes, that one. There's a time to a time to laugh, a time to cry.

Yeah, And now's the time to garden. I mean it is. It's the time to prepare everything because that way, when it comes to fall, we may have a gully washer rain for a week and if you've already built your beds, you can get out there and plant. You don't have to dig up the soil, which we shouldn't do when it's saggy wet. But now turn, turn, turn, Thank you. My gosh, my

brain was going blank on that one. There you go. But there's a time and now is the time for doing your fault garden for getting the most success, and that's what you want. You're spending money, you're spending time. Why not reap the rewards for that for years to come. And now is also the time for the Nicki News Network. And so I'm going to turn turn, turn it over to Nikki. Yes, a time to plant, and this is the time to get ready for planting all kinds of things.

Hey, if you live up in the Tumba area, your hometown feed store is DND Feed. DND Feed. The Dover family has been running DND out there on Highway twenty nine twenty west, just about three miles west of two forty nine outside Tumball. They've been doing this since nineteen eighty nine. They have quality feed for your pets, for your livestock. Do you need products for your yard? I'm talking about fertilizers. I'm talking about composts and

bag products like that. Do you need you know, pesticide, secticide, fungicide, herbicide. They have all that. DND feed stay stocked up and they help you have a beautiful, successful landscape as a result of that fact. You know, the last time I was out there, I always like to go and check out what's new. And there's always something new, you know, expanded this summer and it just keeps getting better and you get the kind of service that we would expect from our hometown feed stores. And that's

D and D for all of you up in the greater Tomball area. Go by there and see what I'm talking about. You will be impressed. And seasonally they get plants through there. It's really nice to be out and shopping around. And I think that one thing I've noticed when I go into dn D is there's always the product that I'm looking for to deal with whatever it is I'm trying to deal with, whether it's fertilizing or managing a past or whatever. That's nice to be able to walk in and know that that is

exactly what you're going to get. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Your lawn, I suspect if it's like mine, And boy, if I showed you a picture of my lawn, you turn your radio off right now and go somewhere else. This summer, I traveled and the water didn't come on when it should, and one thing led to another, and I've got a big area out front that just looks horrible. Let's give me

a chance to experiment with a lot of different things. I'm trying to, you know, see what works. So as I give you advice, it's not just like, well I read this in a book somewhere, but no I did it. It worked or it didn't work, and I can advise you better. Anyway, now's the time when I need to get out and go ahead and move forward with a aeration and a compost top dressing. Our lawns are struggling, and they have been struggling. Some of you may have

been able to water enough, some may not have been able to. When you do a core aeration on your lawn, you pop those plugs out of the ground and you end up with a nice open, deep core that's been taking out of the soil. You're aerating the roots. And then when you compost top dress, compost moves down in those aeration holes as well, and you're building your soil and it just gets better and better. And Greenpro does that. The folks at Greenpro for five minion and nine plus sales tax depending

on your location and size. They that is where they start, depending on you know, if it's big lawn, it's gonna cost a little more and there are other factors in it, but Greenpro knows what they're doing. You can go to greenpro dot net greenpro dot net and see exactly what compost top dressing looks like in aeration as it goes over your lawn, or give them a call two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. I need

to do that, and you know it. Just in general, anytime we can top dress our lawns of the quality material is good, and anytime you get a good aeration in there. We got to get those roots stimulated, and we got to get the plants going, get them back on their feet, get them going again. And that's the goal. And we have one month that is key for all of that in your lawns, and this is

October. This is the and so fertilizing and pest controls and disease controls and aerating, compost top dressing, and all of those kinds of things need to happen sooner rather than later, especially the compost top dressing part. By the way, you are listening to Garden Line our phone number seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one two kt r H if you haven't done your fall fertilization yet, and don't worry, you're not late.

You're not late. And just in case you haven't, now is a good time to get that done. Now. The summer fertilizers are high in nitrogen because we're pushing growth. We want green, we want growth. We want vigor in the fall. We do not want to push growth. We do not want to push vigor. We want to increase the strength and health of the grass plant. And that takes only a moderate amount of nitrogen and a decent a good amount of potassium. The third number, and Nelson Plant Food

has packaged something just for that. It's called carbo load. Carbo Load is a ten ten twenty fertilizer. You put it out there, it gets you know, at twenty that's a very high, high concentration of the potassium, and that is very good for your plants. So what's going to happen. You're gonna put it down. You're gonna get a little bit of a green result from it. But mainly what's going to happen is the grass plant is going to take up the compounds it needs, including nitrogen potassium to get a

good strong plant going into winter. And that is critical because the strength that ere long goes into this coming winter will be the strength that it comes out of winter. In fact, it could even come out weaker if you don't take care of it. Now. Take care of it now, get it boosted, get it strong. Don't push a lot of fresh new green growth that just aggravates brown patch, but use a quality fertilizer. Carbo Load is an outstanding example. Also has a pre emergent herbicide in it to help with

some of the weed issues that are coming up. But that's another reason to get it on sooner rather than later, because we don't want to delay getting the pre emergent down if you're going to use one in your lawn. Yeah, there's there's a lot to talk about when it comes to laund right now because we just we just have a lot of things going on. I did a video for Aggy Horticulture the Hot Culture Department Facebook live up at A and M, and I just posted it to the other day to our Facebook page.

And so if you go to the garden Line Facebook page, I hope you do. I hope you hope you follow that one. We're always posting stuff to that and check out the video. It's about seven minutes long. So but it's not you know, it's not going to sit there a long time. But what I do is I cover what have our lawn has been through and what's happening with them as a result, and then what about fertilizing, what about diseases, what about weeds? You know, what are the

things that we're needing to look at and deal with right now? And it's an overview. I'm pretty concise with it, but I think that you will find it to be very helpful. I'm going to also get that video over the website as soon as I can here, but in the meantime, you can see it on our Facebook page. Please please do go check that out. I think that you will find it very helpful. And it also just reminds us that October's the big month. It is the big month for our

lawns in the fall. If you live down south of the Houston area, let's say you're down in the League City area or maybe Dickinson, San Leone or elkom Into Real Bay, Cliff, Webster, Santa Fe, all of that area. League City Feed is your hometown feed store. The Thunderbergs he began with the dad. Actually the store began and forty years ago in an

Okra patch, which I find to be humorous. And you know, anything that starts in an Okra patch's got it turned out now West and Madison and sister weren't run the place, and it's just that old time feed store. It's the service you expect. But also when you go in there a push, you're gonna find feed. It's a feed store, quality feed. It's that kind of feed store. But you're going to find everything you need for your lawn and garden. Two you need fertilizers, I'm talking about them today.

They've got the ones that we talk about there. If you need a insecticide or a herbicide or a fungicide, they've got it there. In your backyard chicken deal, I mean that is popular now, and the Thunderbergs at League City Feed have got you set up on that too. Monday through Saturday nine to six pm, closed on Sunday phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve to eight one three three two sixteen twelve, and they will

get you set up on everything you need. So you're fortunate down there by the way. League City Feed is on Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway ninety six, so it's really easy to get in and out of and be an open till six after work. You can just swing by there and pick up the supplies you need for your weekend warrior activities. You know you're one of those lawn rangers. Right, well, it's time to take a break. Here our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH seven

one three two one two KTRH. Give Josh a call and he'll get you on the board for when we come right back. Everybody's saying hooray for our side. You're listening to garden Line and we are looking forward to your calls today so we can talk about what you are interested in. That would be the phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I've been talking about lawns a

lot this morning, because everybody's concerned about their lawn right now. I also want to mention a little bit about trees. I posted something to the website a while back on understanding tree stresses and how stresses affect trees and how we alleviate those stresses. And boy, have our trees ever been through stresses? Oh my gosh, we had. You can go back to February twenty one when it got so darn cold and that heard a lot of plants around here.

We had a brutal summer last summer, a brutal summer. This summer we had an early free in December, and each of those have taken its toll in different ways on different ones of our species, if not all of them, And as a result, our goal is to get those trees back on their feet, so to speak. Trees are resilient, but when you weaken a tree, things that can just flat kill it show up and take it out, and so our goal. You know, those things that just

flank kill it we can't control. I mean, hopoxal and canker on oaks, there's not a spray for that. But what we can control is alleviating stress and keeping the tree healthy as best we can, and good tree care is a big part of that, making sure it has the nutrients it needs, making sure that if there's sole compaction, that we're doing something to alleviate and avoid that. When we water a good deep soaking to wet the soil eight or ten inches deep if we can, and then don't water for a

while, trees do not. They're not like a little African violet sitting on the window where every day they got a little drink of water from Now, we're talking about a plant that is resilient, So give it a good soaking and then let it go. Don't try to make it dependent. But your trees are valuable, of course, they're important, of course, and that kind of care is really really important. And I would, if I would

encourage you, go go to my website. It's gardening with skip dot com and I've put that information on tree stresses, and also there's one on lawns, the same kind of thing, what's been going on with lawns this summer

and check check those out, read them. I think you'll find them to be very helpful and at least it'll give you the mindset so as you're thinking about treecre going forward now with your landscape, you kind of have a way of thinking that helps you do the things that help and avoid the things that don't. That that is kind of what it really boils down to. Soil

and soil and soil is so so important for everything. And if you're going to plant anything, whether it's a potted plant, whether it is a new garden bed, whether it's putting in a rose bed or a shrub bed or a flower bed, Nature's way resources up in Conro area. They absolutely have super quality soils. They you know, they're inventors of the rose soil, inventors of the leaf mold compost, and they know how to make quality soil, and that's exactly what they do. Take the time to do it right.

That is important. Anybody can shove a bunch of organic matter and a pile, wet it and wait until it turns dark, and then try to sell it. But it's something else to blend it right, to do it right, to take the time to do it right. And that's what Nature's Way does. By the way, next Saturday, stop the presses, get

out the pens and paper Next Saturday. I will be at Nature's Way on September thirtieth, and I'm going to be out there after the show so you can come out and see me. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty, spending a couple hours out there. They're going to have one heck of a shindig. It's called the Fall Garden Festival. Now, I hope you come out so I get to meet in see and we answer your question. They're gonna have Latin food, live music, local vendors, adult beverages.

For the kiddos, there's a little kid's scavenger hunt, They're even gonna have a demo class in the morning before I get there, creating enchanting fairy gardens and learn the magic of a miniature garden. Mark your calendars September thirtieth. This is a Nature's Way. While you're out there, you can grab some bag products or put in an order for a bulk delivery of one of

the many, many products they have. And don't forget, they're still having their fungal Friday sale ten percent off the bag product, twenty percent off the bulk on Fridays of the fungal compost. That's one of the many quality products at Nature's Way. We are going to now head over to Cyprus and talk to Sandy. Hello Sandy from Cyprus. I skip, good morning, how are you well? Thank you? I just wanted to ask you. I have an oprah that's been a container. It's got three stalks in it,

and although the production is still going, but it's slowed down. How can I prune it because I've got new growth at the bottom, but the top is like the one stock looks like it's almost brown, right, but at the bottom of it it's green. Well, Sandy, at this point in the season probably not much benefit, and trying to prune the ocra, We're we're gonna we still have some months or another month or so of ochre production, but it's gonna get so slow, and if you prune, it's I

don't have time to regrow and set ocra pods and mature them. So what going into future years if you have more than one container or more than one plant. When we get into oh, let's say early August, you could do a cutting back of your ocra, cutting it back even by half, and it'll resprout new growth that will then set okra pods. But I wouldn't do the whole thing. What I'll do in mine patch is I'll prune some

of them in August early August, and then not others. And that way you're still getting ochre from the ones you didn't prune, and by the time the ones you pruned resprout and start producing, they carry you on into fall. But at this point we're a little late. Okay, Well, thank you so much, Skip have a wonderful day, you too, have a wonderful time out there in Cyprus with the ochre patch. Love love ochre. Hey up, you are wanting to take care of your lawn. You're wanting

to take care of your garden. You're wanting to put in maybe some herbs, maybe you want to put in some container plants. Where do you go and get everything that you need to make those plants have success? Well, Ace Hardware, it's an easy one there. You need Furlijer lawn with the winterizer, the fall furlizer. We're talking about Ace Hardware. They carry them, They carry all the ones we have. Do you have issues with brown patch or do you have issues with weeds, or do you have issues with

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Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area. So no matter what the supplies are that you need, you can go to ACE Hardware and you will see why I'm so excited about and why I keep bragging about what all they have. I know it's hard to I can't describe it, and you imagine it. Walk in the store, take a look and be like, oh,

I did not know they had that. That is really cool. And believe me, you may go in there for a bag of fertilizer, but you're going to find a lot of really cool stuff to make your homescape and enjoyable place to hang out and to make your plants healthy and successful in the process. Well, you're listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter,

and we're here to answer your gardening questions. I'm about to take a little break here for the news, and if you would like to give us a call seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one two ktr H. Josh will get you on the board and you'll be first when we come back. I don't forget again. I mentioned this is a minute ago, but next Saturday, September thirty, eleven thirty to one thirty I'll be at Nature's Way Resources and the shindig they are planning out there is

really cool. You definitely need to be there for this, They've redone a lot of their native plant nursery area, put in some water feature and a lot of other cool things. I was visiting with John and Ian the other day about it, and I can't wait to get back up there and see it. They're always taking things a step forward up there. Nature's so what a great idea. Go out there on Saturday, Let's visit, Let's do

diagnostics or whatever kinds of things. Questions you might have, love to meet, you, have fun at the party, go home with some products, because it's time to begin getting our soil ready to rejuvenating our plants. And it all begins in the soil, and that's what Nutrius Way is all about. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor so Smelly.

Just watch as mid Sunday morning, gardeners, we are looking at the glow in the eastern sky as that sun comes up. Quick care. We're getting a little bit of light shining through. That means it's gonna be a good day, you know. I think if the sun comes up, that means it's going to be a good day, right, it does. That's the way to look at it. At least, Hey, every day is a good day in the garden. I enjoy getting out in the garden, and even you know, you can find you can find pleasure and a lot of

different activities in the garden. And if you let things get away from you, and now you've got eight hundred acres of weeds to pull and while fire ants climb around on you. Wow, that's no fun. But you don't have to let that happen. You can mult your plants. I can't tell you how many times in fact, the last week back yesterday, just talking to gardeners yesterday, over and over again, people will be talking about there's this weed and here's a picture of it, and what do I do?

And I'm looking at bear dart with weeds coming up. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weed. Just remember that. So how do we control weeds? Well, there's a lot of ways, but the first way is the way nature controls weeds. And what does it do. It drops leaves on the ground and it covers the soil and it doesn't let the sun hit the soil. That protects the soil in a lot of ways for erosion, from crusting, from excessive summer temperatures, from very cold winter temperatures if

we have one of those kind of winters. It does all that, but it blocks the weeds. And now there are weeds. It'll come through mulch. But why not get rid of all the weeds. It won't by just putting organic matter on the soil, because it's a When when you put it down it does its thing, I think it looks beautiful and on top of it all, you get all the benefits of it. So let's deal with the weeds it can control, that can overcome a mulch cover, which is

the smaller group of weeds, and just make it really easy. And so again I'm here to help anyway we can. But when I see a whole bunch of bare dirt and weeds and people are going, what do I do about these weeds, It's like, well, don't invite them in the first place. That's the easy part. One way that we deal with weeds in our lawns is by building a good, dense, healthy lawn, and Nitrofosts has their Texas three step it's a one two three system, very easy to

do. I mean all you do is, first of all, there is a nitrofost fall special winter riser fertilizer that has that right chemistry in it to put the right nutrients and the right ratios into your grass to strengthen it without pushing a lot of lush fall growth that's going to be more of a brown patch problem. So it's fertilizing smart. It's feeding the plants in a way that helps them prepare for winter, overcome drought, and come out strong in

the spring. Number two, you want to deal with the weeds. The nitrofosts barricade is a pre emergent herbicide. Now, if your lawn is thin and we and sunlight is setting the soil, a pre emergent herbicide will help prevent weeds from getting established. It's easier to deal with the weed before it starts than it is to take a weed that's already knee high in the spring

and try to kill it. That's no win deal back then, so why not now make sure you prevent It's too late to build turf density this fall, Although fall fertilizing gets you set up to build it next spring, so you may have to deal with those weeds. Barricade is designed to do just

that. And then finally, Nitrofus Eagle turf fungicide. That is a fungicide that is systemic, it's a protecting it also does some curative effects in the lawn and with large patch season coming on, with take all root rot reinfections coming on, with the cooler weather arriving soon, that helps to prevent that problem because we don't need to add insalt to injury. Let's get the patient

healthy, let's avoid the things that attack it. Nitrofus Texas three step, one, two three, all three are available at Katie Hardware, at RCW Nursery or at the arbor Gate and Tomball Nitrofus products widely available for the things you need. Let's go out to Kingwood and we're gonna visit with Joe this morning. Hello Joe, good morning. Skip. Before I get to my main questions real quick, you were just talking about the NCROTHOSS three step.

I'm planning to apply barricade in early October. Should I apply the fall feeding special a few days after that, like a week after that or before? Or does it matter it does not matter. You can do them the same day. In fact, you're out there doing it, just go ahead and knock it all out. Just don't put them both in the same fertilizer spreader. Particle size is different, the setting will be different for applying each of those correctly, so apply them separately. But you can do it the very

same day. Great. My main question was I'm in a month or so getting ready to plant some replacement hedges of about five plants each of wax leafs augustrum, boxwood and sunshine augustrum. Okay, and I've heard you recommend medina has to grow for plants to help those plants get set up early, and I had a few questions about that. The direction say to mix one allance per gallon of water. How much should I use per shrub? I would just use the amount of water that you're watering them in with. Okay,

so follow the label on the medinas has to go six twelve six. Mix it in water according to that concentration. But then just water the shrub in really well, so you would just a good soaking like you would water a new plant in. But you're using that that concoction. Is that roughly half a gallon per per shrub or what size is the containers for the shrubs?

They're probably gonna be three gallons? Okay, Yeah, if I would just say even a good a good gallon of water would probably be enough to water those those in a three gae If we're so one gallon for a three gallon shrub, what if if I get a seven gallon shrub? How much for that? But a little bit more on? Okay, I mean, there's

not a magic number. Here's what we're trying to do. We're just trying to wet the soil thoroughly around that newly planted shrubs root ball or roots cylinder, and we want to wet it with a solution that contains the product at the label rate. And so if you were to put four gallons on, it wouldn't hurt anything other than you maybe just be overwatering you And you say it's best to use like a little watering can rather than a pump up sprayer.

Oh yeah, because you can drench you can drench the root ball. A pump up sprayer just you know, barely wets the surface. Yeah, I mean, I guess there is a hose en version of that product. I generally use just the regular one where you pour it out and mix it up, but there is a hose inversion, and you could walk along if you had a bunch of shrubs, and you could just took it up to the hose end through the settings like it tells you to do, and then

and then just use your hose to squirt and water that. But you're going to need to water one, move to the nexon and water arette. Moved to the next and waterett and then come back to the first one, because at one point in time you're hose in sprayer, it may be putting it out faster, the liquid faster than it can absorb. Yeah, I've noticed that even with the watering. Can you know you try to dump one gallon instantly on a plant, you may not get it all in the ground.

And for storing the products like has to grow or soil activator, do you usually store those inside in your house or is the air condition or is it okay to keep those in the garage? I keep everything in the house. You know, there are things that can tolerate the heat, but my garage gets blazing hot, and so wherever possible I'll put stuff, especially like liquid products, whether it would be to control insects or diseases, or weeds or

you know, things like that. I would usually put those inside because freezing and excessive heat are both enemies of long long, long term life storage life for those kind of products. That's great tip. SKIP. Really appreciate your help on those. Thank you very much. All right, thank you, Joe. I appreciate that call. Well, it is time for us to head out and do a little bit of business on the news here. We're gonna be right back our phone number seven one three two one two five eight

seven four. Hey, good Sunday morning. Welcome to Garden Line our phone number seven one three two one to five eight seven four, talking about our garden centers and whatnot around here. The folks that enchanted forest, they have a wonderful selection of moms that have come in. They got more coming into, by the way, but just the callers. I mean, when you think of a chrysanthemum, they've got that. But they also have ones that you look at and go, what is that a chrysanthemum? Is that a

daisy? It's beautiful. They're absolutely beautiful. I've got a good stock of them in and oh my gosh, the pumpkins came in. And if you want a deck rate for fall, you got to go check out all the different types of pumpkins they have out there at Enchanted Forest. Of course, when you're out there, it's a good time to buy and plant herbs. This is a season for that. It's a good time to buy and plant a lot of things, including getting your fertilizers and your soils, and they've

got all of that out there. By the way, the Enchanted Forest. If you're in Richmond and you're heading up toward Sugarland direction, they're off to the right down south of fifty nine. They're really easy to find. Enchanted Forest, and Danny and Clay Lenderman, they have really created a place that is a It's just it's so much fun to visit. The quality of the staff, the quality advice, the way they take time with you to help you find and know how to plant your things and care for them so you

have success. That's important to them and that's why customers keep coming back there and Enchanted Forest out there in Richmond. I need some pumpkins this fall. I think it's time to get the front door decorated and be ready to go for that. Hey, let's it out to League City and talk to John V. Hello John V. Good warning, skip and garden line. Yes,

I've got a little bit of a three part question now. This flower is famously the largest flower species in the world and is called Rephusia are a F F L. E. Sia flower is on the capul that I imagination of enormous specs of red pele titles and a risk of extinction. And re research has warned us on Wednesday the refuse is actually a parasite that lives in the tropical vines across the parts of Southeast Asia, producing blooms that are large

in the world. Is something of enigma, this flower emerging unpredictably as a batumous as a limited propagation as outside of natural environment us. One important thing about that flower the smell. Yes, it says one of these species of the flowers currently classified quickly endangered according to the International Union of Conservation of Nature. Right so well, yes, I said, right now, they're working at forty The botanists examined forty two known Raffisia species in their habitats and Brunei

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Well, I'll tell you that is a very unusual flower. It's actually kind of attractive. But boy, hold your nose because it smells like rotten flesh because they attract flies for pollinating, so they they smell like rotten meat. Yes, And so I wanted to see what what genetic engineering and genetic coating needs to be done to be able

to you know, save species of endangered species. And then the third part question is, uh, what kind planetary rules and regulations are there in place for as I know, like there is a black market and the economy, and there's a black market on the species ride as well. So you know, John V. I, I don't know on that what kind of things are doing. And as far as genetic engineering on these, I don't know.

I think it's just a matter of protecting habitat and that it's the same story it's been true for plants throughout the ages that sometimes they'll find they'll get a place it's kind of a preserve where people can't come in and do things, and and they'll try to protect them that way. But that's a little bit outside my area of expertise. But that is a very unusual flower, that is for sure. Yes, thank you, it's magnificent. I saw just this article just a few days ago, and so I'm like fascinated,

and so I'm really excited about getting connections with everybody on the article. And yeah, lord, what's very very interesting stuff. Hey, I appreciate I appreciate the call out there. Sounds like you're doing some some research out there online. Thank you. Thank you all. Have a wonderful Sunday. All right, all right you as well. Thank you. I appreciate that very much. You know, I It's been a while since I've talked about Starve Hope. But Star of Hope mission, it changes lives here in Houston.

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Star of Hope. We uh you know. We're here to answer your gardening questions and if you would like to discuss anything related to gardener, you can give me a call at seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four seven one three two and two fifty eight seventy four. I was visiting I think with you a little bit yesterday. I talked to somebody in

there. Here is their take. It's like some are just about killed a minute, did kill most of their lawn and their plants, and they're just like man, I it's hard getting the energy to want to get back out there and do something. Well, that's fine. I wish I could talk you in to getting out and doing something because it's good, it's fun, it's enjoyable, it's healthy, and seeing the visual change is mentally helping too. But if you need some help with this, just call pier Scapes.

That's what they do. I bet your irrigation system needs some work. Most systems are not efficient. And after trying to keep plants alive this summer, when the system it's not working right, no more, get it. Let them fix it. They can do that. Do you need a designed sprinkler system? Do you want led lighting for outside? Do you want to replant and redesign some landscapes? Call pier Scapes two eight one three seven zero fifty sixty Pierce Scapes dot COM's a website. Give him a call and say,

look, I need you to come in. We need to do some revamping here and I want plants that are more dropped tolerant than the ones I just lost. What can you suggest, take some pictures, sit down with them, walk through it. Fall is for planting. Now is for calling them and getting an appointment, getting in there, getting them working on it, so that by the time we reach the holidays, you've got something that is

beautiful happening in your landscape. And why not just go ahead and pull the plug and get that done because they can really turn it into a magical place. You can go online go to their pearscapes dot com and look at pictures of the kind of work that they do. You are listening to garden line the number seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one two ktr H. I mentioned that my new lawncare schedule is online at gardening with Skip dot com and you will see on there that fall is a big

month. Whether you apply organic or synthetic fertilizers. It is the month to get it done. If you need aeration. It's an important time to get all that important time to get trace minerals put out too. If you haven't done that this year, make sure and get that done as well. And asomite is a product. We talk about it a lot, but it is a mind trace mineral product. Asamite comes out of the ground and it is chock full of all kinds of things that you don't think about when you're fertilizing.

Like have you ever grabbed a bag of fertilizer and gone, I wonder if there's manganese and boron in this The answers probably no, But you need to think about that because all of these minerals are essential, and asomite provides those trace minerals that you need so much. Don't put it in the same hopper as your fertilizer because it's a different particle size. But do your fertilization and then follow with an application of azamite. It doesn't take a lot.

These are trace minerals. We're not putting a ton of it out there. But the fact that they're needed in small amounts does not at all change the fact that they are absolutely essential for plant health and growth. I was take care of some areas in my landscape and in my garden too, there will need a little bit of extra care. I've got a little automatic watering system in the garden, and boy do I ever love that. It just comes on. It's a hose end deal. It's not a little fancy clock on

the wall in the garage. It's just a hose end deal. But it's a timer and I can set it to water what days I want for the amount of time I want, And that just takes a lot of the difficulty out of that, and I think it makes it just makes it a lot easier for sure, to take care of your plants and keep them going.

I don't know, you're like me. You end up running around doing a lot of different things, and sometimes you all of a sudden go, oh my gosh, I haven't gotten around to do in that in my garden or in my lawn, and I need to Well, anything we can put a timer on and make it easy, that sure is a good idea. Well, let's head out to Magnolia and we're going to talk to Michael. Hello, Michael, good morning to Skip. How are you doing. I'm well,

what's up? Hi? Hey? I need to We have put in a pool in the backyard and the yard is just tora up bad, and I want to put down some Saint Augustine. But we have very as you I'm sure you know, very sandy soil. Okay, So I want to put down something I want to put in, and I want to top top dress or bring in some soiled that would be good for the Saint Augustine. Do I need to Can I just lay that on that on top of the sandy clay soil that I have now, or do I need to till it

into the eat of the sandy clay. If you can scratch the surface between the two a little bit, like a little bit of a light telling, maybe you put a lot of the new soil down, or a little of the new soil down, do a very light telling, and then put more of the new soil that breaks that sudden transition zone between the two. And if I were you, you're you're just down. You're not very far away

at all from nature's way, I'd give them a call. They have a number of different blends, from just regular top soil to other blends that I think they could kind of key one in on your specific site and what you might need to make that happen. Okay, we're talking about eventually doing about two acres with that. They do they have the bulk or is it? No? No, no, no no. They're very book, very book. And it may be that you're just pulling little compost down and mixing it

in too with the soil you have. But they they can help you with that. Uh, here's the phone. Let me give you a phone number for I forget about it. Nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety. Just just give John or Ian a call over there and just explain to them what you're trying to do, and say, I need to figure out the best way because I got a lot of area to cover here. So

that's going to be part of the factor. Okay, okay, Is this something that I would want to do during the fall in preparation for laying down the Sign Augustine in the spring? You you could, now, I probably would just wait until it's closer to when you're gonna lay down the Saint Augustine a little bit closer to that. That way, you know, you get one or rains gullywashing through there or whatever. It just gives you a low way to hedge your bet Hey, Michael, I'm gonna have to run it.

We're on a hard break here, but good luck with that, and thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, good Sunday morning. You are listening to garden Line and what are we doing. Well, we're talking about anything you're interested in regarding gardening that is important. And speaking of important, the most important plants in your landscape, in my

opinion, or your trees. And that's because it takes a long time to grow a big beautiful tree, and it doesn't take a long time to kill him a big beautiful tree by not caring for him properly, by letting weather do what weather did to us this summer that stresses trees, and the folks had affordable tree care. Martin spoon Moore, you know that he knows what he's doing. He've been doing this long time. His dad was in the business. And when you were looking at a tree that's turning brown, it

needs to come out of there. I mean it, very few times when a tree goes brown, is it going to bound track back, especially if it's going brown in the midst of summer. Essentially what's happening is everything's collapsing and the final thing you see is the browning. Well, Martin can get it out of there. You need to remove it. Maybe it just needs pruning. Maybe have trees that just need pruning. He can take care of

that. If you want to get on the pruning schedule, you need to call him up because you know, once we get into the winter season, it gets really busy with things like pruning, and someone like Martin that does a good job for a good price, they stay booked up. Tell him you're from you listen to guardline, so you get up at the front of the list. But seven one three, six, nine nine twenty six sixty

three seven one three, six nine nine two six six three. Have them come out and look, if you're going to do anything around your plants, especially around your trees after the summer we had, like let's say you need to trench or bring in so or take soil away or anything like that, have them come out first because you can do a lot to protect plants before the damage gets done. But after the damage it is very difficult to make

a huge difference. So avoid that by having someone that knows what they're talking about, like Martin, come out and help you with that. We're going to go out to Spring right now and talk to Rake. Hello, Reike, good morning, Skip. How are you doing? I'm well. How are you today? Well, I'm fine. My question apparently is going to

dovetail right into what you've just been talking about. I've noticed that probably sixty percent of the magnolia trees in the Spring area, whether they're in someone's yard or in an esplanade, are turning brown and dying. And I've got one that's nice and big, nice and healthy. I keep it well watered. But if there's some sort of blight that's affecting the trees, is there something that I can do to prevent it? You have already done it. This

is a water deal. This summer was long and hot and dry, and it really is coming after other brutal issues that these trees have gone through. And I just think I've noticed that all over town Magnolia's hit a point where they just flat ran out of adequate moisture to keep the plants cooled off, to keep them adequately hydrated in order to make it through the summer, and a lot of them just you're right, complete brown. Usually, no,

you're not that deeply rooted that it can reach the water table. Well, it's moderately deeply rooted. But the thing is, the deeper you get in the soil, the less oxygen there is and the less root activity you can have. And because of the length of the heat and the drought, those reserves even reserves down deeper or getting depleted, and you hit a point where

the tree cannot pump water fast enough. It's got limited water and it's doing its best to get it absorbed and up in the plant, but the demands are just way too high, and as a result, it crashes. And when you see a magnolia turn all brown, I don't see it coming back well, mind still nice and green. How often during the week should I

water? And for how long did you you know? If you water a tree once every ten days to even fourteen days during the summer, with a good soaking where you've wet the soil eight inches deep or more, that gets it through the regular watering like you do for your lawn. Don't do that for the trees. They don't need that. They need a good soaking and then drying out, and you've already done that and right now, to be honest, right we're we're kind of through this, maybe for another few weeks.

We kind of watch it a little bit with some rescues if it does rain, but in general, once we cool off and we get some rain, then that supply is going to be there to carry something like a healthy magnolia on through winter. Okay, well, I'll just keep watering it. And I appreciate your advice. Thank you so much. All right, thank you. I appreciate appreciate that call very much, very much. Hey, folks, done in Ciena Plantation, sun Creek Estates, Rochera, and Manville

all the way down there. CNA Mulch is your hometown mulch and rock supplier, but not just mulch and rock. Do you need the fertilizers I talk about on garden Line. They've got them. They have a wide variety of products. They have sand stone, gravel, beautiful beautiful stone on palettes. They'll deliver in bulk. You know, maybe you want a rose soil, maybe you want a compost, maybe you need some hardwood mulch. They also

have bag products. They're available at CNA Maltz Sienna mulch dot com. It's as easy as that, just north of Roschera near Highway six and two eighty eight on FM five twenty one. They're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sunday, and later this fall. I'll tell you about it more later, but I'm gonna be out there. I'm gonna make an appearance out there, and I hope you'll be able to come out and see me those years down in that part of the

countryside. Siena maltch, quality products, friendly service too, and always everything you need, everything you need to make things go. We're gonna head out now to Montgomery and talk to Dave. Hello, Dave, Yeah, high Skip. How you doing. I'm good. What's up? Hey? So I've been in this house about a year and I've had the lawn guy, which I think is using just really you know keeper malts, these malts twice but and I still get a tunnel weeds. So I'm about to upgrade and

you know, do a really good malt. My question is is it worst scraping all the old malts chat out there before I remolt season a quality malt. No, you just just put the put the new on top. That old stuff will eventually rot and uh you know, and I mean unless you had just like what they call a toxic mold, something that's made and the way they make it a well, let's I'm just going to drop that conversation. You're not going to have that kind of malts in the situation you just

described me. Just throw fresh mulch on top. Think of the forest floor, old stuff riding on the surface, new stuff dropped on top. That's exactly how to take care of your plants. Excellent. I was not looking forward to doing that. Yeah, we save you some work. Now you got time to find something else to do out there to have fun. Thanks all right, thank you, Dave. I appreciate that call very much. You know, Ace Hardware stores specialize in having what you need when you walk

in the door. Here's what I mean. Do you need a fertilizer? I heard this on garden Line. Do you have it? Of course they have it. Ace Hardware does that. They carry what we talk about. Do you need a fungicide and insecticide and herbicide? Do you need tools for your lawn and garden? Do you just want to do things outside that are that beautify and make it a more enjoyable outdoor area. You know, I was bragging on their barbecue equipment, and now that it's cooled off a little

bit, I'm getting outside on the patty. I'm doing some grilling and oh my gosh, they have everything you can imagine for that. Do you want to beautify that outdoor sitting area. It's all there. It's one stop shop. You walk in, you're gonna go home with all the things you need. And with thirty nine eight stores, it's not hard to find one in your area. Ace Hardware dot Com do their store locator and you'll see what

I'm talking about. There's gonna be more than one near you. And when you walk into ACE, you walk out with what you need to have. A beautiful lawn, a bountiful garden, a gorgeous landscape. It's all right there waiting for you. Well, it's time to take a break and we're gonna do just that. If you'd like to get on the boards. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Well, good morning, you're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one

two five eight seven four. I was just visiting, you know, with right up and spraying about a magnolia's and he's keeping his trees alive while a lot of them are not staying alive around town this this year. You know, watering a tree properly is important. And when you water, here's what you want to do. You want to focus your water on the area underneath the branch spread. So think of the sun straight up overhead, twelve o'clock high, and where's the shadow of a tree. That shadow tells you where

to water. You can water a little beyond that, but a focus your watering attention on that, because here's what we're doing. We are not trying to provide a tree with ever drop of water it might ever want. We're trying to provide enough of a rescue treatment to keep them healthy until rain returns. Trees are resilient, they have huge root systems, and so an extended drought one hundred degrees no rain, days and days and days and weeks on end, yes, it depletes the soil and we need to help them.

But other than that, don't think that trees need your water hose in order to stay alive. They don't. They do just fine on the rainfall we get here. It's just the exception. And when we need to water a tree, you're not going to find a better device than that than the tree hugger sprinkler. And the reason I like them. You put them on a hose and it goes up to your tree and he kind of goes around the

tree. There's like three sizes. There's a seven eleven inch and a fifteen inch size, and you can turn them on a little bit and water just that new planted trees root ball just barely have them come on. To do that. You can turn them on, crank them all the way up, and you can water a very large area. But it's a circular area around the trunk and outward from the trunk, not so much right there, but

outward that gives the soaking we need. And you may run it a while, have it go off and soak, run it a while, have it go off, and so it's easy to do. But tree hugger is a way to do it. And it's insurance. I know. The name says tree hugger. It's also a rose bush hugger. It's anything you want to plant and put that thing around any kind of woody ornamental rose, shrubs, trees. It'll take care of them, and it is a good way to save not just keep the plant alive, but to help it thrive, because

that's the goal. Right. But we're gonna head out to College Station now and talk to Brenda. Wello, Brenda high Skip, how can we help? I have some three I have three mature post oaks, okay, in a native area behind my house. It is it's a city drainage easement, but they've left it native and wooded, and all of a sudden, I noticed that the leaves on all three trees, almost at the same time, are yellowing and kind of turning brown, and they're they're dropping. Yeah,

So am I losing these trees? Or is it early leaf drout? Maybe? Well, I'm afraid that you may be losing them, but I'm not making a call that. Okay, let's give up that they're done just yet. Post Oaks are resilient trees. They live in the gravelly post oak belt that goes north and south from don at Quero all the way up you know, way past north of College Station. And they do well except when they

get into stress, they have problems. And when we you know, It's fortunate are not in a landscape because that's where we create problems for post oaks. But out in the wild like that. You'll notice driving around town a lot of post oaks up in the Bryan College Station area have died this year. They just turn brown. And here's what's happening. The tree is resilient, but it hits a point where it gets weakened to a point where it

essentially just collapses. And it seems to happen overnight, but it actually takes longer than that for it to happen. But when you see the browning, that's usually not a good sign. Now, the fact that yours are turning yellowing and some browning, we've got some cool rains that have come through. I suspect you had rain at your spot right recently in the last couple of weeks. We did. We got about an inch and a half last week, and that is all that they need for now. Don't don't go well,

they're in a natural area. You're not going to water them anyway. But if we can just get another rain like that in a few weeks, they'll go on into winter. And if they're gonna come out, you'll know it in the spring. If you don't see them in the spring come out, then than I would make the call. They're probably a lost tree. Okay, does I've noticed they do have some acorns on them? Is that a good sign? Or is it? Does? It not matter? I know, it's just part of the life cycle on all of our oaks.

And uh, you know that's it's neither here nor there. Okay, just part of part of their cycle. But yeah, that they're they're a nice tree. It's just they're persnicketty. There's a reason why you you will not go into any garden center and find a posto tree for sale that just that doesn't exist. Okay, So I just need to hope for a flowering spring and rain here. Yeah, I hope that the hope the damage and stress was not too great and then it can bounce back. I just watching so

many die up through that whole region this summer. It's uh, it's a wait and see in my opinion. Okay, all right, thanks for the call, and good luck with that. Good luck with that tree. I hope. I hope that turns out really well for you, you know, for your lawns out there. It's time for fall fertilizing. October is the month to get that done. And the sooner you do it in October,

the better off you are. And here's why it gets. We've got a bunch of months of really wonderful mal winter weather that your grass will love coming up. But then when we get into November and December, grassroots are just essentially stopping their growth. They're shutting down. It's cool at the days are

shore temperatures are cooler, and it's not moving. Get the fertilizer on now, Get it on early October and have the most time possible for it to do the most good building up that cool season resilience and Nelson Plant Foods carbo load does just that. It's a ten ten twenty, so it's got a good third number that's potassium, and that's important for drought stress. It's important for winter heartiness, and it's important for building up the energy and your grass

plant so that coming out in spring it comes out strong. It's already weak. We don't need to let it get weaker. We need to give it that nutrition and carbo load ten ten twenty will do just at It also has a pre emergent herbicide in it. So if you get it on a little earlier because it's got that product, you can make sure and be ahead of the weeds that are going to be germinating in October as well. But don't delay. Just look for carbo load ten ten twenty for your lawn. We're

discussing a number of different things today. A lot of it still is related to the elephant in the room, which was the brutal summer we just went through. But I just want to remind you that now's a great time to put in fall color. You know, if you've got some warm season plants. We have a good ways to go before we expect to see a frost here in the Greater Houston area, and you can go ahead and get some of those in too, and then continue to enjoy those. It's a good

time to be able to do that. And where do you get Where do you get plants? Now? If you're not in Kingwood, You've got two places. You've got Kingwood Garden Center and you have Warren's Southern Gardens. I just love visiting both of them. I mean, excellent selection, excellent supply. The gift shops are wonderful. Kingwood especially just got a Kingwood Garden Centers gift shop just amazing, and Warren's has their own gift shop as well.

You know, it's just easy to go to places like that because you have trained staff who know what they're doing. They guide you, they answer your questions, they point you to the plants that you need to do their best, and you just can't do better than that. And I would check them out. Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood both went through their interview, interview their inventory. A couple of weeks ago. They open back up. I think

it's last Sunday. They already open again and they are going full steam ahead. While you're there, pick up soil. Member, don't buy a plant without buying some soil to make it survive and thrive. As a matter of fact, always get a good quality soil. Maybe we need a Texas law. Talked about this before. If you're going to buy green stuff, you have to also buy brown stuff. It's just it's the law. It's kind of like can't drive by BUCkies without pulling over. That's the Texas law.

By the way, I don't if you need that, but you gotta buy the brown stuff when you buy the green stuff. Why because the brown stuff makes the green stuff do what you bought it for. When you buy that little plant, you're you're imagining blooms, you're imagining foliage, color, you're imagining fruit, You're whatever you're buying the plant for. That's your mind's eye picture, that's your dream. The brown stuff makes it happen. The compost,

the leafmo compost, the mixes like a rosemegs or whatever. That's the secret sauce, so that the beautiful plants do what you wanted to do. This is used Radio seven ktr H Houston Live Everywhere with Ire Avenue. Now the latest news, weather, from the gallery Furniture Made in America's studios. Details on why. But we do have a complete road closure right now. This is the Nicknoos Network, eight o'clock on news Radio seven forty kat r

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I'm Nicky Courtney on Houston's news, weather and traffic station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rickards Smell. Just watch him as Woody Good, good morning, Good morning on a beautiful Sunday morning. Oh my gosh, look outside, the sun is shining, little breeze blowing, clear skies. Gonna be a good days, Gonna

be a very good day. You know. We uh when it comes to gardening, our our desire is to have beauty, is to enjoy ourselves in the process. Our desire is to create that kind of setting that we just want to live in. I mean, know, it's a beautiful lawn, it's a beautiful landscape, it's outdoor sitting areas, it's being out in the garden, it's picking fresh produce, it's it's a thousand things all the way

into beautiful house. Plants to decorate the indoors part of the house. And we can provide that kind of success whenever we purchase plants that are made to do well here. And that's what Ana Plants and Produce sells if you go up to the Montgomery area Lake Conro area, that's where ANA is. They're just on the east side of Montgomery, right up there on Highway one oh five, and they serve that whole area. And boy, you're fortunate if

you live anywhere around Lake Conro or Montgomery or Conro itself. An A Plants and Produce is going to have that kind of selection. They're going to sell things that do bo here right now. They're Boy, they're new selection of a bunch of moms coming in up there. Just looks great. And I think they really specialize. In addition to ten bazillion kinds of plants and quality staff that can help you, I think they really specialize in bling you.

If you're looking for a gazebo and arch atopiary kind of thing. If you're looking for decorations, oh my gosh, there their fall decorations are unbelievable. It's going to take you a while just to go through and seble a and a plant to produce. Well worth a visit. Hey, that's a good thing to do. And get out there and do this afternoon. They're open seven days a week from nine to five, go out to A and A plants and produce right on the east side of Montgomery. Heay, Well,

let's step back to the phones now. Our phone numbers nine, seven nine, excuse me, seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. We're going to go to the woodlands and talk to Veronica. Hey, Veronica, good morning. I have a question about grass. We have a large area that needs to be resided, like fourteen tallots of sides, so I don't want to go that route. I've heard that there are some grass seeds that will take and I'd

like to know your thoughts on which seed and when to plant. Okay. Is this a very very bright sun area or is it partially shaded or what it's partially shaded? Okay. The grass that I would say you could plant from seed would be the dwarf bermuda grasses. There are a few types. So there's one called Sahara that's a bermuda that can be seated, Saint Augustine, no, Zoisia no, and so it's just a bermuda. But bermuda doesn't like the shade. It doesn't do well doesn't make density in the shade.

Also, Bermuda is an invader of flower beds, and so that's one that I'm not real crazy about for that reason. So that takes us back to having to choose sodding. If you're trying to make the dollar go a little further, you can cut side chunk side blocks up and plant them in strips about a foot apart and eventually get coverage over that area through the course of a season. That's a lot of labor and then you're dealing with the

weeds and between the strips in the meantime. But if you're trying to go from the expense of a full sidding and maybe looking at seating, that side strips would be kind of an intermediate option. So if you do go bermia, what time of years should you plant that? You want to wait until it really warms up, and so I would say probably about mid April I

would I would start putting those out. These are little tiny seeds. They're gonna come up and they're gonna be weeds around them and rain splashing and washing soil and things, so you kind of have to work with them a little bit. It may take more than one planting. I've seen people plant and they get a gully washer and all the seed washes down into one spot, and so you've got to go replant those other spots. So that's just part of the touch and go of the seeding process. Okay, great, thank

you, all right, good luck with that. Have fun up there in the woodlands with that long If you are out in mont Bellevue, you are fortunate because you have one of our best feed stores we've got around the area, and that is Texas Feed Stop. Texas Feedstop is on north on Highway one forty six, just north of I ten, just a few minutes north of I ten one one forty six in mont Bellevue. So if you're on in Baytown, Texas Feed Stop is still your hometown feed store. They're not

very far away. You will not find better customer service than Brian and Hope Rhodes make sure happens at their store, the Texas Feed Stop. They carry the bags out for you. They have what you need. You walk in there and it's not like, well, we don't have any more of those. They stock all the fertilizers we talk about, and they stock soil mixes. They like heirloom for example. They've got that on hand there. Mosquito dunks that I brag about a lot of other things. Do you need pest

control, disease control, weed control, They've got it. You can walk into Texas Feed Stop and you head home and you've got what you need to have the most beautiful lawn that you could have, or a garden if that's what you'd like to do. Again, just a few minutes north of Ytown on Highway one forty six, Texas Feed Stop out there in mont Bellevue, serving that whole region. We're gonna go now up to north Shore and we're gonna talk to Donnie. Hello, Donnie, Hello, Damn miss Skip,

good morning morning. Let then to your show. Got streat things you just putting out there? Being on the north short side, that Texas Feed Stop would probably be the closest uh feet store to me or Kingwood probably, so yeah, I'd have to get a map out to see which is closer to you. But yeah, I think I think Texas Feed Stop not too far away. What are you looking for? Okay? But several things. I've got a large area of grass that have turned brown between my house and the

neighbor's house. Okay, I have a sprinkler system, but I've been doing more water than the neighbor, and I've been raking dead grass, trying to get some sunshine in there and let those uh Saint Augustine roots started to spread again. I see little patches coming up. So am I going the right way with that? Yes? If you've got living spriggs, then we can get those things healthy and they'll cover back over for you next spring when it

warms up and the grass really starts growing right now. You just want them to go into winter as strong as they can, and you need to get a good fall fertilizer for that. That's one that has a lower first number than we've been fertilizing with all through the summer, but it's got a good third number amount in it. And there's a lot of good products you know,

that are out there for that. Whether you gardener, I don't know if you gardener organically or synthetic or whatever, but there are options no matter what for that. Okay, Yeah, Well, I used to work for an agricultural chemical company that produce dack and nail. Huh bravo, yep arsenates and back all stuff for golf courses and okay, ornament ornament plants and stuff like that, but they are no longer in business. Okay, well,

you know, I was just looking at them. Matt Bellevuees is probably your closest place to go out there for that if you want to head out that direction out I ten you were saying Kingwood versus Mont Bellevue. Mont Bevue be a little bit closer for you. The Texas feed Stop, Texas feed stop out of Mont Bellevue. Yeah, if you're if you're looking for fertilizers that they're gonna have them, and just ask them for their fall fertilizers. They've

got. They've got more than one option for you. What about plants for the fall to those, they carry a few stock of some vegetable plants usually out front. Just give him a call and check them out and see they probably have some on stock there for it. They're pretty good about carrying that. Okay, all right. I've heard several people talking about the trees, the leaves turning brown. Yeah, yeah, branches brown falling down. Yeah. You say the best thing for that is the water around the shaded area

of the tree. Yeah, underneath the branch bread. Hey, Donny, I am I'm pushing past a little break here if you want to hang on and keep this going otherwise, I do appreciate your call. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give me all and we will talk to you when we come back. All right, Good Sunday morning, on a great day to be outside, for sure. I hope this afternoon you're planning on getting out and getting a little bit of activities

done around the yard, maybe perhaps visiting a few garden centers. Hey, if you're out in the kingwod if you're out in the Richmond area, you want to swing by and check out in Chanted Gardens. In Chanted Gardens is the garden center that is. You're in Richmond, going up toward Katie on Highway three fifty nine FM three fifty nine. They are on the Katie Full Shure side of Richmond, and boy, oh boy, if you go there, you will see why I am always bragging about in Channic Gardens. It

is a beautiful place. It is a just absolutely chock full of everything you need for your plants, from the products that help the plant grow, like your lawn fertilizers to a huge variety of plants. I mean we're talking about everything from flowers and herbs and fruit trees and house plants and shrubs and vegetables and just on and on and on down the line. I mean, it never stops. I was looking the other day. They even had a nice,

really nice selection of some beautiful herbs out there. They got some great succulents that they brought in, and then the pumpkin patch has arrived. Oh, really cool collection of all that fall decorating stuff that you have and that you're interested in. Hey, and Chanted Gardens is in chant The website is Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the one we're talking about. Monday through Saturday eight am to five pm. Sunday ten am to four pm. So

a good afternoon. We've ordered great weather for you, so go ahead and head out there and check them out, and you will be all set up for taking care of your lawn, for getting your fall plantings done this fall. We're gonna head out now to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hello, Doris, good morning, how are you. I'm well, what's up with you today? I'm thinking about putting barricade out. Okay, what setting

do I use on my scutspraighter you need to chang? Okay, go ahead, and also do I water it in afterwards or just wait until the frame or system comes on. Okay, So you follow the label, flip the bag over, whatever kind of information it gives you on setting. Barricade is a pretty small sized particle, so you're going to have your setting down a

little bit tighter where it's not putting out so much. If in doubt, whenever you're applying anything, whether it's something like barricade or a fertilizer, I always go a little bit less in the setting, and that way, as you go over your lawn, you don't realize, oh my gosh, I ran out and I've double dosed, you know, because I had it open too much. If you have a little lecture, then you can come back

crossways across the lawn and apply the second half of it. But I always go a little bit light, just to be sure, because on something like barricade, you want to get it out at the right rate, but not double or triple the rate. Okay, that's very important. Now as far as watering it indoors, you can water it in that very same day. Or if you wanted to sit there and you know it's gonna rain todays from

now, that's fine. There's no it'll be fine just sitting there. But it does need about a half inch of water to get it down in the soil so that it does what you're wanting it to do. And that's prevent the October weeed germination of cool season weeds. Okay, what about the brown Banks fall fertilizer. Okay, the fall fertilizer fall Fall special is going to be a perfect blend for the health of your of your grass plant going into

winter. We need to strengthen our plants and get them ready for winter so they're hardier. But also when I say our plants, I'm about our turf plants. The springtime when it comes out is so much better. If you do the fall fertilization now and again look at the bag, and then with whatever kind of spreader you have, look at the bag and follow that, and again, if in doubt, go make the opening a little smaller because you can always come back over again cross ways and make sure you get it

out evenly. Okay, yep, that to do it all right. We'll have fun out there in Austin. Keunty. That's a beautiful country you're living in out there. Yes, it is all right. Thank you for the coldorus. Bye bye. The quality home products, folks, they are the way to buy a Genera generator and Generac as a leader, I mean gender X automatic stand by generator. It sits out there outside like your your central area unit for example. It hooks up to gas and liquid propein or natural

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Now that's the time to do that. You're listening to garden Line and our phone number is seven one three, two one two five eight seven four seven one three two and two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, if you are looking to get your lawn rejuvenated and you would like a quality natural product that gets that done, Microlife Fertilizer has got you covered. Microlife has a wide variety of options for their fertilizers and their other products that are good for the

lawn. But the two that I would focus on right now is the microlife brown patch. That's a five one three fertilized that's a good one to put down in the fall, and in addition to providing the nutrient, it provides a lot of microbes, and microbes help protect our plants. Now, the other thing that I would do with that is the bioinoculant that's kind of a purplish violet colored bag. The bioinoculant is only put out at about ten pounds

per thousand square feet because we're not fertilinging with it. We are innoculating the plant surfaces with microbial activity. And the goal is to have those surfaces filled with good microbes so that when a bad microbe would land to cause a plant disease, you have a very hostile environment there for them. And plus there are a lot of good microbes that just directly fight diseases and issues. But

let's make it simple. Microlife brown patch that is a orange dark orange bag five one three with Microlife bioinoculant, the violet colored bag and those two together, water them in really well and get that done. Now, by the way I would, I would do it right away. I mean, you could wait until October, or you could just just go do it right now, because we want to get those down. We want to start releasing their nutrients, and we want them to be in place helping with the lawn health

before the arrival of the brown patch which is coming this fall. Microlife Fertilizer dot com you can find them all over town. Not difficult at all to find Microlife fertilizer products. I had a call, you know, a little bit earlier from up in College Stationary and it just reminded me that my favorite feed store up in that whole region is the Grimes County Feed. They're out in Carlos on Highway thirty. I like, if you're in College Station you

head out, head out Highway thirty towards Carlos. They're about two miles west of FM two forty four. Now. The Roy family has been operating this store and they're doing an excellent job of it. They carry the fertilizers we brag on here. You're going to get your tree hugger sprinklers there by the way too. They're going to have the mosquito dunks there too. They have a lot of things. Of course, it's a feed store. You've got feed for your dogs, your cats, quality feed, you've got livestock feed

products, and you've got things to take care of your pond. Maybe you need to deal with weeds in the pond or fish food or something. You know, they do fish stocking twice a quarter throughout through the Grimes County feed out there as well. Not going to do better than that. So all you folks that are listening out in that part of the woods, Iola and beat Eyes and Roans, Prairie and Richards. If you're in Kingwood Oak or king Oaks, or if you're in Mere Woods subdivision, this is your hometown

feed stores just right around the corner. And the stuff you need to have a beautiful lawn and to keep your trees healthy is all there waiting on you. Let's set out to Clear Lake. Now we're gonna talk to Lane. Hello, Lane, Hi, good morning. Get. I was wondering if I can use try as a side insect chiller for lawns and landscapes. You can then put I can right now? You can't, well you can if there's an insect you're going after right now? Are right not full of fire

ants? Are we talking about fire ants? Yeah. Now then now it's all over. Okay, well fire rance, yeah, it'll it'll control those. I would if it was fireants, I would go with a bait instead of that. Try the triside you mentioned is a is an insecticide, a contact insecticide. I would get a good fire ant bait and put out at the label rate H and that will take care of about eighty or ninety percent of the mounds. And then if some are missed, you can just go

after those with the other insecticide. Okay. There's not any time of the year you use this. Uh, fall is the best time to fight fire ants, but we fight them pretty much year round, but fall is especially important going into winter. So this morning, next month important times to get the fire at control done before it gets too cold, okay, okay, and then then put down the feed in the fertilizers for the ask. Yes,

well you can do. Yeah, you don't mix. Don't mix fire at bait with fertilizer in a hopper, but you can put them both on the same day. I would water in the fertilizer and then put out the fire at bait. Okay, okay, great, thank you, thank you. Lane. I appreciate that call. Hey, you're listening to garden Line and we're gonna take a little break here. We'll be right back. Our phone number if you'd like Josh to get you up on the board, so

you'll be first up when we come back to talk. That is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two ktr eight. Good Sunday morning. It is a great day outside and boy, I hope this afternoon you'll get outside and do a little bit to take your lawn to the next level, right. I mean, we definitely need to be doing that right now. And one of the things that our lawns will really benefit from at this point in time after that brutal summer is a good

deep tying aeration with a compost top dressing. Deep tin aeration punches holes through the hard clay soil or hopefully it's moist in order for the aeration to work well, but it'll get some holes down in there in the clay to provide oxygen for the roots system, and that's important for grasses to thrive in our

area. Now. Secondly, following it with the top dressing of composts that is going to give you the organic matter down in those holes as well as on the surface, and it just is a win win When you fertilize, someone is going to move down in those holes as well as you wash that fertilizer into the soil, and the lawn just gets better and better. And who does that well? Greenpro does that. You can go to greenpro dot net. Greenpro's prices start at five ninety nine plus sales tax depending on the

size and the location of your property. But they come in and they do it right. Go to greenpro dot net. Greenpro dot net. You'll see a little video on there of the kind of work that they do with their compost top dressing. It is probably the single best thing you can do to culturally bring your lawn back out of what we just went through and to if it the best chance it can for surviving. I would get that done soon, sooner rather than later, and then follow it up with your good fall

fall application of fertilizer that we've been talking about. Either way you go, you're it's gonna be a win win for your long with greenbro. I'm gonna go out now to Katie and I'm gonna talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn, Good morning, skipod Morning, Good morning. I've questioned for you. I have a cottage stall house that sits off the ground. I had some azelias planted around the base of the house, on the sides of the house to keep from being able to look under the house. The heat killed him.

They were old, They're probably about twenty three twenty five plus years old, and they finally died out. I would like to replace those. Could you give me some recommendations on some types of shrubs I can plant around the house, okay, to replace those. I'm assuming you're you're inferring to me that you would rather not go back with azalias. Is that I love those values. But if you had something else that you could recommend another okay,

point, that would be great too. I would like to do some options if possible. Tell me about the sunlight in that spot. Is it dappled, is it deep shade? Is it pretty bright? What do you see? It's pretty bright? Okay? Well, we have a number of different plants. There is a there's one called Chinese witch hazel. It has a burgundy maroonish kind of foliage color, real pretty in the spring. It has a little shaggy hot pink blooms. They're very unusual looking. You can go

online and search for it. You want to check the varieties where you go shopping and make sure you're getting a dwarf one. They can get quite cable in time, but there are some that stay a little smaller and then you just keep them sheared and they look pretty good. So if you've got decent light, they will bloom for you and look good there. If it's a little too shady for them, you would probably have to go a different direction. But there are some hollows that can grow down lower in the shade.

They're just an evergreen shrub and so you know, there's not necessarily blooms or anything on those, But hollies will be another good option for that as well. Great, and they will take the winner, the cold winner, all of those will take the winner. Yes, that's beautiful. Great, Okay, that's great, all right, thank you, skip good luck out there, and Katie with getting that all spruced up around the house out there.

Yeah, you're listening to garden Line. And our number, by the way is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four yesterday, I was out and about around town and I stopped by RCW Nurseries and I always like to stop into our CW

because they have a great supply of all kinds of things. I would just wandering through, and you know, Henry thought about this before, but the big beautiful shade trees all around, and just wandering through and enjoying the shade, you know, as of ninety five degrees yesterday to a little on the warm side, and it was just a pleasure being out there and enjoying that

and looking at their trees. It reminded me a lot of folks are wanting to get trees and shrubs planted this fall, and r CW has an outstanding selection. They grow their own trees up in Plantersville on their farm up there. And I mean, if you need a tree and you need one that grows well here, an adapted species for our area, for our soils, r CW will get you set up on that. They got the supplies you need to go with your tree, you know, the roots, stimulators and

other things that you might want to use. As you're getting that established, they can come out and plant it for you. You can plant it yourself. Just be careful if you get very big root ball that your caropractor's kids are going to have a free ride through college based on your numbers. So either hard them to come out and do it, or do it yourself. Either way, do it right. They'll tell you how to do it. They give you the right kinds of plants list to choose from, and they

help you with that. R c W Nurseries dot Com. Now all the bling of fall is there all you know. I was looking at their their herbs or perennials or flowers and shrubs and everything. They've got it all there. They carry the products to the fertilizers. I recommend they're there at at our CW Nurseries again Tambo Parkway which is two forty nine where it comes into

Beltway eight. Very much worth a stop. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you haven't done a soil test in a while, you ought to do that, because a soil test tells you what's already there in your soil, so you can fertilize accordingly. Maybe there's a nutrient that is way too high or way too low. And our standard recommendations don't always

fit the bill perfectly in every time. If you know that from a soil test, then you can fix it accordingly. And one thing I was visiting with Bob out in Southwest Fertilizer while back. He's got a soil probe that he loans out and that is so helpful. Trying to get a good lawn soil test without a soil probe is a little bit of a challenge to do. But with a soil probe, you push it in. It takes a core of soil out. You put a bunch of them in a bucket,

mix it up and send it to the lab. And then when you come back, take Bob your sample results and say here's what it said, and he will pair it with the perfect fertilizer for that. Now at Southwest they have everything that you need. If they don't have it, you don't need it. That's how I like to refer to it, because when it comes to fertilizers and secticides, pesticides, herbicide, if you're an organic gardener, you want organic, they've got it. They've got the best selection in town

of organic. Southwest fertilizer dot com and there, as the name implies, on the southwest side of town, that is near the corner of Bissonette and Renwick. Everything you need is there at Southwest Fertilizer. I need to get out and do some salted I haven't soil tested my yard in about three years. It's time to get back out there and to do that so I can fertilize a little bit more accurately. When I go about it again, the number seven one three, two one two five eight seven four seven one three

two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Chashi call, He'll get you on the board. You will be first up when we come right back. Good Sunday morning, folks. You are listening to Garden Line, and that is what we're all about here. We are here to help you recover from this summer. If your lawn is struggling, if your trees are struggling, if you've lost inspiration, and I know some people do, I get it. I mean it was a brutal one to walk through. The good news

is fall is here. We officially hit the first day of fall. It is only ninety five degrees yesterday. You know, I said when it dropped five belies degrees below one hundred. That's call fall here in Texas, and we're going to run with it. Well, it's gonna get cooler and cooler as times go on. Our plants are going to get happier and happier as we take care of them. I just want to remind you that don't wait until the inspiration bug re arrives. Act. Now. Now's the time.

Now's the time to get your soil ready. Now is the time to do all the things we do to have success. And timing is important because think about this. Let's say it was one hundred and five outside right now, that would not change the fact. Then in order to have a vegetable crop, get in and get out and get planted and do the things it needs

to do. It has to be done right. So the weather may not respect the calendar, but when we look at when the first frost is going to occur, when we look at the temperature changes that are happening and things like that, we have to honor that and respect that. And fall is for planting, and so get ready, get ready. Now, now's the time. You know, the folks get quality feed. Kin and Chris that they have got a excellent selection of new vegetables in a whole bunch of new

transplants have come in. They also have an unbelievable selection of garden seeds. So if you want to you're into growing in your own food, which I hope you are, but you're not going to eat any healthier than that. They've got a wide variety of heirloom seeds that they carry there, and so

this is the time to go. I mean, it's it. We're planting cool season crops like Broklyn cabbage, cauliflower, collars, corabi, spinach seasons, lettuce seasons coming up here, carrots and all the different things you would want to grow for fun and for health in your garden. They've got it right there. A Quality Feed they by the way, the website is quality

feed coo dot com. They're on eighteenth at eighteen thirteen Luzon Streets, near the intersection of Equipment and Illusion and they're open today, by the way, from eleven thirty to four. A good time to get out. Say hey to the folks. Ken and Chris they're at Quality Feed. While you're there, pick up the fertilizers I've been talking about all day and every week that I talk about. Pick up some of the quality soil mixes that we brag on. Here Ken has them. They've got them in stock right there at

Quality feed. If you need anything for pest control, weed controlled, diseases things, they've got that as well. It's just an easy one stop shop. But please do consider doing a vegetable garden this fall. Fall is the best season in the world for growing vegetables. I love it, absolutely, just love it. You're listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two and two five eight seven four, and I hope you will give us a call talk

about things that might be of interest to you. One of the things we talk about a lot right this season of the year is how to have a beautiful lawn. What do you need to do to your lawn? The folks at Nitrofoss have come up with a really good one two three step system. It's the Texas three step. What is the Texas three step? Well number one. It's a fertilizer four fall designed for fall, to designed for our

soils, designed for our lawns. It's called nitrophosphall special and the nitrofosphall special will provide some phosphate for the root development and growth. It'll also provide the very important potassium along with a lower amount of nitrogen, which is what you want for fall, so that the plants get stronger and stronger going into winter and come out stronger in the spring. This is the secret sauce, folks.

It's a secret sauce to having healthy plants. When you put potassium in a plant along with some nitrogen, winter heartiness goes up, drought tolerance goes up. Potassium has a critical role in both of those. Switch out from your summer fertilizers do the fall special. Now that step one, step two nitrofhosp barricade that is a pre emergent weed control. Your lawn may be a little thinner because of what it just went through. When sunlight hits a soil

nature plants of weed. Barricade put down and watered in creates a barrier on the soil ser and the weeds cannot germinate and establish. Follow the label carefully on how much to apply, on how to apply it, and on how to water it in. Those are all three very very important if you want success. And then third step is the Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide. Eagle is a systemic protectant. It's a curative fungicide as well. We've got large patch

brown patch season. It's coming. It will get here when we get a coal front and low cooler temperatures. You're gonna see the big brown circles before they appear. Get that eagle down. It is best to use before you see the circles, and so early October is a good time to do that. One two, three steps the Texas three step Nitrofoss Fall Special, Nitrofuss Barricade, Nitrofus Eagle turf grab one of each three when you're out shopping and where do you get it? Well, Cyperus Ace has it, fish Or's

Hardware and Laport has it. Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond area. Has it easy to find nitrofus products in our area. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, I want to remind you that next Saturday, please write this down on your calendar. This is one heck of a shindig you do not want to miss. I'm going to be out at Nature's Way. Nature's Way Resources is up forty five. Like you're going to Conro

about where fourteen eighty eight comes in. You just turn right across the railroad tracks and you're Nature's Way. And Nature's Way is the home of all kinds of great products for your soil. Rose soil. We're talking about soils like a fungal compost like just you name it. They have it composts and other mixes. That's what they specialize in. But on next Saturday they're going to

have the Fall Garden Festival, and this is a big deal. I'm going to be out there answering your gardening questions, visiting with You'd always love to meet the folks from different areas. So if you're up in the Conro direction, please come out for sure out there to Nature's Way. They're gonna have Latin food, They're gonna have live music, they're gonna have local vendors, they're gonna have adulpt beverages. I told you it was a shin dig for

kids. There's gonna be a scavenger hunt. They're gonna have a morning class at nine am before I get out there creating and enchanting fairy gardens. I'll be out there from eleven thirty till one thirty. I hope you'll come out. Hey, here's a phone number for more information. Nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety This is free. It's a free event. Check out their native plants too when

you're out there that They just keep making that area even better. Let's head out to Porter now and we're gonna talk to Margie. Hello, Margie. Oo, how are you this morning? Well, I'm good. I'm good. I'm officially calling it fall, so I'm all excited. Yes, long as the temperatures would go down some, it would be nice. That's coming next week. I put in there, Okay, I have a highbiscus and I was out putting water in the I have it in a pot putting water

in. It's morning. I noticed I have some ants in there. I have a bag of soil mender. It's a white like powder stuff that starts with DA. Don't ask me to pronounce it, okay, And and it has earth in it too. Can I put some of that nibiscus plan or would that hurt it? It won't hurt it. I don't know how much good it'll do for the for the insects, dietemacious earth. Think of it this way. It's like broken It's like broken glass shards that are real time

like a dust like material. So when insects walk through it, it gets caught in the joints, you know, of their arms, their legs and their bodies, right, and it laceerates and cuts and causes fluid to leak out. So it's kind of a it's like you walking barefoot through glass, is what it amounts to for the insects. Okay, so it helps, but it's not you know, if you're trying to control answers other ways to do it? Are these fire ants any chances? No? They are a

little small looks like black ants. I stepped in time yesterday and oh they do Okay, Well, yes, I don't know. I might. I might just try. Another option would just be to drench them with an insecticide through that area. If they're in the pot, that might be okay. That might betide anything that's labeled for killing ants. There's a lot of products out there. It just depends on, you know, the kinds of things you want to use. I wish I could determine for sure if they're fire

ants or not. It doesn't sound like they are. But like I say, these are small little ants, okay, and they do? Why all right? Well try the datamasia serf. See if that runs them off first. That would be the simplest, least toxic product. Hey, I'm having to hit a break. It's time for the new the top of the hour news. But thank you, Margie, good luck. We Oh, I have one. I have one more question. Hang on until we come. I'll thank you our phone number seven one three two and two fifty eight seventy

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folks. It is a beautiful day out there, and we have arrived at the doorstep of fall. It is time to begin doing all the things we need to do to a get our struggling plants back on their feet. And b put in new things because fall is the best planting season of the year. Do you have some shrubs that just couldn't take the sun where you had them planted, Maybe they need to be moved to the shade. Fall is a good time to do that. I would do that in early November

probably, it's about the best time to make a move like that. Maybe you've got an area that a shrub that needs more sun, or maybe you want to replace a shrub something that's a little more drought resilient. Fall fall, fall, it's a time to do it. We are on the doorstep of fall, and it's time to be talking about a lot of things like that. Absolutely important, speaking of important things to talk about when it comes

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Can you trim back? You can? It's a summer bloomer. But when you trim a plant and the mild weather we're going to have the next few weeks, it's going to try to regrow, and that regrowth is going to be very cold tender when the first hard freeze comes. So I would wait and do that trimming at the end of winter if you could. And yeah, I still have some bloom a couple of blooms still on it. So that's right. That's a beautiful plant for those that haven't seen. Oh,

I love it. Yeah, brune felsy with the way that the reasonings call that for the other folks listening is the flowers change each day. That's why they call it yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It looks a little different each day it does. And I have one more question on fertilization, so both by brown patch. I put humates down too before I put that down or not? Yes, you can, you sure can. I would. I would consider their bioinoculant product. It's kind of a violet colored bag.

It's used at a very low rate, just ten pounds per thousand square feet, but it has a lot of the microbial activity to the surface out there of the plants, because we're about to hit head into the season where things like large patch or brown patch can really be a problem. So that's okay. They're all good. You could use them all at the same time if you want. They do different things. Oh, I can use that bio

and I can use hummates and the brown patch too. Yes, the humans are going to get down, they're going to overtime as you do humates year after year and your soil, you're building and improving the soil. Now the brown patch is going to have microubs in it, but it's also going to have the nutrients for fall that we put down. And then the bio as you said, bio stuff, the bio monoculant. That's okay, that's okay. Bio stuff is just good. We could abbreviate it, but that would

get a little weird on a Sunday. So yeah, the bios would. The bio stuff is an innoculant, so that's a different purpose. But those are all good products. Uh yeah, But I don't want to put in I don't want to put all three in the spread or at the same time. I need to do one at a time. But I can do it

all on one day, absolutely. Yeah. Because in a spreader, whether it's insexticide, fungicide, herbicides, aisam, whatever you are, fertilizers, whatever you put down, it's had different particle sizes, so each application needs to be set for its own particle sizes. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, that's what I need, so I'll probably put down pre emergent first and get that over with, and I can do it anytime in October,

right, I would do it earlier in October. You, well, I'm going to try because I'm gonna be gone the first two weekends in October. Okay, well you could, you could. I mean, you could do it at the end of before you go for the first two weekends. But your way up in the northern hinterlands of Porter, so fall comes a tad bit earlier than it does for folks down. Let's say, really, okay, I know I'm giving you a hard time. Seriously, don't delay in

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in just a moment. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four. We'll be right back and when we do, we'll get to your calls. Plus, I got a couple of the things I want to add today as we wind up on last segment of the weekend, the last hour of the weekend here on guarden Line. Well, good morning. You're listening to garden Line, and we're having a good time today because summer is past and we are celebrating the fact that all that miserable is gone.

Forget the fact that it's in the nineties today. We're okay, we're on our way down. We're heading in the right direction, and it is time to kick into gear and get this stuff done. For example, if you need to fertilize your lawn, if you need to do fall activities for your lawn, Nitrofuss has put together their Texas three Step. Texas three Step is absolutely an ingenious combination of three different things that are designed exactly for the

problems your lawn has. Right now, here's what I'm talking about. For example, Texas three step starts off with nitrofoss Fall Special. That is a fertilizer designed for the soils and the conditions that your lawn faces in the fall, and it's exactly the right mix to provide cold heartiness, to provide recovery from drought, and to strengthen the grass so that coming out next spring it's better off. The most important fertilizer you put on all years in the fall.

It really is. If you had to pick one time you're gonna do fertilizing, this will be it. And it's because it sets you up for next year once a grass gets growing next year and everything's moving along. Yeah, we fertilize, we do things like that, but it's not going to come out of winter like it will without that fall fertilizer. So secondly,

second step nitrofost barricade. It's a pre emergent weed control. Your lawn may have thin areas sunlights hitting the soil, therefore weeds begin to come up in those spots. Barricade prevents that from happening. You got to get it down before the weeds come up, which means, let's do that in early October and watered in. Follow the label. Always follow the label. Listen. It is really important when using any kind of a product that you follow the

label. A teaspoon on the label means a tea spoon applied, not a tablespoon. You're not going to extra kill weeds. You cause problems when you over dose things. It shouldn't be overdose. I mean, do you take a bottle of aspurn or do you take the number of aspurn that's prescribed to fix the headache? Right, it's the same kind of thing. A good thing. Overdone is not a good thing. So let's do it right and barricade will do exactly that for you. Secondly, or thirdly, night Fuss

Eagle is a turf fungicide. What does that mean? It means it protects your turf against take all root rot coming this fall. It'll be reinfecting and also the large patch, the large patch we deal with also called brown patch. That's the common name for it. Well, that's what it's designed for. One, two, three fall Special Barricade Eagle All three from Nitrofiss.

Where do you get them? Jim's Hardware and Montgomery Ace Hardware, Memorial Lake Hardware include all places that you can get this great combination of products to take care of your lawn going into the cool season. We're gonna head out now to Jim and Meadow Springs. Hello Jim, Hello Skip. I've got a

problem with sedge weed infestation in my flower beds. I know you can kill it with round up, and I've used round up on it in the borders where I have no plants and in the yard, but okay, I'm a little luctant to spray the round up in the flower bed with the flowers in it. Yeah, yeah, you ought to be it. I mean that

it'll kill whatever you get it on, that's for sure. So when there are several different kinds of sedges that are out there and so kind of it would be good to know exactly which one if it is something like nuts edge, purple nuts edge, or yellow nuts edge, those are harder to kill. There's some other sedges that are easier to kill. But there's a few products gym that are designed for sedge control, and they'll have names like sedge

ender or sedge beater or things like that. And when you go to a quality you know, garden center or a supplier of products that really, you know, really knows what to carry and carries the wide variety. They're going to have something specifically for sedges, and I would I would use that. Sedges are a little they're different than grasses and they're different than broad leaf weeds. Yeah, I will the barricade. I'm getting ready to do fertilizer and

barricade and the fung aside next week. Will the barricade help stop them or I should treat them first? Not really, it's a pre emergent and the sedges that are there or they're probably perennial. They're just those plants are to come back. Now. I guess if you had some seeds of the sedges, the barricade might work on those. I'd have to check the label. It's primarily a grass and broad leaf weeat control. As far as how well it would work on sedge seeds, I don't know, but I know if

you've got sedges, you need to just kill those plants. Okay, what were the two products you recommended? Well said, I gave examples of sedge beater and sedge ender. Uh, they' you'll see sedge in the name. There's one called sedge hammer. Sedge hammer that's also labeled. Okay, but just read the label on all these because each is going to be labeled for different parts of the yard. Maybe the grass, maybe not flower beds. Maybe flower beds but not the grass and so on, so just pick it

accordingly. You're in meadow springs? Is that? Are you talking about the Kingwood meadow springs or meadows place? Okay, okay, all right, I'm just trying to figure out who would be close to you? Were you? What about a heavy duty after I treat him a heavy duty cover with the black velvet mulch. It's always good to put a mulch down. Now, multiple stop weed seeds from coming up through it. If you got a strong existing you know, plant a little multa over the top it and will kill

it. But it will prevent weed seeds. Plus, it moderates slow temperature, It prevents crusting when it rains, it prevents erosion when it rains. It just has a lot of good reasons to It's always a good thing to do mulch. Okay, all right, Well, I appreciate the help. All right, Jim, you take care hope that works out for you. Yeah, that is for sure. Hey, do you have a little piece of property and you've been thinking about getting a tractor, but you just haven't

gotten around to it. You need to call the folks at Landsdown Moody because here's the deal. This is only gonna last till October thirty. First, we got about a month left of this deal. But I've never seen anything like it. It is zero down, zero interest, seven years, eighty four months. The Cabota L twenty five one. That is a very nice

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does a great job. And oh my gosh, if you're looking for a deal, you're not going to do better than the deal they have going on right now. We're gonna head back out now to Steve and the woodlands. Hello Steve. Hi. Yeah, this is just a real quick guy and might have been bad. But during the middle of the summer, we were planning some boxwoods and watering them. They looked like they were doing well, and then all of a sudden, I was getting all these yellow leaves and

I have one boxwood that's completely dead. I was speaking to my neighbor. He said the same thing was happening to his and it was a fungus. And I've never heard of funguses for boxwoods, So one, what could it possibly be on fungus? And what can I do about it? Well, I wouldn't jump as to fungus as the most likely cause here's what's happening to your boxwoods. Moisture is not getting up into the leaves from the roots,

so that the first thing we think about is is too dry. It needs watering more, and we've had to water a lot this summer to keep things happy because the demands have been so great. The second thing it could be is too much water. If you drowned a root system and it can't get oxygen, roots dye and you end up with the exact same symptom as if it was too dry, because it can't get water if it didn't have roots. The third thing that it could be is nematodes. Nematodes attack box woods.

If you've got a sandy soil, you're up there in the woodlands, there's a little bit of sand here and there. Nematodes can proliferate and they end up making the roots system less and less efficient. All the little knots and wounds they create on the roots, water has trouble getting through, so you end up a drought symptom. And then the final thing would be a sea born fungus which plugs the plumbing. Boxwoods can get that and that would

also create So what we know is water's not getting to your plant. Exactly why, we don't know for sure. If you feel like you've given good deep soakings on an infrequent basis, then we're going to eliminate that it didn't get enough water. If you feel like you didn't overwater, we're going to eliminate that. And now we're looking at we'll do we have nematodes on the roots, you can take a hose and wash some roots out near the surface

and look for little knots on the roots. That's a symptom. Or if you see roots that are brown, kind of almost like a cigarette filter, that gray, brown stain looking thing, that's a symptom of the fungal diseases of the roots. And so it's going to be one of those things. Okay, let's me know what I need to check for then, because I don't think I overwatered, because I've got a few that are still doing fairly

well. And I've got and I know I didn't really underwater because when I first planted them, i'd give them a little bit of water twice a day, okay, and then it was once a day after about a week and this was over a month ago, and things looked like they were don't fine, And then we got the rain and a few looked fine, and one

died and another one looks like it's about to die. Okay, Well, the one that's about to die before it's fully dead, you may just want to kind of get a shovel under it and lift it up when things cool off a little bit here and take a look at the roots like I'm talking about. All right, Hey, son's great. I hope that helps. Thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. We're going to run right now out to Katie and talk to Ray. Hello, Ray, good morning,

Escape, Good morning. I just had a quick question I have. I have my grass on the side of the house. It's really patchy, dead grass, brown grass, but still it's trying to grow. And I was I was going to ask you about the three steps you were talking about. Yes, how long after I put all three ill watered them in, how long should I leave the grass alone before I mow again? Because I think that I've been doing it wrong. I'll put the fertilizer down and a couple

of things. After that, I'll be I'll be still mowing, okay, and it's counterproductive what I'm doing, I think. All right, Well, a good question, but not so much for you to worry about. We put the fertilizer down and we watered in to get it in the soil so it starts working. So you know, you can put the fertilizer and mow or mow and put the first it doesn't matter, just whenever you want it. Just remember it's got to be watered in barricade. The second step,

the weed control, It has to be watered into work. So if you wanted to fertilizer lawn and then come right back and get the hopper, change the setting and put the barricade out, and then water, I'm both in with about a half inch of water. You could do it that way or you could do them separately. Then the fungicide though, that we're going to put in on the surface, and I would rather not water right after I

put the fungicide down because it's protecting the grass plant. It's on the grass, but it's also getting into the soil a little bit and being taken up that way. So I would do my watering and the fungicide would come after watering. Okay, And the same with mowing, go ahead and mow and then put the fungicide on what you got left. Perfect. Thank you, Skip, Thank you for everything. You have a great week. Thank you

for everything you do as well. Also, uh, you know, if you want to put in a vegetable garden as fall, and I hope you do. If you want to put it in a flower bed or a herb bed, Vego Gardens is the absolute best garden bed you're going to buy. And I really mean that. I actually approached the folks at Vego and said, look, we need you as a sponsor on garden Line because I believe

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think of Legos. That's what we're talking about. You put it together, it's easy, it works at last. You can't do better than that. I cannot recommend anything higher than a Vego bed. We're going to take a break right now, Gilbert, you are there and the first in line when we come right back. Well, good morning. You are listening to garden Line and we are entering our last half hour of the weekend. So now it'd be a good time to call if you've got some gardening questions.

You'd like to visit about seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, and we're gonna head straight out to Katie and talk to Gilbert. Hey, Gilbert, thanks for waiting. Hi, Skip, I just purchased a second property and home in Tulsa. Do you think the lawn care schedule will work that far north? Uh? No, the scheduling concept of it will work, but the timing is going to be way off. So because for example, are right now we're talking about putting on fertilizer because this is the

month for Saint Augustine at this location north south through the country. If you go all the way up to Tulsa, fall comes way earlier up there. And also you're probably not going to have Saint Augustine. You're probably gonna have some zoysier bermuda grass up, maybe even fescue bluegrass mixes up in that area. And so that would be a whole different monster. Okay, But I'll tell you what I would do. The Oklahoma State Extension Service has offices in

all the counties. I would go to the OSU their website and look for lawn care information, talk to the county agent up there in the county you're in in Tulsa, and they're going to have a lot of local information that can help you. Perfect. Okay, thank you, yes, sir, you bet all right. Well let's see here tree time. It is time to plant trees in the fall. It is the best time to plant trees in the fall. You can plant a tree in Houston any month of the

year. I mean, you really can any month the year you can plant it. But if you were to look at and say, okay, i just want to know what the best time is, I'm flexible. I can plant now later whatever. When's the best time? Fall falls it It gives all winter season and spring for the routes to get established and get ready for that next brutal summer. We're a long way away from it, So why

not get them into ground this fall and do that. Bredett Tree Farm grows a wide variety of trees that are that are chosen because they do well. Here Bredett Treefarm dot Com. V E R D A n T Treefarm dot Com. Now you're going to find that they're verdant tree farms wherever you are. I mean, if you're out in West Houston, bark or Cypress. There's one down in pear Land on Broadway Street, there's one up in the Heights where Yale comes into a ten. There's a Verdant Tree Farm there too.

They have a wide variety. They also specialize in palm trees. I mean they're selection and palms unbelievable. But on all the other trees up to seven hundred gallons. I mean, so if you want a real quick zippy I mean instant pizzas, they can do it. They can absolutely drop a tree in there that looks good the day after they plant it. Now they know how to do it. They give a one year warranty with installation. There's a ten percent discount for military and first responders. Another good reason to

go to Verdant Tree Farmstead. Out now to pear Land and we're gonna talk to Glinda. Hello, Glenda, Hello, Hey, how are you? How can we help today? Thanks for taking mark call. I'm not gonna tell you who did it. I don't want to play fire or in trouble, but somebody's rade my yard to kill the weeds and it totally killed the whole area. There's the grass. I meant, unbelievable. So who would you recommend dear to uh come in with a backhode dig it out and uh

plant new grass. Well, they're not gonna definitely not gonna use a backcode, but they'll get that old grass out and put it down. I would get Pierce Keps the call and see if they could could do a job like that. You are a little bit far south. I don't know if they're covered that far, but it would be worth talking to them because if they don't they can. They can refer you to someone who does well. I'm sure would appreciated. The rest of my yard is dropped dead beautiful. That's

just a shame. I'm so sorry. You don't do you happen to know what product ingredient they used that sprayed? I think they accidentally picked up the wrong container. Okay, produced weeds. Okay, I think eight got the one for everything? I got you. Okay, do you have their phone number? Live? Let me look here. I'm gonna have to find it while we're talking, but i'll grab it for you, all right. Yeah, Pier Escape's folks again. I don't thinking you're a little far south for

him, but it's worth it's worth giving them a try. It's two eight one three seven zero fifty sixty two eight one three seven men. Wait a minute, I'm running down. Hey, you're two quick for me two eight one three zero fifty sixty. You got it, you got it. While I live in fair Land and you have a bliss Live and I love to see your yord I Noah's gorgeous. Well, thank you, Hey, I appreciate the call, and good luck. We're getting that mess fixed up.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. Oh Achuly new me and God, we'll get it all right. There you go, all right, have a bliss Live. Thank you, appreciate that. Glinda, oh my goodness, for sure. You know I'm gonna have to tell you when you're looking at a lawn that is in need of help, not dead like Glenda's law, but just struggling. The Microlife folks have got a combination of products that will really help turn it around. And that's important. It's all about cultural control.

So here's what I would do. We're going into fall. I would get their Microlife brown patch. That's the orange bag, dark orange bag. It's a five one three fertilizer, so you get the nutrients you need down to get ready for fall. That's very important. And then it's got lots of microbes on that material as well, so you are also inoculating as you do that. But then I would come back and additionally do the micro Grow

bioinnoculant. It's only used at about ten pounds per thousand. We're not fertilizing with it, we're inoculating with it. And when your turf has a good supply of beneficial microbes around it that are protecting it, us like disease problems become less. And that's just it's how nature defends against diseases. Is you just get a lot of the good guys around and it's it's a very inhospitable place for the bad guys, the bad diseases to be able to do what

they do. So Microlife, Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You're going to find it all over the place. You can learn more about these two key products for fall, which is the brown Patch five one three orange bag and Microgrow bi Inoculant, which is a violet colored bag. I would do both of those, and I would do them soon because it's time for those things to get to work so they can benefit your plants. We're going to take a break right now. Our number is seven one three, two, one,

two, fifty eight, seventy four. We got one more segment left. Reese and Jackie, you are going to be our first folks up when we come back from break, and we will see you shortly. Well, good Sunday morning, and you are listening to Gardenline. We are having a good time here talking about all kinds of things because we're excited about fall. We we we survived this summer. We ought to make a T shirt. I lived through the summer of twenty twenty three somehow, and my plans most of

them did as well. That would be a good T shirt to where, Hey, we're gonna go out first thing here to sugar Land and talk to Reese. Hello, rece do we have a race? All right? I'll tell you what. It would help if I took him off and picked the phone up, wouldn't it? Hey? Race? How you doing morning? Skipping? Doing good? Okay? We got some operator error going. It's been a long week. What's up? Well, I've got uh. I restarted my lawn back in this past May, of course, not knowing what

kind of try we're gonna have. It's been difficult, but I've got it. It's it's a rowing. I've got a lot of nuts edge in it, and I wanted to get some sedgender to use on it. But the literature says that it it should be a well established lawn, and I wanted to see if that's you know, since it's been it's been growing. I've keep keeping it water. It's growing. Yeah, I've mooded, you know, over the summer. But should it be well established from May to now?

Yes? Yes. What they're really saying is, don't put on side that doesn't have roots quite in the soil yet and then apply that product. Let's get them, let's get it rooted in, and it's well rooted in the long time, it's yeah, you can use it. Okay. There are a number of different products that control nuts edge and turf. They each have their pros and cons. But yeah, staying after it is going to

be important. Going into fall is a very important time because that nuts edge is pulling in carbohydrates to store in those underground tubers that make it so difficult to control. So we would love to spray it and haven't take that product down into the tuber and do some damage. Okay, well it sounds good, I will do that, you bet. Is it Is it pretty widespread or is it in just in certain areas? It's a certain area. Yeah, well if you can focus on that area, that would be good.

Also, just kind of notice, is that area a little wetter than normal? In other words, is it low lying? Is it a heavy clay? Does a sprinkler double lap over that area or something? Because the wetter you keep it, the happier the nuts edge is. So just letting it dry out kind of gives you a little bit of an edge as you work

toward getting rid of the nuts edge. Okay, okay, yeah, it does seemed to be more the grass is growing more in that area also, Okay, yeah, it's probably probably a little bit better conditions, and so well that ought to do it. Just be ready to stay with this for a while. It's not going to be a one and done. Nuts edge control is not just you spray it once and it's all gone and you kind of have to stay with it. Probably, Okay, Skip appreciate it,

Yeah, Reese, thanks for the call. I appreciate that very much. Let's see we are going to also now go out to League City and talk to Jackie. Hello, Jackie, Hi, I have a question. I have an oak tree that's probably i'd say forty or fifty years old, and around the oak tree. Years ago I used to pile mulshop, which I

know that's a bad thing, and I don't do it anymore. But I've noticed in the last while, I don't know, a few years, there's kind of a dark, very fibrous, I don't know what to call it, stuff growing on top of the ground and like you can tap on it or like hit it with something. It almost sounds hollow. And then you can take and like take a cultivator or something and kind of pull it in it that it pulls back in like a sheet almost you know, it's all

together. What is that it's on the ground or it's on the it's on the ground, and it would be like, you know, how I'm on the bottom of a tree. How normally you would see roots going into the ground and you would see the top of the wood and the roots and the all that this covers it. It almost looks like dirt covering it. But if you try to like cultivate it, like to dig it up or something

like that, it comes off in big pieces like they're all together. Okay, I think what you're looking at is you're looking at a decomposer fungi. And there are a number of different types. They look very different each one. One of them looks like scrambled eggs on top of the ground. One of them now that looks black, looks like it looks black and fibrous like it's and it's real tough. You can't pull it apart. Right, You're

probably talking about a decomposer fungi. What it's doing is fungi break down woody tissues, things that are hard to break down. So in our multus, in our mulches or even the dead outer surface you know of bark and roots and things like that, they break that down and they form this this kind of a matted network that is almost like a crust or a shell, or it can turn. It can turn loose mulch into this chunk that you pick up. And they're not diseases. They don't hurt the plants. You can

just ignore them. They tend to come and go. They're going to go through a cycle where they break that down. That's what they're there for, is they're the reason that the forest outside of town is not a mile deep and tree trunks after thousands and thousands of years of tree growth. They turn everything, They turn everything back into soil. Okay, okay, all right, I should just leave it alone then and let it do its job. Yes, this is the best news you've got here all week. You don't

have to worry about it. Yeah, it is really Thank you so much. We'll hang up here and you and I both will go work on world peace and other big issues because this is not Yeah, I don't have to worry about that. All right, take care of Jackie. Do you have a great weekend, you too, Bye bye bye bye. Yes, we're going to head up to Conro now and talk to Stan. Hey, Stan, Hey, good morning. Thanks taking the call. Yes, sir, I have I've been listening to your show this morning, and I believe I

have some crab grass. Okay, in some areas where there is no grass, the half of my yard has Saint Augustine. Yeah. I don't know what happened to the other half. I guess the drought really did a number on it. But the crab grass is still thriving, and I was just trying to figure out what to do besides you know, pulling it out or you know, an easier way to trying to prep it for next next spring.

So you've got there are several things you could be doing. The first one you probably don't want to hear, but it's the one I have to lead off with, and that is when we have weeds like crab grass, they have a lot of seeds on them right now. And if you can take a little hoe and take it out or hand pull it out or anything, not to get rid of the crab grass, but just to get all those seeds out of there, you will be way ahead rather than having to

deal with all those weed seeds next spring when crabs re sprouts again. So hand pulling. I had someone come in when I was at Arborgate yesterday and brought in a number of different weeds and all of them were loaded with seeds. There was the spurs that has a little milky sap that spreads out flat on the ground. It was just loaded with seeds. Well, to get those out of there, it gives you at least a head start. Now the next thing is to remember all those weeds or worm season weeds, and

they're going to go away with the first frost. They're not here for long, so Spraying them isn't going to help a lot. They're not long for this world anyway. Getting the seeds out as helpful. But spraying won't kill the seeds, and so I would not worry about it. I would mow it and ignore it for now. But next spring, when we get into February, a pre emergent herbicide will be in the soil protecting against crab grass

trying to sprout in March, in April and May. So you want to do that in February, because yeah, you've got air soil, you've had weeds, they've made seeds. They will be back. Unless you can get that lawn to fill in very thickly so that there's no sunlight hitting the soil. Then you don't have to worry about the pre emergent on them. The lawn is choking them out at that point. But in the meantime, bear dirt means you've got some weed control to do. Okay, all right,

I just want to get them inside. I appreciate it. I have a great rest of the day, all right. I wish I could give you a good recipe for crab grass, because we could feed the world if if that was an edible plant. It loves my backyard. I know that. I know it does. Stand have a great rest of your weekend in the week as well. Thank you. We'll go bye bye. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Weeds. Uh, you know, there's different ways of looking at weeds. First of all, what is a weed. A weed is

a plant we don't want where it's growing. So, for example, if you've got a corn patch and Saint Augustine got in there, Saint Augustine would be a weed in your corn patch. Right. It's important to think about it that way. It's not like weeds are certain plants, they're bad plants, and so they're weeds. It's like we don't want them there, So they're weeds. So what do we do well? Number one, stop sunlight from hitting the soil. That's the main thing we can do. That is

that is called good lawn care. My lawn schedule online on gardening wiskip dot com talks about mo watering, and fertilizing, as well as a few other key cultural activities that help that long get denser and denser. Then the weed discussion in many situations goes away. We have perennial weeds that are very that are very able to hang on and that soil. But most of our weeds, when we make a good dense sunlight can hits the soil, they're not

going to be able to survive in that kind of grass. And that's that's our step one and we take care of that. And there's times to do all that, and it's it's it's part of the deal. Our lawn's coming out week. They're struggling and we're going to see more issues with those lawns, like weed control issues. That's just part of the deal. Well, we've had a good time this weekend here on garden Line. I'll be back next week. Remember a garden Line is a show that you can listen to

both on Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am. Tell your friends, family about it. We are available by podcast if you miss something on the show. But here's what I want you to do before we go away today. Ride down next Saturday at Nature's Way Resources up north Interstate forty five, up toward Conro. That is a place where you get all kinds of

good quality soil mixes. But they're going to have their Fall Garden Festival on Saturday at nine am they're going to have a class on creating enchanting little miniature ferry gardens. They're going to have stuff to the kids, like scavenger hunts. They're going to have food, music vendors, adult beverages. It's quite the shindek. I'll be out there from eleven thirty to one thirty. All of you up in that whole region, that whole listening area. I hope

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