Interview with Enchated Forest

of some things, battling some nutsedge. I know we've talked about that a lot lately, but you know, if you stay on it, you can win the battle. If you happen to be struggling with nuts edge or also called nut grass, although it's not a grass. You just go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. I've put some free stuff up there for you to read. Understand the enemy if you will, We're going to go ahead and call this a battle. You are at war within nutsedge.

And as you understand the different types of nutsedge, how they grow, what they do, it helps you to get ahead of it and control it. That's the problem most people now here. All the time people say things like, well I've tried that, it didn't work. Well, there's a reason for that, and it's either because you're using the wrong product or at the wrong time, and or not sticking with it. Those three things are the things that help you lose against nutsedge. And this is the deal.

No matter how good you control it, no matter what you do, great product, great timing, it's like it all goes away and you know it's going to pop back up. If you don't stay on it, it just replenishes its reserves. It even creates more nuts underground, more tubers underground, and you just get to start over. So go online, go to gardeningwiskip dot com. There is a couple of nuts edge publications there. One of them is a one page sheet, another one it says nuts edge that it's like a

three page sheet. It's more of an in depth look is the title. And then there's one called Herbicides for use with skips weed wiper and how to build a weed wiper, and in some situations when that says that weed wiper is important, it is effective in helping you manage that saige without hurting the plants around it. So just some things to think about for those of you dealing with that particular particular pest. And I do feel your pain. Another thing I've been running into a lot.

Really this is something that just goes on all the time during the growing season, but lately it just seems like I'm getting even more questions about take all root rot. Now, they don't always come as a question about take off sometimes, you know, it's just like my lawn's dying. Wise my lawn dying, and but it ends up being take all

being the cause. And I'm going to talk off and on today, probably through some of your questions as well about what what do we do, what's going on there, and how do we battle it, Because there are plant diseases that weakened plants, that disfigure plants brown patch or large patch, for example. It will rop the leaves off the runner, creating those big circles, but the runners are still alive and they regreen when the weather worms up. Would take all root rot. It kills, it takes all

and it rots the roots. And a plant can't live without roots. And so that's one of probably the elephant in the room when it comes to turf health, I would say is take all root rot, much more widespread and ongoing and a bigger concern even than things like side webworms and and chinchbugs. For example. It's a biggie and we're still dealing with it a lot around here. Our phone number is seven one three two one two k t r H. If you'd like to give us

a call. I want to make a couple of statements though, also about tree issues. People are concerned about the health of their trees, and they should be. You know, a tree adds a lot of value to your property, and a tree is a can be a huge, huge plant that grows slowly over time and develops either a strong or a weak structure. If it's prune properly, you can have a tree that lives for decades upon decades upon decades,

goes a very long time, longer than we're around. But if it's pruned improperly, or if it's not cared for right or other issues that can happen. Training trained right in a good strong form, then that what I just said about it being a long lived changes and it suddenly becomes not so long lived and you're spending a lot of money on it because a limb is broken off following the house or just you know, ruined the structure of that tree. Well. Affordable Tree Service Martin spoon Moore.

He is our go to guy for dealing with tree issues, from pruning him properly to begin with, to dealing with prune so that storms don't have the same effect that they might have had on that tree, creating a stronger structure, helping with the effects of wind, and helping a tree be more resilient against that. Martin Spoon Moore's number, and you ought to write this down, just keep it with you. It's seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three and I'll give that again seven to one three

six nine nine two six six three. Don't wait until a fall storm, you know with high winds, takes down a stress tree. Give Martin a call. There's a lot that can be done ahead of time. And you also go to his website. Aff Tree Service dot com. Afftree Service dot com. He does all kinds of things with trees, not just pruning them. He can advise you on a lot of issues that help you maintain good, healthy trees. And that again, it's not just the value to your home,

it's it's the value to your lifestyle. You know, that beautiful tree that's shading the roof and maybe saving on the electric bill, or shading that patty area you're enjoying, and now the blazing sun is baking down on it because of the loss of a tree or a major limb. We're going to avoid those things, and proper care along the way is one of the key elements in avoiding those sort of things. I was at at the Arburgate Nursery. Oh gosh, this has been a couple of weeks now,

I guess a couple of weeks ago. I always stopped by our garden centers and see what's going on, what they have and how things are going. And boy, it's beautiful out there. I mean they are set up for fall. They've got all kinds of you know, Arbrogates always got their gift shops and all the I call it lens

Gate bling. You know, when you walk through you see all the kinds of things you can put out in your yard to beautify or to signal the seasons, like we're coming into the fall season with all harvest themes, with Halloween themes, you know, Thanksgiving things. They've got all kinds of stuff like that all the time. And now Arbrogate is up there in tom Ball. It's west to tom Ball about half a mile from Tomball Parkway two

forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. I just encourage you to go buy and check it out while you're there. Get their one two three completely easy system. That's a soil for anything with roots, that is a compost, and that is a very quality mult as well. And I think that if you start with that and bring it home, when you bring home your plants, you're going to have good Sunday morning, Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to

have you with us today. We have plenty of talk about, you know, going into commercial ops some of our Arbigates one two three completely easy system. And I think I heard myself echoing in my head after I went to commercial that I said, the one two three has a is one of the of them is a multch and it's not I said that wrong. We're talking about an

organic food Complete. That's a fertilizer that is a slow release organic type fertilizer loaded with microbes as well, including the microhizal fungi that work in connection with plant roots. It's the organic soil complete and the organic compost complete. One thing that's kind of cool about those last two products.

You know, whenever you or adding good quality organic matter, whenever you're including things that like expanded shale and that's in and arburgates one two three system, the soil benefits go longer term, and so it's not just like you're doing something that is good right now. It's like you're doing something that builds the soil and it gets better and better, and it's like a snowball going down a hill.

When you start to open up the soil and you start to get oxygen in, it invigorates microbial activity down in the root system and roots thrive better. And when roots thrive better, it improves the soil. Just in that way, toots exude substances that feed microbes and the roots themselves open up the soil. So it's like you begin doing things that are helping and it just gets better in other ways. Do you see what I'm saying? And so anytime we're working with our soil, we can have that

effect on plants. You hear me all the time say, you know, spend a dollar on your soil before you spend a dollar on your plants, or spend a dollar on your soil at the same time you're spending a dollar on your plants.

And if you've got the most wonderful plant in the world and its roots cannot expand cannot get oxygen, don't have the nutrients that they need to take up, that plant is not going to go anywhere. And it's so easy to fix up. If you'd like to give us a call here on garden Line, it's seven one three, two, one two, five eight seven four seven, one three, two

one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, talking about improving things in your garden, and you're looking at one place kind of a one stop shop for everything you could need for insects, diseases and weeds, for nutrients, for fertilizer, nutrients for tools. Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston is that place. If they don't have it, you don't need it. That's kind of how I like to put it, because I

don't care what you need. You hear me talking on gardenline and I say, well, this fertilizer is what you need, or go buy this product, or go you need to kill that weed with this, or you need to you know whatever, organic or synthetic. They have it all at Southwest Fertilizer. Bob has you know, made sure that his store just continues to be the one stop shop. Pardon me, and in the Southwest been around since nineteen fifty five.

I mean that's a long time for a business to be around, and yet it's still going strong, stronger than ever, I would say, And it's because of that. In the service, you know, you walk in there with a sam you walk in there with a picture and you show it to some of the team there and say, hey, what is this? What do I do? And they can help you and provide you with the thing that's going to work, as well as advice on how to use it and what to do, And that alone is worth it. You know.

They have that kneeling bench I keep talking about there. It's one of my top five favorite tools. It folds up. You can flip it one way and sit on it and work in the garden. You can flip the other way and kneel down and the legs willcome handles for getting back up. If you're north of forty you know what I'm talking about. When up and down, the up and down, it can really make you soar the next morning. It's a great twet. You got to check it out

while you're there. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is the website that's easy. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com the location corner of Bissonette and Runwick, easy to get to. I don't care where you live in town. It's worth a trip over to Southwest Fertilizer just because they have it all right there. We're going to head out now to Cyprus, Texas. And I believe we're going to talk to Melanie this morning.

They're a little bit later spout than some other weeds. I'm thinking here, Atlanta, I'm going to give you my best guests for Lanto. Knowing where that is, I would say you probably need to get the pre emergent down by by the first of March, probably up there, just to be sure you're ahead of them. But emergent for grassy weeds, you know, stuff like the barricade that U nitroposs has here, spreading that out over a large area.

There are other pre emergent ingredients, so we'll control grasspers, but getting ahead of them before they sprout, probably going to need to, maybe sixty days after you do the first one, do it again, because graspers will sprout all summer, and any product breaks down in time and it doesn't keep working all year.

that that is helpful. Because the things that compete with graspers, like like grasses, you give the grasses the head start on the birds. But that would be it. You have a County Agrolife Extension office there in Lantouh, and I don't know the agent's name, but you have an ag agent there who deals with pastures and things, and if you talk to him guide you a little bit further. My timing might be a little bit off that. That's definitely. You know, spring comes later up there than it does here.

But it's pretty pretty close to Austin, and I used to work in Austin, so I'm thinking which first is a good time.

doesn't look good. And if you want to go more native, you know, there's things like buffalo grass that that could be planted. That's a whole different monster. And think of it more as kind of a Western native looking mini meadows.

ten and that nineteen it's nitrogen. It's going to gradually release over a long time, and that slow release spreads out the mowing. It avoids the flushes of nitrogen that can cause issues with our turf when we overdo it. You're going to find super turf in places like Growers Outlet up there in willis Enchented Forest Nursery down in the Richmond Rosenberg area and RCW Nursery up on I five North, Night five super Turf. It's easy to find

in the store because it's the silver bag. I mean, walk in the front door, look at all the fertilizer from across the store, and you know right where the superturf is with that silver bag really really stands out. Makes it easy. If you had thought it, not thought about a vegetable gardening this fall, I would encourage you

to do that. And a lot of people, you know, they when they think of vegetable gardening, they think of, well, I've got a big this build this big garden and rototil and all this kind of stuff, and I don't have room for it. There's not a big enough sunny spot. A vegetable garden can be like a little race bed somewhere. It can be a container on your patio. You can grow broccoli and all kinds of healthy grains for salads and smoothies and any however you go about your cuisine.

You can do all that on a patio. You just need a good container of good size that drains well. With some quality soil mix, and you're in business, and I encourage you to try that this fall. That would be the challenge of the day on garden Line. All right, we're going to take a break and we'll be right back.

of fun and improve your health with gardening. You it's exercise outside. We know now that just our sedentary lifestyles are a major cause of long term health problems that we run into. We also know that if you work in a cubicle in an office, just getting up every thirty minutes, walking around a second, sitting back down has a huge benefit. Well, gardening gives you that and more. It also gives you fresh sunshine, a peace of mind. There's just a connection with nature that benefits us. It

also can give us. I was just talking about do a fall garden this year. It can give you fresh healthy produce. Just eating more good, fresh, healthy produce is very helpful to our health. I have a number of different things in my garden. I'm always experimenting with something. Well. Some people would say something weird, but I don't. I I like making smoothies in the morning. That's my breakfast of choice. I've got a little, great little blender that

can chop anything up, and I make a smoothie. You know, throw some fruit in there, protein powder, whatever kinds of supplements you want to throw in it. And then I'm always throw in some stuff from out in the garden. Right now in the garden, I've got some things that I met a lot of you haven't even heard of. I have some malabar some people call it malobar spinach, and it is very summer tolerant that goes into a smoothie. I have some okra, and yes, I'll put a little

okra pot or two into a smoothie. It helps thicken them up. Oka has that effect when it touches water, and you don't taste okra when you have your smoothie. You just don't. I have some maringa. Maringa is a little tree that is kind of a I would call it a perennial here, and that it often can die way back in a cold but it then comes right back out of the ground the next year, and leaves are kind of a nutty, nutty sort of flavor. I like them anyway, Throw some of that in there. Oh gosh.

There's a lot of other things, certainly in the cool season. You know, Kale and whatnot can go into a smoothie and improve on it. Spinach can go into smoothie and improve on it. But I just am always trying some different things. Molekhia is a green that trop popular, especially in the Middle East and other in that general region of the world. There's a lot of popularity for it. It also can thicken up a smoothie and goes really well.

So there's a lot of things you can grow. And you know, if you think about it, I could make a smoothie with just protein powder and maybe some strawberries or blueberries or something. But by throwing in all those greens, it doesn't mess up this moothie. It does make the color a little less appetizing. When you mix green and red together, you get brown. That's how the colors work. But I don't care about that. You know, turn off the lights and drink your smoothie. Hush, turn off the

lights and drink your smoothie. It's good stuff. It's good for your health. That's just what I'm saying. Gardening is good for your health, and it should be fun. If you're driving up to your place and you have to close your eyes driving in the driveway because of the way it looks from the road on the front. And I know, sometimes our places get looking kind of rough.

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Go to pierce Scapes dot com pierscapes dot com. That's their website and you can see pictures of the kind of work that they can do. So whether you just need a little bit of work done, or whether you want to revamp the whole place into something stunning, you can call Pierscapes and they can do it. Pierscapes dot com. Here's a phone number right this time, give them a call this week two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero.

They also do quarterly service, so if you when you drive up at those flower beds are full of weeds or the mult is getting thin or anything, they can come in for a quarterly service. They meltch, they get take care of weeds, they check the irrigation, they do any trimming that's necessary. When the seasons change and you need some new color plants in there, they'll do that seasonal change. They'll melt all at Peerscapes perscapes dot com.

Go see them. We got to be proud of our places, you know, and whether we whether you do it all at once or whether you do things a little bit at a time. Get out there and continue to improve your landscape in ways that you like. This is your place, what do you want to look at? If you need some help with that, you can certainly there's a lot of places where you can get designed suggestions, design help. If you're doing it yourselfer, we can recommend plants here

on guard Line for you. In general, our landscapes should have a very natural, balanced look. Evergreens not just all on one side of the house. So in the winter, oh that's lopsided. Same with blooming plants, blooming trees. You should think about the four seasons when you landscape.

Forest is out on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond and you're going to head up towards sugar line of fifty nine, it's off to the right on twenty seven to fifty nine. It is a wonderful place. They always have whatever the latest plants are for the season, they're going to have that. So like right now, herbs for fall planting, the fall vegetable garden. They're stocked up fall color and flowers, fall decorations for the landscape. Fall is for planting, so shrubs and trees

and ornamental grasses and perennial flowers. They've got all that. They're at Chended Forest. They always have programs going on in the fall and spring season. Just go to their website. It's Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. And when you go there, first of all, it's a wonderful website, but you'll be able to connect with what's going on, what's in season. You know what

do they have right now? It's always the new shipment coming on out there, more great decor for fall, you name it, they've got it. Enchanted Forest. And you haven't been there, you owe yourself a trip out there this afternoon be a good time to do it, as a matter of fact. And when you go, take some friends with you because it is a fun, fun place to visit. I always like going out there visiting with Danny and Clay

and the whole team that enchanted for us. You are listening to garden Line phone number here if you'd like to give us a call. We're about to go to break, but you can get on the on the board and be first up when we come back. Seven to one three two one two k t rh at seven one three two one two k t r H. You know yesterday was National Hummingbird Day? Did you know that? That's right? Hummingbirds asked me to remind you. I'm just reminding you again. So it is past time. It's time to get your

hummingbird feeders out there. Uh, get them set up and they will show up. If you build it, they will come well. Wibirds Unlimited is the place to go for anything birds and certainly for hummingbirds too. You know, do

you need a bird bath? Do you need a certain kinds of bird feed for In the case of hummingbirds, they have some special little mixes that are slower you know, when you put sugar water in a hummingbird feeder after a few days in very warm temperatures, it gets kind of nasty, and so we always have to put something rush in there. Well, they have those kinds of feeds, and they have a feeder that you really need to get. It's my favorite hummingbird feeder and I have several the

high perch hummingbird feeder from Wallbirds Unlimited. Go try it out. WBU dot com forward slash Houston. That is the website where you can find the six Wabirds Unlimited stores near you. And I guess what I'm going to be doing. I'm going to be going to a wild Bird's Unlimited store this next Saturday. I'll be at the Wallbird's Unlimited store out in excuse me, pardon me, good night, Warbird's Unlimited store on El Dorado Boulevard out there in south east

part of Houston. I'll talk about that more when I come back. Good morning, Welcome back to the garden line. Going in to break there. I was talking about birds and hummingbirds specifically, but you know right now, not just hummingbirds are coming through, but Baltimore orioles on their migration as well. They'll be migrating through our area the entire month of September and really on endo October. Beautiful little birds with their yellow and black markings or almost orangey

yellow and black. They are gorgeous and you can track those to your place with the proper bird seed and feeders, so be on the lookout for those. By the way, the Wolbird's next Saturday, I want to remind you again, Wibird's next saturday'll be there from clear Lake City Wallbird Unlimited, clear Lake City, southeast of Houston. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Now, if you don't know where that is, you can go online to whatwbu dot

com forward slash Houston to find all the stores. But this particular one is clear Lake Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard, that intersection clear Lake City Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard, so it's really easy to find. They're going to be given away a number of different things. They've got that hummingbird nectar with the nectar defender I was talking about, So I didn't go back so fast out there in

the warm conditions. They'll be drawing for a number of products of a variety of bird seed blends, and even more so, I hope you come out. Number one. It's fun to go to wilbirds. But number two, we'd love to have you come out and see us next Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty. By the way, thanks for being that came out to the Home and Outdoor Living show up in Conroe yesterday. That was fun getting to

talk to folks. You guys wore me out. We were answering questions, as they say, till the cows come home up there, but that's always fun. Saw a lot of baggies of all kinds of stuff. One guy said he brought me bags a bag full of weed, and I said, you might want to rephrase that, just say a bag full of weeds, and it doesn't sound quite as curious as the other. I'm easily amused. All right, let's go out to Humble. We're going to talk to Lee this morning on guardline. Hey, Lee, welcome, Thank you.

red red some most common color, and others. How tall do you want these plants to be?

But any tip, yeah, that works really really well. Might have a dolly that just has a little strap always attached to one side because I slip it underneath the edge of a plant, and strap goes around and hooks on, And that's how I'm move it. Some of the plants for hot afternoon that are perennial. First of all, let me just say something about annuals. This fall. You should plant some some alyssum. You should plant right now. You could be putting out petunias. You can be putting out marigolds.

Maragoles look great in the fall, but once we hit the first frost, those are all gone. And then we switched to things like a Lissa, We switched to pansies, Viola's snap dragons. They all look good in the fall season and the cool season and early winter. For things that are going to come back year after year, I would consider to think of there's a oh gosh, I just went blank on the name of what I was trying to to name jumped right out of my head. Yeah, that's a lot of those. That is true. I do

have a lot of those. Oh gosh, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to think on it just a second and come up with some other ideas for you. It just jumped right right out of my head. I can't believe I did that, but yes, I did. I did that. Oh, there are some. There are some compact boodleias or butter fly bushes that would be really good in a container, and they bloom all through the summer with spikes of beautiful blooms. But they're more compact types

of that. There is actually a crate myrtle that only gets about two feet tall, maybe about three feet wide, but they can grow in a container, which would keep it even a little bit smaller, And that would be another good one. You're out there in Humble, and if you go up to Warren Southern Gardens and ask them to see their great myrtle crate myrtle. I know that's almost confusing, but great as in wonderful great myrtle crate myrtle.

That's nice. And if you go in there and ask them that same question, they're gonna be able to show you all the different flowers that would fit the bill for the exactly the spots you're looking at.

put that out. But microd Grow Liquid is a wonderful product that you can use and it contains a lot, in fact, eight very beneficial microbes specific it's got more than that in it, but eight specific ones that are just outstanding that help support plant growth. They also help protect plants against some of the problems that could come against them. Then there's the h I gave away some of this yesterday out at the home show, the Biomatrix.

It's an orange label. It's just a good nitrogen fertilizer. They have seaweeds, they have fish and molson products. They have a lot of things for microlife. And with microlife, pretty much wherever you go, you're gonna find it. It's widespread, widely, widely available. You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com if you really want to drill down to exactly where is it available in your area. Uh, I'm going to head now to pair Land and talk to Pam. Hello, Pam, i' good morning, good morning.

a good idea. There are fundericides that will fight brown patch as well, and you know the e is one That night frost makes that is very effective against that. But with brown patch or now called large patch, you have to take care of it ahead of time. If you wait until the circles up here, it's a little late to gain much benefit. You'll stop additional circles, but you've got to get ahead of it.

poor we are this is right upon us here. The Brazoria County Extension Office is having their second annual Strawberry Jamboree September twenty first. Too far away. You need to get in touch with them. I find out more about it. It's from It's in the morning from eight till twelve on September twenty first. It's at the Rec Center, Lake

Jackson Rex Center in Lake Jackson, Texas. They're going to have a strawberry shortcait contest about pot of great speakers and even the ability to sign up for some strawberry plugs. If you would like to add them to your garden, be right back.

You know what would grow in this situation? What do you think about this planet? Can you suggest some things to go in a combination container? Do you see what I'm saying all of that kind of advice. Here's a problem. I got it at a picture, I got a sample in a bag. Can you help me what do I do with it? All that kind of stuff. These folks are professionals, They know their stuff, and when you go in there, you're going to get that kind of service. Excellent,

excellent service. Plants for All Seasons is on two forty nine just north of Luetta Road. The websites Plants for All Seasons dot com. The phone number right, write this one down two eight one three seven six one six four six Plants for All Seasons dot com. They're true lawn and garden experts. Start now on the phones. We're going to go out to Greg in northwest Houston. Hey, Greg, how can we help?

to replace that tree. And gentlemen came out in the nursery to check it out and take down a bed and pointed out that the stump grinding didn't really get every bit of the stump, and proposed that we moved the center of the tree a bit to the side, maybe about I feed if I remember quickly. Anyway, So the main thing is he he cautioned us on leaving the sup grindings. They're saying that it would bring termites

to our property. And I had said we were planning to kind of use it as an multi in the gardens, and he said that wasn't a good idea. So I wondered what your thoughts were on that.

That's what they do. So just having some wood out is not a big deal. It's not like urmites are going to fly from across town to come over to your yard because you have wood, but urmites that are there will inhabit it. I would not use it as malts around the flower beds around the base of my house, especially piling it up over the wheepholes, because that's where termites gain entry with one of the places and gain entry. But as far as just using it somewhere as a

multi that's okay to do. It's not the best quality malts, but but you got it on hand. But if they want, if you want to have them just hollowed away and bring something else in, that's fine. One of the problems with piles of stump grindings is you've got fluffed up, loosened soil filled with wood that is going to decompose away.

So if you leveled that area off where it was perfectly level in a year or two especially, it is going to have sunk down a lot just because the soil is going to settle, and then as the wood decomposes away, then that the soil level is settling even more so. That would be One advantage of getting it out of there is to kind of decrease that. Whatever you do, they need to leave it a little bit mounded up from where the normal soil level is, because

it is going to settle no matter what. Some so those are just some thoughts to kind of guide you as you make your decision.

top soil kind of thing. If your soil is a heavy clay, then you know something that's clay would be fine to use in there, but that if there were a way to sift out a lot of that wood from the grindings, then you could just use the soil that was there. But it's not going to fully fill the hole because there is there's just a loss of

soil when you do that. The composition, Yeah, and what was what was wood and a trunk underground or major roots underground that's been ground up, and then as you sift it out and all that wood away, what's going to take its place? You don't have the soil there to do it, So you're probably gonna have to bring some soil in.

And then I would rake the soil in. If it's not enough to fill in, I'd bring in a little more to top it off and create a little bit of a mound because it is going to settle over time.

think about Genesis. You need to think of the fact that it is a fertilizer designed for transplanting plants. So if you grew some plants in a small container and you're going to move them to a larger pot, the soil in that larger pot mixed Genesis with it. If you've got a plant that you bought at a garden center and you're going to take it home and put it in a container or in the ground, mix Genesis

into the soil. That's there it is. It's got micro rhizo fungi in it, it's got bacteria in it, a lot of things that help the soul microbiome, and it just works. I was really impressed with the results of Genesis. I did it on some tomato transplants that I was bumping up at the time, and there was a marked difference, very very nice difference. Now you can still go on after that fertilizing with you know, the nutri Star, Color Star, Nature Star, whatever you're going to use. But for that

transplant process, Genesis. It's a neutral star line from Nelson Plant Food. They got a lot of great products and this is an exciting new one that they put on the market. We're going to go out now to West Houston and talk to Jonas. Hello Jonas, Welcome to guard Line.

the fabrics on the surface for weeds. Initially they work and then they become problems and they're hard to get out, and the weeds go land on the seeds land on top and go through the fabric with the roots and it's just a mess. I would use a good quality mulch. There's a lot of good mulches out there on the market. You know, you can do it. Can do one that's pine chips, you can do one that is shredded hardwood.

That's fine. All of those mulches will work well, even pine needles or a decent mulch, you know, for around azaleas. But just just a covering over the surface that kind of prevents those weeds heats from getting light, and that that ought to be good.

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this thing can help that. It typically if it looked green earlier and now it's turning yellow, it's probably a fluctuation. It may fluctuate back. And then the final not good news would be if it was take all root rot, and that's a very different thing. There you're seeing the not just yellowing but continuing to go downhill. And on my schedules on gardening with skip dot com, I address take all root rot and what to do about it if you see that the roots themselves on the runners are dead.

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the twelfth. They're gonna have Latin food, local vendors, plant sales. I'll be there doing Q and A from eleven thirty to one thirty, live music, children's activities. It'll be fun. We've done this before and it was a blast. Hope you'll come out. Put that on your calendar October twelfth and be looking for that. In the meantime, get out there. Now's the time to be preparing your soil for fall planting. Go by Nature's Way, go by on a Friday and

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You are listening to your garden line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. I was talking with David from RCW Nurseries, David Williamson, and we were talking about trees yesterday morning, and they have the Williamson Tree Farm up there in Plantersville, and I'm telling you they grow quality trees, have a long list of trees, and they know how to grow them right. So when they get in your yard, they perform right.

They pick the right varieties and species so they will grow here. They know this, They've been doing this a very long time. You can swing by RCW Nursery and talk to them there. Of course, at RCW you got herbs and perennials and annuals and shrubs and native plants. You've got fertilizers that we recommend here on garden line and other products for the soil. We recommend on garden line, great rose selection and so on. But if you need a tree plant at this fault, they'll actually come out

and do that. Give them a call, talk to them about it, or go to the website first. It's r cwnurseries dot com. That is the garden Center. That is where Beltway eight comes in connection with Tambol Parkway two forty nine. It's the intersection between those two. It's easy to get to RCW down there. Just go check it out. And fall is for planting, so the woody ornamentals they

carry from roses to trees. Give them a call. Let's get this done right, and let's get it done now so that you can enjoy that in the years to come. Quality trees, quality work, quality plants in general. From RCW.

it's going to rain for a while. Now's the time to get things done, get your soil prepped, get your plants in the ground, you know, do whatever it takes to move things forward, because when we go into the rainy periods, well then you're ready to go when the rain does stop and we get back out in the gardens. Wren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Gardens Center. There are two garden centers in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park, Kingwood is on Stone Hollow Dry. Both of them are open

seven days a week. I would highly recommend you subscribe to the newsletter online or you can go in the store and do it. They have exclusive discount savings and gardening tips. But I tell you right now, they're getting some of that cooler season fall color dianthus and snap dragons, for example, but also things like petunias that will carry you all the way up to the first freeze. They got fall veggies and herbs and strawberries. And fall is

for planting strawberries, the best season of the year. Don't wait till spring if you can get them in in the fall. They got a plethora of herbs out there, and all the perennial herbs. Great season to be planting perennial herbs. Do you need some shrubs Laura peddlum, which is called Chinese witch hazel, the encrazalias sunshine lagustriums. They have crape myrtles, but you know I have a crate myrtle. Only at Warren's Soevn Guarden Center. They've got this crape myrtle.

It's called the great myrtle. That great myrtle. Crpe myrtle is a little sounds a little confusing to me, but you get the idea. It's very compact. It only gets two feet tall three feet wide. Yes, this is a crate myrtle. You think of crate myrtle's is big tree like things. This is a little short shrub to twenty four inches tall thirty six inches wide. It's got disease

and insect resistance. A beautiful old plant. I was telling Lee earlier out of Humble that this would be a good one to put in a container on the patio. Makes it easy and it's you know, we call crp myrtles the tree of one hundred Days, meaning a blooms for one hundred days basically three months oft of the year. You're gonna have ballooms on a cranpe myrtle, and that

there are not many plants that can do that well. Anyway, while you're out there, you can get all the different fertilizers that you're going to want to be putting down that I talk about here on Guarden Line. You're going to get them all out there. We've got some special pricing going on with those. But just one last thing. Both locations have a tree sale thirty percent off any tree. I don't know how. I don't know what else you could ask for. It's all out there at Warren Southern Gardens,

Kingwood Garden Center out in Kingwood, Texas. I like going. I need to get back out there. I've been out there in low Wall, go back out and see. I love going to our garden centers and seeing what's going on. You know, I talk about Houston being a destination city. For garden centers, and it really is. When I say Houston, I mean the greater Houston area. I have been to garden centers and cities all over the country, starting here

in Texas, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio. There's some great garden centers in Texas, but there's not a city that has this many unbelievably great garden centers. There's just not you know, travel all over the place, DC, Atlanta, Richmond, wherever I go, I go to garden centers, and I always come. I see some cool ones, but I always

come back and go. If you're in Houston, north, south, east, west, central, any direction you want to go, there isn't a garden center worth taking family when they visit to see it's that good. And Warren Southern Gardens is exactly that, that kind of garden center. We're fortunate here, so take advantage of our great fortune. You know, when it comes to fall planting, and fall is the best planting season of

the year. If you live south of Houston, you've got a outstanding place to get everything you need to get the soil ready for fall planting. And that is Ciena Malch, Cienamulch pristine. I love going in there. I mean about molt place is pristine. It's beautiful, they take it. It's just well organized. It's just attractive place with quality products. I love going in. And you're not going to find friendlier staff, then you get it. Ciana Malts. Those folks

are just wonderful with customers. They're outstanding. They're open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two. They're closed today, but they'll be back open on Monday. They're north of Roast Sharon on FM five twenty one. The website, just if you do nothing else, write this down cianamaltch dot com. Go check it out. Do you need raw do you need composts? Do you need maltz? Do you need bed mixes? Do you want some of

the airrooom soils, veggie nerd mixed? They have that there. And then every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline, all of them are there at cnamals. So when you drive off by the way, they deliver within about twenty miles for a small fee. But when you leave Cianamlts, whether you're they're bringing it to you or you're you know, going there to get it. You have what you need to set your plants up for success this fall. First soil then comes plants. Don't delay, make hey while the

sun shines. The sun will be shining tomorrow. Go buy Ciena mulch and get some good stuff so that you have a wonderful fall planting season. That's about the the best way that I can put it. I was like going in there. It's a fun place. You know, you know you're a horticulture racet. You know you're a gardener when dirt is fun. I know, I know it's called soil, not dirt, but some of you call it dirt. That's okay, you can do that if you want. But and I get excited about the dirt, and I'll go to a

place like animals. I'll go up to the piles, scratch in there, grab a handful and smell it, because I love the smell of fresh quality mulches and composts and mixes. In fact, one of these days, I'm gonna post a picture to Facebook of me making compost angels. You know about snow angels, right, I can lay down and compost and make compost angels. I think that would be a'd be fun. Get in touch with your enter microbe here on garden line. All right, enough of that silliness. Hey,

seven one three two one two k t rh. That's our phone number. Seven one three two one two kt r H. I uh in my garden in the back. I was out, I was away for a while. And you know okra. Okre's kind of like zucchini. Uh, it's ready today, and it's big enough to build a canoe tomorrow, and it moves fast, and so uh there is. I had some ochre that I just dropped on the head to drop on the ground. Some of it that was in between edible and just totally woody. I pick and

I dry it. And I don't know if you've ever done this before, but if you got okra, when it starts producing, you have sometimes more okre than you know what to do with. Well, if the ones that are a little past top quality for eating, I bring them inside, slice them and dry them. I got a food dryer, and I put them in a jar, a sealed jar, and keep them. And so this winter, when there's not a lot of okra in the garden, you can go in. You can take that okra, put it in a soup.

It reconstitutes pretty well and it works really well. I also grind it up. I've got a little VitaminX type thing that has a one of the containers grind stuff up really well. And I have powdered okra that I will use by the tailspoon in soups and things to thicken soups. And plus you get all the benefits of okra. Okra has you know, two different kinds of spiber, the soluble and the insoluble, and both have their own health benefits. All right, I'm not going to go back into don't

get me started on okra. You know how that goes. Let's take a little break. I'll be right back. Here's the number in the meantime seven one three two one two kt r H. Be right back, Scott, you doing, I'm well, thank you.

soil is soft, you can pull it. If you've got a whole lot of area, you can get a very thin hoe. I was talking to some folks up in the Conra at the home show yesterday about this. But you slide that hole right under the surface horizontally. You're not chopping at all. You're just standing upright and just sliding the whole unto the surface and it just clips

that single route coming down. And then carefully lift it up and throw it away or carefully rake it because there's a ton of seed on it, and the more you shake it and jostle it, the more seeds get back into your soil. So getting the old plants out of there and then throwing mulch over the top to completely block the sunlight is probably the best way to

deal with spurge. There are pre emergent herbicides that can be used, but in garden beds, we moved the soil around so much that the pre emergence we sort of mess up what they would have done by changing the soil around physically. In a lawn, it means your lawn is too thin, and you got to get that turf thicker, and it'll show spurge is not a problem in a dense lawn. And so if it's in a lawn, and yeah, just mow, water, fertilize your way back to a denser lawn. That's long term. That's long term.

mid to late February would be fine. You may have to do another application about sixty days later to extend that further along, but you apply it watered into the surface and that prevents both grassy and most broad leaf weeds as well.

to your soil as well. Works good for the lawn for giving a little boost to your lawns. And it's just an outstanding product because it also does help with the organic the microbes, the things that are helping you in the soil. And it smells the good as I

like to put it. You just want to take another loop around six ' ten on the way home, because just to enjoy the smell in your car all right, Sweet Green joking aside, It's available to Katie Ace Hardware out there on pin Oak Katie and Single Ranch also on Mason Road is another place that you can get sweet Green or up and down in a tescasita at the It's hard run timber forest. All places that carry that product. We are going to now go to Susan in League City and Susan, how can we help?

come out at night. I can't tell you what did it, but I do know if things with mouths that can eat leaves are caterpillars and beetles and deer, they are also grasshoppers, but grasshoppers don't feed at night like that.

That's fine. You could and they will come up next year if it's a special variety like I've been growing evergreen, everleaf emerald towers very upright, Okra, that's a special bread variety, and so the seeds aren't going to come back true to form. Just Okra, you can save.

happier as a result. I've got a special guest coming on right now, and we are going to talk about all kinds of things. Specifically, we're going to aim ourselves at some vegetables for fall, talk a little bit about fall gardening. And that is Joey from the Enchanted Gardens Garden Center in Richmond, Texas. That's just up on toward the Katie fullsher direction, Upper Richmond. Joey, Welcome to garden Line. Good to have you with us.

So I just kind of want to turn you loose a little bit to give some tips for people that are listening that you've learned are important for success with a fall vegetable garden. What are some things that you would say people need to know.

enough room, I like to stagger crops. You know, if you're gonna plant twelve broccoli plants, don't plant them all at one time because you don't want all that broccoli to become ready at the same time. What are you going to do with it? All? Right, So if you'll go to plan you know, three, three or four plants every you know, week to ten days, then that'll stagger your production some and you won't have broccoli coming after your years.

a harvest. So timing is important, and I think that's great that you all have those planting dates on there.

And like raised beds. I think you I've seen you doing some videos on vego bed or some other kind of bed talk a little bit about the raised beds and the convenience of that.

literally asphalt underneath it. So they turned asphalt into a garden with a nice quality raised bed. Yeah, it is a good thing.

it out a little bit. Herbs kind of go with vegetables being another edible, and boy, fall is definitely the season for herbs other than basil. You know, fall planting of our perennial herbs is just such a wise idea. And I know You guys carry a lot of different types of herbs, don't you.

our vegetables can be attractive as well. And so I know you guys really are into the containers you guys are having. Maria always built outstanding containers out there. But you could do a container with vegetables that may have some alyssam around the side, you know, to make it attractive, or some chives at the room in the center. Oh yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of ways.

I'll be done picking the green beans. It took me forty five minutes to pick them all. They were so many, it was I was blown away by the production of those Valentino green beans.

You mentioned collars earlier. A good green. Uh, there is a plantain. There is a sorrel Srel is kind of cool. I like the little red stripe leave one kinds of lemony flavor that you can add to soups and salads. Yeah, but it just goes on and on and on of healthy things that the way I like to put it is you can make a really tasty salad without them to slather at in a thousand island dressing. If you'd like to cut back on some of that stuff.

that online. That's exciting. I like that petunia. Yeah, but the fall bloomers, things like I mentioned Mexican mint marigold that blooms in the fall. We have the bush salvia, the Salvia leucantha that blooms primarily in the fall, and their fall aster is good. You know, I was talking earlier on garden Line about the four seasons. Plant for the four seasons, and there's always something that looks good, and so we often forget to plant for fall blooms.

Would you talk a little bit about things that you like for color in the fall.

sun's shining across those pink plumes, they are gorgeous. But yeah, all the the ornamental grasses, this is a great time of year for those.

I think it's good for people to know. You mentioned a light coming through. If you if you put them in places where you see them with the sunlight coming through the seat heads, it's even more beautiful. Like that gulf Newly, you go stand on the sunny side of it, it's not as impressive as it is when you go stand on the other side, the opposite side. In this sun is coming through those kind of ruby colored seed heads.

So do those those three things by seed. Any root crop need to be done by seed. But then they're very easy. Don't be afraid to jump in and try it.

And they do really well in a container too.

nutri Star line is a product called Genesis. It's the newest one that they have, and think of it as a transplanting fertilizer. And I was using it last year. I had some tomato plants that I needed to bump up to a bigger pot, you know, before they went out in the garden, and I mixed some genesis into that soil for the next pot, and oh my gosh, they took off growing. That's what genesis is made for, and not just bumping up, you know, from one size

to another, although it's great for that. But if you're going to put something out in the garden, like maybe even plant of rosebush or one of these fall ornamental grasses or fall perennials that we were talking about earlier, put some genesis into that soil as you dig the hole and then plant the new plant, and you will give it a good head start. It's got microhizel fungi in it which helps work with our roots. That whole soil microbiome is a very important thing on plant success

and genesis. Just a head start on that and then you continue on with your fertilization, whether it's nutrastar products or color Star all from from Nelson Plant Food. They also have of course the Nature Star, and I just encourage you to give it a try. Anytime you're going to put a plant from one pot into another, or from one pot into the ground, think about genesis. Just have a jar of it on hand on the shelf, and whenever you're going to plant stuff which year round,

you're going to be ready to go. Makes it really really easy. You're listening to Guardline and we were talking about vegetables, and I want to continue that discussion with you just a little bit here. You know, the people often ask questions about, you know, what, how do I know should I use seed or should I use transplants, or what's the best way with this or that? And I'm going to just give you a few tips on that. First of all, you can as a general guide, you

can do either way. You have the plant seeds a little earlier, and with transplants, you know, you can wait until it's the time to get those in the ground to plant, and so seed there's more time of things that can go wrong between seeds and let's say broccoli, for example, plant broccoli seeds earlier, then you would go ahead and then put the transplants in later. And so with transplants it's faster results and it's a little higher chance of success because things can go wrong with seedlings.

With seeds, it's way cheaper, a lot less expensive than transplants. You can go either way. One thing that you don't want to use transplants for are things that have long roots like carrots, for example, the carrots are going to go down no matter what happens, that root is going to get We call it burned, but it hits air in a container and it kills the end of the root. And now you have carrots that have two legs or

three legs or whatever. They're mouformed. So with root crops, I generally like to use those as direct seeded for that and for other reasons too. It's just I mean, can you imagine you want to a whole row of beats or something and you're going to buy that many transplants. That's not really practical to go with most things, though, you get to choose either way that you want to go about it. For another advantage of seeds is that with seeds you can get varieties you can't get as transplants.

You know, there may be a bunch of tomato varieties available at a garden center and that's wonderful, But with seed you have access to hundreds of tomato varieties should you choose to want to try something different. So that's another advantage of the seeds versus the transplants. In general, we're going to take our root crops we're going to take things like sweet corn and green beans, the big old, big seeds types of things, and we're going to plant

those as seeds. And then for the things that may take a little bit longer, like tomatoes, for example, or peppers or whatever, it's better just to go in with a transplant because that way, let's say we're well, let's talk about tomatoes. You know, you get a tomato in the ground end of August, early early September, and you got to have you got to move fast before the first frost or cool weather shuts it down, and so

a transplant gives you that head start. That's another important thing because here we have a short spring season, a short fall season, and there's long summer season in between, and then some freezes in the winter. So while we live in an area with twelve month gardening, our actual individual garden seasons can be a little bit shorter. You go farther north and you can grow stuff all the way through the summer that just fries here. So faster

moving with transplants is an advantage of that. So there's a few thoughts for you to think about. Hopefully that'll be helpful to you. If you'd like to give us a call our phone number seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H one. Last tip on seeds. This is stuff's going through my head here as I think I'm finished talking with seeds, you want to plant them at the right depth. That's very important. And if

you don't know, if the package should tell you. But if you don't know, plant a seed about three or four times. That's with deep, so a small seed wouldn't be planted very deep. A pento bean three or four times. It's with You're going to put it in an inch or so deep and the soil in order to in order to have success with that. There are a few seeds that need to on the surface, and I'm not going to try to name all of them, but the ones that are most practical to mention for the fall

garden or lettuce and carrots. They need light to germinate, specifically the red wavelengths of light, which you don't penetrate down under the soil. So you put those on the surface and you miss them and keep them moist. First of all, the soil should be wet. Put them on the surface and then miss them and keep them moist and they will sprout there. Now, carrots, you bury just that tiny, tiny bed, but not too deep or they'll never,

as they say, see the light of day. But with most seeds, if you don't know three or four times the width of the seed deep is a good estimate. And final tip. If you soak seeds overnight that are the larger ones that are more practical to soak overnight, you get a faster germination because they start to pull water in and swallow up and that starts the biochemical process that makes that seed sprout. So you got okra

seeds we were talking about ochre earlier today. Put them in warm to even hot water and let them sit on the counter overnight, and then go out the next day and plant them. Even spinach seed, you get a better germination stand if you'll soak it overnight and warm water, and then the morning go out and plant those things. Just a tip. Ace hardware stores are all over Houston, which makes them very convenient. Ace hardware stores carry every

fertilizer I talk about. They carry all the products you're going to need to grow insects, diseases, and weeds, which makes it very convenient. It's like a one stop shop. I mean, you need a garden hose or a tool, Aces got it. You want to sprush up your patio with some lighting, or a nice barbecue pit. Who fall gotta have fall barbecues? Right this good time to get buy Ace. Ace Hardware is local, They're convenient, they have great help that can help you find success. And it

doesn't matter what you know. Of course, it's a hardware store. You know, they got plumbing, they got electrical, they had all that kind of stuff that a hardware store has, but they have so so much more. Each is independently owned, so when you walk into an ACE you will be surprised at some stuff that I didn't know they had that in here. I promise you you will feel that way walking into one of our forty Houston area Ace

Hardware stores yesterday. Stopped in to say, hello, I'm going to be out there a little bit later this fall and or this month actually anyway, I was just checking out what all they have. And you know, when I think at Ana, not only do they have great plants, which they do, lots of them, but they've got landscape bling like you just wouldn't believe I mean beautiful arches, and I mean like artwork and stuff to hang.

you earlier. You know, you need to be planting marigals for fall. It's the best season for fall. We think of them this summer, but fall is better for miragles. And they got those there A and A plants and produce. They're on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. I mean, you can't miss it when you're going down one oh five. And if you live up around Lake Conroe, all those great neighborhoods out there, this is your backyard garden center, and you got to go

by and check them out. They also have a landscape crew that does some work in that area around the lake. So you may want to talk to them about that if you'd like a little bit of assistance. But just go in and say hi, and I'll be seeing you there a little bit later this month. I'll tell you more about that in a little bit. Let's go to the phones here. We are gonna go to Magnolia and talk to Rudy. Hello, Ruddy, Hey, how you doing.

a wax myrtle branch, a regular woody shrub. If you can catch it in that semi state it is, that's the easiest to propagate. Take a cutting about four inches long, strip the leaves off the bottom half of it, dip it into a rooting hormones. Very important to get a good rooting hormone. There's liquids and there's powders. If you use a powder you want, then when you stick the cutting, don't just shove it into the soil rooting mix because

that wipes off some of the hormone. Make a little hole, slight, set the cutting in it, and then press the soil gently around the cutting. Okay, just a little quick tip there. Cover it with something clear so light can get in. Do not put it in full sun. Put it in very very bright light. But when you let full sun shine through something clear, well, let me put this way. Go out to your car on the sunny day when the windows are rolled out, it gets hot in there, right,

don't do that. Your cuttings so but they do need light and it takes a while, but they will root that way. That's one option. Another option, if you've got a low growing branch is to bend it down to the soil and bury a section of it out near the end of the branch, very near the end, kind of like the cutting I was talking about. Pin it down. I've used I've used a brick to hold it down.

I've used a bent coat hanger to hold it down underground. Again, rooting hormoned on it, and while it's still attached to mom roots can form where you cracked and bent that branch. And when I say crack it, I mean like if you bend a woody branch, it cracks and it becomes like an elbow. It's hinged, but it's not broken off. That's right, I mean, And so that's called a tip layer.

That would be another option. You just don't make as many cuttings that way as you do, I mean, as many plants as you do with cuttings.

Thanks a lot, appreciate your call. You're listening to guardline number seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H Nitropos has a product called bug out Max. Bugout Max is an insecticide that kills one hundred and thirty different kinds of insects. I mean, if you put it down watered

in the the ingredient comes off those granules. It gets in the thatch and if you got chinch bugs hiding in there, it'll get them sideweb worms hiding in during the daytime and the thatch come out at night to feed on the on the grass leaves. Uh, And it works on that as well, and it lasts. It's gonna last through the whole season, so you don't have to apply it and reapply it and reapply it. You're gonna find it at RCW Nurseries. If you want to go to the Arbor Gate, they've got it there.

our first two up. I want to remind you that this next Saturday, I'm going to be in clear Lake at the Wildbird's Unlimited store there in clear Lake, and I hope you'll come out and see me. Uh. They're gonna be given away like a hummingbird nectar with nectar defender, a variety of they're really good seed blends, and I'm telling you, nobody makes a seed blend like Wildbirds Unlimited. Does you know all that junk those red bebes that cheap seed has that birds kick out on the ground

and don't eat. You think you're getting a good deal, But if if they are more personable ends up on the ground, how good of a deal was that?

get some bird stuff, but not just that. I mean, bring me some samples of plants, bring me some pictures, or just come in and brag on your garden. I'll listen to it for lo fa. I love to meet folks that listen to guarden Line, and here's a chance. So I hope all of you done that whole southeast region down there. Come on over to clear Lake next Saturday. I'll be there from eleven thirty for one thirty. I'll tell you more about it next Saturday morning on the show.

But mark that on your calendar, hey, and we'll be right back to the garden.

not just roses, but shrubs, even perennials. Using the rose mix to help build and create a bed. Make sure it's high and well drained. Outstanding choice right there. The Premium potting mix UH is again to use the word outstanding. It fits, that's it because it includes everything you need to have success with something you're growing in a container, whether it's an indoor plant, something out there on the patio. Landscaper's Pride Premium Potting makes as good topsoil that they have.

Excellent for filling in low areas. You know, if you're if you've got some holes in the yard or low spots, you just kind of want to fill them in a little bit. That is a good choice. It doesn't it doesn't have the high organic matter content level because organic matter decomposes away and you're trying to bring the soil up, not bring it up and have it go back down. Outstanding choice topsoil and then black velvet molts. What more can we say? It's not dyed. Had that conversation with

someone yesterday out at the Conro Home and Garden Show. No, it is not dyed. It's naturally dark colored and beautiful. All from Landscaper's Pride. You can find out more at Landscaperspride dot com. Like where to find it and I tell you this widely available in the Houston area. You will not have trouble locating a quality product from Landscaper's Pride. I want to go out to the phones. Uh, I think, Uh, we've Scott from Spring. I believe you been holding a bit. Scott.

Thanks for being patient and welcome to Guardenline.

kinds of different plants, not just lawns. You've heard me talk about the purple bag hu Mates plus, which is concentrated compost in a bag.

a micro Life soil and plant Energy. It's an all organic soil. You can spray plants with it too. By the way. You can use it as a foldier if you like, over sixty three different minerals. And again, like all microlife products, when you enhance the microbial content of the soil, you enhance plant growth. Micro Grow is a bioinoculant. It's a dry granular product that just is loaded with trillions of microbes that are part of colonizing the plant

root to protect it. Did you know plant root exudes substances to attract and support microbes because they are the defenders. Imagine like you are in a fort and you've got the infantry all around the fort protecting against the invaders. That's what the microbes are doing. And when you use products like these microlife products, you are enhancing that support level outside the walls of the fort. That is exactly

what's going on. That's the one way to put it, and I think it's a good analogy that works for me. All Right, let's go to Cyprus, Texas, and we're going to Nick. Hello, Nick, welcome to Guardline. Hello.

good stuff. You're lucky to live in that area. Yeah, yeah, I got all those all the time. It's kind of funny, so I appreciate it. Thank you. It's funny, but it's fun too. Thanks Nick. Appreciate the call, appreciate having you having you around. Hey, we're gonna go to Tony now and hello, Tony, welcome to Guardline.

That is what we're here for. We're going to go back to the phones now and talk to Tony. Tony, thanks for hanging on through that false alarm. I get to go in having so much fun here. I forget to look at the clock. So I did get. I did get the pictures that you sent, and you've got You've got two different plants there. One's variegated and one's not okay. And so the one I just want to make one statement first part I talk about how to control them, or I mean, how to prune them. Uh,

the one that's variegated, it's got the white leaves. If you look in the planet, you'll see some leaves that are all green. That plant is notorious for reverting back to its all green form. So when you see that, you want to follow that green branch all the way back to where it attaches to another branch and prune it out there, or the green will in time take over the white of the bush. All right, So you have to surgically remove the green because it continues to

revert its way back. It is a it is a lagustrium type plant, and the pruning of it is you can do two things. Most people will share them into some form that is appealing. So I would take it in the stage it's in right now and cut it back maybe by about thirty percent, not much more than that. It will sprout back out, and as it does, we

just have to share them periodically. Now we're going into winter, so a lot of succulent new growth that will occur after you cut back could be winter killed, and so we want to go easy with it. But starting next spring we can begin to print it more heavily. Because that sidewalk, that plant will take over and your guests will have to walk out in the yard to get by. It'll run them right off the sidewalk there, So don't trust it. Yeah, Okay, how long have those been on

the ground? About a year, about a year, okay, all right, yeah, well, yeah, I think it's a great it's a great plant to have and I like those, but you just got to watch for them. Also watch a little bit for mealy bug. Sometimes they're a little bit prone toward meetleabug type issues.

you sort of reduce the size that way. But that's a lot more tedious, and I think in the setting they're going, you're probably gonna need to share them to keep them in bounds with the space.

they got fall mums in. They look outstanding, really really nice. A lot of annual flowers for color. You never have an excuse to not have color around here. Buchanan is always going to keep you stocked up on everything that you need. If you are interested in native plants. I don't know a place that has a bigger selection than Buchanans Plants. One plant I was talking to somebody the other day. They have it at Buchanans by the way,

button bush, button bush. If you've got an area that's poorly drained and you don't want to spend the money on increasing the drainage in that area with subsurface drainage plant of button bush. It can grow in a swamp. I mean, it is very tough, very tolerant of wet conditions. It is a butterfly attracting plant, has very unusual little spiked balls as flowers. It's kind of like that you know that skyscraper up in Dallas. It's got the little round looks like a dandelion head up on top. That's

kind of what button bush looks like. And they've got it at Buchins as well as a lot of other native plants. They all that's what they specialize in. That's why the name is Buchanans Plants. Again, Eleventh Street in the Heights. Go by there. And the other thing you need to do is when go online to be Cannonsplas dot com and sign up for their newsletter. It is outstanding and there's a lot of information on the website as well, tips and tricks. For example, they are always

putting educational material up. If you want to have success, trust the folks at Buchanan's Plants on Eleventh Street and the Heights. I'm going to go back to the phones here and check my clock, make sure I'm making the same mistake again. Mary lou and Northwest Houston, Welcome to garden Line.

that rose back after it blooms the bloom season. Buds are already forming on that plant, and if you prune it now, you're not going to have a bloom show in the spring because you're cutting away the bloom buds. So if you can wait until after it blooms and then cut it back pretty severely and get fresh new growth and train that growth in the direction you want it to go when it's in your power, Mary, if you can orient, we call them canes the shoots of

a climbing rose. If you can anto shoots horizontally back and forth, they bloom better that way because if you let it go just straight vertically up in the air, you'll get more blooms up on top, but not as many up and down around the branch. But as they kind of go horizontal, you get more bloom forming all along those branches. So some people will weave them back and forth on our trellis. If you have the time and inclination to.

Is a soil well drained? And if not, can we fix that? Are you watering it adequately?

out all the dead branches. And then I still would wait on the serious pruning until spring, because you don't want to force a lot of succulent growth that were we to have a good coal winter snap, it would kill that growth. And because it's not hardened off, so let's hold off on serious pruning until springtime. And that'd be my best suggestion. Okay, hey, I've got a run. We're taking up against a hard break here, but good

luck with that rose. And if you need more help, call me back, send me some pictures next time and we'll talk further. All right, folks, I'm going to take a little break seven one three two one two kt r H. And when we come back, Divana out and Katie you will be our first up handle here and help people with In the meantime, I want to tell about as mite. Azamite is the micro nutrient source that we recommend here on garden Line to provide those essential

nutrients that are needed in small amounts. Just the fact that they're needed in small amounts does not change the fact that they are essential. And the way I like to put it is, if you could take every molecule of manganese out of the soil, a plant cannot live. Any plant cannot live. If you take every molecule of zinc out of the soil, any plant cannot live. Do you see what I'm saying. Asimite provides those nutrients. It builds the bank account. You can do it when you

fertilize in a separate hopper. Fertilize and then come back and fill up with azamite and do that, or you can do it any month of the year. It does not have to be done at the same time you fertilize, and let's you just want to save the time because you already out there doing it. Asamite Texas dot Com is the website. But remember asamite. When you are looking at my schedule, you will see that I have on there micro nutrients supplements can be done during a wide

time of the year. Now is find time to go ahead and do it with azamite. If you got a vegetable garden to you throw some out there. It takes about I think it's about ten pounds per thousand square feet and a vegetable garden and that way the produce that you're eating, you want it to be chalk full of all the different nutrients, that nutrients that our bodies need to and Asamite Texas can do that. I want to go now to let's see Divanna in Katie. Hello Divanna, and welcome to guard Line.

it's not a big concern. You just pull that zucchini off, cut away the parts that have it, and keep going. You know, it's not going to ruin ruin the other parts of the fruit. But yep, that's what it's called. Nothing really for you to do about it other than provide good care. And I think I don't think it's going to be an ongoing problem for your zucchini.

zucchini across the yard to gift them. Some more said, have fun, have fun in the garden, Divanna, thanks for the call.

And so yeah, i'd get some of that stuff and mix it in.

a bulk, it'll tell you. If you're gonna buy in bags, it'll tell you, you know, some of these bags or one cubic feet from heirloom, some er two cubic feet, it'll tell you. He'll even tell you how many five gallon buckets it takes to do what you want to do. It's a great calculator. And at that Heirloom Soils of Texas site, that's where you'll find it. I'm gonna go now to uh, let's see here Corey in. We've got about a minute. Let's see if we can get started. We'll finish up after a break.

lot of damage. And that's the main reason why I've been friending them for aesthetics and.

prune higher than three o'clock and nine o'clock. Does that make sense if I do it that way?

basically in a bottle, follow the label. Put those together in a watering can and drench that down over your plants. Now that Medina plus, you know, you can use it as a folier on all kinds of things. You put in a hose in spreader on all kinds of plants. You can do it on flower pots and whatnot as a sprinkling can over over the plants. But I'm talking about for transplanting. This is another use of it. It's a very good product. And fall is for planting. You're

going to be planting vegetables. You're gonna be planting herbs, You're gonna be planting shrubs and trees and vines and grounds covers, ornamental grasses and all of that. Whatever goes in the ground, give it a good drench with the Medina plus. The contents of that product are going to be very beneficial for your plants. For example, the Medina Plus. It's got what is in Medina Soil Activator plus, forty

different trace elements. It's got growth hormones in it, things like magnesium and iron and zinc and a lot of the things that enhance plant growth. And the list is a mile long that all benefit plants. So if you want better blooming, better leaf growth, better fruit set. If you want transplanting success, even seed treatment, Medina plus and throw some of that humate you maic acid in, especially when you're doing watering in of a transplant. All from

Medina and Medina products are widely available. You can find those all over the place. You hear me talk about a garden center, a feed store, ace hardware store, Southwest fertilizer, all those kind of places or where you're going to find Medina. We're going to go now to Spring and talk to Bill. Hey Bill, welcome to Guarden Line.

to control them. You can spray them if they're small meea bugs you know on a house plant kind of thing, a little Q tip with alcohol and just every time you see anything white, just get in there and kill it and do that. If it's an outdoor plant, systemics work. You put them in the soil. They're an insecticide. They go into the plumbing of the plant. The mealea bug

sucks the juices and gets the poison that way. The only drawback on systemics is if it's a flowering plant that bees come to, well it's in the plumbing of the plant and that's not good for the bees. So that's the drawback on that horticulture oil and sexile soaps. When the meadia bugs are young, that works. It's just with that cotton you're covering, It's hard to get a

pesticide to the meai bug. That's why I like to go through the plumbing of the plant, because they can't survive without sticking their mouth then and sucking juices out of the plant.

You can listen to us on the radio. Of course, you can get your iHeartMedia app, put one on your phone and take your phone out in the garden and garden on a Saturday and Sunday morning. Listen to Garden Line while you're doing it. We can do all the above. Hey, don't forget. Next week on Saturday, eleven thirty to twelve thirty, I will be at the wild Birds Unlimited in clear Lake. It's on the corner of El Dorado and clear Lake City Boulevard. There's gonna be lots of giveaways. I'll be

there answering any kind of gardening questions you have. I hope you'll come out and see me.