Interview with The Texas Garden Guy Destin

yes you can. I was talking to somebody the other day at wild Birds down in clear Lake and he was showing me pictures of his avocado tree and it frozen back. I think a couple of times, I believe, but I mean it came right back like Gangbusters, and

he's getting a lot of avocados out of it. We just have options down here, and I realized in the listening area we got folks you know, up in Huntsville on Interseate forty five and over down toward Karpas and Louisiana, and so there's a big range here, so any one plant may not go all areas, but my goodness, we have a lot of great, great options in this region for growing plants. And fall is a season for planting, so I want to encourage you to get out there

and try planting something. Yesterday I was out at A and A Plants and Produce and Montgomery, and thanks for everybody that came out. I had a great time visiting with you guys, and as usual, you had a lot of questions. We kind of got hung up on weeds there for a while, and I was getting depressed because I want to talk about flowers and fruit and vegetables, loans and other things, and we were delving into how to kill nuts, edge and whatnot. But hey, it's your questions.

That's what we're here for. And if I've answered them a hundred times, I'll answer them one hundred first time. I don't mind. I know how it is. That gardener has been doing this thirty five years and we typically have the same questions. And some people are new to gardening, and you know, they may have questions that a veteran gardener would go, oh my gosh, don't you know the answer to that? Well, I don't do that. I mean, seriously, if it's your question, it's going to get respected, it's

going to get answered. That's how I look at it, because my goal is to take people that have never gardened before and make them enthusiastic green thumb, which means your thumb. It's educated gardeners. That's how that works. So give us a call. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, thanks to A and A for having me out yesterday. It

was great. While we were there, I was looking around at all the beautiful plants that they have in stock, and they are loaded up and it looks great out there. And of course, you know when you go to Ana, you've got every kind of fertilizer and soil product that I talk about here that are available. Just looking through all the different bag products and the fertilizers from Nitrofossen Nelson and from Microlife, you know, things from heirloom soils

in Nature's way. They stay stocked up. And those of you who live out there in Montgomery, in Conroe, out by the Lake Lake Conroe neighborhoods, it's your backyard garden center and you need to run over there and check it out because it's close and it is well stocked, and the folks that are there to help you are very very good. I was talking with one of the staff.

There's a master partner actually, someone that had been in some of my training classes when I speak in Montgomery County, and you know, that's that's kind of person that's going to be able to point you in the right direction. And that's what we like about independent garden centers is educated folks. I've talked about this before, but I had been in big box stores and I'm not going to name the stores. You know, it doesn't matter what I put the name on. It applies to about all of them.

But I've been in big box stores and sometimes I'll go in and ask questions just to see, you know, the knowledge level of the staff. And you know, I'm stand in front of a pesticide aisle asking a question and the answer was like, are you kidding me? It would have been the worst thing for somebody to do. And I just say, oh, really, how long you been working here? I've been here a week? Oh really, we'll be doing for that. Well. In one case the answer

was I was managing the jewelry counter. In another case it was I was cutting hair in a beauty shop. And do you see what I'm saying? That is not a person unless they just happened to be very knowledgeable as a gardener to be selling you pesticides or to be pointing you to the plant that's going to survive. Here. Another pet peeve of mine is going to those places. And I know people go in because they think, well, this is gonna be cheap. Well, remember, cheap and economical

are not the same thing. And here's why. If you buy a plant that dies, if you buy a product that doesn't work or damages you're lawn, that's not cheap. You're going to go back after to buy another one. And other things and I see that happen. But I've been in those stores and they're selling raspberries, black cab raspberries. They don't grow down here, and maybe you kept one alive for five minutes, but listen, they don't grow down here.

They're selling conquered grapes that down here. If you're in New York, that's great. That's a good grape. You know. Niagara is another one like that, conquered ripens, one berry at a time. Just go buy some Welch's grape juice that's conquered grapes and enjoy that, and don't try to plant one in your yard. But they're for sale here. And I could go on and on on and on. Northern high bush blueberries we can grow rabbitized in southern high Bush. We cannot grow Northern high bush down here,

not successfully long term. And they shouldn't be settling them. But hey, big chain, that's what happens. All right, I'm through griping about that for now. Let's go out to the phones. See we're going to go to Kingwood now and talk to Angelo. Good morning Angelo. All right, we're gonna put Angelo on hold. Do we have you Angelo?

microbes out there. Sometimes we think of funguses or bad bacteria or bad and some are, but there are a lot of good ones, a lot of ones that benefit our plants, that help turn organic matter like tree trunks back in the soil that would be the fungib or really shine at that microlife has put the kinds of beneficial microbes that I'm talking about in its products, and you'll find that there's a product called Microgo bio Andoculant.

It's kind of a maroonish color, dark maroonish color bag and it also comes in the little clear jars with the screwtop lids. It has sixty three different beneficial strains of micro organisms, all kinds of different basillas and pseudomonas and streptomycees and others that are good guys. They do a lot of things. They fight disease, they outcompete bad organisms on the surfaces of plants. They connect to roots and help the roots to thrive. They just do a

lot of things. And Microlife biinoculant is something that you can put out at any time of the year. Now it'd be a fine time to do it. I think anything we do prior to the season where we start to see brown patch and large patch is a good thing because the more that you enhance that plan, the more you protect that plant, the better your chances are to have success. And so try that micro grow biinoculant, either by the sack or by the large jar. Either way you go, I think you will be very pleased

with it. Now you can use it on things other than your lawn. You can use it around all the plants that you have. Micro grow non occulant for microlife. Something to consider, and I think you should. I'm going to go now out to Wharton and we're going to talk to Ann. Hello, Anne, Welcome to garden line.

what you're looking for. If you will spray upward from underneath the plant with that kneem oil or any kind of an oil, summer oil, a horticultural oil, don't do it during the middle of a ninety degree day. You'll do it at a cooler time of day that that will cover and smother those And so you're if you stay at that for a period of time, not every day, but you know, once a week or so, you can

break that life cycle that way. There's also systemics that you can put in the soil that go up in the plant and anything sucking juices out of the plant, like those white flies, then it will get them. But I prefer to go the other route if you could, but you're just gonna have to kind of stay on it to break up that life cycle.

bunge and wash every leaf with the soapy sponges. It is not practical, No, unless you have a very smart plan.

We'll have some giveaways and it's gonna be a fun time. So tell you friends and come on out and see me. I don't get that far out of town very often.

on FM five twenty one. And you know what I say, brown stuff for green stuff, meaning you get that soil perfect and whatever plant you put in is going to be very happy and you're going to pick good plans. But if you don't start with the soil, you're making a mistake. Ciena Maltch is the place for the brown stuff, meaning you can buy composts, you by bed mixes like Veggie and HERBX from Heirloom Soils. They carry that one there.

Cianamulch has only quality products and they have every fertilizer you hear me talk about every brand, you know everything Microlife and Nelson's and nitrofoss, the products from Landscaper's Pride and Medina and Heirloom Soils, Asimite, all of that, all the soil stuff is there at Cienamlch. Of course, they also have rock beautiful rock gravel for creek drain ways and things. Everything you need is there. You just need to go Cienamultch dot com. That's the website. Cenamultch dot com.

They are close today, close on Sundays, but they're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five and Saturday from seven thirty to two. Let's go now out to kindod Taxis.

surface that are pulling moisture out of the grass. And also, you know when you have a whole lot of woody roots, there's not as much soil volume for the for the grassroots to be in and the closer you get to the pine, the worse that is because the bigger or roots you got, And so it's a factor of all

of those things. I think the main thing you can do is just make sure it gets adequate water during periods when it hasn't rained, make sure you give it a good deep soaking, and continue to do the fertilizations that help provide the nitrogen needed for vigor. Of course, we're entering fall now, so it's time not for high nitrogen, but it's time to go to fall type fertilizers. But that's what's within your power.

That's where all the info sheets I'm putting together are. We're continuing to grow it. We got plans for some new developments. So just bookmark gardening with Skip dot com and it helps. It helps me answer your questions because rather than taking a lot of airtime to try to explain something, I can put a publication together, may even have diagrams or something on it and it just directs you exactly and it's just easy and fast for you to get to and get your answers. So I encourage

you to do that. But as a mite, micronutrients important trace minerals that plants have to have to survive. Putting them in the soil bank account so as the grass grows and needs them, it's there and you can use it in flower beds, you can use it in your gardens. I use it in vegetable gardens myself. But it's it's a great product and it goes a long way because you don't need a lot of micro nutrients, but you do need them, and so that's how as might works.

Let's see how are we doing here on time. We're about running out of time here for the next break, so we're going to hold here if you would like to give us a call to be up after the break. Seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two. Hey, welcome back. We are back on a nice Sunday morning, and I'm

glad you're listening in today to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a beautiful garden, a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and all it takes is a little good information and some quality plants from a place that knows what they're doing. And that would be our mom and pop garden centers, all independent garden centers, if you will, the ones that are from here, that live here, the garden here, and that

know how to garden here. That is very important. And a good example of that is Warren Southern Gardens out there in Kingwood and Kingwood Garden Center. They're both out in Kingwood. They've got new arrival, a nice group of citrus has arrived out there. This would be a good time to grab some get those in the ground fig trees as well. They have several different varieties, some you've probably never even heard of, that you can try out out at the Warren Southern Gardens. For example, they have

fall veggies. It's time man to get in your cabbage and Brussels sprouts, coloreds, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, all kinds of things can be planted as we move into this cool season. And a nice shipment of cactus, including some really rare gems like the variegated chin cactus and the ghost cactus. I know you're thinking, what, what's a ghost cactor? Well go find out, go go check them out. It's time to get your planters ready for fall. They've got all

the plants to have a beautiful fall planter. Now, if you don't know how to do it, you know, it's like I don't know how to do that. I don't know which one's a pick. They'll help you or drop your planters off and say you do it, and they'll do it and you come back and pick them up. Of course it gots to do that, but they are professionals and they can create some gorgeous, gorgeous planters for you for fall, and I know you would love to

have a beautiful place going into this fall. Five bucks off micro Life sixty four, Microlife brown Patch, a nitrophost sweet Green, and Azamite through the end of this month. It ends September thirtieth, five dollars off each bag. Good deal. There's also sale on Bugginator for the pest control from Nitrofoss and they're super Turf from Nitrofoss. They have a tree sale going on right now now while supplies last,

but thirty percent off any tree. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is if you're going to plant a tree or a shrub or a woody vine, get it in in the fall. The best planning season is coming up the next two months or just prime time for planning. You plan now, but it is prime time in the fall, and thirty percent off is a good deal. I mean that there's your chance right there. Don't forget. When you get a tree, you need to get the things to

help the roots get established, the roots stimulator. You've got your compost materials. You're working in not the planning hole, but a very large area around the tree. Those tree roots are going to be primarily in the top foot of soil over time, and you don't put it in the planning hole, but you do it in a large area. So, for example, you've got a shale compost mix from airloom soils of Texas. They have that at War and Seven Guards and Kingwack Garden Center. So don't forget described the

newsletter too. While you're out there. I wanted to let's see, I was going to I want to make a couple of comments about a couple things that i'd like to When I can occasionally talk to you about landscape tips. You know, just some ideas things that you might want to be aware of, and one of them, let's see here. First thing I want to talk about is landscape planning

from a standpoint of texture. You know, when we look at a landscape and we want to plant things, we think about what kind of flowers can I plant there, or shrubs or things, but also consider texture. Texture means the big bold leaves of elephant ears or kalladiums versus the very fine textured leaves of something like, for example, firecracker fern. It's also called firecracker plant. It's a type of Ruscellia. This thing comes out of the ground. It's

almost like a fountain. It comes out of the ground the straight stems with lots of small stems, and it loads up typically with a coral red flower. There's also a white form and kind of a yellowish form that are less common. But these coral red flowers are heavy and it makes each of the little small thin stems hang over, so it's just like it's weeping. But it's this giant mound of tubular flowers that hummingbirds and butterflies love.

But it's a fine textured plant. That is a cool plant, and you can get them at our garden centers too. By the way, they freeze to the ground in a good, good hard cold snap, and then you just cut them off and they come right back out again. They look good. But that's an example of a fine textured plant. There's all kinds of textures to leave. Some are kind of soft and almost a velvety feel. Some are very glossy

and shiny. When you do a landscape, don't just think about you know, it's a shrub or it's a hour or whatever. Think about those textures and mix it up a little bit. It really adds interest to have a variation in textures in your landscape. All right, here's a tip. You are listening to Guardenline our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one

three two one two five eight seven four. By the way, that firecracker fern gets about three to four feet tall, and because the weight of the blooms kind of causes the branches to lean out. You know, it may be four or five feet or your real ears is really happy, even a little wider in time. But you can prune it. You can trim it. You can control some of that,

but well it's a good plant. Love that plant. I have been yesterday, of course, I was at at A and A Plants and Produce, And as I mentioned while ago, I'm going to be at the Wharton Feed Ace Hardware store next weekend, Saturday, the twenty eighth of September, and it's going to be an after lunch thing from one to three. So grab grab some lunch and then come on out to Wharton Ace Hardware, Wharton Feed and Ace

Hardware store. They've gotten all set up out there. Y'all are fortunate to have that come in to the community out there, because it's gonna be a great store. It is a great store for being out there, and I'm going to be giving away some things as well as answering your gardening questions. And I don't get out to Wharton very far, so people listening down in Corpus Christy, I don't know, you know, be a fun day trip. Come on out. Where have you lived down in that direction?

Come on out and see me out there at the Wharton Ace Hardware next Saturday, September twenty eighth. And again the time is not like my normal times, A little bit later from one to three one pm to three pm, I'll be out there, so hope you can come out and see me at the Ace Hardware. You know Ace Hardware's. We've got ACE Hardware's all over our Greater Houston area. They're forty stores in our Greater Houston Ace Hardware Group here,

and it makes it really easy. All you have to do is go to Acehardware dot com and you can find a store near you, like Warden Ace Hardware for example, if you go to the store locator, and it makes it easy. Now when you get to ACE, you're going

to find the fertilizers I talk about. You're going to find everything you need to have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape, whether you're managing pest, suedes and diseases, whether you are wanting to fertilize and stimulate the plants to grow organic products, synthetic products, whether you need tools, whatever, If you're just setting up a beautiful outdoor space in the garden with some landscape lights, and you know those little strings of I call them beer garden lights, but

you know there's little strings of lights that don't shine really bright, but they create that overall this really nice glow of bombience in the back. They have things like that, things to really take it up a notch out there in the outdoor living spaces that we have. And it's solid A's Hardware and you need to go into an

ACE Hardware because it is amazing what they have. Now, these are independently on stores and you never I mean there may be fudge bar, a really cool fudge bar in one or a place that you know, etches, cutting boards and things as for gifts, and it's just like, oh, I didn't know they had that. I promise you there's going to be some Oh I didn't know they had that. When you go into your local ACE Hardware store, it's a great place forget purchasing too. Well, I got to

take a break. I'll be right back.

of that are now coming on the market. I don't know. Somebody crawling through some jungle somewhere found it and drug it back and started propagating it. It's really cool. And if you are into herbs, if you're into edibles, fruit, vegetables and herbs, for example, there's that. If you just want to look at hummingbirds and butterflies and whatnot, there's

that kind of gardening. If you are a lawn ranger, you know, the weekend warrior on the lawn, and you want a big, beautiful green carpet and go for it. We can help you with that too. By the way, do you see what I'm saying. How about this? How about landscaping for fragrance, You're talking about different kinds of landscaping. There are so many plants that have lovely fragrance at different times of the year. One of these days, I'll let me put something together. I'll talk to you about

some of the specific examples and things like that. But I love the fragrance and the landscape. And maybe you don't care about any of the things I talked about. Maybe just you would like to try to grow some healthy food and vegetables. You don't want to plow up the b you want to use containers. All right, let's do it. Let's have fun. Get the kids involved. You know, it is so important that kids get connected with nature.

There is a stack of research them all high showing that when kids get in touch with nature, from a walk in the forest to time in the dirt in the garden, they are healthier in every possible way. We're talking about mental health, we're talking about physical health, we're talking about eating differently, because when you grow something, you're more likely to eat it. I just can't make enough

sales pitches to you on the benefits of gardening. And if you feel like if you're afraid you're going to fail, don't be afraid. You got to kill a lot of plants to be a good gardener. So let's get going killing some plants, all right, and then we'll eventually not kill as many plants. I want you to loosen up and have fun. That is what we're here for, and I can help you do that. Like I like to tell you to say on the air, there are no

brown thumbs. There are only uninformed thumbs. And as you get as you inform your thumb, it's greener and greener. The reason Grandma could grow seem like anything she put in the ground grew is Chris, Grandma knew how to do it. It's just a matter of knowledge. It's not magic. There is no special aura that comes out from some people that makes plants grow but not others. It's a matter of finding the right plant, putting it in the soil, and taking care of it right. And you can do that,

you can, And so what is your interest? Are you interested in all of that? Do you want to get specific? You know, do you like orchids? Well you can that can be your gardening. You can just do orchids if you want to do that. I think you're going to want to do a lot more because once you get going, so many plants, so little time. It is it's an addictive hobby and it is fun. And we are fortunate in Houston to have excellent independent nurseries north, south, East, West,

and Central. I mean they're all over the place here and they're all worth going to you know, I just I think it's a it's horticulture. Tourism is a good idea, and so I don't care where you live out in timbuck II. Well go to this nursery one weekend, then go to another nursery another week Just see what's there. And everywhere you're going to find a little different. Feel. You're going to find a little different a group of plants, for example, in some specialize in one thing or another.

But it's going to be fun. You're going to enjoy doing it. And here comes fall, the best planning season of the year. Get out there now. I know it's still hot outside, but it's not the calendar. I mean, it's not the temperature. It's the calendar you need to walk worry about because the average frostate comes when the average frostate comes, and I don't care if it's hot going all the way up to that. You need to be doing what you need to do at the right times.

Our vegetable planning schedules and things that you see around the Houston area, they're designated that way. The best time to get the soil ready is right now, because the best time to plant is in the fall. So let's get out, let's get going, and let's have some success and I'll help you do it. We're here, hold your hand if you want. We'll advise as you wish. And we got the great garden centers that we'll do that too. So don't let the thermometer stop you from getting started

on the best planting season of the year. Let's go out to League City and we're going to talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, welcome to Garden Line.

appreciate that. Y. You take care? Yeah, you bet, bye bye uh night. FUSS has their three step program Three steps Fertilizer weed control, Fungicide for diseases, Fertilizer Night Frost Fall Special Winter Riser. It is designed for helping your grass go into winter strong, to be more cold hardy, and to come out of spring strong. Second barricade weed control Look at my schedule October October October, but earlier in October is better. You can do it now, but

it's a little on the early side. We don't expect any cool season weeds to be germinating in the next couple of weeks. But I would get this out in early October because it if you wait until after they're up and grow and you've missed the window. Night frous barricade will work for that. And then finally night Fuss eagle turf fungicide. It's a systemic. It moves into the

tissues of the grass. So when brown patch large patch and take all patch all try to infect, which they will this fall, then the Eagle fungicide helps shut that down before it even gets started. Don't wait till the circles appear. You can't make circles green with fungicide. You need to do it ahead of time. Look at my schedule and follow that and it'll guide you in that way.

Night Fruss is widely available. You're going to find it at Fisher's Hardware and Baytown, the one in mop Bellevue, the one in Pasadena, and the one in the Port just as examples. You are listening to Guardline and we're here to direct you. You know, I keep bragging on our mom and pop garden centers, and Plants for All Seasons is an example of that. You know, this garden center's been around since nineteen seventy three, right there on

Tombaill Parkway FM two forty nine. I just you know, I said that a thousand times in my life, and I just almost went blank. Plants for All Seasons dot Com is the website. When you go into Plants for All Seasons, you're going to find every season the best plants to be planting, and they're loaded and ready to go right now. For your fall planting. You're going to also find, and this is very important, the advice, and they are experts, they've been doing this a long time

and they know what they're talking about. You bring them a weed, you bring them a plant that's sick, you bring them a bug, whatever, and they're going to identify it and they're going to tell you what to do about it, and they're not going to steer you wrong. That is why it is so important to go to an independent garden center like Plants for All Seasons and all the folks up in that whole area between Cyprus

and Tombull. They know plants for all seasons because they've been there a long time and they've had good results from there. I can guarantee you that they are true lawn and garden experts and you will be happy with your results. We're going to head now out to Brazoria County and talk to Louis Lewis. You know what, Lewis, I did it again. I did this yesterday. I take a call right before it's time for a break. Sorry about that, man, I have to put you on hold.

I will come right back to you. Sorry to have to false alarm. Golly, on these days, I'm gonnaigure out how not to do that. I just get so excited talking about plants and products and garden centers and whatnot. Hey, don't forget next Saturday, Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware from one to three. That's Saturday, September twenty eighth. Be there

or be be squared. I'll be there. I'll be looking for you, and if you don't show up, I'm going to tell all your neighbors that show up to go to your house and plant grasp burds in the yard. I'm sorry, it's it's gardening terrorism. But you need to show up and be there. That was that was uncalled for. That anyway, my attempted here. Looking forward to seeing out

there though. Seriously, also don't forget I will be or there will be an excellent program coming up on growing food and I'll tell you about it when we come back.

know him. He's the author of Year Round Gardening, which if you vegetable garden here in the Greater Houston area, you need to not do it without that book. That is an excellent, outstanding book, by the way, and he's a great speaker too. If you want more information on this program, it is October fifth at the Houston Arboretom and Nature Center and it's all day on Saturday. It's eight am to three point thirty pm. And to get more information go to this website OBA online dot ORGHBA

online one word dot org. All right, I was visiting with Luis from Airlom Soils the other day, and just give me some information on some of the products and the deals that are going on right now. There is a you know, Heirloom Soils is the one that has the veggie nerd mix, the rose mix, the excellent potting soils for indoor and for outdoor called the Works for example.

I could just go on and on a while ago I was talking about the fact that at Warren's, you know, they they had their mix of compost and expanded shale, which is the best thing you can put into clay. Composts and expanded shale both help loosen up a clay really well well. Right now, right now at the Porter location, which is where Airloom Soils are made out at Porter

for this is a limited time offer. By the way, you can either pick up or get a delivery bulk of the Heirloom Soils roast soil or their Veggie and Herb mix. Roast soil are veggie and herb mix very limited time, and when you do, you get a free bag of Microlife sixty four, the green bag of Microlife. This is at the porter location. If you want more information on the porter location, that's rock inmultch dot com, r O c K the letter N multch dot com.

If you want more information in general on heirloom soils, heirloomsoils dot com, you need to go there and look at all of the products. And I've tried. I'm working my way through them. They got so many, I'm working my way through them, and I have not had one yet that didn't perform outstanding for me in growing plants, whether it's the container mixes. There's one four that I used for our succulents that's a cactus and succulent mix that's outstanding, and on and on down the line. We're

going to go back out to the phones. Now we got Lewis and Lewis and Jorge. I think Lewis has been there a little longer. We're going to go straight to Lewis and Brassouri County Lewis, This isn't a false alarm. I'm actually here this time. How can we hit more?

Then when you have the microbial activity that is in these a lot of these Medina products specifically, that is beneficial because they're putting the kind of microbes in that either are helping fight, is helping colonize the roots and doing whatever things you know the microbes are going to do. Oftentimes will have other substances in them, you know from natural plant hormones that stimulate roots to I can't say the word vitamins, different kinds of other substances and all

of that. It's just kind of amounts to a roots stimulator. So I think you're going to see a benefit from that, and I would encourage doing so. You're not going to ever burn the roots with those products. They're not salt based, you know, fertilizer where you can burn roots, especially if it was too high of a concentration. But yeah, I would do that. I have used a number of different products that they have, and it's always worked for me,

always had good results with them. I've never set up a trial where you know, I replicate it and do all that kind of stuff, but from the standpoint of just trying them and seeing the results, I've had good results with that.

You haven't been putting composts and all kinds of things in it, And so it's just really it's really hard to just set up a trial where you really could get a good answer on those kinds of things. So I think we depend on, you know, the the decades of gardeners and the results they've had and things like that. And for me, it comes down to just I'm going to try it. If I if I'm gonna to promote something, I'm gonna try it planet and see how it does.

And I haven't done the strawberry root soaking, like you mentioned, with the products, but I have used them as transplant solutions and things. So I hope that helps.

fertilizer I talk about at Southwest. If you hear me mention a product to kill weeds, to fight disease, to deal with insects, it's there. But they have a lot of other things. And so someone I sent someone the other day there to get one product and they had like three different ops form. The person was asking me, well, they said they had that, but they also had this and this. Well all of them are good. They were all good for the thing. And Southwest is like that.

They're not going to steer you wrong. They're not going to say you product just because they got it for sale that they want to get rid of the product. They're going to point you to one that'll be success. And that's why they hang around. You know, they've been around since n eighteen fifty five, So you don't do that if you don't a have products at work and be take care of your customers. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is

a website corner of Bisonette and Renwick. Get out there and check it out and you'll see why I am so big on that place. I have to take a little break here. When we come back, George, David and Joe, you will be our first ones up line listener. We appreciate that. Hey, have you been out to Enchannon Forest and Richmond Rosenberg. They are set up for fall. I mean you're going to find all your fall vegetables. They got a great stock of them, and now's the time

to get them in. Now's the time. Remember what I said earlier, don't look at the thermometer, look at the calind Now's the time to get them in. They'll be fine. Put them in, water them in, get your herbs there. They are loaded up with herbs as well. They have a really good selection of tree planting options. I'm one of my favorite, and I think it's Danny's too, probably Chinese fringe tree, Chinese fringe blooms, in the spring and

it is gorgeous. It is a billow of shaggy white blooms with a nice honey like scent, at least that's what it smells like to me. Somewhere in honey baby powder somewhere in there. It's a nice plant. And it doesn't get too big either for a tree. So if you want something that it's the typical lot sizes that we have today. Chinese fringe is excellent and they've got them an Enchanted Forest Garden Center out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. You just head up, let's see, you're

going to go on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond Rosenberg going towards sugar Land, it's off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. While you're out there, you're gonna find the Night to FoST Fall special. I talk about the carbo load us, I talk about the micro like brown patch, I talk about the barricade and Eagle Fund. All those things I was talking about, they're going to happen there at Enchanted Forest Garden Center. Go see, and by the way, take your

camera because the lantana are so loaded with butterfly. I could not believe every time I go out there and they have Lananna blooming. It's like every butterfly in the country has gotten the message. Go to and channel for us and check out there because they are just everywhere on it and it's it's some fun butterfly pictures. Take the kids with you when you do that. Also, let's see here we are going to go to David in West Columbia. David, Welcome to garden Line.

in the plant. I've known people that put pebbles almost like not river rock size, but pretty good chunk sized little rock pebbles in the surface of plants to also keep them out. That's about it as far as what I would suggest. But you might want to try one of those smelly scare them away sprays and see if that works. I haven't tried those a right jeep, Thank you, all right, David, good luck. Hey. I had a friend when I was a kid. I knew a guy that actually worked for my dad and he had He was

so upset about it. He had actually done the map. He knew how many cats are wearing the neighborhood and how many times they went to the bathroom every day. It was hileritou but it's not funny, but it does help the laugh sometimes when you, oh, he was alerted, you should have heard him talk about it. He had done the math. Thanks David, I appreciate your call. George and Jersey Village, Welcome to guarden Line. How can we help?

had that problem before. And if they're a good sized sweet potato, that means the leaves made a lot of sugar, and so it may just be that there is a starch sugar thing that goes on there. I don't know that's the new one. I'll look into it.

it takes a lot of sugar to do it. And at my house they are going to the plants I planted for them, and they are going to my hummingbird feeders. I got two feeders, two from wabirds. As a matter of fact, the high perched feeder that it didn't matter what you put out there, you put a good quality feeder out there with good sugar water and it you can make your own, or you can buy one of their mixes. They have a thing that I use in

my sugar water that makes it lasts longer. In a ninety five degree day, sugar water starts to get pretty nasty out there, and you can't leave it in the feeder for a week. It's not good for the hummingbirds. And so this stuff you put in it's a natural mineral substance and it makes it last over a week and it works really good. Also, other birds migrating through you, like Baltimore orioles, and then here comes wintertime just around the corner. They have the best selections of bird seed

mixes that I know of. And that cheap bird seed you buy at other places where you get the little red bebes and the birds kick half of the all of that out because they don't want to eat it. You end up paying more for your bird seed because you don't they waste half of it, they're not going to use it. That's not the way it is with Walldbirds. And there's six Wallbirds stores near you go check one out wbu dot com, Forward Slash Houston that is where you need to go WBU dot com forward Slash Houston

find the one closest to you. We're going to go now out to Kingwood and talk to Joe Hey, Joe.

As far as the fertilization, late September is okay. I'd probably do it in first of October two and it will gradually provide those nutrients out there as the grass moves into the cool season. And so you got you got time for that one. But you don't want to delay for sure on the on the barricade.

dry or not controlling anything. When you get some water, it washes the product into the soil surface and then you get the weed control from that.

see the place. Now. They specialize in natives, and if you're looking for any kind of I mean not just I want a native plant, but I want a nadi plant that attracts hummingbirds so that next year they're hanging out at my house just to go to the flowers on this plant. They can do that. I want butterfly native plant. I want you fill in the blank. They also have an outstanding selection of everything fall right now.

All those fall colors, you know, the nges and reds and things that we think of is like Thanksgiving colors or Halloween colors. They've got all those kind of plants, and you can get set up and have a beautiful fall. Remember, forget the temperature, don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. It's time to do those things. Get those things in the ground so you can enjoy them. Yeah,

I tell you, marigolds are a great fall plant. They're yellow and orange and kind of a color in between the two of those, and they just glow up until the first frost, which is a long time away done in our area here, and so take advantage of it. Go out to Buchanan's Plants while you're there, grab some of the fertilizer products they carry. They carry the things I talk about here on Guardline. They also have some great soil based products some of their own as well,

and just get set up. Let's have a beautiful fall, and let's let Buchanan's Plants provide the supplies you need to make that happen. I'm going to go now out to friends would and we're going to talk to Jake. Jake, looks like I've got a couple of minutes here. See if we can get your question, or we'll carry you over if we need to.

of the options options. Let's do this. I'm going to run to a break let if you if you want to keep talking about this, that's fine. Just hang on. I'm gonna put you on hold and we'll be back with you as soon as I get back. Welcome back to garden line. Hey, if you would like to visit about something regarding your plants, just give me a call seven one three two one two five eight seven for I'll listen to you brag about the tomato agree this summer, but only for a very short time. We can't put

up with that now, seriously. I'll also listen to you and commiserate with you on the allergies going on. By the way, right now, let's see, we got grass allergies, we got ragweed allergies, and what is the other one that probably seed or I don't know. I know Central Texas they are suffering from cedar fever when it gets into the fall season and moves in the cooler weather. You know, we end up fighting them when we live

anywhere in the country really just about. There are some areas that are fairly allergy free, but others it's just part of a seasonal deal. I know, by the third week of September it's going to hit every year about the time dove hunting season for those of you dove hunters hit. Somehow, allergies hit about that same time too. Ragweed, those are really really problematic. One well, I wanted to talk a little bit about the Nelson Water Garden folks.

You know, I was out at Nelson Water Gardens visiting a while back, looking at the different products that they carry. Now it's actually Nelson Nursery and water Gardens. I still call it Nelson Water Garden because you know, they are nationally famous for water gardens. They've been doing that a very, very long time. But they also have an outstanding nursery. And every time I'm there, it's like, oh, you also carry that. I did not realize you also, Okay, and

they do. They have so many things, you know, the fertilizers that you need for your plants to help them be successful. I love going to see the plants that they have, but I also love going to see the water features and to hear the water features they have. There is nothing as calming as the sound of running water out in your backyard, patio area or wherever you want to put it. You put in the front entrance if you want. It's just it's just nice. They have

the disappearing fountains, they have the little waterfalls. They can build them. They can. They can sell you the product for them, and then you go build it yourself if you're that kind of do it yourself, or they don't mind doing that. But they do excellent work and they again are well known. They're nationally known. When it comes to those little discipearing fountains, there's like a large urn that the water comes over, rolls down the side and

circulates back through again. They invented that and they know how to do those things. And whether you're wanting the plants that go in the water garden, the fish you know, like the koi and shabunk and whatnot, they go into a water garden They've got you covered. That's the bottom line on it. And you will find when you go there their pottery selection and it's the beautiful features they have are wonderful.

go out now to Jean in Chapel Hill. Hello, Jean, welcome to garden Line.

week possible before next summer heat arrives. And so when you take them out of the pot, if they have circling roots, you either need to unwind the roots and dig a hole to fit or cut the roots one or the other. Don't leave them in the ground with circling roots because that tree will grow and the root will grow and one day it will start to strangle the tree and you have a mess on your hands.

fall stronger as well in the spring. Just hear me again on this spring initial spring lawn and growth is based on stored energy in the grass plant and where did that stored energy come from? Nutrients and sunshine in the fall, So it's very important for your spring green up. Secondly, it's the time to deal with weeds once the temperature drops. Each weed species has a certain temperature where it'll start to germinate and grow. In the spring, it's the warming

up of the soil for our warm season weeds. In the fall, it's the cooling down of the soil for our cool season weeds. So if you look at my schedule, October is the time I say get your pre emergence down now. Weeds are going to germinate November. There may be some germinating warm days in December if they haven't germinated yet, But you don't want to wait until they're already sprouting. You want to get ahead of them. And barricade is the product, by the way, for fall fertilizing.

It's nitrophosphall special winter riser that's the name of the product for the weeds. It's barricade, and you put it down. It's a granule. You water it in, just a little bit of water moving into the surface, and then when the weed sprouts, it's going to shut it down and you don't have to reapply it and reapply it. Barricade's going to last you all all to the end of the year, really, and so you're good to go there.

The third step is the fall diseases, which primarily is the large patch also called brown patch or formerly called brown patch. Most people still call it brown patch and take all root right. Those are the biggies and the fungicide called Eagle from nitrofoss. Eagle like the bird that is systemic. It moves into the plant and when those diseases show up, that plant is ready to fend them off. So if you wait until the big circles appear, you missed your window. Don't do that. Get that down follow

my schedule. October. If you see a nice cool snap coming through with some rain and stuff, boy, I would immediately when that has passed so it doesn't wash it all the way, I would get out there and get that that Eagle down and water it in real good to shut it down. It'd be good to be ahead of that though, and being a systemic, it's gonna be in the ground or in the grass plant for a while, so it's not like you know, it just lasts a

little bit. It's gonna give you good control. Now you're gonna find this at ACEH Hardware and Sinkle Ranch the Arborgate and Tomball Shades of Texas, either the one in South Houston, Southeast Houston, or actually the one in Southeast Houston on Genoa Red Bluff Road. I'm gonna take it. Hey, welcome to garden Line. Thanks for joining us. I appreciate that, I actually do. I don't take it for granted that

you listen to garden Line. There's a lot of things you could be doing and listening to and whatnot, and we're glad to have you here. I personally think it is going to help you have better success in your garden. I've been doing this for thirty five years professionally. Actually have been doing it my whole life. I grew up with the garden. But I do know the things that it takes to have success, and that's what we try to do. And anytime you have something pop up, you know,

what's this bug? What's this disease? I saw a plant the other day. Here's a picture of it. What is it? I'd like one? Does it grow here? All of those kinds of questions, we can help you with those in our number seven one, three, two, two, fifty eight seventy four. I tell you who else can help you with things like that, and that's our garden centers r CW Nursery,

for example. That is a garden center that is there where Highway or FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into Beltweg eight and r CW is always a good place to go and get whatever kind of plants, you know, vegetables, herbs, flowers, shrubs, trees, finds, you name it. Right now, I want to I just want to feature talking about the fact that they grow their own trees and they have outstanding trees, and their

trees are fifteen percent off this month. This month is September, and you need to get a tree now because fall is the time to plant them. If you know, they say the best time to plant a tree is forty years ago. The second best time is today, and that's really true. Especially when today is in the fall and we're entering that season. They have them from seven gallons

all the way up to two hundred gallons. Now, obviously you're not going to throw a two hundred gallon in the back of your ugo and take it home, but they'll bring it to you and plant it for you. They also offer that available service if you would like to do that. They have new Mexican white oaks, which is called Monterey oak. It is one of the fastest growing oaks and it is a long lived quality species Mexican white oak or monteraeak. They have them in a

hunter gallon. They've got two hundred gallons southern magnolias that you want instant pizazz and wow, a two hundred gavan gallon southern magnolia is it. They'll provide all the information you need to find the right location. They'll give you planning tips. They even have the products, you know, the root stimulators and things like that that you can take

with you when you buy a tree. RCW nurseries dot Com is the name is the website and if you want to actually go buy there and visit with them, they are it's actually fifteen eight oh nine Tombol Parkway. I like to just say Tombo Parkway at belt wag eight. Just look it up on your maps. It's easy to get to. And there could not be a better time for you to go buy and get one of their trees than this fifteen percent off sale that they're having

right now. That's pretty amazing. Someone i think Lewis called earlier and was talking about some of the different companies that have different kinds of microbial products that are used in stimulating growth of plants or in transplanting or soaking roots. I think was part of the question that he had, and Medina has a number of those kinds of things.

One of the ones that I would, you know, if I were going to the Medina line of plant foods, I mean, you know, I might use something like the hum atumic acid or the Medina Plus or or something like their seaweed products. But I think the best one for that might be there has to grow six twelve six. Now, the has to grow six twelve six. It's got the NPK, the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, phosphorus being very

important for roots, and six percent of potassium. He's got the medina soil activator in it, which includes a lot of biological activity, and then the humate humic acid that's a final decomposition stage of compost is humus and the humte humic acids full of acids. Those kinds of things are part of that. They help improve the soil structure. It also has seweed extracts in it as well. You can do it as a folio. You're not going to

burn your plants with it. It's but it's really good for transplanting and that's the has to grow six twelve six. It only takes one ounce in a gallon of water and you just I drench it over the whole plant with a watering can get them on the foliage, but you also get it down in the soil, which is the primary place where it's going to do what it does best. Medina has to grow six twelve six. Plant food would be the one I would point you to if you're going to do any planting and oh my gosh,

it's fall. I hope you're planning on doing planting. I just am going to beat that drum as long and hard as I can because it's the best time. You know, I'm talking about fall for woody ornamentals, tree shrubs, woody vines, roses. Yes, I know February Valentine's Day is supposed to be when you plant roses. That's fine, you can do that. You can plant them in July if you want, if you take good care of them. But fall is an excellent

time to plant roses. Don't wait till Valentine's Day. Do it now, get it done, and that rose will have a head start on the one you planted on Valentine's Day. You see what I'm saying. If you plant now, you're giving them a head start. That is really really important. You are listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I got time for one more call, I believe, before we go into our next top of the hour break.

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done a bazillion homes and a boy right now. People since the storms we've had earlier in the year, have been buying generators because you go without power for two weeks and suddenly generator sounds like a good idea. And that's happened twice for a lot of folks. The reason I like quality Home, the thing I want it, I want you to understand is you can go buy a generator at a lot of different places. But to get a good quality deal and to get everything they offer,

you can't get just everywhere. Quality Home starts with talking with you and making sure you get the generator package that fits your needs. You know, what do you need to run the whole house air conditioning and all do you need to just be able, you know, to keep your internet online and refrigerators and freezers from going bad? I mean, do you see what I'm saying. There's different packages out there, but then they deal with all the things that you have to do to get permission to

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we are going to go out to Ralph and Katie. Ralph, I have got about one minute, So let's see if we can get this done.

be happy to take a look at it. And it may be that I see something else in the picture, but if it's truly a large patch, brown patch, what we just talked about is what you need to do.

to work. I'm driving a long way to get there. You can't do if you live in Wharton. My gosh, you have to come out. I think it's mandatory. They're going to be going house to house and warton and can true to show up. We're going to be doing all the fun stuff we do at appearances, Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware a new store down there, cool store. We're gonna have a lot of giveaways too. I hope you'll come out and see us.

You know, summer is waning now and we're really looking forward to the holidays, but a lot of the people that are homeless here, they're basically looking forward to the next meal. And with Star of Hope, I cannot think of a better use of your hard earned money than to support someone who is in need. Through Star of Hope. The way that they manage and utilize funds is outstanding, and the difference they make is incredible. I've talked to folks who have gone through their programs. I know the

kind of work that they've done. I've heard the stories as well. For two dollars and fifty cents, you can provide a meal to a homeless person. And homelessness has a lot of different faces across the Houston area. When you hear the stories, it's like, well, yeah, I never thought about that before, or oh, I see how that would be a problem. Like, for example, you lose your job, you lose everything, you're homeless, you don't how do you suddenly have a way to get a job, how do

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O Hmission dot org. I want to tell you this too. This month, three locations of suit Mart are hosting their annual September sale, and a portion of their selected suit sales will be donated to Star of Hope. That's Suitmart. Suit Mart during the month of suit Member, their annual suit Member. That's a good name for it, all right, I just wanted to share that with you. Well, let's end the suspense. Our special guest today is the Texas Garden Guy, Dustin Oak, a friend of mine. Dustin and

I have not been friends a long time. We met not too long ago, but I really liked the guy, and I know you do too. He is super popular on the social media. Hey, Destin, welcome to Garden Line. Are you there. It's going well? I can, yes, now I can. Good to talk to you. I was watching some of your stuff online, Uh, some of your online

stuff the other day. Is it's just really great and you got I know you have a big following on that and I encourage anybody listening if you if you haven't found the Texas Garden Guy, you need to go. You need to go check him out. Pretty much every social media platform. It seems like you're you're ubiquitous out there. Well, I asked you, that's it, that's it. You're like Roy Kent, He's here, he's there, He's everywhere. Anyway. That's what's the name of that show. I can't even say it, Lasso

ted Lasso comment. So I Askedston. I asked Destin to come on and talk about First of all, I want to talk about figgs, Deston, and I know you are a fig aficionado, uh, and a lot about it, and tell us a little bit about uh, you know figgs, Why why you like him? And some of your favorite types of figs to grow?

a subdivision. They really don't care. They will grow it everywhere and within the first year you'll get you'll get fruits. So my favorite varieties or any of the LSU varieties. I love the work. I love the purple, I love the LSU black, I love I love them all. He can't go wrong with figs.

in them ount those little drawstring bags. You can put them over your figs as they start to ripen up, and typically the critters I can leave them alone, especially if you have insects.

up with a fig tree. It was south of San Antonio in Jordantoon, Texas, Atascosa County, and we didn't freeze enough down there really at that time, at least it didn't, and we had a single trunk tree that came up and had branches. And I find that now it seems like we get freezes often enough to where we end up. They may freeze pretty far back and we end up more with multi stemmed fig bushes, but tree size. But fig bushes, is that it for you? Or do you try to train years into a single trunk?

single stem tree. The white mersai, the white mercies and the lsu Or work have not died.

having with Destin Noke, the Texts Garden guy. Hey, Dustin, we were talking figs, uh, and I just want to continue that for a little bit. And then I got one other topic. I'd like to pick your brain about because I know you know a lot about it. First of all, on the figs, people didn't realize that years ago, like one hundred years ago, this was a major commercial fig producing region. I mean, we're talking about hundreds of

acres of figs in the Gulf Coast area here. I don't know if you've run across that, but that's you know, one fig tree produces a lot of figs. I don't know what you do with the one hundred acres of figs. That's a lot. Yeah.

like I got about eight, eight or nine minutes here. Uh, tell me about the desert rose. I think people when they hear the word desert and rose, they probably don't know what the picture. And this is something I think you've really gotten into. Is that right?

which nurseries to go to. But not like Houston. Same thing with Dallas. Good nurseries, not like Houston. I've been to Atlanta thinking, oh my gosh. You know, Atlanta botanical gardens is great. I said, so, I can't wait to see these nurseries, and it's like, where are they? You know, I figured got more than Houston. They're not even hold a candle to us here. This is a great place

for garden centers. And so I think maybe maybe you and I need to just get a bus rented one weekend and we'll just we'll do you know how they have pub crawls, We'll do a nursery crawl. Let us go from one garden center to another.

nothing about. Instagram and Facebook I'm familiar with. But anyway, seriously, you ought to check him out, especially that Garden Party podcast on Wednesdays at seven. That's a lot of fun. He has a cast of characters. You know. Phil Spiggs has comes in. He's from the North Carolina area. He's got a guy from up in the Amarillo area. Not sorry, not Amarillo, a Lobbuck area, Texas Tech a former coworker of mine as a matter of fact. So anyway, it's a good podcast. Well where are we on time here?

We're pretty close to a break. I want to just remind you again if you missed that information in the inaugural inaugural that's easy for me to say. FIG Toberfest October fifth in Angleton for more information ninety seven nine eight six four one five five eight nine seven nine eight six four one five five eight. It is going to be a morning through early afternoon full of great FIG information, folks. I'll be right back Lyon had a

great visit with Destinoe, Texas garden guy. We are back to answer your calls right now if you'd like to give us a call. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I wanted to talk a little bit about the product from turf Star called Carboload, and

the reason is it's time. It's time. Now we know fall fertilization needs to be done with product that has a good content of potassium the third number on the bag, because that helps potassium and nitrogen are taken up together by the grass plant. And I like to just as an easy to remember things, think of it as ana freeze for the plant. When you put those nutrients in the plant, it is able to create the carbohydrates. That's why it's called carbo load, to which you are sugars,

and it helps cold heartiness. Have you ever made homemade popsicles? You know, you make the sugar, kool aid, sugar water, whatever. You put it in there and you freeze it. And have you ever noticed that at the bottom of the popsicle there's pure water and then as you get up to the top there's this real sticky sugary stuff that didn't quite freeze because sugar water it takes a lot colder temperature to freeze it. Well, that's a real fast analogy of what's going on in the plant. But I

think it makes sense. It helps you understand what's going on. You need to get carbo load down soon. You can do it. The end of sep Setember You can do it in early October, but don't delay much past early October.

Now it can be applied all through. But the fact that it has a pre emergent herbicide in it, something to prevent weed seeds from germinating, makes me want to push that toward the earlier part of October in case we get in early October this cold front with some rain and it cools off a little bit and suddenly the weed seeds go, hey, fall winters here, let's get going. You want the carbo load down ahead of that. That is how that works. One forty pound bag covers five

thousand square feet. Now that one one thing to be aware of is if you plan on overseeding with rye grass, which I hope you don't because that's not good for your lawn. You don't want to use something with the pre emerging in it because it'll your rye grass won't come up. And so but other than that, it is an outstanding product that is from Nelson. It's part of their turf Star line. Carbo Load widely available around the Houston area, and you ought to consider it because it

does work. You are listening to garden Line phone number seven one three two one two, five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh, you've heard me talk about fix my Slab Foundation Repair Ty Strickland. A good while back I visited with Ty. I had a question about a foundation issue that a family member had and I was just kind of getting it, picking his brain for some information on it, and basically, you know, he said, you know, with that amount of movement,

you don't need to worry about doing anything. And it just reminded me. Ty is a straight shooter.

service people would do that. He is going to give you a fair price. And third, he's going to fix it right and he'll also tell you if it doesn't need it. If it's like you know what that doesn't require, he'll tell you that. And my gosh, when I hire anybody for any kind of service or help at the house, I just wanted to be straight shooting with me and I want those three things. Show up on time, give me a fair price, and fix it right if it

needs to be fixed. And that's tie two eight one two f I five forty nine forty nine fixmyslab dot com. Got cracks in the sheet rock, got cracks in the brick, you got a door that's sticking. Those are all signs of movement. Don't be an ostrich put your head in the sand. Just give him a call, have him check it out and see if it needs work or not. And if he does, he'll he'll shoot straight with you

at fix my slab foundation repair. I enjoyed visiting with Destin and actually got a X a minute ago from someone going, Hey, you and Destin need to do that nursery crawl bus idea. So, Destin, if you're still listening, I think that may have some traction. We may have to get together sometime and and figure that out. It sounds like a fun idea to me. I mean, if you got like you remember the bus on the Muppets, it was rocking and rolling going down down the highway.

We woul painting big flowers on the side. Because this is a nursery tour. Right, I'm going to head out the Pleasantville. We're going to talk to Deborah. Deborah, welcome to garden Linet skip.

Because they compete for light, they compete for water, they compete for nutrients. And then in spring, when your grass is trying to wake up and get going, the rye grass is just going crazy growing and it is a stress on your lawn. Now, if you've got one of those properties, it has to be green all year. I understand that, I know why people do it, but I tell you, and professional turf managers will tell you that if year after year after year you're overseeding, you're weakening.

And usually that's done in bermuda grass properties, but it weakens it. So I try to talk people out of it. But if you don't do it, I can tell you how to do it. And for areas like yours, absolutely yeah, there's no grass there. You got to get some. You got to cover the ground.

an apology note after all that. BA, all right, we're gonna go out to pear Land and talk to Timmy. Hey, Timmy, welcome to guard Line. Hey, how's it going?

do need to run you bet, I will be right back. Folks. Good to have you with us. We got plenty of things to talk about today. I was telling you a little bit about some micro life products while ago, and I want to tell you about micro grow, the bioinoculant, and also well I mentioned that a little bit and the importance of putting the microbes into the soil that you get when you have micro grow, it absolutely loads

things up. And when that happens and diseases try to come in, you've got a number of beneficial microbes that are there doing two things. Some of them actually help fight disease, some of them out compete the disease. On the plant's surface, and so it's like a hostile environment to try to land and infect the plant. That makes sense. Micro Grow bioinocculant comes in a bag and in a jar. Microlife also has this brown Patch fertilizer that is a

fertilizer you would apply in the fall. If you go to my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see that on there. And it is an organic product for fall application, natural product and it works. It does very very good job. And if you're going to do fall fertilization and you're looking for a natural product for that, and you got that fall fertilization balance of nutrients that I keep talking about, Microlife brown Patch would be the one to do it. And you can find it in

a lot of places. For example, they're going to have it out there at in Chane Gardens in Richmond. Have you ever been there? Have you ever been doing Chana Gardens? If you're in Richmond going north toward Katie, it's it's up that direction. It's it's really easy to get to. It's on three point fifty nine. Just I guess you're going up seven to twenty three. That's a FM road. When you get to three fifty nine, you're there. It's

right at the corner. It's easy to get to. And Enchanted Gardens is the kind of place where you're going to find everything you need right now. It's fall season, so unbelievable fall color, plants, unbelievable fall decorations indoor and outdoor. Their gift shops outstanding, by the way, but anything you're going to plant and fall, which I hope you're planning on planting a lot in fall because it's the best planning season of the year. Remember, don't look at the thermometer,

look at the calendar. The calendar says, get your plants, get your soil, get ready, let's go. Let's do this. And if you delay, then next thing, you know, we're too cold, or some other thing has happened, there's a frost or whatever. You're missing that window of opportunity. Don't delay. Enchanted Gardens on three fifty nine on the Katie Fusher side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're going to go now to Cove, Texas and talk to Rufous Hello Rufous.

They have a premium potting mix that has incorporated into it a fertilizer, so it gives you an extended release of nutrients. You got indoor plants, you need potting soal. You got outdoor plants, you want to do a container Landscapers Pride premium podding mix. You got some areas in your lawn that are low, that are holes your your lawnmower is banging around and bumping and gouging the grass

as you grow because it's not an even soil. Get some of their top soil from Landscaper's Pride, put that out, straighten them ounta and how's a good time to get that done. And finally, of course, black velvet malts. Every month of the year is a good time to malts. Wherever sunlight hits a soil. As Deborah was reminding us a moment ago, nature plants a weed. Wherever sunlight hits a soil, Nature plants a weed. You should never leave

bear soil. Nature abhors a vacuum. It knows how to protect the soil from crusting and erosion and overheating and freezing. Put malts on the ground. It does that. Black velvet is an outstanding product, beautifully black, not dyed, from Landscaper's Pride. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com if you want

to learn more about it. It's widely available. You're going to find it a lot of the retailers you hear me talk about here on garden Line, whether it's a garden center, whether it is a feed store, whether it is a Ace Hardware store or a Southwest Fertilizer, those are the kind of places where you find quality products from landsca Aprish Pride. Our phone number is seven one

three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're running a little short on time here, so we may have to bump a call to the next hour, but I just want to give you that number. I was saying you could find Landscapers Pride in places like an Ace Hardware store. Well, Ace Hardware is everywhere, forty stores in the Greater Houston area. By the way, don't forget I'm going to be at the Wharton Ace Hardware store next

Saturday from one to three. Be there for two hours doing the thing we do on these appearances, and that is we diagnose your questions, We answer your questions. You can bring me samples. We can help make suggestions for planting areas, improving your landscape. I'll be giving away some giveaways there. You don't want to miss that. And I don't get out that far. In fact, I never have gotten out that far to the south and west. So even if you're listening way down in Corpus Christi or something,

well here's a chance, come on up, let's meet. I love to meet the folks. They visit with us. I mean, for the rest of you. Ashardware dot com store locator, that's what you're looking for. Aceharder dot com. Go to the store locator. There's forty stores in the Greater Houston area all the way out to Beaumont, and you're going to find the fire ant control. This is firent control season. Hit them now before we go into winter. Get out there, get that done, all right. We're putting an hour in

the books. Today is flying by. But they say time fly, time flies when you're having fun. I'm having fun. I hope you are. Hermit. The frog, by the way, says that time's fun when you're having flies. But I'm just saying, all right, folks, I'll be right back in a little bit. Just one more reminder. I'll be at Wharton Ace Hardware, Wharton Feed and Acehrder is a new place out there on Saturday, this coming Saturday the twenty eight, from one to three pm. Remember that's a little later timeframe than

my normal appearance timeframe. So that's your clocks and calendars for that. I hope you'll come out and see me if you want to be part of Figtoberfest October fifth and Angleton called Kimberly Mayer at the Brazoria County Extension Office at nine seven nine eight six four one five five eight nine seven nine eight six four one five five eight for all things figs. And you get to meet Destin out there too.

ktr eight. I've talked about a number of different things today, and I like to kind of throw out ideas, perhaps some things that you might want to know in order to have success as you plan your landscape. Fall is for planting. It is the best time of the year to get things done, absolutely, the best time of the year. Nothing nothing like fall for success because you got the whole whole season ahead of you, the cool season ahead

of you, for roots to get established in the ground. Well, here's an idea if you're trying to do some landscape planting. I suggest one of the things you keep in mind is landscape color from fold. Now. I talked about earlier about landscape texture, but landscape color from foliage is important in the South where it gets hot. We just went through a blazing hot summer, right and a lot of things don't bloom in summer. We have a few good bloomers but not like spring. But in summer we can

turn to foliage. And there's lots of great ideas for foliage out there, for example, Chinese witch hazel. It are also called lauro pedulum. That's the term a lot of people used for it. It's its genus name. It has purplish maroon, purplish colored leaves that are really striking sunshine. Lagustrum right up against it has yellow, bright yellow colored foliage. It's attractive, by the way. Anybody from Lsu might like that combination.

multiple colors. There's some that are have some white variegations in the foliage and whatnot. Dwarf and andinas have always been a good choice. There's many different kinds of dwarf and anddinas out there. And then there's the perennials and the annuals. I mentioned one perennial be in the canna. There's one another cannon called Bengal Tiger that's yellow and green striped leaves, very striking, very very beautiful. Pretoria is another good choice, and there's a purple leaf one as well.

Then there's things like copper plant and colias and kalladium bulbs. Do you see what I'm saying. You go through summer and you don't have those that don't have to bloom. They look good just as foliage. So as you're doing your fall planting, don't forget that foliage brings us color all year or a can and especially during those blazing hot summertimes. That's just a tip for you to think

about as you're getting ready for your fall planting. The folks that Nelson Plant Food have a product that is one of the newest ones in their group and I love it. It is called Genesis and it is for transplanting it's got micoriza, and those are the fungi that get into the plant root and reach out into the soil to bring phosphorus and other important elements back to the plant that the plant can't reach with its own root system. There's other fungi that are beneficial to the microbiome.

There's bacteria that benefit the plant. Now, it has nutrients in it, but it's not going to burn your plants. It's a natural source of nutrients. Okay, So when I'm moving small plants to a bigger container, always in that potting salt, mix in some nutristar genesis from Nelson. If you're going to plant a shrub or a perennial, or an herb or a winter vegetable in your gardens, mix some nutristar genesis into that soil and it will help

get off to a good start. The stuff works, and I say that because I've used it, I've done it, I've seen it. It is an excellent product. Comes in little clear canisters with screwtop lids, call them jars. By the way, Also, whenever you get on Nelson's product in those jars, remember there are refail stations for Nelson products all over the Houston area, and that's just another way save a little money and also avoid adding more plastic to the environment. Well, let's head out to Spring, Texas

and we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Mike you there.

They're pretty cold, hardy, but I would do it in October. It needs to cool off just a little bit for mustard to be really happy. And as far as the bugs, what I do is I get some stuff called row cover fabric. It's a very fine polyester spun material that you get at garden centers and you put it over the mustard when you plant the seed. You can put some little sticks in there to hold it up so the rain doesn't get it in the dirt before the

mustard comes up. But air goes through it, water goes through it, and it's like a screen porch around those mustard greens and all the caterpillars and beetles that like mustard can't get in. But you have to do it before the bugs get in, otherwise you're trapping them inside the cafeteria, if you know what I'm saying. Oh, thank you, roc up. Just yes, sir, you bet, Thank you very much. Appreciate your call. Let's see here we are going to

go to David in Spring Branch. Hey, David, welcome, regardline.

Nature's Way Resources on October twelfth. That's a ways out, but I want you to get ready for this one. This is our fall festival and it is a I've officially declared it is a shindig that means fun lots going on, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales, live music, children's activities, and I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty and I'll be answering gardening questions I may stick around a little longer if you guys are still

going and we're having fun doing it. Remember that at Nature's Way Fungal Friday sale is still on twenty percent off fungal compost, which you can use for top dressing if you would like to do that. You don't have to get leaf Moo compost, but you also get their fungal composts. Both of those quality products from Nature's Way work very well. You can also just mix it into the soil to build the soil stronger. It's an excellent

compost for that. At Nature's Way Resources, which is go up I forty five north right where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Agnolia, Turn right across the tracks Nature's Way right there nine three six two seven three one two zero zero. Remember October twelfth. I'll be there for their Fall festival, and you do not want to miss that shindig. We're going to go right now. Back to David and Spring Branch. David, you're talking about your palm tree symptoms. I just wanted to add it's something in

the soil. It could you know, it could be soggy, wet conditions that are just oversaturated for too long. Chances are you're not watering it that much, but if it's getting over there, and maybe that could happen. The worst case scenario is there's something called butt rot. Now that I didn't make that up and the ten year old boy and me thinks that's pretty funny, But bunt rot is a fungal disease called ganoderma butt rot, And when

it's there, there's no treating it. You'll notice the new growth coming out is going to be yellow and pale and it's just going to decline. And should that progress to that point, you need to get it out of there. Get the base and as much of the roots as you can out of there. Because the fungus survives on plant tissues, So remove and destroy all of that plant tissue, the trunk, the base, and some of the roots before you replant in that area. Okay, any kind of wound

on the trunk helps helps that particular disease enter. So just something to think about other than that, watch the watering on it. Maybe give it a little fertilizer if it's struggling a little bit, a palm fertilizer. But I think it's going to be a wait and watch Okay.

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in every quarter, they take over the bed. Every quarter they come in, they're gonna weed, they're gonna trim, fertilize, check the irrigation. Do any aeration that's necessary, change the seasonal color out. You know, the flowers that are going to look good in the next season. Add mulch. That's all available from Peerscapes, and all you got to do is go to the website Piercescapes dot com. Puerscapes dot com.

Drainage poor drainage in areas, you want landscape lighting, you want a beautiful rock barbecue patio area in the back. You see what I'm saying, Go to pierscapes dot com. Look at the kind of work they do. It is amazing, gorgeous. Let's head back out the pair land. Now we're going to talk to Sabrina. Hey, Sabrina, good.

I know in the past we have used I'm sorry.

they're best controlled with a bait. Okay. Fire Ant baits are the best way to deal with them because it's the minimum amount of pesticide at a very low rate over a huge area and it even mounds you can't see underground. They have roving credit roving you know ants. Yeah, that are finding food to bring back and they'll bring the bait back. So get you a fresh bait. You said you were in Paarland, right, yes, and there in the Pearland area, you right there in town you got Pairland,

Ace Lumber and Ace Hardware. On North Maine they will have for baits. There's several of them. There's Ambro, there's advance base baits, there's extinguished that's an excellent one. But they'll put you in touch with one or more of the baits. Follow the label, put it out. You may need de bait again a little bit later. But fall is the best time to do it, and it's the best way to do if any escape that you can

follow up with an individual mound treatment. You know, some may pup, but don't just don't just use the dump it on the mound and kill the ants treatment, because then you're playing whack them mole with fire antce. You know, you kill this mound and the one pops up and you kill it and another one pops up. Do the baits. That's the way to go. And at Paarland at the Ash Hardware they got those.

a slope, good drainage. But nevertheless, we get a big patch of it right in the middle of the front yard and I treat it with I believe it's bonn eyed weed beater ultra, which I know Randy lemon I mentioned that, you know, a long time ago, and it works. It works great, although I end up with these little patches of you know, dead spots waiting for weeks until the Saint Augustine kind of filled it in.

some of those can damage your Saint Augustine lawn. And that's where I typically will shift over and send people to get celsius that you can buy on little packets that make one gallon of spray, which goes a long way if you're if you're spot treating, uh, that that is an option. There are other options out there for dollar weed control and they work. You just have to watch the temperature. Okay, okay, Celsius and that's that's all on the label. Yeah, that's all on the label too,

So just always read the label. It'll tell you what grass you can use it on. It'll tell you any restrictions like temperature for example.

drainage in the area. Anything you could do to improve drainage and dry it out a little more, it slows the dollar weed down. Otherwise, you know, it loves to live in a swamp, and so the wetter it is, the harder it is to fight because the dollar weat is just so vigorous. And they say at that point, okay.

a lot of damage to your lawn. You know, it's not liking u celsius in ninety five degree weather, but if it's early in the morning, you can use it and it's not going to be as much of a problem as some of the others that want it. Gets above eighty five, it's a problem.

it was like k ro syrup sweet. But they say, well, if you can't beat them, eat them. Well maybe maybe dandelions, maybe chick weed. I'll do that. Yeah, not dollar weed. I couldn't do that one. But that's an interesting approach to dealing with problems like that. Oh gosh. You know, when it comes to having success in your garden and your landscape, it really just boils down to the simple practices of sunlight and soil and good plants and good care following that. And so here's what I mean. Does

it want to be in shade or sun? Does it take what soil or not? If it doesn't, you got to build up the soil in a raised bed, make better drainage, and you have success, and then give a good fertilizer. It's not really that difficult. Well, it's time for me to take a break and I will be right back our last thirty minutes of the show today, in fact, last thirty minutes of this weekend on Guardline. So if you got any questions that we can help

you with. It'd be a good time to talk about those I wanted to tell you about Affordable Tree Care, and I do all the time. I talk about Martin spoon Moore, I talk about his wife Joe being the ones that answer the phone. This is a business where the owners are still actively involved. You make a phone call to Affordable Tree Care, and if you don't hear Martin or Joe on the phone, you call the wrong number,

hang up, dial again because their number. You want to write this, just write this down and keep it because you never know you or maybe a neighbor has a tree issue. Seven to one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three six nine nine two six sixty three. And if you want to go to the website, it's Afftree Service dot com. But I want to tell you October through February is primetime for getting your trees pruned. And everybody else wants to get their

trees pruned then too. So Martin's schedule fills up. Don't delay. Give him a call now, get on the schedule. Maybe you don't need him to come until January, but get on the schedule. Get that done. He will prune. He does deep root feeding. He'll check the trees overall health. If you've if you've noticed that a tree is like the ground is heaving up a little bit on one side, you know, the tree root base. Any kind of movement

down in there. Uh, that's probably from the last storms that did some of their movement and damage to it. Give Martin a call, have him take a look at that and make sure it's all good and safe to go, and he'll advise you on things. The October February is really a short window when our best pruning time is here, So call now to get on the schedule. Martin stays busy because Martin does good work. It's as simple as that.

That's also why we love to have Affordable Tree as a sponsor here on garden Line, because I know I can send you them and they're going to do a good job. So aff Tree Service dot Com seven to one three six nine nine two six six three. We are now going to go out to tom Ball, Texas and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line.

Get I like the leaf mold composts that they have, but I also like the fungal compost And just call, you know, talk to Ian or one of the folks there and just tell them what you want to do. You talk to me on guardline. You're wanting to do a top dressing on your bermuda lawn and so you need something kind of screen down. Fine, and they've got that product. They they know what we're talking about. When you call them and they'll get you set up and

that you can do. You can go pick it up if you've got a way to do it, or you can have them deliver it if you want to go about it that way.

because that's what they do. That's what nature does to prevent bear soil. Nature hates bear soil for good reason. So barricade put down in October early October, don't delay. You can apply it all October, you apply it November

and all of that. But I say, why not get it done ahead of time because that barricade is gonna last you a couple of two three months easy, and so go ahead and get it down, especially in the cool season, and get it down and then let's cover that whole period where these will be sprouting and you won't be dealing with them in the spring. Then Nitro foster eagle turf funge aside is a systemic that helps prevent the large patch or brown patch. It also helps

prevent takeof patch, which is really really important. You know, John's up there in the Tomball area and you're going to find you know, these kind of night fosh products at plant troll seasons of Tomball Parkway, for example, and Chenny Garden's din and Richmonds and those of you live up in the woodland shades of Texas has them, so it's easy easy to find those kinds of products from Nitrofoster. Let's go now to rop in North Houston. Hey Robert,

welcome to garden Line. Hey, good morning, Skip. Hey Skip.

one more question real quick. I heard you last week about the air potato is that edible, and if so, we're some horses for it. I do not think it's edible. I've seen them, you know, gardeners that love those to wrap around the pine trees and things. The only thing about air potato is it can be invasive, and it just depends on the area you're in and you know

how close it is to other things. Always pick up all those potatoes when they fall if you have one, because you don't want to, you know, just have a bunch. It's not like kudzu, but but it is a potential problem. So be careful with the air potato if you're going to grow it. Okay, well, thanks so much for the information. Appreciate you you bet, Robert, thank you for calling. Take care Okay, you do good. Good rest of your weekend.

When was the last time you went out to Arburgate. Well, if you haven't been recently, you need to go Arborgate. Is I tell you that place you ought to see it? I was looking, dad, That is just checking out.

parking lot that's all weathered on off Trischel Roads. So if you drive past Arburgate and miss Trischel, it's coming back in on the other side. It's a loop behind Arburgate. I like that back patio best because it's easy to get in there and walk right in and be in business. Arburgates gift shops are loaded with beautiful stuff, beautiful stuff for Halloween decorations, for Thanksgiving decoration. I think they're even getting some Christmas stuff in already, So you need to

go by there. Arburgate dot com is the website. Go there, subscribe to the newsletter and stuff too. While you're there. You will not be disappointed and take some prinds when you go. All right, time for a break. I'll be right back. Gad to have you with us. I was out in my garden this past week and do some multching, and I ran out a multch and it reminded me. You know, I thought, I know, always know better than this.

I do this mental math in my head and I think I got enough, and then I run short, and it reminded me. There's a this is an author unknown quote, but this is so true. Here he goes. My rule of green thumb for malts is to double my initial estimate of the bags needed and then add three. That way, I'll only be two bags short. Unfortunately, that is too too true. We're gonna go out to Spring, Texas and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.

soil rather than a bunch of dead weeds. If there's any areas that need to be filled, now's the time to do it. Get it all smooth. That way, when you mow, you get a nice even mowing, not one where the blade is tilting and gouging the ground as it bumps along. Get that smoothed out, and then get your grass down and do it as soon as you can. We are still warm, but it's not gonna be warm for a long time, and once we get into November, grassroot growth is slowing a whole lot, and so I

would suggest asap getting all this done. In order to get that grass well rooted in. You want to water it every day for the first week, every other day for the second week, and then you can start to back off that watering schedule, especially as things cool off, you can back off a lot.

do not do them ahead of time. Afterwards the top of the ground fine, but right now I would say this first. Now, let's get that stuff rooted in. We'll worry about pre emergence next year.

you know, just a little bit. You want to keep it moist because your grass is coming in with about a half inch to three quarter inch long roots and that doesn't do much, you know, and so asap, getting those roots in the ground is how that grass gets resilient. And so we're babying it along for the for the first little bit so that it can get roots down. But also just just get that done soon, Mike, because you'll end up with better stand.

down the highway during lunchtime. No, seriously, Wharton Feed one to three pm. When I'm there, the Lockley's owners of Wharton Feed and Ace are going to be providing some giveaways. They're going to have some plants from green Leaf Plants. They're gonna have a gift certificate from the muck Boot Company, and then Nitropos be there. There'll be a couple of bags of fall special that I've been bragging about all day. We'll be giving the two bags of that away, begin

two bags of barricade away. So come out you might get lucky. If not Wharton Ace feed and hardware, or excuse me, Wharton Feed and Ace. That way I got to say it right, is gonna have plenty of those ninety fives and other products on hand. But come on out and we'll have a really good time. I'm gonna have some Texas Gardener magazines available out there too, some even not tried looking at the Texas Gardener. You gotta subscribe. That's a great magazine, and I have a couple a

few copies of it to pass around. So come on out and see me. And you know, you can always bring me samples of plants to identify her to diagnose. If you got a bug crawling around you don't know what to do, bring it. I'll get it under a hot lamp and you know, put it through the make it confess its name, and we can that way get

to the bottom of it. But we're gonna have a good time, and I'm looking forward to coming out for those of you way out southwest like that, even past Wharton down toward Corpus CHRISTI direction come on out, let's meet and let's get that opportunity. I don't get out that way often enough, in my opinion, so I hope you will do that. I love quotes. I love quotes on gardening because so many of them are are true,

so true. A guy named doctor Alan Armitage, who is probably one of the most famous ornamental horticulturists in the southeast US. He's from Georgia originally uh and just a prolific writer and speaker. He said gardening simply does not allow one to become mentally old because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. And that is so true. I'm going to tell you the best garden I've ever had in my life is my next one.

It's true. It's true. You buy a fruit tree, you got that little tag with pictures of fruit on it, don't you just picture and taste? Right then what's gonna come? There's always hope for the future with gardening. And this is this is scientifically true. I'm talking about research that are dealing with dementia, people that are dealing with depression. When you get out and you play in the dirt and you plant stuff and you get involved in that. It is really therapy. Since I like quotes so much,

here's another one. It's actually a little rhyming one. When I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden. It's cheaper than a shrink. That's true. It's good for you. So I hope this week you will have a wonderful time out in the garden. I hope that you will get out there. Remember, don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. It's time to get stuff done. So get out there and have some

fun in the garden. Whatever you like to grow good, and then call garden I next week we'll talk about it. You got any questions, be glad to do that. I want to remind you My website is gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There you will find my lawn care skill when Defertilize, information on mowing, watering,

and applying micronutrient supplements to your yard. There's also the plant Disease, weed and insect problem schedule that tells you for the insects through the year, when do they, When does chinchbugs occur? When does sild webmorms? Occur. When do you treat for grubs? It's on there for diseases. How about brown patch or large patch? How about take our root rod? How about gray leaf spot? When do you have to worry about those? What do you do about them?

The products are there, whether you're organic or synthetic, All of it is there. Makes it real easy by publications on nuts edge control, how to build a weed wiper, and on and on and on are all on that website and they're all free. See you next week.