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you know how it goes. Every year we have what we call false fall. We get a little cool breeze come through, and that happened the other day and we all get the false spirit in us and then here comes heat right back. And that's okay, because it's still time to do things. It's time to get things done, and it's very important to do things on time. Don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. That's the way I'd like to put it. Don't look at the thermometer,

look at the calendar. And when you look at the calendar, you can see right now there's a number of things we can be doing. For example, we're going to be doing our fall fertilization very soon, and you need to go pick up your products for that. Nitrofoss has something called their Fall Special Winter Riser. It's very rich, got a lot of phosphorsin to help with the root system, but most importantly, it's really high in potassium. Potassium helps

a grass plant prepare for winter hardiness. Think of it this way. Potassium helps the grass plant make ana freeze that makes the grass even more hearty, and also it helps the grass come out in the spring vigorously and healthy. Coming out of spring, the fall fertilization is the most important fertilization for having a healthy lawn in spring and for it coming out. Secondly, the second step of their

three step is to head off the weeds. A nitro fross barricade is a pre emergent look at my schedules online at gardening with Skip dot com. It tells you exactly when to do it. Put the barricade down and prevent all the cool season weeds that'll be a problem next spring when they take off growing. They sprout this fall and you got to stop them. Number three, you put on a nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide. It's a systemic protecting. It's a securative funge a side that actually promotes healthy turf.

So are you worried about large patch or brown patch the big circles Nitropass Eagle turf fungicide. You're going to find this at a number of different places. You know, you're going to find it at places like Plants for All Seasons on two forty nine, or Katie Hardware or the gym's hardware up there in Montgomery. Nitrofoss three step makes it real easy. One, two, three. We're going to be talking about a number of things today. I'm just

gonna mention something right off the bat. I'm going to be at the Willbird's Unlimited in clear Lake later today, So after the show, I'm going to head over that way. I'll get there about eleven thirty and let's see, we'll be there till one thirty. We're gonna be drawing for a lot of products, things like hummingbird nectar with nectar defender, new variety of seed blends actually, and I'll be giving away some other products as well for everybody who shows up,

as long as supplies last. Remember, migration is underway. Hummingbirds are here Baltimore, orioles are coming through. They'll be doing it all this month and into October. That doing it meaning the arriving in our spot, get a bite to eat and continue on with their migration and we it's enjoyable when you have a feeder and you can bring them in to that feeder. Out in the lawn. This week, I was going through looking for some signs of fall aster. Fall Aster is a weed that you don't renoice during

the year unless your lawn is really struggling. Then the fall aster stands out. But it's almost a blue green weed that grows down really low in the almost the thatch area of the lawn sticks this little leaves up where they can get some light. And if it were if you weren't mowing the lawn, the weed would be, you know, over knee high. It gets very tall, but in a lawn it knows how to adjust to mowing.

And in probably maybe October we'll start to see the little blooms from that, depending on where you live north and south in the listening area. And when you see the blooms, that's when everybody gets alarmed about it, and so just be checking for it and when you see them. The easiest thing to do for fall aster at this point in the season is to pull it up, ham pull it up what the soil, make sure the lawn soil is moist, and just get down on hens and knees.

It has one spot where it comes out of the ground, taproot, so it's easy to wiggle it up right out of there. During most of the season, if you knew you were looking for it and treating for it, you could use a broadly post emergent product on it. But once these weeds go what we call reproductive, meaning they're blooming and they're setting seeds, it's a little late. The products that would have worked at that stage of the weed, we're

not going to accomplish much. So just a little tip there on with the fall aster and we certainly do have to deal with fall uster. When was the last time you're at at Arburgate. I swung by the other day and I'm telling you they are set up for fall of whatever kind of decorations. If you need the landscape blane, you know, things put out in your yard and stuff just for decorating for fall, whether it's the Halloween or whether it's decorating for just the harvest season.

You know that feel of the harvest season with all the orange and golden and yellow and maroonish colors that you put out. Well, Arburgate's got you covered on all of that. While you're there, you need to pick up their one two three system because on guard line, I always say brown stuff before green stuff, meaning before you put the plants in the ground, get the soil right.

And that's what the one two three system is. It's a soil and it's a fertilizer for anything with roots, and then it is a compost that can be mixed as well into the soil of blend and you pick all the three of those up. You put those together into the soil and your plan is ready to go. And that's important. And they've got that there at Arburgate. Remember they got the new parking lot new. I'll say it's new for another year or two probably, but it's been a long time coming. But boy is that ever

nice and convenient. It's off Trischel Road behind Arburgate. So whether you're coming out twenty nine to twenty from Tomball or coming in the other way, you just turned on Trishel Road, it's before or after Arburgate. It's a loop that goes out behind. It makes it real easy to do there. The Ace Hardware stores here in our area

are amazing in their everything ness. In other words, if I talk about a fertilizer for your lawn, if I talk about you know, you need to use this insect, a sider fundicide or herbicide or whatever it is, Ace Hardware's got them. And there's forty Ace Hardware's here in the Great Houston area. So that makes it really really

easy to find everything you need. You want to do some outdoor decorating and some outdoor enjoyment on the evenings as are getting cooler, Ace Hardware's got everything you need for the patio as well. Acehardware dot Com find the forty stores near you by going to the store locator. Well, I got to take a little break. We'll do the last segment seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two kt RH.

You can give us a call. We'll be happy to visit with you about whatever kinds of questions that you might have. I've talked about Quality Home Products of Texas a number of times, and it's because I believe in the way they do business without a doubt, you know, and so do a lot of other people. They've served over seventy seven thousand homeowners and their customer service is award winning. I'm talking about the Better Business Bureau's most

prestigious Customer Service Award. They've wonted eight times, so that's a that is an accomplishment. The Houston Chronicle Best of the Best in twenty twenty three they won that as well. It's a family owned operation, and if you go to the website QUALITYTX dot com you can find out more about them, or you can just give them a call.

It's seven one three Quality Listen you need a quality generator, for example, they carry the GENERAC generator, top of the line type company and Quality Home walks you through the whole process. And it's not just the piece of equipment you're buying, it's everything else you get from helping you find the right one, to setting it upright, to jump through the hoops of you know, any regulations a city

or what whoever may have. They do all that for you, and then after the sale, they're there to continue to maintain that unit and to help you when you need that peace of mind. And boy, do we ever need some of that this year with all the storms that we endured. Let's go on out to the phones and we're going to talk to John Tomball. Hello, John, Welcome to guard Line.

varieties and also training them well. John, if you will go on, if you use Google or whatever search engine, type in skip Richter and crape myrtle, and you should get a chart that shows you. Not everyone on the market. There's a lot of new ones since I put that chart out, but you can see what I'm talking about on heights, and there's pictures of the CRP myrtles too, So you go, I like that penguin, I like this white one, and they're about the right size. That's what

I recommend. Just remember when you use crapes to a screen of view. You just need to not go swimming in early spring or later in the fall, because some crape already's starting to drop.

They have fertilizers for every month of the I mean, no matter what month it is, they've got the appropriate fertilizer to be putting out at that month at that time. But they also have a product called genesis. Now, genesis is something that you put in when you're transplanting. It's a nutrient, but it also has microbes in it, and so if you're going to bump a container you bought into a larger container that's soil, and the larger container

needs to Genesis already mixed into it. If you're going to take let's say you're gonna plant a rosebush this fall, or any tree, you take the soil around where you're gonna plant in that hole and you mix in Genesis with it. It's not gonna burn, but just mix it into the soil where you're planting, whether it's a garden bed or you know, or a landscape bed. Genesis is an outstanding product. I was so surprised when I first used it.

you will have a little less of that suckering. But it's the nature of that species to want to do that.

wouldn't be able to push up through that. But but you definitely would need something weighing it down because they're just going to lift that right up.

It's amazing the selection of things that they have. It's just pretty much everything you could possibly need. An eighty foot long wall of tools. You know, some of you are building that skips weed wiper that I put on my website by the way, if you want to see that, it's gardening with Skip dot Com. Some of you are

building that. Well, Bob's got the standard grabber tool that you use to build that, and he, you know, he can give you the products that go with that, depending on whether you're going after woody ornamentals or grass or sedges or whatever it is. Bob is always is going to be on top of things while you're in there. Take a look at the kneeling bench. I think it's the coolest thing. It'll change your gardening life, especially if you're somewhere north of forty years old, because it's easy.

It's a seat, it's also a kneeling bench, and the legs then become handles to help you get back up. And you know, if you go to your knees and get up about how many times do we do that on a good Saturday in the garden, eight hundred times? Well, it'll keep you from waking up in the pre natal position the next morning when your body says, you will never do that to me again. Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Corner of Bussinette and Runwick. We're going to

go out now to Cypers and talk to Ed. Hello, Ed, Welcome to guard Line. Good morning morning. I've got two questions. One is what is your opinion or.

already doing that, but make sure and do that. And then what I would do the other thing is to I'll just use umpus directions if you if you'll take half about what you're going to apply and go north south and then turn around take the other half and go east west. That helps blend it out a little bit as well, okay, uh, And that that would be the main thing. And the stronger the fertilizer is, the

higher the nitrogen content, the less you're gonna use. Uh. And so sometimes people get a good stout fertilizer, which is fine, you just would need to use less and they still apply a higher rate and that also makes it a little difficult to not stripe.

You see what I'm saying, just a little bit above halfway.

It's got a complex of different kinds of biocatalysts in it, and people have used Medina soil Activator and sworn by it for years. Another product that is an outstanding one for medina's Medina Plus, and so it's going to contain similar things to the first one I mentioned, but also some additional nutrient content. Medina Plus is a combination of that soil activator and then it's fortified with seaweed extracts,

so it's high end micro nutrients. It's got natural plant growth regulators, and if you're going to do any transplanting, it would be an excellent product to water. There's new plants in You can get it on the foldage and you will drench it on the roots. All of that, all of the above, it's not going to burn your plants. Just follow the label and you will have really think a surprising result with the Medina Plus and the Medina

so Ale Activator. You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. I was mentioning earlier that if you go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you can find a number of things. One of them is the there is a how to build a weed wiper and you just have to go there. I'm not going to try to describe it to you, but it's really

easy to make. When you look at it, you just go I can do that myself, and you can probably improve on it yourself, because it's just one way to do It's the way I've done it. There is an outstanding publication on tip tips for winning the War against Nutsedge, and I say outstanding because I spent a long time researching this and trying things myself through the years. What are our options for that? It's a one pager. Then

the one that I hope you will read. I know people don't like to read a lot, but it's called going Nuts over Nuts Edge, Going Nuts over Nutsedge, and these are all free. Above everything on the website is free and it goes into detail on the two kinds of nutsedge and some other stuff that you probably didn't know about it, and these are very important if you want to have success. I'm fighting two battles with nutsedge myself.

I got some really nice, fine textured turf. It's called it's a zoysia called Xeon, and it's an outstanding thing. But boy, when the nutsedge sticks, it's it's leaves up above the turf, it re shows up. And so I'm dealing with it. They are and in a flower bed. And if you will follow what's on that information sheet that I created, it will work. You just have to stay with it. Also there you're going to find my schedules, my lawn care schedule, and we are at the doorstep

of applying our fall fertilizers. For those of you that are listening, I'll say way up north, like Huntsville or someplace like that. The time you apply comes a little earlier than someone down in Galveston, for example, where it doesn't get as cold as fast. And so anyway, lawn care schedule, and then the lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule, and we are entering the season now where we treat for brown patch or large patch, and it's also the season where we treat for take all root rot.

And then it's also the season where we put a pre emergent down our winter weeds, things like the hen bet and chick weed, carpetweed and clovers and all of those. They're sprouting in the fall when it cools off a little bit, and then they sit there all winter, and then in spring we have a mess on our hands. And so if you look at the schedule, you'll see all of that. It gives you a list of products, both organic and synthetic for dealing with all of those. Well,

let's go now to Katie, Texas. We're going to talk to Sam. Hello, Sam, good morning.

leaf miner. Citrus leaf miner. You got a couple of options. Number One, you can do nothing. They're not going to kill your tree. They take a little foliage out, but the trio grow more foliage. They primarily attack tender new growth, which we're kind of done having now. I mean it's going to cool off in a little bit here in the citrus quit putting out in new growth, and so it would be waiting until next spring to act against

them when they start showing up again. So whenever you have a flesh and new growth, that's when you would spray the leaves. Only the leaves that are the flush of new growth, the old, dark, leathery leaves. Leaf miner doesn't attack those, so that that'd be some Now some people just ignore it. But if I had a young tree and I was trying to get it to really grow up fast and get big. So it has a lot of oranges or whatever kind of citrus on it.

I would probably do some spring during the first three years.

in my backyard. We're going to take a break. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two, Katie. You know when it when it comes to organic types of products. So one of the first things I think of is Microlife. Microlife has been creating organic products for a very long time, and they they have such excellent products, such outstanding products actually that just flat work they do. Microlife.

For example, they have got the biomatrix. The biomatrix is a really good product for anything that you're going to plant, any whether you're fertilizing an existing plant or whether you're transplanting or whatever. Biomatrix is in an orange bottle. It is a liquid. Now they also have they had a bunch of liquid type products, but they've got the fish emulsions in the seaweed, which organic gardeners know that combination

is an excellent way to fertilize plants as well. But I want to just talk about that biomatrix for just a moment. It is loaded with microbes. It has the nutrients in seven percent nitrogen seven one three or four. I just went blank on the actual last number seven one four, I believe. And I've used it on houseplants. I've used it outdoors. It's not going to burn a plant, but it will not only feed the plant but also enhance microbial activity in the soil, and that is very important.

And it's just one of many quality products that you can get for Microlife. It's Microlifefertilizer dot com. That's a website you can find out where to get it. But I can just tell you this, it's widely available. You're going to feed stores, you going to garden centers, you go into ACE hardware stores or Southwest Fertilized. You're going to find products like Microlife Biomatrix. We're going to head now out to San Leon and talk to Ted. Hello, Ted, Welcome to garden Line.

what's coming up. I mean, if they're going to have an event or a speaker, you find out about what products they just got in and you kind of get a head start on that before somebody else makes a run. But they were Uh, I was just noticing that they they do a lot of things with making containers that are mixed containers, meaning there's several different kinds of plant

and that is really a beautiful, a beautiful result. And for example, you could do that with just herbs, or you could do it with herbs combined with other things. You can do it with flowers. We're entering the fall season, so how about a croaton in the middle of it, and then you've got some other fall colored flowers that are also part of it. They've got everything you need for that out there now. They also have the plants

for whatever season we're in. They've also got things like the fertilizers and the products, the soils and multius and things that you need to have success. And they have expert advice. When you go to Anchinna Gardens, you're going to have folks that know what they're talking about that can guide you and help you. And us entering now the Halloween and Thanksgiving a season, every kind of plant you can imagine that fits that season is going to

be on front display. But just go there take a friend, because this is a destination garden center out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. It's on north of Richmond Rose. Excuse me, Richmond Rosenberg. It's up toward the KD direction and that is Enchanted Gardens. By the way, the road is FM three point fifty nine, Richmond, Texas address. Well, I think we're running. Uh, let's see, we still got time maybe for a real quick call seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one

two k t r H gist call. We'll be able to help you with whatever kinds of questions that you might have.

breathing carbon dioxide and they breathe out oxygen. That makes us in plants go well together because we're the opposite. But plants also use oxygen, not as much as they produce. But there's part of the cycle with plants is having oxygen to do the things some of the things that they need to do. And if your soil is loose, if your soil has good compost content, good organic matter content in a clay, a lot of expanded shale helps as well. Is even a longer term thing you're going

to have success. And if you're looking for the one stop shop for brown stuff, that is Cienomalts Cienamalts down just north of Roast Sharing. They have all the different things I'm talking about, a wide variety of things that make your soil better. Compost and bed mixes. For example, if you wanted the heirloom soils, veggie and herb mix that go to Siana Maltch. They've got it. They have it there. If you're needing a good top dressing maltz to go on top of the soil, go to Siena Maltz.

They have it there. If you're needing a fertilizer, every fertilizer I talk about on garden line and then some are there at Ciena malt If you need things like stone, if you need gravel or rocks for decorations and whatever, they've got that there at Ciena malt When you drive into Ciana Malts and drive out, you have everything you need to have success with your plants. They deliver within about twenty miles of their location, but you just need

to go. It's an outstanding place again. They are on FM five point twenty one, just north of Rosharon cianamltch dot com. And by the way, they treat you well there too, very friendly, and it just it feels like you're going to visit with family when you walk inside of Sienamultch. We're running pretty close to the break here, so I think it won't start start up something new. I do want to remind you that today I'm going to be at the clear Lake wild Bird's Unlimited Store. Okay,

clear Lake wild Bird's Unlimited Store. And in my garden some hummingbirds showed up. I haven't been in the past a big hummingbird feeder. Of course, I'm getting more and more into birds these days. But the clear Lake wild Bird's Unlimited Store as where I'll be from eleven thirty to one thirty. Now, that is where El Dorado and clear Lake City Boulevard come together. El Dorado Boulevard, clear

Lake City Boulevard down in clear Lake. All of you in the region down there, if you have some samples of plants, put them as up like bag, bring them in, we'll identify them, we'll diagnose them, we'll last rites. If that needs to be done. Do you have things you want identify same thing? Bring phone pictures in. Just make sure where you come in they're close up and they are crisp, sharp focus. So you know, a fuzzy photo gets you a fuzzy answer. I don't want to give

you a fuzzy answer. So they're like wallbirds on them. We're going to be given away a number of different products. I'm bringing some stuff to give away. They'll be like hummingbird nectar defender. That's an outstanding product. I use it in in my hummingbird nectar in this warm weather sugar water goes bad pretty quick. With nectar defender in it, it lasts a lot longer, and it's it's an excellent product for the burden. They're going to give away some

other stuff, some of their seed blends, for example. So they're like wallbirds. If you live south, if you live east, south or southeast, come and see me today. I have you know that I was talking earlier, you know about the importance of preparing soil, of the importance of making sure that when you are doing something to your lawn or your flower beds or your garden or whatever, that you provide the nutrients it needs, and you provide oxygen in the soil that you create the ideal soil environment.

And that it's I'm a broken record on it, but it's because I know that is the first step the key to success. When you plant a plant and walk away the minute you've planted it, or a seed for that matter, you are I'm going to say, eighty percent of the way to success or failure at least seventy five percent. And it's because you've chosen the plant, You've prepared the soil, you put it in cent or shade,

and the plants can have an opinion about that. Does it have nutrients, does it have good oxygen in the soil. All the stuff you do before you plant is the vast majority of your success. And just remember that I wor in Southern Gardens is out there in Kingwood Garden Center. Both are out there in the Kingwood area, and boy, they have a lot going on right now. They've got citrus in the rangoon creeper is in stock and if you've never seen a rangoon creeper, that is one showboat.

In the summer, it's a vine and dies back to the ground and then it comes back again and boy, it is beautiful, beautiful. It's time to make sure that your planters are in good shape for the fallseason. You got your new plants in, you got good soil in. Warrens can help you with that. And Kingwood Garden Center do you know what Warrens. You can drop off existing pots or you can buy a new one and have a schedule and appointment visit the garden center or schedule

and appointment. They have a great selection to new pottery if you need some. But they will help you create a stunning arrangement that is really impressive. So if you feel like I just don't know what to do, I don't know what plants to put in, they'll give you ideas for combos and that is really cool. You can say five dollars on Microlife sixty four on the Microlife brown Patch control on sweet Grain from nitroposs anarnaesumite through the end of this month, five bucks off each bag.

They also have sales on Bugginator and Slow and Easy and nitrofis super Turf. It's just a good time to go. Tree sales going on right now. Thirty percent off any trees. That's that is cool. That one called a traveler red bud, that kind of it's a weeping type of redbud. And of course they got a lot of different kinds of trees as well. And why are you there? Just go

online and subscribe it to the Warrens newsletter. You'll find out about all these kind of discounts and savings Warren Southern Gardens and also out there Kingwood Garden Center in Kingwood. We're going to head now, let's see, we're going to go out to Richmond and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to a guard line.

Typically drought types of damage. There is a root rot that will kill roots, and as roots begin to die, let's say over on the left side of the plant, then you typically will notice a whole section of the plant above that that's going to start to lose that cane. Occasionally we have a sudden coal snap that can cost splitting of the trunk. There's just different things that can happen.

I would follow the branch that when it turns completely brown or tan and it's not alive, I'd follow that branch down and cut it offward attaches to something else that way.

toads if you want to check for that. If you were to scrape the base of the trunk kind of deeply, scrape back the bark and you see brown in there, then that's a sign of a root raight fungus that's working on it. So there's a lot of possibilities. We can't you know, go into detail on each one, but see what you see. If you have any further questions, just call me back.

like a Cadillac type mix. Got all kinds of great stuff in it, including a nutrient release that'll last about three months on that. It's just a great idea when you're going to put in some perennials, when you're going to plant some fall ornamentals, or maybe you already have some that you can use. Some of their mulches, like the black velvet mulch out there on the surface of the soil. You can pile that up over the top of a plant that is semi coal tender. You know,

you think some winter I'm gonna lose that thing. Well, just pullow mulch over the crowded plant at the base of the plant and create a hold that soil warmth in and that in and of itself is helpful. And I love the color of the black velvet. It's not dyed. It's beautifully dark and velvety. And then they also have top soil. Does your lawn have some areas that need, you know, kind of a hole you're gonna twist your ankle, lint or something. You can use their topsoil product. It's

a high quality products. Got some some blend of a compost in it. It's just going to give you a really good result. All it, all of it is from landscapers pride. We're going to head now. See nope, we're going to head now do a break. And so Susan and Patterson and George in Jersey Village, you will be my first two up when we come right.

Or the third thing is put them in a big pot like that and put in acidic type bed mix in the pot.

this stuff under control. Is it better if I cut them off and then treat the new growth or can I just put this stuff on the current growth or is it one way.

those little brushes that you get to paint with. It's like a little and stick with a brush on the Yeah, they get the tiny, smallest one and then just dip it directly in some trickle, paer, and then dab it on the fresh cut surface. When you cut them off, it goes down in there and you can't get less pesticide application than that.

for still time. If you're doing some butterfly planting, you know, they still have plenty of supplies for that. Trees and shrubs. They do an outstanding job on that. Enchanted Forest is just a place that you really need to go. I mean, it's as simple as that. Whenever whenever I'm out there, I always number one. I love visiting with the folks because they're friendly and they treat you right, and they

know what they're talking about. But I always have to wander around and I'm going to see new plants that I haven't had before. You know, your fall herbs right now a prime, prime example of some some really timely things from Enchanted Forest. If you if you want to go there, it's FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond, you're heading up towards Sugar Lance can be way off

to the right. That's where you're going to go. Uh and when you when you get there, tell them that you heard about on guardline and that I don't know. You just want to hear about all the wonderful things that they have, and they'll get you plugged right in. If you want the website, and I recommend that you do, uh go there. It's enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, t X dot com. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

If you'd like to give me a call, we can talk about other things that are of interest to you. You you have, I'm sure many times heard me talk about B and B two Pros, B and B turf Pros. When it comes to putting a compost, stop dressing down, when it comes to doing a deep core aeration, you're not going to find a better place than B and B turf Pros. They absolutely know what they're talking about, and when they do a job, they do it right. It's very important to them to take care of their

customers and I see this. I see it in their ratings and just the you know, when I talk to them what is important to you, I can just hear that their goal is for you to be happy, not for them to come to your property, get their money and leave. It's for you to be happy because they know that that gets talked about. People talk about the job they did, and it just makes people happy. And it's kind of folks that they are just to be

real honest with you about it. BnB turf pros dot com is the website, and I said that a little incorrectly. It's BB no end bbturfpros dot com. If you want to give them a call seven to one, three two three four fifty five ninety eight. It's a good time now to go ahead and get that top compost top dressing done before we get too late into the fall and in the corrooration. The corrooration gets oxygen back down

in your soil where you can have success. You want to do that before you apply your pre emergent ideally, because then when you apply a pre emergent, you are treating what is the surface of the soil. The idea of taking core plugs out and dropping them on the surface, which is so good for the lawn that could bring new weed seeds up or something like that. So get your compost top dressing corrooration done first, and then apply your pre emergent weed killers let's see, let's go out

to southwest Houston and we're going to talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, good.

not the problem. If you walk through your lawn and moths come flying up out of the lawn and they go a little distance and then they settle back into the lawn, that is probably side web worms. That's kind of the work. They're going to lay eggs that are going to hatch out. Now isn't the time to treat them because the larva aren't there yet that do the feeding. But when you start to see a little bit of feeding from the larva, that's the time to get a

pesticide down on them to take care of them. You could also use you could use a nitropossbug out max now, water it in and get it in the thatch so as those little creatures try to they hide in the thatch during the day and then they come back out at night to feed on your lawn. So you could that would be another approach to them, because that product's going to last a long time.

is on my schedule. I talk about October being a prime time for the applications of products that are going to give you the fall blend, in other words, the higher potassium a little lower nitrogen blend. And that's what's in carbo Load. By the way, fourticon bag covers five thousand square feet. And then you need to water it in because it's going to have a pre emergent in it as well as the nutrients to fight the winter

weeds that will be sprouting in October. So late September early October is the kind of the you know, the gun goes off and the race begins. Let's get that done. But I do want to say if you're do overseeding, which I do not recommend people overseed their lawn with rye grass or whatever. If you're going to do that, you don't want to put a pre emergent down and then overseed because the premergant will work that overseed is a weed in the lawn, which is one reason I

don't recommend doing it. But just be aware of that. And that's with any pre emergent that you might use if you are looking for an outstanding product for transplanting and fall is for planting Nutristar Genesis. It's one of the products that comes in the clear jug the jar, and Nutristar Genesis works very well at helping those plants move in. It's got microise of fungi in there to form a relationship with the roots and make the plant more successful in taking up water and nutrients. And then

finally nutri Star Vegetable Garden. Hey, it's fall gardening time. We're you know, we're not far away at all. In fact, now is the time we could be planning the blue leaf vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, courabie coming up a little bit. That is going to be some of the winter greens that we put in, like spinnerton. Let us carrots coming up right now. You can be putting out charred and you can be putting out a lot of other things.

But you know, the vegetable garden product called nutri Star Vegetable Garden, that is an outstanding product to give you a slow release of nutrients over time and just to help you have a more beautiful garden from the folks at Nelson Plat Food. We're going to go now to Fort Ping County and talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, welcome to garden Line.

kind of a rough guy. The older it gets, the harder it is to do. And that past three years, I'd say you probably need to pull it up and just get you a new tree. Some people are very determined and they'll make something work. But once a tree is stood up, now you need it to grow a strong root system because remember it didn't have a strong enough root system to withstand that storm that knocked it over.

So what happens when another storm comes. You need a root system that's even better than the one you had before. Do you see what I'm saying, And so it's going to take several years to get that. You want the tree to be able to move a little bit in the wind if it can, because that is important, but continue to just give it time to get roots way out in all directions and to become strong roots where

they have some structural support. So again three years is not a magical number, but I would probably leave at stake for about that long and then just kind of watch it, maybe maybe have a steak, but some and that you know, it's very loose. I can move a little bit, but at the same time, if it goes too far that stake, we'll catch it for it moves very far at all. That's just my advice on doing that.

And by the way, if you have tree issues of any kind, Affordable Tree Service Martin and his wife Joe, by the way, they're the owners. They still answer their own phone. And so if you call Affordable Tree here's a number seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three, you are going to get Martin r. Joe. If you don't hang up, you call the wrong place. Seven to one three. I'm saying this again, seven one

three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. If you like to do things via the web, or you didn't write the phone number down aff Tree Service dot com A f F the first letters in Affordable aff Tree Service dot com. Guardline customers are the top priority. Let him know you're a gardenline customer. Martin stays busy because he does a good job. That's it. He can come out and he can You know, there will be a charge to come out and look at the property and

look at the trees and give you advice. If you hire him to do something, the come out fee, it just goes into the cost. Okay, he can do consultations, he can do pruning, deep root feeding, pest control, stop grinding. If you lost trees during that last storm, just know

that you need to call Martin an Affordable Tree. And if you had just bought a low piece of property and you've got beautiful trees on it and you want to build a house, you have to talk to someone that knows what they're doing before the folks come in and start making trenches and doing all the things that are so hard on trees that have been grown in a forest. Do not let a builder get on the property to start work until you've had Martin come out from Affordable Tree to take a look. I just can't

stress the importance of that enough. I have seen over my thirty five years and an agro life Extension horse culture agent on many occasions, Big beautiful natural tree out there in the forest. They build a house, sometimes even going around the tree kind of and then that tree dies. And if you think it's expensive to bring a tree down, how about bringing a tree down that is hanging all over your house. Yeah. Yeah, the risks go up. And they built the house there for that because of that tree,

and now they don't have it. So I just beg people before you build, have somebody come out. And Martin isn't outstanding somebody to come out and do that kind of consultation for you. I hope I have, you know, hammered that home well enough. I was out putting some of the nectar defender that's a wild bird's product, nectar defender in my bird hummingbird feeders and have a little bit of sugar water in there for them, and I just put a little bit by the way. And here's why,

because that stuff doesn't last forever. But nectar defender instead of it going bad the sugar water in the hot weather we're having, that goes bad pretty quick. In a hummingbird feeder, nectar defender extends it out. It's just one of the products that you can get from wallbirds. This is the time when the Baltimore orioles are coming through. They are making their migration as well as are the hummingbirds. Get those feeders out. Go to a Wallbirds. Get you

the high perch hummingbird feeder. That's my favorite one high perch hummingbird feeder. Buy some of their quality blends and you will see that this stuff really does work. Cheap bird seed full of the low red bebies. You don't get your money's worth out of it because the birds are kicking half the stuff or more out of the

feeder looking for something they want to eat. When you go to Wallbirds and you buy a pound of feed, you get a pound of stuff going into the birds tummy, and it just is an economical way to do that. I'm going to be at Wallbirds at clear Lake by the way, two day Wildbirds clear Lake and now if you don't know where that one is, it's at the corner of clear Lake City Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard. I'll be there at eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll

answer your gardening questions. Uh, you can come into a wad bird store and see what I keep bragging about. I will also if you bring some samples in in a bag. If you bring pictures in on your phone, come on out and see a landscape, you're free to go to call it seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. I excuse me. I was talking about soil

and the importance of the brown stuff and whatnot. And azemite is a product designed to put the micros in the soil that you will need for successful plant growth.

without manganese. Most lungs have it in them. But what's the level as amite we recommend putting down because it is something that builds the bank account in the soil. So as those other nutrients are pushing the plant to grow, that plant has a bank account of all the micros that it needs. And Azamite Texas dot com is the website for it. If you want to make it easy for yourself and fall fertilizing season, just do your fertilizing, come back, add the microlife to your hopper. Don't mix

fertilizer with the microlife. Particle size is different. Uh, and then do the microlife. You can do microlife microlife. What I've been saying, azamite, you can dazimite any time of the year. You know, I have these these companies in my heads and it just kind of some times. Asmit Texas dot com is a website, and just add that Azmit the micro nutrient, the trace mineral supplement to your lawn. Again, what are we doing. We're building a micro's bank account,

micronutrient bank account in the soil. And that's what azimite does. By the way, it's available everywhere. You hear me talk about feed stores, you hear me about garden centers, talking about ACE hardware stores, talking about I WAS Fertilizer and all those places. It's easy to find, easy to find. Okay, We're going to go now to Northwest Houston and talk to Daryl.

where the worm enters, near the base. They can enter further down the vine, but the moth lays egg there. The worm hatches out and crawls inside and feeds, and before you know it, you got big problems. If you start, if you see that little wet sawdust looking goo that's coming out of the vine, if you will split the vine lengthwise with your knife the same direction as the vine, kind of pull it open, you can take the tip of your knife and just stab the thing and kill it.

And that's kind of an after the fact surgery fix. But a lot of people do that because no matter what you spray and try to do, you're gonna miss a few. But sprays that contains spinosid or BT will control that product. BT though only lasts about a day, and so you just have the spray. Spray spray, So I would I would probably go with the spinosid. But any insecticide you know from seven dust do you name

it will kill those things. But boys things like seven dusts or they'll kill bees too, and so be really careful. The reason I say late day is because they're no blot they're no blooms open. It's the next morning that the new day's blooms are open, okay.

post emergent. And the product I would recommend for that weed is called celsius, like the temperature celsius.

find products too there, like the fertilizers I recommend. But you're going to find some really nice plants and some really friendly people too. RCW nurseres it's the garden center that's where FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into Beltway. H really really easy to get to you right down there, go by and check them out because they have some really cool stuff. Let's see here, boy, Laura, I'm going to have to go to top of the hour break. You will be first when I come back. Okay, thanks

for your patients. We look forward to talking to you right after the break. Well, a while ago, I was talking with Lee down in Fort ben County, and I was going to mention to him and all of you. The second annual Strawberry Jamboree by the Extension Service the Horticulture Department in Brazoria County is going to be at the Lake Jackson Rec Center on Lake Drive, Lake Jackson, Texas. October is Strawberry Planning Season go down September twenty first, eight a M to TWOPIM learn about this. It's a

pre program. By the way, there'll be a strawberry shortcake contest as well. They're gonna have exhibitors. You can even pre order strawberry plugs if you would like. They'll come in in time to get the planning done. Here's a phone number nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight. Give them a call. I was there last year and it was a blast.

also answering your gardening questions when you come out. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas is a place that you just need to visit. It is magical. I could go out there. In fact, I think they ought to charge as to just go sit and listen to the sound of water. It would be like a therapy session. Uh. And that's what water does for us.

jump right down the street. Two eight one three nine one forty seven sixty nine two eight one three nine one forty seven sixty nine or Nelson Watergardens dot com Nelsonwatergardens dot com. All right, we're gonna head now out too if I can find my what's going on here? Okay, well I have a computer mouse that is running wild. We're gonna here we go. We're gonna go out and talk to Laura. Hello, Laura, thanks for waiting. Welcome to garden Line. Good sir, thank you.

a little wet, then they sprout and grow. The controls for it you're not going to like, but I'll tell you raking up all the fallen leaves because they have spores on them, try to reduce that a little bit, uh, and then spraying them every time it rains right after it quit training. Uh, then go ahead and get a funge side on the leaves. And there are a couple of products. There's one called dak oil and there's one called belaton and those two alternating between those two can

keep that leaf spot in check. But like I said, nobody wants to have to go out and spray their shrubs every time it rains.

Missouri City. Yeah, so I'd try one of the enchanteds out there in Richmond, Rosenberger, Chenning Forest and China Gardens. Call them first before you drive all out.

all that landscaper's pride products out there. It's just a place where you go and you get everything you need to help you have a very beautiful garden and a bountiful garden as well, and for things like your lawn. They're set up and they've got the timely products for the season. At D and D Turf and Feed. They're about three miles west of two forty nine out twenty nine to twenty family owned. It's been opened since nineteen eighty nine. When the dovers open that up, they've expanded.

Of course, you need any kind of livestock feed or pet food, very high end lines of dog food for example, like Origin and Diamond and Victor and Star. Pro D and D Feed and Supply is the place also where you can get the products you to control pests and diseases and weeds. They have a very good selection. I stopped by the other day. I always do that on our sponsors and just see how they're doing and see

what they're carrying. And I was very surprised at the amount of stuff for managing problems in the landscaping, garden and lawn the D and D feed has. I'm gonna head out now, let's go to Jersey Village and we're gonna talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, welcome to Guarden Line.

and have different coloring to them. But I'm not going to guess on this one. Let you take a look at some pictures and we can take it from there, and if you email me then I can just email you back the information what it is and if anything's needed what to do.

that are in them. Microlife has a product called Microlife brown Match five to three fertilizer five to one three. Remember and fall, we are lowering the nitrogen and we're raising the potassium the last number on the bag. And Microlife brown Patch is easy to apply. You like to get it down because has a lot of microbes in it and that's going to be helping you in many

ways in your lawn. You want to get that down before we hit the brown patch season, and so late September early early October be a great time to apply Microlife brown Patch. It's in kind of a brown bag, makes it really easy. Both the bag and there's also canisters of it if you want the little jars of plastic jars. You probably need a whole bag though to treat your lawn, and I think you will find really

good results with it. It's just another one of those successful and microbe laden products from Microlife that takes a natural approach to growing your lawn and to controlling issues that you might have in your lawn. Listening to Gardenline, our phone number is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I. You know, we talk about a lot of different kinds of products and things

here on garden Line and Heirloom Soils. I just am always impressed with the breadth of products that they have, the quality of products that they have. You know, if you need a rose a blend, if you need a veggie and herb mix, they got that. You need something for cacti or for indoor plants, a potting soil, the works potting soil is what they call it, or outdoor plants and a container the works potting soil is excellent for that. Compost blends, a shale compost in shale blends

as well. All available from available from Airloom Soils. The website Airloomsoils Off Texas dot Com Airlomsoilsoftexas dot Com. When you go there, you can see all the products and you got a really handy calculator. So if you're going to create a bed this fall, hey falls the time to plant. I hope you are get a quality Mex. Remember brown stuff before green stuff. Get a quality Mex from Heirlooms Soils Off Texas dot Com. They can fix

you up. Their bags are available widespread through the Houston area. They also deliver bulk or you can go and pick it up yourself at Heirloom Source off Texas dot Com. That makes it easy. It's a lot easier. In fact, I was out in the Montgomery area the other day and I stopped in at A and A Plants and Produce. I always like to visit with the folks, and as I said earlier today, you know, find out what do you got? What's in stock and stuff? And I'm telling

you their selection of fertilizers. I nothing that I mentioned on garden Line is kind of everything I mentioned on Garland. You're going to find it in A A and A Plants and Produce. They just had gotten some beauty full astors in and you know mom season is coming on us asters as well. They have the kinds of plants you would plant in the fall for carrying you into the cool season. And they got the advice there from

folks that know what they're talking about. Again. Ana plants and produces on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five, just on the edge of town there. It's really easy to get to. If you've driven down one oh five, you passed one hundred times. But for all of you out there, especially those of you up in the Lake Conroe neighborhoods, they this is your place, this is your hometown garden center. And they also come out and do some landscaping work around the Lake Conroe

area too. So just call them, stop in talk to them about that. We're gonna now go to the woodlands and talk to Tommy. Hello, Tommy, Hello there, how are you. I'm good good. I was grabbing a pin. Always good to have a pin when you're talking on guardline.

button weed. Plus in the university trials I've seen Celsius has led the pack over things like two four D and other Broadly, if we control products, Okay, it's not cheap. You can buy it in a little little packet. You know, it's in a I don't know, sugar packet and a good description, but something like a long sugar packet, and you got you can treat a lot of weeds with that. So if you got any other weeds, you can do that.

Sometimes I'll split the packet in half a packet does a gallon, and a gallon goes a long way, a long way when you're spot treating weeds in your garden. But that helps break the price down a little bit. But it works. And just be ready about six weeks later to hit it again this time of the year. By six weeks later, it's probably going to be cooling off quite a bit, so I might be ready in spring to do a treatment when you first see the button weed present, and then about six weeks after that.

close to the heights and talk to Gene. Hey, Gene, welcome to Guardland.

very Citrus varies. Some citrus is thorny, some citrus is not. They just want to make sure you get a good one that and understand how that should be pruned and groaned and fertilized and everything, because this is a great place to grow centus. Buchanans Native Plants is on Eleventh Street and the Heights. Now, they've been around since nineteen eighty six. They're on eleven Street in the Heights. Here's a website, so I don't forget Buchanansplants dot com. And

now why is the website so important? Well, it's because there is so much information on there. You can sign up for the newsletter, which I recommend you do. But you know, when you talk about Buchanans Native plants, we think about natives because they've got the best selection in this whole region of native plants. They do a very good job of that. But Buchanans is way more than just native plants. For example, if you're wanting to plant fall color, you know things like mums for example, Uh.

In fact, they have a they have a list of the things that would be great for fall color on the on the some of their social media and you can get to it from the website too.

It's going to be fun. Stop h Buchanans Native Plants in the Heights Buchanans Plants dot com. You will be surprised at the breadth of information and the smorgasbord of really cool plants that do well here in the Greater Houston area. I'm gonna up now to Tom Ball and talk to John.

away from hot weather with those kind of things. But yep, there's a number of number of products from a number of manufacturers that are that carry that.

A tablespoon will kill your plants or do damage to your plants, meaning you you know you double or triple up on the amount. Follow the label carefully. It'll tell you things like what temperature can you use this herbicide in. It'll tell you things that are very important to help you have success, like a pre emergent needing to be watered into the surface of the soil. Read the label. A lot of problems occur because people won't read the label. And I know that's boring, and I know us guys,

we never stop and ask for directions. Right, Well, read the label. It is very important that Number one, you want it to work right, and the label tells you that you don't want to do damage, and the label guides you away from that. Always read the I don't care if it's an organic product or synthetic product. Read the label. That is very important. And I see so many examples of people that do things that if they'd

read the label, they wouldn't have done it. And typically it's a lawn that gets nuked with something instead of having the proper dose done, or they spray twice too close together. The label would say, no, wait this long before you do it again. Read the label. That's the bottom line. That's the advice for the day. That is important.

Ace Hardware stores are the kind of place where you go and you find everything I recommend you need for gardens, for lawns, for landscapes, for you know, you name it. Ace Hardware has all of those products. If I talk about a fird, it's going to be at Ace Hardware. And there's forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. Forty so it's easy to find one. Wherever you live, there's gonna be one pretty close. And if you go to ACE Hardware dot Com and find the store locator,

you can find the stores near you. But when you're in Ace, you're going to find the fertilizers and the insect control, disease control, weed control products. You're gonna find tools, You're gonna find cool stuff for your patio outdoors. I know it's it's a hardware store. We already know what hardware stores carry. I'm talking about the lawn and garden part of it. They have the products at Ace Hardware

and they're so convenient. All right, I'm gonna take a little quick break here seven one three two one two k t r H. I'll be right back.

why they are so highly recommended by their customers. When you go now, you're going to find some really cool fall color, really nice like Croton's for example, the ones that they and of themselves look like harvest season decorated, some beautiful ornamental grasses that you know, the fall is the time for ornamental grasses to put on their big show. They've got that there and just a lot lot more. If you have questions, if you want to bring a sample of something in, put in the bag, bring it in.

They'll help you for it with it. They will also if you just have questions or pictures on your phone, they'll help you with that too. Plants for all seasons, great plants, and outstanding service for the community. We're going to head out now to bel Air and talk to Jane. Hey, Jane, Welcome to garden Line.

Skip's weed Wiper. Now you're not gonna treat these with a weed wiper, but if you go down the list, it says for grass see weeds what to use, and I'll tell you the names of the ingredients, but just know that at the website, if you forget, you can just print that out and take it to wherever your shopping. One of them is Setosiedim and it's if you look at the first letters or S E T H the boy's name. Okay. The other one is flu as a flop and just remember flu a Z flu as. But

go to the website and you'll see those there. I have a list of things that control woody plants, things that control sedges, things that control grasses, things that control underground bulbs like wild onions or wild garlic that comes up in your lawn and it makes it real easy.

a very short phone call answer. So that is my request if you will do that. I know you want to have success with a fall garden and with beautiful flower beds and with a lawn that just looks good. And the thing you need to remember on success with any of these plants is you want them to be in the amount of sunlight they want, You want them to be maintained and the way that they like, and you want them to be in a quality soil. Fact,

that's first quality soil. If you've never grown a vegetable garden, why not do one this year? Why not do it? I mean, vegetable gardens are They are a blast And think can you think of a better way to eat than out of stuff you grew yourself? What is fifteen fifteen hundred miles closer than where the grocery store stuff

came from? September late September is when we're planting things like the blue leaf vegetables, the col crops super super high on nutrition, cancer fighting characteristics as well, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, co robbie collars, kale, all that. This is prime time. Get that done now. It's important. Maybe a bulb type or a swollen root type crop like beets, they can go in now, Turnips can go in now, Radishes can begin to go in as well. Those are all good

for the cool season. When we cool off a little bit, we'll bump it a little bit later into the season and start planning spinach. When thing's kind of cool off, spinach picky about the heat. Lettuce can go in at that time. Have you ever grown a regular rugula? Also called rocket or roquat rocket. I believe arugula is a wonderful little green that you use sparingly in a salad for just adding a zip to the salad, and you know, we slather our salad, the typical American salad. What is it?

It's iceberg, lettuce, some tomatoes that grew way far away and had to be hard enough to be shipped, and maybe some cut up cucumbers on it. Why not mix a lot of different greens in a salad growing yourself. You have flavors just from the green. Sorrel can be planted now. It loves cool weather, and sorrel gives a lemoni taste to your salads. The rugular by the way, it's kind of a nutty and as it gets a little older, it's kind of hot, little peppery flavor as well.

You can grow something called corn salad. I don't know why they named it that. It's just a green that grows in cool seat. And you can grow plantain greens in the cool season. There's just a lot of wonderful greens that you can grow and make your salads just really sing with stuff you grew yourself. And if you don't want to make a big garden in the backyard. Maybe you don't have room, or maybe you just don't want to plow up that much of the lawn to

make this big garden. You can garden and raise beds. You can get you one of the metal raised beds like a veggo bed. Set it on concrete if you want, and you can grow stuff in it. It does really well if you want to use containers. Pretty much every vegetable can be grown in a container. Some it takes a larger container, but in the cool season. Oh, I grew carrots last year in a container. I'd never grown carrots in a container before, and I did last year and they did well. It was a very kind of

a taller container. It happened to be kind of thin, but carrots grew well in it. In a good mix. Grow onion as the green onions, the chives as well. That great for flavoring. I like chop up chives and scrambled eggs. I think that's a great way to use chives, and also soups and things. Why not grow some stuff if you've never been a vegetable gardener before, and if you don't want to go all in in this big vegetable garden. Try containers or just try raise bed. You

can put some herbs in it. We have some rosemary and a raised bed that's kind of cascading over the side of a raised bed, and the summer flowers that have been in there for a long time are about to be it all pulled out, and that thing is going to be a major salad and soup garden if you will for the cool season. It's fun and I don't know, there's something rewarding about growing those things yourself. You know you did it yourself. And if you got kids,

get them involved. Get kids involved in gardening. You know, we are more likely to eat things grow and kids that might turn their nose up at something, if they grit theirself, there's a better chance they're probably going to want to eat it and try it out, or they will enjoy giving the certain if you produce a lot of something, they'll enjoy give it away to friends and family and neighbors and whatnot. But get kids involved in gardening. They need to get their hands dirty. It will lead

to a healthier life. Our number one here I'm on a soapbox again. Our number one health problem in this country is because of stuff that goes in our mouth, the way we eat fast food and a lot of other processed types of things. When you grow your own garden, you can turn that around. High fiber and up right now I'm picking my okra. Still hope it holds on for a long time because okra has soluble fiber and it's got the insoluble fiber. Two different ways that okra

helps us. But that's just one example. Have a cool season garden. Let's do that. You go to a garden center. They'll get your pot if you need one, They'll get you the soil. They're going to carry the soils that you need to put in a pot, and they're going to have the seeds if you want to plant those, or the transplants if you want to do that. Just get out and have fun. You know, gardening is not rocket science. And if you think you have a brown thumb,

you don't. You have an uninformed thumb. Keep listening to garden Line and we will help inform your thumb and suddenly you'll find just how easy gardening can be a lot of fun in the process. I want to remind you that today after this show, is over. I'm going to head to the clear Lake Wallbirds Unlimited, Clearelake Wallbirds Unlimited the corner of El Dorado and clear Lake City.

So for all of you down in that direction south and to the east, little bit friends would in Pairland now saw By sebor Keenan Bakecliffe League City, all of that, Deer Park, Laporte. Come on out to the Wallbirds Unlimited in Claire Light. I'll be given away a lot of good stuff. They're They're throwing in some Nectro defender, a variety of seed blends and some other things. I'm going to be bringing away some products, bringing some products myself to give away. And I'm mainly there to answer your

gardening questions and to meet you. Put a face behind the voice on the radio. Well, come on out to clare Lake the wa Bird's Unlimited. Bring a bring some plants in a bag for I D bring some photos on your phone for questions. Come on out eleven thirty to one thirty elder Ola Boulevard in Houston.

So come on out and let's talk about the things that are of interest to you.

to come out strong. Just hear this. Your spring lawn new growth is based on the fertilization that it got last fall. How strong did it go into winter? How strong is it going to come out of winter. We do spring fertilizing and summer fertilizing and whatnot, but fall fertilization is very important for that. And Nitropus fall special winterizer is that step two nitropous barricade to stop weeds

from ever getting a start all the cool season. Weeds that in the spring are growing big and blooming and everything they're controlled are prevented best prevented in the fall with barricade. If you wait until they're big and growing in blooming, you're going to have trouble controlling them. So why not just prevent them with a fall application of barricade. And then the finally nitrofoss eagle turffund deicide. It's a

systemic fund, decide. It moves into the plant's tissues and it protects against large patch of brown patch, the big circles everybody talks about. And it also has a pretty good effect on take all root rot and if you look at my schedule all that stuff I talk about when to do it and when to do it for the take all root rot and the and the patch disease, we're talking about October. That's the prime time to get that done. And you can get it all done with

Nitrofoss's three step. You go to Cyprosaces Hardware, You're going to find it. You go to Plantation Hardware down there in Rosenberg, Richmond Rosenberger, You're going to find it down there as well. Nitropos three step all three makes it easy. One two three, go home with three bags. You are listening to Gardenline our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four as easy as that.

If you have some questions about how to successfully garden, how does successfully grow vegetables, I'd start by asking your garden centers, the places where you buy stuff, They're going to be able to tell you how to do it. You can certainly call garden Line ask a question here if you want, But your Egglife Extension office is also

a good source of information on things like that. You got county agents in every county and this whole listening area, and in a number of the counties you got a horticulturist Montgomery County, Harris County out there in Orange, down in Brazoria and Fort Bend and Galveston Counties. What did I say, Montgomery. I don't think I left anybody out. They have horticulture agents that can help you. There's also a website called Aggie Horticulture. Aggi Horticulture is a wonderful website.

When you go to it, it's aggihyphen Horticulture dot TAMU dot edu. Forget all that, Just type in AGGI horticulture into a search and you'll find it. On the front page. There is gardening information, I mean a button for vegetable gardening, and there is a publication on everything you could possibly want to grow, from a regular to zucchini. It is all there on the Aggihorticulture website. There's a section on

fruit too, that is the same thing. Free publications, easy to find talks about how to grow all those things. Why not take advantage of that free information. We're going to go to Lake Conroe now and talk to Joanne. Hello, Joanne, Welcome to Guarden line.

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a tree. What I do is, I like cut out a little trench around the tree, and if you can get it down on a tree like that, if you could get it down to about boy maybe eight inches down below the surface, and then I have a flat shovel that I cut underneath with and then lean it one way with that soil and then slide a tarp under it. Then you cut the other side and you can slide it onto the tarp. See we're trying to

avoid picking up that soil. That soil is heavy, and if you pick it up, your chiropractor's kids will have the plenty of money to go to college. Uh yeah, we don't want to. And so so you get it like that, and then on the tarp you can slide it. One guy could could slide a lot a lot of weight across, but get a couple. If you want to have people pick up the four corners of a tarp and carry it, you can do that. But get it

to it's a new place. Do you already have a spot where you know you want to plant it?

it's not going to use much water. Butt you still need to water because those roots will grow all winter to some degree. And so don't let it dry out. Uh. And and then you can take it with you wherever you want to go.

to make sure you got it. But Celsius allows you to spray it in a little bit warmer temperature than most of the other products, and it also works well. Remember Virginia button weed likes wet conditions, so anything you can do to let that soil dry out considerably between waterings will help by not causing it to proliferate so much like it will in wet soil. All right, there we go, Thank you very much for that question. We're going to go to Cheryl in Montgomery.

nuts edge and how we go about controlling it. And here's the deal. If I were to summarize it, this isn't enough information. Go to the publication for that. But if I were to summarize it, I would say jump on it early in the spring and never let it up. For air when you spray and it goes down and here comes some more. When it has three to five leaves, you gotta spray it again. And the products for that

are on this publication. Sedgehammer is one example. But what people do is they wait to start controlling it and it proliferates during that weight, or they control it for a while and then they stop and it proliferates during that stopped time. So you got to stay on it, never let it up for air. When it has three to five leaves, it needs to be getting sprayed. And if you stay with that starting in spring, I would spray it now. I sprayed some in my yard just

the other day. I would spray it now, but especially in the spring when you first see the nutsedge coming up and it's got three to five leaves, start in on it at that time.

But i know it's the one that's going down there working. Other stuff doesn't get down there and kill the nut. And that's why people spray and say it doesn't work.

Jersey Village and talking to Chris. Hello, Chris, welcome to guard Mine.

fruiting plants. He has three different kinds of thornless blackberries. Maybe more, but I know I know of three that all do well here, and fall is a good time to plan them. They're ready to go, waiting for you to come get them.

there and we'll be getting to you as well. His welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Well we lost Sam, all right, let's uh who's next? Marene in Lakeside of States. Hello, Marine, Welcome to garden Line.

florist chryscentthemums. A lot of what you see like in the grocery store and all kinds of places. Those usually will return, but they may not be as dependable as something There are some other chrysanthemums you probably wouldn't care for a country girl, but it sprawls all over the place. But it is a very dependable perennial chryscanthemum. But again it's a floppy, sprawling thing. But planning them right, getting them in a good quality so with lots of organic matter,

and then keeping them moderately moist. If you can water the soil instead of watering the root the foliage, that's better when you get water, especially these that have been pruned and snipped to be like a little mound, you know when you buy them at the garden. Yeah, they're real tight. Yeah, they're all tighten there. And if you're spraying water in the top. You can get some rot going on down in there. You're promoting a rot, so water the soil rather than the plant.

So you decide, but you print them two or three times, stop pinching. Let's see, stop pinching by probably July. I think I would say they need time to grow after the pinch because it'll cause new sprouts to grow, and then those sprouts need to set a bloom bud so that it can do its fall bloom.

Microlife maximum blooms. That is a three three eight three, And that would be one to be using as the plant is growing, but not necessarily putting a brand new one in the ground, but you could use it to put a new one in the ground also. It would work very well for that Microlife maximum Blooms. Microlife has one other it's called soil and Plant Energy that I think would be a good one to use at transplanting. It's going to give you a rocket boost.

if you could do it sooner rather than later. Remember you're going to water it twice a day the first week, and once a day the second week, and then every other day the third week.

doing this for thirty five years. I answering gardening questions from gardeners. But you got to help me out here with accurate questions. Like I always say about pictures, fuzzy pictures will get you fuzzy answers, so make sure they're in good sharp focus. That would be a good idea. Well, one more time, for those of you who haven't gone yet, go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And the reason I say that I'm not selling anything on

the website, it's free information. You know, my lawn care schedule, how to mow, water, fertilize, and air rate your lawn, my lawn pest disease and weed management schedule, what to do about insects January to December. When did chinchbugs occur? It'll tell you on that chart when diseases occur and then what do you do about them? And weeds the same thing at the bottom. It's all color coded so it makes it really easy. Weeds are green, diseases are brown,

insects are yellow. You go to the bottom. Organic and synthetic options are right there. My nut sets publications are there, Weed wipers there and anytime things come up seasonally, like later this year, I'll be talking about coal protection again for the plans, and it's on the website. That's what we're trying to do there. Hey, I'm fixing to jump in a car and I'm going to head to Clear

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