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Seven to one three two one two k t r H seven one three two and two K t r H. I've been preparing for a future show, a long future show. It's gonna be during the holidays. I'm gonna do something on the most common mistakes that I see people make in their gardens or landscapes or lawns and everything. It's gonna be a I think a list of about fifty things, so it'd be kind of interesting. So during the holidays we will play that. And uh, you know, having done

this for decades now, I've I've seen it all. And as far as mistakes that folks make, and just between you and me, since it's just doing me listening right now, I made them too. I've made the mistakes, not all of them, thank goodness, but I've made my share of mistakes in the garden. And we learned from mistakes. And you know, I always say that you don't fail at gardening. You quit, you give up. And so if you stop trying, stop learning, well, yeah, okay, you fail to gardening. But

there's no need to do that. It's just a matter of starting over gardening again. To use another analogy that works for me. Maybe if you're somewhere over forty years old, you may remember the etch a sketch. Do they still make those things? Where you know, you try to draw with two knobs and one goes up and down and one goes left and right, and inevitably your brain tells your hand the wrong thing and you mess up your picture.

What do you do? You turn it upside down, you shake it, and then when you look at the screen again, it is blank, and you get to start over drawing again. That's how gardening is. If you plant something that dies, if you plant something that doesn't belong here, something that pests and diseases get. Or if you just fail to prepare the soil properly, maybe the drainage is poor and you have problems. It's okay, can start over, or you can move. In some cases you catch it soon enough.

You can dig the plant up center to the side, get the bed right, and then put that plant back in there. It's a learning process, and it really is fun. You just need to not take it in yourself too seriously, be willing to learn even the hard way. A very well known, nationally known horticulturist out on the East Coast said that to be a good horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants. That is true, because I learn a lot from my mistakes. Someone said, learn from

the mistakes of others. You don't have time to make them all yourself. Well, I think you should learn from both of them, because that's how gardening it is. So anyway, have fun out there in the garden. That is very important, and let's learn every day. Of course, that's what we're doing here on garden Line every day. Nitrofoss has come

up with a Texas three step program. They've had it for a while, but the Texas three step is basically a fertilizer, a pest control product, and a disease control product. Here's how it works. Step one nitrophoss Fall Special Winter Riser.

It's the balance of nutrients in it are to create winter heartiness and to have your long come out stronger in the spring, because early spring growth is based on what's stored in the plant, not what the roots are taking up right at that moment, but what's already stored in the plant. So go into fall strong, go into winter strong, you come out in spring strong. Secondly is

nitropos barricade an insecticide, excuse me, a herbicide. It prevents weeds eachs from sprouting, so you put it down in all those winter weeds you don't really see them in the fall or really even in the winter much, and then in spring they take off growing. They're like our native, our Texas native flower, the bluebonnet. They sprout in the fall, they kind of sit there, poppies, and then when spring comes, boom, they take off, they get big, they grow. That's what

our weeds are doing. And barricade stops at And the third step is nitrofoss eagle turf fungicide. This is a systemic fungicide. It will work on brown patch now called large patch. It will work on take all root rot as well. It's an important third step in this process. And you're going to be able to find these products from nitrofoss at war on southern gardens. You're going to find them at the Ace Hardware out there on Sinco Ranch or even at Growers outlet up in willis Well.

We already got folks here trying to call in this morning. Let's go ahead and go to the phones. I think we'll start out here in Montgomery talking to Albert. Hello Albert, welcome to garden line.

drought conditions. It could be due to compaction in the soil and the plant just doesn't have the resilience and the root system to be able to hold through things like a minor drought. So I guess it could be a number of things going on there. August Saint Augustine.

or are they missing? Or have they had the sides chewed? Out of them, like something is chomping from the side of the grass blade in that would be sid web worms. Uh. If you don't see that, then go down into the thatch and sort of pull it apart. And you kind of pull it apart and hold real still and watch. And if you see some little black and white bugs crawling around in there. Sometimes they are also a brick red with a white band to cross their back, that's chinchbugs.

And that would be the sign that you need to use something for the chinchbugs, which would uh knock them out. We still have some chinchbugs around that are giving some trouble to our lawns.

thank you sir. All right, yes, sir, all right, appreciate your call. We're gonna have to run to a break here. Mike and Huffman, you'll be first when we come back, skip Rictor and rear to talk about the things that concern you and interest you regarding your garden. You're having problems you're trying to deal with. Give us a call you want some suggestions for a plant or how to a little quick discussion. We'll be happy to visit about

all those things. I do want to mention a while ago, I was talking about the importance of the Nitropos Texas three step, and then we talked about the Nitropas bug out MAX for some insect issues that are going on that would be an additional thing outside of that three step. ACE hardware carries all of those every fertilizer you hear me talk about, such as nitrophos, they're going to be at ACE hardware. If you're synthetic, if you're organic, do

you need pest control? Synthetic or organic? Do you need disease control? Same thing? Do you need weed control. They're all there at ACE Hardware along with the tools you need to get the job done. If you want to have a beautiful lawn, if you want to have a bountiful garden, Ace Hardware Store, in addition to being an outstanding hardw store, has all of that to turn your outdoor space into something special, and including those little outdoor

sitting areas. I'd love to go outside later in the day when it's a little cooler and just enjoy the patio and you know, just enjoy that out there. Ace Hardware has all the things you need to turn that place into something special as well. All you have to do is go to Ace Hardware dot com and find this store locator and there are like forty stores here in the Greater Houston area that you can find something really close to you so that you can get set up at ACE Hardware. I'm going to run now out

to see Huffman, Texas and we're going to talk to Mike. Well, Hello, Mike, Good.

So you want to mo real low, get the debris out of the way. If you can, uh, if you can scratch the surface of the soil a little bit, go ahead and do that. Some situations, it's not practical, you know. If you're going to do are you talking about a little area of your yard. Are you talking about like a field that you want to plan in. Yeah, it's an area in the front yard.

doesn't cooperate. Now, there's a couple of companies that sell wildflower seed in more of a bulk way that have quality seed and you can pick them. You could buy just blue bonnets, or you could pick a regional mix of wildflowers that grow in your area. And one of them is wild Seed Farms. Wild Seed Farms. They are in Fredericksburg, Texas. They used to be down here to the lake many many years ago.

we are still in mosquito season. In fact, I just swatted one a minute ago that somehow got indoors that was flying around. But if you want to enjoy that outdoor patio like I was talking about, they can spoil the show. But it's it's it's pretty simple to get ahead of mosquitoes, and the first step in that is stopping standing water from being a breeding area. Dump out standing water, those catch basins under your plant, Fix that sagging gutter where it, you know, kind of holds water

for a while. Doesn't take mosquitos long to drop an egg in stagnant water and end up with an adult mosquito. So this happens. That's why we have mosquito dunks, Mosquita dunks and mosquito bits, both from the same company's Summit Responsible Solutions. They're widely available. You get them in the feed stores I talk about on garden Line. You get them at Southwest Fertilizer, you get them at ACE hardware stores, you get them at Garden centers I talk about here

on guard Line. They're easy to find another dunk. One dunk's like a little mini doughnut. You throw it out there, it floats in the water, lasts about a month, covers about one hundred square feet of surface. The granules you can make granules out of a dunk by just hitting it with a hammer and breaking it up in little pieces, or you can just buy them as granule. Those you can sprinkle around in small areas, like underneath that that

catch basin underneath a plant pot, for example. Mosquita dunks are easy to find and they work, and they don't hurt anything other than mosquitos and fungus gnats. So yeah, I know people that sprinkle them inside their pots where you're getting fungus gnats breeding and a container plant. They'll sprinkle them in the surface and they work there too. But they don't hurt any wildlife, any family, pets, any birds that want to come there. They just it's a

disease of mosquitoes. Think of it that way. That's how they work, and they do really really work well. You can get them in a lot of places, for example, up on the North and West at RCW Nursery rcwst Garden Center that try where two forty nine comes into Beltway eight. Well they've got them there as well. And of course when you're at RCW, you need to check out the unbelievable selection of things that they have and

you need to look. I would like you to take a look at some of their sales that are going on. You know, they have a better rose selection than about anybody I know. I mean it's outstanding. And seasonally, you know, things come and go, but they have a nice selection of trees. Fall is the time to plant trees. It's a time when you need to get your trees planted. So go ahead and stop in there and look at it, and you know they'll give you they'll give you a list of the things that you need for a good

successful planting. So that would be, for example, a root stimulator, some fertilizers for feeding those trees as they get up and going. They specialize in that. And when you buy a tree or shureb at RCW, you're going to get something that I guarantee you will grow here, that belongs here, because that's all they that they're going to sell. But

right now, fall color is outstanding. They've got a great selection of citrus, a nice selection of figs too, by the way, going out there, and some beautiful bedding plants for fall color. And also the hibiscus. You know, they have outstanding selection of the I can't say Cajun series of hibiscus, and I have one of those, just one of my favorite plants that I have. If you're into succulents, good selection of succulents. In other words, what do you

need stop buy? RCW. They are at Tomball Park, went about way eight, and it's really easy to get to. Go to a website rcwnurseries dot com. You can find out how to get there and all the information that you need. Follow them on social media too. By the way, you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening questions. So how can we help you have a more bountiful garden and a

more beautiful landscape today? Give me a call at seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's talk plants on this wonderful Sunday morning that we got going right here. I have been taking care of some things out in my yard. You know, I've talked about nutsedge a lot, because you folks call about nutsedge a lot, but I have had a patch of it in a

flower bed that I planted. I got out as much as I could, you know, as I was preparing the soil in the bed, putting in organic matter and things. Every time i'd find a little string of tubers or nuts on the plants, I pull them out. But of course when I planted it, they came right back, because there's a lot of them in there that you don't get. And so I've been dealing with that. But I'm I'm kind of my gardens and beds are more experiments, if

you know what I'm saying. And so because of that, I tried different things on it, just to learn so that when I give you advice, it's stuff I've tried and done and I know it works and I don't steer you wrong. I'm going to take a quick break here for the news. We'll be back again. The number give Crystal call seven one three two one two kt RH. He'll get you on the board and you'll be first up when we come back.

go about that. I was looking at some of the products that Microlife has available that I don't talk about a lot, you know, talk about the sixty four, the brown bag, and certainly the brown patch, which is a fall fertilizer coming up on that season, But I don't talk a lot about some of the liquid products that they have enough and one of them that I think you would be very interesting, in fact, two of them. One of them is micro grow liquid AF. Micro Grow

liquid AF is loaded with beneficial microbes. I mean, if you look at the sheet on all the beneficial microbes that are in this it's kind of the who's who of the good guys in the soil. You know all those things that work with your plant roots to have success. It's loaded with that. Basically, when you are putting this down, you are adding those microbes to the soil. And when you add good guys to soil, they out compete harm

that's our goal. You know, there's bad microbes and there's good microbes, and we want the balance to shift toward the good microbes. That's when plants thrive, that's when disease problems are lessened. And that's why microlife makes micro grow liquid af it's liquid. Microlife also has a soil and plant energy. This is a combination of a humic and fulvic acid blend with molasses in the soil. These are all carbon rich substances and when you add carbon, that's

what microbes eat. They need the carbon and molasses and humic fulbac acid just create that kind of root zone. Addition to adding a whole dozens of different minerals as well, and very safe. You're not going to burn plants with it. And so those two combinations that would be excellent to use if you were doing some fall planting, which I hope you will be to water down into the soil. It's also good just when you're preparing an area for planting,

just however you want to go about it. Microlife soil and plant energy all or Microlife liquid AF either of those two. I just want to mention those because again I don't talk about those enough. There are just so many products for microlife that help us have success. You know, with organic gardening, it all is about the soil. You know, people think of organic gardening as well, I'm not going to use synthetic sprays. I'm going to use organic sprays. Well,

it's not about killing stuff. Organic gardening starts in the soil. It's about making the soil as good as it can be. Now, if you have to use a pesticide, you can choose organic products for that, but just remember it basically is about preparing the soil and making the plants as healthy and happy as you can. And that goes back to the thing I always say, brown stuff before green stuff. You make the soil right and the plants naturally are going to thrive in that kind of soil. And you

can buy these products at a number of places. Microlife's widely available. Southwest Fertilizer, the place that has everything, is a good place to get these liquids as well as a whole lot of other micro life products. They carry every fertilizer I talk about on guarden Line they carry every time you hear me say use this for a pastor, or that for a disease, or this to prevent a weed or to kill an existing weaed. It's going to be at Southwest Fertilizer. They're down on the corner of

Bisnett and Runwick. But I'm telling you people, it's not just Southwest Houston that goes to Southwest Fertilizer. It's all over the place. I talk to people all the time that drive a good distance just because they know when they walk in there, they're going to get everything they possibly could need. And expertise too. You take them a sample, you take them a picture of a weed or a plant, or a bug or a problem, and they'll get you straightened out and put the product in your hand that

you need that will work. The website is Southwest Fertilizer dot com. And if you haven't been there, I would encourage you to go. Just go one time, plant, just go see what is this the skip is talking about, and I think you'll find yourself going back. You are listening to Garden Line, and and I wanted to talk a little bit about I was talking earlier about some things that I've been doing out in the garden. I am still harvesting okra, and I have too much okra

by the way. I feel like I'm in an okra twelve step program or something. A Hello, my name is Skip. I grow a lot of okra because I do, and the reason is I like to actually cross okra, breed okra. I'm working on some okra that is more ornamental and some okra that is shorter so you don't need a helicopter to pick it. I'm working on some okra that is more productive, more attractive. Basically anyway, I've got several different strains out in the garden right now that I'm

evaluating and selecting from and doing some crosses. And I just enjoy that. And you know, with gardening, it doesn't matter who you are, there's going to be something you are interested in. A few gardeners get into it enough to become amateur plant breeders, and there are people that they literally cross day lilies or across tomatoes or or there's huge communities out there that share their expertise among themselves and they just come up with fun stuff. One

of the easiest things to cross is squashes. There's a lot of combatibility where you can create some strange things or some combo things. But I hope you get out and enjoy stuff like that. Maybe you don't want to get into it that far. I understand that that's that makes sense, but it is still fun, okay. Our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You've heard me talk about azamite before, and basically, asamite

is a micro nutrient or a trace mineral substance. Your soil needs a bank account of over twenty different nutrients in order for plants to perform and live. They are nutrients required for all aspects of plant growth, and it takes about twenty plus nutrients to do that. Azamite provides some of those trace minerals that are needed in small amounts.

And the way I refer to it as it builds the soil bank account so that as you put on your fertilizers and the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, you get your lawn growing. Let's say or any kind of plant growing, it's going to need to draw on micro nutrients to support that growth. You can't make a leaf without iron. You can't make a leaf without zinc, for example. That's

what I'm talking about. Azumite is so widely available. Everybody carries asmite around this area, and you can go to azimite Texas dot com and find out more about it. Azimite Texas dot com is how if you want to learn more about it when you're doing your fall fertilization, you could do it now did about once a year. It just don't put I was having this discussion. By the way, I had a great time out at clear Lake Ace Hardware yesterday visiting with folks. Thanks for all

of you who came out to that. That was a lot of fun. But we were talking about combining Can I do this and this at the same time, And the entwer is always yes, but and the butt is

don't put it in the same hopper. So let's say you wanted to fertilize your lawn, you wanted to add the azumite too, and you wanted to put down I don't know, bugginator or barricade or something you could do all those on the same day, but don't put them all in the same hopper because it's different particle size, and they'll settle out and you'll end up with too much of one at the beginning and too much of

the other at the end. Just go through over your lawn two or three times how many products you're putting up. But yes, you can put them all out on the same day, including that amite. We're going to take a little break right here. It is time for that. And when we come back, Jim you bet welcome back to Guardenline folks. Good have you with us. I was talking

about azemite a minute ago. Tell you one place you can get azemite as well as all the other fertilizers you hear me talk about, and that's League City Feed for all of you over there in that general area of League City. And I'm talking about Santa Fe, Dickinson, el Kamina, Reale at Bay Cliff, Webster, Lamark, all that area. If you go to League City Feed in League City, it's just it's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of ninety six. You're going to find those products

as well as things to control pests and diseases. League City Feed is open Monday through Saturday nine to six, so you can swing by after work to grab what you need. It's one of those old time feed stores. They carry your stuff out for you and they're going to have the products that you need that you hear about on Garden. I'd like that asomite, for example. If you'd like to give them a call. It's two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three

three two sixteen twelve. That's League City Feed in League City on Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six. Really easy to get to. Let's go now out to Jim. Jim, you're in East Tennessee. Is that correct?

they'll do fine in your area. And so when you say source, are you talking about just getting soil or are you talking about finding that sweet potato?

was a breeder that did it. Now there was there is one that was taken from Central South America, which is where they came from to over to China and Japan, and its kind of became known as the Okinawa sweet potato because that's one of the regions where it developed. But it's just it's just a sweet potato. It just happens to be one this purple and uh so we'll get those colors and fruit. You typically have things like

you got high high anthision and content. It's type of flavonoid and vitamin C is good in them and stuff. I mean, they're you know, sweet potatoes in general, I have a lot of health benefits. But but yeah, you can grow those where.

a healthy thing when we're doing that. And when we think of food that one of the slogans that I think USDA had come up with a while back was called eat a rainbow. I believe they are the ones that came up. Anyway, It basically means eat different colors because when you start when you look at things, let's just take the the orange types of vegetables and fruit.

You know that if we're looking at sweet potatoes, if we're looking at carrots, you know those are going to be high in certain nutrients that are going to do do well. And purple is sweepta the same thing. And it just it just makes sense and it's a lot of fun. And you know, when you serve a purple sweet potato, people are going to go, what what have you done here? And it just it's a conversation piece. But they're dead, they're sweet potatoes. So let's get out

there and have some fun. Have you been out to in Chenned Forest? Enchanted Forest is out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Richmond Rosenberg and in Chenna Forest is the one. If you were let's say you're at Richmond Rosenberg and you're heading up towards sugar Land, it's off to the right, it's off to the right. And in Channa Forest you're going to find all kinds of things to get you ready for fall. Are you into herbs.

That's a great way to season your food without slathering it with I don't know, a thousand island dressing or something. Herbs are wonderful and fun to grow and ornamental, and they've got them there and a lot of them. They've got beautiful, beautiful vegetable transplants and now's the time to get the fall garden in. Talk about eating good food, Well,

here's your chance to do it. Do you need fall color things like Croton's for example, they've got those in Beautiful Beauty and as well as other fall colors from things like Colius and whatnot. It gives you the Halloween, the Thanksgiving, all those types of fall color. They can load your landscape up with those kinds of things. They got great trees and fall is the best time to plant a tree. It is. It's the best time go buy and get some trees. Do you want that nitrophosphall program?

I was talking earlier about the one two three, the Texas three step. Do you like the organics like microlife bron patch. They've got those there as well as well as all the shrubs and perennials and the host plants you could be looking for. Just head straight to Enchanted Forest and you're going to be able to find that and everything else that you need to have success, including

good advice. They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine Outside Richmond, twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Go check that website out. It is really cool, really inspiring. You know. I start looking at gardenings stuff and I just get all excited and inspired and I come up with eight hundred new things that I just have to grow or try or do or whatever. Like we said, gardening is fun. Hey

we didn't say, you know that it's not addictive. It is addictive. That's a warning. I probably should have that on garden Line show every years. Warning gardening can be addictive. Consult your physician before starting a garden or I don't know, I'll be your physician. Go ahead, you can do it, don't worry about it. It's a good addiction, a lot of fun. And I'm not kidding about that. I mean, I was talking earlier about people breeding their own plants,

and I know people that get so into it. I mean that it's they just obsess over making the best hibiscus that can exist. There's a lady out there I can't remember her name, somewhere in the country and she breeds these hibiscus that are just like, what is that real? Or is that photoshopped? You know, But it's what she likes to do it. She has fun doing it, and so yeah, gardening is addicted, but it's fun, absolutely fun. Hey, these storms we've had this year have really hammered, really

hammered our trees. I'd drove in through a neighborhood in Houston yesterday just looking at the missing trees that were there and had fallen and had had come in have them removed out. When that happens, we lose power. And when we lose power it can be for a while. We've had two spells of extended days without power here in the Houston area for many of the areas. Quality Home Products of Texas can fix you up with a Generaic generator and they have a really really good deal

on those. You need to call them and ask about this. But by the way, their phone number is seven to one three Quality seven to one three Quality, or go to the website Quality tx dot com. This is a company. You can buy generation a lot of places, but with Quality Home, what you're buying is personal service and continuing support from the time you walk in and say what kind of generator do I need? And they go through questions with you and help put you in contact with

the generator that's going to serve your needs. They set it up for you. They just can't beat it. Quality Home Products of Texas. It looks like music means we're putting an hour in the books. That is fast. I feel like I just sat out and here we are already done with an hour. We're going to be back, We're going to be doing a lot of things. I want to thank the folks at Waberd's Unlimited yesterday from

clear at Dunning clear Lake. That was a good time we had and I think everybody that came out to that I want to remind you that next Saturday, I'm going to be at A and A Plants and Produce from twelve to two. That's up in Montgomery. So all of you folks out there in the Lake Conroe area that are listening, including Conroe and Willis and Montgomery of course that whole area up north, come on out and see me next Saturday, twelve to two and we'll do

the regular things. I'll talk a little bit, I'll answer your questions, I'll diagnose, i'll identify. I'll help you have a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape because I love doing that.

things right to get off to a good start. You know, we Gardening is a hopeful thing. Gardeners are eternal optimist. I don't know if you knew this, but if you're a gardener, you you probably do. And that means that you know, when I plant tomatoes in the spring, I can already taste those tomatoes, or when I plan them for fall gardening, and I know it's going to be the best tomatoes I've ever grown in the world right in that heat. Is hopeful and and just just positive

about how how it's going to go. Gardening is a fun thing. It's like spring. It's a renewal, you know, every time you come into a spring. I don't know, it's like entering the new year after the holidays. We make our resolutions of things, it's gonna be a great year, those sort of things. And gardening is the same kind

of thing. It is an optimistic, hopeful thing. When you choose to put a seed or plant in the ground, you essentially are having the faith that that thing's going to come up and that it's going to grow and that it's going to produce, and then it's going to produce something good. You know, you don't put it. You don't put a seed in the ground and go, Yeah, bugs are probably gonna eat this, and I probably never seen anything. You don't have that ad it. I hope

you don't. If you do, stop it, stop that. Don't do that, because gardening is a really cool and hopeful thing. All right, Well, you are listening to garden line again the number seven one three two one two five eight seven four. If you want to get inspired for gardening, you need to go buy arbor Gate Garden Center. Arbor Gate is the garden center up there west of tumble On twenty nine to twenty uh and it's about a

mile and a half west of two forty nine. It's as you're heading out to be on the left hand side by the way before and after Arburgate, you'll see a road called Trashle Road because it's a little loop that goes around behind Arburgate. You got a parking lot in the back. You just have to turn down Trisha Road and you will have plenty of places for great

parking no matter the weather. It's one of those parking lots that absorbs water through the lot, so it's always hard, it's always easy to walk on drains well, and just super easy access. I think it's pretty cool. I love the way they designed that thing out there. But the main thing is it gets you access to some of the best selection of planets you're going to find anywhere. I mean, Arburgate specializes in having some of everything, and some things I promise you you've never heard of, he

seen or grown before. If you need decorations for your fall, for Halloween, Thanksgiving, even coming up on Christmas here in a bit, Arburgate's going to have that. They right now, they have a selection of fall color plants that will take your beds all the way up to at least the first frost. And you can just get out there and see what I'm talking about. If you've never planted fall bloomers in your garden, why not go buy and pick some up today. You know, we have Salvia leucantham

Mexican bush sage. We have copper Canyon daisy that blooms in the fall. We have the fall aster, there's an ex Native Texas aster, and other asters and mums and just lots of things you can put in the garden and the landscape that are beautiful. Do you need herbs, do you need vegetable plants, or do you just need some inspiration? Go out there, walk around, take a look at things. When you talk to the people that work at Arburgate, you're talking to people that know what they're

talking about, and that is important. You go a lot of places that will sell you a plant and they do not have a clue probably the plant should need to be put here, and you know the kind of places I'm talking about. But when you go to Arburgate, you get plants that grow here and you get people that can tell you what to do, how to do it, how to have success. If something goes wrong, of a bug shows up, they'll tell you what to do about it. They are experts at it. And I know I've visited

with the many occasions Arburgate Garden Center again. They're out west of Tombull on to twenty nine to twenty go to the website Arborgate dot com. Follow them on social media too. While you're out there. Garden tourism that's what I call it. And I go to garden centers as part of garden tourism because I always see something new,

I get inspiration, and it's just fun. And listen, when folks come visit from other areas of Texas or from wherever haul them out to some of these great garden centers like Arburgate, they will be really impressed and they have a good time. It's just a great way to, I don't know, get out with family and friends and enjoy things with us. Today. We're looking forward to talking with you about the things that you're interested in. You know,

I can talk about things that I'm interested in. I can talk about things that I know people are interested in in general for this time of the year. Been doing this for thirty five years and her a lot of questions over those years. But what are you interested in today? This is your chance 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.

You know, we like feed stores. We love our feed stores here on Garden Line and Spring Creek Feed Center is up there just to the a little bit north and east of Tumbaugh. It's up in the Magnolia area. On FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from both Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That's what you need to remember.

Spring Creak Feed. When you drive up, you can't miss it is a big, beautiful barn looking store that when you walk inside it it's gorgeous, beautiful and when you get inside, you're going to find fertilizers lines like turf Star line, the microlift lines, the Nitropos lines for example. They're going to have things like Medina. They're going to have long and garden supplies. If you got a pond,

they got supplies for that too. Do you need a weed, something to kill weeds, deal with diseases, or to deal with pests, They've got it. Very friendly, very courteous staff will help you and put you in touch with the product that you need, and they're going to happen there now. They also have quality types of pet food and listen, if you need something special ordered, they can do that too. You just need to talk to them, tell them, hey, this one I'm looking for. Can you bring get that

in for me? I bet they can. If you're an f FA or four h youth. There's a special discount as well as for military and also for senior citizens, so mention that to them when you're there at Spring Creek feed again. They are on excuse Me FM two twenty nine seventy eight F twenty nine seventy eight in

the Magnolia area. I was in there the other day checking it out because I do visit our sponsors periodically just to say, Okay, what's new, what's going on, what's happening here, and just noticed that the place is really really looking good, looking excellent. As a result. There are a number of products from Medina, and I've talked about a number of them over the time that I've been doing this. Medina Plus is one that i'd like to kind of next to you. There's a couple of them

i'd like to talk to you about today. But Medina Plus is fortified with micronutrients, essential micronutrients, got growth hormones in. It's from the seaweed extract. It has all the natural soil building advantages of the Medina Soil Activator. That's why we call this Medina Plus. The other product, the one you've used before, is Medina Soil Activator and it's one that's been popular with gardners for a very very long time.

But Medina Plus then adds over forty trace elements. It's got cidecinon, which is a natural growth hormone from seaweed extract, magnesium, iron, zinc, papa acid for you want the full word there. It's a para amino benzoic acid. Okay, I know you wrote that down riba flavor diamond by it and ni ni nicotinic acid. I can't even say that nicotinic acid and all essential trace In other words, this is a concoction that has everything you need to promote blooming and leaf growth,

to promote fruit set, to make transplanting go smoother for plants. Yeah, you would just take this, put it. I put it in a in a watering can, mix it up according to the right level, and just dump it over the whole plant. You can get it on the leaves, you can get it down soaking into the soil to get those roots off to a good start. Medina plus will do that. Another real regular medino soil activator will also

do that. I like to use the Plus as well because for that extra boost, especially with transplanting, you can do it for gardens, for flower pots, even if you don't do it on a hose, en spray or over your whole yard, that is fine as well. Another great product, there are many of them from the folks at Medina. Let me head over now to Conroe and we're going to talk to Marcus. Hey, Marcus, Okay, how can we help?

are you're looking for that nub. Yeah, but there's some new Saint Augustine's now that are that are quite drought tolerant. And so if you water with a good, deep and frequent soaking, you can make a lot of grasses more drought tolerant because then they go further between waterings easier. But zosia can can do pretty good at that as well. But anyway, there's a broader leaf type of Oisia and then there's a very narrow fine leaf type of Oisia.

The fine leaf types you might look at it and go, is that bermuda or it's even denser than bermuda in my opinion. And then the broad leaf types I want it would be palis. That's that's a common one, but there are many other good ones. And it's leaves are about a third is wide as Saint Augustine, but not as narrow as the fine leaf sosias.

at the County Extension Office. It's over there on Airport Road, across from the Lone Star Convention Center.

tiny bug that has a piercing mouth part. I mean, it could be spider mit'ud be a lot of different things doing it, but it's some little bug. If I were you, I would get some insecticidal soap and I would spray that plant, making sure to spray upward from underneath the leaves. You can do it with a little hands squirt bottle because soap is so safe, you don't it doesn't matter if you get it on you. But

it's called insecticidal soap. You buy it at a garden center. Uh. And it is soap, but it's a it's a type of soap that doesn't burn plants as bad as some soaps can. And then if you give if you give all these bugs a bath and insecticidal soap, it kills them. Uh. And so just spray that underneath there, especially spider mites or aviad or things. That works really well on those. And then I would snip out those shoots. After you've done what you can to kill these on the whole plant,

or snip them out and then spray. You can do it that way.

potato like structures then all down to the ground. And so anyway, we had said I'd see if anybody I knew had one. I didn't know him at a garden center nursery, but with a very strong warning to be careful because that plant can get away from you if you're not, if you're not diligent about watching it. Anyway, someone did call in, So if that was you, get my producer, Chrysal call and he can put the two of you together if you'd like to pursue that any further.

You hear me talk about ACE Hardware. You hear me brag about ACE Hardware because ACE Hardware is a one stop shop. You know, it's where you get the fertilizers I talk about it's time for fall fertilizing. ACE Hardware has options for you, not just one fertilizer, but several types of different fertilizers. You know, you're looking for things for Nelson's and for nitrofoss and from Microlife for example, for fall fertilizing the lawn, looking for products from Medina

for example too. They've got all of that. They also have all the pest control, disease control, and weed control things that you're going to need, along with tools like a sprayer. Perhaps you need a hose in sprayer, another type. They're going to have that. When you go to ACE, you come home with what you need to take care of the plants. That you have, whether it's a lawn, a garden of flower beds, shrubs, and trees. They have

it all at Ace Hardware. And Ace Hardware also has the things for decorating both inside and outside your home for the upcoming Halloween season, the upcoming Thanksgiving season. They are set up for that. Acehardware dot Com find the store locator. There's forty stores. There's one near you, probably more than one near you, and you can go in and see what it is that I'm always bragging about when it comes to Ace Hardware. We're going to go now,

I'm going to go back to Marcus here in Conrad. Marcus, you ask for an oak that is a white oak that's resistant somewhat to take oaquill. The white oak, all the white oaks to some degree are one that I think I would suggest for you is called the terray oak. Another name for it is Mexican white oak. And the reason I like that when it grows fast for an oak. But it is a good, strong, long lived tree. And so that would be the one that I would suggest.

If you want a large shade tree that that I would I would plant.

My schedule's online and gardening with skip dot com, nitrofosh barricade put down in February will prevent the crab grass for about at least sixty days and maybe more. Actually more, But then you could do it again, maybe you know, a couple months later, just to extend that cover.

me those pictures. Make sure they're in sharp focus and let me see what it is, because it may be that the arcade is not how you have to go. Maybe it's a perennial grass.

it's not too far down the road there. It is an outstanding nursery, lots of plant selection, but there's also a very special place and that they have the beautiful disappearing fountains, they have waterfalls, they have it's just it's an inspiring place. When you go in there, you're going to want water in your backyard and the birds will thank you for doing that, as was beneficial insects too,

having a source of water out in the landscape. While you're there, you're going to find out an excellent selection of plants, the things that grow here. The Nelsons have long known how to grow plants and how to choose plants, and how to build water guards. In fact, the disappearing fountain they invented that nationally known really at Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. But don't just think water, think also plants.

And they have a good selection as well as the things like fertilizers that you need to go with your plants. So it's West Houston's full service nursery and it is a destination nursery and I encourage you to take friends when you go out there so you can all enjoy it. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. We are going to have to take a quick break here and then Chuck, when we come back, you will be our first up. Listen to talking about a lot of different things in

the garden, because we want you to have success. Someone was asking me the other day about well, it was yesterday when I was down in at the clear Lake Wildbird's Unlimited store. Someone asked about Buchanan's Native plants, and I say, man, you got to go there. It's in the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street in the Heights, and they were looking for a particular kind of native and I was talking to them about Buchanans. You know, Buchanans has the best selection of native plants in the whole region.

And they really do. I mean, if you even want, like I want a native that's just from the Houston area, not a Texas native in general, but just when they have a list of those as well, and they compare your interests to pick the right plant. For example, I want to native the truck's butterflies. I want to native the truck's hummingbirds, which, by the way, are flying through. They're on there getting fueled up to head across the

Gulf of Mexico. I don't know how they do that, but Buchanans has all of that and then some one of the best houseplants selections you're going to find anywhere, and they're huge houseplant greenhouse. Do you like succulents, they got them. Do you need vegetables and herbs, They're loaded up with those ready to go fruit trees, whatever you need.

Their gift shop is outstanding and while you're there you can pick up fertilizers and soils and all of that so that you do as we say on guarden Line, take care of the brown stuff and then the green stuff. Make sure the soil is right and put a good plan in it, and Buchanans will help you do all of that. Again. They're on eleven Street in the Heights. Go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. It is loaded with information and you do want to sign up for

their newsletter while you're there. Out now to Chuck in Liverpool. Hello Chuck, Welcome to garden Line.

some avocados going on. And it's not only there, it's on some just regular objects in the yard, like a metal post or like some fabric cloth shaped and it's it's like a little small trail, uh, maybe anywhere from a half three quarter to an inch long, and it's like these microscopic like egg things, like a gray color, and they're like they're like little eggs and you can rub it off with your thumb, you know, and they've come off, and it's like these teeny tiny little bitty balls,

I mean, very microscopic small and they are just reaping. What are they?

good sharp focus the better. Anyway, if you'll send those to me, let me take a look at them going through in my head right now. I'm well, I'm going to put you on hold and Chris will send give you the email you need to send that in. Okay, all right, take it from there. Yeah, thanks a lot. I appreciate that call. Nelson Plant Food is the source of all kinds of outstanding products. They've got the color Star line, one of the most famous color fertilizers in

this whole region. Really, everybody's tried it, or everybody that's tried it knows how well it works. They have the things like the carblow that we'll be talking about that for fall fertilization a little bit here. But they have something called Genesis that's a transplant product, and I've used it myself when I was bumping tomatoes up from a small to six pack size to a four inch pot.

Unbelievable response. Unbelievable response. This fall, you're gonna plant some shrubs, You're can play some roses, You're gonna plant some perennials. Whatever you're planting, maybe you're just moving things from one pot to a bigger pot. Mix Genesis into the soil of where that plant is going and you will see a very fast response. It's an excellent product. Comes in a little plastic plastic jar like some of the Nelson products,

but it's part of the nutri Star line. It's called Genesis, and you definitely want to use that for any planting that you're doing. I usually say, don't put fertilizer in the planting hole. With Genesis, you can mix it into the soil and plant the plant in that hole and it will not burn and it will work. It works very well. A great product from the folks out at Nelson. Let's see, We're going to head now to pair Land and talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, welcome to guard Line.

Puss or sixteen sixteen zero two. But it's a little green topped where you hook it up. It's a little court bottle with a green top and super Grow plus sixteen zero two. And you're going to find it. You know, wherever you do your shopping. You're down in Pariland, there's some a stores down there about that.

will work on side webworm. You can use the bugout Max. You can use a spray of Spindo said, that's an organic option. Uh, you get it on the foliage. They come out at night and eat the grass blades and it kills, but you may have to reapply. All right, Bye bye.

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steps one, two, three. Step one nitrofoss fall special specifically blended for fall with that high potassium content so that your grass grows stronger going into winter, so it has more winter heartiness and it comes out stronger in the spring. The early growth on your grass next spring is going to be from stored energy, not the root from stored energy, and by sending it into winter strong with Nitroposs Fall Special, you help achieve a better one next spring. The weeds

Barricade Nitrofoss barricade. You get it down at the right time, follow my schedule online at guardingiskip dot com, and you prevent all those winter weeds that are sprouting in your lawn, so next spring you're not dealing with all these growing and blooming and taking over the world weeds like chickweed and hend beet and carpetweed and clovers and all of

that kind of stuff. Third step Eagle turf fungicide nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide that prevents things like large patch or brown patch as it's called, the big circles that are going to happen, and it also works well against take all root rot. Take all root rot. Again, look at my schedule. It tells you when to apply these things, and you will find that this nitrofoss three step program works really, really well. You're going to find it at in Channey Gardens and in Richmond Plans for all seasons

up on two. You're going to find it at RCW nurseries as well as the Ace Hardware City on Memorial in Memorial rather the Memorial area. All right, there, it's as simple as that. That makes it really easy. We're going to go out the phones now. We're going to talk to Steve and deer Park. Hello Steve, welcome to garden Line.

The zinias are going to grow and be shading out the blue bonnets when they're trying to germinate later, so I don't.

then they'll cut it back before spring hits. Either way is okay. You can also do the insulation by just putting a little mult over the crown of that plant after you cut it back to kind of help hold the soil warmth in a little bit to protect it. Either way, okay, okay, thank you, I'm gonna have to run you bet hey, thanks for the questions. Thanks for calling in here. To guard line plants for all Seasons, I was talking about the night Fast three step system

Plants for all seasons. Has got all three of them. And they have everything else too. I mean, if you're looking for a fertilizer I talk about on guardlines, gonna be in there. They carry all of that. They carry the canisters. They have a refill station too, so like if you're going to fill up Microlife or you're going to fill up Nelson plant food canisters, those those plastic jugs, you can refill them there at Plants for All Seasons.

Saves a little money on fertilizer and definitely avoids throwing more plastic away out there in the environment. Another good reason the website's Plants for All Seasons dot com the phone number got a pen set two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six. If you want to go to a place that carries plants that do well here and has folks that are experts on how to have success and how to deal with any issues that arise, Plans

for All Seasons can provide all of that. I'm going to go now out to uh Dickenson, Texas and talk to Jane.

percent off their fungal compost. This is an outstanding product to mix into your soil like you would compost. It's an outstanding product to top dress your lawn too. Like we talk about leap mold compost screen down, fungal compost is excellent for the lawn as well. Now in Nature's Way, you know they're stocking up on all kinds of things because fall is the time that's a big planning season. People are buying the composts, getting their soils, getting the

mulches and everything ready to go. Nature's Ways got stocked up and they're ready to go for you. You can go purchase the product there on site bulk or by the bag. The many places are on town sell their products by the bag as well. Write this on your calendar. I remember always listening to guard Line with a pen and a paper in hand. October twelfth, it's a Saturday. They're having their fall festival. They're gonna have Latin food.

They're gonna have local vendors. They're gonna be plant sales out there, because they do sell plants at Nature's Way Resources. And I'll be out there doing a Q and A from eleven thirty to one thirty. There's gonna be live music, there're gonna be children's activities. In other words, here in Texas we call that a shin dig. And they're gonna have one act of a fall festival shin Dig October twelfth, Market on your calendar so you can come out. I'll tell you more about it as we get closer to it.

All right, we're gonna head back out here. We were having a conversation with Jane. Jane, what makes you think it's a wild squash?

very very happy stuff. Okay, it's a hard, yellow, thin skin. Looks more like a cucumber when I was cut into it than a squash, So that could be misting for sure.

pulling the plants up as they come up spraying. Oh okay. Before I can answer that, I need to see a picture of it. The cucurbets in general are edible. A lot of them are not palatable, and that is a huge difference. You know, can you eat it?

Fall is for planting. Fall is especially for planting tree shrubs and woody vines. What are you ornamentals? We call them. If you're going to plant a tree, it needs to have a steak to hold it in place, and you drive a t post in the ground. You can use other kind of steaks, but you drive a tepost in the ground, attach a three sixty tree stabilizer to it and it holds that in place but allows the trunk

to move a little bit. The little strap is soft and allows a little movement, which is important in developing trunk strength. You're going to find three sixty tree stabilizers at plants for all seasons. You're going to find it at RCW at Buchanans, at Hoorges, Hidden Gardens done in Alvin, at Arbor Gate, at Southwest Fertilizer. They're easy to find and this product really works. And when you're done with it, when it's spin it to your out there in the garden store it man may have a tree, or you

may have another one later you can use it. You can use it for crpe myrtles. If you've got a bigger tree. You can do two stabilizers at right angles coming in let's say north south and one east west, and that just gives even more support for the tree. But it's a product that works, and I wouldn't plant a tree without putting one on We're going to go to northwest Houston now and talk to Ralph.

greenpro dot net. Now that they're what they're doing right now in this fall is they're aerating the lawn for free when you purchase the compost top dressing service. But you have to get at least two yards minimum on

that offer. But it's not cheap. But it gets holes down in the soil, pulls the plug out, leaves it on the surface, and then they put that compost top dressing on and that begins that process of improving the root system so your turf can root deeper, holds moisture well, you know, and it just does all the things that grass needs to thrive down in the root system. I think that's the first thing that I would do. I think that's going to go a long way toward helping you in those areas.

is out there in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are on the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond, though specifically they are on FM three fifty nine FM three fifty nine out in the Kadi Fullshier part of Richmond Rosenburg. You got to go out there. This place is outstanding. That right now, fall color is well just split this way. Fall color is running rampant out at in enchanted gardens, qurotons and all the different plants you plant for a beautiful fall.

Lots lots of colorful things like snap dragons. It's a season for that too.

Pumpkin House. What is that picture in your mind? Well, that's probably what you're gonna see when you get out there. It's pretty cool stuff. Anyway, I'd love to go out to Enchanted Gardens, great nursery, great people, good advice, good plants. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's how you get there. That's the place, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. You need to go to the website too, because when you get out there and you get to the website, you're going

to see everything they carry. You can follow them on social media. That's a great idea, by the way, because they're always posting some very good, helpful stuff letting you know what's in And I don't know just know what else to say other than you need to go. People drive from long distances to go to that place because it's worth it. Absolutely, it's worth it. I was talking about Nilsen Plant Foods early. I'm telling you about the

Genesis Nutristar Genesis for transplanting. They also have a nutri Star for vegetable gardens. A nutri Star for vegetable gardens has those nutrients that it will add to the soil to ensure your vegetables grow and develop properly and have higher yields. That's absolutely the case. You put it out. You can put it out monthly during the growing season

if you like, for a quick release of nutrients. It's going to increase again the productivity and the quality of your vegetables by making sure that vegetable plant is well fed five different sources of nitrogen, so they give an even release that results in just really good performance. It's good for enriching a race beed garden. It's good for using in container gardens. If you got vegetables in a container. I was earlier challenging or asking, requesting, pleading. If you

never grown vegetables before this fall, why not start? How about this? Just one container? Try one container, gross some broccoli, gross, some vegetables, and get you some nutri Star vegetable garden for that, and if you got beds in the landscape, it's good for those as well. Nutrastar vegetable garden from Nelson Plant Food. It's an excellent product. I have found

it to work very very well. And I tell you guys that when I talk about stuff on Garden Line, either I've read research about the product or I've used it myself, preferably the second one, so I have first hand experience with it, and that way, when I tell you it works, it's because it's worked for me when I used it. All Right, you're listening to Garden Line.

I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're about to take a little break here, but if you would like to get on and be first up when we come back seven to one three two one two kt r H, give Chris call seven one three two one two kt RH. He will make sure that you were up on the boards when we come back. Welcome to Garden Line, folks. Good to have you with us. We we're just gonna keep going here. Lots to talk about. In fact, I'm gonna run straight out to the phones. We're gonna go

to Allen in Baytown. Hello, Allan, Welcome, to garden line.

So you know you need a little water to do that.

storm people. Both of them knocked out power for a long time. And oh gosh, the damage they did to Houston trees. It's amazing. There's a tree living and are still standing in Houston with that kind of wind that we had. But what I recommend people do is whether you've already had storm damage or whether you want to prevent future, have Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree come out and look at your tree. Martin has been doing this a long time. He is over thirty years. Really,

he knows how to take care of trees. Do you have some narrow branch angles? Do you got some broken limbs in the tree? Do you need any kind of work done on your trees? If you were about to build a home, and maybe you've bought you a little piece of land with some trees on it and you're going to build a home, have Martin. I plead with you on this one. Have Martin come out and take a look before you let any builder or anybody for

utilities on the property. He can do the things and advise the things on how to do that to minimize damage to the trees. I've hit properties before where I show up to look and it's a giant, beautiful, expensive house that wraps around a tree, and the proper things weren't done and it's like too late, and it's just

a matter of time that tree's going down. You're gonna spend a lot of money taking the prize tree on the property you built the house around, taking it out, trenches, wreck havoc on tree roots, and seriously, Martin can help with all that. No matter what you need and tree care, Martin can do it. Give him a call. Here's the number seven one three six nine twenty six sixty three. Either he or Joe his wife will answer the phone.

If they don't, you've called the wrong place. Hang up and call again seven to one three six nine nine two six six three, or go to the website aff Tree Service dot com. Call Martin, get on a schedule, tell him you're from Garden Line. That moves you up to the front of the line. Garden Line listeners. He prioritizes our listeners, and uh talk to him and get on the schedule to come out and see what you got. He'll give you a good assessment. He charges to come

out and do an assessment. But if you hare work done, then that price you pay just goes right into the price you'd pay for the work. In other words, you've already paid part partially for the work that'll come out and do. Affordable Tree Service. No trees are an incredibly valuable plant, the most valuable single plant on our properties.

And you know what. They're valuable because they give shade to our homes, which helps on utility bills, they give shade to outdoor sitting areas, and they just make a place look beautiful. But they're also valuable because if you ever sell a property, having big, beautiful, healthy trees is a huge selling point. It adds value to your property, but it also makes it sell. It doesn't sit on the market for as long because people love that and

it makes it a more appealing property to them. But you got to take care of trees, and that starts when you're planting a tree, picking varieties that want to grow here and do well, putting the tree in a location where it can thrive and grow. I see trees planted three foot from sidewalks and driveways. I see trees planted ten feet away from a house. There's no future in those kind of locations and it shouldn't be done. And then finally, your train it right as it's growing.

Proper tree in the proper place with a proper early care is a way to get off to success. That's just a little advertisement there for the ABC's of success with trees. All right, we're going to head now out to date and Texas and we are going to talk. See, we're going to talk to Karen. I can find the button. Hello, Karen, Welcome to garden Line.

fertilizing and during summer when it's hot and dry. You don't have the water up the coand tree in the fall, in the winter and early spring, but in summer when it's hot and dry, a good deep soaking, applying an inch or two of water over a large area underneath the branch bread of the tree, and let's get that tree rejuvenated and growing again. But yeah, that shoot has to come off. Okay, okay, thank you, all right. I appreciate your call, and good luck with that tree out

in Dayton. I've got to take a break, folks, and we'll be right back the garden line. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. If you'd like to get us a call, we got some room on the boards here.

to get the soil right too. Uh. They have all the heirloom soil lines, they've got Nature's Way resources eight mold composts, both the fine and the coarse versions of that, and then fertilizers like nitrofoss like Nelson's, in fact, all of the turf Star line from Nelson's, and then microlife. They all have all the microlife products. So when you show up at A and A and go home, you've got everything to get the brown stuff right so the plants can thrive. That's the soil, and then you have

the plants you need to go in it. If you live out on the Lake Conor area, they have a landscape crew that can come out and do some work for you out that area. Usually they have a copy of my schedules there at the checkout counter, but I'd encourage you to go ahead and just print them out and take them with you when you go in and say this is what I want right here, this one or this product to control this particular problem. A and A Plants and Produce, Do not forget. I will be

at A and A Plants and Produce next Saturday. That's the twenty first Saturday, the twenty first, from twelve noon to two pm. And I do what I do at appearances, that is, I'm gonna give a little talk we'll talk about out I don't know, some aspects of all gardening to how to have success, something that's pertinent for the time. And then answer your gardening questions. Bring as many questions

as you can think of, let's talk about them. You got a sample of a plant to bring in, or a sample of a bug, or you know, had some calls today where I couldn't quite picture what they were describing. Well, bring a picture, you know, those line of little eggs underneath the leaf. That would be a that would be a helpful one. Trying to you know, figure out what's going on there, get to the bottom of it, those

kind of things. Or maybe bring some some pictures on your phone, like this is an area my landscape, it just doesn't look good. What what kind of plant there? What would look good there? Or hey, my neighbors started sunbathing again, and as SPEEDO, I need I need a hedge. I need it to be thick and dense and year round because I don't want to look over there. Well, you get the idea. Whatever kind of photos you bring in will help you with that. We'll get you we'll

get you fixed up. Hey, you've got to have a little fun here. On Garden lit A and A Plants and Produce next Saturday from twelve to two. Come on out. You got to see the place. Oh and when you're out there, they got the bling. I mean that place. Do you need like metal archways? Do you need all kinds of decorative stuff? You know the cool old metal signs that you put on a fence or against the wall of a house outdoors. And they've got all of

that stuff and more at a anda. Makes it easy. Well, we're going to run out now to Troy, Alabama and talk to Paul. Hello, Paul, welcome to garden Line.

in blazing hot sun, they really suffer from that. But if you don't have enough light, there's not the energy that the plant needs, you know, with sunshine on the leaves to be able to thrive either. So it's a little bit of a diva for me to with klalilies, and I think a lot of people have had that experience with them. They sure are pretty though.

mix for example, that's outstanding. And listen, people think about roses at Valentine's Day to plant them and prune them and all that. You can plant roses in the fall, and I would suggest you do. I think it's even a better time to plant. Get some of their rosemes. Grow some roses this fall. Premium potting mix. This is a quality mix that even has a nutrient boost to it that the plants just thrive in it. Premium potting mix from Landscaper's Pride top soil for filling in those

areas of your lawn that are too low. Don't put compost in those areas. It's just going to settle down and disappear again, like potting soald in your pots does over a year or two, it sinks down. Use a quality topsoil mix from Landscaper's Pride for that. And then finally, it's always a good time to malch with black velvet mulch, not dyed naturally dark beautiful black velvety mulch. Keep the

weeds out. We're about to get winter weeds going. If you leave the soul bear anywhere and sunlight HiT's the soil, nature will plan a weed. Black velvet multch can help you avoid that. All from Landscaper's Pride. You can find out more Landscaperspride dot com. They're widely available here in the Greater Houston area. It's not hard to find their

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the board. We got one more hour in the show here to do today, and we would love to visit with you and talk about the kind of questions that you have in order to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, in other words, just to enjoy the place. Gardening is a fun hobby. I hope this afternoon some of you plan on getting out and visiting a garden center. Go buy one of our sponsors and pick up the

supplies you need. You know, we've got Ace hardware stores all over the place, so you can go swing by and get some product. We got feed stores on North, south, east West. Really just an outstanding place to go out and pick out the products you need to have success with your garden Back.

do that. It's a radio show. But if you want to listen on your computer, you can also do that at the ktr website and you can download an app that allows you to play radio and listen live online as well as to past broadcasts. Both on the app and online. You can listen that way. So I have the iHeartMedia app that I use. It's a free app. You can listen to garden Line live. You can listen to past shows. So I don't care if they live

in Timbucto. Had someone call today from Alabama, someone from Tennessee. They listen to Garden Line and they don't do it by radio. Our signal is strong, but it's not that strong, but you can too. Nitrophoss is three step program. I talked about it before, I want to mention it again, and it's really a great combination for fall. But it basically is as a fertilizer, a weed control, and a fungicide. Three steps, three different products. So the fertilizer is Nitrophoss

Fall Special Winteriser. The nutrient content in it is designed to strengthen the grass plant going into fall so that it's more cold hearty and that it comes out better in spring. I think of it as enafreeze for the grass, but also the spring boost because in spring your grass takes off growing not based on what it's getting from its roots, but what it's stored up going into fall. Nitrofoss Fall Special Winterizer will do just that. Secondly, weeds.

You can spray weeds when they're growing and kill them, but oftentimes were limited in our options for that. Nitrofoss barricade is a pre emergent. If you put it down according to my schedule, you will get it down before the weeds germinate, and when the weed seeds try to sprout, it shuts the root system down and they die. They can't make it it works very well now. Third, nitrofuss

Egle turf fungicide. That is a systemic product that means it soaks in to the plant tissues, moves around in the plant a little bit so that whenever something attacks, the fungicide is there. And you gotta do it ahead of time. Again, look at my schedule. Do it ahead of time, get done in early October, and that way, when brown Patch tries to attack also called large patch, or when take All root rot is an issue. Takeoll has a primetime infection period in the fall. And getting

that product down ahead of time. Anything you're going to do for takeof Patch, you got to get it ahead of time. Same thing for brown Patch. And these one two three steps, the Nitrofuss Texas three step Fall Special Win a riser, Nitrofuss barricade to prevent weed seeds, and nitro Fuss Eagle to fight diseases before they show up. Those all work really really well. And you're going to find nitr Fuss products at places like Katie Ace Hardware out there. Of course, in Katie on Pinoak you're going

to find it. It grows out in Willis, you're going to find it at Heidnen Feed on Studenter Airline. I'm on forty five North. They carried these products at D and D Feed and Tomball and they carry these products at Lake Hartware Clute done in Lake Jackson on Dixie Drive. Those of you down there know that place. All right. We're going to go now straight out to the phones and head out to Kingwood and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela.

gorgeous with them some flagstones. Well, I'm thinking about doing a fun family day and I might be able to even get a commercial chipper and have people come and bring the debris and tip it, bring their own bags and they can leave with a few bags, and I'll feed them too. I'll give them a barbecue pork sandwich.

and stuff all chopped up in it. And if you made a thick pile, it could actually heat up. Now, if it was just a thin layer of three inches or so over the soil, it's probably fine and not a concern at all, okay.

a break here. When we come back, I wan't tell you little about what's going on at Warren Southern Gardens. It is. It is pretty cool stuff. And Jim and sugar Land you'll be our first collar up when we come back. Click all squares with traffic lights. Okay, there there, try again.

got the citrus has arrived? Rangoon creepers, gorgeous vine dies to the ground in winter but comes back and then hottest season of the year. It is looking great, beautiful clusters of red pink flowers. It's time to make sure your planners are ready to go for fall. And do

you know this. You could actually take plots that you already have at home, or buy a pot for Warren's and drop it off there and they have they can help you advise you like put these plants together and make a nice combo planner, or they would just do it. You can hire them to do that for you as well. They've got a sale five dollars a bag off on Microlife the six two four and the Microlife brown Patch Control Sweet Green from Nitroposs and Azamite through the end

of this month through September five bucks off those. They have sales on Bugginator, sales on Slow and Easy, sales on super turb right now. They have a tree sale going on at both locations, and you know it's just it's a good time. Thirty percent off any tree like the Traveler Redbud, a kind of weeping type of red butts really cool. Subscribe to the Warren's newsletter when you're there, but mainly just go by and check these places out.

Outstanding garden centers. You're fortunate in Kingwood area to have both of those in your area. Let's see here. I'm gonna run out now to sugar Land and we're gonna talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Welcome to garden Line.

They'll be because it comes from seed too. When it comes out, you want to spray it when you first see a good little patch of it, so you have something to spray with the celsius, and then about six weeks later spray it again with the celsius. And that's the kind of regimen it takes. It loves wet soil, so the more you water or if you have poor drainage, Virginia button weed is going to be worse. So try to do what's in your power to keep it from stand wet all the time.

really at Peer Scapes. They know what they're doing. They got designers on staff. I mean they can do a full design for you. You can have a beautiful patio create and you know all the nine yards. You could have just an area that doesn't drain well fixed. You can have irrigation systems that aren't working right repaired. You can have them come in and do landscape lighting. You can have them do hard scapes like walkways and the whole

nine yards. They know how to do it. If you go to the website pierscapes dot com, pierce Scapes p E A RCEE, piercescapes dot com, you can see the work that they do. They also do a quarterly bed maintenance where you hire them and you say once a quarter, I want you to come out. I want you to trim things. I want you to weed, I want you to fertilize. I want you to put new multch, fresh mulch on top. I want you to change out the color seasonally, you know, as we go from one season

or not. I mean need some new plants in there for that check my irrigation system. They can also do just that for you at peerscapes dot com. We're going to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, welcome to Gardenline.

are fresh white, healthy looking. Those are nematod signs. If you want to take a picture of what you're seeing up close and sharp focus and send it to me, I can confirm that for you if you like. Nematods are very difficult to control to get rid of. They're always going to be around, so the things we do

just kind of help hamper them. One of the main things we do is plant things that nematodes don't attack, and that is not a long list of options, so that that's kind of one of the negatives that we have to deal with.

Wallbirds in clear Lake. We had a great time. By the way, if you want to find the wallbirds near you, it is a website called wbu dot com forward slash Houston. There's six Wallbird stores here in Houston, and if you go to that website you can find the ones near you. We are in the big, big middle of hummingbird season. Those hummingbirds have showed up. They are hungry. They got a long trip ahead of them. And how on earth a hummingbird with wings beating sixty times a second is

able to fly across the Gulf of Ago. I have no idea, but they do it. But you can help them out, you know, get some good sugar water out there for them. They make a special blend there wild Birds that has something that keeps the mix from going bad. It's a kind of a nutrient mineral type thing. So

it's not like something that would hurt the birds. In fact, it really helps what would last You know, sugar water in our heats outside today is going to last what two or three days and it's going to start getting funky. Well you put this in, it'll lasts a week or more. It really works well that you can also add it to your own sugar water if you want to do that. If you are going to be on a trip and away for a while, get one of their seed cylinders.

If you are having problems with squirrels eating all your bird seed, they have the hot pepper seed cylinders, and they have hot pepper seeds too, and those squirrels they will not eat that kind of like you know, put a bunch of Hobernaro peppers in front of me and there's not one of those going into my mouth. I would be set on fire. So Wildbird's unlimited, lots of good blends, lots of good things from bird feeders. Bird

houses get stocked up. Also, Baltimore orioles are moving through right now, so you want to They have supplies for them as well, types of feed that are especially attractive to those as well. All at wildbirds wbu dot com, Forward slash Houston. We're going to head now to Okay, We're going to head out to Montgum. I always have to watch a clock because I ended up just wanting to talk all day and not realize I have to take breaks. We'll go to Brad and Montgomery next. Hey, Brad,

welcome to garden line. Hey, how are you? I'm well, thank you?

They all create what they creatively called honeydew. It's basically sweet bug pea, but I think sweet bug pea doesn't sound as good as honeydew. But anyway, that's what the city mold's going off of. So you control the white flies. You can you shut down the city mold source. You can blast plants with a little bit of a soapy water, you know, and then kind of blast that off of them and get away a lot of the sticky sugary stuff and some of the black honey or black city mold.

But basically you're gonna have to get a systemic in those plants to kill the white flies. White flies are hard to control. And sprays of horticultural oils sprayed upward from under the plant to coat the eggs and the pupa and the larvae that are under the leaves, that will be helpful, but it's hard to get good coverage. But also just make sure that you are using a systemic. And I want to get you to hold I want to come back and finish that answer. I'm gonna gets

to a hard news break here, Brad. But if you can hang on, if you need brown stuff to have gardens success, you know, that's the first step. You fix the soil, the brown stuff, you put good plants in it, and they thrive. That's how that works. And so many people get excited about plants. You know they got beautiful blooms on them. It's a tomato and you're going to grow tomatoes. It's a tree that's gonna have blooms, and you get all excited about that, but you don't think

about preparing this spot. First round stuff before green stuff. Always prepare the soil. And if you live south of Houston, Ciena Mulch is your go to place. A Cenamulch is north of Roast Sharon. They're on FM five twenty one. Here's the website. You want to write this down. It's got everything you need to know, from phone numbers to how to get there. Sienna Mulch dot com cienamulch dot com.

Now they're open Monday through Friday from seven thirty in the morning till five Saturday from seven thirty to two. They're closed today, close on Sunday. They'll be back open again tomorrow. It's a one stop shop. And here here's why I say that. You show up there, you buy composts, you buy mulches, you buy fertilizers. They carry every fertilizer I talk about on Guarden Line. They're there, they're ready to go for you. Do you need a rose sooil?

Do you need landscapers, pride back velvet mulch? Do you need airloom soils? What veggie and herb mix? You see what I'm saying. They've got it all. They also have sand and gravel, they have stone by the pallette. They'll deliver within about twenty miles for a small fee, and then all kinds of all kinds of multis. I'm just naming a few of the things that they have. Roase

soil be another example. You show up at Sienna, you go home with the good stuff, or if you're in twenty miles away then and you har them to come out and deliver it. And when you get that ready, whatever you put in the ground this fall, you're going to see success. Seen a mulch one stop shop. I'm going to head out now to let's see where were we? Di? Who was I talking to? Talking? Who was I talking to? Brad? Okay, Brad? Was it you that I was talking to about the

white flies? Okay, my brain just kind of went blank. So white flies? Yeah. A systemic would be something like a meadow cloak prid I M I DO O C L O P R I D a systemic like that, and what that does is the root. You just drenched the soil and the roots pick it up and it goes through the plumbing of the plant. So any good beneficial crawling around the surface of the plant, they're not crawling on a sprayed surface, they're okay. But anything sucking juices out of the plant, they get that poison and

it kills them. Now, the only negative about amidocloprid and any systemic is that if honey bees are visiting the flowers of that plant, well, there could be some of that substance in the blooms, and so that's the big hesitation on it. But when you're dealing with something that's very difficult and persistent like soft scale and white flies,

it's one of the few options that really works. You can work your way after them by regularly hitting them with a horticultural little spray spray upward from under the leaf. Like I mentioned earlier, it's a little more tedious and you've got to be very diligent about that, but that would be the other option.

go through droughts. A good deep soaking. This year hasn't been a tough one. But the first year, the tree does not have the root system it needs to take up water sufficiently without you helping it. So an established tree, had that grown from a seed, it would have roots way out from the plant in all directions and it would be able to withstand some droughty conditions. Coming out of a cylinder in a pot, right, those roots are confined and it takes a while for them to work

their way out. So the first year, especially small amounts of water around the base of the plant, kind of like you're watering where the pot was before, is pretty important. And I think that's probably what happened a little bit this year on it. I think it's going to be fine, though, just make sure it gets adequate water during the cool season. The leaves are going to fall off and we don't have to worry about it. Okay.

where that cylinder is. Because if you imagine this, when you planted that tree, had you not taken the pot off and you put the whole pot in the tree in the ground, if you think about it that way, you'll know right word of water, you wouldn't water outside that because the roots aren't outside that well. For the as we go month by month by month, and then year by year end of the tree's life, the root system more and more and more is filling the soil

outside of that area. But for a good while the majority of roots are still inside that area, and so when we water, that is the target. Now, next summer it won't be so important to water just right there. But this first summer was the more challenging time. So you shouldn't see this problem if you have adequately mo so and those tree waterers that go around the base are excellent for that.

H and Microlife brown Patch is widely available a lot of different places. No problem, at all finding Microlife bound brown patch gosh, I can't even talk on the market out there. Microlife's widely widely sold across the Greater Houston area and even beyond that too. By the way, if you got friends and other areas around here, Uh, just follow the label, apply it according to the label. Get

that done. I primarily I focus my fall fertilization recommendations on October, but we are getting toward now we're in the middle of September. As we get toward the end of September, you can go ahead and start your organic fertilization because these products have to be microbially broken down to release fully release all the nutrients to the growing plants. And I just like to get a little bit of

a headstart on that. And Microlife brown pats can be used in late September and all through October if you like to give that turf the boost it needs. Because remember, you go into fall strong, you come out of winter strong. That's how grass grows. The spring growth is based on the stored nutrients and energy carbohydrates in the grass plant, not on the roots at that time. As roots begin to grow in spring, then our spring fertilizations help with that.

But I would say maybe one of the most important fertilizations of the year on year lawn is the fall fertilization because of what I just said, because of what it can do. Life bron patch can do that. Loaded with microbes they get on the plant, they help compete against the bad guys. In this case, bron patch is an example of a fungus that attacks CHR lawn. So anything we do to improve in the good guy competition against bad guys is a good idea, and that is

why they designed microlife bron Patch. We're gonna go now to West Houston and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, Welcome to Gardline. Good, good morning, sir. Did you happen to get my picture? Hang on?

All right, folks, you're listening to guard Line. I'm your host, skip Rictor. We're here every Saturday and Sunday to answer your gardening questions. And I don't care where you live. Call us. We'll answer your gardening questions. Happy to do that. By the way, I just want to remind you again that Nature's Way Resources still has their Fungal Friday sale

going on, twenty percent off fungal composts on Friday. What is fungo compost, Well, fungal compost is anytime you have a tree, a wood, a leaf, a type of substance. Fungi are the primary decomposers for that. You know, when it's things like I don't know, lettuce leave, you know, something real green and stuff like that on the ground. Well, bacteria are going to be dominant in that kind of decomposition. But their fungal composts twenty percent off on Fridays, So

this is time to go by and get it. You're making beds, you're improving your soil for fall. Fungal compost is a good thing to mix into the soil you want to do a top dressing on your lawn. Just like leaf mold compost, Fungal compost is also a very good product for success with that, don't forget On Saturday, October twelfth, I want to give you a head start on this one. Normally, I don't talk about things until

we're almost on them. Saturday, October twelve, I'll be at their fall festival and it is going to be officially designated a shindig early, So I'm designating at a shindig live music, children's activities, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales. I'll be there from let's see eleven thirty to one thirty answering your gardening questions. And also you can bring me your sick and tired and diseased and insect infested

whatever in a baggie. We'll take a look at them and we'll diagnose them and point you in the right direction, or just photos on your phone. Anyway, that is October twelfth. I want to make sure you get that on your calendar so you can show up and help us with that. Let's see Chris, are we ready to go back with Carriy? Do we get that solved or not? See if I can take care of this boy. We're running short on

time here. I want to I just want to mention one thing before for a runout of time to be able to do it, and that is that next Saturday, I'll be at A and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery, Texas. A and A Plants and Produce and Montgomery. I'd ei there from twelve to two, from noon to two, answering questions, give a little talk and diagnose in whatever kinds of pictures and plants you bring me to look at you and talk to Dwane. Hello Dwayne, Welcome to garden Land.

you're describing. And finding something that is evergreen so it blocks the view all the time is a little bit of a challenge. The pretty fast growing would be something like an eastern red ceedar. They get up pretty quick and hit a decent size, and they are evergreen. Live oaks certainly are another example of that. They are slower growing though, although there are some more upright types of live oaks that grow in more of an upright fashion

than the other. Uh. Those those would be two things that I would consider, But it's going to take a while to get that that height of the screen that you're talking about.

block the view you're looking at. Okay, Okay, I appreciate it, all right, you bet, Dwyane, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate that call. All right, let's see Gary, did we resolve that with the producer or not?

of gardening fever in the fall time. Because for woody ornamentals, absolutely the best. For perennials, the best, and that includes perennial flowers, perennial herbs, perennial grasses. It's a great vegetable gardening season. You know, things that are ripening in the fall are ripening. Is the temperatures cool off, so the flavor is crisp and better. It's just good. It's just a good time. Plus it's fun to be outside in the fall. We can go outside again soon. Trust me,

this is coming. We're looking forward to it. Prepare yourself first, always prepare yourself first, and then pick something that wants to grow here and get it done. What are you going to add to your landscape this fall? Imagine this walk out to the street, look at your house and look at where the evergreens are. They all on one side, and would you like to balance it out a little bit? There's an idea. What is bloomed this summer and where and what could you add that would be a good bloomer.

Or maybe it bloomed in spring, it bloomed in summer right and now in the fall. Other than annual plants, you don't have any flowers. There are some great perennials that bloom in the fall. Why not add some of those to it? Are there any plants that are in a shady area that need more sun or vice versa. Fall is the best time to move a plant in

the landscape. The demands are the least. And when I say fall for moving, I'm talking about late October, maybe starting then up further north than the listening area, and for all of the listening area, definitely November early November is a good time. Dig them up, put slide them onto a tarp so you don't have to pay for your car, practice kids to go through college, and slide them right over the new area and put them in there.

I have moved plants several times in the fall, and it is an excellent time because the demands are so low and there's no time like moving a plant like fall. Try to do it in the summer, you're going to lose the plant. Fall is a great time to do that. So I guess what I'm saying is fall is the time I'm for planting and for transplanting. That's for sure. Well, we ought to be hearing music by now, because I am hitting right up against the end of this program

for today. Don't forget if you wanted to go to the second Annual Strawberry Jamboree on September twenty first, let's next supery down in Lake Jackson way down like Justicon Rep Center, Lake Drive, Missouri County, stenching of a sudden, the heck of an event. It's free. You're going to learn about strawberry growing. They'll have exhibitors, I'll have a strawberry shortcake contest, and I hope to miss out. I

went last year was a great, great event. I won't make it this year, but it is going to be good. Tay you that I know what kind of programs that they put on down their phone number for more information. Ninety seven nine eight, six, four, one, five, five eight nine, seventy nine, eight six, four fifteen