November Nurturing

You know, if I could do one thing. I've said this before, but if I could find some little drops of fall fever and put them in the water supply for all the communities around here, so that people would get the excitement from spring gardening, that they would get it in the fall, because fall is at least as good of a season as spring, and it's actually even a better season. When you're planning woody ornamentals, any kind of perennials, whatever, whatever you're putting in, it follows a

planning season. It's the good one. It's the best one. You can plant twelve months out of the year here. That's one of the advantages of living down this far south in the country that we can plant every month of the year something out there in the garden and landscape. Summer's a tough time. We have to that's the price to pay for getting to grow things like avocado or a citrus, or a lot of things that are kind of cold, hardy, cold tender. Excuse me. In other areas

we have to deal with the summer. But hey, that's behind us. It is time to get fall fever and get excited because there's a lot that we can be planning.

run that store now it's third generation now running. That store's been there over forty years ago, and you can go in there and get that old time feed store service. You know where they carry the bags out for you. Also, when you get in there, you hear me talk about fertilizers and products and soils and things to control this pest or that disease or prevent this weed or whatever. It's all there. City Feed. It makes it really easy.

Monday through Saturday, nine to six, closed on Sunday, closed today or tomorrow, So you can get out there today or any day after work during the week. Just stop by and get the products you need to have success. Sales products of course, feed, premium pet food, some supplies for various kinds of craters around the place. League City Feed again Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway ninety six. When see when was it, I don't know,

recently checking out the plans for all seasons. It's a little blank there in the morning checking out plants for all seasons. They have gotten in one of the coolest plants that is way underutilized around here, and that is the adenium. It's also called desert rose. And boy did they ever have a great stock of it desert rose. I can't even describe the ballooms, do you. I'll just tell you all kinds of shades of red to burgundy so deep that it's black, to petals that are speckled

and striped, and all kinds of beautiful. That is a tough plant. I mean, in fact, you know how you kill doesn't rose. You overwater it. So all you got to do. All you got to do is just get it in a really well drained soil, which is what it comes in when you buy it, and then make sure it gets full sunlight and just watered occasionally. You don't have to water it a lot. Just if it's going to freeze, you got to bring that little pot in protect it. But oh my gosh, the blooms are stunning,

and they got them there plants for all seasons. They are stocked up and ready to go. Of course, while you're by there lots of other things. They have a really good supply of roses. And I know everybody thinks about roses on Valentine's Day, right, That's when you pun your roses. That's when you plant your roses. It is better to plant a rose today than on Valentine's Day. So go by there and get a rose, get it

in your landscape, get it established. By the time Valentine's Day comes, the rose you planted now will already be establishing roots out in the soil and have a big head start on summer. They also have pots of marigoals, you know, marrigals. We call the big African type marigals marramums because if you plant them in the fall, they just glow like big old palm palm mums. I mean,

they're beautiful, beautiful. And so if you have a chrysanthemum, or don't have a chrysanthemum, why not try marigold from Plants for all seasons just a few of the brazilion plants they have there, And you know when you go there, you're going to get great success. Family owned business owned and operate since nineteen seventy three. And when we talk when we brag about mom and pop garden centers, local garden centers, the knowledge you get, the service you get.

We're talking about plants for all seasons, full service retail garden center since nineteen seventy three. Go to the website plants for All Seasons dot com or give them a call two eight one three seven six one six or six. Well garden line is a call in show and if you would like to call in, our phone number is seven to one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. It's always kind of quiet first thing in the morning.

And I tell people that, you know, that's the easiest time to get through and not have to wait long on a on a call, first thing in the morning. So the word of the wise, we'll get pretty busy as things go through the day. Here. Uh, it is fall fertilizing season. It is time to get that done. It is also the time to put down something to prevent the weeds that come up in your lawn. If your lawn is thin, maybe drought hit it, maybe just you know, compacted soil. I don't know, uh, whatever the

reason is. If sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. And if you want to get your fertilizing done and your weed prevention done in one step, Nelson carbl load is the thing you need to do. Nelson carble load. So all you have to do is go buy your local garden center, feed stores, Ace hardware stores. You know Southwest Fertilizers, people carry Nelson's Plant Foods and carbo Load covers five thousand square feet. It's packed with the right

ratio of nutrients for fall. Carbo Load is the fall fertilizer from Nelson's and it also has that pre emergent so put it down soon. If you wait until weed seeds germinate, it's hard to prevent them germinating and establishing if they're already up and growing. Get it down and watered in immediately. When you finish with the fertilizer spreader, turn on the water about a half inch water. Get that down in the soil. That gets the nutrients down.

It gets the prevention of weed, the product that prevents weeds down in the surface where it locks into the soil and says no weed can come through here. Nelson carbo Load from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. We're going to head out now to League City and talk to Jackie. Good morning, Jackie, Welcome to garden Line.

you're gonna think it died. It didn't. It just it's like a teenager on a Saturday morning. It doesn't want to wake up until that.

don't matter if it's pouring rains. A good day for gardening because we've got all kinds of things that we can do inside, from planning to starting seeds, to take care of house plants. There's always stuff to be doing propagating plants indoors, so the weather does not stop us from gardening. There is lots and lots to do. In fact, I got a box full of seeds. Then I wanted to start some transplants from a cool, cool season garden

and I still haven't got them planted. With our nice mile winters here out and plan all winter, so I'll get it done. But anyway, always something we can be doing out there for gardening. Ace Hardware Store is going to have you covered with whatever you're going to be doing for gardening. You know, when it comes to the fall season, we got three big activities that happen in the lawns. There is the fertilizing with the fall fertilizer

there is the weed prevention. The cool season. Weeds germinate in the fall, so those things you deal with in spring that are just sprout and everwhere, and weeds you know, clover and chickweed and handbit and all that stuff that started in the fall, and a pre emergent would prevent that. Third thing is disease prevention. The big brown circles. They are appearing in lawns already. I'm seeing them everywhere, and you got to get ahead of them by the time.

When you apply a product, it gets in the plant and it stops it from getting sick, if you will, from the brown path, your large patches it's now called. But you got to get down ahead of time. If you already got some circles, you can put it down prevent additional ones, not going to make the ones you have green, but the sooner the better. And ACE Hardware's got you covered on all those things to care for your lawn. It makes it super super easy when you

just go to ACE. For example, they've got the Texas three Step, which is Nitroposs's products that do exactly what I just said, three steps fertilizer, weed prevention, turf funge aside, those three, So do them all. Do them all the same time, same date, not in the same hopper. Just do them all together. You can apply them and then you want to water the whole nine yards, all three

of them. Water men. About a half inch of water gets a fertilizer in the ground, gets the weed prevention in the soles surface, and it gets the fung aside in the ground. And this is interesting. You think, well, why I want to put on a lawn, Why don't I want to wash it down in the soil. It takes up by the roots. It's systemic, and it's like you take in an antibiotic and now a disease comes or is attacking your body, and it shuts it down from the inside. That's what Eagle turfungicide does. You can

find nitro foss products a lot of different places. You know, Ace Hardwur's has them, Katie Ash Hardware, which is where I'm going to be a little bit later. I'll tell you about that in just a second. If you go to Aspase Ace up in the Woodlands, for example, or if you were to go down to Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, all those are places you can get the Nitrofoss three step and yes, I'm going to be at Katie Hardware. Katie Hardware that is on pin Oak

Road and Katie I'll be there today. I hope you'll come out and see me. Do you have a plant? This is a last appearance of the year that I'm doing anywhere toward the West side. So if you live in central to West Houston or this whole area, see Lee. You know Waller down in Heck, Doune and Wharton, if you're down there, come on them and see me at Katie A's Hardware. I'll be there answering your gardening questions. I'm going to have some information on hand to guide you.

I've got some new schedule, I got my schedules. I've got some new publication stuff that I'm going to be bringing with me. But come on out. I want to get picture made with you. I want to visit with you on the phone. Here on the radio show, we visit for a short time. There it's face to face.

We've got time to talk about things. And what usually happens at these events is, you know, people will gather and when someone walks up with a question, I'll just start talking about to the whole group because I don't know, maybe you brought in a picture of a weed and somebody else has that weed, but they didn't happen to come in for that today. But they can learn from what I'm telling you. And that's kind of how that works. It's a fun time. We always have a good time. Boy.

Nitropos is going to be given away a lot several bags of each of the three steps from the Nitropaus three Step, the fertilizer, the barricade, and the Eagle Turf fund aside. But you got to come out to Katie Ace Hardware, Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road. It's an Ace store Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road. Come out and see me, and you got a good chance to win. I mean that there's a lot of products that they're gonna be given out. All right, Well, there you go. I'll tell

you more about that as we go through. But right now, just you know, wake up if somebody's house is sleep and just say wake up and get ready because right after the show today we got to we gotta go to Katie Hardware. I'm gonna head out to Jay now in Deer Park. Hey, j welcome, to garden.

anything else to add. Okay, So if they're not circular, brown patch doesn't have to be circular, but it generally is, and it generally you kind of have a yellowing going on and then it actually you know, rots and the leaves rot and turned brown. If it's not that, it could be it could be taken root rot just finally showing some symptoms on there. It could be I don't know. There's not really another disease other than those two that is that we see these kind of symptoms on, especially

this time of year. It's not chinchbugs. So I still am leaning toward some type of rizoctonia. That's the group of diseases that brown patches in.

Cienamulch is down south of town, and it's the place I talk about as being the place to get the brown stuff brown stuff for green stuff, meaning get the soil. Right when you go to Sienna. You've got by bag and by bulk all the famous garden line, famous mulches and soil products from all kinds of place. You got all the fertilizers that I talk about here. You know, whether it's Nelson's or Microlife or as amide or nitrofoss

or Medina. You're gonna have landscapers, pride, you're gonna have airloom. So everything you need you can go pick it up yourself. They'll deliver within twenty miles. They are located on five twenty one FM five twenty one, just in Well, just north really or near rather the highway six and two eighty eight. Here's the website, Sienna Mulch dot com. You really need to check them out. They're open today till

two o'clock. All right, we're gonna go to break. I'll be right back, all right, welcome back, Welcome back to gardening. We are a call in show, meaning you got a question, you may call seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. I was really impressed checking out Ugandas Native Plants, which is on Eleventh Street and the Heights. For those of you haven't been there yet, you really need to go. They specialize in natives. Now they don't

only have natives. I mean they have a ton of other things, any kind of you know, do you want annual color, do you want vegetables, do you want herbs? Their houseplant greenhouse is huge. It's it's unbelievable. You need plants for shade, you need fruiting plants. But natives, that is, they have the best selection natives anywhere in the region, really really good selection. And I was just looking at some of the different kinds of plants that they have

and it reminded me of something. And I don't talk a lot about a yopon. You know, there are a number of different types of yopon, but they're berries are just gorgeous during the cool season. Now, I will say this, you got little bitty kids that don't know not to put stuff in their mouth. Well, yopon berries are a purgative. In other words, they make you throw up. Do you know what The genus of our species of yopon is Vomitoria ilex vomitoria. That ought to tell you something. Sorry

for that so early in the morning. But I love those plants. I got one in my backyard and it loads up with berries. Bring them in for decorating, just enjoy them in the landscape. But they don't have yopon. They've got a lot of other things. How about possum hau Possum hauw is like a deciduous think of a yopon, this decidious sort of like that's the different species. But it drops it sleeves and now you have all of these branches, naked branches with berries all over them in

the cool season. That's another great one. They have things that are just well. I could just go on and on naming specific natives, but you need to go You really need to go by and check it out. If you want flowers, if you want berries, if you want fall color, do you want shrubs, trees, groundcovers. They have natives for everything there. And native plants are well, if they're native, that means that they like it here, right. We bring plants in from all over the world. Sometimes

it works, sometimes they're not very happy here. Natives are and that you can get natives that are just native to Houston area at Buchanans Native Plants, or you can get natives that are native to our region. It really really is cool and when you go in there, you're gonna enjoy it. It's a great place to shop, just just enjoyable. Leven Street in the Heights Buchanan's Native Plants. Go to the website Buchanansplants dot Com. Go to that

website and then sign up to receive their newsletter. It is very informative and you'll find a lot of good informative stuff on their website as well. Out in my yard this week, I've been working on a number of things. I've got a patio that i'm creating or building. I started it a while back and then I got sidetracked doing some other projects that were kind of more front burner things. But this is going to be It's a

flat stone patio. I've got a nice base laid down for it, and I'm fixing the laith the flat stones. We were just out picking out some stune the other day and the grit that's going to go in between them, and it's expanding. Arnold patio is not big enough for me. I want it bigger. And because you know, when you have more than a half dozen people or something, you need space to kind of spread out. So anyway, we're

putting that down. That is a project that now has made it to my front burner and just really looking forward to. I got some beds that I'm redoing also, in fact, just finished yesterday doing some repotting. My wife love strings a string of and I think she has a string of everything, you know, pearls and tears and hearts. I'm trying to go through in my head all these things. Anyway, she's got a string of just oh, bananas, dolphins, andy. We're repotting them up and getting those set up inside

the house. See, I told you gardening you can do it on any kind of day, and this was at night we were working on them. Last night was dark out side. Still gardening, but it's just fun to get out and do it. I encourage you. What kind of gardening have you not done much of, or if any like, for example, have you ever tried to grow African violence inside? They are not that difficult. You just give them a few things they really want and they will do very

well on their beautiful plants. Have you ever tried to grow the holiday cacti? There's a Christmas Thanksgiving an Easter cactied named for a when they bloom, I've got a bunch of them. Seems like every year I buy another one and then I keep it, so I probably have five different holiday cac die from the last five years that are still around there. Tough, easy, easy plants to grow. They do well. Have you ever grown a vegetable garden? You don't have room for one, Well, then get you

a container you can grow vegetables and a candentate. Try that this year. Try make a fresh salad garden. I've done that before. You take a big old pot something I have, whiskey barrel size, let's say, and you plan a little bit of kale in it. You plant a little bit of a regular, a little bit of lettuce, a little bit of spinach. Do you see what I'm saying? And when it's time to harvest, you just have this mixed salad of all kinds of things that you can grow.

It's really easy to do. You should try that. What kind of gardening have you not done before? Why not try that one? How about? Do you have things that attract butterflies in your landscape? Do you have things that attract hummingbirds to your landscape? I was out this past late summer spring and we had some things blooming vy Texas still blooming out there, and the hummingbirds were just coming to it. I was watching those things go after it.

Right now, I'm looking out the window at some lantanas that I'm not right now, but it's dark outside, but anyway, the lantanas are blooming, and here come all kinds of butterflies and bees. A little. We have a number of plants that we planted for the bees. Mexican heather, surprising little bitty thing with tiny little blooms, and boy, the bees love that stuff. What kind of gardening have you not tried to do? What kind of plants have you not tried to grow? How about trying that? If you

had any questions about them, give us a call. We can help you have success with that. I'm gonna go now to North Houston and we're going to talk to Robert. Hello, Robert, welcome to garden Line. Good morning, skib Hey.

your row longer. But there are some that will do that and it basically is just a matter of cutting the roots. And again you got to know the type of plant as to exactly how you would go about it. But root cutting is about the easiest type of propagation you can do. Okay, let me ask him.

you I appreciate your call very much. Call us again. Sometimes you take care, you know. I talk about Medina products a lot, and Medina is an outstanding brand. It's been around for a very long time, and the Medina Soal Activator is one of their most well known and appreciated products. Well, they now have Medina Plus, which is Medina Sool Activator Plus over forty trace elements. It includes

natural growth hormones in it. It's got a number of different actual mineral nutrients in it, various kinds of vitamin T like substances in it. It's going to increase blooming. Leaf growth is going to be better. I would say it's fall season. A lot of people are planting and transplanting. Have some Medina Soil Activator on the shelf twelve months out of the year. Because you put it in a watering can and you water, there's new plants in with it,

get it on the leaves and everything. It won't burn. Fact, it's a good foldio feed to Medina plus with Medina Soil Activator Plus. Lots lots more from the folks at Medina. Time for me to take a break. I'll be right back side seven one three, two, one two KTRH. Hey, welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to the Garden Line. I have got a number of things I want to

talk about today. One of the things that I wanted to mention to you is we deal with nematodes in our gardens, and I have found them in two different places. You know, we're in a home we've only been in about four years now, and the the types of soil beds and things, most of them I haven't built. Most of them. I'm rebuilding as I go through. And I I pulled some boxwood that just wasn't doing good out of a bed and pulled it up, and boy, there are Nema toads all over the route. So, okay, we

got Nema toads here. I went out in the garden and I had a spot in my garden where I'd never had nematoads before. And suddenly there are some nematodes. And I'll tell you how I got them. I brought in kind of a sandy soul mix. And nematods can be in any soul, but they love sand. They love sand. Had they just proliferate better. And so I basically unknowingly brought them in. You can't look at a sand to go, oh,

it's got nematodes in it. It does or it doesn't. Anyway, I pulled up some okra, and boy, there they are. And okra is something that I kind of get obsessed over. I do okrah breeding and crossing, and I'm creating new varieties. I'm going beyond the normal okra grower to the I'm the abnormal okra grower. Anyway, nematodes is bad news for okra and figs and bazillion other types of plants. I

put something online. If you go to my website, which is gardening with Skip dot com, we just put up a little publication I wrote, managing root not nematodes in gardens and landscapes. You do not eradicate root not nematodes. There's no spray that kills all the root not nematodes. You manage them once you have them. And there are a lot of things that you can do, and this publication goes through each one, and I would suggest do as many of them as you can. In areas that

you have nematodes. Number one, don't bring them in, and we sometimes bring them in on plants too. I have turned a plant upside down, pulled the pot off of it, looked at it and saw little nematode roots. And not the garden centers I talk about here on guarden Line, but I've been to a garden center that I found nematodes on the plants. So somebody just used a sandy mix in the growing mix to grow those plants and there they were. Don't bring that plant home, I mean

that one. Let the garden center know they need to not be selling that. And it's not the garden center's fault, you know. They bring the plants in and they come from a grower. Almost always a few people grow their own. But anyway, managing root not nematods and gardens and landscapes, there's a lot of things you can do to suppress them and still have a really good productive garden. And

that's what I'm going to start doing. You know, I find that whenever I have a problem, Number one I get I'm annoyed by that, but number two, I kind of get a little bit excited about it because it gives me a chance to experiment and to try some new things and to learn. You know, I did a nutsedge publication a while back, and I have been working on nuts edge with a number of different approaches and as a result things I learned. It's like, okay, here's

how you do it. Well, here's the name of toad one. And I'm dealing with those as well. So I feel your pain. All right, We're going to go out to Kingwood and talk to Liz. Hello, Liz, good morning.

in the trees. There's no sap on it, like, I'm not seeing any bugs. I'm not seeing anything that will indicates that I have any infestations.

there in the Kingwood area can be. Anything that's once a forest out in East Texas area is potentially an acidic soil, and it can attack a number trees, but doesn't attack pine trees. So I think what we're looking at is the results of a combination. Typically, droughts will stress the trees, and we've had a couple of doozies in the last five years, and then the cold and we've had some really serious cold damage occurs inside. One thing leads to another and eventually the plant gets weak

and trees. I guess the analogy that helps it make sense a little bit is if you were standing on the edge of a table and you leaned forward. You could lean and lean and lean, but there's some point where you start to go over and you can't stop right, You're going to fall off the table. And it's like, these trees are there, they're resilient, they're looking good, but at some point they just hit that spot where they're

going downhill and it's hard to stop it. And I think that is probably what you're looking at, combinations either cold and or drought, drought being more likely, or if you change anything where suddenly an area that was dry now becomes a swamp, or an area that was swamp suddenly becomes very dry. Those kind of sudden changes, trees can't react to them fast enough.

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other day. You know, the folks have at RCW have got an incredible cell going on right now. They've got fifty percent off all the Cajun hibiscus, twenty percent off all their shrubs, and fifteen percent off all trees. And that includes citrus. Did you hear that cetris too. Now, when it comes to the time to plant anything woody, well, now's the time, the time to plan anything perennial, and

now's the time. And you know, the wise folks will recognize an opportunity and that is absolutely a great opportunity. Do you want a beautiful magnolia like the deed he blintered That is a gorgeous tree they have, you know, the Schumard redoak another great tree, excellent tree. You know, they grow their own trees up in Plantersville, and the stock is outstanding. Of course, when you go to RCW, you and find things like your cool season color pansies

and violas and whatnot. When I was out there, I was just looking at some of the different color plants that they had. It's just a beautiful place. But if you want to get a woody on a millimal ground, do it now. So look around. Do you want a blooming tree? Do you need a shade tree? After this summer you probably realize I could use the shade tree. Well, go buy RCW. If it's a small thing, you can take it home and plant it. But they have stuff

all the way up to a couple hundred gallons. They'll come out, they'll plant it for you, establish it, make sure it's done right. They know how to do it and they know how to help you have success. So now'd be the time to go out there and grab that and take advantage of this really good sale again fifty percent off Cajun hibiscus, that's my favorite tropical hibiscus type. I've got my most beautiful one, and the whole landscape is a Cajun hibiscus. Twenty percent off shrubs and fifteen

percent off all trees including centrus. Now they're located where Tambo Parkway comes into belt Wait eight RCW nurseries dot com. That's the website. You need to go check them out if you'd like to give us a call here seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three two one two kt r H. All right, folks, just like at the end of the night at the dance hall, last call, right, well, here we go, last call for all of the things you want to be doing in

the lawn. Every week you wait from here on is a week that the benefits you can achieve go down a little bit and a little bit more and a little bit more. And here's what I'm talking about. Nitrophos has their three step. It is a fertilizer. It is a weak prevention, and it is a disease prevention. You wait until disease shows up. You can stop more disease, but you still got those brown circles in the yard.

Weed prevention, you wait until some weeds sprout. Well, you got them, you can prevent additional sprouting which will continue to go on, and then fall fertilizer. The longer you wait, the less time the grass has with nice, warm soil conditions where it can take up those nutrients. So that's the three step nitrophos fall special winter riser designed for fall fertilizing. It will make your grass heartier in the winter and come out stronger in the spring. Second nitropus

barricade to prevent weeds. Third, prevent weeds, not killing an existing weed, but a weed seed trying to sprout, which they're going to be doing here. Some may already be trying to sprout. And then finally, if i's eagle turf funge a side taken up by the roots to prevent that plant from being attacked by brown patch now called large patch, or by take our root rot. All three and where do you get these things? Well, you can

get them at Court Hardware and Stafford. You can get them at Plants and Things at Brenham or Grower's outlet up in Willis Night of f Us. Three step you can do them all on the same dage. Why you got the hopper out, just do one come back load up, do the next one, come back, load up, do the next one, and then half inch of water, get them in the soil and you're off to the races. Don't delay. He who hesitates is lost. How many other adages can

I think up to say? Well, anyway, you get the idea our phone number seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. Landscapeer's Pride is widely available here in the Houston area. You know it's a it's a it's a regional company here and you could even say local. The Landscaper's Pride folks really help you amend your soil to make it better. And I know we talk about all the time. Now it's time to mend the soil because we're going to be planning. Well, now the time

to amend the soil too. For spring planting. You can add composts to your lawn and to your flower bed. You can do a top dressing and stuff. You can build up a bed, you can create a new bed. They have a product called Healthy Soil Composts one hundred percent locally sourced green materials composted into a high quality product. They have a product called mushroom compost. It's created from

clean local mushroom substrate. You know, we grow mushrooms at different places here in East Texas and when they finish growing mushrooms, all of that substrate they grow them on. I mean it is just rich black gold comes out of there and it's available and folks at Landscaper's Pride have that available to you. It is super super rich, high high qualit. For more details for a store locator, go to Landscaperspride dot com, follow them on social media,

which those links are at the website as well. Landscaperspride dot com. We're going to go now out to Spring and talk to Calvin. Hello, Calvin, Hello, how are you doing. We're good, We're good. How can we help?

of groundcover. We're but I'm looking a course for well not a course, but I'm looking for something inexpensive, but aesthetics.

a three sixty tree stabilizer. Now I've done the thing where you get steaks and those wires and kind of piece of garden hose off so the wire doesn't cut into the tree to put around the branch there. It's a lot of work and time and then you go tripping over those things. You don't need to do that. You get a three sixty tree stabilizer and just like a I would use a teepost. Drive it into the ground. You can plant a post in the ground like you building a fence kind of post if you want to

do that, but I would just use a teapost. You hook that stabilizer up to the tree post. It's only going to be a couple feet away from the tree even less, and it hooks onto the post very firmly. And then it hooks on to the tree with a loose, soft metal strap so the tree can move just a little bit, which is very important, as those branches, as the trunk bends a little bit in the wind, and as the roots are pulled on a little bit, they get stronger, and that principle of nature that and you

bend something when you work something it gets stronger. That is exactly what happens with the tree three sixty tree stabilizer when you set it up like it's designed to be set up. You can get them at RCW. You can get them at Jegesit and Guards down in Alvin Bukens Native Plants in the Heights, Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Houston, Arborgate and Tomball Plants for all seasons on two forty nine up on the way to Tomwall and Sienna Maltch down south near Sienna. All those places carry the three

sixty tree stabilizer. We're going to go back out to the phones now, and Calvin, I'm going to jump back into our conversation. Basically, if that area is as you describe, I wouldn't try putting grass in it. I don't think it'll be successful. The Asian jasmine is an inexpensive groundcover because it spreads, so you can plant a few plants and they kind of fill in over time. But I don't think it's going to be really happy in that area.

But you may want to give that a try. If I were you and you're looking to save some money, I would maybe put something like cast iron plant around along beside the house. It's about knee high, and just do a strip of that around the sides. And then I would use some as tech grass or another thing that you as tech grass is not a grass, it's a it's like a riopy, but it's white and it helps brighten up a shady area. I would use that and I've done that in my front bed and I

bought oh, I don't know, I had them. I probably planted them about or so apart, putt and a half apart. And then at the end of a season, you go in with a shovel and you divide each of those and you plant them in between. And so you went you doubled your amount and save some money by just being patient and then doing that division later. So that's another way that you can cover.

some tips for you. I got to run to another call, but thank you very much and good luck getting that getting that going in Chena Forest is the garden center down there. As you are in let's say you're in Richmond Rosenberg, you're you're heading up fifty nine toward Sugarland direction. Well it's down FM twenty seven nine twenty seven to fifty nine, so it's south of Brases River down there. It is a garden center that has everything you're looking for,

including expert advice. Now that's just the way it is there. By the way. Today out there this afternoon, they're going to have a meet and great with the Houston Society, let's the SPCA. I think they're going to be talking about native wildlife. They're going to bring what they call their ambassadors. I think that would mean some living furry things and maybe feathery things for a show and tell.

The four ben Master Gardeners will be out there from ten to two answering your questions about the Superstar program, you know, and Chenned Forest has lots of Superstar plants for sale. So when you learn about these wonderful plants that are proven tested by Texas A and m Agrolife Extension and Research, you can just pick one up there and then they're gonna have a puppy and dog adoption with

the saving our Companion Animals Fort Ben County. So if you're looking for a special little furry friend, stop buying. See if one steals your heart. And of course they do. I mean, who doesn't like puppies anyway. Around the nursery, they got cycomanes in fall, veggies, fall color, lots and lots of trees. I talked earlier about maybe a flowering tree. How about a Chinese friene one of my favorite flowering trees, white, shaggy blue in the spring with a faint fragrance. It's wonderful.

Red buds. I got a lot of types of red buds, the native Mexican plum, walter I Burnham, rough leaf, dogwood. It's all there. Just go out to Intended Forest. They're out FM twenty seven fifty nine, specifically twenty seven fifty nine FM twenty seven fifty nine. Go out and check them out. We're going to go now to sugarland and talk to Carol.

pretty good. And then there are crape myrtles in the medium size range. If you go if you do this, do a web search and put in crape myrtle and my name Skip Richter. If you do a web search for those two things, you're going to see a chart that I put together a long time ago, and it has crape myrtles from three feet high to thirty five feet high, and it tells you the color, it tells you the size and other factors about them. Now, not ever crape myrtle is on that list, but it'll at

least get you thinking in the right way. You probably want one that's going to get, you know, fifteen seventeen somewhere in their feet range, and it wouldn't be a bad idea for that. Plus crape myrtles will give you a little bit of fall color. Two.

like a large multi stem shrub. But it would have berries on it in the winter, but it wouldn't look like much during the regular main part of the growing season.

So you know, if you're going to plant some pansies and violas and a lissa and snap dragons and what else goes in the cool scene of stock can go in the cool season, all those kind of plants, get some color Star and mix it into the soil and then plant and then you can apply it about every three months or so during the throughout the growing season of whatever plants you're planting right now it's a cool

season and you'll be planting warm season. Created over forty years ago, professional landscapers use it, homeowners across taxis, even outside of state. People buy it outside of state. Five different sources of nitrogen. It's got organic bone meal and organic blood meal to feed the soil and your plants. Color Star has a phosphorus they need for good root

system and good flower development. And it has a boost of nitrogen that is going to provide that feeding and just keep things looking good even in the cool In fact, especially in the cool season, the biological activity slows down, and getting that extra boost of nitrogen keeps your pansies and violis, as an example, keeps them blooming because you've got to have good vegetative growth to provide the carbohydrates to create the bloom. So you want your pansies and

violas blooming all winter. Give them a boost with color Star from Nelson's available little little jars at garden centers. It makes it real easy to scoop out and put down what you want. Nelson Plat Food another good quality product from those folks. We're going to go now to Cindy and Friends with Hey, Cindy, welcome to garden Line.

for Aggie Horticulture on the front page. There is a link to the Fruit and Not publications, and when you go to Fruit and Nut there is a publication on everything from avocados to whatever is at the end of that list, and peaches and stone fruit and plums or one of them, and they give you a list of varieties. And with peaches, it's very important you buy a variety

that has the same number of chill hours. So you are a little bit south of Houston there and so you're gonna to want one hopefully that's going to be in about the three four hundred range of chilling hours somewhere roughly in there, and you want to aim your purchase for that zone that you're in down there. But when you look at the publication on Aggie Horticulture. It's a free multicolor publication. You'll see exactly how many hours to aim for there.

get to keep the sack. That's kind of cool. They just bring it and set it in your yard. If you want delivery, there's a cost for delivery and you have to do a three sack minimum for delivery. Or you can just take your truck or trailer out there and go get it in Porter, Texas at Orange Rock and Moltz. They are open out there from seven am to four pm Monday through Friday, seven to three today,

closed on Sunday. All you have to do is go to this website, Rock the Letter n Mulch dot com slash Delivery, Rock the Letter n Multch dot com slash Delivery. And while you're out there, there are a lot of other great, great products, such as the Premium lawn Mix, which only seven four dollars a sack. It's good for leveling out your sword's got some sand in it. You know, you know you're going to redo your yard. You're on level some areas. It's an excellent product just for that.

All right, folks, I'll be right back, all right, welcome to Guarden Line. Good to have you with us. We're glad to be back with you and with your calls before we went to break. Let's see who was Oh, Cindy was asking about getting a peach tree, and I mentioned Jorge down there in Alvinjorge Hoges Hidden Gardens, that's the name of the place. It is down there in the Alvin area. They are on Elizabeth Street in Alvin,

just south south the Highway six. So all those of you down in that region, Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Algoa, Arcadia, Altaaloma, all those communities, this is your hometown garden center. Right down there. They do carry this three sixty tree stabilizer. And right now they have got a lot of great shade trees. They've got the elm and the oak, and the magnolia, the they've got maples. They've got the Chinese fringe, and the red bud and the vitex three flowering trees

that are excellent in our area. He's stocked up on all of that. His hours are Monday, they're closed, so today and tomorrow eight am to four pm. Got a lot of shopping hours today and tomorrow and then on Tuesday through Friday nine am to three pm at Jorges Hidden Gardens. I'm going to head now to a norm if I can find the right button. There we go. Norm welcome to Garden Line.

It just kind of depends on, you know, specifically what you're you're looking for.

to to row wet. Uh. If the yellowing is on the newest growth and the older leaves look good, maybe you're looking at an iron deficiency. If the yellowing is just all over the tree, Uh, it may need maybe the water, but it also may need some nitrogen. But I tell you I wouldn't fertilize much now because you don't want citrus to start growing when we're about to have a freeze. That's not a good combination.

I don't want to treat them. But there are insecticides that you put down in the soil and they will kill insects that come out. Nitrophos has one called bug out Max that is sprink It's a granular. You sprinkle it out and you water it, and it would be probably helpful for that. There are others that you would spray down, but then you got kids and dogs and stuff rolling around playing in the grass, and so I don't know, it's your call on it. I would I

would probably lean toward just not worrying about it. But if you do want to treat, those are those are some options.

expert at that. Martin spoon More at Affordable Tree You need to call seven to one, three, six nine, nine two six sixty three, seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. You can go to his website aff Tree service dot com. When you call Martin or his wife, Joe will answer. If you don't get Martin or Joe, you've called the wrong place. Seven one three,

six nine nine two six six three. From deep root feeding to pruning to advising you on you know, maybe you're going to do a landscape change like a driveway or a trench or something like. Call Martin first. Seven one three, six nine nine two six six three. Time for me to take a break. I'll be right back, Karen, you'll be our first up. Welcome back, it's the garden Line. Welcome back to garden Line. Hey. Someone asked me the other day about azmie. What's in as min? Well, what's

in asmite is the micronutrients. Uh, you know they looking at trying to build the soil and things like that. Another common question I get is, you know, is it gonna make my grass grow? Well, A micronutrients are needed for grass growth. It's the nitrogen in fertilizer, those three numbers in the bag. We need lots of that stuff with with micros we just need a little bit, just

a little bit, but they are essential. So if let me put it this way, if you could take every molecula zinc or iron or manganese for example, out of the soil, you can't grow a plant. It has to have those three, but it only needs a tiny trace amount. That's why we call them trace elements. As might provides that ASMI Texas dot com is the website if you want to learn more. This is a mind product. It's a dug out of the ground, ground up for you to apply to your lawn or your vegetable garden. A'smit

Texas dot com for more information. Now it'd be a good time to do that. Let's see. We are now going to go to Karen. Hello, Karen, welcome to garden Line.

to our yard. So I'm looking for a recommendation to kind of do the same thing in the Magnolia area, and I just don't know like who to turn to for that type of full plan that is, you know, drawing out with.

Thanksgivings around the corner. You want to take a gift to somebody, Try that forcing amarillas or something so beautiful, really really cool. Now they're going to have everything else at Moss. You know, their houseplant greenhouse is just unmatched. It's just unbelievable. If you love succulents, if you like foliage house plants or flowering house plants, do you want to put some cyclement out in the yard? Beautiful color. I keep telling you fall is for marigoals. They're beautiful,

and of course everybody knows about moms this time of year. Well, you think of a plant and you can get it at Moss Nursery. That's just it a plus unbelievable pottery and that landscape bling these unusual structures and things to really set your landscape apart again. Moss Nursery, Toddville Road and Seabrook Moss Nursery dot Com. I'm gonna head out now to Brenham and talk to Rooster.

in live traps. And let's just say it's an armadilla, because what you would do is you'd figure out their little pathway. They typically well, if you've got like a privacy fence or side of the house. They they're bumbling creatures. And they tend to kind of bounce along the wall there. And you can put a live trap out and put two boards coming out like the shape of a V out of the entrance to the trap, so you're basically

hurting them into the trap. Yeah, leads them into it if you boil elbow elbow macaroni in beef bo yon uh, and then you drop though, don't put too many. You don't want them to get full before they get in the trap. But you put one here and then one little for they're one a little bit further, and then put something that lead them right into the trap. You can trap an armadella that way. Now, if it's a I don't know, maybe possum would go after that too.

I don't know. But depending on the animal, the approach to capture them is gonna be a little different. But I think a live trap at night is probably your best bet.

and it's been there. I don't know, you guys have probably known it for a long time. I think it opened in nineteen seventy nine by the Williamson family who still run it. So that is a history here in the Greater Houston area of providing quality plants. That's why they have the reputation of the get It, Got It nursery. What that means is give them a call. If they don't have it and it's out there available, they can

probably get it and bring it in for you. You're going to go in there and you're going to find the fertilizers that I recommend here on garden. You're going to find things like Landscaper's Pride, the molt products and soil products that they have there. RCW is a great source of roses too. You know, of course typically the February times when everybody is thinking roses, but now's a good time to plant roses. Now's a good time to plant trees. And they've got some really really good specials

going on. Fifteen fifty percent off half price Cajun hibiscus that is really really good and that there's not a pretty year hibiscus out there, twenty percent off all shrubs, and fifteen percent off all trees including citrus. You're thinking about having a citrus tree in the landscape, or maybe one in a large container, you know, a myer lemma or a lime or something like that. They've got them there at RCW. It's part of that November sale stop

in there, take advantage of it, don't delay. I mean, you're not going to find a better deal than that. And RCW also of course has the expert advice and direction to help you have success. Our phone number if you would like to give me a call is seven one three two one two k t r H seven to one three two one two k t r H. I was visiting with Ian up at Nature's Way Resources a while back. I was up there for their Fall festival. Gosh, that was back mid October, and they are continuing to

have their Fungal Friday Sale. It's still on up there, so twenty percent off fungal compost. Fungo compost. That's what happens in the woods. You know, when leaves fall on the ground in the woods, it's primarily fungi that are doing the decomposition in that environment. And a fungo based compost is excellent for plants that are broad leaf plants like your shrubs and trees and flowers and vegetables and

herbs and things like that. Fungo composts outstanding. Also if you want to use it as a top dressing, it works very well. You know, we talk about leaf mold compost well, a fungo compost or leaf old compost, get them screened down to a good size, and they make an excellent top dressing material. Also, all of that is up there at Nature's Way Resources. If you go up Interstate forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia, you just turn right and go across the railroad tracks

and you were there at Nature's Way. You need to have a vehicle that can hold some stuff. I mean, whether it's a pickup or a trailer that you're bringing back bulkloads with or just bringing back bags from them. By the way. Their bags are also available in local garden centers and ace hardware stores, just all kinds of places all over the greater Houston area, all part of the product line. There at Nature's Way where a lot of our best soil products began. You know, you hear

people talk about rose soil born it Nature's Way. You're about talking about fungal or leaf mo compost born it Nature's Way. That's what I'm talking about. Super quality products and just friendly service and easy to get too, easy to get out, and they can deliver too if you would like that. Let's see here We're going to go now out to the west side and talk to Joe. Hey, Joe, welcome to garden Line.

sprout and establish. It forms a barricade over the soil surface and says no, no, you cannot you cannot grow here. And then finally Eagle turf fungicide that is a systemic fungicide. It gets in the plant. So when brown patch those big circles up here, when take all root rot tries to attack, you've got a grass plant that has got the protective fungicide inside of it to prevent that. Now you're going to find this at Bearings Hardware, both the

one on Biscinette and the one in Westtheimer. You're going to find it at Lake Hardware, both the one in Angleton and the one at Lake Jackson, and of course at RCW Nurseries, Nitrofoss Texas three step. Well, I am looking at the clock here. I don't have time to take another call. When we come back from a break, Jose and let's see Vernon and Darryl. You'll be our first three up and we'll visit with you. I did

want to tell you about spring Creek Feed though. Spring Creek Feed is up there on FM twenty nine seventy eight to Magnolia, just north and east of Tomball. Spring Creek Feed has fertilizers that I talk about on Garden Line, like the Nelson Turf Star Line, like Microlife Mike, Nitrofoss. They've got lawn and garden and pond supplies, herbicides, fungicized pastes,

whatever you need to control issues in your plants. If you are ffa military or senior citizen, there's discounts for you and they'll even do special order and they have a delivery service as well. I think one of the best things is you walk in. It is a wonderful place. You're greeted by friendly, courteous staff. I think you would

expect from a quality feed store like Spring Creek. Feed again in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway two forty nine. All right, here I go. When I come back again, Jose and Vernon and Daryl, you'll be our first. Welcome back to garden Line, folks. Good to have you with us. We're gonna jump right out there on the phones and we'll start. Let's see here, I think we said Darryl

in Northwest Houston. Welcome to garden Line. Darryl. Hello, hey, Darryl. Yes, I'm here.

the plant being rejuvenated each year. As a blueberry king gets really old and it's just been there a long time and it's produced several times, it just it loses vigor and it isn't as productive and the branch growth is real twiggy. And and so after you've had one for you know, about four or five years. Uh, just look on it and you see some of those old

growths that are just twiggy and not really productive. Just take it out at the base, cut it off at the base, and you will continually have new new ones coming up and growing.

twiggy inside, So you got to keep that light coming in. Now, if you're just looking for a just a flowering tree, then you don't have to go through that pruning, uh, just kind of thinning them out A little bit is all you need to do.

uh to protect that during the freeze. I have also seen people put a little cage around them, uh and then fill it full of leaves and things, just to provide some extra cold protection in there. And again it's just because it's a brand new tree and they're a little more susceptible to issues, so to do that.

lots of color. Do you need some violas or snap dragons or dianthus or whatever? Do you want perennials like Salvia's and fall Aster to plant their newest rose relief Zenna is an American rose exclusively bred or an anti rose imporium exclusively bread Variety's got Patentspenny. It's new and they're releasing a lot of new roses out there. But right now, here's what you need to know. Fall Festival of Roses

is on right now now. Friday was a garden party today and tomorrow it's free and it's open to the public. They're gonna have talks by Paul Zimmerman, Chris Weisinger, the Bulb Hunter, Mike' Surround of Microlife, Henry Flowers, and I mean these are expert spokes and that doctor Steve George with the Earthkind Program. Doctor George. He is a character and he knows more about earthkind gardening than just about They're gonna have artists and market and food trucks. You

need to follow him on social media. Just go here's what you need to do. Go to Antique Roseemporium dot com Antique Roseimporium dot com. That's where you get information. That's where you get tickets to the upcoming events. That's where you can join their social media following and always stay up to date. If you'd like to give him a call nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight. And here's this is very important. When you go tell them I sent you, and you get ten

percent discount. When you check out, you got to tell them SKIP sent me. Or if you're going to order online, which you can do from there, they'll show up enter coupine code skip twenty twenty four Skip twenty twenty four. Don't leave money on the table, do that. That is a great deal that they're doing out there. All right, you're listening to garden Line and we are here to answer your gardening questions. If you'd like to give me a call seven to one three two one two kt

RH seven one three two one two kt RH. Boy, that antique rosing porium place is gorgeous. You need to get out there and see it. It's not that far away, just a short little drive out in the country, and it's like you've entered a whole other world, a whole nother time and place. It is really really cool. If you are thinking about having some aeration and compost top dressing and you live in south let's say the Southwest quadront of Houston, BMB turf Pros is your company, you

need to call them. And why do I say that, It's because if they're a family owned service, they provide honest and honest honesty, which is important, and quality work. Their goal is to make sure their customers are happy. They go above and beyond to make that personal connection. It's not just like Okay, I did it, give me my money, Give me my money. I'm on down the road. Now they care about that relationship. Uh, and both Fernando and Elvia Barrera are just focused on that and that's

why they're so highly rated. You can go to their website bb there's not an end there in the website b B Turfpros dot com. BB turf Pros dot com. Give them a call seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. Right now, is there fall special? Don't It's only good the next and that is free aeration when you schedule them to do a compost top

dressing service. So if you're anywhere from the west end to Sugarland, Missouri City on the east end Pearland, or down south Fresno or Colos Siena, IWA, Colony Manul, that's the region that they focus on, and you need to give them a call. If your lawn is your soil is compacted, if your grass has been struggling, and then getting that oxygen in the roots, getting that organic matter on the surface to fall down into those aeration holes very important and you will see results from that. We're

going to go now to talk to Jim in Montgomery. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line.

needs to drain really well. Water them very sparingly, keep it slightly moist, but be very careful not to over water them, and they'll do it. They'll do well for you. Hey, Jim, I got a run for a break here, but good luck with your project. I wish don't definitely wish you well. Folks. It's time for me to take a little break. I want me come back. Let's see goodness sake. Brett and Bill and Jason, you'll be our first ones up. Welcome back to the garden line. Glad you are listening in today.

Good to have you with us. For those of you who walk to garden organically, well you probably already know about microlife, but you need to know about microlife. Microlife is a number one selling organic fertilizer throughout the Greater House scenario in fact, is sold a way beyond the Greater Houston area. They have a product called Microgrow Liquid AF.

It is of course a liquid product, but it is loaded with beneficial microbes, the types of microbes that fight disease specifically, so when you put it down, it goes down into the root system of the soil, protects roots, and actually some of these microbes actually communicate with the plant and cause the plant to grow different. Is that amazing or what that a microbe would signal a plant and cause that plant to grow in a way that makes it more difficult for a disease to infect it.

Micro Grow Liquid AF from Microlife Fertilizers. You can go to the website Microlifefertilizer dot com and you can find a lot of information there as well as where to get it, and it's pretty much available everywhere just about everycause microlife products. While you're there, check out the micro Grow bio andoculent that is an organic biological inoculent. It has even more beneficial microbes in it. It's a dry granular you can buy by the bag or bye by

a large plastic jar container. Use it any kind of soil that you're using any kind of plants. I would say, with the micro grow bio inoculant, I'll put it on the lawn and I would do that this fall and water it in and get those microbes working for you. Time for me to head out to let's see we have a Brett in Richmond, I believe was the next one up. Hey Brett, Welcome to garden Line.

little bit better killed than you do. Sometimes in spring it's like the growth the flow is going the other way, you know, out from the roots to push new growth. But fall is an excellent time to make that first good hit with those products.

the past. Did a problem to just lop off those gnarly formations.

cut it back. And so if you can follow one of those gnarlies that you're describing, follow that that stem back to where there's a side branch and cut it off just above that, and then when it tries to resprout, break off all the sprouts as they're trying to grow and let the new growth be more natural. That would

be the best bet. Now, if if the whole thing just looks horrible and there's no side shoots to work with, you either have to live with the narlies or you cut the whole thing back to the ground and let fresh new growth come out. But at this point in the season, I would not do that. They don't have time to be established.

You want the plant to take it up. But systemics get in the plant and anything sucking juices out of the plant gets that poison out of the plumbing of the plant. And so there are a couple of good products out there, a couple of ingredients that will do that. You just want to be careful if you do that right for bloom season, that products are up in the plant and then when bees come to the flowers they could be exposed to some of those products, and we don't we don't need that.

I ten wherever you're coming from toward Katie. And if you if you will stop in this after this afternoon, I'm gonna be there from twelve to two. Excuse me, I'm trying to do three things at once here. Uh, if you stop in, I will have a number of bags the folks from night Foss is gonna be there. We're gonna have a number of bags of the nitrofoss texas three step. That's three different products. But we're gonna have several bags of each one that we're gonna be

given away. And it's just uh, this hardware is just south of IT ten, just a little bit on Pinoak Road, so it's really easy to get to. I'm sorry, south north wrong direction, in between Highway ninety and I ten on pin Oak Road. Goodness Sakes. If you haven't been to this before, it's a really cool ice store. Now a stores independently owned. Each one's unique there, each one

is special in its own way. It's always fun to go into an Ace Hardware because you're going to find everything that I talk about in the way of taking care of your lawn. You like fertilizers, like a weed prevention, like disease prevention in the lawn. You're going to find products for every kind of plant you would want to grow. You're going to find things to control diseases, to control weeds that are already existing. You're going to find things

to control insects when you need to do that. Plus you're going to find all the seasonal items that you need have a beautiful both indoor and outdoor part of your home, and so ACE Hardware come out and see me today at the Katie Hardware again, Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road, just north of IT ten and I look forward to seeing you. Bring me plants, samples, will identify them, will diagnose them. Bring me photos from your phone, we'll talk about those. If you want to take some pictures,

we'll do that too. I always like tapictures of folks that are listening to guard Line. I'm gonna have to go to a break here, and when I come back, let's see who we got. We've got Les and Lisa, Oh gosh, Melanie and Herte. All right, we got a full board there, folks. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Garden. I'm good to have you with us. Lots more to go here on Garden. I'll stick with us. We'll be here till ten am this morning and back

six to ten tomorrow morning as well. For those of you down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, have you been to in Chenni Gardens there on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. So you just head up FM seven twenty three and when you get to three fifty nine you're there. Corner is seven twenty three and three fifty nine in Chenny guards In Chennigardensrichmond dot Com is the website and Linnemann family has been part of that community since nineteen

ninety five when Chenni Garden's first opened. This is one of those independent garden centers. It's just an absolutely unforgettable experience. There is no match in their selection when it comes to plants and trees and certainly knowledge. They've been in the nursery business a long time. They've seen it all, they know it. You have issues to ask them about, you know, what about this plant or what's this problem? Or name that bug or what's wrong with this? They

can do that. Bring them a sample, bring them a picture. Their helpful team is so enthusiastic and body as enthusiastic as they come. So just bring those examples and photos and things like samples in to get the expert advice. Why you're there, Not only are you going to find every kind of plant you could possibly need, You're going to find fertilizers like microlife and nitroposs and Nelson and Medena. You're going to find soil and multch products from Nature's

Way and Heirloom and Landscaper's Pride. They are open Monday through Saturday eight to five and tomorrow ten am to four pm. If you've never been there, you got to go. If you've already been there, you know what I'm talking about, head back out there. It's a good time to visit. The weather is perfect out there where in Jenny Gardens. I always love to go. I love the folks, I love the plants. It's just a good time. We're going to head out and out of the phones and we

are going to talk to Less in Dickinson. Hello, Less, welcome to garden Line.

Prime is in one first year and the second year they become flora caanes as in flowering. So it's a BlackBerry shoot coming out of the ground only lives. You only leave it two years after the fruit happens. Cut it out and new ones will be back and you have the best looking patch.

on the patio. Get you something the size of a half whiskey barrel that'll stand up and you know, to time whiskey barrel won't uh, And and plant a fig in that and get one that's a little more compound size. You'll be all right. All right, Thanks, Les, appreciate the calls you take care of. We're going to Lisa and Brian. Hey, Lisa, welcome to the garden Line.

Make sure you do that, and then blow it off those limestone walkways because iron will stain concrete and limestone stain at kind of a reddish brown color, a rust color, and you don't want to do that, so blow it off and then water it all in. What's really the problem on your plants though, is the vink of leaf roller. And if you go up and look real close, you'll

see leaves that are folded over. And if you hope if you pull them open, there there's webbing holding them folded over and inside is either a caterpillar or a pupa or there used to be. And so that you can control with either products containing bt B as in boy tea is in tom or spinosid s p I n O s A D. Both are organic. The spinosid soaks into the tissue and gives you a little longer control. BT only lasts about a day before you have to

spray it again. Uh, And so I would do the spinosid version on those, but pretty much how many sex side's going to kill them. But I like the spinosa because it soaks in that that leaf tissue and that that will shut it down for next year. I wouldn't worry about them right now. They're they've kind of done with their don't.

why that vinka is so dense. Sunlight isn't hitting the soil. And I don't think you're getting weeds seed sprouting. I think you're having perenny weeds. I don't know, viudograss or something that's coming up in there. So it's probably just hitting them after they come up with the products that are on my list there.

But when you go there, you're going to find a wide variety of products that you hear me talk about. Things from nitrofoss, things from microlife, things from Nelson's, things from Medina, heirlooms, soils, landscaper's pride, Everything you need to control any kind of pastor, disease or weed is going to be there. They always stay up and supply if you want to give them a call. Two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. I hear music going that means I have to shut up melody and

heard it. I tried my best. You will be our first two up when we come back from break. If you're able to hang around. We'll visit with you at that time again. One more reminder and not one more. I'm gonna do it again and again. I'm going to be at the Ace Hardware store over in Katie, Texas. It's called Katie's Hardware. It's on pin Oak Road. If you're heading out I ten or coming in it ten for me the way, just go north on pin Oak Road and a little bit before you get Highway ninety on

the left, that will be katie a hardware store. I'm going to be doing samples and diagnosing and just helping you find success and giving away a lot of great nitrofoss products.

That's four inch pots, eighteen containers, eighteen pansy plants for twenty five bucks. Just under twenty five bucks. Now, don't forget to grab some fertilizer to keep them blooming. Remember I was talking about that before the importance of keeping that nutrient going all winter. When you push growth on these cool seasoned flowers, that foliage captures sun that helps them keep blooming. It takes a lot of carbhydrates to produce a flour and then plants it fruit to fruit.

So you got to keep them growing, keep them going. They've got Marilla's bulbs and stock lots of fall veggies. You know, I challenge you this year, grow something different. You've never grown a vegetable before. Grab a container out there at Warren Southern Gardens and then grab use some veggies to go in it, some herbs to go in it. Still got beautiful moms out there. When you're out there,

make sure and join their newsletter. You can tell them in the store to do that you want to do that, or you can go online to the Inga McCall if you want to do that. But join the newsletter because there are special coupons and offers, especially for example, they're monthly lawn care coupons. That's real easy to do, and you just want to make sure you're plugged in that way so you can stay on top of things and get some great deals. Let's go to Lamark and we're

going to talk to Melanie. Hello, Melanie, Welcome to garden Line.

But if you can get them planted, let's say sometime just after Christmas, right around New Year's or a little later, even you may get one shot out of those tulips, So that would be one thing. What was the other two plants you said.

And so if you want some of those kinds of plants, I would I would get them from Southern Bulb here and some of our local garden centers will carry those two. By the way. As far as the hollyhawks, they do okay here, but there's a disease called rust that gets on them and creates some issues for them. But you could give that a try. It Just you know, when we go that far away from here to get a plant, the chances are less than fifty percent it's gonna like

it here. Okay, thanks, all right, mil Sorry to be the bear of bad news on that, but why don't you try one of those and prove me wrong? Maybe maybe you maybe you will, all right, Thank you appreciate that. Talked about microlife fertilizers a little bit earlier that micro grow liquid AF. Microgrow liquid AF is the fertilizer, a liquid that is loaded with some in fact, about eight

extremely dominating beneficial microbes that live in the soils. Some of me can exist on the leaves for a little bit, helping make that an inhospitable place for diseases to attack. That's how beneficial microbes work for our plants. They also have a different product, not liquid AF, but microbioanoculant that's a granular. You can buy it in bags to put on your lawn, you can brighten containers to put around all kinds of other plants, and it has sixty three

different of those same kinds of microbes. When basically, here's the point. Microbes rule the world, and if you want your plants to be healthy, you got to have a lot of healthy microbes around the plants. Those exist naturally in the soil, and we can always enhance with products that provide those These two products for Microlife are examples of that type of supplementation. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You

can find Microlife pretty much everywhere. It's widely available feed stores, ace hardware stores, garden centers, Southwest Fertilizer, all places you can get microlife. Now we're going to go to Hurda and Spring Brands Herder. Congratulations, you have waited longer than any human being is probably weighted.

are important to get with the plant. But yeah, you can separate them.

If you kill plants, that just means you're becoming a better and better gardener because we all kill a lot of plants in our life. That's part of the way we learn. Sometimes tough for the plants, but it's part of the way. The part of the way we learn. We're going to go to Baytown now and talk to Alan. Hey, Alan, welcome to garden Line.

to overspread. Like if you put a bag of fertilizer in your thing and and you're spreading it and you get halfway across the yard and it should have covered the whole thing and you've already run out, Well that's a problem. So if you underspread, you can always go back sideways or crossways. In fact, I like to put about half of it out like north south and half of it out east west, and that way you get a nice even blend and everything looks good. So that's just a tip.

first of all, they carry all those products. They also have fertilizer spreaders and they also have the little handheld spreaders you crank. I use those for putting out fire at bait oh and Southwest has firet bait. In fact, let me make this easy. If they don't have it, you don't need it. They have everything you need at Southwest Fertilizer. I've been around since nineteen fifty five, and

they're in Southwest Houston corner Bisonett and Runwick. While you're in there, you're going to see a ninety foot wall of tools, gardening tools, so every kind of tool you can imagine. Someone contacted me of the day they want to make my little fertilizer or my weed wiper that I have on my website at Gardening with Skip dot com, and I just said, well, go to Southwest. They sell the little grabber tool that you used to make a

weed wiper. It's a really cool too. If you haven't seen one before, go to Gardening with Skip dot com. Check out that weed wiper. I'm telling you I use it all the time for different things. If you got poison ivy coming up under eat the rosebush. You can get the you can get the product on the poison ivy without killing your rosebush. You see what I'm talking about has a lot of good uses. Southwest Fertilizer is always going to have stuff. They have a little shop

in the back for your engine repair. They've got they're able to sharpen mower blades, which hey, mowing seasons coming down here to winding down. Go ahead and get those blades sharpen. That's very very important. And anything you want to take in there and show them, Hey, what do I use for this? What is this? Is this bug dangerous? Or is it harmful to my plants? They can tell you that. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com seven to one three six six six, seventeen forty four. We are now going

to go out to talk to one in Cyprus. Hey one, welcome to garden Line.

Arbrigade or over to Plants Rail Seasons. Both those places are going to carry these shrubs. Get one that's a little more dwarf and you can look on there. There are several that'll be in the four foot range. Could be kept a little smaller if you had to. But I think it's a pretty shrub, and so I would try that one. It likes a little bit of an acidic soil, so if you can put a lot of compost and a little bit of sulfur down in the

soil to lower the pH it does even better. Or you can just add keylated lime to it if you start to see yellowing new growth. But it is a pretty shrub.

Japanese used. The reason we went with them is they weren't getting full sun in that area at the time, and we thought they could. You know, it's partial son. They were getting some but not not full on like the rest of the backyard. Anyway, during the storm the hurricane we lost lost a huge retto that was shading providing partial shade to these us And ever since then, starting about I guess about forty five days ago, I'm starting to get these brown stalks on the US and

they're dying back and I'm just I'm perplexed. I don't know if I'm underwatering them. I don't know if I'm overwater them. I don't think i'm overwater them. I don't know if it's just too much sun coming in there now. But these are thirty gallon used, and there was a little bit of an investment here, and I'm just trying to decide if I need a kind of maybe these or if I just working out coming in with something something else.

If you get a little hand trowel and go out about a foot or so from the plant and dig down about four to six inches and feel the soil moist soil, you know you can feel what moist is. I mean if if you squeeze soil and water drips out, that's too wet. And if you if you can tell by you're just feeling it if it's not moist or not. I my guess is you need to give a good soaking when you water a better more volume gradually applied to solve the soil deeply, and you don't have the

water as often. But you don't want to water shallowly and and where the root system develops real shallow because that's much more erratic in terms of performance.

to cold, they could be due to a canker. But prune all the dead out just in case a canker were involved, cut it back to where it joins a living stem, and then in between cuts, spray spray your pruners with lysol just in case, like there were a bacteria or something that's on it. You don't want to spread it with new wounds that you're going to make, So just disinfect between cuts. We're being extra cautious in case a canker disease were involved.

super blend. It's packed with fat and protein. And always remember these dry conditions. I was just visiting about there which had birds need water every day. I mean it could be zero degrees outside in the winter, they got to drink that day, so they got to have water every day of the year. Keep a reliable water source, especially with this drought we've been having. If you want to keep one of your humming bird feeders up, maybe just one, a small one through the holidays, you may

find a wintering roofous hummingbirds sticking around. Some of them, you know, head onto Mexico go, but a lot of them kind of hit our way along the Gulf coast and hang out here. Wildbird's Unlimited is the place to go. By the way, next weekend, I'm going to be in Kingwood at the wild Birds Store there. I'll tell you more about that tomorrow. But anyone out at Kingwood, if you've never been to a wild Birds store, come out

and see me out there too. By the way, wildbirds feed feeders, houses, quality bird seed, everything you need, and oh most importantly, perhaps is really good advice from wildbirds. Well, it looks like I am seeing another break approaching here. Wow, that went kind of fast. I want to mention the folks at Nelson Water Gardens. If you are out in the West Houston area, this is your i'll say hometown, hometown, West Houston garden center. It's really a destination place. You

go to Nelson Water Gardens. Of course you're going to find things like water gardening plants and fish for water gardens, and the water gardens themselves and the beautiful, disappearing fountains where the water spills over this tall, tall vase looking structure in the land. Oh, those are so gargeous. The sound of water is therapy and you need something like that for your backyard, and Nelson Watergardens has it. Nelson Nursery and water Gardens actually, because they are loaded with

lots of quality plants. Whatever the plants for the season are, you're going to find them and more, that and more at Nelson Water Gardens. Got to I tend to Katie turned north on Katie Fort Ben Road and they'll just be just a little bit down the road there on the right hand side. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Go check out their website, follow them on social media. It's a really cool place. All right, folks, I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line, folks.

It is good to have you with us. We still got stuff to talk about, stuff to talk about. How do we hope you have success? Earlier I was talking to some folks about planting fruit trees a couple different calls, and I mentioned something called chilling hours. Chilling hours are an important thing that you need to be aware of when you're doing any kind of gardening with fruit trees.

All right, so let me explain chilling hours. Basically, a chilling hour is an hour spent at a temperature around forty to forty five degrees in the wintertime, of course, and what happens is your fruit trees go dormant and the leaves fall off and the fruit buds are already there. They formed in late summer and fall early fall, and so they're on the trees. Now, those buds don't just

start growing because they have an inhibitor in them. And when temperatures are around forty to forty five degrees, that's when you get the most chilling hours. Colder, a little bit warm, a little bit but not much, but that's the sweet spot our spent at that time. It's breaking down those inhibitors so that when we get warm weather

then the buds burst forth and grow. So if you have a tree that's low chilling, like let's says that's two hundred hours, and you live in an area that gets five hundred hours or six hundred hours, well it's going to have achieved that two hundred hours chilling requirement way before spring. So the first warm days in January or February, it's busting out in blooming and we may still have another freeze left. On the other hand, if you have a variety that needs six hundred hours and

you only get two hundred, well here comes spring. It warms up and everything else is growing, but this thing is still inhibited. It's still going wait, wait, wait, I'm not done with getting my chilling hours. And it sputters out of spring. It doesn't perform well. You get some leaves at the end of the branch and then long sections of branch with nothing on them either way is a mess. Always look for the chilling requirement of your pair,

your peaches, plums, apples, those kinds of things. Those fruit trees have a certain chilling requirement. You want to make sure and buy varieties that have that requirement that match where you live, and they'll do real well. You can go to Aggie Horticulture's website, find the fruit and nuts section, click on those publications by for apples or four pears or for peaches, for example, and it'll tell you the chilling ranges across the state and the varieties that might

fit that. Pretty well. Let's see, We're going to go now to Clear Lake and talk to Mario. I'm good, what's up?

keep it alive, but not enough to restimulate growth. I wouldn't at this point in time do much because we're going into winter and you don't want to stimulate succulent new growth that's just going to be cold burn, cold killed when we have a hard freeze. So I would have I would avoid I would avoid pushing it now, but in spring, I would start off with a good quality fertilizer. You know, I've I've talked about a lot of the different fertilizers that we have. The folks and

Nielson plant Food. They have a fertilizer that is excellent for tree and shrubs that you may want to consider. Well, those are some ideas.

a half and it's on the left there. They have a nice parking lot in the back on something called Trichel Road, which is a little loop that goes around. So whether you're before Arbrogate or after Arburgate, there's a Trischel Road. You turned on either one and it'll swing around behind it and you really really good parking there.

Arburgate always has whatever you need for the season, and their gift shops are always stocked with really nice gifts, really nice things for a gift, so you're going to go see Grandma or family for Thanksgiving, good night, grabbing something from Arbigate could be a plant, could be something from the gift shop. I like to get plants because you know, plants just keep on giving a year after year after year. And I look at plants someone gave me. I always remember who gave me that plant, and it's

just a it's a fond memory. But Arbigate will get you set up. Make sure when you go to Arbigate, you go home with the plants you want, but also with the three bags Arbigates Organic Food Complete, Herbrigates Organic Soil Complete, and Arbigates Organic Compost Complete. Those three are as, I like to say, the brown stuff that makes the green stuff grow. Always go home with that. And when

you're out there, you're going to find fruit trees. You're around, you're gonna find flowers and herbs and vegetables and just whatever plant. But I would say most importantly, other than the fact that it's just fun to go, is the staff that knows what they're talking about and can steer you right. They've got experience, they've got knowledge. I talk to them all the time, and I mean we sometimes we work out some really hard problems on plants and issues that come in. But they are on top of it.

They know their stuff that, as they say, is worth the price of admission right there by the way, it doesn't cost anything to get into Urbrocade. All right, Well, I got to take a little break. When I come back. David and Clare Lake, you'll be the first. All right, Welcome to Goldline folks. Good to have you with us. Just want to remind you that I'm gonna be heading over to Katie Hardware on Penoak Road after the show today. I'll be there from twelve noon to two pm. Come

on out and see me. Katie Hardware, Pinoak Road that's north of I ten, north of I ten, a little easy to find. We will be giving away twelve or three different nine to five products that are part of their three step program. We're gonna be at twelve backs, like four bags of each, I believe is the number. It's like stuff's gonna be going everywhere. Come on out, you got a good chance to win. I'll be there answering your questions. Bring me samples in a bag, bring

me pictures on your phone. We will solve the problems and get to the bottom of it, get a good photo taken. And while you're out there you can see a really cool Ace Hardware store. That is a really nice place, and I hope you'll come out again twelve to two pm today Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road, just north of Y ten out there in Katy by the way. Again, kind of wanting you to be aware of this. I've

been doing a lot of appearances this fall. This is the last one I'm going to do that's anywhere toward the west. Next time I'm do it an appearance way out in Kingwood to these So for all of you from Central on to the west, this is a good chance to come on out and see me. Maybe last call I should say, we're going to go to clear Lake now and talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to garden Line.

I mean it's awesome for the lawn, but just to avoid, you know, adding the herbicide into the bed, should you decide to plan any seeds, why don't you grab one of their other products. Bruce's Brew is one that they have that would be an excellent one going in for winter color. It's it's got a good boost of nitrogen in it, and it would be a good choice. That is a Nelson product that would work real well.

blooming plants, and so Colorstar comes. You probably buy it by the bag, but typically in garden centers you're gonna find the little jars of it that you can sprinkle out.

miles from Magnolia. So if you're up north and you know the Woodlands and Conroe and Willis direction, if you're down towards Spring and Cyprus up in Montgomery and Magnolia up kind of north and west down to Katie West Houston over to Central Houston, you know, kind of up north central area of Houston. That's their area. And they had a really good deal going. They'll aerate your lawn for free. If you purchase the compost top dressing service. You have to buy two yards at compost on that offer.

They're not going to drive tim buck two with one yard at compost to do it, so you need to buy two but rice to start at five seventy five plus tax. Of course, it depends on how big your yard is and how much composts you're putting out and all that kind of thing. All you have to do is go to the website greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net. Here's a phone numbers two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three two eight one three five one

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it's a lot cheaper than resotting. And a lot of lawns I've seen around the area from the heat the drought we had take all root, rock, chinchbugs, all the stresses are really losing sections of the lawn and green pro is can come out and do that aeration compost top dressing in a way that helps you get your lawn growing and back in business again. Greenpro dot net go check them out. That's a good deal too, by the way, free aeration with a two yard minimum comp

top dressing. I like that well. Our phone number if you'd like to give me a call seven to one to three two one two kt RH. I got time for a really quick call. I mean, if it's really quick, I got one in me left, so let's do that. I just want to remind you again, I've talked about a number of things today, but this is the last call, uh pretty much on taking care of those lawns and getting ready for spring. Every week you wait makes the

things you're doing a little less effective. You know, you wait too long to put a P for emergent down the weeds are very sprouted. You wait too long to put disease prevention down the rompat circles already there. You wait too long to fertilize, and it's cooling off enough to where the grass is kind of in a holding pattern and it's not taking up and utilizing those nutrients as well, and that fall fertilization is so important. And it's hard to convince people of this, but the most

important furtize of the year is the fall application. And here's why. It strengthens the plant coming out of the summer that we just had. It also puts the carbohyd It helps the plant make carbohydrates for winter heartiness. Sun shines on leaves. It's right now, they say, make hay while the sun shines. Make carbohydrates while the sunshines. And your grass is doing that right now, and that helps

for winter hardiness. And then finally, do you know that when the grass starts to grow in the spring, it is not your spring fertilizer that's making it grow. It's the fall fertilizer because the energy is stored in the plant and form a carbohydrates to support spring growth. So when things warm up a little bit and the grass begins to grow based on that fall fertilization energy, then

we put our spring fertilizations on. When we begin to mow the lawn, that's time to start the spring fertilizations out there. Fall is so important. So if you're only a fertilized once a year, I'd say do it in the fall, but I hope you do it twice at least fallen spring, and then of course summer if you want to just take a notch further. We're going to see if we can get a call in real quick care. We're gonna go to Sabrina. Hey, Sabrina, how can we help today?

as the steering wheel on your car. It's got one tap root, and if the soil is moist, you can grab it and wiggle as you pull, and it comes right out. I have a neighbor that never controls their weeds. Their fall asters come onto my side and every fall I go out there with the five gallon bucket and pull them out. And this year I didn't see one fall aster on my side coming out. Okay, because you will. You will win that war if you don't let them produce seed.

some plants, bring some pictures. Mainly bring yourself and perhaps win some Nelson or scanning nitrophos lots of bags of nitrofos fall special and barricade and egle