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I can tell you the things I'm getting emails about, things I'm getting calls about, the things that typically are on people's minds at this time of the year. But it's mostly about what you care about, what you're interested about. What are the issues that you're having in your garden. Well, let me give you a phone number so you can give us a call seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. That's how you get here

on garden Line. If you have been struggling with some different aspects of lawn care, gardening or whatever, let's see if we can get down to the bottom of it and do some diagnosis. Some of you have sent a photo in during the week ahead of your phone call. I appreciate that that is how I most like to

do it. That way when you call me. I'm not trying to picture something you know in my head that you're describing, because I find that that doesn't always line up really good when I try to picture what somebody is describing. Well, it looks like the rain has led off for a little while now, and we sure did get plenty of it, I tell you. Compared to last year, where we were so blazing hot for so long with

no rain, this year has been different. Up to now, I'm not trying to jinx it or anything by saying that, because you know, summer does bring its droughts, and it does bring it certainly brings its hot weather, which we've yet to experience here. I think it's going to be that way a little bit this week. It's going to warm up quite a bit. And so just a reminder.

If you have plants that you put in, let's say, in the last few months, this is a good time to remind yourself that those root systems are still quite limited. You pulled it out of a cylinder in a pot full of a pot full of soil, and the roots were all within that cylinder of soil. When you put it in the ground, they start to move out into the soil around them. But that's a gradual process over time.

And so we have to remember that that plant still has an artificially small root system because we grew a pot and we have to continue to water it, and we need to water it where the roots are, so you may see, well, I certainly want to water that original cylinder area, but a little bit beyond it as well.

When you water, and I've seen people make the mistake of they reach around out and feel the soil and it's moist, but that's the soil, you know, foot away from the plant system, and they're not roots out there yet, depending on how long ago you plant it, and so always focus that water on the area where the original cylinder was and then gradually moving out, you know, certainly six inches foot even two feet as the months go on from that area, making sure that has water because

we're trying to keep that plan alive, but we're also trying to help it thrive. That is our goal, and summertimes a stressful time. You can plant in summer. You can go to the garden centers this weekend and get you some good plants, bring them home and plan them. And if you take care of them right and take care primarily means give them adequate watering during these first months, they will have success. And remember that we are now in August. September is also a summer month here in

our area. And then in October we typically start to see a little bit better of a break from the heat a little bit at the end September, but it's not that much. It's temporary typically, so we've got several months really that a summer warm season annual will look good in your landscape. And if you drive around town look at landscapes, there are a sea of green. There's green grass, green trees, green shrubs, green ground covers. You see. You get the idea put some color in there, and

you can do it. You know, if you plant marigoles, or if you plant angelonia, if you plant any foliage plants that have bright colors, they're gonna look good for a good while. You're gonna get plenty out of them. So it's still a good time to get planting done. And those plants will go away when the first frost comes. They are warm season annuals, not cold season annuals, and we can continue to plant those. If you've never planted stuff that blooms in the fall, it's still a good

time to plant that. That stuff will start blooming, some of it toward the end of August. I'm a lot in September and even in October and fall flowers are beautiful in the landscape, and so go ahead and get some of those started. Sometimes sometimes I think about the fact that in spring, everybody's a gardener, you know, everybody is planting the things that are going to look good in spring. That's an easy time, but think of your

landscape all four months the year. I may talk about that a little bit more here in just a bit. Right now, we're going to go out to the phones and talk to Dave. Hello, Dave, welcome to garden Line.

or filling it in. However he wants to go about it, watering it, and really good sod will still establish quite well right now. This weather is fine for our warm season turf if you water it, and that would be one option. Some people are a little less or a little more tolerant of the green and the weeds, and they don't want to spray, and so if the areas

are huge, you can't do hand pulling. If they're not so big, some hand pulling is an option, or you can just get in there and rototill them a little bit, pull those weeds out, get them by the way, rake it smooth, and then put the sawed in. So that'd be another option. But if it's a perennial weed, Dave, I would I would either very carefully hand dig it, which I suspect people are not going to want to go do, or and then but I would I would

spray it because it's just going to come back. Rototilling doesn't necessarily kill perennial weeds.

with it. You just desolve it and wash it away with some fishings, good flushings.

you significant damage. That our prime insects season, it's really summer, mid to late summer especially, that's when chinchbugs attack. As we get a little further into the summer is when we would see if we're going to see it a significant sod webworm attack. Nitrofoss has a product called bug Out Max. Bug Out Max is designed to deal with insects like that. It's a granule, You spread it out,

you water it in. It releases the product off the granule and insects that are down there in the thatch, like chinchbugs, that's where they hide, like sod webworms, that's where they spend their day, come out evening to do their feeding on the leaves. It'll hit them hard, it'll knock them out, and within forty eight hours it's pretty much done. It's work, but it's going to keep working all summer. It lasts, it does last, so you don't have to do it over and over again. Don't do that.

Just give it a good application and you'll be good for the rest of that season. You're going to find that product as well as other Nitrofoss products. It bearings, hardware, both the one on buss and up the one on Westheimer Plantation ace out there and Katie carries it as well as does Hiden and feed on I forty five North on that area a stupener airline. Actually they carry

nitrofoss bug out Max as well. Talking before going in to break about a number of things, we were talking about the importance of continuing to have good color in our landscapes. And just because it's summer doesn't mean our landscapes have to turn into a sea of green. They just don't. And you can fix that by planting good heat tolerant plants. And there's a lot of them out there. And our good garden centers, you know, the mom and popsy independent garden centers. I talk about it on garden Line.

They have the expertise to point you to the right plants, the places the person. Sometimes you go out and talk to somebody that was not even working in the plant world for the previous years of their life and they just show up and suddenly they got to answer plant questions. You get that quality of answer that you would expect from someone that just doesn't have the knowledge. Our independent garden centers it is not that way. For example, Plants

for All Seasons. Plants for All Seasons is a garden center where they've been doing this, the Flowery family since nineteen seventy three. I would say they've got a few years in the business. And when you go in there, I don't care if you've got a brown thumb or a green thumb or what color thumb. They will help you find success by pointing you to the right plants, telling you how to care for them. You got a problem with something you bought and it's now bug is

eating it or whatever, bring it in. Bring the bug in, let them see or take a picture of it, and they will know what to do. And if a product is necessary, they'll tell you which one actually works, and that is important. You can take them photos or whatever you want now. They're located just north of Luetta on FM two forty nine. That's Tombol Parkway. So if you're going up toward Tomba, you just exit Luetta, crossover Luetta and start looking to the right because you're almost there.

Two eight, one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six one six four six or Plants for All Seasons dot com. We're going to go to the phones. Now to Manville, Texas and talk to Adolf.

and spend no said, will kill them. I think I would probably go with Spindo said, because it does soak into the leaf tissue, but which BT doesn't do. And so even a caterpillar feeding from the other side of the leaf that you sprayed can be controlled with it. But you got to stay with it because once they get in there and tie it all together where the leaf weren't unfurl, and it's just they can do significant

damage and it's easier to catch them early. So I would say at the first sign of any holes in the leaves, you should probably start that spraying.

see did they get hard last year? Did they get your canos last year?

and that certainly is legit. Now that alone is not going to be a solution to can of leaf rovers because he ended up cutting up your whole patch of Canni's. But just when you got one there, if you're like, okay, this one, I can't get to this one, you can cut that out if you want. But there's no problem with just just spraying once you know they're there, just about once every week or ten days, just spray with

the spinosa, get it on the leaves. You may need to use a spreader sticker because kenna leaves water tends to ball up, beat up on the leaf and roll off U and so a spreader sticker would help get that spread out. So when the when the pest arrives, you've got good.

for wasps is caterpillars. And so when we have caterpillars that we don't want, you know, not butterfly of them maybe, but when we have caterpillars we don't want, like a candi leaf roller or a webworm, wasps are out there getting them. And so we you know, you see wasp, we think it's going to sting me. I got to kill the nest. Well, if you're allergic to them, I understand the health concern. If the nest is right where you got to walk into the door every day, I

understand the concern. But if they're not bothering you and they're off to the side, just know that's what they're doing all day, capturing caterpillars, bringing them back to the to the nest. I think I had mentioned this before on Garland, but we heard once that some entomologists in the Midwest with a extension system there they estimated seven thousand caterpillars a year at a good with a good

large sized wasp nest. That's a lot of caterpillars. I mentioned ACE hardware when we were visiting there with Adolph. Ace Hardware's are all over the place. So if you heard me say that you got forty of them to shoes from. You just go to Ace Hardware dot com. That's where you'll find the store locator and you can get a little map of all the Ace hardwares that are all over the Greater Houston area. Now when you're when you're looking for anything to control pests, anything to

control diseases, maybe it's mosquitoes. Boy, we got them now there They have hatched out somewhere in my neighborhood and I go outside and they're waiting. Well, the mosquito dunks to stop the larvae, or a foger or whatever you're using to control mosquito, it's at Ace Hardware. They carry it all fire ants I'm seeing Barman where I was in my yard. I didn't know I had them there because they were underground. They're not visible at that point. And with the rain, here comes the soil, I say,

boiling to the surface. You know, it's just the little mound starts to grow up out of the ground. Fire ant baits. There's a lot of good firet baits, both synthetic and organic options for fireant control at ACE Hardware, as well as everything else you need to have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Ace makes it really easy. Well, it looks like it's time for me to take another break. I will be back in just a moment if you want to give us a call. Seven one three two

one two fifty eight seventy four Living Goodness Today. We're weird to talk about the things that interest you. What what would you like? Maybe you're looking at your landscape and let's just say you have to close your eyes when you drive in every day because things aren't looking so great. I talk to people all the time like that. Heck, there's times when I come back from a VIC I've been away and it's like, oh, man, I know what

I got to get doing. Well, if you're trying to improve things, maybe you would like some more color in the last day. Maybe you would like some new beds that really frame the home that really you know, whatever is of interest. You know, people drive around town and they see stuff and they go that is gorgeous. I take a picture of it, and that'll be your guide for what you might like to do. At your house, and if you go to a place like puer Scapes,

they're professionals in every aspect of the game. I mean they can do. They can fix your irrigation system. They can take an area that doesn't drain well. Boy, if you got one of those, you should know it. After the rains we've been having a while back, they can fix that, make the drainage better, so you can grow plants that need good drainage. Do you want landscape lighting? Maybe you just like the way that the beds and the design and everything look. Showing that picture and say

what can we do for my yard? Show them a picture of your yard. They are experts. That's what they do every day. And if you go to their website you'll see what I'm talking about. And I really would ask that you do that, even if you're not necessarily thinking about doing something in your yard right now. Go check it out. It is inspirational. Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. You can call them at two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. You can call them up.

They'll do other things too. They'll do a quarterly maintenance service. For example, if you have some beds, and you want somebody to come in to do mulching, make sure the weeds are taken care of, put new color in when we go from season to season. You know, whatever color changes you want. They can do all of that. They can do mulching of the surface and all the stuff you do to keep a bed looking good. Piercecapes dot Com. You need to check them out. You will. You will

get inspiration, I promise you. That's absolutely beautiful work those folks do. We're gonna go now back to the phones and we're gonna go to Edwina and Hello Edwin, and welcome to Guardenline.

and I'll be happy to give you an id. And are you wanted to get rid of it or you just want to know what it is?

is how to build a weed wiper. It's a free thing on how to build a weed wiper, and that way, it's basically a stick with sponges on it that allow you to wipe the product on nuts edge without getting it on desirable plants. And if you have a giant patch, you're gonna have to spray that. There are products. Where is the nuts sedge growing?

is available in a lot of different places. You are down in the Friendswood area, you can probably get it at any of your ACE hardware stores, and there's a number of ACE hardware stores in your area. But sedge hammer, just think of a hammer killing your sedge. It's easy to remember. There are other versions. High Yield has a nutsedge control, Martin's has a nutsedge control, Monterey has a nutsedge control. Just go to a place and knows what they're talking about, like an ACE Hardware down in your

area and ask for something for nuts edge. But a sedge hammer is the easiest, probably to tell them about.

need to stick around for. And I just would say my website is gardening with skip dot com. That's where my schedules are. This will be up early this week, and I would encourage you. The long version is for pages, but it has a lot of information that you really need to know and think about. Uh. And then I'll have a short version that's just a one sheet. Here's what you do. But either way you go about it, check those out so you make sure when you go after it you're not wasting your time and money.

a more beautiful landscape. If you're looking for a natural fertilizer product that would give your lawn a really good and quick boost. By the way, Sweet Green from Nitrovoss is a product that'll do that. It's a molasses based product, and being molasses based, it's going to provide carbon, which anytime organic gardeners know this. When you put molasses in the soil, it gives a boost of beneficial microbes in

the soil by being a source of carbon for them. Now, Sweet Green by Nitrofoss is eleven percent nitrogen, so it's a good boost you're going to want to put about. Generally, I would say we would put ten pounds of it out.

I think if it were me, this is my advice on it right now, I would do half of it now because you don't need all of that at one time, So about five pounds per thousand square feet right now, and then six to eight weeks later do it again with the other five pounds, and that will give you a more even feed across the summer season. Makes it

a little easier to do that. You're going to find night Foss products like sweet Green at Enchanted Forest, which is out in the Richmond Rosenberg area RCW Nursery up on Tomball Parkway, FM two forty nine. They have it up there as well, and I would say maybe one other place growers Outlet up in Willis. How about that. There's a lot of places I could name. Sweet green is widely available, and being a product from Nitrofos, you know you're going to find it in a lot of

different kinds of garden centers, feed stores. Certainly places like Ace Hardware Store, StAst Fertilized, they all carry products like sweet Green from Nitrofos. We're now going to head out to sugar Land to talk to Lynn. Hello, Lynn, welcome to guard Line.

you're seeing, and meaie bugs are a challenge. There are some other plants or bugs that can cause that powdery look, but mealy bugs, if it's hibiscus, that will be the first one that I would think about.

The oils, I would not. I would move it out of the sun, the direct sun to use those, because it's going to be blazing hot this week, and we oil on plants or soap on plants when the sun is shining, and that good but horticultural lobient option. If it were mine, I would take a strong water pistol gun for the hose, you know those little spray guns. Yeah, And I would put my hand behind it and I

would just try to blast them off of there. They're not going to land on the ground and go crawl back up on the plant, at least not to any degree. And I would physically remove them. They do natural enemies, excuse me. Whenever you spray pesticides, you often kill natural enemies too, and then the media has become even more of a problem. So the blast with water or the just the spray of oil directly onto those particular critters is important anytime you find them anywhere, if it's just

on the ends of a shoot somewhere. Printing it out is also a good idea. Just get them out of the area, because again they're hard to control with sprays.

you're just there. You know, you don't have an acre of hibiscus, So you got a plan or two or three, and you can do some regular checking and prompt control because they tend to stick around.

veggie and herbs. All those you're going to find them at D and D Feed. They have a selection of plants seasonally out front also, but when you go inside, that's where you're going to find a lot of things to help you have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape. D and D Feed just to the west of Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. Their number if you'd like to give them a call two eight one three five one seventy one forty four to eight one three five

one seventy one forty four. Head out now to Steve and Tomball.

to mess with. Well I hear the music. That means we're putting an hour in the books here on garden Line. Just a reminder, if you go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com you'll find my lawncare our guides in there. That would be the lawn care schedule, which is bowing water and fertilizing, you know, how do you care for your lawn? And then the other schedule is the pest disease and we'd management schedule and that's how do you deal with all the things that want to

mess up your lawn. And so you can find either of those. By the way, both of them have organic and synthetic options out there for you. We put the product's names on the label that we would recommend for the particular things you run into. It just makes it easy to go shop to turn them out, take them with you. Hr H.

putting some color in the landscapes. And I know it's it's hot outside, and I know you know that takes the enthusiasm out of gardening for gardeners, but the morning hours are still good times to be out and to take care of things in the lawn and landscape, and whether you're planting new plants or in establishing getting them going so you can still have that beauty. Don't wait till fall to have beauty, or if you're dealing with problems in the landscape and now's the time to get

out there. There's a saying that the best fertilizer or the is the footprints of the gardener, and what that basically means is the more you get out in your garden, the better your garden is going to do. That basically is what it amounts to, and it's for a lot of different reasons. I would say also the best pest and disease control is the footprints of the gardener. And when it comes to diseases, we have very few things that are curative in the way of sprays. We have

things most fungicides specterocides and things are preventative. They do best at preventing, especially fungicides when it comes to that. So I've noticed in lawns these last few weeks, with all the rain and cloudy weather that comes with rain that we had, there has been an uptick in gray leaf spot in Saint Augustine. Gray leaf spot is a little well it's the name says it. It's a little gray spots on the blades of Saint Augustine grass. Now, from a distance, you may look at it and it

kind of has a yellowing look to it. It's just something because there's very yellow leaves in it. Those are leaves that have a lot of spots on them, and if you get up close and look at it, you can see those spots. I mean they're everywhere. Now people say, well, where did it come from. Well, it's ubiquitous. And that's true of a lot of diseases. And an example I get this isn't a disease, but if you had brick on the side of your house in a shady area,

there's no algae on the brick. But if you start if you had a mester going and it kept that brick wet or moist suddenly you would see algae growing everywhere. Where did the algae come from. It's out there, it's in the environment. You just gave it the environment that it wants to thrive. And the same is true with diseases. When you shade Saint Augustine a lot, when you increase the humidity, you keep the leaves, the grass blades wet longer periods of time. Gray leaf spot's going to be

a problem. Excessive amounts of nitrogen also push the grass toward certain problems like gray leaf spot. So when you see that in the lawn, there's a couple of things you can do. People want to spray it, and you can spray to prevent further infection, but you're not going to cure the spots that are there. And I had some in my lawn a little bit earlier when we had that kind of rain we were having, and I

just keep going, just mow it and keep going. The grass comes back in and it ends up looking pretty good. In fact, it might right now if I went out, I'd have to get on my hands and knees down in there to find that old gray leaf spot infected blades. But if you want to spray, you have to use a fungicides bit. It's better with any fungicide treatment to be preventative because once you have the spots, it's not going to cure it. It's not going to make what's

their goal away. It just prevents additional infections. I hope that makes sense. That is kind of the bottom line on when we're dealing with certain kinds of disease problems. But if you see that gray leaf spot, then that is a good sign that you know it's been those conditions. I'm going to do a little right up on it. And you know what I'm going to do in order to have some gray leaf spot to do in the right up, go out to a corner of my yard and throw a piece of plywood on the grass. Just

leave it there on the grass. What does that do? That shades it and that creates the perfect humidity chamber underneath there for disease proliferation. Leave it on there for about a week and then pick it up. Maybe not at full we just check it periodically, but you will start to see gray leaf spot all over those leaves, and so I can get some really good pictures of it. It's not gonna kill my grass. I guess if I

left the plywood long enough, it would. But that just proves the point of what causes that disease to proliferate because underneath that that plywood piece of ply with that, you're going to see the disease, where right around it you didn't. What's the difference environment, the environment that promotes or the environment that doesn't promote the disease. Well, hopefully that made a little bit of sense. You were listening

to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter. Our phone number if you'd like to give us a call is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. By the way, having a beautiful lawn is a goal for many people. I mean, lawns are the carpets of our landscape. And Medina has a new product that's part of their hastrogro line called super Grow Plus. Medina super

Grow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer sixteen O two that's the ratio of nutrients or the amount of nutrients on it. It contains about a fifth of the nitrogen in a slow release form, which is nice. It contains a lot of other cool stuff like seaweed extract and molasses and humic acid and an iron in a keylated and when you're seeing yellowing areas of your lawn, I would get some hash to grow Supergrow Plus. It hooks up to a garden hose, covers about four thousand

square feet. It'll take you about ten minutes. It takes about ten minutes to just run over that area that one court bottle and you can give a quick boost a folier feed along with it going down in the ground and the roots take it up too. That's all happening with has to Grow Supergrow Plus widely available, like all Medina products are, that is one that is new. I'm pretty excited about it. I think it's a really good

addition to their line. In fact, this week coming week, I've got some areas where I'm going to go out and use that again on my lawn because of the results that we see. Our phone number if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. You hear me talking about birds all the time, and I have a bird feeder that has a little camera in it. My kids gave it to me a couple of Christmases ago, and it's got a

little camera in it and you hook up. You got an app on your phone and whenever a bird lands, it takes a picture, and it also take videos. It's pretty smart. It knows you know just how to how to do that, and you get some really good close ups. I mean it's almost like, you know, you look through one of those those peep holes in your door where you can see who's standing outside your house, and then they put their face up to the people. That's kind of what the birds look like, except that it's not

such a FISHII effect in it. But I was at my granddaughter with me and we were taking a look at some of the email messages or the notifications I should say that I got saying somebody's been at your feeder. And so it's kind of cool, pretty exciting. We've seeing all kinds of birds. You can collect them. It'll also

it has some other cool features in it. But the bottom line is I had to put some new fresh feed in and when I went out to do that, I noticed that there was a lot of moldy feed down in the bottom from all this rain, I hadn't checked it in a while, so you want to wash that out really good. You know, birds can get diseases too, and so you always want to keep those feeders clean and you want to use a quality feed. That is important,

and that's where Warbirds Unlimited comes in. Most cheap feeds out there are going to contain a lot of the little red bebies. That's a type of seed that birds don't particularly care for. They kick it on the ground and they don't care for it. So when you buy a pound of that feed, you don't get a pound of bird food. You get some on the ground and then some in the birds. Warbirds Unlimited feeds are not that way. You can buy blends for various kinds of

birds for various times of the year. They have it all right now. I think the Nesting super blend is a really good one. They have many good blends, and if you walk into Wallbirds, I'll tell you which one is the best one to use. You also need to check out their Wallbirds Unlimited Squirrel excluding feeder. I'm telling you if you get frustrated with squirrels getting out and eating all the bird seed and you've tried everything squirrels are smart. You got to try this feeder. It really

really works. Took a little video of at the other day. I'm on post on Facebook that it's just you know, squirrels just can't get in. They just don't get into it. And it's all Wallbirds Unlimited. If you go to WBU dot com forward Slash Houston, WBU dot Com forward Slash Houston, you'll see the Wallbird stores. There are six of them here in the Houston area. What's time for me to take a break. I'll be right back and as we come back, John and Tomball you'll be our first up.

As well as if you are dealing with weeds in your landscape, it's because you're allowing the sunlight to hit the soil if they're coming from seed, and you got to keep the soul surface covered. That's called maltching. That's what the forest does. That's what nature does. And when that happens, you don't have as many weed problems. And listen, when it's ninety five plus degrees outside, I want to be out there pulling weeds right well. Landscaper's pride has

got you set. They've got a number of different high quality products that are mulches that go on the surface that help, and I've talked about those for weeks now, different various ones. There's a number also of quality soil amending type products. They have a healthy soil compost, it's made recycle composted plant material. It's got a neutral pH and it releases its nutrients back into the soil. Black Humus is a dark, rich organic mix of composted pine

bark with loamy topsoil. Helps will hold water in that soil mix, and it's great for a brand new bed or for renovating a bed as well, does well in pretty much any growing condition. Mushroom composts. Those of you are familiar with mushroom composts know that it's really a boost. It's regionally sourced here, it's composted with age pine, and

that product also really stimulates organic activity. Someday I have to tell you a story about mushroom compost and the difference it made in a test we did a while back. Landscaper Spride's got that Gardener's Magic's organic pine based mix, Got Humus, got screen pine composted rice holes chicken pillet fertilizer, which is going to give you about a three month release.

It's really ideal for raisbed gardens and container gardens, all from Landscaper's Pride and you can just go to their website Landscaperspride dot com to find out where you can purchase it near you, and there are many many places that carry it here in the greater Houston area. We're going to go now out to Tomball, Texas and talk to John.

brush to paint it if you will. The product product straight in this case, and the brush along the vine itself so that vine is very thin skinned and that tricl a peer soaks in and it will kill it that way as well. But you have to stay with it because it's got so much underground crawling around structure. Just one application is not going to go through and kill everything all the way back wherever the vine came

originally came from. So just stay with it. But when it comes up, if you do that each time, you'll knock it way back and you'll eventually win. But t r I c l O p y r is the ingredient, and you'll find it in poison ivy killers and stump and brush killers, and the brands and the names are varied, but that's the ingredient to look for.

out the steps. But you would have to get some roots, kind of wash them out of the ground to take a look at them, because they're gonna have lots of little hard knots or bumps on them, like a string of pearls, but much uglier than that.

And then I would I would do that near the bottom of the plant, wrap it up really good with something to hold the moisture in, and then once you see there's still life in the bud that you put in, then you end up kind of breaking the top over and that forces that bud to push out in a row. But that's that's what.

oh my gosh, it's Disneyland. Here we go. They got plants of every kind, you can imagine, stuff you never heard of. They have people walking around that are experts, Beverly and Kennon and the whole team there. They know what they're talking about, and they can guide you to plants for any situation you've got. You just describe the situation and they can help you find the right plant for that. They carry the products that you want to go with it, such as their completely easy one two

three system. It's a soil for anything with roots. It is a compost for anything with roots, and it is a fertilizer for anything with roots. And when you get those three, you've done what I always harp on here on Guardline, and that is take care of the brown stuff before you worry about the green stuff. So you take those three products from Marburgate, put them together and create that perfect environment, and then you put that wonderful plant in it and it's going to thrive. That is

the secret to success. It's really no secret, but that is the secret to success. I enjoy enjoy visiting there all the time, and it's just I see plants I've never seen before every time I go. I mean, there's no end to the number of plants that are available out here. Some of you have been dealing with these power outages and you've been thinking about getting us a generator. Well, Quality Home Products is where I would get it. Number one they got They had the Generac generator, which is

a top quality brand there. They carry other things as well, but a Generac is super generator. Five hundred dollars off when you trade in your old portable generator, any brand or size, and then you can also know that when you go with Quality Home, you're going to get service that is outstanding. Now, let me tell you something about generators. Right now, with these storms we've had, people are going

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break now, we'll be right back. And when we come back, by the way, Eric and Cyprus, Bread and sugar Land and John in League City here I need to go home. Hey, welcome back to garden Line, your host, Skip Richter. We're glad you're listening today. We got plenty to talk about. In fact, we're going to run straight to the phones here if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two kt r H. Go to sugar Land now and talk to Fred. Hello, Fred, Welcome to Gardenland.

new stuff on top. Think about the forest. Every year, new leaves fall on top of the old leaves that were just laying their dead dry, and now those covered leaves begin to decompose and every bit of organic matter releases all the nutrients that are in it back into the soil, stimulates microbial, beneficial microbes, and just makes the root zone much much better. So yes, leave the old, don't pull it out.

kill it? Maybe for the next season it it burned off and disappeared kind of Uh, but I've got I've got kids running around the backyard, and I've got an above ground pool, So I'm thinking, I really don't. You know, it's not friendly the bare feet. So what's your best your solution.

and successfully establish a plant. I suspect that last summer's heat and drought did a little bit of thinning in your lawn and probably opened the door for this year to be such a rough year with those. But so if you go online, I don't know if you've ever downloaded my schedule from gardening with Skip dot com, but it tells you exactly when and what to apply and how to mow and water and everything to have that success.

So that's number one. Number two is you can use a pre emergent herbicide if you feel like you still you know you haven't achieved that fully deep denslan. A pre emergent herbicide will prevent wheat seeds from germinating. And we talk about barricade from nitrofoss that will control grassy and broad leaf weeds. With each product you use, it's not like every weed out there it'll kill, you know,

there's some that it's better at than others. There's a product called Gallery that is focused just on broad leaves but doesn't control grassys. The barricade will do both. So if you try something and you don't feel like you had the success you needed, you may want to switch to something different. It may be better against that weed. But either way, on my schedule that now this I'm talking about the other schedule now, the pest disease and

wheat management. It tells you exactly the products to use and when to apply them because you've got to get in before the the burweeds sprouts.

gluten meal. The problem with corn gluten meal is due to things in nature I won't bore you with, but basically too much moisture, soul moisture. It often is not successful. But that's the organic pre emergent option that's on my schedule.

I still thought that the turf density really is what you're going to want based on listening to your question there, Eric, And you could also do if it's compacted and it's a clay, you could have it aer rated and do accomplished top dressing that stimulates density and growth as well, So that would be another option for you.

win in Crosby won in League City. You're the first two guys out. Welcome back. To garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricord. We're here to answer gardening questions. All you got to do is call us at seven one three two one two k t R H. And we're gonna run right out here to League City, Texas and talk to John. Welcome to garden Line, John, Good morning, Skip.

that were didn't make it past the mid eighties. And so with all the wet conditions were right and we saw a little bit of it crop out, I would not worry about it right now. You're not going to

fix where it's already infected. It'll regreen, new grass blades will come back in there, and so I would just say focus on don't over water your grass shouldn't need water in more than once a week if it's got a decent root system, if you're not dealing with some take all root rod or some other disease, once a week should be enough at the most twice a week. But give it a good soaking early in the morning so it dries out then as the sun comes up

and shine on it. And I think you can just grow your way out of this one.

your computer or print it out in the garage. So if you look where we talk about fungicides for the large patch or brown patch, nightro Fast has something called Total brown Patch Control, and they have another product called Eagle Microlife has a product that has got brown patch in the name of the product, and they are looking instead of for chemicals to control it, they're looking more at microbial activity to help suppress that in their product.

So you've got organic and synthetic options, you know, for dealing with some of these diseases. But I'm telling you, if it were my yard, I don't think I would bother worrying about spraying it. But if you need to it's on the schedule. Okay, thank you very much. All right, thanks for the call, appreciate that you wish you well getting that under control. I'm sure it will will, bet that it will fix itself. Now we're going to go to Crosby and talk to another John. Welcome to Guardline, John.

But usually you know, you've kind of like when you're putting it out, you're going, man, this stuff stinks really bad, and you know something's a little bit wrong. You know, I at this point, I don't think I would worry about it. And so long that a lot of the things that happened because inappropriate decomposing of the product. Uh, they've kind of run their course and it should be okay. Now, if you wanted to pull it all out and put

fresh melt in. You could, but I don't know an ongoing issue that if you put it out that long ago that would still be around to be a concern. So that that's my two cents worth on it. Okay, Yeah, I've just got to replan everything. That's a shame. I hate to see that happen. I appreciate you. Call John, you take care. Yeah, I was talking about while ago about Microlife has their brown Patch product in a bag.

Microlife has a number of different products. You know. They got the Green which is the one we think of as the lawn fertilizer six two four, which you can use for anything you want, the Humans Plus which is zero zero four, which is an excellent product for helping. Just think of it as concentrated comple in a bag. Microlife also has a lot of really quality liquid products. You can get a fish emulsion type product called Ocean Harvest. They have a seaweed type product. They also have their

Biomatrix that's an orange labeled bottle. I use it a lot for houseplants. It's not just for ausplants. I could be using it outside. I don't know why. I just kind of started using an own houseplants on winter. And you know it's excellent for all kinds of things. It's full of microbes like all microlife products are. And so you know you're doing the thing I always say, and

that is what brown stuff before green stuff. In other words, get the foundation right, get the soil right, make the microbes happy, which makes the roots happy, and then when you have your plants, they're going to thrive. Microlife Fertilizer dot com is the website. If you want to find out where to get it. I can just tell you this. It's widely available all over the place. We're going to head now out to Paul. Hello, Paul, Welcome to Guardenline.

and you just know that. Don't spray it on your lawn. Don't spray on any broadly plant you like, like a shrub or a flower or whatever, because it will kill those two. But that would be your best bet. I'm gonna put you on hold. If we're done, you can head out. If not, hang around. We'll talk when we come back.

seventy four. If you would like to talk about some things going on around your garden and your landscape, I'm going to head straight out to Friendswood and talk to Mark. Now, Hello Mark, and welcome to garden Line. Coll Hey, Mark, you're on garden Line.

it's not too far from me. You got some great garden centers out in that area, so it's easy to find, easy to find that product. The way to use it is you can spray that on the foliage and it'll take it up and go down in it and do

the job. You can also cut things off, like when you first cut that stump off, if you had put triple here right when you cut it, same day, same hour, but trickle up here around the outside edge of that cut stump, all that fresh wound would have taken it in and you can kill it things that way too

with it. If you've got desirable plants alex that are nearby, I would excuse me mark that are nearby, I would avoid spraying because it can drift over and it'll kill lots of things, not just stuff you don't like.

get strong again. If it's been in the ground longer than that, which yours probably has, right, then we always say, well, yeah, I don't lean them back up again, but.

that's good. You don't need it to just be totally immovable, but just a little little motion in the wind is okay. And it's going to take a long time for it to establish a strong supportive root system because roots will grow out, but there'll be little, tiny roots, and you know, they're not enough to support the tree. What it had was not enough to support it with the wind we had.

So I would say this may be a two year or longer, probably three year process of you letting it get a good root system before you turn it loose to stand on its own in the wind. But in the meantime, especially as we get into the second year, letting that trunk move a little bit helps create that resiliency that you want. All right, so I appreciate it.

and burning it back, but it does come back from that. Yeah, And what you've got some big areas where there's essentially a no Saint Augustine. And so if you leave that gap, let's say the vacuum, nature likes to fill up the vacuum with weeds and uh so, uh A couple of options hand digging, which I know you're not going to do that in the amount of area you got, but that is one control where you get out every route thing you can get out of there and just pull

it all out. That is a more thorough way than a lot of others.

the brand name is grass Out Max herbicide. Okay, it kills grasses as round Up does too, So when you use either of those, you're going to kill basket grass and Saint Augustine. But that's the sacrifice and then you come back in with SOD to reside those areas right on top of where it was. Oh okay, either Some people don't like using Glyphos and it's fine.

get basket grass control. So basically it's kill, kill everything and replant in those areas.

for your lawn, your garden, your landscape. ACE Hardware is the place to get good quality products in a wide variety for landscapes that includes tools and hoses and it includes the things you need on your patio, like a barbecue pit, for example, like a string of lights to make things look really nice out there on a summer evening. And certainly right now mosquito control and fire and control.

The floods of rain have really brought those to the forefront, and you've got to get out there and deal with it. And you walk into an ACE Hardware and you say, look, I got mosquitoes. What are the options that I have? And they're going to tell you. They're going to show you the mosquito dunks that you put in standing water, They're going to show you fogers, they're going to show you mosquito repellents and a lot of other options for mosquitoes.

And fire ant control. The time to get your bates out to control fire ants, that's the best you know. There's both organic and synthetic baits and you have options there as well as direct mount treatment controls. So you just have to get out and take care of it early on. And now's a good time to do that. And ACE Hardware is a good place to get it. And all the fertilizers I talk about here on Guardline, you're going to find those at ACE Hardware stores as well.

Go to Ace Hardware dot com and look for the store locator and it will tell you where the stores are near you. It because a really nice, big old map, and you get a lot of options when it comes to Ace Hardware. We're going to go now to talk to Claudia.

as much as I can. It's just books sightly, not very curve appealing, but I just wanted to get some advice.

ones you're seeing are not in disease of anything. What they are doing is they're decomposing organic matter under the surface. And one of mushroom's biggest jobs is to take what was once living organic material and turn it back into dirt, back into soil, and so it's actually a sign that good things are happening under the surface.

we get into fall. Get a little bit of cool front and some rain, they're going to pop up again. But right now it's just the weather that is rotted all on and they should sort of dissipate a while until the weather conditions are right again for them to set up send up more mushrooms.

It's like four pages of information. It's a lot, but there are details that if you're really going to go after nuts edge, it would be helpful to know, Like did you know there's a purple and a yellow nut sedge? Did you know the way they produce the tubers the nuts is different? Did you know that there's times at the year on a nuts edge plant where you can effectively control it, and then there's times of the year

where you're not going to get effective control. And there's products and they differ in what you can use and so on. So anyway, what are the organic options, what are there synthetic options for controlling nut set. I'll also have a one pager on nuts edge. For those of you who do not want to read all the details, just tell me what to do. There will be a one pager for that. And then I'm putting up a

publication on a weed wiper. So when you have weeds that are growing among your desirable plants, how do you spray them without getting spray on your desirable plants? And some people use a shield so you kind of like have a think of it as a board or whatever you want. Some people like cut the bottom out of a milk partner and put that over the spray nozzle and that way they can set it down and no spray escapes. There's ways to do that, but my weed

wiper is also a good option. You can reach in there and get the product right on the weed without touching your plant. And for people that would rather go garden more organically, typically the products you use on a weed wiper are not going to be organic products they make. They could be, but at least you're putting a minimum out and you're getting it just on the surface of the weeds foliage, and you're not spraying it out everywhere. And getting it all over the swell and putting a

lot of product in the environment. So anyway, just some things to be watching for early next week. They'll be up on the website. I'll talk about them next weekend when we come back as well. If you live done in the League City area, and when I say League City area, I mean clear Lake City, elkam Into, Reale, Lamark, Baycliffe, Dickinson,

Santa Fe. Leake City Feed is your hometown feed store now a phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve, the hours Monday through Saturday nine to six, closed on Sunday. You know, at League City Feed you're always going to find every product you need to manage things in your landscape. I've been talking about tricle up here today. A lot they've got that at League City Feed.

They have the fertilizers I talk about at Lee City Feed, and you get the old time service carry the sacks out or whatever the products are to your car for you. And it's just a good opportunity to find what you need. And it's easy, easy to get to. It's just a few blocks south of Highway or of Highway ninety six on Highway three in League City. Stop by there, say hi, tell them hello, and find what you're looking for. It's time for me to take a little break and that's

what we're going to do right now. Garden Line, thanks for joining us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And what are we here for. Well, we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That's what it comes down to. Gardening is the best hobby I think in the whole world. And I'm biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I just want to say that. So get out there and let's have success. You know a lot of people feel like, oh, I

have a brown thumb, I can't grow anything. No, you don't have a brown thumb. You have an uninformed thumb. And we inform thumbs here on garden Line. And the more you learn, the more you understand what the simple basics are that plants need, the better success you can have, and we point you to that kind of information. We point you to the garden centers where you can find the best selection and the best advice before and after

the sale. Here in the area, we talk about the kind of places that carry a lot of products the feed stores, the hardware store, the basically the Ace hardware store, Southwest Fertilizer, all those kinds of places where you're going to find exactly what you're looking for. For example, Southwest, I'll just use that as an example. Southwest is a place where I like to say they don't have it,

you don't need it, because they have it. They have the widest selection I know of in the whole region of any kind of thing, whether it's to kill weeds, to deal with pests, to deal with diseases, to fertilize your lawn. If you hear me say a product fertilizers, pest control, whatever on Guardline, they have it at Southwest Fertilizer. If it's synthetic, they have it. If it's organic, they have it. It's the place you can go for everything

that you need. Again, knowledgeable people. They can look at a sample, they can look at a photo. They can point you to something that you need. They won't sell you something that's not going to work. They won't sell you something you don't need. It'll advise you on that. Do you need tools and eighty foot wall of tools in Southwest? Do you need the new cool kneeling bench. I say nude. It's I haven't had it in my whole life, but I'll tell you this, it's a top

five tools of all the tools I own. Top five kneeling bench. It falls up, you pop it open. It's real easy. You can set on it like a seat, or you can flip it over and kneel down on it and the legs become handles to get back up. Remember that if you're anywhere north of forty and you go out gardening all Saturday and you're up and down, you don't realize it, but a hundred times, yeah, you wake up the next morning in your body has a few things to say about that. Well, the nailing bench

will change your life, change your gardening life. It's a really cool took at Southwest Fertilizer. Of course they have them there Southwest Fertilizers on the corner of Businet and Runwick Businet and Runwick in Southwest Houston. You can go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com, you know, or just just swing by there and check it out. You find a lot of cool things. For example, when you're

at Southwest they're going to have Nitrofoss's Superturf. You've heard me talk about Nitrofoss super Turf a number of times here on guarden Line. It is a product designed by Nitrofos to provide a gradual feeding over a long time. It's the silver bag by Nitropos. The only silver bag of fertilizer I'm aware of anywhere is Nitrovas Superturf, and that's certainly here in the Houston area. That's the one you're going to find. Nitrovas Superturf is a nineteen four

to ten fertilizer. It's going to give you a gradual release over three months or more. So you do it if you haven't done, if you haven't fertilized this summer already, put that thing down now, but go ahead and get it done, because it's going to carry you all the way into the fall fertilization. Now it is going to buy gradually feeding. It's going to cut down on your mowing by about twenty five percent because you don't have this flesh of growth like if you use something that

was immediately available. It is designed for our soils, it's designed for our climate, and it's easy to find Superturf. It's going to be at places like Plans for all seasons on two forty nine, the Southwest Feed and Fertilizer that I was just talking about. Or if you're in Brennam plants and things carry it as well as other nitrofoss products. Superturf is an excellent product and it'll work very well on your lawn. You are listening to garden Line.

If you would like to ask us a gardening question, all you have to do is give us a call. Give me a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. We'll be happy to visit with you about it. And let's just they lead you to success. That that is my goal is I want. I want gardening to be fun for you. It just really frustrates me and breaks my heart when I hear gardeners or someone say, yeah, I tried growing stuff and everything died

and didn't work. Or I grew tomatoes and I never got a tomato and we can fix that. Give us a call. We will help you have success. That is what we're here for. You never fail at gardening. I need you to hear me about that. You never fail at gardening. You only temporarily don't succeed. And if you stay with it and if you figure out what went wrong, you can have success. It's not that difficult. It can be done. I don't want people to feel like they

have brown thumbs. There no such a thing. I don't want people to feel like that they can't grow anything. That you know that whatever it's it's it's always a start over and you need to understand something too. I don't care how good of a horticulturist you are. You kill plants sometimes. Someone once said one of the best horticulturists in the country, and many years ago, he said, to be a good horticulturist, she got to kill a lot of plants. And so that's your permission to kill

some plants. As you get better and as you learn, nature throws us curves and we have to deal with that. Every year is different, which I think is kind of part of the fun of it because we get to keep challenging. Plus it gives us something else to gripe about, as if we needed that. We can complain about the weather. But if you just get your boots back on and head back out there and get your rotortailler or your spade, get rid of the plant you got, and let's start

over again. You will have success. Stick with it. I've talked to somebody recently that was having problems with their soil. They were just having an issue with soil, and we talked about, you know, what could you do to help it? About bottom line in time, as you can turn any area into your version of Eden around your place. I hope you'll I hope you believe that, and I hope you give us a call on guard Line and let

us help you do just that. We're going to head out to Crosby, Texas now and talk to Gerald.

get from lows will kill the button weed. And it did. It killed some other but it didn't. It didn't even bother the clover. In fact, I think it helped it grow more. And that other weed, I don't know what it is.

we'll be with Gerald. Steve, you're next up. If you would like to be on guard line seven one three two, two fifty eight seventy four.

If you've got big areas that are just mostly weeds wider than a foot or so apart, it may be better to just go in and get rid of everything in that area and then put some resow or plugs back in to start working your way across. And you can do that progressively through your lawn if you don't want to tackle the whole thing at once, or you

can take it all on at once. But the various weeds that you mentioned johnsyngrass, You mentioned Virginia button weed and some others, and those are all those are all pernicious weeds that aren't real easy to get rid of. Using the right products is important because some things will kill your Saint Augustine too, and you don't want that. But most of the weeds you mentioned are broad leaf. Most of them are broadly and so a broad leaf

weed control product would be probably a way to consider going. Okay, Now, the thing about thing about broad leafs in the heat is most products that are on the market that are for spraying onto existing broad leaf weeds will really hurt Saint Augustine when the temperature is above eighty five and we now for a long time above eighty five. So that would mean in spring and in fall is your

opportunity to do some weed tackling with those products. There's one that is called Celsius, like the temperature, that is not cheap. It is pricey, but it's pricey because it's a special product. You can use it in warmer weather. I still would do it early in the morning, and it is very effective against things that are hard to

kill like Virginia button weed. Even with Celsius, you may not need to make two applications on your button weed starting when you first start to see a good stand of it coming up in spring, but those those would be your your options either way, you're going to be at it for a while. But yeah, that's what that's my first thoughts.

Sometimes the weed and feeds, if it's a pre emergent, the timing can be a little off as to when you would want to fertilize and when you would want to put on a premerge, and it may not be the same. Uh So I would I would rather go at this separately, you know. I mean, if it could come down to you send me a bunch of pictures of the different weeds you got, we could take a look at them and I could say, okay, start with

this one and let's get everything you can. But it's also legit in situations where it's just almost all weeds in areas to just go ahead and start from scratch, start over and put some side in and go go with it that way, even if it meant doing it a little at a time to spread the work and the time and the cost out over time.

cutting it back. If you could go back cutting all the twiggy stuff out down to where there's actual foliage, it's got a strappy foliage. Follow that with a little sprinkling a fertilizer and then a good soaking, a good soaking, and that would allow you to give a boost of the plant to come back out and maybe you'll get a little bit more blooming out of it that way. That's that certainly is worth a try if you feel like your plants are in decent health.

Answer is to use a product called sedgehammer. Sedge hammer, but I would rather you take a look at this publication I'm putting up before you go out and start spraying. I think you'll you'll do a better job with whatever you choose to do.

you could spray, you could water it in. I would wait until you had something to spray before you do.

you're right back where you started. And a lot of you been right back where you started with unsuccessful attempts tape control that such, we'll be right back.

but you need to go visit. They're open on Fridays from nine to three, and on Saturdays from eight to four, and on Sundays from eight to four, so it's easy on the weekends to find time there that you can go in and check things out. There on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of Highway six Elizabeth Street, So those of you in Alvin and Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Algoa Arcadia, how about Alta Loma, this is your hometown garden center just real close by there. Seasonally through the

year they got all kinds of things. You know, there'll be times where there's tomato plants and other kinds of vegetables and herbs and whatnot. They always have a good selection of fruit trees, fruit trees that are lower chill that do well down in that area. I know this past year, I was so impressed with the Peggy Martin roses. If they had already on little trellis'es that did good krape myrtles. Lots of different trees and things, and they carry that three sixty tree stabilizer that you hear me

talk about from time to time. Hojrges Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street down in Alvin again Fridays ninety three, Saturdays eight to four, Sundays eight to four. We're going to head to the phones now and I'm going to head to friends Wood and talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, Welcome to garden line. Hey, good morning, Skip.

But every year it's gotten a little worse, and you know, I think we finally, my wife and I've decided that it's take all root rot. And this year it's been really bad, I guess because of all the rain and you know, everything that we've read, it's like there, we're just in a really bad place and it's really hard to control. And you know, I so anyways, I'd like to hear your thoughts. I have some other thoughts about how to turn it around, but I really wanted an extraored opinion.

One of the most effective products for take all and it's on it's on that schedule if you go. If you go and look at it is the ingredient azoxystrobin and it's a z O x y S t r O ezoxystrobin. Now that that is important. Also important is proper aeration of the soil. Compost top dressings are helpful for that. Any kind of a microboile enriched fertilizer is also going to be helpful for that. There's a product and i'd have to go look look for it. But

it's by fertil and it contains micro nutrients. It's it's got not just iron, but it's got molebdenum, it's got zinc, and it's got manganese in it and iron I know, and zinc and it When take All hits a grass plant, it kills the roots and if you don't have root tips, you're not able to take up some of these micronutrients, like iron, for example. So what it's like doing is it's like bypassing the root system. When you put it in a hose in sprayer and spray it on your plant.

That does not cure take All, but it's like being in the hospital and you can't eat. They give you an IV until you can eat. And so it's the IV to foldy or spray it with your hoseen sprayer. So that is part of the process. Using the azoxystrobin is part of the process. And there's there's different forms of azoxystrobin. One is called heritage. There is another one I think it's I believe it's a disease X. I'm trying to think of which of the products. But anyway,

just look for a zoxystrobin. Yeah, and so those things water it more often, you know, I talk about water in once a week, maybe twice a week when you've got to take all a light. Watering a little more often is helpful because it lacks the root system, the deep extensive root system, so you're having to pamper it along a little bit more. I'd rather not wader that often, but when you're lacking roots, that keeps the plant from dying. To give it, yeah, water, all of those are steps.

Anything you do to acidify the surface of the soil would be help. Is iron helpful in that iron is helpful if it's in a form they can use now.

specialize in compost, stop dressing, quality compos stop dssing. I don't know if they would be able to put the peede out or not, but I've done it myself just by breaking it up into a into a wheelbarrow, making little piles around, and then using a rake upside down to break from that plan to spread it around a little bit. So those are all things that help, and you just have to stay with it, that's the bottom line.

do that. You take care, all right, folks, time for a break. If you'd like to call seven one three two one two kt r H, I'll be right back you with us. So we're going to hit the ground run in here. A while ago I was bench BnB turf pros. Some of you may have heard it and was like, Okay, what did that? What do they do?

compost top dressing. And by the way, they only use the highest quality compost top dressing like Ciena Maltch for example, that is high quality stuff they use that they use the fertilizers like Microlife that we talk about here on Guardline. They only use top quality products and companies that I

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some weeds could. Because you're in the meantime, you're going to try to grow your Saint Augustine denser and denser by mowing, watering, and fertilizing and that's my lawn care schedule online. Then you will want next spring in actually in February to put down a pre emergent herbicide, and that's on my lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. I make a list of what you can use out there and like barricade, for example, and you put that

down and watered in, and then you do it. You're gonna have to do it again as we get probably to about May may June, because the product I put out doesn't last forever, and crabgrass will sprout all summer, and so you want to stop it from sprouting later. But the pre emergent is the way to stop it. But really, ultimately, if you're not building density, you're just going to continue to have wheat problems popping up.

I fertilized twice a year. I guess I need to fertilize a little more, but it's taken over my yard and I don't know what else to do. I use the scott stuff, but out in sugar Land, it looks like the grass that we have out there isn't top notch. It's kind of the Saint Augustine stuff.

with skip dot comets free to download. And then I have a lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule. That's the one you also need to download. It starts in the spring. It tells you right when to apply the pre emergence and when to and what to apply, and then it tells you with post emergence like I've already got weeds up, Now what can I use to kill them? I'd much rather you go with one of the products on there. I know you're naming a bunch of brands

and things out there. There's a bazillion things out on the market. I'm focusing on the ones that I know will work for you. And so that doesn't mean something else won't work. It just means I don't know, I mean it, who knows. We'd have to talk about the specific one.

of the majority of your WEAD problems. And then when you have things that it doesn't take care of, which there are things that it won't take care of. You can go after those with a specific product that I would recommend for those problems.

gets water and stuff. Probably not a disease unless it were some sort of a root rot from excessive soil moisture, soggy soggy conditions. There's I've never seen a leaf spot become a problem on that on that plant. Uh so I'm gonna guess that it could just be a lack of nitrogen too, But that plant is so tough even without a lot of nitrogen. It should it should look okay.

on it. You can do that and that'll kind of boost it, give it a little extra growth. I just wouldn't do that past about August. I'd get that done now rather than later done.

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dissolve and move on in. And that would be better than just leaving it on the surface, because that's where you would get a salt burn from a salt based synthetic type fertilizers like you're talking about. I don't you know, I don't think raking it in in any way is going to be practical. And plus that's a lot of work to have to rake your lawn because you fertilized it.

So I think that's probably your best bet is to is to give it a good soaking, watering and let it work its way in, you know it almost I don't know. I'm just are you doing a lot of mowing and fertilizing and watering of the lawn. I'm kind of curious about the level of density you're getting.

But that may be part of it there, and with any weed that's going to be the case. So crabgrass, image should do a pretty good job. Image has It has effect on the foliage of the weed you're putting it on, but it also has root effect. So when you spray image after twenty four hours, you want to put on about a half inch of water and that moves the product then down into the soil because it's

already soaked into the foliage spray. Then it moves the extra down in the soil where it will affect the roots.

You take yes, sir, you take care, James. We'll be right back. Cool stuff. Hey, welcome back. We're glad to have you with us. Nelson Plant Food is a creator of some of the best fertilizer products that you're going to find for whatever you want to grow. I mean, they've got their turf Star line, things like Bruce's Brew. Bruces Brew is a product that is going to be a quick release product you can use anytime of the year. And we talk about slow releases. Slow releases are fine,

like Nelson's Slow and Easy. You can take a quick release. You can divide up the application into smaller applications, or what we normally use is we talk about using Bruce's Brew like in the springtime and in the fall time as we're getting going on our lawns. It's an excellent product, very very excellent product. Now when we're talking about fall that is when we look at their carbo load product. That's one coming up and I'll talk about that more, but for right now, I want to focus a little

bit on the Nutri Star and Nature Star line. The nutri Star is a tree and shrub line that is excellent for all kinds of well Nutrire Star is a number of lines. They've got the tree and shrub, which is good for all your woody ornamentals, So any kind of tree, any kind of shrub, any kind of woody vine. That is what you need Nutrastar, tree and shrub to do. Five different sources of nitrogen in that product, by the way, and you can feed them three or four times a

year just to keep that growth going. You know, when you plant a tree, your goal is how soon can I hang a hammock in that thing? Get it growing with nutri Star tree and shrub. Nature Star is their organic all purpose fertilizer. So see what I'm talking about. Nelson plant Food. I didn't even talk about color Star. That's another one they got. Nelson Plant Trees a wide variety of products. They're all quality, they all work, and they're all widely available, so you can find one near you.

I want to head out now to Deer Park and we're going to talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, welcome to Damline.

kiss the grass. It kills everything. But you're just going in and you're creating a clean slate to start over uh pre emergence. Most of the pre emergence available in the in the retail market just are not going to work on that particular weed very well. But the products that do work landscape care companies have access to, but

those are pricey. There we spend one hundreds of dollars or more on some of those products, and so are it'd be nice to have a pre emergent to just prevent the little annual seeds of doveweed from coming up. But I just don't to know of a good one that's been proven effective so on that particular weed. So that leaves us with the alternative.

you don't get satisfaction. And I don't want to hedge hedge. I don't want to send you out there to buy something that's not going to give you the results you're gonna need.

Now round Up has two or three other things instead of glyphosate in it, so you would have to find glyphos aide. It's in a lot of different brands to put out there on it. But just know this, if it's green and you get it on the green tissues, glyphosate is going to kill your grass. It's going to kill it any flowers nearby that you let it drift onto. So you want to be careful when you apply it.

they're pretty large too. You can't wait on grass to crawl in from the sides of areas that large. It takes too long. So I just throw that as another area. Another option for people that don't want to use a harvest that product, such as clapsate.

The weed needs to be wet, so you need to, you know, turn on the water hosen, just get it wet, and that makes the cinnamon stick to the weed and it'll turn it brown, I mean black, it just really fast. Now that product is say one more time, agri lawn, a g agroln lawn. But like I said, you're mixing. It's not liquid, it's not a granule you put out. It is a canister of cinnamon dust. Think of it that way. That's the best way to think of it. And you if you've got wet weeds, it will not

kill your Saint Augustine. But if you got wet weeds, it'll kill it. And so it may be a little ex if if you've got a big area, because this is a it's like a one pound canister and you're literally dusting all the weeds with it.

him come out and do that. He does all tons of other things too. If you're going to do something around your trees, like put a trench in or call Martin to come out and advise you on that. If you're want to do water in a deep root feeding, deeproot water and all those same, Martin does it all and he knows what he's doing. He's been doing this for a very long time. He's an expert on it Martin spuonmore Affordable Tree service seven one three six nine

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