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we'll try to inform it today. How about that if you'd like to give us a call to get a little information for your thumb. Seven to one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. Well, first of all, I just want to start off and say thank you to the folks side at Nature's Way yesterday. We had a great time out there. Thanks for everybody that came out too. I think, uh it was uh think I had a great time. We had a lot of different

questions about a lot of different things. And we just kind of covered the whole gimmut. Nice prizes for folks that came out and registered to win. So thanks again, Nature's Way, we had a good time. By the way, Nature's Way every Friday still has their Fungal Friday, which means twenty percent off their fungal compost to give away four bags of the fine textured screen fungal compost. I mean that stuff is just black gold. You can use it for top dressing a lawn, It's excellent for that.

You can use it in pretty much in anything. It's such a high quality compost. It's so finely screened. You can mix it into some potting soil to kind of give it a little boost. You could put it into the soil and beds, garden beds, I mean, an excellent way to use it. Mix it in a little bit. You know, whenever you do that, you're just moving nature forward faster. That's what it amounts to. In Nature's Way

has quality quality resources of all types. Do you need mulches, you know, do you need certain types of bed mixes. I could just go on and on. Lots of quality stuff, you know, from vegetables for vegetables, for herbs for roses, the soils, the composts, the mulches, everything you're gonna need, absolutely Nature's Way resources. They're out there on the way to Conra up forty five or fourteen eighty eight from

Magnolia comes in from your left. You just turn right over the railroad tracks, turn right on Surbridge Circle and it's it's right there. Makes it makes it so easy to get to Nature's Way. If you'd like to give them a call, the phone number is nine three six seven or two seven three one two zero zero nine three six two seven three one two zero zero. Out of Nature's Way, I said, Nature's Way moves nature forward.

And to you what I mean by that out in the natural system, and we talked about this a group that was out there when I went out to Nature's Way. Out in the natural system, nature drops leaves on the ground, and those leaves slowly decompose in time, and earthworms come up and they make channels through the soil and they literally take a leaf, sort of wrap it up and bring it back down in the hole. So they take

organic matter underground. Plus there are roots that are growing and dying in the soil over time, adding to the soil organic content. They're also opening up the soil as they push a little channel through to grow. And over time, you know, you do that for one hundred years and you really built some soil, it makes a big difference. It just gets richer and richer and richer. Well, so you move into your property wherever you live, and you got let's say you just have a heavy clay soil

and it's just you know, just not good for growing things. Well, you can go in and overnight you can do what takes nature one hundred years to do by getting products in places like Nature's Way, for example, you put those products that are quality. Don't buy cheap stuff. There are places out there that sell products that are just not They're not made with the time and the technique that is required to create the best types of products for you. But you put that good quality product down and you

could be gardening tomorrow. Someone who's asking me about growing azaleas and they have a heavy clay soil, and I said, they go, what do I need to amend the soil with? Well, I wouldn't amend the soil. I mean I would a little bit, put down some composts, mix it into the top four inches or so in the clay, and then get you a good bed mix and create a bed essentially on top of the ground I'm mounted, you know,

bed and plant in that. And if that doesn't make sense, here's a here's a kind of I think helpful way to think about it. Look at it there, Look out there where you want to put the azalea, Go out and set it on the ground, and then bring in a bed around it. Do you see what I'm saying That the idea is the azalea is sitting on that poorly drained soil above it, and the bed is all around the azalea. Now, actually we don't do it that way. We put the bed on the ground and plant the azalea.

But if you think of it that way, because in the questions, you know, they kept asking, well, how do I dig down and do this and that? And should I excavate some soil? No, that just puts the azalia down lower. Where it now is an excavated underground bathtub, that hole water and those plants won't like that. So whatever you're growing, whether it's an aziure or a vegetable garden or a flower bet or whatever, just make sure and take nature one hundred years forward quickly and create

that perfect environment. And you can do that. We have great products for doing just that out on your lawns. A couple of things we need to be thinking about if you haven't done azimite this year. Azamite is a micro nutrient supplement, micronutrient supplement, so you put it out in very low quantities. Micronutrients are not needed in high quantities. In fact, you get too much in an imbalance and you can create problems. Just like with any nutrient asumite,

you put out a low amount. You know, a forty four pound bag will cover six to twelve thousand square feet, goes a long way in vegetable gardens. I'd say put about ten pounds per thousand square feet. Ten pounds per thousand in a vegetable garden. Mix it in and then you have a bank account of those essential nutrients that are needed in just small trace amounts, and your plants are ready to go. It's not like you have to do it all every month. I mean, once a year's

probably fine. If you want to do a soul test, see where things stand, and make your fertilizing decisions based on that that's also a good idea because everybody's yards a little bit different. But as might works and you can. You can find more information at Azmite Texas dot com azimite Texas dot com. When you're out in the fall. I talk to a number of people yesterday that we're

asking questions about fertilizing the lawn. I got a lot of different lawn questions, and Nitrophs has made things really easy by creating what they call their Texas three Step. Now on the dance floor, you do the two step right on a lawn, you dance the three step, and the three steps are nitropos Fault Special. That's a win a riser fertilizer designed for turf grass going into the cool season. It makes them more cold hardy. It makes sure turf come out stronger in the spring. Second step

Nidrivius barricade. That is a pre emergent herbicide. You put it down and you water it in follow the label. Watered in and it prevents the cool season weeds which will be germinating soon from coming up. Once we get a cold front through here, some cool rain coming down those weed seeds. The temperature of the soil is right and they take off, and you don't want to wait until after they're up and growing. You want to get them right at the beginning, or before they start. Nine

to FIUs eagles. The third step, that's a turf fungicide. It soaks into the tissues of the grass plant. It can even be taken up by the roots of the grass. Eagle can. And then when brown patch arrives to make those ugly brown circles in your lawn, there's something they're stopping it. If you wait until the circles are there, that means the leaves have already rotted off the runners and you're going to have a brown circle until spring.

Do it beforehand. So now the three step I just was as I was saying this, I was just thinking about something. Actually, it's not necessarily in that order. In fact, I would say the most important thing to do right now is the barricade and the eagle turf, and the fund the fertilizing. Yes, you can do it now. You could do it in late September if you wanted to, but you're not trying to get ahead of anything on that fertilizing. You just want to get it done soon.

So the grass has plenty of time to take it up for things cool off a lot. But the barricade and the eagle turf fungicide. Like I use the baseball analogy, you got to start swinging before the ball gets to the plate, right when the when the pitcher lets go of the ball, that batter had better be ready to start that bat around or it'll be too late. It'll already be in the catcher's myth. Well, let's just put

it this way. When it comes to weeds, when it comes to diseases, the ball has already left the pitcher's hand. It's time to swing. And that would be eagle tar fungicide and nitrofuss barricade. And then of course get that that third step on there. Now, can you put them all on one day? Absolutely, don't put them in the same hopper. Put out one, then put out the next one, then put out the next one. Yes, you can put them all in on one day and water them in

and that'll be just fine. Time for me to take a little break. I'll be right back. Welcome back, folks, Glad to have you back. Oh my gosh, I cannot wait to get out and get some things done outside it's dark outside right now. By the way, if you're if your neighbor's lights are off, go bang on the door, tell them they're missing garden line and they'll they'll really appreciate that. But I'm looking forward to getting outside and getting some things done. This is I keep telling you guys.

Don't look at the at the temperature, look at the calendar. Don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. What does that mean? That means we got to get stuff done now. There is a frost coming someday, right it is coming. And the more you can get things done ahead of time, the better off you are. How about this. You want to plant, You want to plant in the fall because falls the best planting season of the year period, no question about that. It's the best other good seasons, yes,

the best fall. Now, if you're going to do that, you got to prepare the soil. So get that soil ready to go, take your time and get it done.

make it. They've got planting mix, which is an outstanding product. It's a locally sourced pine bark with some sandy loam and organics and it's really suitable for pretty much any growing conditions, helping your plants to thrive. So it's a very versatile product, the Landscaper's Pride Planting Mix. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com. Follow them on social media too. By the way, lots of information on the website. You'll find all the stores near you, and there are a

lot of them widely available here in this area. And as they say at Landscaper's Pride, let's grow together. It's a good good slogan, good point, good idea too. By the way, next Saturday, I should have the little alert sounds like dinning, didding, did ding ding ding. Next Saturday, I'm going to be out at Enchanted Forest Garden Center

out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Actually, if you are in Richmond, heading toward sugar Land Way up towards Houston direction and Channa Forest is off to the right on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Now, I'll be there answering gardening questions and just pretty much the regular thing. You know, Let's come, let's talk, let's bring samples, let's bring pictures, and let's just help you have a more bountiful garden

and a beautiful landscape. I'll be there. I'm just walking around to for those of you who you know, want to talk about some particular kinds of plants, but mainly I'll be hanging out at a table, providing some giveaways and just having a good time with everybody. We love to do that, and I hope all of you down Fort ben County and really that whole region down there, come on out and see me next Saturday at Nature's Way. That's where I was yesterday at Enchanted Forest, and I'll

be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Eleven thirty to one thirty Enchanted Forest. I'll be doing some giveaways of Medina products, and I have a few other surprises to give away there as well, So come on out and see me now in Chanty Forest again on FM twenty seven fifty nine. They are all the veggies for fall are in. So if you are thinking about planning any veggie and fall, you got to go by there and get some. They've got color galore. I mean it's

everywhere around there, beautiful, beautiful fall color. If you're looking for pumpkins to decorate, if you're looking for moms, of course they've got that. New shipment of trees has come in with holly's and oaks and maples and one of my favorite trees, the China fringe. It is a compact version of other yard trees. You know, we have big giant shade trees that go across two lots in our modern lot sizes, and then we have Chinese fringe, you know,

twenty five feet wide. After a long time, it takes it a while to get that big, but it's a it's a moderate sized tree, uh and a really beautiful spring bloomer. They've got shrubs both for shade and for sun. If you have not seen the Talibura pumpkins, that's one of my favorite things that those are just gorgeous gorgeous and again they're all an enchanted forest. Hey, here's a website I please write this down and go check it out. It is awesome and there is a lot of good

information there. It is enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, t X dot com. You're listening to garden Line and if you would like to give me a call seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two k t H. It's time to put out your fire ant baits for fall. Fire Ant bait is put out at a super low rate. The idea is not to dump it on a mound, but to sprinkle it everywhere because roving ants are everywhere.

Fire Ant workers are out there looking all over your yard and gardens for food, and you sprinkle the bait at a super low rate everywhere and they take it back, feed it to the colony, feed it at the queen, and it does its job. It is the least toxic it is, and there's organic and synthetic versions of it both. But is the best way to control fire ants, and this is a season to do it now. You can find it at all your ACE hardware stores. In fact, ACE is going to have more than one brand of

fire ant bait, and they work. You always want to use fresh bait. If you got some in the garage from last year, just get rid of it, spread it out. But it's not going to do any good. Get you some fresh bait, or it won't. Depending on how old it is, it may not do much good. Get you some fresh new bait. Because think of it this way. If I made a plate for your lunch today and it was about five days from now that you decided to get that plate, do you think you'd be interested

in needing it. No, and fireut bait goes bad, it gets rancid and the ants aren't interested in it. Gets you some fresh bait. They have every fertilizer for fall, so while you're there, pick up your fall fertilizers. You hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's going to be there at a hardware store. They've got things to control pests and insects and diseases. They're just the place to go.

As the slogan says, ACE is the place. There's forty stores around the Greater Houston area, and so it's easy to find one near You go to the ACE hardware dot com website, find the store locator, and you are in business. That makes it really, really easy. It's nice to be able to go in a place where pretty much everything you're going to need is already there and

waiting for you. I was out and about a little bit yesterday, and you know, I've been working on my flower beds one at a time, getting them in shape. I had a front flower bed where I had an old nutsedge battle that I just about have finished and won. It takes a while, but I know how to do it. By the way, if you want to learn how to control nutsedge, go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com.

There's a couple of free publications that you can read, and if you'll follow them, you will win that battle. If you have followed them, you will lose that battle. Nut's edge is an all in or not war. You either do the things you have to do on time regularly, so on and so on, or you're just wasting your time. But you can win anyway. But just about one of those, I've got some other beds where I'm about to put down some more organic materials to work them into the

soil and get them ready to plan. I've got some number of perennials I need to get in the ground. I'm tired of watering them in the containers, you know, I need to get them in the ground. Anyway, that's all there, Hey, Spring Creek Feed is up on twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine seventy eight up in the Magnoia area, just north and little east of tombul Now Sprint Creek Feed Center. Beautiful place. You walk in and you think you've walked into a boutique or something.

I mean, so beautiful inside. They the staff is so friendly, they're so courteous, so willing to help. I always like going in there. And when you walk in and you're a gardener, you're going to find fertilizers from the main lines I talk about here, things you know, things like Nelson Microlife, nitrofoss They carry all that. They carry all

the things you need to control pest weeds and diseases. Also, if you are a senior citizen or military or maybe FFA or four H kido that's raising livestock, there is a discount for you, so ask about that. If you need something special ordered, they're willing to do that. So just tell them, you know, if they don't have something you want, we'll tell them. They'll get it in. They're very good about that. They even have a delivery service available.

So Spring Creek Feed again communiately located there right in Magnoia on our FM Magnolia area on FM twenty nine seventy eight, nine seventy eight, just minutes away from ground Parkway and Highway to forty nine. Makes it easy to get in and out. And I promise you you'll go in and you'll you'll be impressed by that place. Gorgeous, beautiful and again really helpful folks coming around to help

you out. We are. I've been talking about a number of different things over the past few weekends, and I've got a couple of things I'd like to continue with and I'm gonna take a little break here, but I do want to kind of give you some tips. I think that will help you kind of get a head start on successful fall planting. We don't want to let the best planning season of the year get by without us doing what we need to do to have success.

And it's not that hard, So just stay tuned. If you'd like to get on the board, give Chris A calls one three two one two kt r H and you can meet our first s up when we come back. Hey, welcome back to Guardline folks. Good to have you with us today. You know, I talk about microlife fertilizers a lot. In fact, I was visiting with Mike Sarrant and some

of the team out there at Nature's Way yesterday. They were also out there, and their goal is to provide a fertilizer that is natural, that is loaded with microbes, because microbes rule the world, and when it comes to plants, microbes definitely rule the world because your plants have symbiotic relationships with microbes. Is that too much too fancy talk on this hour of the morning. Basically, what it means

is microbes work with the roots. They help the plants take up nutrients, They help the plants fight against disease. They coat the surfaces of plants to prevent the bad guys from getting in and getting an infection done on the plants. And that is why microlife brown Patch is made. Microlife brown Patch has a little lower nitrogen, a little bit higher phosphorus than their summer versions. The green bags do the nitrofries. Micro life brown patch. I can't even

say words this morning. They basically are releasing those nutrients as those materials decomposed. So you want to get them down now in WATERMN. Get them in WATERMN. Splash that stuff around with some water. Then you know, I would recommend putting the microlife brown patch down and then following up right away, go ahead and put down microbe grow and bioenoculant. Sixty three different beneficial microbe strains, and you know we can go through these. There's Bacillus subtlest, which

is an anti fungal strain. I'm very familiar with that particular one. There is. There are strains of fungi in there, Trachoderma that help fight root rots and diseases and whatnot. There are well, hair's one speaking of long words for early in the morning, basillis Amela likophacians. How's that?

soil the help that it needs. You're given the plants the help that they need to have good health and good success. That's what it's all about. Microlifefertilizer dot Com is the website if you want to find out where to get it, or I can just tell you this. Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilize. All those places carry Microlife. We can go out to the phones now and head to Katie and talk to Joseph. Good morning, Joseph, Good morning. How are you doing today.

I'm well, sir, I'm well, Thank you. Good So.

Now that's in the absence of rain. So let's say this week we got an inch of rain, then next week you would you wouldn't need to water because it's not all gone by the end of the week. But we're cutting it down to half an inch in October and November, and then December and January. We essentially in February, we essentially aren't watering unless we just go through an extended drought and some unusually warm, cool winter temperatures.

Let's see. I wanted to talk about RCW. I mentioned this yesterday, but fall is the best time to plant woody ornamentals. Period period period. You put a shrub in the ground October November and it has months before it gets hot again next next May or June. And so if you do it now that it's going to survive better. It just makes sense and it's going to do better. It's not just a matter does it live or die. It's a matter of how does it perform? And so

plant them now. RCW Nursery's got some really good deals going on. They right now. They as a matter of fact, have a discount on shrubs that is very significant, very impressive. If you go to the RCW Nurseries. Follow them on Facebook. That's a great way to do it. They got a website, RCW Nursery dot Com. I like to follow them on Facebook because it's it's kind of like what's going on right now out there, you know. They got the vegetables

and stuff. They've got beautiful southern magnolia's out there. They have some beautiful burrows, lace bark elms, for example, that are ready to go. They also, by the way, this isn't a shade tree, but they've got citrus in with fruit on it, and it looks really, really really good. Beautiful cherry laurels. That's a native Southeastern native plant that is evergreen and really looks good. So go out there

and take advantage of that. You will find a lot of good prices right now shrubs right now twenty percent off at RCW Nurseries, including for those deep shaded areas things like the gold dust to Cuba. RCW Nurseries dot Com is the website. They are located where Tamba Parkway Highway two forty nine comes into belt Way eight. Makes it really easy to get to. Let's head out to spring.

sure which weed you have. So I'm going to put you on hold, Jody, and uh, Chris, my producer, is going to pick it up, and he will give you an email address and you can send me those Oh he did, okay, good good, Well there you go.

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two or three one two ratio of nutrients. And that's a that is a very good general guide for vast majority of situations. But everything can be a little different. And and like we say, well to grow tomato, you need les six hours of sign that's another one these six hours of sign but you know, if you get five hours and fifty nine minutes, it's not a problem. But the tomato would like to have more than six.

But I see that a lot in nature. It's just you know, it's a it's a percentage game kind of thing. So you know, we try to give you black and white answers to make it simple. But just remember that it's gray and fuzzy around the edges, that is for sure. That's how that works. Now is the time, by the way, I'm talking about fault fertilizing. But I'll tell you now it would be a great time to get your lawn

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It is greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net and the number one more time two eight one three five one four seven three three. So you're listening to the Guardline instead. I wanted to talk a little a little bit about some of the fall planting tips. It is important when you put a plant in the ground that when you pull it out of that container. Now I'm talking about woody ornamentals here, not necessarily like a tomato plant so much, but or a broccoli plant, but a woody ornamental plant.

When you put those in the ground, trees and shrubs, they're always going to have roots wrapping around the outside of the container because the root hits aside and has to go somewhere, and it starts circling and it goes around. When you put a planet out of the ground, cut those roots. I know that's hard to do, but you need to do it because those roots are not going

to unwind underground. And if it's a small enough container, like let's say you have a gallon container and you've got a little spaghetti sized root going around the outside, Well, in time, that spaghetti sized roots going to be the size of your wrist or your arm, and the trunk is going to be, you know, getting even larger and will long before they reach that size. The root will

now be wrapped around, strangling the trunk. And I've seen so many situations where eight years down the line, ten years down the line, plants are struggling and it's all because that wasn't done. If you cut the roots, here's what will happen. That cut root will branch and start to grow out into the soil naturally, and normally that is what it does. Just like if you cut a branch off on a tree, what happens when you cut a branch off, you get sprouts out the end of

that cut off branch, the takeoff growing roots. Do the same thing underground and for what on a mountains, just do that. I've used you know, for bigger roots, I've used handprinters, but basically a little box cutter knife, you know, a little one inch blade. Just slice vertically from top to bottom through that cylinder of roots that came out of the pot in three or four places going around it. It works, and it is very important to do that. I would highly recommend you to do that. And that's

just a tip for success with planting. Now we're planning during the fall season ideally, but anytime you need to cut the roots, go ahead and do it. Just water a little extra as you're helping it get established. But that is a tip to help you have success. Well, here we go. We've just put an hour in the books. Man, that went fast. Holy all right, Well, I'll be right back. We've got a lot more to talk about. I can't wait to visit with you. Give us a call if

you want to get ahead of the line. I just called her in a break here seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH. We'll get right to your calls when we come back. And what do you want to talk about? Talk about vegetables or herbs or flowers or houseplants or let's see, we can't talk about how to get your spouse to do more work out in the garden and escape. I can't help you with that one, but pretty much everything else. What a cultural We'll be happy to visit it.

forty nine. It is uh, let's do it this way. If you're heading to Tomball on two forty nine, going out toward Tomball, exit Luetta, across over Luetta, and then it's right there on the right hand side. It's just right there on two forty nine. Makes it easy to get in, easy get out, and when you get in there, you're just going to find the kind of expertise you need.

You know, one of the most important things in choosing a garden center is choosing one that knows what they're talking about, that has people that are helpful and that are knowledgeable, and they can direct you right. That is so important, and that is exactly a description of Plants for All Seasons. It's a full service retail garden. So it has been family inn and operated since nineteen seventy three.

They are truly lawn and garden experts. Now you can go in there with pictures, you can go in there samples and say what is this, What's wrong with this? You know, however you want to go about it, they can help you. They can point you to the right things that you need. The website is Plants for All Seasons dot com. The phone number you're gonna write this down two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six

two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six. When you go in right now, you're going to find a new shipment of strawberries that have lended out there. And the best time to plant strawberries is in the fall. This I almost say that again. The best time to plant strawberries is in the fall. And the reason for that is is it gives them all winter to get roots established and they will grow during our mild, warm

winters here. Now, once we get to about February, you could even start having ballooms and berries depending on the temperature. If you get a little frosty night, just throw a cloth over them for the night. You're not protecting the plant, you're protecting the blooms. But I have grown strawberries in this area and I have had I've had berries in February, late February, early March already and they'll go all the way into May. So it's a great plant to grow.

But don't wait till spring to plant them. You will not have the same results. Get them now, Get them now, and they are stocked up there. Of course, they got a lot of other stuff. Plants for all seasons. Always is loaded up on all kinds of beautiful things far for the season, like the landscape color and herbs and vegetables and so on. They're all good to go. And boy do they ever have plenty of different kinds of

soils and blends and composts and mulches and whatnot. And you know, you got to go home with bags of brown stuff if you're going to go home with something green, because you've got to prepare that foundation. And plants for all seasons can help you do just exactly that. You're listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. By the way, I was talking about brown stuff and I

was mentioning yesterday, I was talking about Ciena Maltch. Cianamultch is the place to go to get everything. Let's put this way. It's the place to go to set the stage for success in your garden. And they're down south if you live down you know, near Highway six and two eighty eight Roach Sharon area. Ciana Maultch is located on FM five twenty one and they have premium hardwood mulches in bulk, you know, native hardwoods, double grounds, two

inch screened. They have beautiful natural dark colors instead of just dyed. They have also in bulk things like Landscaperish Pride, black velvet molts that I've been telling you about, the rose soils, the organic composts of malt, soil, compost sand, gravel, and wonderful stone. They'll deliver within about twenty miles of the area while you're there. Part of the brown stuff. Grab those quality furtilizers I talk about on guarden Line. They carry the best absolute, but they carry the best.

It's themals, microlife Asamite, Nelson's turf Star, airloom soils, nitrofost products, landscapers, Pride, Nelson, plant food, Medina. All of it is there when you go home from Cienamult or when you call them to deliver, they'll deliver within about twenty miles for a fee. When you call either way, you have set the stage for success with whatever quality plants you then bring in to

put in the ground. I can't stress enough the importance of brown stuff before green stuff, and Ciena Maltch is the go to place for brown stuff, especially for those of you down around Quell Valley, Manville, ro Sharon, Meridian, First Colony, Sweetwater Pearland, sun Creek Estate, Sandy Point. Do I need to go on? Okay, well, Palmona Lake, Olympia, Iowa, Colony CI and Implementation. Yeah, that's it. That's your hometown. And you're lucky if you live down there because you

got them right in your backyard. Let's go out to Humble now and we're going to talk to Lawrence. Hey, Lawrence, welcome to gardmline.

the three step goes. You have Nitrofoss Fall special fertilizer designed for fall. It's called a winteriser because it's helped it's made to help these plants, the grass plants get ready we say hardened off, meaning they're ready for cold weather. They've got good carbohydrate reserves. That's like nafreeze in the plant. Nitrofoss fall special does that. It also helps a plant come out stronger in spring. Two. By the way, nite frous barricade is a second step barricade is a pre

emergent herbicide. You put it down, You have to water it in because it needs to get war washed down into the soil surface where it sticks to the soil, and when a weed seed tries to come through it said no, no, no, no, no, not in this lawn. You're not. The third step nitrophius eagle eagle turf fungicide. You put it down, you water it in. The plant can take it up even through the roots, and it

goes in systemically. And now that plant has this product inside of it that is fighting against diseases, kind of like when you take an antibiotic, you've got it in you, and the diseases that may be in you trying to infact, you know, cause problems, the antibiotic is fighting them. That's how Nitroposus egle tour fungicide works in the plant. It moves inside and It says no to the brown patch and to the take all root rot that do occur in the fall. Very important to get these down asaph.

The earlier in October we do it the better, because you never know, here comes a colfront and a little bit of rain, and the chickweed and hen bet and clover and carpet weed and cleavers and all the other or cool season weeds begin to sprout, and we want to get the barrigate down ahead of them. The brown patch begins to show up, and we want to get the eagle down ahead of it. Three products, three steps

fall special fertilizer, barricade, pre emergent eagle fundside. You're going to find nitrofoss products at enchanted gardens down in Richmond, Shades of Texas up in the woodlands, plans for all seasons on Tomball Parkway, D and D feed up in Tomball too, by the way, Plantation Ace Hardware down in Richmond are just all examples of places where you can find these nitrofoss products. Excuse me, something in my throat this morning. I'm not sure what that's about. You're listening

to guard Line. I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about fruit trees this morning. You know, fruit trees can be planted at any time of the year. It used to be that we got all our fruit trees bear root, and so we planted them in late winter. That's when bear root is dug and shipped and sold. Planted and typically January, maybe some February, depending on where you live. And bear root fruit trees are fine, you

can still do that. But container grown fruit trees, those are sold year around, and fall is a good time to plant them. Listen, fruit, it's not just enornamental. It's a fruiting plant. But the same things I've been saying about trees and shrubs, woody ornamentals apply to fruit trees and vines, ambushes, so grapes and blueberries for example, Yeah, all of that. If you plant them in the fall, they get a head start. If they have circling roots, you need to cut the roots on the outside, and that,

by the way, that includes blueberries. Blueberries you won't see the big circling roots like you do on other fruit. But it's a hair like matted root system and it benefits from slicing through those outer roots with a bock cutter blade. And I on a blueberry, I do it in about four places all around the plant, and that will help it establish better. I was in a blueberry

orchard one time and they weren't thriving. We sent and grabbed a plant and kind of pulled on it, and it came out of the ground and there were a few roots at the top of the root ball going out in the soil, and the rest of it look like an upside Well, you look like the cylinder that came out of the pot, and it says they didn't cut those roots on the outside didn't establish well. So do that, make sure and do that. It is important with fruit that you give it as much sunlight as

you can. Sun on leaves makes carbohydrates carbohydrates or sugars that make the fruit sweet and help a plant set fruit buds. Sun sun sun very important on fruit. Secondly, does the plant need a pollinating variety? Some fruit like figs, the standard figs we grow here in this area don't need a pollinator. There's other figs that do, but we don't grow those here. Let's see what Peaches do not need a pollinator. Nectarines do not need a pollinator, Apples do.

Most pears do. And blueberries. If you want them to make the biggest berries, the best yield, give them a pollinator because in a okay nerd fun fact, do you know in a blueberry there's like thirty to sixty seeds and there's a little soft seeds. We just chump through them, don't even know they're there. Each seed releases hormones that

form the fruit around that seed. So if you have an apple that has one hole of that those five seed sections, and an apple one of them doesn't have live seed, it's going to be a sunken inside of the apple, it'll be lopsided because it needed those seeds. So with the blueberry, every seed you get pollinated makes a bigger blueberry, So it makes sense. Can a blueberry grow without a pollinator? Most of them can, but they won't produce as well and the berries won't be as big.

Give them pollinator. Check it out. Good garden centers can tell you whether it needs that or not. And you know you got to You gotta have both. What do they say you can't raise cattle if you shoot the bull. Well, when it comes to fruit trees, if you want to have fruit, some kinds of fruit, you got to have that second boliny or variety in order to have success. All right, we're gonna go to the phones now and talk to Steve in Spring. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden

line and how are we doing this morning? Well, sir, well, how can we help you today?

affect Saint Augustine and it rots the roots. And if you kill roots, then the plant looks drop stressed. So the same water issue is happening, but it's because the plant roots are dying from the disease. So it could be one of those two things. If it's only primarily happening like adjacent to or starting adjacent to a sidewalk or driveway or some other masonry, then chinchbugs or possibility.

We are way too late for worrying about chinchbugs right now, so I don't correct unless it's started back in July. I don't think it's hinchbugs. I think take all root rot or a watering issue. Maybe what's going on.

twice there, once in October, once in November. There's a list of products for it. And you need to get them down. I would get them down now and watered in right away, and then I would.

actually if they're a chemical that can do it. But just get them down and then be ready about a month later do it again.

bucks and say that I sent you. I heard it, SKIP sent me from garden Line. You receive twenty dollars off your purchase. So basically, that's like getting one hundred dollars worth of stuff for eighty dollars. That's what that amounts to. That's a significant difference. Now that excludes something that's on sale or clearance or whatever. And it's only effective through today. I need you to hear that. It's

only effective through today. At Warren Southern Gardens, they've got the carbon load out there from excuse me, from Nelson. They've got nitro fust Fall special. They got plenty of products asamites out there ready to go. They got mums and pumpkins and it's just beautiful out there. Go visit warrants. They'd be a good day to get out there and do that. And last day of that special save you a lot of money. I'll be right back, folks, take a little break. Talk to you a bit. I'm glad

you're with us today. Hey, if you are in the League City area, and by League City area, I mean Santa Fe, Webster, clear Lake City, oh Comuny, Real, san Ley on Lamark Baycliff, Dickinson. Here's your home on feed store, League City Feed. We love our feed stores on Guardline and League City Feed is a great one. It's been around for forty years, started in an ochre patch. Now what can how can you not turn out good if you're starting an ochre patch. That's how I look at

things for sure. The old time for service, you know, carry the bags out for you to the car, and it's just a I love going into feed stores. I just do. I like everything from the layout to the smells of a feed store. It's just I don't know, I love it. And League City Feed is that kind of feed store. You can give them a call at two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. They're open Monday through Saturday from nine to six pm, so you can swing

by there after work. Now where is it located. Well, it's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six, so it's really easy to get to. They got premium pet foods and you know other things you would expect to be at a feed store, like products to control pests, weeds and diseases and certainly all of the fertilizers. You hear me brag about here on garden Line. I want to go now out to Spring, Texas and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, good morning.

maybe a little longer depending on the conditions. So if this is an annual weed, then putting nitrof barricade out now is not going to stop next year's warm season weeds, which if you're seeing it now, it's a warm season weed, so you would be okay on that. Now, if you applied the barricade in spring and this was coming back from seed, not a perennial, but from seed, then it would it would likely suppress it, depending on specifically which

weed it is. And since I don't know for sure, it's hard to be ak.

of course, is for your lawn. Turf Star carbo Load is the fertilizer from Nelson Plant Food for fall, and it's designed for fall. The nutrient ratios are perfect for fall. A forty pound bag is going to cover about five thousand square feet, and carboload also has a pre emergent herbicide in it, meaning you gotta water the turf Star carbo load in with about a half inch of rain.

Third to a half inch, probably a half inch better watered in, and that moves that product into the soil, so when a we tries to germinate, it stops it. So that also tells us another thing. This isn't just fertilizer, so it's got both. So you don't want to delay getting it out. If you waited until November to put it out, you're gonna already have some weed seeds that are starting to germinate by then. You got to get

it out asap. So turf Star carbel Load is your fall fertilization and your fall pre emergent weed control all put into one. It's as simple as that. Another good product from the folks sitting now some plant food. Let's go out now to Beat Eyes. Is this beat Iyes, Texas Dame?

to get toasty and brown. So rain water or something the hard water is fine, but just uh yeah, that That's what I'd recommend, you know. As far as other things, there there are a few other things. It could be causing some issues with it. But I think I think basically I would fix that water thing first, whatever that takes.

just leave it at the station. We'll call it even. That's a small charge, I'm sure. But hey, you have a good weekend, you too, appreciate Bye. All right, folks, time for you man. I wish I didn't have to take all these welcome back Guardline. Good to have you with us today. Hey, when was the last time you guys went out to Nelson Water Gardens? And Katie, you really ought to go Nelson Water Gardens. It's a destination nursery. It really is, and I shouldn't say what Nelson water Gardens.

That's me the old time. They'll always been Nelson Water Gardens. It's Nelson Nursery in water gardens because they have an outstanding nursery. First of all, when you walk in, you will see a really cool plant shop for house plants inside. I mean quality, beautiful little plants looks. Really I always have to stop there and check that out first thing. Then getting out back, Oh my gosh, your fall color.

You need pansies, you need you know, things like marigolds and everything else you would plant in the fall season for color. They've got it. They are stocked up on vegetable transplants as well. They've got pansies and biolo type plants in. I mean, they're ready to go. They really are ready to go, and you need to go check them out. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens in Katie. You go out to Katie on Ien, turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road, turn right on Katie Fort Benroad or

excuse me, yeah right, that's right. I had to turn around myself there. Anyway, you're gonna find beautiful water garden features. Those giant fountains that come out of pottery, those disappearing fountains. There are so many types of those there to make your head spin. And they've got the ponds, They've got the pond plants, they've got the pondfish. Anything you need. Do you want to hire them to come out and put one in, they can do that. Do you want

to do it yourself? They will advise you on how to do that as well. All at Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery, take friends with you, allow time to sit and just enjoy the water. That is free therapy. It ought to be costing you one hundred dollars an hour. It's free. Go sit out there and enjoy the sound of water. I have two features in my backyard, and that is a peaceful, happy place to go set and Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens can make that magic happen.

Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. That's the website. Go check it out. We're going to head out now to Lamark, Texas and talk to Desmond. Hey Desmond, welcome to garden Line.

moist is really good. You want to pull them, I take like a five gallon bucket when I'm pulling weeds, and that way I can pull them and just set them right there in the bucket and get them out of there. Because doveweed is it can easily reroot on you. And uh, it's it's an issue. But yeah, you can. You can do as you said, just do it soon and do it as thoroughly as you can.

like pasting it into the text. Make it an attachment, use that little paper clip icon that allows me to get in quickly and getting close for a good close look. But won't we do that. I'm going to put you on hold and have my producer give you an email address to send it to me. Some things you're saying are kind of making me wonder if we're talking about the right weed or not, but I still want to

be sure before we go any further. Yeah, wasting your Yeah, yeah, excellent, thanks answer, All right, hang on, Crystal, pick it right up here and give you an address for that trees. The most valuable part of your landscape is your trees. Every single plant and let nothing is worth as much as a tree. I mean a tree a connect over a thousand dollars of value to your home easily, and that you know, a blueberry bush ain't worth that or

an azalea. Trees are valuable and their long term it takes a long time to get a tree to a good size. You do not want to let people that don't know what they're doing work on your trees. A bad printing job is forever. I mean, I really mean that. I drive down the roads all the time, I neighborhoods, I look and I go, okay, they just turn that into a hat rack, and they might as well just dig it up now and play another one, because it

never will get better. It will always be ugly. And that's what happens when people don't know what they're doing work on your trees. That's why I tell you give Martin spoon Moore a call at Affordable Tree Service. Affordable Tree Service is the name of it. Martin spoon Moore and his wife Joe. They answer the phones fall winter. This is we are at the doorstep now of our pruning season, our best printing season. We can pune twelve months out of the year, but the best printing season

is coming up here. Get on his schedule, the sooner you call, the sooner you get on tell him you're a guardline listener. Get on that schedule, and here's the number seven one three, six nine nine two six sixty three. I'm gonna give you that again. Seven one three six nine nine two six sixty three. If you like websites, here's his website a fftree Service dot com. Aff Tree Service dot com. If you need anything done around your trees, or just want to Martin to give you a good lookover,

he can come out for a consultation fee. If it ends up being some work you want to hire him to do, that cost goes straight into the fee, so that that's really handy. But if you're gonna do anything around a valuable tree in your landscape, call Martin first don't just have somebody put in a utility trench or throw a driveway over part of the root system. Lots of damage and again, like bad pruning, it's too late after the fact to do a lot to help it.

Avoid the problem by letting Martin come out and take a look at that first, you are listening to Gardenline our phone number seven to one three two one two K t r H seven one three two one two K t our Age. It's as simple as that, Hey, Star Hope. Star of Hope is the place I would highly recommend you consider providing some of your hard earned compassion dollars. What I mean by that, I mean you know you work hard, you make money, and you want to help people, but you don't want to give money

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with really cool stuff. By the way, you know, I make a plant even makes a really good gift. You're gonna go visit somebody for Thanksgiving or going over to a meal of a with a friend or something like that. Swing by Arburgate and grab them something, Grab a cool plant, and boy did they ever have gorgeous plants right now. Some of the most beautiful agistas. You're ever gonna see that. It's just like that bees love that thing is there. They also have things like the one of my favorite

fall plants, miragles. Couldn't even say it for a second, you know, miracles get eaten up by spider mites in the summer, but nonfall, the changing of the day links and temperatures and things. Spider mac populations are crashing and you're good to go. Marigoles will glow right up until the first frost. That makes it super super easy. Arbigate has the stuff you need to have success with your plants. You know how harp about brown stuff before green stuff.

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that's compost again with expanded shale. So when you do all three of those things, you have built a foundation for your plants to thrive. Actually, the organic food complete you can apply that after you put the plants into Just sprinkle it on the surface, watered in, scratch it into the surface and it does really well. But check out everything going on they man they have some of the most outstanding and beautiful plants that I've ever seen that are just glowing there at Arbrogate. And then they

have the staff that knows what they're talking about. And that is important. In fact, it's not important, it is essential. It is essential. And Arbrogate scot those they know how to do things. They've grown here before, they're gardeners themselves, and they can help you transform your place into something special. You got problems with plants, bring them a picture, bring them a sample, say what is this? How do I do this? Or a picture? My neighbor's got one of these?

You got any of these? I got to have one from my yard. I bet, I bet Arbrogate does. They're west to Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. The website is arbrogate dot com. You need to get on the newsletter. It is very very good, very interesting. Some outstanding writers that they have help them with that too. By the way, Well, let me go out to David M. Bel Air. Now, hey, David, welcome to garden Line. Hello.

They the sprout that comes out looks all weird. But put them in a bin, store them and right for Christmas, get out there and put them in the ground. You can do them last week of December. You can do them, you know, early January. Get them in the ground of those narcissus and a lot of the other bulbs that have at least a hope of repeating, if you know, we get them at big box places like that. Typically you get bulbs that don't repeat well. Our garden centers

carry the kinds the varieties that do. Once you plan them, you get year after year returns on them. But it's worth a try. You got them, give them a shot and get them in right now.

just breaks off. If you reach down and right at the top of the tap root, just underneath all the branches and kind of grab it and shake your hands to the side as you pull, you pull those out, and you can pull a lot of them out. Astra makes tons of flowers and seeds and so at this stage, no post emergent herbicide will kill it adequately. So you've got to get those out. If you wait until the flowers have finished and the seed pods are dried, when you pull it out, you're gonna lose a bunch of

seeds in the process. So the sooner you get at the sign of the first flower, that means get in the lawn. I've got a five gallon bucket. I've got a neighbor that has some in in their yard and it keeps drifting over into mind. So every year have to go out there, get them my hands and knees and pull a bunch of it, because you really notice it in the fall. It's they're all summer. You just don't see it because it's smaller plants and kind of

hidden in the grass. But pull, pull, be ruthless. You'll get your cut coffee or something.

I appreciate that you bet all right, folks, I'll be right back, and when I do, Robert and Mike you'll be the first hope is that you have a more bountiful garden and beautiful landscape through listening to this show. Even if you don't call in, we'd like you to call in because I know you have questions, and i'll tell you this. I hope you've listened to Garden Line enough to know that I don't treat questions like they're stupid.

I'll say it this way. There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers, and that therefore the pressures on me, I'm the one giving, hopefully not stupid answers. Call away. Other people are going to have your same questions you have, so we're happy to deal with that. I want everybody to have success. I mean, if you're a veteran, i'll try to help you. If you know everything there is

to know about gardening, I'll try to help you. If you only are pretty sure that when you put plants out, you put the green side up and the brown side down, I'll try to help you, too. Happy to do that. We're going to head out now too. Where are we going we're going to summer Wood and we're going to talk to Robert. Hey, Robert, welcome to Guardline.

yard full of brown stiff straw. How do I okay, do you do you have a magic answer for my problem?

there's enough there to come back. Typically when we lay sod, we will put down a water twice a day for a week, once a day for another week, and then every other day for a week so those first three weeks we are making sure that little thin layer of roots and sod, that soil that comes in with the sod has a chance to get down in the ground and give the give the grass a chance. If you don't even a day without water earlier on in that process can cause what you're describing.

very much. All right, sir, you bet good luck with that. Sorry to hear about those challenges. I know that can be frustrating. Medina products has been around. They have been around for a long time. They've got the Medina. Oh I guess one of my more famous products is Medina Soil Activator. You know, it's got all kinds of great stuff in it to help your plants. In general, they haven't called Medina Plus, and it is Medina Sool Activator Plus.

It has over forty trace elements. It's got natural growth hormones from seaweed extract. It's got magnesium and iron and zinc, and you know of those vitamin type things like riboflav and thiamin, biotin, nicotinic acid, you know that kind of stuff. Lots of trace elements in it, and it's just good and you can use it in a lot of ways. I would recommend it as a folio spray. You're not going to burn plants with it, so all your plants, tree, shrubs, lawns. You can put it on a hose in spray or

use it on your lawn. I like to use products from Medina in my transplanting processes. So falls for planting. You put a plant in the ground, get you a watering can fill it with Medina Soil Activator mixed at the label rate, and water that plant in. You can do a hose in spray and do the same thing with it that way. I even use it seed soaking. You know, you get some little siege and I'll soak them with water and then put them in the ground. Water them in. Medina cel Activator mixed at the right

rate is a good idea for that too. All products from Medina and you're going to find those widely available here in the greater Houston area Medina Plus. Look for Medina Plus again, Medina cel Activator is in it plus over forty different trace elements and other very helpful compounds for plants. We're going to go now to Bay's City and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, Hello, Olre.

Andrews Probably yes, Probably yes. The other day, I was talking about mascots, high school mascots that were ridiculous, like the snails. I mean, think about that, the snails. Can you what are the cheerleaders say on the on the they go, you know, slim them snails, make them really really slippery or gross them out or snail snailses cargo.

I don't know. Anyway. There's also a fighting Okra. There's a college in Mississippi, Delta State, that their unofficial mascot is the Fighting Okra, And it's just what you would expect, kind of looks like the fighting Irish guy, you know, the little green guy with his fists up and the frown on his face. But it's an Okra, So there you go. I don't know about these mascots. You'd think we'd at least look for something like you know, a giant lion or something that sounds a little vicious, but

snails and okra. All right, Hey, Wibird's Unlimited is having their feeder trade end deal. Twenty percent off a feeder and listen the best feeders you're going to find for birds or Wibirds Unlimited. They have outstanding feeders. My favorite feeder from all birds that I have is the squirrel Eliminator. Now it's not inexpensive, but I'm telling you it is a Cadillac and you can replace the parts and basically it's going to last year forever. And squirrels cain't get

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go now to eight off out in Manville. Hey eight off, Welcome to garden Line.

have ninety degree days sometimes. You know, you don't want to stress the plants, and so a little more soil volume is helpful for them. But yeah, you can grow strawberries like crazy. I mean, people grow them in hanging baskets, but you better be ready to water them all the time because that's a small amount of soil.

You just got to give me a call. Seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two kt r H. You know, ACE Hardware stores are the place to go for whatever you need, if it's inside the house, if it's outside the house. When it comes to fall in our gardens and lawns, we need the fall special types of fertilizer. We need the carba loads, we need the microlives and all those, and the certainly also the medinas. All of that and

more is available there at your ACE Hardware store. If you're looking to control weeds with a pre emergent, it's there. If you're looking to prevent diseases, it's there. If you're looking for anything it takes to have success in your garden and landscape, it's there at ACE. That's what they do out on the patio. Boy, I am enjoying my patio. These evenings are a little bit cooler, and it's safe to get outside, and I'm really enjoying barbecue pits. They've

got them. Do you need a string of lights to turn that ambiance on out there in the patio. They've got that. They have everything and inside the house for the holidays, everything you would think about is going to be at your Ace Hardburre store. I love going into ACE because I don't care if I need a piece of plumbing, a piece of wiring, if I need a tool for my garden, It doesn't matter what you need. Including some other really cool gifts too, by the way,

they've got it at ACE. ACE is the place for that. I'll be telling you about their holiday They got some cool holiday lighting stuff coming up that. Just hang on, don't get your holiday lighting just yet. I'm gonna be telling you about some cool stuff coming up at ACE here before for long fire and control season is here. Get it done. Always have mosquito dunks on hand. You never know. We always we can have mosquitoes almost all the time unfortunately here in our area, and they've got

the things for that as well. Just remember ACE is a place, and remember this. Go to Acehardware dot Com find the store locator. There's forty stores near you, and I would recommend anytime you're driving through someplace, stop in it at ACE and check it out. They're independently owned. Each is different in its own way, and it's always fun and cool to go in and see the different things that will surprise you that they carry at Ace

Hardburre's because Ace truly is the place you know. At Ace Hardware, you're going to find that nitrop Texas three step, the Texas three step that is the fall special winter riser fertilizer designed for fall, and it's time to get it down now. The sooner you get it down, the more time that grass has to take up the nutrients to help it when it captures sunlight create winter heartiness, the equivalent of infries inside those plants. Secondly, they've got

the barricade. That's the second step of the Texas three step by Nitrofoss. Barricade is a pre emergent What does that mean. It means you put it down, you water it in before the weeds emerge, and it will prevent them from ever showing up and causing a problem. The third step is nitrophoss eagle ter fungicide. Have you ever seen those big circles in the fall In the spring, that's brown patch eagle turf fungicide gets in the grass plant.

It prevents brown patch from being able to attack take All root Rot Boy, we had some calls today about it. It kills grass. Take All is a good name for that disease. Eagle Turf Fungicide is on my schedule is one of your options for controlling take all root rot. And by the way, if you don't know what schedule

is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com on there you'll find a lot of information including two schedules, the lawn Care schedule with test fertilizers organic and synthetic, and the lawn Pest, Disease and Weed schedule, which has those products also synthetic and organic in both ways. And they're free. The schedules are free, print them out, check it out. In the meantime, head over to an ACE Hardware store and get you some nitoposs three step.

You're going to find it at places you know, for example like Plantation Eights, ACE down in the Richmond area. You're going to find it at ACE Hardware City on Memorial Drive. You're going to find it at All Spas, ACE up in the Woodlands at Katie, ACE Hardware over in Katie. Easy to find and it works you are listening to Gardenline. The phone number if you'd like to give us skull seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty

eight seventy four. That makes you really easy, you know, just write that down. I liked. I like to use the numbers. Some people like to do by letters. I find I'm sitting there looking trying to find that letter. I don't know, just it's just me. Either way you want to go, when was the last time you went out to Antique Rose Imporium. I'm telling you the place is looking great. You know. Antique Rose Imporium is up

there in Independence, Texas, just north of Brunham. I mean, it's a nice little drive outside of town, not far, not far at all. But you get out there and it's like you've entered another time. You know, the Antique Rose Emporium. Doesn't that just create a picture in your mind? Well, that's what you'll see when you get out there. It's been around since nineteen eighty three. I remember when I first opened up. I was in grad school nineteen eighty three. Well, anyway,

they are gearing up for fall out there. The roses are loaded everywhere they're releasing some new roses. I was talking with some of the folks at antiqu Rose Imporum just the other day, and they're going to be releasing and featuring varieties they haven't carried before. They've got some roses even the they've developed there. They're putting names on and releasing the perform well in trials. And this is all the way up to the Fall Festival of Roses,

which is November one through third, November one, two and three. Now, the first day is a festive ticketed garden party, meaning you got to buy a ticket to go, but Saturday and Sunday are free and open to the public. They're going to have speakers like Paul Zimmerman or Rosarian Chris Weisinger, the bulb Hunter from Southern Bulb Company will be there, Mike Surrant from Microlife, the Man himself, Henry Flowers will be there. Doctor Stephen George, Oh, Doctor George a friend

of mine. He is a extension specialist up in the Dallas, Texas area who created the Earthkind Program. The Earthkind Program looks at ways of managing issues in your garden by cultural practices that prevent the need for using a lot of toxic products, the Earthkind Program, good name for it, Doctor Stephen George, and he is a character. In fact, he's two characters. The man is a hoot. Fact these

two hoots. They're gonna have an artist in market. Food, trucks, plants, natives, perennials, tools, fertilizers, gift items, and of course roses. Now, when you head out to Rose Imporium, tell them that I sent you and you get a ten percent discount at checkout. You need to hear this. I'm saying it again. When not if, when you go to the Antique Rose Imporium, tell them skip sent me from guardline. Skip from guard line sent me, and you've got a ten percent discount at checkout. You

can't do better than that. Now, if you want to order online, which you can buy from Antiqurosenporium online, you can put in a coupon code Skip twenty twenty four Skip two zero two four at the coupon code. You know there are roses and so much more. If you want more information, you got to go to the website. You know there's events pages there and everything else. Antique Roseanmporium dot com or give them a call ninety seven nine, eight, three,

six fifty five forty eight. In the meantime, mark November one, one, two and three on your calendar. You do not want to miss that fall festival of roses. Where are we now? Getting kind of close to the next break, so I'll just hold off there. If you'd like to be on Guarden Line, if you want to give us a call seven to one three two one two kt r H. You give us call soon here and you can be

first up when we come back from our break. Thanks for being a listener, and we look forward to talking to you more because we've got plenty more to talk about about plants here on Guarden Welcome back to the guard Line. We've got plenty of talk about folks. Give us a call seven one three two one two kt r H if you have a question. I want to mention because I keep telling you you need to plant, You need to plant, you need to plant. It's fall. Fall is the season for planting. Fall is especially the

season for planting. Wood are ornamentals. Well, when you plant a tree, you don't have to do the old way of three guy wires to hold the tree in place after you plan it. Those wires are for tripping over they're in the way. It's a lot of work. You gotta find wire. You got to put some kind of a cut section of garden hose around the wire so it didn't cut into the tree. And on and on just gets you a three sixty tree stabilizer. It is

a bar. I think of it as an arm, and it grabs onto a post there is you can get a little. It comes with an attachment that attaches to t posts. You know, drive them in the ground. Makes it real easy. And you do it real close to the tree, not very far away you know maybe I don't know, foot a little over foot foot and a half eighteen inches somewhere in there. And you attach it to the tree with a soft strap. That allows movement,

and that is important. Movement strengthens tissues. It strengthens our muscles. You think about this. You work out by lifting weights day after day after day. That strain, that stress, that pull, that movement, it strengthens your muscles. Well, you take a tree and you tie it perfectly still where it can't move. It will not get the strength of trunk that it will if you allow to move a little in the bin that that bin, that stress that movement strengthens it.

Three sixty tree stabilizers designed to allow that.

three sixty tree stabilizer. If you're going to plant a tree that is an valuable part of your landscape, invest in a very reasonab reasonably priced three sixty tree stabilizer and your set and anytime you want to put another tree in, your neighbor wants to put a tree, and you can loan them, there's your tree stabilizer to put in. They work. If you've got a good sized tree. You can do two of them, one at kind of a right angle to the other one, so no matter which

way the wind blows, you're good to go. I love that product. It's very ingenious. It is just outstanding and it really really works. We're going to head now to Spring, Texas and talk to Cody. Hey Cody, welcome to garden Line.

What's the best way to just trim all that back and keep one of those stocks coming up and try to get that to be a tree, or what's the best way to try to get that thing to come back as a tree.

food for two dollars and eighty five cents. You can buy a meal for somebody, and they feed six thousand meals a week at Star of Hope. Then there is a shelter for women and children. There's a family shelter so they can come in and live there. They have child care for the children while mom or dad is learning a skill. They have a special shop where they can get the clothing to go do a job interview. I mean, think about someone on this destitute living in a car with the kids. This is a way out.

You can't just hand somebody money and suddenly now they have childcare and they have food, and they have a place to stay and they have a car to get to work. They walk them through the process and there's a certain amount of time they have there to get all that done. They help them find a job, they help them get on their feet, and it changes their life, It changes their kids' lives. And I want to tell you this, it changes Houston, the greater Houston area for

the good. I can't think of a better way to make a difference and put your compassion to work than Star of Hope. Go to Shmission dot org. Sh mission dot org. How many meals will you provide? Will you join my wife and I and being supporters of Star of Hope. I really believe in it, and I'm telling you when you hear the stories, you will too. I want to go now out to Oh there's already there. Okay, wrong, wrong, false alarm, Sorry about that. I am working on my

vegetable garden. Unfortunately it's full of ochre right now, just about all okre. I've got some other things going, but it is time for me to pull that out. I'm a little late actually on getting all my broccoli and cabbage Califler cor Robbie Collared's kale. It's pretty soon. It's time to get the spinach and then lettuce in. We need cool offul just a little bit more for spinach, lettuce and carrots to do their best. But it's so easy. Swiss charred beats. Lots of things we want to grow

in the gardens. And I tell you this, When you grow stuff yourself, you tend to eat it, and you tend to be healthier. And if you have kids, that is even more true. When kids grow their own vegetables, they are much more likely to eat them, much more likely. You know, you shove a piece of broccoli in front of a kid and they go, what's that? I ain't put not in my mouth? You know, and kids grow

up to think that way too. Hey, remember years, years and years ago when the first Charge Bush was president, he made some snide comment about broccoli one time. It just kind of joking around, and I'm telling you, people got upset. And there was a guy in a broccoli suit, looked like a big gumby marching in front of the White House protesting the fact that he had made a dising comment about broccoli. Oh my gosh, is this the

first world problem or what? But anyway, when kids eat their vegetables, you set them on a life of healthy eating. They learn to appreciate that. I got a granddaughter and the way my daughter and son and alive raised her. They just don't feed her dunk food. And I the other day she was visiting me and I was driving around town. It was lunchtime. I thought, hey, I said, hey, you want to grab something to eat? I think, and she's going to go, yeah, I want to go to

get a burger or whatever. And she goes, you know where we can get a salad and I looked at her like, what is wrong with you? But good for her? Our number one health problems in our country are due to lack of moving around and exercise, and lack of eating right, eating jump putting processed junk in our mouths. Why not start your kids off right with a vegetableard. All right, that's my pitch for vegetable gardening. You don't want to dig up the backyard, that's fine, Get you

some five gallon containers. Plan in those. You can grow anything you want to grow for fall in a five gallon bucket or a nice beautiful urn if you want to go that far. All right, Well, enough of me joking around about that. Hey, Donald, Donald, welcome to garden line. Good to have you with us. How can we help?

Wet seeds stick to your hands. Scatter them out, rake them in lightly and water them in well, and then about every four to six days give it another watering, another water, and keep them moist and that'll give them the best chance of getting started. Once we get a rain, you can kind of back off that, but we've got to go through that gener nation where it's kind of touch and go.

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We're going to jump to here, and just one one second first, I wanted to mention to you if you're doing fall transplanting of anything, and you really should be. I'm talking about putting broccoli transplants in a vegetable garden. I'm talking about putting flowers in a flower bed. I'm talking about annuals and perennials and shrubs and trees, and herbs, all that stuff you need to get you a jar

of Nutristar Genesis. Nutri Star Genesis is a natural plant food that is loaded with micoriza, beneficial bacteria and other fungi. You mix it into the soil when you transplant. Now, normally I'll tell you don't put a salt based fertilizer in the hold and then sit roots right on top of it. You can burn roots that way, but when nutristar genesis, you just mix it in the soil. You're

not can burn anything. And when those plant roots start out, it is all the good stuff that they need, nutrients and all the other microbial things that are very important for your plants. I used it for transplanting tomato plants last spring when I was working on Oh my gosh, the way they jumped out of the ground once those

roots that genesis. It was crazy excellent, excellent product. So you're going to put an apple, apple tree, a peach tree, a rosebush, perennial herbs, you're going to put some something like rosemary in the ground or anything. Get some Nutristar Genesis. It comes in a clear jar with a screw top lid. Easy to use. It goes a long way, and it works.

It works from Nelson neutrastar genesis. For all your transplanting in the ground in containers, whatever you're doing, you need to get that in the soil so the new roots have some good stuff to work with. I'm going to head out to Houston now and talk to Scott. Hello Scott, and welcome to garden Line.

a new product that has come to market. It's made by Syngenta and it's called Recognition, and then it also comes with a thing of fuselade too, and it's this post emergent herbicide that they swear will not harm the Saint Augustine and will work, but it's not cheap. So I wanted to get your thoughts on it because it's anywhere from two to four hundred bucks for this. Then I just wanted to get your thoughts and se if you had any experience with it.

that very carefully, very carefully. A lot of professional landscapers don't even know about it, but yep, that's out there now other.

this is not practical for most people. Another is there's a type of Saint Augustine that doesn't that you can spray things that kill bermuda and it doesn't kill the Saint Augustine. It's a it's a variety that's out there that pretty much very few people have right now.

big mounding plant. It's gorgeous. They've got the siloshas that have the beautiful red plumes and the burgundy splotched leaves, silver pony foot that just spills over containers with silver color marigals one of my favorite fall plants, marigals because they just glow and spider mites on a fall problem on maragals. And then of course the crowton that everything like that, and it's what you'd expect from a place that always has the best of plants. You know, it's

fall gardening time. It's time to get out there, get your vegetable gardens, get your herb plants in the ground. They've got it all at Enchanted Gardens en Richmond are The Enchended Gardens is on FM three point fifty nine, So if you're in Richmond heading toward Katie direction, it's out there. Here's the website. You need to go because it's outstanding and it'll you won't even be able to finish looking at you'd be so excited you want to run out there and see this place and it's worth it.

Take friends when you go to by the Way because it's a fun outing. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open Monday through Saturday eight to five, and today they are open ten to four. Be a good afternoon to get out there and enjoy ingented gardens. Let's head to Spring Branch and we're going to talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to the garden Line.

question is I didn't go buy another palm tree. Yeah, I'm gonna go buy another one, should I?

at the corner of Bissinet and Runwick is that place. Now. It's easy to get to. People go from all over there really because they know when you go all the way there you are going to get what you need. So they're willing to drive to do it. But it's inconvenient, easy to get to, like I said, and they've always got stuff and they know what they're talking about. You walk in with a weed or a picture and say, is what is that? And how do I control it? I need to control you know? Is it a problem?

They'll tell you and they'll point you to the right direction. They've been doing this since nineteen fifty five. Nineteen fifty five, it's not long. That's a long time. And it's Southwest Fertilizer. By the way, the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. They have expert advice that knows what they're doing, and they have ext products to help accomplish what you're trying to do. And then they do that with the old fashioned service.

That's why it's so popular. That's why it's so popular there seven one three six six six one seven four four. While you're there, ask about the soil probe that they have for loan. I believe they still have it there where. If you need to go out and do a soil sampling, there's an arrangement, you know, you leaves them behind so you don't run off with the soil probe and you can go borrow it and use it and come back and it helps you get a good salt test done properly.

my website guardeningskip dot com. If you want to make one homemade. Bob got the initial tool with the suction cups that you need to start with. It's not expensive, it's easy to do, and it really really works cool. I gave out some handouts for those the other day at a talk I was giving somewhere. Let's add to Huffman now and we're going to talk to Cooper. Hey, Cooper, welcome to guard Line.

to spray it at all. So if you could break off a pup and dab it on that wound in there, I might try that and see if that works. Again, I'm not saying it'll work, because I've never tried to kill a track a h A, yeah, tracle palm, whatever you try, if it works, I'd like to know. I'd like to know because I may run into someone else whose wife doesn't want them tearing up the front of the house.

I've never heard, first time ever, anyone's ever asked me how to poison a well, I've ever had to try to think of a way to poison a sago palm. That's a new.

I use their cactie soul mix also, I use that indoors. I'm on our uh when we're repotting our strings of you know, string of all the above and succulents and cacti works good for that. The works potting soil.

long long time. Or you can buy their expanded jail mixed with compost, which is also a good way to work on a clay. That a clay soil that you're want to do a bid in. Just go to Heirloomsoils dot com and find out more. There's a great calculator on there to help you these products. You can buy them by the bulk. You can go out to Porter Texas and have them loaded on your truck or trailer. You can have them deliver it to your house and various ways from just dumping on the driveway to one

of their supersacks. It's a big, old giant sack that holds a cubic yard of soil and they just set it there on the driveway, neat and clean and easy. You can buy it by the bag at garden centers and feed stores. You can go down to Southwest Fertilizer I was talking about a minute ago. They've got those down there. They got their products down there as well. Ace hardware stores often carry those products. Just get airlom soils wherever you can get it, get it. It's gonna

be a good soil. It's gonna be a good mix. You're gonna have good results because remember brown's up before green stuff. Airloom soils high high quality brown stuff. We're gonna go. Now, let's see what's the time. Yeah, I got time, Mary and Champions. Welcome to guard Line.

and do the store locator. I think you'll find it there.

Write their phone number down and give them a call Monday morning two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. Get on the schedule. Let's get them working on your yard to create magic, because boy does that ever what they do. All right, folks, time for a quick break. I'll be right back the time to do it here. You are

welcome to give as call if you'd like. The phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four makes it real easy to reach out and get some good information. Hopefully. That's what I try to provide, is good information to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and enjoy it in the process. And I got to remind I haven't said that in a while, but I need it. I need to say it again.

Gardening is supposed to be fun. Gardening is definitely healthy, it's definitely good for your mind, it's good for your well being in general. But it's supposed to be fun. Don't worry about failing at gardening. You cannot fail at gardening. Unless you give up. Then you failed at gardening. Don't worry about it. Give me a call. Let's help you have success. Contact your county agro Life Extension office. That's

what they're for. Reach out to some of the university websites that have research based information that will help you have success, like here in Texas our Aggie Horticulture websites very good for that. There's too many good resources out there. Your county Extension office is in Ever County in Texas, serves Ever County in Texas or Centre and fifty four counties. I think it's in two hundred and fifty or fifty two.

You get out West Texas where there's more jack rabbits and people, and there may not be one in the county, but it's served by the next county. In other words, wherever you are. You got help and run the Houston area. You're fortunate because you actually have a lot of I think six different horticulturists here in the greater Houston area. Brass County, Montgomery County, out in Orange, down in Galveston, Fort ben County, Brazoria County. What I'm a Houston Harris County.

I'm probably leaving somebody out anyway. There's a bunch here and you get good help that way. So no reason, no reason to not succeed in gardening. Just don't give up, don't don't quit, don't quit trying. All right, Well, I guess I've made my point there. If you'd like to give me call seven one three, two fifty eight seventy four. Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights, isn't It's just an

outstanding place to go. I love going. That was there for an appearance earlier this fall, and it's just always magical there. They've got quality folks working that are friendly, that help you, that know what they're talking about. They've got the plants you need. If you're interested in natives, you're not gonna find a better selection than Buchanan's Plants in the whole region. They have the biggest selection of all kinds of native plants right now. They got strawberries in.

You know, October is primetime for strawberries. There's some real cool varieties and four inch containers. Get now, get them in the ground, water them in well, and begin fertilizing them. Begin fertilizing. You can use fertilizers to sprinkle in the soil and water in. You can use a liquid food products by Medina for example. A Microlife has some good

liquid food products as well. Keep those strawberries growing, because I'm telling you you will have the best crop you can imagine in early early spring all the way into about May if you get them planted now. Buchanan's got those. Of course, Buchanans has lots of fall color. They've got an unbelievable selection of houseplants as well. I was just in their houseplant greenhouse the other day. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Go there Buchanans Plants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com. Sign

up for the newsletter. It is a load of good information. They've got plants, they got the fertilizers that I talk about on Gardenine. They've got a wonderful gift shop. And they're on Eleventh Street in the heights. Let's see, let's go to Donnie now in Montgomery, Texas. Hey, Donnie, welcome to garden Line.

just kind of getting a lay of the land. They're probably going to be getting some others in, so you may want to give them a call or just stop in either way, but find out what they're getting and when so you can and maybe you know it may be that they can order for you depend on what the plan is. They may be able. Maybe they don't normally carry it, but they can get in. I know they have citrus right now out there at Ana Plants the last time I looked, too, so i'd give them

a call. They're your backyard garden center. We got some others that aren't too far from you as well, but I would start there at A and E since you're there in Montgomery.

on anything desirable. If when the shoots are coming up, you can wipe them with herbicide using my weed wiper. It shows you how to make one if you want to do that, or just spray the foliage and just stay with it. And if the bamboo needs to be

actively growing for it to be effective. But those products will be effective, but you might start by, you know, cutting it all back to the ground again and when the new growth comes out, after it gets a foot or so high, you got some leaves to work with, begin to apply those to it and you just have to stay with it. It's got a ton of storage capacity underground, so one little application is not going to get rid of it. All you got to. You gotta kind of knock it back and then knock it back again.

up a crinum, it'll kill you. All right, time for take a break. I'll be right back for our last segment. Hang around if you won't give us a call seven months listening the end of the day. We always appreciate having folks listen. I know I've got a lot of shy folks out there that listen but won't call in. I know that you should should call in, should ask your questions if you If you got a question, other people will too, and we will treat it with respect

and make sure you get a good answer. That's how this works, all right. Well, gosh, there's so many things to talk about. I'm trying to figure out what to do with our last bit of the time here today. First of all, I want to tell you about some of the liquid products for Microlife because falls for planting and when you put a plant in the ground, to drench it in, to water it in with a good quality product, it really helps.

with them. Just follow the label, dilute it down, make it go farther and it works really well. I like also their Microlife Humic Acid Complex. It's got humic acid and fulvic acid in it. And then the micro Grow liquid ap Do you hear how many products these are. They're all from Microlife. If you don't learn about them, go to Microlife for Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com.

They're widely available here in the Greater Houston area. In fact, they're widely available for outside of our area as well. But Microlife products work, and we talk a lot about the dry product, you know, the sixty four for summer fertilizing the lawn, the brown patch for fall fertilizing the bioinoculant that I keep recommending to you for adding to the brown patch to give better biological activity on the grass plant and around the root system for better success.

Those are all there. But try some of these liquid products. They work well. Just keep them on hand. Anytime you're doing any thing for your plans, give them a boost of that, and you're going to find good success. That's how that works. Our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four or seven one three two one two KTRH. If that makes it a little

easier for you. Now, I usually say this at the end of the show, and that is that people wait to call until the last minute and then you can't get in. I actually have an open board right now and I got about room for two calls probably, So if you like to give us a call and have a question, we could still do that. And if den calls occur, well, good luck. We'll just we'll just go with it that way. I wanted to mention a couple of other things about the fall season that we're entering.

The season we are we are. We're waiting for the call front to hit. But if you look at the calendar. It's fall, and we got to go by the calendar because you never know when when we're entering the fall season. I would encourage you to think about it as a time to plan your renovations. You know, we've had another one of those summers that takes its toll on our plants.

Absolutely takes a toll on our plants. And when we have that kind of thing, you can walk around right now, maybe this morning, get out there, walk around a little bit, a cup of coffee in your hand, and take a look. See what you see. Where's the lawn struggling. Maybe it's an area that you just can't water really well and it's struggling there. Maybe something else needs to be put there. Maybe you got a plant that's in too much shade

or too much sun that's struggling. Maybe you look at your landscape and it's like, that's a sea of green. I mean green's pretty, but green, green and green. How about some other colors? What could we do there? What would be a fall blooming plant that would be blooming right now in the next couple now, in the coming month, that would go good there? Do that landscape planning, because fall is for planning. Whether you plant it this month or next month, or even if you wait till spring.

Now's a good time because now shows you the truth. You know, this is when the ugly tends to be out. The end of summer. Our landscapes are tired. The landscapers are tired. We're hiding inside in the air conditioning, and our plants are screaming for us to get out there and water. Now's a good time to look because it gives you a chance to determine what needs to be done. What would I like to change, And we always need to be changing our plants, you know. Inside the house,

you know, people occasionally repaint, I don't know. They may redo the furniture, put new drapes in or something like that, just to kind of spruce it up, make it look better, or just have a change. You know, do you still have those avocado colored appliances from nineteen seventies. It's time to change. The same is true in your landscape. Get out and check it out. Drive around towns, notice what you like. Go to a botanical garden it's beautiful, and

get ideas. But mainly just walk around. Stand out at the street. You don't live at that house, at your house, but pretend you don't live there. You just drove up and looked what could be improved on? What could be improved by walk out in the backyard. You know, yeah, I haven't been out here because it's so blazing hot this summer. Okay, how about a trellis over that patio with a vine on it. Maybe a trellis with grapes on it, that's kind of cool that western wall. Go

out and let's see do this. Go ahead at seven o'clock at night, put your hand on the western wall to your house and feel how hot it is. That heat is radiating back into your house into the early evening hours, and you're paying air conditioning money to overcome it. How about a vine, a trellis and a vine to shade that western wall, or maybe plant a tree there that can provide you that shange. Do you see what

I'm talking about. I'm talking about getting out and planning, thinking about what would be better, what would look better. Maybe you got an area that's really a maintenance headache. It just is for whatever reason. How about changing that plan? How about doing something different there that is lower maintenance. You should always landscape with maintenance and mind. Among your other things, among the beauty and aesthetics, maintenance is a big deal. I do not create right angles in my

lawn anymore. Quit doing that long time ago. Right angles. You run the lawn more up to them, and then you got to back up and try to go sideways down. A nice smooth curve that you can mow around is so much easier. It's a simple little maintenance trick that works really really well. Look at the weeds. If you got weeds, chances are you don't have good mulch cover. Now, there's some weeds that grow through maults, and that said bermuda grass grows through maults. But a lot of weeds

are because we let sunlight hit the soil. Look at your lawn. Do you have weedy areas?

before that you might want to try? The fall garden is green season greens like kale, and collars like lettuce and spinach, like a regular with its nutty flavor, like sorel, which it's with its lemony flavors. Those are all cool season greens. They do really really well here. How about some of the Asian greens. Oh my gosh, there's so many good ones. Bock Choys about as easy as you can get. You just can't beat back choice. There's another one called chi jemsi. Oh boy, that's a long word.

C h I j I m I s A. If you don't get that, listen to the podcast g GMSI is mild. It's not so mustardy as some Asian grands are. It's wonderful. If you're never grown it for the why not try it. If you don't like it, that's okay, But what if you do. It's a new thing to add to your salads, to add zip and flavor and interest new. Try something new. What rows would you like to have? You got a sunny spot for it, or a large large container you can grow a smaller rose in.

Try one of those this fall. I guess what I'm saying is, let's get out and have fun. Use your imagination. You know, if we wait until fall for blooming plants, well we should have planted them before so we could enjoy them in the fall. That's the idea. Hey, next Saturday, Enchanted Forest one thirty or eleven thirty to one thirty.