Preping the Lawn for Winter

little pop out button is, uh refrigerator. You can tattoo it on your forearm, but I don't. I don't think we got anybody that dedicated to going in the garden line. But you're welcome to seven one three two one two k t r H. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And why am I here? Well, I'm here because I want you to have more fun gardening, and I want you to guard your gardens to be more bountiful, and I want them to be more beautiful. I feel like you know that's what you want too, so let's figure out

how to make that happen. Guarding is not rocket science, you know. One thing about biology, about plant science, about horticulture is everything is responding to certain things going on around it. For example, a plant gets sunlight on the leaves, carbohydrates hydrates start to get made, and that plant gets healthy and grows and blooms and fruits and does all

the things you wanted to do. Good moisture in the soil allows the nutrients to move into the roots so the plant can grow and make blooms and fruit and growth and beauty and everything you want. You see what I'm saying. It's simple stuff. It's like how much sunlight does a plant want? How consistent does the moisture need to be? Does it really require good drainage and insures?

Almost always yes, not always, but usually yes. You know, what are the nutrients and the pH that the plant likes, And as we get plants those things they respond in the way they're programmed to do, and we end up enjoying that beautiful landscape. You know, everyone, I've heard many times people say, my grandma, she could stick a pencil in the ground and it would grow a pine tree, you know, stuff like that. Well, grandma was good at gardening.

Ba's just because Grandma knew what to do. She doesn't have a green thumb. There are no green thumbs. And as a result, you just got to figure out how to inform your thumb. Because when you inform your thumb, it makes your excuse me, when you inform your thumb, it makes it greener. That is as simple as it gets, just as if it's ABC's right. And that's what we're going to work on today. We're going to help you have success by giving you some good information to get

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didn't know what. So I pulled off most of the leaves that looked like they were dried up and infective, like the side sprut leaves, and I sprayed it within sicknessidals. So it came webbing, came back and start curling up again. So I did any gain, And now it really didn't look good. So what should I have done?

are moving around real slow, that's spider mites. And if that's the case at this point in the season, I don't think i'd do anything. You know, we're getting close enough to when we could have a frost that I don't think there's a lot of recovery growth, setting fruit and ripening fruit that can happen between now and then. So I would take a strong blast of water with the hose and on the end of a gun, on the end of a garden hose, and I would just

blast those things, especially pointing upward. If you find the spider mites next year, we can talk about other things to do if that starts to show up.

First of all, I had a great time yesterday out at Katie A's store on Pinoak, and I think everybody that came out we had a lot of different questions, and which is I just enjoy that because every question is because somebody is trying to be a better gardener. They're trying to have success, trying to fix a problem. They're trying to you see what I'm saying, And it's just fun. Helping people, and we did a lot of that out there. Thanks for the folks at night Fross

for donating. We have a lot of bags of nitro Fross fertilizers out too. That was fun. By the way, the night Frost right now. You know, the thing I'm talking about, the nitroposs question or tip of the season really is their three step program because there's three things that are happening in our lawns. Number One, your lawn is taking up nutrients to try to help itself get stronger going into winter. Number Two, the weeds that sprout that become big problems in the spring. They're sprouting now

and you need to stop that. Don't let them do that. Wherever sunlight hits a soil, nature plants of weeds. So if your lawn is thin, if your lawn has been struggling, it just you know, isn't super super dense, you're gonna have weeds pop up. That's how that works. Third third step is the eagle to our fund to side. Third thing happening in lawns is that brown now called large patch or take all root rud also are infecting lawns

at this time of the year. So if you are gonna take care of those three things you need the three step programs. So that's the Fall Special Winter Riser fertilizer. It's a brown bag that is for this time of year. It's the fertilizer you put on in the fall to help the plant get into winter stronger, come out of winter stronger. Number two barricade for barricade herbicide. You put it down and it prevents weed seeds from sprouting and establishing.

It doesn't kill an existing weed, but clover, handbit, chickweed, carpet weed, cleavers, just on and on, all those cool season weeds. They're going to be a mess in the spring. You'll be calling guarden line. They'll be you know, big knee high weeds in my lawn. And where do they come from? Well, they started now, They started right now, and you can prevent that with barricade. Third is eagle third fungry side. You put it down. It goes in the a grass plant and when a disease tries to attack,

it's there to protect it. Okay, Three steps Fall Special wind Riser, Nitrofist, Barricade, Eagle turf fungicide. Just get all three. Put them all down on the same day. Just put down one, come back, put down the next one, come back, load up, put down the third one. Then water everything in with a half inch of water, about a half inch of irrigation, and that'll move them all down to the soil. None of those three do you any good until you get them down into the soil with water.

I want to make that point again. None of those three are going to help you. They all work, but they're not going to help you until you water them in with a half inch of water. When they get in the soil, that's where they do everything they do, even the fungicide. It's taken up by the roots and the plant gets it internally so that it can fight off disease. All right, I hope that's clear. But thanks again to Katie A. S Hardware for having us out. We had a really good time. You were listening to

garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt RH. You know, falls the time to plant, and you need to be getting your beds ready if they're not already ready, so you can get this planting done. But it's also a good time to get ready for spring. You know, we get into winter and early spring and maybe we've got a whole bunch of rain and stuff, and you can't work the soil when it's sop and wet.

So why not get it ready now for even your spring garden beds that you're building, that you're planning on putting in vegetables, flowers, herbs, whatever. Landscaper's prides got you covered. They have healthy soil composts. It's made from one hundred percent locally sourced materials. They've got the mushroom compost. It's made from really cool stuff. It's clean local mushroom substrate. Okay,

so here, here's how this works. They grow mushrooms in this super rich substrate of decomposing organic matter, and mushrooms like that and plants like that too. When they're done growing the mushrooms, they don't grow another crop in it. They just move it out and they get some fresh stuff to start over again. Well, that stuff they moved out is like black gold. I wish I could show you a picture I took in Conrod, Texas of a vacant builders lot that was the bulldozers had scraped anything

close to soil off of it. And it was a flat, hard mess, which is great for putting a building on, but not a garden in We took mushroom compost who spread it out there. We took a tractor disk and just disked it in like you're plowing a field. Because this is a big lot. We're putting in a test garden. And when we threw a rye grass seat on it, it rained. And when it came up it was night and I mean one foot away on one side there's like yellow spinly rye grass barely growing a foot away

in the mushroom compost mixed soil. The rye grass is emerald green, you know, like foot and a half high. Flopping over to it was just night and day. That's how mushroom compost is and landscaper sprid mushroom compost first, just really, first of all, is this super quality stuff? So go to Landscaperspride dot com. Find the lot of details there, find the store locator. I told you about two products, there's like two dozen plus products, and find

their social media links and follow them. It's easy to find landscapers Pride around town. Again, Landscaperspride dot com. Won't you grow something this afternoon, I'm gonna get outside. I've got a few things to kind of catch up on. Just I've got several projects that I'm getting ready for. And I noticed that I'm on this long term effort to shut down nutsedge everywhere on our property. And it is not a one and done thing like a lot

of weeds can be, but non nut sets. And if you want more, if you have a nutsedge issue and you want to find out how to control it, go to my website gardening with Skip dot com. That's me gardening with Skip dot com and look for the nuts edge information. Read the one about an in depth look,

because I'll help you understand it. Anyway. I've got nutsedge that I treated according to my schedule information up there, I treated it probably three weeks ago and it is now really yellowing and starting to go downhill, so very slow process when you use the good stuff. But in that same bed, there's some green spouts coming up. Those are nuts that didn't show their face when I did my last treatment, and now they are. Guess what's going to happen to those? I'm going to use my weed wiper,

which if you want to build you one. Go to my website. It's free. It's on there, and I use my weed wiper, put the good products on it and wipe them right on the nuts edge. I mean it takes it probably takes me maybe a cup of mixed up herbicide for nuts edge when I do this, because I'm going all over with the weed wiper. I'm not

spraying gallons of this stuff all around. So anyway, it works really well, and I'll hit it again and it will never knock on wood short of me getting ill, it will never have a chance to get more than about five leaves on it before I hit it again, and I will win. I already am winning. I've taken a huge infestation in some areas. They are down to just you know here, here's one sprout tries to come up, and there's one over there that tries to come up.

And so this isn't going to be long before it's over. Can't wait. Having fun doing it too. By the way, let's go to Alvin and talk to Dandy this morning. Hey Danny, welcome to Guardline.

It's very tough. It's very easy. I mean you can pull one up, throw it in your truck, drive around for a week or two, and bring it out and stick it in the ground. It'll grow. I mean, those things are very tough, but you want to give it a little good care early on just to kind of help get it going, because your goal is to get it moving fast. And yes, Alivera and aliburbadns a different

barbadensis are different species. Okay, so, but most of what people have around here, you know, especially when you're trying to grow it for the benefits in the leaf, the good stuff that for burns and that people even take it ally. Uh, that's Alabera is the one you want to plant for that. But it's not hard to grow. Good sun, good son, good drainage and occasional watering. That's it.

just want beauty. Right now, they got a really really good selection of Chinese fringe trees and red buds and Mexican plums and walter bub vernum and rough leaved dog with all of those bloom Some of those are native too. In Channing Forest is located on FM twenty seven fifty nine, So if you're in Richmond Rosenberg area heading towards sugar Land, it's off to the right twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest.

You're going to find everything you're looking for there, including and especially right now, some really beautiful winter color and some awesome fall vegetable and winter vegetable gardening. I'll be right welcome back to guarden Line. We're looking forward to visiting with you and your questions. All you got to do is call seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two ktrh.

That perhaps is the easiest way to say it. I talk about self as fertilizer all the time because you can find stuff at Southwest Fertilizer. Yesterday I was out in Katie, Texas, and uh, I'm visiting with a lot of different folks, but someone had perked was looking to build a weed wiper, the one I have on my website, and they had just come from there and with some different products and things, and it was like, okay, wait,

you should have grabbed the tool there. They've got the bob has the tools there for building the weed wiper. It's it's act shout. It is is a graber tool with section cups on it, little bolts that hold the section cups on. So I mean, if you are not to do it yourself or at all, you can make this. It is so easy. You know, any of you who grew up with tinker toys. If you could do that, you can make your own weed wiper. Just go go to my website see how to do it, and then

run by Southwest. While you're there, you're going to find herbicides, in secticides, fungicides. If you're an organic gardener and you're thinking those are chemicals, well, I would say this Southwest Fertilizer has the biggest selection of organic products of anybody around now. They have everything synthetic, organic, whatever kind of gardening you want to do, they know how to do it, they do. And so you just go in there. You bring them your questions, you bring them your samples, you

bring them a picture, You say, what is this? Can you identify it? What do I do about it? How do I deal with it? They'll help you do that. And while you're in there, we're coming up on pruning season. They got a ninety foot wall of tools with lots of different kinds of saws and prunters, and I'm talking

about quality brands, not the kind you buy. And next thing you know that you're throwing them in the trash because they're all messed up and they're not working, and because they're cheap, you need to buy something this way. Cheap is expensive. When you're buying a tool, you should buy a good tool. That means buy the most expensive tool you can find. It just means you buy quality and it lasts forever. Isn't that height It is with

a lot of different things. You buy a quality product and you take care of it, and it in the long run, you have saved a lot of money that you would have wasted on cheap products. Plus, when it comes to printing tools, those issues with our hands, you know, carpal tunnel and all the ill tennis elbow or all the different things that happens to our joints, that is reduced when you have a good quality tool. It's much much easier to do that. All right, Southwist Fertilizers where

you can get all that stuff done. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Here's a phone number seven one three six six six seventeen forty four sixty six six one seven four four corner of Business and Renwick been around since nineteen fifty five, and there is a really good reason for that. Have you noticed that your doors are sticking where they used to not stick before? Maybe they did for a while. This summer and then now they're not again, or something

like that. That's a sign of movement in the foundation. You'll see it in the form of cracks in the sheet rock inside. You'll see it in the form of cracks in the brick on the outside, sidewalks heaving, driveways that are cracked and heaving. That's all because our soil moves. And when you have that kind of issue, you don't need to put your head in the sind. You need to deal with it. And the way I would strongly recommend you deal with it is fix my slab, foundation,

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it early on. He may tell you. He may well tell you, well, this isn't enough movement to worry about at this point, or here's some things that he's not going to just like sudden dig up the neighborhood and say at the do all this stuff if you don't need to do it, tell them you're a Guardenline listener. You get a free estimate from Fix my Slab Foundation Repair. Fixmyslab dot com is the website that's easier to remember.

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one two fi five four nine four nine. You are listening to garden Line and I let me give you a phone number again here seven one three two one two ktr h seven one three two one two ktr h. So it's kind of quiet first thing in the morning, and then toward the end of the show it gets crazy hectic, and so I always try to get people, Hey, why don't a few of you who would call in at the last minute switch your call in the morning and we can just smooth things out and have time

to talk about a lot of different things. I've got a couple of shrubs that I'm going to shrug slash tree that I'm putting in the ground, and I just need to actually be home long enough to get it done. I'll be hopefully getting it done really early this week. But one of them is almond verbina. I love almond verbina. It is a very large shrub and it kind of gangly and stuff. You can share it in trim it

just to kind of keep it in bounds. But it produces these spikes of yellow flowers that are just they're kind of like a bottle brush maybe, you know, kind of a long, skinny thing with white flowers up and down it. But the fragrance is unbelievable. And one of the aspects of gardening that I don't think we probably talk about enough is fragrance. You know, we know that we need textures from fine texture to bold textures. We want colors, we want maybe to attract birds or butterflies

or bees. You see what I'm saying. There's a lot of aspects of gardening, but fragrance is a huge one. And almond verbina, I mean that is like horticultural crack. It is it is. I love that say. It's like gardenias. If you ever smelled Guardena's almond burbina, is that kind of quality or a fall? What is the butterfly, white butterfly ginger. The fragrance of that, oh, those are so good,

and plants offer us a lot of different fragrance. But anyway, I'm gonna put an Alma barbana in and I'm locating it to the south and west of our outdoor patio. And the reason is that's kind of the predominant breeze direction that comes through, and so I want that plant to be what upwind from me. So when the when the breeze comes through that plant, I get to enjoy it sitting there on the patio. Just a couple of ideas,

thoughts and strategies. Hey, if you're doing any planning this fall, you need to get some micro grow liquid af That is a maroon looking bottle. One gallon jug of it will go a long long way. It contains eight different quality beneficial microbes. When I say quality microps, what I'm talking about is microbes that are out there working for you, doing a good job. These are things that fight disease that are in this. You can use it as a drench.

I would say, you know, do it when you're planning plants. Get those things down there on the roots. He things live in the soil. They're natural in the soil. You can also if you're doing a lawn, well you could put the micro Grow liquid af on a hozin spreader, but I would use the micro Grow bioinoculant on the lawn. Comes in again. I'm a room bag or a jar as a granule that works really really well. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. That's where you find out more about it.

Where do you get it? Well, just pretty much everywhere you hear you're talking about places on Guardline, the vast majority of them carry Microlife products. Time for a break here and when I come back, I'll be here with your calls, and that would include Catherine and Pat and Ted. Good to have you with us this morning on a lovely Sunday morning. This afternoons can be a good day to get out and about get some things done. That's

my plans. At least. Let's head to Spring, Texas and talk to Catherine and Hello Catherine, welcome to garden Line.

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get it. They'll set the sack in your truck you know, or your trailer whatever you have, or you can have them delivered it. And now there is a delivery fee if you have them delivered, and there's I think a three sack minimum if they're going to drive across ten buck to somewhere to deliver it. But you just go to rockinmultz dot com slash delivery. I'm gonna say that again, Rock the letter n multch dot com slash delivery. They

have a new product called Premium lawn Mix. I was talking to somebody yesterday when I was at Ace Hardware store out there in Katie, Katie Ace or Katie Hardware. The premium lawn mix from airloom soils. It's made with Mason sand. It's got some composts and some bed mix in it. It's very good for prep preparing for sad planting. A lot of people brought me pictures they're going to be replacing, and you spread some premium lawn mix out. It's only seventy four dollars for a one qb yard

sack of that. But they have a lot of things available by sack, including that lawn mix, the cedar malts, the hardwood mault, pine bark, a real cool, cool thing called black Star gravel. It's gorgeous and rainbow gravel too, all from heirloom soils. And you take advantage of that. Well here music plan because that means they need to be quiet about time to stop. Hey, guess where I'm going to be next Saturday. This is the final appearance I'll do this season. Sometime next spring for I'll be

doing appearances again. I'm going to go out to Wadbirds Unlimited in Kingwood, Long Birds Unlimited in Kingwood now. It's located where Kingwood Drive and Westlake Houston Parkway come together. There's a big old HB right there on the corner. For those of you out in that area, wild Birds Unlimited, Kingwood on the corner of Kingwood Drive and West Lake Houston Parkway, just right next to that big old h B that they've got out there. Come out and see me.

We're gonna have lots of giveaways again as we always do. Uh, and I'll be there to answer your gardening questions.

Nursery and Water Gardens in Katie, Texas. You head out to Katie, you turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just a little ways down the road there on the right hand side and when you walk in, first of all, you're gonna walk through the store itself. As you go in house playing, it's a beautiful collection of gorgeous house plants. I mean it is not just plain old green in there. They have some of the most beautiful house plants I've ever seen. Love that love

that place quality plants. You walk back through the back out the back door into the garden center and you see plants everywhere. They have every kind of thing that's seasonal for whatever season we're in right now. You're going to find good fall color planting. Of course, you're going to find shrubs and trees and perennials and all sorts

of things. Go a little bit further back and you're going to be into where the water gardens are, and that's where you see beautiful, disappearing fountains with sound that is so calming. I mean it is like it is therapy really to hear running water. And they've been doing that for a long time. You know, they're nationally famous on water water gardening. Do you need plants for water gardens? Do you need fish for water gardens? Do you want to build a water garden yourself? Do you want to

have them do it. You can choose however you want it. But the main thing is take a friend, go out there and see this destination garden center, and take some time so you can just sit and take it all in and enjoy it. And I'll bet you you feel just like I do. Every time I go out there. It's like, Okay, I need I need another water feature. This is this is creating a corner of eden in my backyard that I just got to have. And that's how it is out there. Nelson Watergardens and Katie there.

Nelsonwatergardens dot com is the website. If you'd like to go check it out, and I hope you will. I talk about it a lot, but it is an outstanding place and definitely a destination to go visit. You are listening to guarden Line the phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four if you have not fertilized or done a preventative week control on your lawn and you would like to and you'd like to

just get it done in one step. Turf Star by Nelson Carboload. Turf Star carbo Load produced by Nelson Fertilizer. Nelson plant food is the one you you're going to want to do for that because it provides you with a perfect blend of nutrients forefall getting your lawn. The reason they call it carbo load is because the whole goal of fall fertilizing is to help that plant produce carbohydrates, and that takes some nutrition, and it especially takes some

potassium with the little nitrogen to build the best. Think of it as ana freeze carbohydrate or ana freeze and a plant. So they help it be more cold hardy like your grass. They also strengthen it so when it comes out in the spring, it's using stored energy. It's not using what the roots are taking out first thing in the spring. And so your fall fertilization makes your spring growth better and it just comes out early and strong.

It really does well. Now the carboload also contains a pre emergent herbicide, so when you put it down, you need to water it in. And also so you need to do it now. Close season weeds, we got some rain, we got some cool web. They're going to be germinating, and so get that down now. About half inch of water on it, get it in the ground to get the nutrient in, get the pre merging in, and avoid those problems. It's so much easier to avoid a weed problem than it is to try to kill the weeds

once they're up and growing. We're going to go to Clear Lake and talk to Allen this morning. Hello Ellen, welcome to Gardenline.

I don't want it to start succulent. Growth when we could have some cold weather ahead here, So I would cut it back then make it a little lower than you want it to be, because that way, as it regrows from the cutting it back, you can sheare it and end up with the hedge the height you want. Okay, so a little shorter than you want it to be. Just realize that you opin like all these other shrubs, they want to grow top heavy, and that's what yours

has been trying to do there. You know, the over the years, the top is trying to push outward and

they're trying to keep it more narrow. So just think of the wall instead of vertical, think of it as a little bit more leaning in toward the top, you see what I'm saying, Wider at the base, a little narrower at the top, and that way light can get to all areas because where it's encroaching on the sidewalk, you got to make a lot of extra space in there for people to walk through without you know, hitting a gauntlet right there.

plant any kind of a groundcover back in there. You've got some monkey grass already growing in that area that could be moved around and gradually filled in. It's a very slow to spread, but it could gradually fill in. You could do something like Aztec grass as a white light lighter colored version of that. But yeah, you can. You do whatever you want back there. It's just not going to be visible because it's behind theoponhedge.

they'll be ready to go. So that's that's not it's a drastic move. But you know, we're starting with what we're starting with, so you got to do the best with what you got. All right, sir, Good luck with that. Appreciate your call very much. I got to run to a break here. But when I come back, we're going to talk to Susan and we're going to talk to Kay. Hey,

welcome back to the guarden Line. Glad you're with us today. Listen, we had some storms this year that I just wonder there's a single tree left in Houston the way those things came through and just did incredible amounts of damage to some of you know what I'm talking about because it happened in your yard. Affordable Tree Service is who I look to when it comes to dependable tree care for you here in the Houston area. That comes from experience.

You know, Martin Spoon Moore has gosh, Martin's been doing this for a very long time, and he he knows Houston trees. He knows taking care of trees, and he can do any kind of things you need done. I mean it certainly pruning and this is printing season. And by the way, if you need somebody to come out and look at your trees, I'd highly recommend you call Martin now because he has he needs to book you

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six nine nine two six six three. We got this window now when it's the best time of the year. To get printing done, give Martin a call and get that done while you're out it. If you're going to do any changes around the tree, if you need maybe to put in a driveway, or you want to put in a trench to do something, or you need to install irrigation systems around and talk to Martin first because he can guide you on how to avoid damage to

those trees. You know, don't wait until someone's come by and already done the damage to figure out what to do about it. We have very few options, but before you do damage, you can do a lot to avoid it or minimize it. That's important. And don't hire somebody just because they have to pick up a chains on a business card to stick in your door. Hi're somebody that knows what they're doing. Because when someone damages the tree, but because they think they know what they're doing, but

they don't, it's forever. It is very hard to fully rebuild and re establish a strong framework when bad pruning has been done to your tree. Call Martin Affordable Tree seven three, six nine twenty six sixty three. We're going to go now to Susan and Wharton. Hello Susan, Welcome to Garden.

is I want to trim that tall one out. Can I trim that and cut it about I'm not sure where I should cut it, if I should cut it where the height of the rest of the plant is or lower ass and I transplant it.

essentially use pruners to do the same thing. So if you got an esperanza that you don't like the look of it, the shape of it, cut it back and let fresh new growth come out. You will have beautiful blooms. And unless you're just trying to create some sort of a tree form of it, don't, however, you want to prune it is fine, But I would cut it back, I would dig it up. I'd move it at the end of winter probably, let's say early February would be

a good time to get that move done. Even late January would be okay to put it in the ground, in the ground, yes, okay, all right, Kenn, thank you man, appreciate it. I'm sorry I hung up there, Susan, I thought we were done. Let's go to David in Spring. Hello, David, welcome to garden line. Wanting step. I have a couple of questions there.

beautiful low growing grass. It's a it's slow. I I what I see on pro Vista is you may mow it about one third as much as you do most other grasses, most of the Saint Augustine's. It's it just has a slower vertical growth rate. All right, Well that's not a bad thing. I think they say half, but but from what I'm seeing, I think it's more like almost a third. Okay, okay, all right, sounds good. Thank you for your help, you bet, Thanks sir. I appreciate

your call. We go to Pairland now and talk to Kay. Hey k, welcome to Guardline.

take a while, but cutting that'll work. It's best if you use a cutting cave. That is what we call semi hardwood. It's not the succulent new growth and it's not the old wood. It's kind of in between. It's where the green starts browning, and that's the best place to take a cutting for crape.

talking to people. We were walking back into the area where you would find something to control weeds or insects or diseases or things, and it's just they're stocked up. They have what you need. Of course, ACE has everything that you need. That's why they say ACE is a place because it's got everything you need to have a beautiful lawn, like the things that fertilize, the fertilizers for fall, the things that prevent weeds in the fall, like barricade.

It's got the things that prevent disease, like eagle turfundicide for example. They're there at ACE. But it's also the place for whatever kind of seasonal decorating you're doing inside and outside. It's the place to create those outside environments that you have. And if if you're looking to have a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape, then just head to ACE. There's forty ACE Hardware stores. ACE hardware

dot Com is the website. Go there, find the store locator, and you get this cool map with dots everywhere because there's a everywhere in the Greater Houston area. We're gonna go now to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hey Doris, welcome back to Gardline.

wish you well with that yard Holden. When we come back, you'll be our first up.

Because gardening should be fun, we should really be enjoying ourselves, and it can be. Channa Gardens is out there in Richmond. It's on the Katie full Sure side of Richmond. So if you're done in Richmond, you just head up FM seven twenty three right where three fifty nine and seven twenty three come together. Those are fms. Remember when that was all pastures, Now it's now it's subdivisions and more

and more. Well, that's where you find in Chenna Gardens and it is a sprawled out, beautiful wonderland of plants. It is a destination garden center. It really is as truly unbelievable. They've got a team that's about as enthusiastic as they come. You can go in there. You can take them pictures of plants, you can take them samples of weeds or plants or things in a little plastic bag, and they'll they'll give you expert advice. They know what

they're doing. This independent garden center has been around in nineteen ninety five. And when you go in too in Chenny Gardens. First of all, take a friend because this is a fun outing. This isn't like just going into some shopping center kind of place. You are enjoying a widespread variety of plants, and of fountains and chimes and garden ard and herbs, vegetables, antique roses. You know, we're

everything like that. When you go there, you're gonna find the fertilizers you hear me talk about, like microlife and nitrofoss and Nelson and Medina. You're gonna find soils you hear me talk about, like Nature's Way and heirloom and landscaper's pride. They are open today from ten to four, Sunday from ten to four. And Enchanted Gardens they are on FM three point fifty nine right where it comes in there to seven twenty three on the Katie fullsher

Side of Richmond. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website, and Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're gonna head out there to Crosby, Texas now and talk to Holden. Hey, Holden, welcome to garden Line. Hey, how are you today? I'm doing good, sir. What's up? Virginia Button waed I got a yard full of it. M M, Well, yeah, you got two options. You can call a real and moved that's probably the easiest, or you can fight it ino

spray in the thing. Virginia button weed loves wet conditions, so now backing off on your lawn watering will not kill Virginia button weed. It just it just holds it back a little bit, you know, and when it gets wet and soggy, Virginia button weed grows crazy. It just takes off. So if you can back off on the water a little bit where it's in your control, do that. But as far as sprays are concerned, there are a number of products out there. Probably the most effective is

something called I just went blank. Celsius, like the temperature. Celsius comes in little packets. Is not cheap, but it works. A packet makes a gallon of spray and you just spot treat your Virginia button weed with that celsius. I would do it now as soon as possible, because those weeds are fixing to shut down here as we're going into winter and then coming out next spring. When you see growth on the Virginia button weed, spray again with Celsius, and if you look on the labels, you're going to

probably apply it twice. You know, you may apply it and then six weeks later apply it again. But those those work pretty good on it. There's some other things that work good on it that if the weather gets warmer, they're hard on your Saint Augustine. So above eighty five degrees or so, I back off on the other things. That's why I like Celsius, because you can even do that when it's in the low nineties.

which you will, you will just spot treat them. So either way you go about it, it's up to you.

another one that started there. They also have something called fungal compost, which is good for over top dressing your lawn as well, if you'd like to use that. And the thing about that is ever Friday is Fungal Friday and you can get fungal compost, which is a quality

compost twenty percent off on Friday's Ever Friday. Nature's Way Resources is if you go north on forty five right where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five from the left, you turn right, cross over the railroad tracks and that's where Nature's Way is. You can give them a call, you can go to the website. You know, however you

want to go about reaching out to them. Reach out to them because when you go out there, you can load up bags, you can load up bulk, you can have them deliver it if you would like them to deliver it. They can deliver it for you as well. And you will find their bags in many of our Garden Center's feed stores, the ACE Hardware type places. Nature's Way Resources is quality stuff that will help your plants succeed. Like I say on guarden Line, brown stuff before green stuff.

Well this is the brown stuff. Fact. This is I would call it black gold. They have some great mulches too out there. Used a couple of their different multch products and been very very very pleased with how they perform in my flower beds. If you haven't fertilized this fall, remember the fall fertilization is the most important. And there's three things that can happen in the fall. One of

them is fall fertilization that should happen every fall. It's the if you were to pick one time of the year when it's most important to fertilize, it's the fall fertilization because it prepares a plant for winter hardiness and it comes out in the spring stronger. Very important for those grass plants in your lawn now second step are the weeds that are germinating, so barricade by nitrophoss step two of what they call the Texas three step. You do the two step on the dense floor. You do

the three step in your lawn. The three steps second step barricade stops weeds from being able to establish. It forms a barricade over the soil. They can't get through. They die. Second nitrophised eagle turf fungicide that prevents the brown patch, the large patch from happening in your lawn. And there's also it works some on the takeof root right too. But you got to get all these down ahead of time, early, earlier in the process. So now's

the time. We just we got some some rain. It came through some the areas, and I'm telling you we're going to get some cool season wee germination. When that soul tempt said about seventy degrees. And you don't delay on this stuff. Put all three down, water, all three in, and you're good to go for fall from nitrofoss. You're gonna find nitrofoss products at D and D Feed and Tomball Plantation, Ace Hardware, Donna Richmond and Hiding and Feed

on Stubner Airline. Well, I believe I've got to take a little break here and I'll be right back and Anthony, you will be our first stuff. Welcome back to Guardline, folks. Good to have you with us. Plants for All Seasons is a garden center. It's been around for a long time and since nineteen seventy three. They're right there if you're on Tomball Parkway, right where Luetta comes in there, just north of that, just right there on the on the feeder road off of Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine.

Those of you who've been around there know and I mean everybody in the area knows it. Since they've been around since nineteen seventy three, it's become a very famous

and beloved place. I mean people or they go in there all the time because they know when they go in there, they're going to get expert advice whether you're trying to diagnose something, identify something, find a plant that fits that space, to create a container of multiple plants that will look good when you get home and plant it.

They're all that in fact that you can just buy them already put together there at Plants for All Seasons, Well, their section of the fertilizers and soil products for getting the brown stuff right is exceptional. The wide variety organic synthetic. You get to make your choice. And remember when you go into Plants for All Seasons and you buy one of the wonderful plants that they have, and boy are they ever loaded up on seasonal color right now looks good.

Grab one of their containers. I've got a beautiful container I got there that is just always a showstopper in the landscape. And grab some of the fertilizer and the soil based products so that you can have success create that foundation. Plants for All Seasons dot com is a website. Here's a phone number two eighty one three seven six sixteen forty six. I'm going to head now out to Westbury and talk to Anthony. Hey, Anthony, welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Skip.

get a little bit better drainage in there. But either way, it's a it's a forgiving plan as long as you have good drain holes and it doesn't stand in water.

I tried hard this summer. I hate to tell you this, but I had one that I can't remember how long it took the water, and it was in too small of a container and it started getting that kind of weird. I don't know. Gray Brown looked to the green and I say, I guess I better water my olive ara again. It's definitely it's definitely not a diva. It's not a diva. Its back great. Thanks Familiar Health. Yeah, thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. Anthony asmite is

a micro nutrie supplement, and remember what are micros. Micros are essential nutrients. You cannot grow a plant without twenty plus nutrients. Most of those are micronutrients, the majority are and you take one of those out and if you don't have any of it, the plant can't grow, it cannot live. It's amazing. It's essential, but it doesn't need much. It just needs a little bit as m it goes a long way. You can put it out once a year. I'll get you a soil test sometime and look at

what you have in your soil and what's needed. That's the best way to fertilize with any kind of fertilizer asmide or standard types of nitrogen, phosphorus potassium fertilizers. That's the way to know for sure. But I can tell you this most people about it. Once a year, put azmide out, sprinkle it down, and those crust minerals that are mined out of the ground get into your soil

and they provide that bank account. So if your plant needs a little bit of manganese, or if your plant needs a little bit of you fail in the blank, you're going to find the micro nutrients are in the soil bank account. They're ready to go. That's how that works. K Scott to Montgomery. Here, we're going to talk to Joe. Hey, Joe, welcome to guarden Line.

follow that starting in the spring. All right, very good, appreciate your LP. Have a good day. All right, Thank you very much. You take care. Bye bye, Joe. Well you are listening to Guardline. We're here to answer your gardening questions. You can give me a call. It's seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I wanted to take just a moment talk a little bit

about that. I get questions a lot where people don't don't understand about numbers on fertilizer bags and numbers on a bag. When you see it's almost always three numbers, and that's nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium expressed as a percentage. So if you you know, if you have a fertilizer and it's got three numbers on the bag, the first number is the percent nitrogen, the second numbers the percent phosphors,

the third numbers percent potassium, and those are ratios. And you hear me recommend fertilizers and everyone I recommend, I believe in I use it works, but know this that everybody's lawn can be different. You may have phosphors through the roof and your neighbor not have any. That's almost impossible, but it could happen. Same thing with potassium or magnesium or other things. And so I encourage people to do soil testing because that helps you know exactly what you

need to add. You know, if you're baking a let's say you're baking a cake right now, and you're mixing stuff up in the bowl, and you call me and say, although I'm not a chef for sure, but you call me, hey, skip making a pound cake? Do I need to add more salt, sugar, or flour or what here on this baking powder or whatever? And I, well, I don't even know what's in the cake yet, So tell me the recipe, tell me what's in the bowl, then I know what need to add. Right. That's what a soil test does.

It tells you what's in the bowl. So if you got a recipe and you know what's already in there, then you know what you need to add if things are needed. And as a general guide my schedules, the things I put out there, the products I put out there are gonna work for years and years and years. You'll be fine. But if you really want to tweak things, just occasionally do a sall test and check because you never know something could be way low or way high, and it's easy to fix that. It's very easy to

fix that. All right. I hope that helps you little well. I hear music going. That means we're heading up at the top of an hour break. If you would like to give us a call, get on the boards. You can be first up, come back seven one three two one two k t RH Hey, I am looking forward to heading out to wild Birds Unlimited out there in Kingwood next Saturday. This is my final appearance for a year.

Folks Next Saturday and Wildbird's Unlimited is located at the corner of West Lake Houston Parkway and Kingwood Drive, next to the h B or UH. Here's a description up from my own heart across from Torchy's Tacos, Oh Gosh. I'll be there from twelve to two. Twelve to two, so eleven thirty. Stop at Torchy's fuel up, walk across the parking lot. Bring me your plants, bring me your pictures. Let's solve problems and make your garden beautiful.

Buchana's Native Plants. If you if you go in and say, I want something that's just native here the greater Houston area. I want something that's native to this region. I mean, they can fix you up either way. I want something that it's native and attracts butterflies or hummingbirds. I want something that's native and grows in the shade. I want something. You see what I'm saying. They've got it all there and they know what they're talking about. But there's also

a place for house plants. Their houseplant greenhouse is huge and it's beautiful and if you like succulents, you're gonna get real happy there. And all the stuff they have their gift shops are loaded up and beautiful just for the holidays. You know, ready to go. But I'll tell you something else. They have fruit trees. Do you know that they You can get blueberries, you can get citrus, you can get all kinds of different even some tropical

types of fruit. They're at Buchanan's Native Plant So now you need to go to the website, which is Buchanan's Plants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com. Sign up for the newsletter. It's loaded with information. Go to the resources link, look at the articles, look at the growing guides, look at the how to videos. It's it's really a wealth of information and it's a fun place to shop too, very fun place to shop. So go by there, have some fun. Get out. This afternoon me a good time

to get out to Buchanan's Native Plants. If you would like to give us a call, the phone number you would need to use this seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. That is it, and we will get you up here. It's one of those lulls in the phone calls here, so I always like kind of tell you that, because here's the deal. When you know, when you call in and you're having to wait, nobody likes to do that, and I try to keep that

to a minimum as we do it here. But there are certain times it's just quiet, and typically the end of the day on Sunday morning, here comes all the calls and I'm trying to get everybody in. So anyway, just kind of giving you an update. That's a score that Nelson's Plant Foods has a wide variety of products. They've got the turf Star line that's everything you need for your lawn. They've got the nutri Star line, which is specific types of fertilizers. You know, they're nutri Star

products for example for trees and shrubs. They got nutra Star type products for different groups of plants. But I want to talk a little about color Star. Color Star has been well known for a long long time. This nineteen thirteen six fertilizer comes in plastic canisters. I suppose you can buy by the bag too, well, you can buy by the way, but most people get a little caster of it and whenever they're doing a flower bed, they follow the label, sprinkle it out there and then

plant their plants. Mix it in the soil. Plant their plants about every three to four months, just do some more color Star on that area. It will cause blooming to happen because it gives the plants the things they need to grow and thrive and bloom. Professional landscapers have been using color Star for a long time. You know, it's created like forty years ago. About forty years ago.

Homeowners have known it for a long time. Got five different kinds of nitrogen in it, five different sources of nitrogen. That's really good to have a blend like that. And then they've got organic bone meal in there. They've got blood meal in there. That's part of the nutrient mix to feed the soil and to feed your plants. Color Star from Nelson's find it in a lot of places.

Look for little canisters. Some places around town even have refills where you know how you go into the grocery store and you own some more peanuts, You pull the handle and get a bag full of peanuts. You can do that with Neilson Plant Food some of their products at a number of places around town too, which saves on plastic and which also is more economical. You're not buying a new plastic jar full of stop. So just a tip for the whys and those looking to save

a bucker two in the process. You're not going to go wrong with color Star. It's an excellent, excellent product. The phone number is seven to one to three two one two k t r H. If you would like to give us a call. Uh are you someone who you drive up to your house and you look at the landscape and you go, you know, okay, that's that's okay,

that's nice. But there's something missing. You know, there's I don't I don't see the eye catching thing where you know you can't drive by without noticing this gorgeous flower bed or this beautiful flowering tree in the front, or you know what I'm saying, or maybe the way you've laid it out. Okay, let me can we talk.

uh and when that happened. You know, you have beautiful plants and you go shopping and say, oh, I gotta have this plant, and you bring it home where I'm gonna oh, there's a little place there and squeeze it in, and you're not looking at seasons like what blooms. When you may have all your yard on the left side bloom in the spring, on the right side bloom in the summer or fall. You're not considering design and aesthetics and colors and all that. If you're that kind of person,

you should call Pierce Scapes. You can be the one who says, I want to use these kinds of plants in my yard. I love these plants. Or just tell them I want something's very drop resilient, I want something blooms in fall or whatever. They'll do it. You go to Pierscapes dot com, Piercescapes dot com or call them two eight one three seven fifty sixty. And when you have professional help in designing a landscape, it can be gorgeous. Now, if you want to go on being a plant collector,

that's fine, go for it. But I'm just saying, you know, especially out front for that curb appeal, curve appeal, get some help and getting the design in. I know, and I'm telling you listen, I am a plant collector. I do that kind of thing. I can't say how many times I've come home I've got a plant, right I got two plants right now. They're in pots sitting in my house, and I'm trying to figure out what in the heck am I gonna do with I love these plants.

I want these plants. They came home because I love them and want them, not because I know where I'm gonna put them.

Kingwood wild Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive. It's in the intersection there of West Lake, Houston and Kingwood. Right, there's a big old h be there. Well. Wild Birds is behind the torches Tacos. So when you're on Kingwood Drive and you see torches tacos, if it's before twelve o'clock, go ahead and neat. If it's after twelve o'clock, come see me. We'll go eat afterwards. I'll be there from

twelve to two. Bring me samples. I'd love to help you with the plants that you're struggling with, or the ideas that you're looking for, or the bugs that you need help with identifying. Let's do that. I'll be there all right, folks, time take a break when we come back. Christine, you're first up. All right, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line, Ajar. We're all smallest violin. You've heard that

phrase I mentioned before, that's what the song drive. All right, guys, we're going to head straight out to the phones here and we're gonna go to Christine and Magnolia. Hey Christine, welcome to guard Line.

something else I'll want to. They've got a lot a lot of proven winters plants, and they have a really good collection of salvia's too, you know, rocking the blues. And they're just a whole bunch of new varieties of Salvia's that they carry. So check them out. They're they're likely to have it. They don't, I'll bet they can get it. And so they're real good about when they can get stuff in bringing it in a future shipment, you know. So just see that's where.

the second. When you're going to do fall long care. Do you wait until you see weeds to put on barricade? No, you put it on ahead of time. Do you wait until you see brown patch circles to put on egal turf funder side? No, you put it on ahead of time. It's taken up by the roots to fight the disease when it shows up. Do you wait until it's so cold the grass is barely taking up stuff from the roots anymore to put down fall special No? You do

it now. Get them all done now, one, two, three, easy, easy. That's the Texas three step from nitroposs. You can do them all on the same day. Just don't put them on the same hopper. Just go out there and fertilize, go out there and put the barricade, go out there and put the funsize. Whichever of those products you you can do all three, Or if you typically don't have brown patch problems, well maybe you don't need the eagle turf.

If you're not over water and overfertilizing and you haven't had that problem, if your lawn is good and dense, maybe you don't need the barricade. I'm just saying. I'm not saying you have to put out everything all the time. I'm just saying, those are the three things that are happening now that you need to take care of, and if they've been a problem, you definitely need to do it. But certainly all lawns that fall special winter riser to

get it ready for winter very important. We're going to go back now to the phones to northwest Houston and talk to Barbara.

them right away. But I think on those you're going to be okay. It is it is most likely ninety percent sure. This is nothing to worry about. This is just give them a good soaking, you know, whenever they're dry, and this fall snuck up on us. It just wasn't blazing hot like summer was, but it was hot and it was dry. It was a long time and we've we're seeing a lot of what you're describing. So I think you can worry about this one.

begin a conversation. Maybe that's too painful to be funny, but I think it's hilarious. We're going to go to the west side and talk to Carl. Now, Hey, Carl, welcome to garden Line. Thank you sir.

fine textured product. Okay, I would use a handspreader, the low kind you go through the yard and you're turning it and walking, cause you can set those to put out a small rate, and I would go north and south across the yard, and then I would look at how much I used go east and west across the yard, and the more you kind of do that crisscross and you under apply. You can always come back and apply more. But what I've had two calls today, people that started

off thinking they were on the right setting. They got less than halfway through the yard and they were out, and so obviously they weren't putting it out the right rate. So I would go that route. I do that with fertilizer and other things too. You can always come back and make another pass across them to get the rest of it out. But when you run out, that's a problem.

Perfect well, great show, Thank you sir, right and don't forget to water that eagle inkral when you get done with it, because the roots are going to take it up. And you got to get that done real soon, because I'm already seeing bron patch in area of yards. Thanks sir. All right, Well, I guess people. I talk to people all the time, and they say things like I can't grow anything. I have trouble growing that. I tried that and I killed it, or I did this or did that,

or what's the secret to? And then they fill in a plant plant And you know, there are a lot of things plants need. Plants need sunlight, plants need water, plants need good drainage. But I would say the one primary, single most important thing is good soil so the plant can thrive in it. And how do we do that? I call soil brown stuff? And what is brown stuff? Brown stuff is the soil particles that you have on your site, send, silk, clay, whatever you have on your site.

So brown stuff is the organic matter that's in the soil. We call that compost when we're adding it. But nature creates organic matter in a process, a very slow version of composting, if you will. And the brown stuff is the nutrients, the nitrogen, phosphor's, potassium, and twenty plus other nutrients it plants need. Starting with the brown stuff means you start with the foundation for success. It's like building

a house. Would you go out there on the you know, the beach and start laying two by fours on the ground to build your beach home. No, you wouldn't. That. That's a horrible foundation. It would never make it well. We do that when we plant without preparing the soil. Go to Cienamultch. If you're south of town. Ciena Maltch is just in your neighborhood. It's near near oh I guess you could say Highway six and two eighty eight somewhere in that region near Sienna. It's on FM five

twenty one, five twenty one. Here's the website. Just write this down. Cienamultch dot com, cinamlts dot com. They've got bagged soil products, they have bulk soil products, and they have fertilizers and they have them on all the brands that I recommend on guard line. I cannot recommend this place enough. So we're talking about things like landscaper's pride. We're talking about things like the products from heirlooms soils, for example, we're talking about things like Microlife or Nelson's

fertilizers or Nitrophoss fertilizers or Medina fertilizers. We're talking you about some best control stuff they have. But when you go to Siena or you call them up and have them to deliver it. By the way, they're closed today, but they're open Monay through Friday seven thirty to five, and they are open on Saturdays from seven thirty to two. They'll deliver within about twenty miles for a delivery fee, or you can just go get it however you want to go about it. The main thing is just do it.

You're its fall planting season. Don't stick a ground in the plant in the soil that's not prepared. Don't stick a plant in the ground that's not prepared. I though another way you can put it, if you like Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers, is don't PLoP a plant in another prepared plot. Don't do it. You spent money on that plant. You can envision the flowers or the fruit or the vegetables or whatever it's going

to have. Realize that dream. By starting with the soil, brown stuff before green stuff, and sanamlch is a great place to do that. We're going to go now to Michael in Galveston. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden Line. Well, good morning. Hey.

We've got to open lines right now. Seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. I'll be right back. I feel that be right now. Let's let's talk. What do you want to talk about? Seven one three two one two k t RH. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, skip Rictor, and we're here to help you have a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and have more fun in the process.

That's what we want to see happen. Give a call, we can make that happen, or he'll make that happen. And you know, gardening is fun and learning is forever. Do you know this gardening keep I'll tell you this, gardening keeps you young. And one reason is because it is a forever, hopeful, optimistic process. Now, I know you get discouraged and things. I understand that, but really, when you buy a seed, take a look at a handful of seeds, it is just dead detritus in your hand.

But when you can look at a seed and see a tomato, you're starting to get it. You're starting to get it. And gardening is hope. When I purchase a pack of seat, when I purchase a plan at the garden center, somebody just calling about salvia is a while ago and we're talking about going bout Arburgat and getting that salvia. I'll walk into arbagate and I'll see the salve. I I mean, maybe have a fluid blooms on. It doesn't need to That's what people like to pick out.

And once the balloom's on them, I pick that up. I already can see it in the landscape grown. It's full size with hummingbirds coming in to get the nectar. You know, I mean I can see like that and you can too. I know you can do this. You do it every time you buy a peach tree and you can taste peaches. I mean you just stop, closize a minute, think about what a peach tastes like. See, you can do that. And gardening is a hopeful, hopeful process.

And we are optimists as gardeners. We believe in the future. You know, to plant, they say, to plant a tree is to believe in the future. They also say the best time to plant a tree is forty years ago. The second best time is today. And they also say, I'm full of quotes today. They also say that a society is great when old men plant trees under whose shade they will never set. That is good thinking. I like that. The point is gardening is an eye to the future. It's an eye to hope. And it keeps

you young. It keeps you It keeps your body young by moving around, and actually it keeps your mind young. It does. And I'm telling you it's therapy. Gardening is therapy and it really does work. So I keep talking about that because I believe in it and I want you to believe in it too. I mean, it is it is absolutely so true. So anyway, so what is all that about. Well, I'll tell you what that's about. That means get out there and try it. That means learn.

Listen to guard line all the time, set your clocks, say hey, wake up, guard lines coming on. I don't know some are going to do that, but I think you should. I used to say in the morning. First thing that if you look over next door and the lights are off, go bang on the door. Tell your neighbors they're missing garden line. They will thank you so much for that. Maybe not right away, but they will come to appreciate it. They sure will. We want to

learn more, we want to have fun. So I like these appearances like the one I'm going to make it Wilbirds Unlimited out in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, right behind Torchies next Saturday, Next Saturday, from twelve noon to two pm. It's okay if you want to go eat at Tarchi's just get over there about twelve noon because I don't want to sit overhead warbirds watching you eat at tarchis they You're going to make me hungry. So come on out, bring me some samples, let's get a picture made, and

let's get you whatever kinds of questions you have. Let's get a mention. I'm have some giveaways out there too. I always do. Let me do these things, So come on out. Look forward to seeing you. All right, We're going to head up to Type Cypress, Texas and talk to Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to garden.

some really cool, fun ideas. That's part of the fun of gardening. That is part of the fun of gardening. To do that. I talking about shades and things over plants, and one of the things I will often do is is just stretch a piece of shade fabric. You can buy shade fabric pretty inexpensively, little sections, maybe it's a

little tart that's a shade tar or something. Cut it up and figure a way to just string it up over plants at an angle, you know, find that place where from especially after lunch and up to about four o'clock or so, when it's about the hottest time of the day, you can protect plants. Uh, And it works, it works really well. All right, Well, you are listening to Guarden Line, and I'm about to take a little

break here we come back. We got one more second segment, folks, so hang around if you'd like to give me a call. Seven to one three two one two kt RH. That's seven one three two one two k t r H and I will be right back. All right, folks, it is time to kick off this last hour, last hour, last segment of the show, and we're going to jump right to the phones and get going here. We're going to head to Cyprus and let's see no excuse me, we're going to head to Uh. We're gonna head out

and talk to Jay. Hey, Jay, welcome to Garden Line.

in the environment, and you have to respray it. If you're on broccoli, you know how water balls up and runs off the leaves of the cold crops like broccoli. You're going to need to put a little bit of soap in the spray to make it stick a little bit. It's called a surfactant. You can buy surfactant where you buy pesticides like BT or you can you know, put a couple of drops the dish soap in there, but

it's better to buy a surfactor to do it. But that'll make it stick because you need it to stick because you when the caterpillar feeds, you want them to eat it. And I if you can spray upward from under the planet's better because those young, young caterpillars usually start under the leaves when they're real small, and then they eventually are eating the whole leaf, top and bottom.

But the other object is spin spin no said s p I N O S A D. There's several brands of spin no SID and that also kills caterpillars naturally.

things done in your lawn. Now, Yegg, you can do them next week and do them the week after that, but the sooner you do it the better. So don't put the lawn care things off, all the things we've been talking about this morning, don't put that off another day. Go ahead and get it done this week. If you're going to do fall planting, we are in prime season

for getting that done. Get it done, whether it's shrubs or trees, which you absolutely can't find a better time than fall, and then winter is right next to it in terms of good time to plant. Get it done. Let's get it done. You're gonna get the advantages of it. I know that things get I get busy. You know, I've got plants at pots and outside waiting for me to get off the radio for crying out loud and come plant them. But make it a priority this week

to get those things planted. If you want to put in perennials like salvias and ornamental grasses, and perennial herbs like a regano and rosemary and whatnot, get those in now. You will be so far ahead when it comes to next spring. And when the heat arrives, those plants you planted now will take on the summer much much better. They just have a better system.

much as I can. I'm very fortunate that I have well water that I can use, and I can water often without having a large cost.

So that's the answer to that. As far as those soils, organic matter, organic matter, organic matter, find bed mixes, find compost decomposed, you know, mulches that have been rotted down and ground down into a good quality product. Anytime you can improve the soil is a good idea. And just remember and sand, you water more often, but you don't have the water as much because water goes down through a sand much faster than it will through a clay.

And as far as fertilizing, you want to fertilize in small doses or use a slow release product because also nutrients wash out of a sand more readily. So it's it's kind of a smaller doses along the way to keep them wet and to keep them fed. Okay, I appreciate that.

you know, cross the country looking for Celsius. Just bone eight weed beater Ultra or Carpentra Zone, but don't use them when the temperatures above mid eighties and they'll work.

next Saturday. Next Saturday, the ninth of November, from twelve noon to two. I'm gonna have giveaways, We're gonna answer your gardening questions, and you're gonna learn a lot about birds while we're out there too. It is a fun store, a fun place. It's Kingwood Drive, west Lake Houston Parkway, next to HGB and behind torchiese Hako make plants put on your counter. Come on out. Look forward to meeting you.