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it that way. You are listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. That's the important part. Don't forget it's supposed to be fun. Gardening is fun. It's supposed to be fun. And when we get out there and follow a few simple principles, the plants just they just step right into line when you give them what they want. If you are wondering, like what's the top of the

list items to get done this week? Or what do I need to do out in the landscape, well, first of all, you know the answer to that, because it's your place. But I would just suggest that our lawns are waking up, and this will be a really good time to make sure that your lawn has all the things that it needs. You need to do a first

mowing that down a little bit lower than normal. I don't like to use the word scalping because that sounds like you're cutting it almost to the ground, and that you don't want to do that, but you want to cut it back, get some of the old stuff out of there if you haven't already done that. If you've got weeds and you haven't mode yet, those weeds are

cool season weeds and they have seeds. And when you do the first mowing, go ahead and bag the clippings and get them out of there because they are full of weed seeds and you're not gonna get all the weed seeds out, but you get a bunch of them. If you don't do that, all those weed seeds will be back and next fall they'll sprout. So you're right

back in the same place actually, but worse next year. Now, speaking of weed seeds, if you have not put down something to prevent summer weeds, and you've got some thin lawn areas where sunlight can get through and hit the soil, well it's time to make sure and get that done. Some of our summer weeds have already been sprouting. And

barricade is a product knight Foss puts out. It comes in a ten pound bag, covers about five thousand square feet and when you put it down and then watered in, and by the way, with a pre emergent, you always have to watered in because that gets the product into the soil surface. And barricade sticks to the soil better than most pre emergents I know, and it adheres up there near the surface. So when a weed seed tries to come through and sprout, it shuts it down. It

forms a barricade. If you will, you're going to find barricade and other night Foss products in a lot of places. You go down on Bissonet or West Teimer. There's bearing hardware on Bissonet one on West Teimer as well. You can head out to the Richmond Rosenberg area to enchanted forest and run into a good opportunity to get some

night foss products there. Also. If one thing about the pre emergency needed to realize though, is they last a certain period of time, and so you forty five days, typically sixty days kind of depends on the weather, how much you put out and everything like that, and you don't want to overdo them when you put them out, But at some point they break down and then weeds can begin germinating again. And so just keep in mind that it doesn't mean you won't see another weed until fall.

So some people will repeat that application when they're in a situation where weeds we say weed pressure is high, meaning there's just a lot of weeds germinating and you're having to work at it to keep them in line. Well, I told you guys yesterday that I wasn't going out to Warren Southern Gardens. I was originally scheduled to go out yesterday afternoon. We have moved that to April. The nineteenth April nineteenth, that's the day before Easter, and I'll

be out at Warren Southern Gardens. And you know, those of you in Kingwood, you know you've got two great garden centers. You've got Warren Southern Gardens which is on North Park, and you got Kingwood Garden Center there on Stone Hollow. And looking at the stock that they brought in and some recent examples of some of the plants and product that place. Both places they're just loaded up. Kingwood Garden Center's got a wonderful little gift shop for a lot of cool stuff that even non gardeners on

your list would be very interested in. When you go in, you're going to find at these places Microlife fertilizers, nitrophoss fertilizers, Nelson turf Star, you're going to find soils from heirloom soils. You're going to find Nelson plant food, and the jars too. And by the way, they are refilled stations for that you can take your empty clear screwtop lid jars that you purchase those fertilizers and and take them back in

and refill them there for a very economical rate. They got the mosquito dunks and stock now too, and here we are. It's definitely mosquito season. I saw a little I have a water fountain that had been sitting stagnant for a while, I know, I know better than that, and had a little mosquito wrigulars forming in it. And so that's where you put the mosquito dunks because they float and they prevent mosquitos for about a month.

when you're out there. The annual color is outstanding, nice selections of seeds. They are both open seven days a week. Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center are open seven days a week, so that's nice. Pretty much anytime you want to go. You have got a place to go out there. I think it's yesterday. I was talking about Ciena Mulch as being like the one stop shop for everything brown stuff, and on garden Line, I talk about brown stuff all the time, brown stuff before green stuff.

I don't know it makes sense to me to put it that way. If you don't know, well what does that mean? Well, green stuff is plants. That's the fun stuff you go and you buy and you put in the ground. It's vegetables, it's it's fruit, trees, it's flowers, it's your lawn. Brown stuff is the soil and everything in it that essentially is a foundation for success with the green stuff. Cina Moltch is the place you go to have success with the green stuff because they have

the composts, they have the bed mixes. Then they have the mulches that go on top of the ground to fight weeds and moderate soil temperature and protect the soil, and they have the nutrients that go in the ground. So, for example, you go there, you're gonna get composts, you're gonna get bed mixes and all kinds of things like that, but you're also going to get the main fertilizer products I talk about all the time here on garden Line. Sienna Mulch dot com. That's the website. Go check them out.

I'm going to take a break and I'll come right back.

out that you can, that would be good. And just know that the clovers and the chick weeds and the hembits and the bluegrass and your bluegrass and all that that's going to all die out when the as the weather heats up. So what you're concerned about is the new weeds coming on and that's where the barricade would stop that. And so what did you I'm sorry, in your description, did you say that you had or had not used barricade already this year?

you need. It's going to help the most because it gives your lawn a chance to fill in.

And then there's other people on the other end of the spectrum that as long as the ground is covered with green, they're happy, and the weeds, some of them flour you know, like chick weed is very attractive to honeybees, and so are dandelions, and you know, the pollinators and things like that. I mean, I don't know where you are on that spectrum, probably somewhere in between the two extremes. But wherever you are, it's your yard. Do what you want.

Most people are wanting to have a nice, pretty yard, and so we kind of focus on that way. But listen, I deal with a lot of different kinds of folks and I'm not here to tell you how to live. I'm just here to tell you if you want this or that out of a plant to have it. And if this planned is the lawn and you want it to look good, first thing is to make that lawn dense. I just finished a publication I'm about to put on the website called lawn Care one oh one. And that's

the bottom line. The bottom line is not to just spend your year spraying products or spreading products to kill anything that might show up disease, insects, weeds, and so on. It's to have a good, healthy lawn. And the number one way is to have a strong lawn that's been properly mode watered and fertilized. And it's hard for folks to believe it, but mow water fertilized, that's a secret

to a successful lawn. And we have other things, Yes, there's such a thing as brown patch and takeoff patch and chinchbugs and sid web worms and grubs and I don't know, weeds, annual perennial weeds. Yeah, they're there. But first is mowater fertilized. First is a dense, healthy lawn and that takes care of most of the problems. Then when you got some weeds that show up, and they will, there are there are weeds that can grow in a dense, healthy lown. You deal with those. But that's that's more

the exception. That's not the way of life.

Brew and it is an outstanding product. About about every six months you can put it down because although it's a it's a fast release, it doesn't release everything fast and so over time you're going to get a spread out release of the nitrogen in there to help with evening the growth rate out. Now the products in Bruce's Brew will help also in your root develop and by keeping the avoiding the peaks of nitrogen, you know, the flushes of nitrogen, you get a good root system. I

wish I could. I know this is radio but I'm holding my hands up in the air trying to show you something. But I saw one time a research thing where they had three crocks of water and a little lid on them with grass planted through the lid so you could pick the lid up and see the roots. And on the left hand side just had a picture of this with me. The left hand side was grass. It was not growing very much at all, and it was kind of a sharp, trusee green. It wasn't a

healthy green. And then in the middle was a grass, I'll just say normal looking. And on the right hand side was a grass that was very tall and dark, dark green. And when you pick the roots up, the roots on the middle and the left, the proper fertilizing and the not enough fertilizing were very deep and extensive. That grass plant was sending those roots out to build a big root system to pull in the things that needed.

But the grass that have been overfertilized with nitrogen that look wonderful on top, by the way, you get to mow it a lot when that happens. When you picked it up, it had less root system than normally fertilized grass. Now going into summer, when you got grubs chomping roots, when you've got one hundred degrees when it's not raining, you need a good root system, and so overfertilizing in one point in time with nitrogen is not a good thing.

It's not a good thing to have any nutrient out of balance, but especially when it comes to the nitrogen, a gradual release is important. Now I said all that, but I was talking about Bruce's brute. Now some plant food. When you create a good quality bank account of nutrients in the soil, you have a good, healthy grass plant that's going to be less vulnerable to pests and diseases, and it's going to have a beautiful it's going to create that beautiful lawn that you want. But I say

it a lot here. If a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon is not necessarily better. And so keep that in mind. It is true with fertilizers too, the proper amount. And that's why we like slow releases because they release for us slowly. We don't have to go out there and spoon feed the grass every day to get that proper amount out. All right, Well, there you go, Nelson Plant Feed. By the way, those Turfstar products from Nelson's are available all over town, easy to find them, in fact, throughout

this whole listening area. You're going to find Nelson plant products even settle across the state. There's people out of state that order those things because they found that they work. You're listening to Garden Line phone number this Sunday morning. By the way, Happy Sunday morning to you. Seven one three two one two kt r H. Seven one three two one two kt r H. See I today when I'm done with the show this afternoon. I've got some

tasks that I'm looking forward to getting to. I've got some plants that have been sitting on the front porch waiting for me to plant them when I'm not running around doing horticulture business stuff. But anyway, they are ready to go in the ground. And when I pull them out of the pots, here's what the first thing I do is I lay the pot over and slide the plan out. And if it's a little tiny tomato plant,

well that's not as important. But even with that, you don't want to just grab the plant and pull it up out of the pot. Sometimes you can do some damage to the base of the stem where it's attached, and sometimes plant roots will stick to the pot. So lay it over, kind of bump the pot and slide it out and then look at the root system. And that's what I'll do. If the plant's going to be in the ground a long time, like a tree or

a shrub. If you see a lot of roots going around in a circle, cut them because they don't unwind underground and they don't move out and establish as well as if you cut them. And it's hard to cut roots. I know that you're thinking, I'm going to kill this plant. No you're not, No, you're not. It's like pruning back the top. If you prune a plant back, what happens. It sprouts out several new shoots everywhere you prune to

shoot out, and it does. If you've seen that, the same thing happens in the roots you cut those roots. If you were to cut the roots and put it back in the pot or put it in the ground and then pull it up in about two or three weeks, you would see all these new, white, healthy roots venturing out from back behind where you cut them. That is how a plant grows, and that helps avoid a circling root growing bigger as the trunk goes bigger and ending up strangling the tree. And I have seen that before.

But cut the roots before you put them in the ground and a watermen really good. With a quality product, you're going to end up having a good chance of success getting those things off on the right foot to success. I always talk about Medina's has to grow six twelve six. That's an excellent product for that, and I want to I want to talk to you a little bit about that one when I when I come back here in a minute. But that's one that I mix.

are excited. I am excited about that because I got a lot of things I need to get done out there in the yard and garden. If you are looking for a horticultural tourism experience for a garden center, Okay, Moss Nursery and Seabrook is when you need to go to it is. It's down there on Toddville Road in Seabrook and it is eight acres cram full of gorgeous plants.

I mean beautiful things. Flowers everywhere. They're hanging baskets full of flowers, the flats of flowers, the red bud trees, the pink Japanese magnolias, you know, those are the ones that bloom in the spring before they get leaves, and then the leaves come on and they're one of the earliest harbingers of spring.

I've even used houseplants for summer and hanging baskets like Pathos ivy coming out underneath the trees in an area like that, and then in the sun hanging baskets full of color. Thousand flats of different color plants at Moss there. I mean that they the trucks line up down the block bringing them stuffs all the time. From Alyssam to Zenia's a to z. They have bones eye, both mature ones and starter plants, so if you like to try that as a hobby. They probably have fifty eight hundred

different kinds of bones. I think that's really cool. And while you're there, check out those quirky T shirt designs that Jim comes up with. At Moss Nursery. Jim Moss has a thing a series. It's the Eyeball Plant and you just have to go see it. It's funky stuff, all right. Moss Nursery, seventy year old, family operated eight acre source of everything you need, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. Go to Moss Maas Nursery dot com or give them a call to eight one four seven four twenty four

eighty eight. That would be a fun outing this afternoon or anytime this week. Let's go back to the phones. We're going to go to Austin County and talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, welcome to garden Line.

it for transplanting. It's not the only thing you.

twelve six It's easy to do. You put a little bit in water. You're not going to burn with it. I'm not gonna hurt the plants. I mean, you can use it a folio spray. It's that safe. But it works. And so when you're doing a new plant in the ground, the goal is to take that transplant and get it off to a good start. I like to say you wanted to hit the ground running, and medina has to grow six twelve six days, just exactly that in my vegetable garden. If you could see it right now, you

would probably wonder what happened. And it's because I just did a major renovation of the whole thing. I've got leaves in the walkways. I'll talk about that more maybe later, and then in the beds I have shredded leaves and it's all well, all barren. I've got a number of different kinds of multiplying onions right now, but tomatoes, some tomatoes are out there. I've got a pepper, of course

out there, some strawberries and things. But I'm getting ready because I do a lot of okra breeding every summer. It's just something I like to do. It's fun and maybe maybe if you have never tried plant breeding on your own. Sometimes it's really easy. There's some plants it's not hard to cross. But anyway, I need a lot of space for that, and I have enough for the vegetables that we want to eat, for the for the

kitchen and everything. But I'm getting ready for all those got the seeds out and one of the things I do, and boy Okra would not be happy germinating and temperatures like this morning. It likes it to warm up a little bit. But I'll pre soak this seed the night before. And I don't do this with all seed, but with a lot of them I do. Some seed have a hard seed coat. Some seed are a little slow to germinate.

But if you put them in pretty hot water. Let's say you do that this evening, okay, and then the next morning you're gonna plant, or the next day you're gonna plant. You don't want to leave in the water for a long time. Put them in pretty hot water and then just let it cool down a room temperature, and that speeds up the absorption of water into the seed. The term is imbibing. The seed imbibes the water and when water gets into that interior part of that dry

not dead. It looks dead asleep seed. It starts biochemical reactions that wakes it up, and here comes a root out, and then here comes a shootout, and all the things that help a seed become a plant start to happen once it soaks in some water. And so by doing that the night before, you get a good head start. Now sometimes this is just kind of me going on

for those of you who are interested. Sometimes with the okra, I'll soak it overnight and then I'll put it in like either moist paper towels in a zip closure bag, or I'll put it in little jars of water with a lid, but just a tiny bit of water enough where the seed is sticking up and getting oxygen. It's not completely submerged, but it's getting oxygen, but it's still

staying moist. And then just watch them for a few days, and if your seeds are not all viable, if they're not, like maybe it's an old package of seed and you're wondering which of these is still going to come up, you'll see it little rootles start out, and don't leave it long. Go ahead and plant it. When you first start to see the root come out, and you'll have a better way of knowing how which seeds to plant, which ones are going to come up, or how many

to plant or whatever. Anyway, that's just a little added tip. Not something you have to do for sure, but something I think that you may want to give a good try. League City Feed is down in League City. It's on It's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of ninety six. It serves that whole region down there, and it's that typical old time feedstore that I just grew up in. I love nitrophos as, microlife, heirloom soils, you know, Nelson platfood. It's got everything you need to have success

with your plants. They carry the bags out for you if you want them to do that. They're open Monday through Saturday nine to six. Are close today two eight one three three two one six one two. This is a third generation of Thunderbirds running League City Feed, and the stores just as good as it ever was. I love going in there.

it doesn't release it all at once. It's good that nitrogen is going to be released over sixteen weeks and it works well. It's easy to spot in the store because it's a silver bag silver Nitropas Super Turf silver slow release. That's what you need to remember. Works on all our southern turf crisis in Augustine, Bermuda and Zysia.

You're going to find it at places like in Chinned Gardens down Richmond Rosenberg area, if you are around Court Hardware on South Maine and Stafford, or m and d up in Cyprus on Luetta Road, places that carry nitrovoss products. I was talking about earlier, the idea of you know, watering in our plants really well with a soluble fertilizer food and just something you always want to remember and do. By the way, now I wanted to just mention a little bit more about that leaves in the walkway that

are in my garden. In the garden, I put leaves in my walkways. I've got the beds, the race and then the walkways. And rather than you know, having to deal with weeds and mud and when it range too much and stuff like that, I just pile leaves and I gather them. In the fall season of the year, I just gathered a whole bunch when all the the live oak leaves came off the trees, and you know, put those in and I put them really thick in there and walk on them, and they just decompose away.

They go down over time, so you keep adding them to it, just keep adding them and adding them. It's a weed free walkway. It's an all weather walkway. The end of the season, you're gonna still see dry leaves on top. But if you'll rake those back, what you'll see down below is chocolate brown decomposing leaf mold. It's called leaf mold, not bread mold. It's just a term

used that means it's about a halfway to compost leaf. Okay, you can still see little flat sections like oh, this was a leaf broken apart, but it's good stuff and that can go right into your beds. Mix it in good organic matter and then just lay the old dry leaves back down and start the process again. If you want to speed it up, you can throw some fertilile

are on. It's some nitrogen, primarily rote a. Till it in to break them up, chop them up a little bit, make sure it stays moist during dry times when we don't get rain. But that's a way you can make a lot of compost in your walkways while having the benefits of no weeds an all weather surface. Just a tip for you to think about. One of my favorite garden centers to go visit is Enchanted Forest. Jenni Forest is down in Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact, it's on

FM twenty seven fifty nine. And in Chanted Forest always always is an interesting place that is going to be loaded with every kind of plant that you would want. And I mean that because every time I go, I am so surprised at the different things they carry. Now they specialize in everything. I mean, really, how can you specialize in everything? Well, they do. At Ingented Forest, you're

going to find plants for pollinators, they great selection. You're going to find flowering trees like that Chinese fringe I've been talking about. You're going to find plants for summer heat, like Madagascar periwinkle, which most people call vinca. There's a couple of incas, so I like to call it Madagascar periwinkle. You're gonna find color plants like roses. Oh gosh, they have an awesome selection of roses, great selection of containers,

and then really cool fun stuff. You know, the unique canmade cedar houses for birds and bats and butterflies, and the yard arc you know, the decoratives, the outdoor decoratives and things. They've got everything you need there. Do you have shady areas well? Go buy visit some of their kalladiums. Look at some of the other shade loving plants that they have. All this enchanted Forest in Richmond, And here's

the website you want to use. This website Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X. Don't forget the TX dot com Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Go check it out. Check it out. You'll see what I'm talking about. Be a great place to take some friends and go visit. This afternoon. So anyway, I was kind of talking about some different tips as we go through here. You know, I think that one of the things that a lot of gardeners don't really understand is what microbes are doing in the soil and

why we talk so much about microbes. And we talk about microbes because microbes help build the soil, and microbes also help the plants. Now this is mind blowing, but did you know that there are microbes that can go up to a root and communicate with the root and cause that plant send a signal that causes the plant to grow in a different way that helps it fight a disease up on top.

There are microbes that connect, like fungi that connect one plant's roots to another to signal between those. I could do a whole show just on some of the basic things that microbes do in the soil. It's really cool. And so anytime we are helping our microbes to do well, we're helping our plants. So, for example, when you keep the soil adequately moist, when you make sure the soil is where well air rated, not water logged. Water logged,

there are microbes that can't live submerged. There are microbes that can live without any oxygen, but those are generally not good microbes. Most of those are not good microbes to have. So we want a well drained soil. That's our preference. And then another thing is organic matter in the soil compost. In the soil compost another whole show

just on what compost does. It's effect on soil structure, keeping the soil open, keeping oxygen down in the soil, well, aer orated water goes in and it drains through well, it holds moisture better if it's a sand, for example. And then the compost also is foodstock for a lot of the microbes. Now, microbes need carbon, and there's a lot of carbon in decomposing leaves, for example, but there's also carbon in some products. Swee Green is an example

that one's from nitropost. It is basically a sugar, and a sugar is basically a carbon chain, okay, And when you put that down in the soil, and organic gardeners have long known that molasses in the soil is good for some of those beneficial microbes, especially the bacteria that

it's going to benefit the soil. And Sweet Green's eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer, which is pretty high for an organic product, but you put it down and so you're getting the nitrogen in the soil, but you're also helping stimulate microbial activity. And I was just giving you a few examples. There are just a really random few, but there are hundreds and hundreds of examples of what microbes do in the soil and why we want to take care of them.

When your soil is full of microbes, your roots are going to be happy because it's going to mean the soil condition is suitable for roots also, and you're going to see results. Oh by the way, if you're looking for sweet green, you're going to find it at places really nitfoss products are carried like at Langham Cree Case Hardware on five point twenty nine m and d out in Rosenberg and let's see where. Oh you could also

go to the Acid Single Ranch, Mason Road. Those are just a few of many, many, many examples of where you get nitrofoss products. So think about that. I guess I could say, you know, hug a microbe today, but that would be kind of weird. But they do so much for us. Microbes rule the world. They do, they do, And you get me talking about microbes and I just won't shut up. In fact, I'm coming up on a break here, so I'm just gonna talk until the music makes me stop. Do you know that the microbes in

your intestinal tract through your intestinal track? Do you know that they produce more serotonin, the feel good chemical, than you do. So we benefit in just in our well being from the fact that we have microbes. Did you know that there are more cells in your body that are not you than are you? If you can't the number of cells that are you and the number of cells that are let's say, microbes that are in through your intestinal there's more of them than there are you. Basically,

you're a school bus for carrying passengers around. That's true, but they all do good things they do, and it's a cool, cool thing. Without microbes, we wouldn't have cheese without microbes. That wouldn't have beer. Without microbes, we wouldn't have a lot of things that we enjoy in life. And when it comes to plants therein take a plan into space and squirt fertilizer water on the roots hanging in mid air, floating around in space, and shine a light on it and grow a tomato. You can do that.

But in the natural system, it's all run by the microbes. They're doing it all and when we make them happy, we make the plants happy. That makes us happen. I'm gonna take a little break when we come back. Mike and Brenham. It'll be our first stop.

called micro Life. Okay, Microbes rule the world, and Microlife products are not only do they feed microbes, but they're chalk full of microbes and they're loaded with microbes. And so you take a product like a bag of Microlife sixty four, the typical lawn fertilizer from Microlife. I say typical, it's the standard one four lawns that they do. It's a green bag, okay, and it's got billions and billions

beneficial microbes in it. It is a product that is made in such a way that it is taking organic matter and releasing the nutrients of organic matter back into the soil as microbes break that down. When you put microlife on the ground, it doesn't dissolve and the nutrients

just wash out like a salt based fertilizer. It is a It is a product that microbes chew it apart and turn all those nutrients release and some of them go through their bodies and then as they die they release them and it's just part of that organic cycle. And that is how microlife basically works. That is that is what it's based on the natural cycle. So the six two four green bag, it's time to get that on, by the way, and you can put it on several

times through the summer. It is a very gradual release, not salt based, so you're not going to burn your plants with the microlife product, and you can you can feed accordingly. Now it's a lawn fertilizer, but I use it in my vegetable gardens too. It's an excellent it's an excellent product for plants period. When you're thinking about the green bag, also think about the purple bag that's

humate's plus. The humates are basically concentrated composts. And the way I like to put it is, you start with leaves and grass clippings. Let's say you turn those into compost as they decomposed, and then you let the compost keep going and it becomes humous the final stage, and humates plus is concentrated compost in a bag, and we put it on for the benefits to the microbial life in the soil and to the soil structure and everything itself. So that's why we're doing that. So you can do

both bags, green and the purple bag. You're not going to end up with, you know, overdoing it that way. It's all right, you can do that. In fact, it's a good idea to do that. Micro Life products are sold all over town. They're easy to find, not a problem at all, most garden centers, most speed stores, most let's see Ace hardware stores, you know, Southwest Fertilizer for example, what have them, And you're going to find them at Ace hardware stores as well. Let's go out to Brenham,

and we're going to now talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.

in town? And I tell you, every time I go to another city, and I've been to a lot of them, I always they're some nice garden centers. But I always leave thinking we are so lucky here in Houston because we have north south east West the best garden centers you're going to find anywhere in one specific place. In fact, the local Chamber of Commerce to somehow grab on to that and bring people in to see botanical gardens and garden centers and whatnot. Inn Arburgate, you know, is just

a prime example of what I'm talking about. You go out to Arborgate and allow yourself some time because you're going to want to wander through. And there's a lot of wandering to do there, from the gifts ops, to the plants, to the house plant house, to the containers and everything. It is a beautiful place loaded loaded with

all kinds of good stuff. When I go to out to Arbrogate, I'm always amazed at weka what's in now, because if you went last week and then you come back this week, you're going to see some things that weren't there because they're constantly getting in new stuff. Excellent

supply of succulents out there at the Arbrogate. The color plants are just outstanding, and they have a landscape that's landscaped with plants and you can kind of see the things that they have and you kind of see them in their natural hybitat if you will, meaning natural meeting in a garden habitat. Arbrogate's a fun place and they understand that there's such a thing as brown stuff before green stuff. And they they have got you set up

with three bags. It's the one two three completely easy system. It's a food that feeds anything for root. It's an organic food. It's it's got a four four to three plus calcium and you just put it in the soil and you've got a foundation there for success with your plants. And then they have a soil for anything any application. It's got extra expanded shale in it to make sure our clay soils stay open in addition to what the organic matter does. And then they got a compost that

improves any in all soil. It's organic compass complete again, it's got some expanded shale in it as well. One, two three. You can buy these bulk if you go buy arbrogate or call them and say hey, look I need a delivery of these. They can deliver them. Buy bulk to you wherever you live. So Arburgate Garden Center just a mile and a half west of two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty, just outside on the edge of Tumble. It's a fun place to visit, and this afternoon it would be a good time to go

by and do that. Let's head out to Jersey Village and we're going to talk to George. Hey, George, welcome to garden Line.

just above the ground. And then you want immediately and that fresh cut stump to paint on a product that contains triclope here and I will spell that out for you here in one second.

are most commonly seen here. But the important thing, George is to remember to do it when that cut is fresh, when you just cut it off right right, the tree.

you're gonna have to go through living tissue. But that's why we say cut off the stump and paint it. And I even have a I have a publication of woody Weeds in the Landscape. Woody Weeds in the Landscape. It's on my webscare gardening with skip dot com. It tells you how to do it. It has a picture of how to do it, and it has tricle peer information on that.

you appreciate your call. You take care. This morning at five o'clock, my Robin, who I think when I turned my lights on in the house, that starts to wake them up. But about five o'clock, which is light to have been on for a little bit. Uh, it began to sing and I like that. I enjoy it. And we also have some barn swallows that are at the front door, and they come and go pretty fast each year.

But boy, those things when they get to chattering, I wish I had a translator to hear what they were saying, because they are giving it the business out there. Wild Bird's Unlimited is the place you go to find out all about birds, all the different birds you would want to bring into your garden. For example, I just put out my high perch hummingbird feeders. High perch hummingbird feeder that is my favorite humming bird feeder. They got those

at Wildbirds Unlimited. It's got a red top cover. It's a very flat feeder so when the birds gather around it, the hummingbirds, you can see them better and you know they're not hiding behind the feeder kind of thing. I love that feeder. They also have the Eliminator. It's a squirrel proof feeder. That is probably my favorite bird feeder of all the ones I have. I just this year I got a hopper feeder that's a recycled materials feeder.

The very tough, very durable. Got a wide roof so that when it rains like it did yesterday, the bird seed didn't get all wet. It's got a little bigger roof on it to kind of protect a little bit keep those seeds dry. Wild Birds Unlimited is also a source of quality bird seed, whether it's it's the well, the main one for right now would be the Nesting super Blend. It's got the protein and calcium necessary for birds. And you know, as they're laying the eggs they eat calcium.

As the younger growing and eat calcium for that.

this year. The Owner of wild Birds came out with something called Cardinal Confetti and it's another great blend from Wildbirds. And we had some cardinals come into our feeder like they love that stuff again, it's got all the good stuff in it, bark butter bits, peanut hats, meal worms, striped sunflower, black ole, sunflour, and on and on. They even have a feeder for it, a tube feeder. You can use it in any kind of feederod It's a good product too, but that's what you would expect from

wild Birds Unlimited. There's six stores. Wildbirds Unlimited stores clear Lake, Texas on El Dorado, Cypress, Texas on Barker Cypress. In the southern part of Houston's just south of downtown. A little bit to the west is bell Air Boulevard Wildbirds, and then out west on Memorial Drive is Houston Wildbirds. In Kingwood Drive in Kingwood another one, and then in

Pairland on East Broadway. Six stores. If you want to if you didn't write all that down, wbu dot com forward slash Houston to find the wild Birds Unlimited store near you, and I hope you'll do that, but I warn you it's addictive. I've talked about this before, but the garden, the hobby of gardening is so many things put together. It is getting outside and playing with plants, yes, but it's creating a multisensory experience outdoors. You wild bird's unlimited.

I was talking about them, well, birds, the songs they sing. That is an auditory experience. And when you create the garden that attracts birds, you get that auditory experience plus the beauty of them. They're very pretty. Then there's the visual experience of color. There's a visual experience of textures, you know, the bold leaves of an elephant ear versus the fine narrow textures of a moving grass in the wind. And that movement too, by the way, is another aspect

of the visual taking in of the garden. Then there's the sense the fragrant plants, and you do a publication on fragrant plants. I think I'll do that, And because I'm starting to add a bunch to my landscape. You sit out there with your eyes closed New Year's plugged, and you enjoy the garden, smelling the fragrance from those plants, and then the butterflies flying by thought we call those

lying flowers. That's another aspect. So see, gardening is more than just like Okay, there's a plant, there's a landscape. Take a picture that's pretty. Yes it is, but it's way more than that. It's sound, it's movement, it's sense. It's creating that little bit of Eden in your backyard, Creating that little bit of Eden that just makes it a place that you want to go, a place that you want to hang out. And you can do that

here in your own backyard, on your own property. I don't care if you live, even in a little townhome. You can create that beautiful outdoor area for sensory enjoyment. If you're planting a tree, or if you have planted a tree, you need to get what's called a three sixty tree stabilizer. Now you've seen trees that were guy wired down to the ground in three directions with wires

to hold the tree stable. It looks like they're afraid it's a rocket and going to take off because they they you know, they got that thing honkered down where it hardly can move well. Three sixty tree stabilizers different. You don't have to mess with the wires. You don't have to cut sections of garden hose so the wires don't cut into the tree. You don't have to have

steaks in the ground and wires to trip over. You plant a you drive a t post or any kind of post really into the ground, and the three sixty tree stabilizer attaches to the post, and then it attaches to the tree with a soft rubber strap that you can leave a little loose, and you should, because a little movement helps strengthen the trunk and the bracing roots at the base of the trunk. That movement makes the

plant grow stronger. Plants respond that way, just the way our muscles to being worked respond by getting stronger, more resilient. Tree trunks do the same thing. It's a principle of nature, all right. And if you most situations one tree stabilizers enough, if you've got a bigger tree, or you got a lot of you can do one kind of from the north south side, or and then one from the east west side, and then you have you've completely got it,

and you have that movement. And you can get tree stabilizers at R. C W Nursery, Dunn and Alvin or Haes Hidden Gardens over in Cenna see in a mulch Buchanan's Native plants in the Heights Arborgate out there in Tomball Plants for all seasons on the road to Tomball Tomball Parkway, right where just north of Lueta or all places where you can find the three sixty tree stabilizer. Well, it's about time for me to go to a break here point. This one came fast, you know, droning on

about some things. Well, thank you for being a listener to Garden Line. If you'd like to give us a call, you can be one of our first up when we come back at seven one three two one two k t r H. Hey, welcome back to the Garden Line.

They would tell you there's about three times as much nitrogen as phosphorus and about twice as much potassium as phosphorus. Three or four times as much nitrogen. So anyway, it's a good stuff. It's the same red orange bag that they've always had, makes it easy to spot, and the fifteen five to ten imperial nitropos Imperial can be used really,

it can be used for any kind of plants. I mean, it's not just the lawn furtiliser, but if you are putting it in the lawns, you can do small doses about every six weeks as you go through the season, or you can just use it once as a quick green up and then switch over to a slower release product,

which Knight Foss also has those Knitrofas. Imperial and other nitofas products are available at places like Plantation Ace Hardware on FM three point fifty nine down in Richmond Rosenberg In They're also available by the way at Katie Ace Hardware on pin Oak and Hiding and Feed on Studenter Airline, as well as many many other places I was visiting. We were kind of working out the switch of the

Warren's appearance from Kingwood this pat this weekend. It would would have been yesterday to the nineteenth, which, by the way, albeit Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwood on the nineteenth from twelve thirty to two thirty, and we were talking about that and then just it just reminded me of the Airloom Soils. Warrants always has an excellent supply of the

airloom soils products out there, as do many places. They are widely available, but Airloom Soils has really perfected the soil amendment process and the products that they have are outstanding. They make a really good lead mole compost, They make an outstanding veggie and herb mix. But they make mixes for pretty much anything you're looking for that whether you're looking for something just to go in a landscape bed as a general bed mix, whether you're looking something for

roses and other blooming plants, they've got all of those. Now, many of their products are available by the supersack. What a supersac is is a cubic yard in a giant, very strong sack, and they can basically bring it to your house and set it on the driveway, or you can go get one thing, put it in your trailer for if you want it real neat, easy clean way to go about it. They can also deliver and put it dump it on the driveway if you want, like

I need ten yards. I often need ten because I'm always doing a lot of soil improvement around the place. All you got to do is go to the website Airloomsoils dot com Heirloomsoils dot com. You can find out more there about how to get their products and where to get their products because their bags are widely available in garden centers throughout this area. And the stuff works. And I say that because I've used it. I've used

it and I know it works. Uh, if you are interested in giving me a call, maybe a gardening question today seven to one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. Plants for All Seasons is a garden center right there

on two forty nine at Luetta. So if you're on two forty nine, you exit Luetta and it's just north of Luetta, right on the feeder, and I mean just Northlake, not even hardly a block north of Luettah, if you're a green thun that takes pride in your lawn and garden, you need to visit Plants for All Seasons on two forty nine. If you're a bright and you'd like to

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are gardeners. They have pretty much seen everything. They can come through the garden at one time or another or many times, and they know what to tell you about it. You can take them a picture, you can bring them a sample in even if you didn't buy a plant there and you have a problem bringing in and ask

them about it and they'll they'll direct you. And what you'll find out is that it is well worth going by Plants for All Seasons because the advice you get, the quality plants that want to grow here, that they have a available, and then the service after the sale. It just it's a way to go. Absolutely is a way to go. Plants for All Seasons dot com or you can follow them on social media too. Two, eight, one, three, seven, six,

sixteen forty six in my vegetable garden. I was telling you that I'd been mulching and created the walkways of leaves for all season gardening. What I'm about to do is start a whole bunch of marigolds seeds. I've got some beds that have nematodes on them. I do not know where the nematods came from. I'm pretty sure it came from some soil I brought in a while back that I shouldn't have, but I did, And I think now I've got some nematods in there, So I'm gonna

grow marigols walled wall. Did you know marigos are a trap crop for nematodes. It doesn't eradicate nematods by any stretch of the imagination. But when when you plant not just a marigold besides tomato plant like you'll hear sometimes people say, do don't do that gon work, But I mean, wall to wall, this whole bed will be solid miragles.

I want every cubic centimeter of soil to have a marigo root in it, because when a nematod goes into a marigol route it's not able to complete its life cycle, and you don't get that proliferation, and you get a little bit of a reduction therefore in the nemotoid content in the soil. And there's other crops that will do that. But that is about the only good strategy other than nematod resistant plants for getting ahead of the nematod problems

in our landscapes. I'm gonna be doing that. I'll post some pictures to Facebook as we get into this season. We're going to go now to Pasadena and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, welcome to garden Line.

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it's easy to spot. I can give you the numbers nineteen four s N but you don't have to go around with the mag divine glass and looking at all the fertilizer bags for those numbers. Just look for silver. It's a silver bag, a big silver bag Nitropas superturf. You put it down and for four months you're done. And basically you put Nitrophs superturf down around now and you're not going to be fertilizing again until we put our fall fertilizations on. I'm pretty much, especially if you're

returning your clippings now. Nito five Superturf and other products are available at places like Plans for all seasons on Luetta, the d and d feed Store outside of Tomball on twenty nine to twenty on the West side, and M and D and let's see that's in Sagement on Beamer Street, and many many other places. Those are just some examples. Another place, you know, in general, when you're thinking, when I think about night Foss, I go, well, they're at

Ace Hardware stores. Because Ace Hardware almost always you're going to find all the night foss products there. You can go to the website Acehardware Texas dot com and that will give you a map. When you tell it where you are, it'll give you a map of the Ace Hardware stores in our Houston group that are near you. It makes it really easy. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com.

When you go into ACE Hardware, you're going to find a wide variety of pest control, disease control, weed control, both the pre emergent and the post emergent, and fertilizers for your garden. You're going to find the tools that you need. You're going to find everything to make that outdoor area that you love to go out and enjoy. You're going to make it better and nicer, from barbecue pits to lighting to you name it. Ace is the place they've got you covered. And then the same thing,

by the way, is true on the inside too. Beautiful things for the home and from turning your home environment into a wonderful place. Many Ace Hardware stores throughout the Greater Houston area, places like Aspas ACE in the Woodlands, Plantation, ACE on Mason Road, down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, j and ours as out there in Porter, down in

Bay City, Bay City Ace on Seventh Street. For those of you out in Brenham area, there's ACE Hardware on North Austin Parkway and then up in Spring on Rayford Road. And again I'm just reading a few of the many ACE Hardware stores that you will find at ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com talking about taking care of these plants and different things to be

doing out in the garden. This time of the year, it is time to get as much of your planting for the spring and summer done as you can, because every week that a plant has to get roots established is a week that makes it better prepared for summer heat and dry conditions. And that's especially true of what you ornamentals. You're gonna plant a tree, a shrub, or a woody vine, get it in the ground now. But it's also true of things you know, like the perennials

and even our annuals that we're putting out. Plan them now, get them done. Boy, is this week ever going to be a good one for planting? And if you've not been out to Enchanted Gardens, you need to go. This is a destination garden center on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. It's on FM three point fifty nine. Here's the website. You'd write this down because it is an awesome website with lots of great information and you can stay up to day. Follow them on social media too.

By the way, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. The Lenderman family has been part of that community since nineteen ninety five garden first opened, And when you go there, it is just a wonderful experience. You're going to find an unmatched, unmatched rather a selection of every kind of plant that you can imagine. But also you're going to find an enthusiastic team that is knowledgeable and they can help you. They can look at

photos and samples to give you expert advice. They can help you put together you know, you want to put together a beautiful color combo planter. Well they can give you some ideas, Oh, you want to put this in the middle because you know it's taller, and then you puture things around the side, or here's some colors that go well together. All that kind of stuff. You get that kind of service. You're going to find Microlife, Nitrofloss,

Nelson plant Food, Medina Products, Nature's Way, Heirloom Sauce. I'm just telling you from brown stuff to green stuff en Gentigardens Richmond dot Com on FM three point fifty nine. You know, I always get sad when I hear the music plan because I got to go talking about gardening and I like to talk about garden with gardeners, which reminds me. By the way, next Saturday, I'm gonna be at r CW Nursery up there where belt Wait eight

and FM two forty nine Tombol Parkway come together. We have got some really cool stuff going on at RCW, and I hope that you will come out and see me.

You haven't not unless you've given up. And if you give up, well, I guess you could say you failed at gardening. But you just keep you, just keep going. You try it again. Listen. I can't tell you how many plants I've killed in my life. Learning, trying things, experimenting. It's okay, it's all right to do that. And you know, I mean, if you want, you can revamp your garden and landscape anytime you wish to. I mean, really, you

don't see people doing this much. But you literally could take an old maybe at a landscape there's planeted in nineteen seventies and the bushes are now pushing over the top of the eaves, and a lot more dwarf, beautiful, compact kinds of plants that are available now. I mean, you can turn the whole thing to dirt and come back with compost and beds and new plants and start over again. Usually people do that, you know, a section

at a time. But I'm just trying to make the point, and that is if you look at what If you're looking at your landscape, you don't like what you see, well then do something, do something different. You can get out and drive around. I like to drive around and take pictures of things that I think are interesting. Plants I think are interesting. I find stuff online all the time. There's a plant I haven't grown before, let's try that out.

You can do that. You can do it that way, create it yourself, or I mean, if you want, you can have somebody like Piercecapes come and do it for you. You know, Pier Scapes. Those folks know what they're doing. They've been doing this a very very long time. And when you're looking for instant pizazz or whether it's a complete renovation or whether it is just hey, I want to improve on this a little bit. I'd like to redo that flower bed, or can you make that area

draam better? Or what about you know, I've always wanted an outdoor, shaded sitting area where we could enjoy in the evenings, you know, with hard scapes and I don't know, maybe even a water feature or something like that. Piercescapes can do it. There are a preferred landscaper here on garden Line. It's a one stop shop. Basically, all you got to do is go to the website. That is the most important thing is go look at what they

do piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Now you're going to see some stuff that's like, oh my gosh, that's the taj mahal right and that doesn't quite look like my place. Well, they can do anything at any level that you need done to make your place beautiful, whether it's just redesigning a flower bed to a turnkey front, backside and everything. Redo pierscapes dot com. Here's the phone number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty to

eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. You need to go check them out, and then you need to give them a call. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. And the important thing to know is the phone number seven one three two one two k t r A. Let's talk about the things that you're interested in. I don't forget I was talking about RCW Nursery before we went to break next Saturday,

April twelfth. April twelfth, next Saturday, put that on your calendar. I'm gonna be there from twelve to two, So from noon to two. Now, you know you have to eat before you come. RCW is going to have a barbecue lunch. They're gonna have some refreshments there for you there. Also, while I'm out there, they're gonna have a one, one day, only ten percent off sale on their roses, and you need to go see their roses. They're blooming. They look

great right now. So you know, if you're tired of looking at a picture on a tag and going, well, what does that flower really look like? Or was this smell like, Well, there you go. They're on the plants. Go look at them, go smell them, go check them out. Ten percent off on the roses next Saturday. And now I'll be there answering gardening questions. I'm gonna have some cool giveaways for you as well, and we're just gonna have a good time. I always love going to RCW Nurseries.

That is a fun place. So put it on your calendar, come on out and see me. We will visit and I have some handouts and as I said, some cool giveaways as well. In your lawn if you have not put a pre emergent down and you would like to, especially if your lawn is thin, barricade from nitrofoss is the product that does that kill. And the reason I say it's the product is because it prevents both the

broad leaf and the grassy weed seeds. The vast already of all grassy and broad leaved weeds will be controlled by barricade. You put it down, you watered in about a half inch of water, maybe a third of inch of water just to get it in the ground.

Lake Hardware and Velasco are places that carry my nitroposs products. You're listening to Guardenline if you'd like to call in ask a question, that'd be a good time. Kind of quiet out there on the phones for the moment. UH seven one three two one two k t r H seven to one three two one two k t H. I would like you to go to a website. I'm gonna give it to you, give it to you right now. It's Houston Powder Cooders dot com. Houston Powdercoders dot com.

It is a very cool place. They take old metal furniture and they do it just I al would say make it like new. They make it better than new in my opinion. They transform it and they can do anything. And if you go to that website you can see all the different kinds of powder coating that they do. I'm primarily talking about the backyard here. I mean they do stuff powder coating for all kinds of things. They've got the equipment, they got the space to do it.

But they can refinish your in repair by the way, your furniture, your metal furniture that's outside. They know how to do that, whether it's you know, getting off some russ, doing some welding, you know, to get it backwards, should be putting new fresh stainless steel hardware in from all that rusty stuff that you have, and then putting the powder coating on it. Over one hundred colors to choose from. What do you want your furniture to look like? Do

you have any rod iron? Do you have any artistic rod iron in the back? Let them powder coat that and protect it. Go to Houston Powdercoders dot Com two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight. Alright, so we're back. Let's talk gardening. What is of interest to you? What are the topics that you're interested in, Well, let's find out. We're going to go out to Kingwood and talk to John.

I would recommend a leaf mold compost. You're fortunate, being in Kingwood that you're just down the street from Warren's Rock and Molts right there in Porter there on the feeder Road fifty nine access road there and porter as

your Yeah, that's where the airloom soils products are. So you can have them bring a super sack out or you can go get it, or you can have them dump it on the drive but you're gonna want to spread it out about a third of an inch deep, and so you know, you can use the calculator on the Heirloomsoils dot Com website to see how much that takes.

I would get a little extra for sure, but first I would airate when the soil is moist, not soggy wet, but moist, because so if it's hard, you know, the little machines bounce over it like you're trying to erate your driveway. And if it's if it's just mushy, that's that's not good either. You don't want to mess with the soil when it's soggy wet, but medium consistency moisture

is the time you don't do that. Airate well. And I'd go over all the areas, not just the areas that aren't doing well, but maybe the areas that aren't doing well. You'd go over them a second time just to get a little more errors in there, and then then put the compost top dressing down about a third of an inch d you may you can go deeper if you want, but about a third to a half inch would be good. Since you're doing it yourself, maybe go half okay, and then what that's it. That's it.

If you haven't have you fertilized for the season yet.

compost top dressing. And then when you watered in, you should see your lawn ought to bounce back pretty quick and it ought to look really good. I'd love to hear about it too.

don't delay on those. If you've got a wet, boggy area that doesn't drain well, Louisiana iris will be happy there, especially if it's a little bit of shade. They like a little bit of shade out there. But all your color plants that you're looking for are there, beautiful, beautiful house plants. Everything from outdoor plants like combo hanging baskets that just have like three or four different kinds of

flowers in them. I mean they are just color color color out plus as they say, they got Chinese French trees too, by the way out there, and herbs and vegetables and everything you're looking for all right now coming up on Saturday, April twenty sixth, from five to seven, that's in the evening shelby from Nelson Plantfood. It's going

to be out there, gonna have a sipping stroll. That's when they serve some drinks and life refreshments, have some live music, and it's just a wonderful time to go out. But anytime it's a wonderful not time to go to Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery Katie Fort Ben Road just north of the KT Freeway. We're going to head now up to Cyprus and talk to Matt. Hello, Matt, welcome to garden Line.

like the temperature celsius. Okay, and you go to a good garden center there, You're probably gonna find celsius in your area at some your local ACE hardware stores. You have several there in the Cypress area Ace hardware stores, but i'd call ahead of time make sure they have it. It's a little packet, a little piece of cardboard with a clear plastic over it and a little tiny packet inside. But that works pretty well on dollar weed, and I don't I'm trying to think that the celsius already has

its own surfacting in it. That's another thing to watch your mix rates on both the herbicides and the surfactants that you're putting on. But dollar weed has a slick leaf, so the surfactants needed to get it to stick to the leaf.

sharp focus. And let me make sure we know what we're talking about, because the product you would use for like nuts edge is maybe different than the product you use for kai linga, which is a type of sedge, or it could also be some other grass like plant that looks that we're talking about. So let's just be real sure. If you'd like, I'll put you on hold here in a bit and we can you can get my email to send me a photo to follow up on this call.

a product called micro Grow liquid AF. Microgrow liquid AF. You can buy it by the gallon if you want to. I believe they have it more that they do have it by the quart as well. But it contains eight different specific microbes that are beneficial to the plants. They're very beneficial in terms of helping protect those plants. So whether you're solving a problem or or preventing a problem, this is a good way to go. Streptomics trichodermas and basillis.

They have several different types of bacillis in there that are all good and so you give a good drench over your plant root system with that, and that really does help a lot. They recommend that you put a little bit of micro Grow liquid AF with a couple ounces of molasses and a gallon of water and then just d it over. Are you You can also spread those products on the leaves as well. Micro Grow Liquid AF from the folks at Microlife one of the many

liquid products that Microlife sells. Now. If you want more information, go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. I'm going to head out to Katie now and talk to Shaho. Hey Shah who welcome to guarden Line.

little bit of word to the wise. And you don't need me to tell you this. You already know this, but I'll say it anyway. Kind of when your parents did that, it's like, yeah, I know, I know, but they have to say it anyway.

I really do you know. You got a little weed that's an inch even two inches high, and you just throw a bunch of mult over the top, a good thick layer to block all the sunlight, and it takes care of it. And most of the time most cases are some weeds that'll come through it. But then they get a little older and you can take a hoe, or even when they're young, you can take a really

good sharp hoe and slice right under the surface. Don't disturb the so much, don't chop the soil, just slice underneath it and that takes care of them, and then throw a mulch on it. Wherever sunlight hits a soil, nature plants the weed. And the earlier you decide to control weeds, the more options you have. So let's say you're an organic gardener, and you don't want to use

synthetic herbicides, well, vinegar will burn plant tissues. Vinegar is an organic herbicide, but an established weed, vinegar typically will kill the top but may not kill the whole weed. It may re sprout from the bottom, especially a perennial weed. But when you catch weeds when they're young seedlings, vinegar kills them. It just kills them because they just don't they haven't set up shop yet in a way that they can. Okay, fry my top, but I'm going to

re sprout from the base. They haven't done that yet, So that would be another reason why the earlier the better. The earlier the better. I don't care if it's diseases, insects, or weeds. The earlier you step in to do something, the better it is. And not a life principle too. About some of the issues we face in life, we let them go a little too long and ooh boy, out our hands full now. Well, anyway, you know what I'm talking about. Without going philosophical, let's just leave it

at weeds. Earlier is better, and what's the best is the earliest, which means you keep that soil molt because wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. Just remember that we were visiting with Shohop before we left. We're going to get some pictures from him to take a look at some of the issues that he has so I can help him better. You know, on guard line, I don't just give the email out because I can't have everybody that listens to Guardenline send me emails. I

could never even begin to answer all the emails. But when it's related to a call, either a call that has come in or a call that's going to come in, I don't mind you having an email to email me the photos and the question so I can take a look at him. Sometimes you're describing a spot on a leaf, or a bug on a plant, or a weed in the yard, and you know, I'm trying to picture it.

But I know that sometimes what you see and what I hear are not the same thing, and so or what I picture in my mind's I So a photo helps. Photos when you send them should always be in good sharp focus. Photos should be in good sharp focus. Photos should be in good sharp They say threes the charms, so I have to say it three times good sharp focus. You send me a fuzzy photo, I'll give you a fuzzy identification. You don't want a fuzzy identification, so check it.

You know your phone sometimes focuses on something that you weren't intending for it to focus on, so make sure it's good sharp focus. Photos should be close. Now, it's good on like a yard situation, to see the whole yard, just so I kind of get a big picture of you. But let me get up close. The closer to the problem the better, especially if it's something tiny in like

a little insect or something like that. Let me get close, because there's even identifications that I need to get really close on plant parts to be able to see and identify. But I'll be happy to do. And then just follow it up with a phone call and here to guardline, and we'll be glad to visit with you, and I'll give you a better answer that way. I want to remind you too of something and I should talk about this ever show, but I you know, things get by

on me. There's a thing called the Agrolife Extension Service here in Texas. Now every state in the Union, back in the days of Abraham Lincoln, were given a couple of several things. Actually they were given. First of all, there is a Land Grant College here in Texas at A and M it's LSU. And in Louisiana, Oklahoma State Cornell's a Lang Grant College, University of Florida, and so on.

There's lang Grands in each state. Now with the Lang Grant College to teach the people, they also later developed the Extension Service, which was basically to take the university to the people. So farmers out on a farm aren't going to go to the university and get a degree, but people could come from there and bring examples of new varieties or new ways of farming, and they would do a demonstration on the farm, and then all the farmers in the region could come to that farm and

see it. Did it work, did it not? You know, what is a good new kind of corn to grow? Or whatever it was. It's an ingenious system and it helped create the agricultural system we have now that feeds a lot of people. And then, of course there was a research that was added to that too, a number of different acts by Congress. In county of every county of Texas is served by an Extension office. Now, if you go way out into Texas, it may be that

one office serves two different counties. But over here, every county has an extension office, and in some of the counties you have a horticulture agent too. Other counties you have ag agents that have to handle horticulture also. But Montgomery County, Brass County, Harris County, Fort ben County, Galveston County, over in Orange. Who am leaving out? I'm probably leaving one out as I'm thinking through the area. Brazoria. Brazoria County has a horticulturist as well, and you can go

there often. There's master gardening programs which you can train and be a volunteer master gardner, or you can talk to master gardeners to help you with some of the issues. But take advantage of that. It's in your county and it's good advice. That's connected to research based information at the university level, and that is really important, and I don't think people take advantage of that enough, but I hope you will. We're going to head out to Houston

now and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, welcome to garden Line.

it also leaves the seeds they've already set there. So as much as possible, if you can pull those out and with the seeds real carefully, put them in five gallon bucket or something and get them off the property, you will do yourself a huge favor for next fall when the seeds sprout and you're back in the same situation next spring. Now, next spring, much earlier in the year, you can do stuff where you're not hand pulling them.

For things that are perennial, like nettles. Some of the nettles are perennial, you need to put something on them that will translocate down and kill the whole weed because they're the underground plant parts. They'll come back from those and broad leaf post emergent products will kill those. I have a publication on gardening with skip dot com on herbicides.

I think it says right now herbicides for the weed wiper. Anyway, if you'll go there, you can find the kind of weed you have and it'll tell you the products that will work. Gary, I got to go to a real quick break. If you want to hang on, I'll continue this discussion when we come back.

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after one or the other don't work very well for them. Yeah, of course hand digging, but they the pieces break off in the ground, so it's very difficult to hand dig them unless you just stay on it, and and that that makes it very very difficult to do. I'm gonna have to look and see what the best option would be for those on my website I have let's see, I have a thing called Skips weed wiper, and if you go there, it shows you how to build one.

I was just talking about it. Southwest Fertilizer has the tool that you build it from. It's real easy to build. I mean, you don't have to have a shop or any tool skills to do it. And that weed wiper is a really really helpful thing for weeds like this because you can wipe the product right there onto the weed itself. Okay, And so you know, if you have something, you know, if you're going to use a product that would kill everything, you know, round Up kind of product

kills everything. Well, if if you have the weed wiper, you can just wipe a product like that onto the weed to kill it without getting it on desirable plants. And so that's one of the reasons I had that little publication on there. So what products are going to be the best to use, I think probably other than trying to continually handig and control them. And a post emergent product like the glyphosate, which is one of the brands is round Up. A Roundup no longer has glyphis eate.

I know that's confusing. It should be confusing because it's silly that they would do that. There's another product called gluphoscinate. Glue phoscinate is another ingredient. Now I'm going to make it easy for you. Go to my website, Guarding with Skip dot com and look for a publication called Herbicides for Skip's weed Wiper, and they are there. Like so, if you look for glyphas, it's no longer round up. They're the products that contain it that are on the publication.

If you look for loop fascinate, it names the products that you'll find in the garden centers too, that are glue fascinate. For example, I would do one of those two so that you know that some people get a little benefit from two four D products on it, but I would try those other two first. And just know this, you're going to need to stay on it. You're gonna need to stay on it, but don't spray these because

both of those will kill everything. Two four D will kill any broad leaf weed you have or broad leaf desirable plant that you have also. So that's why the weed.

Every Friday they have a Fungal based compost sale. Fungal based compost sale and it is ten percent off for the bags and it is twenty percent off for the bulk from Nature's Way Resources. Now you can go get it by the bag or bulk. You can have them deliver bulk to your property, or you can go around to the mini garden centers that carry Nature's Way products and purchase by the bag. There go to Nature's Way Resources dot Com. That's it, Nature's Way Resources dot Com.

If you want to give me a call nine three six two seven three twelve hundred. It's good products, good products that I've used. I got a bed that just recently I did a lot of mulching with Nature's Way products in it. I've been very pleased. I love the look of a good natural, non dyed mulch, and that is what they have there in many different forms. If you're looking at creating a container with beautiful plants for the outside, there's a product that Nitroposter distributes called jungle

Land Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil Flour and Vegetable. That's the outdoor soil. Indoors, they have jungle Land water saving potting soil. And the reason it's called water saving is that as low crystals that swell up with water. Kind they like little bits of jello is kind of what they look like, the very tiny and the roots can get around those, and when the soil gets dry, they

have an extra source of water. Right there, works really well now, Jungle End product or nitrofoss products in general, you're gonna find it places like Plants for All Seasons on Luetta and I forty five North, excuse me not I forty five Luetta and two forty nine, thank you. On the northwest side. That's Tomball Parkway. You're gonna find them at Fisher's Hardware on Southmore and Pasadena, the Fishers on Broadway and Laporte, and the Fishers at Mount Bellevue

on FM thirty one eighty. And it works very very well. Alrighty, well, let's see, oh I wanted to mention Nitrofos Superturf. Nitrofos Superturf is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer in a silver bag that works for sixteen weeks, a long time. It's time to put it out. It's on my schedule at gardening with skip dot com. Get you some super Turf, follow the label, put it out, and you are set until the fall fertilization comes, especially if you return those clippings.

And I already tell you night Foss products are available all over the place, especially when you go to an asardware store. You're gonna find typically a night Foss products like the super Turf silver bag. Well another hours in the books. We come back for our last hour in just a moment. I want to remind you that next Saturday, Next Saturday, the twelfth, I'll be at RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries is at the corner of Tamba Parkway, FM two forty nine and belt Way eight. I'll be there from

noon to two. But don't eat before you get there. Show up. They're gonna have a barbecue lunch. They're gonna have refreshments ten percent off all their roses. Oh my gosh, right there. That that's cool. Bring your samples and pictures and things. Let's have a good time helping you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.

you want to talk about? All you have to do is give us a call a seven one three two on to kt RH if you like to dial by numbers seven one three two one two five eight seven four, and we can visit with you about the kinds of things that are of interest to you, if you are interested in a diagnosis or identification or those kinds of things.

Sometimes it helps to send me a picture ahead of time, and you can do that by calling the producer, getting an email, sending the picture in, but then follow it up. I will not be answering the question that you email, but I'll have the picture there when you call and we can enter it that way. Because I'm unable to just time constraints, unable to really handle the volume of emails and questions that would be coming that do come in as a result of that. So that's another option

for you if you'd like to do that. My goal here on guarden Line is to help you have success that would help you have fun too, to make gardening a hobby that you really really enjoy, and you know what, one of the cool things one of them many cool things about gardening as a hobby is is that you can do whatever corner of the gardening world do you want to do. I mean, you may be into the big and the gaudy, the tropicals and just giant flowers and colors and all of that. Good do that. Maybe

your gardening is all done indoors. You've got some moth orchids and you're looking at new kinds. You're trying to grow some unusual special plants under the lights indoors, like African violets and a pieces. By the way, we never talk about apieces, but that's a cool plant too, to grow indoors. Maybe you're into edibles. If you can't eat it, you don't want to grow it, so herbs and vegetables

and fruit trees are your thing. Maybe you would like to try bones eye, where we take a tree and make it a little miniature tree, and it's just kind of a little tending hobby that's really fun. Do you see what I mean? I mean, I'm just throwing examples out from all over the world here. Gardening is a great hobby, and no matter what you're interested in, that's it.

with an old fashioned hand push mower. So I'm just trying to get a handle on the best way to take care of the zoisia.

Zoisio grass. The more often you mow it, the better it looks, and the shorter you mow it. The more often you have to mow it. Now, because it's a dense grass, you can get into certain types of disease problems. You know, all grasses have the potential for disease, and it could be that something like a take all patches in there could be some other type of fungal disease that's going on. Without seeing a picture of it or seeing a sample of it, it's kind of hard to

know for sure. And I don't know what part of the Houston area you're in, but wherever you are, all up in the woods, okay, Well, it's an excellent grass for your area. And it puts up with quite a bit of shade too, not as much as Saint Augustine, but pretty close, pretty close to it. So I don't know if we're looking at some disease issues and I should send you out to spray a fungicide on it, or if this is just some other type of thing.

The little bare spots are they very small, and the whole grass blade just turns tan brown, or its larger and more irregular.

follow that. It won't hurt anything. If it's not take All Root Rot to follow it. But I think you may have some disease in there, and that would be what you want to use, and the information is on there, but I'm gonna have to run. I do appreciate your call, though, and I wish you I wish you well with that. Well, wow, this this is going kind of quick here on this next or this first segment. Those of you out there, Jim and Meadows Place, you'll be the first up when we come right back.

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these places are going to carry asmite. I was looking in my back patio yesterday. I had a little stagnant fountain there that I just kind of cranked up and started running and didn't really get it cleaned out good like I should, And it was sitting still because we had the fountain off and I looked and because it was still, mosquitos laid eggs in it, and there's little wrigglers in the water. Now what do you do, Well,

you can treat that water. You can use a mosquito dunk in the water to treat it, or you can go long term and call Pest Brothers. And why do I say long term, because they'll come out and set up a bucket that not only attracts mosquitos to the bucket, so they lay eggs there that will never turn into mosquitos because it's got the substances in it to stop that. And then when the mosquitoes fly off, they have something that's a fungus attached to them that's going to kill

the mosquito. Not good bugs, just the mosquito. It just works some mosquitoes. And then they can they carry something to the little bits of water, like my little fountain for example, it gets in the water. Mosquitoes can't reproduce there either. That's pretty cool. Pest Brothers has it. Of course, Pest Brothers does termites, they do wild varmits, they do any kind of pest control you need, from the woodlands all the way down to Texas City from Baytown all

the way across to Katie. Thepestbros dot Com thepest Bros b r os dot com two eight one two oh six forty six seventy. I'm gonna go out to Meadows Place now and we're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Gardenline.

and getting the nutrients from that too. So just a little boost with some nitrogen primarily is what they need.

as how far apart. In order to get a faster coverage between them, I might put them somewhere between maybe twelve and fifteen feet apart. They'll easily cover that and then some but that that gives you a little bit faster coverage. If you put them further apart, they cover more area. But you know, it's just a trade off between how many roses you're going to spend money on and how far of an area you need to cover. So there's not an exact number for Peggy Martin, but

she will sprawl. I've got one on my trellis in the back and it's now going that's probably gone about eight to ten feet and it's not at all finished its growth.

They've got all of that kind of stuff. You got shady areas not a problem. Not with Buchanans. They've got kalladiums and a bazillion other plants that do well in the shape they have a whole area where it's two shade plants that do well. How about house plants, every kind of foliage you can imagine, cacti, succulents, trailing string ofs fill in the blank. They've got all of that.

Did you know there is a spring cactus. You used to call it easter cactus, but spring cactus that's like Christmas cactus sorta, but it blooms at Easter time around Easter time. They've got those there. You need to get

some of those. Those are really cool too. With Buchanans, you know you're going to find good selection, you know you're going to have good advice, and you know you're gonna have a good time because it's a fun place to wander through and no matter what question you have, if you want to grow natives, you can walk in there and go, hey, I want to grow natives, but I want to grow natives that attract hummingbirds. They probably have a list of I don't know, two or three

dozen plants that fit that bill. It's a place to go. It's on eleventh Street in the Heights. Go to the website. Please bu Cannons Plants dot com. Sign up for the newsletter. Please, you will really appreciate it. So much good information. And yes they know about brown stuff before green stuff. You can get your full line of microlife and nitrophos and Nelson products. You can get heirloom soils and their own special soil blends. There to set the foundation for success.

We're going to head out to talk to Deb now in the Woodlands. Hello Deb, Welcome to garden Mine.

don't know what the problem is. And they seem to be dying back, which is the case for them in the summertime. They do die back because they get it gets too hot.

Are they looking kind of like the brown gray black like a cigarette filter stain, you know, that kind of ugly stain color, And that would be a root rot color of those bulbs. And if it's a root rot, there are drenches you can put in the soil that fight that root rot, but usually it's brought on by conditions that are just too wet for them. I don't know anything else that would kill those plants there. People call me to ask how to get rid of them because they're hard.

feed store called D and D Feed. It's been around a while. It's been around since I think nineteen eighty nine when the Dovers opened it up up there. It's west of Tumbull, about three miles from two forty nine as you go in west and it is a store that for gardeners carries everything you need in terms of fertilizers from nitrofoss or fertilizers from Microlife or Nelson turf Star or Medina products. If you're looking for the jars of Nelson plant food. If you're looking for heirloom soils.

They even have lots of vegetables and vegetable seeds and get various kinds of plants in there, seasonally high end dog foods like Origin, Diamond, Victor Star Pro. And of course it's a feedstore, all kinds of quality feed. Three miles west of Tomball two forty nine D and D Feed and spring is chick season. Go to their website and look they tell you each week all the varieties in Boy, are there a lot of baby chicks that

are coming in. So if you'd like to have backyard chickens, you need to know about D and D Feed two eight one three five to one seventy one forty four two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. I'll be right back. I'm going to take a little break here and come back to your calls.

Do you know, they use a lot of different sources of nutrient, for example, nitrogen. Some of the products have like five different kinds of nitrogen in them to give that nice slow release to do the things that you want done with your plants, where there's more flowers, more production, more beautiful green foliage. They've got a line called Nutristar, and that includes specifics for specific plants like the hibiscus and tropical or flowering tropicals. Nutristar Hibiscus and flowering tropicals.

I don't care what kind of hibiscus you have. It's even good for things like Zara, the rows of shareon the hollyhocks and althea rows of Sharon, althea, the Texas sage, some of the mallows mini mallows, those are all in the hibiscus family. It does really well with those. Now what happens is when you put it down, it's got multiple acidifying sources to ensure not only an even nutrient release, but also a moderation of that soul pH that these

plants benefit from. It's got high potassium levels which are very important for not only hardiness and cold, but also in water and nutrient uptake and flower quality as well. So that's a nutri star line the hibiscus and flowering tropicals. How about the color Star line. That's been their most popular fertilizer for forty years now, and the color Star Plus has an added systemic fungicide in it moves into the plant and gives longer preventative protection than just a

standard type of fungicide in it. Of course, the color Star is all purpose flowering food for anything that has flowers, annuals, perennial shrubs, trees, really use on any of those plants. It's got fast acting effects and it even has some organic nutrient sources that really enrich the soil. You put Colorstar Plus down, you're going to get a slow release for about three or four months. Again from the folks at Nelson Plant Food. Let's go out to Montgomery and

talk to Marie. Hey, Marie, welcome to garden line.

way it is. But the bottom line is you want to keep them growing, so you keep them producing cycles of flowers whenever their normal flowering season is and sixty four the acidifying would be perfect for all of those. I would just keep using that if I are you.

how often you would use that. But I would let the plants tell me, Hey, I think I need to give them a little bit more of a boost and watered in real good.

exactly why. When you look at the plant, and maybe you I don't know this right now, but when you go out and look at it, is it the new leaves that are looking yellowish or is it the older leaves that are looking more the old leaves. Okay, so that's not iron. That is not iron, that's not acid problem of highph that's not on iron deficiency. That is just older leaves that are being cast off. And a lot of plants that are semi evergreen to evergreen, they

have seasons where they cast off the older leaves. Now certainly getting dry and then wet again whatnot can cause that you and see that on Apotheus ivy in your house. When it gets dry and then you water it, all of a sudden after that the older leaves start turning yellow and falling off. That's just part of the soil moisture fluctuation. I wouldn't worry about it a lot unless it's severe. Your plants are probably fine. That's a native plant.

It's tough Carolina adjustment, and I think it's going to be okay, wonderful.

is critical. That's number two, and number three is a good quality soil mix that also drains well but holds moisture. Jungle land, flour and vegetable planting soil is just like the name implies. If you're going to grow it in the container outdoors, you want jungle l and flour and vegetable planting soil. I don't care if it's a flower or vegetable or not. That is the soil you're going to use. And it's going to drain well, it's going

to hold moisture well. It works. You're going to find it as well as other nitophce products in many places. You go to a place like M and D Beamer down in Sagemont, or you go to D and D Feed and Tomball, or you go to Plants for All Seasons, the one where Luetta and two forty nine come together. Maybe Ace Hardware and Sinco Ranch or auspas Ace up in the woodlands. These are all places that carry night to FoST products. I'm going to go down to Eagle

Lake now and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, Welcome to garden line.

You're gonna see fire ants popping up everywhere that you didn't know we're there because they're working underground that they hadn't boiled up to the surface yet, if you will, and a bait gets even the unseen mounds, which is why it's better to use a bait on an infrequent basis A good good bait product over time to manage your fireant problems.

area that are going to carry them. And it may be Andro, it may be called Extinguish, it may be there's a lot of brands, but there are fire ant baits and follow the label and you'll have success. Okay, I've got to run. I'm up against a hard break. Yeah, thank you. Have a good day. All right, folks, I'll be right back, David. Your first s up? All righty, welcome back to garden Line. We're going to jump right in here. Last segment of the day and of the weekend.

Hey have you been to Growers Outlet? And Willis? I tell you about it all the time on garden Line. If you're in Conroe, the Woodlands, even up in New Waverley out at Lake Conroe. Oh gosh, April Sound all those neighborhoods out that way, that whole region. Growers Outlet is a really cool garden center. They have a lot of good stuff, everything you would expect from a good garden center. Right now, they've got some beautiful Peggy Martin

roses that have come in. They have some beautiful Chinese fringe trees that may be one of the most popular trees this spring, and for good reason. Growers Outlet and Willis has the things you need. Do you need flowering plants? Do you need vegetables? Do you need fruit? They've got those. Do you have a for example, a beautiful bugainbe hanging basket or a giant macho fern hanging They have some good giant macho ferns that get in every in the warm season. As things warm up. They probably have a

few of men right now. As a matter of fact, Growers Outlet in Willis Grower, that's the website. Growers Outlet in Willis one of the few places you can go to a garden center and you look and it tells you here's what we have in stock, and here's how much it costs. Really nice. I'm glad they do that. I think that's a really cool idea. Let's head out now. We're going to go to Tomball and talk. If I can turn my mouse around the right way, talk to David.

And so that leaves us with the unhappy task of him pulling the weeds out to try to get all those seeds out of there, or just wait, they're gonna die quick anyway, and you know, mow and ignore them and deal with the extra seeds next fall. With the barricade application. Do you know that by any chance? Do you know the name the types of weed species you've got some.

from twelve to two. If you wanted to bag up a bunch of those, bring them down, let me look at them, and let's let me have an eye on them and really give you a better answer than I can do. Kind of guessing at what you might have out there well, and have the product on hand to bring me your weeds. All right, now, I know, I know, you know guys a lot of times, you know, they'll get flowers and bring them to somebody as a gift. Not many guys bring people weeds. But I'm asking you

to do that. All right, bring me a bouquet. I'll see you next Saturday. Hey, don't eat lunch. Yeah, me too. Don't eat lunch because they are going to have barbecue sandwiches and some refreshments and stuff. So you get a free lunch out of the deal. You bet, all right, Bye bye. If you're looking for a product that is organic that dissolves into the soil and really turns your long green, Sweet Green is a product that can do that. It is a molosses type based product. So it's carbon

chains which make beneficial microbes really happy. Smells great by the way, and it's it's pretty s by nitrophoss and it therefore, it's available all over town. I mean, you know, you go to places like Langham Creek, Ace Hardware on five twenty nine, Court Hardware on South Maine and Stafford m and d out there in Rosenberg on Avenue. I these are all places that carry nitopos products like the sweet Green, and it does work. I do like the smell.

the products you hear me talk about on Guardline. ACE is a place for pest control, disease control, preventative weed control that's pre emergent, killing existing weeds that's a post emergent. ACE is a place for all your outdoor equipment, power equipment, you know, everything from extension courts to strings of lights to a just beautiful ambiyonce creating things for your back patio and indoors as well. ACE is the place for that. You can go to the website ACE Hardware Texas. Don't

forget Texas dot Com. Acehardware Texas dot Com and our local Ace Hardware group is there. When I say local, I mean we got ACE Hardware's all the way out in Orange and all the way up in Willis, and all the way over in Victoria and Rockport and Galveston and certainly all around the greater Houston area. Here find your Ace Hardware. Maybe one like Brenham Ace Hardware out there in Brenham, Texas, all Star Ace Hardware and Spring Victoria, Acehardworo on Novarro Street, the K and M Ace Hardware

and Kingwood, Wharton Feed and Ace. I was there a goodwill back when they had the grand reopening going on out there, bake Cliff Lace on Grand Avenue in Bakecliff. YEP, there's a lot of Aces, Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. And when you come out of there, you're going to have the stuff you need to have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape. Always like going into Ace hard Restrict, So it always surprises me what they have. You know, I'm in there for gardening stuff, that's my primary reason.

But I'm telling you they have so much more. This is not your grandfather's hardware store. This is all the cool stuff from Grandpa's hardware store, but a lot lot more new cool things. Year around Houston dot com is a company that specializes in core aeration and compost stop dressing and for our garden line listeners, they focus on the area inside the Beltway. That's a big area, so all of you and there's a bazilion of you living

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looks good and makes your lawn come alive. It breathes life into the soil by opening up those holes with corrotion and then dropping some quality composts down on top of it. One of the most important things we do to our launch to have beautiful success if you've got compaction, corrooration, compost top per center to go. All right, well that's the last song of the day for me. That means skip you better hurry up, time to go. I'm going to be at RCW Nurseries next Saturday from twelve to two.

Come on out and see me. A barbecue lunch there for you, provided by RCW and refreshments. They're going to have ten percent off on their roses next Saturday only. It's a one day sale, so come on out and see me. Of course we'll do the diagnosis and the identification and helping you the things we'll visit about the plant things you want to see that you're going to see a beautiful nursery. You have lots of beautiful plants as well. Look forward. I hope you can make it

out there next Saturday, twelve to two. RCW Nursery