Taking Care of Your Lawn Is What Is Important

Katie r H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katy r H Garden Line with Skip Richard. It's crazy gasm. Just watch him as us so many birdies. The super basic gas not a sure gas. Well, good morning, good Sunday morning. Glad you're joining us today on Garden Line. We are going to be talking about all kinds of stuff related to your lawn, your garden,

your trees. In fact, we'll talk about whatever you're interested in when it comes to horticultural topics gardening, whether it's helping identify something, maybe die, diagnose the plant problem. You tell me what you're interested in, that'll be our topic when you're during your call. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. You know the topic of the day yesterday, and I

suspect maybe for a while at least today is the lawn. The lawn, the lawn. What to do about our lawns, how to take care of our lawns. When's the time to fertilize our lawns? Well, I usually will refer callers to my lawn Care Guide, which is online and it's really simple. You just go straight there take a look at it. First of all, the website is Gardening with Skip. That's me gardeningwith Skip dot com.

And on that site you'll find a lot of other information. And by the way, we're building it and got a lot of great things we're going to be adding here in the near future. Right now, it's got the Lawncare Guide on it, and the Lawncare Guide tells you how to mow, water, fertilize, do any kind of mineral supplement, do aeration. It just gives you all the details on the basic cultural care of your lawn. And when you look on there, you're going to find that we have the

products that you can use different times of the year. And on that list is Nitrofoss and they have a combo package for fall that is really designed for our soils, for our climate, and that is the Texas three Step. And what is the three Step. It's a fertilizer, it's a weed preventative and it is a fungicide to fight disease. The fertilizer is Nitrofoss's Fall Special.

Now the Fall Special is designed four fall all summer long. When I was talking about fertilizers, we're talking about fertilizers that have a good high nitrogen content. Because we're pushing growth on the lawn. When we get to fall, we drop that nitrogen down and we have a but still a good strong, if not stronger, potassium content. That's a third number, and that is exactly what's in the nitrofoss fall special. It will send your lawn into

winter stronger, and therefore it'll come out stronger in the spring. Your fall fertilization fuels your early spring lawn growth. Say that again, Your fall fertilization is what fuels your early spring long growth. Now, the barricade is their pre emergent barricade prevents grassy weeds and broad leaf weeds, and you want to get it down before those weeds germinate. They're gonna be germinating this month and next month. In fact, they'll germinate off and on all through the winter,

depending on the weather. But the barricade will carry you all the way through that. But you need to get it on ahead of time, so don't delay on that one. Then there's the terf fungicide that deals with things like brown patch or large patch that's coming up at the Infection of take all root rot also occurs in fall, primarily in the fall in the spring season, and it helps prevent that as well. Being a systemic it soaks in. It is ready to go to protect your your plants depending are not excuse

me, I can't even talk. It's ready to go to protect your plants whenever that disease should show up. So getting ahead of the disease is important. Now where do you find these Well, you're going to find them at Bearings Hardware on Bisonette allspas hardware in the woodlands. It's an ace hardware in the woodlands, and plants and things in Brenham not hard to find, simple

as that. But taking care of our lawns is important and a lot of people, if you've listened to this show very much, turf is probably the main thing that makes the phone ring around here. It certainly does at the Eglife Extension Office, that's for sure. Trees are another big topic too. People are concerned about those and after the brutal summer that we just had, you should be concerned. I mean I talked to a bunch of people yesterday. By the way, thanks thanks to the folks out at the Ace Hardware

store in Magnolia yesterday. That was a great time that we had out there, the all star Ace Hardware and Magnolia. A lot of folks came out. I was good to see you and good to talk to you. And I can't tell you how many people said, my one, I've got these huge dead areas. I mean, it's not just like it's struggling, it's like, you know, it's gone. And I fell a brought a bag full of grass end. I always say bring in your samples for diagnosis, and it brought it in. I looked at it and I kind of had

to say, I do diagnosis. I don't do autopsies, because that is true. That's true of the disease lab at ain and m By the way, when a plant is completely dead, it's kind of hard to tell what killed it. But if it's sick, if it's on its way down, if it's declining, that's where we see a lot of the signs that lead us to determine who done it, in the way of a disease or an

insect or whatever else it was. So it's something to think about. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. This uh, this time of the year. I've said this and I'll keep saying it. It's the most important time for your lawn because all the cool season wages are about to germinate. It's because your lawn right now is probably in weak in shape.

After the summer we went through, almost all lawns are and this is a time where you fortify it for winter and for spring, and that's so important. It's also the time when we are recognizing that once we get another cool front, a little bit of rainy weather, the big brown circles start to

appear. That's brown patch. Now, you may not have ever had it in your lawn, or you may be plagued by it annually in your lawn, but it is kind of the disease of the fall, along with the infection of take all root rut, which you don't see at the infection point like you do with the brown patch. Let's see, we're gonna head out to Meadows place and talk to Girardo. Hello, Girardo, Hey, how you doing. I'm well. How can we help today. Quick question for

you, I uh plan some uh. I have some peach trees in my backyard and seem to be doing pretty well. My question for you is do you put down like an application of fertilizer like like for October and then hit him again in the spring or you just leave it alone until maybe the springtime? How long would you plan them? I mean it's more than just a month, right, yeah? Yeah, yeah, it was a way earlier this year, maybe like in Mark or February or something like that. I

would wait until it. Yeah, I would wait until spring. Gerardo, I would get a turf fertilizer, but not one with a herbicide in it, just the fertilizer, a turf fertilizer, and I would go up to the tree trunk. Use your thumb as your measurement guide gets about an inch and how many inches wide is that trunk? You know a coke cans what about three inches wide? So use your thumb and for every thumb wet across the trunk, give it one to two cups of turf fertilizer if it's an

organic. If it's organic fertilizer, you can double or triple that because it's a lower concentration, and it's not it's not going to burn. And so one to two cops for synthetic probably two to three cops per inch of the organic fertilizer. Okay, and then part you do that. We're right around March. I guess oh, yes, as growth begins in the spring. Yeah, March is fun. All right, sir, Thank you appreciate it, Thank you, thank you. Thanks for the call. Hey, our

phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going to take a break and we'll be right back. Good Sunday morning. We are glad you're listening to Garden Line. Welcome to the show. If you're just tuning in, hope you got a cup of coffee getting your eyes open. Look over next door and lights are off at your neighbor's house. You need to go over and bang on the door. Tell them they're missing Garden

Line, and they will rise up and call you blessed someday. Maybe, especially that neighbor that doesn't take care of the yard, you know, the one that looks like, oh my gosh, might be just a nice thing. Take them a pound cake or something. I don't know. What a neighborly things do. Go over and just say hey, I know a great,

a great idea for you. I'm sure they'll appreciate that. We we talk about dirt a lot on garden line, and if my soul science professor has heard me say the word dirt for soil, they would die and then run over in their grave. Soil basically is the proper word for it. They used to always tell me dirts which you sweep off the floor. Soil is what you got in your garden, in your lawn. But when it comes to soil, you're not gonna find a better place to get your soil

than Siena Maltch and Cinamultch is down south of town. It's in the Rose Sharing area just north of Roa Sharing on FM five point twenty one. Now you can find their website. In fact, i'd encourage you to write this down. It's Sienna multch dot com. Sienna multch dot com. Simple as that. Cena Mulch is a place where you can get not just mulches, but also compost anything you need to make your soil better. They have a great supply of stone rock products. They also have all the fertilizers we talk

about on guardline. For example, I was just noticing they had on their on their Facebook page the turf Star ten ten twenty. That's Nelson's product called

Carbeload for fall fertilizer. That's the one that Nelson's is given the two dollars off Forever Bag sold this fall for the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship for horticulture students at Texas A and M. I know that every time I think about that, I can just picture Randy smiling because I know how proud he would be the fact that in his name and his honor, that scholarship was set up.

But you know, when you're out at Sienna, you're going to find every kind of product like that that you need to take care of your lawn. And they delivered within about twenty miles of their area for a small fee. You are going to find if you're in the Meridian Rosharon Menvilquoil Valley, Sandy Point, Olympia, Pomona, Fresno, what's out there? You know, brasispin State Park area, you're going to find Ciena molt Is your hometown place to take care of your soil, which when you take care of your

soil, you take care of your plants. Now they're closed on Sunday, but they're open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five and on Saturday from seven thirty to two, So you want to get a hold of them, you want to get signed up to get what you need, or just swing by there and pick it up. I'm going to be out there in November. I'll tell you more about that later, but I'm really looking forward to heading out there as well. If you'd like to give us a call today

on garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. We are talking a little bit earlier about fall or October being such an important month and why it's an important month in the one It's an important month all through the landscape. If you are going to plant a tree, a shrub, a woody vine, a perennial, an ornamental grass, a perennial herb,

perennial flowers, any of those things, roses too. Fall is a great time to do that because you're plants have all winter and spring to get roots established before next summer comes and we know how summers go around here, and so this is your falls, your insurance. It's like getting a little insurance policy with your plant because instead of waiting until the doorstep of summer to put something in the ground, which you can do that and you can keep

them alive. It's just a lot of TLC touching. Go with fall. It's easier, and your survivability is better, and also your plants do better in the long run. I've done this before as an experiment. I took a let's say, a four inch or six inch pot, I can't remember which size I had, put it out there in the ground, and then in the spring, bought the same plant and planted it in mid to late

spring in a gallon sized pot. And by the time I got to the end of that first season, and really well into the first season, I couldn't tell the difference between the two. And it's because given that head start to even the smaller plant, as they got going, it just it just caught up. It caught up, and it looked good. And I'm not saying that you know, you could never see any difference at all, But the point is that in fall, it's the head start, and that's important,

and I hope you'll consider that. So what comes first, the soil? What comes second? Quality plants planted in the right way. That's how you do it in that order. I see so many people that get inspired and they go buy a plant, and they go home and don't know where to put it, and they PLoP it down in an unprepared plot and it struggles. And if we get good plants that are adapted here, they're probably gonna make it even with that kind of thing. But it's so much better

to prepare that soil first. So first comes the brown stuff, then comes the green stuff, and as a result, you end up enjoying what you envisioned. You know, when you go to purchase a plant, you have if you're going to buy a rose bush, let's say, don't you, in your mind's eye picture a bush full of blooms at your house. You look at the little picture on the tag of what the rose is supposed to

look like, and you just picture that in your mind's eye. That's the dream, that's the hope, and that hope can be realized when you take care of your soil. When you buy a plants that are adapted that will do well here and you take care of them, it can be realized. And that's why we're here on Garden Line is to help you realize that completely. And when it comes to containers, you need a high quality potting soil as well, and Nature's creation makes one of those by way. It's their

organic potting soil with micorhizal fungi. Organic potting soil with micorhizal fungi. What's a micorhizal fungi. It's a fungus that lives in association with the roots and makes the roots do better. Some go around the root and protect the root against diseases. Some go in the root and then send strands out into the soil to reach out and grab nutrients and moisture that the plant root. It's too far away from the planet to get to it, Isn't that cool?

And that's what Nature's creation organic potting soil does. You're going to find it at New Ridge Landscaping in Houston, Rustic Ridge Gardens and Willis Jimbo's Nursery and Santa fe r cw Up in Tomball in all Houston garden centers as well. Nature's creation organic potting soil, it's not it's not made from peat moss. It's made from composed cocoa fibers, pecan molts, and other good things like that, and it just helps your plants succeed. Don't buy cheap potting salt,

don't buy potting soil just because it's the least expensive one there. There's a reason for that invests in equality soil, and in the long term you end up saving money, whether it's a potting soil or whether it's a soil that you're putting out in your garden. Because when you create the best environment, you're going to have success with your plants. It's as simple as that.

And that's just general general gardening advice. When you're out there and you're taking care of your plants, you know you're giving them what they need. They just do better. That's as simple as that. That's another reason why you will find us recommending like asamite for your lawn, your lawn fertilizing. We talk about that all the time. The big three numbers, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. What about all the trace elements in your soil. They

are absolutely as essential as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. They're just needed in very small amounts and as and mite provides that you can go to ASMIT Texas and find out more if you want to learn more about azmite. But it provides those trace minerals that are so important for your lawn. So when you fertilize, if you haven't done asmite this year, go ahead and do it. That's anytime is a good time to put it on. It's not going

to make your lawn take off and grow like nitrogen will. No, you're building the bank account so that all twelve months of the year, the roots can reach out in the soil and find the nutrients they need to build what they're building, whether it's a grass plant, whether it's a tomato fruit. You know, you get the idea. Asimite provides those nutrients for it. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give us a call.

Let's figure out what you're interested in talking about, and that's what we will talk about today. We've had some calls on fruit. I had some questions on fruit at the Agrolife Extension office as well. People are very interested in finding some types of fruit that they can plant and grow, and that is a good thing. I love fruit. In fact, when I got my master's degree, my primary initial area of study was palmology. Pomology is named

after the goddess of fruit, Pomona. Have you ever heard of Pomona, the goddess of fruit? But pomology studies all the different kinds of fruit, and we learned how to have success with fruit. And if you're thinking thing about fruit this year, remember this Number one. Sunlight. The question is not will a peach tree or a tomato, for that example, grow in shade. It's the question is will it produce in shade and will it produce quality fruit? And the answers no to both of those. They need sunlight.

So that's number one. Number two is drainage. When it rains, it pours. Welcome to Southeast Texas, and so we need to make sure even when there's too much water coming out of the sky, that tree's root system has good drainage, so the roots get oxygen and they thrive. Those two are important. Next, plant a species it does well. Here, there's some things that you're just not going to have success with. Here, there's others that do well, and thirdly, plan a variety that does well

here. You know, peaches have a little interior clock in the buds in the wintertime and after a certain amount of weather between about thirty two and forty five or thirty two and forty five degrees, it makes that clock tick down where the buds can open up and grow. If you don't get that cold, the spring comes and the tree barely is leafing out sporadically here and there.

Chilling hours is what that's called. So when you plant a peach, whether you're in Tyler, Texas or Houston, you got to pick one with the right amount of chilling hours. So those are all a few little tips on fruit. There's a lot lot more to talk about on fruit, but just remember that by the time you put that fruit tree in the ground and walk away, you're probably in the case of a fruit tree, about eighty five ninety percent of the way to success or failure because those things are not

replaceable. Well, we're going to take a break here for the Nick and News Network. Our phone number is seven one three two pine two five eight seven four. If Josha call, get on the board and you'll be first up when we come back. Well, good morning, and welcome back to garden Line. We are glad you're of course, we always are glad you're listening. Give us a call. Let's talk about the things that are of interest to you. You know, anytime I sit down with gardeners, it's

just questions, questions. One comes after another. Speaking to a group or something. When I get done, there'll be a question and then another question. It's just like a ball rolling downhill. As people ask questions, other people think about a question they have themselves. And sometimes I think I got to give talks that are one minute long and then just talk about whatever people are interested. I may be in there to talk about I don't know what,

like fruit. While ago I was talking about success with fruit, and I'll say those things and here comes well, how do I go fire ants? And you know, how do I fertilize my law? And it just goes from one thing to another. But that's fun. I love doing that. That is that is why we're here. And you know I've said this before, but horticulture is a wonderful hobby. It is. It is a relaxing thing. It's a peaceful thing. And you know, nature itself.

So many studies have shown that even just a walk in the woods. I think it's maybe Japan they talk about forest bathing and what that basically means. It's not running through the forest unclothed. It basically is walking out in nature and just taking deep breath and enjoying it and taking it in. There is

something about being around plants, the sounds of nature. You know. It is when you have running water around you, when you hear the wind go through the trees, or you hear the song of birds, or you just smell the smells of nature and the fragrance of plants and other things like that. It's a comforting, relaxing thing. And I realized after this year struggling with lawns and heats and droughts and all the kinds of stuff, it's not been a very relaxing thing. But you can make it that way. And

just think about that. What would you like to do? Would you like to do a container garden this fall? Why not give that a try if you never garden before. It is really simple. Just get your a container that holds I would say at least five gallons of soil. That would be a good place to start for most of the plants you're going to plant. In fact, in the cool season, probably could get away with a little bit less than that, because when it's summer and we got a big tomato,

we need at least five gallons. But the cool season you do with less. Get your quality potting soil, Get you some plants, get you some seeds, and try it out and see how that works. Maybe some hanging baskets. Maybe you want to get a here's a good one, the holiday cactus, like Christmas cactus and Thanksgiving cactus. There's also an Easter cactus. I guess we have to name them all after holidays, depending on when

they bloom. But it's beautiful blooms. And I've got those that I've had around for years, and I just got to tell you they're pretty easy. I mean, if you totally neglect them and throw under the back tire your car and roll over them, yeah you can kill one. But they're not that hard to take care of. And then next year you take care of them and they just loom again, and it's just nice and it's not a difficult thing at all, not difficult at all. Talking about your plants and

your lawns. Microlife makes a couple of products that I call the Blue and Blue, the Blue plus blue, if you will, and that what is blue plus blue. Well, the blue at first blue is their Microlife Ultimate. Now that's a standard fertilizer in a great ratio for pretty much all plants really, but the Microlife Ultimate is used to build your soil over time to feed your plants. Now, you get immediate results. It's a fertilizer,

so you put it down, you're gonna get the results from it. But over time, as you continue to use it, you're continuing to add a little organic matter. You're continuing to add the microbes that come with Microlife products, and it just builds your soul. The other blue is the Ocean Harvest. That's their liquid. It's a fish based fertilizer and it contains more than

just the three nutrients. You've got microbial activity in there. You've also got a lot of the compounds that we don't even talk about when we're talking about fertilizing plants, but there are a lot of things that influence plant growth. And with that combination Blue and Blue, the Ultimate, which is a granular, dry granular and you can put it on anything. Put it on your vegetable garden, put it on your herbs, put on your lawn if you

want it. That's a good product. And then the fish emulsion, which you could use as a drench when you're transplanting. You could use it as a foli your feet. It will not burn your plants. It is not going to burn your plants. And that combination really helps strengthen your plants. It provides them with the boost they need to be stronger and to do what you want them to do. That is to grow, to look good, to bloom, to fruit, whatever you want out of that plant. When

you strengthen the plant, it is able to do that. Throw in a little sunlight, a little bit of water, and you are well on your way to success. Now, you can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You can find where to buy these, you can find out more about them, and I'd encourage you to do that. There's a lot wide line of micro Life products there that are something you need to take a look at. We're going to go out to Katie now and we're going to talk to John.

Hello, John, Hey, Skip, how are you well I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Yeah, good, thanks for taking thanks for taking my call. Yes, about three acres out three acres out in Katie, Texas used to be an old tree farm, so I've got quite a bit of pine trees there. But I've got at about an acre that's wide open on the north side of the property, and I really would like to see if I can get a patch of blue bonnets growing there in my nuts. No can I scrape it down? I don't that. Is there enough

sunlight? It's probably yeah, probably eighty eighties during the day. That makes sense. Hey, eighties, eighties probably good. You know, blue bonnet's like a lot of sun so you can do that, do you do? You know on a Fand if your soil is sandy or if it is clay, it's a very sandy, loamy soil, very sandy low. Okay, good for you. There's there's there's actually five kind of blue bonnets. I need to talk about that some other time, but five kind of blue bonnets

from Texas. The two kinds of the most the main one has the little white tips at the top have ever bloom. That's I believe that's lupinas tex census, if I'm not making getting that wrong. The other one is the Sandy Lamb blue bonnet, and those blue spikes go blue all the way to the top. They don't have a little white we call it a bunny tale looking tip on top. You want to get the one for the Sandy Lamb blue bonnet. And that's the difference between the two when you look at them.

When you look at a field of sandy land blue bonnets, they look bluer because you don't have those little white pixels all through the field, right, And so make sure you get that one. You can buy seeds from a lot of different places. If you're doing a large area like that, I would talk to either what's it called Native American Seed and Junction or wild Seed Farms in Fredericksburg and they can sell you more of a bulk amount and

that will get you off to a good start. But if you're going to do that, you need to do them really soon because they need to established, sprout and be ready to go. Okay, So it's a there's grass in the field now, obviously it's not in Augustine, but it's okay. Do I need to kind of shred that up? A little bit. Yeah, yeah, you do. You need to get all the organic matter that's shading out off the top because they need light to come through. You need

to mow it really low. How to go about that at this short notice is going to be a little more of a challenge. But uh, and then you I've got to I've got a tractor with a box blade and a ripper on it. I can I can. Okay, well, if you can get it, if you can get to where you want the seed to hit the ground, you want it to fall into the soil and make good soil contacts so it can sprout and come up. And then we just need

a little regular Yeah. Should I put a layer of like compost top top dress or something that you won't you won't need that, Just anything you can do to scratch up that soil surface, rough it up a little bit so the seeds can kind of fall into the into the cracks of what you scratched up. That makes it even better. Cool. And the next one is the guy kind of plant like any of paybrush with it. You can but go to those two companies and they can sell you your blends as well.

So that that's what I would do all right, all right, thank you very much, all right, thank you. I appreciate that call. We are going to take break here. It is time for another one. Boy, these seem to come fast when you're time flies and you're having fun. Seven one, three, two and two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like to call in, we'll be right back. Well, welcome back to garden Line. We are glad you're listening today and having a good time talking

about all kinds of things gardening. Hey, I'm going to be an Enchanted Gardens next Saturday, and I want you to put that on your calendar if you live anywhere out south and west of town, or if you want to drive from a crosstown. We had some people that did that yesterday to go up north to Magnolia. Come on out, let's do that. That's gonna be Enchanted Gardens, which is on the Katie side of Richmond. You go

up on FM three point fifty nine, you get right there. Their websites in channigardens dot com, and boy do they are they ever stocked up with all kinds of things. Right now, one of the things I don't talk about much, and I need to more is ornamental grasses, and they have an excellent stock of ornamental grasses. These are the ans. The seaedheads of the ornamental grass are just so decorative. Some of the grasses have beautiful coloring

in the foliage as well. And I like to keep ornamental grasses and don't cut them back to the end of winter because the frost are just the light coming through those seed ons is so so beautiful. There's something we need to incorporate more into our landscapes. While you're out there, you need to check out their pumpkin house. It is really cool. A whole wall full of pumpkins. They got a lot of great places by it. Take the kids

and maybe your significant other out there, get some photos done. It's all set up for you to do that. And while you're out there, you, by the way, make sure and clean out the trunk and the back of the pickup and every anything else because you're gonna need room. They got so much great stuff to bring home from Enchanted Gardens. Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. By the way, today they're open from ten am to four pm. Just saying you need a little outing. We're gonna head out now to

cypress and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, Hi, good mornings. Get good morning. I hope you're doing good. I'm doing it. I wanted to see on my contain our vegetables and flowers and plants that I have in my backyard. Yes, do I still have to water them every day? Or the containers? You're saying, yeah, the containers okay, uh, you know you have to water them every day like I was doing that.

It's hot summer, Yeah, Sandy, that not as much, not near as much, but saying, you know, like every day or twice a day, or every other day or third day. It's hard to say. Depending on the size of the container, the size of the plant, the amount of sunnets in, and the temperatures on those days, that all

of affects watering dramatically. So I would say to the answer in general, yes, you're gonna have to water much less, but just watch them, kind of stick your finger down in the soil a couple of inches and feel it, and you'll know when it's time to water that container with that plant and that location. Okay, alrighty, all right, thank you so much.

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Good morning, Skip Well, good morning. We've got some lougens from three Lougenstrom bushes home we've been in for about three and a half years. The homes five years old. And we get some brown spots on the leaves, yes, which I have treated. One of the nurseries recommended turnalm trickle triple action, and I've done probably I've done spray the sprayed that you know,

a couple of tablespoons and some UH effectant and one one gallon sprayer. I've probably done that eight or nine times and it seems to reduce some of the brown spots. But then it comes right back, and I've taken a couple

of pictures. I don't know if a picture would explain better than what I'm sharing with your verbal I know what you got already, I do, Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's a that's a fungal disease that plagues laugustrium and uh, once you got it, those spores are in the air, you know the Culturally, what we do is we pick off the infected leaves because they are gonna have spores that reinfect the same plant. Rake up the leaves off the ground if there are any. Avoid spray in the foliage anytime you

can. You can't control rain, but you can't control your your sprayers coming on and wetting the foliage. And then it's gonna take a different kind of fungicide than the triple action. Triple action is just not going to cut it on this disease. You're gonna have to use two different types of fungicide and alternate between them to avoid our resistance. Uh. And one contains propa conasole propa conasole and the other one contains chlorothaloonil. Isn't that long words for you?

If you if you would like me to send you more information on that. You could send me an email. I can give you a little more information on it, so you don't have to try to write down all those words and stuff. But that's what it's going to take. And anytime it rains, you just go out and just pray again, because that is a disease. It just isn't easy to get rid of. But if you stay on it and alternate those you can do that. Okay, well that'd be

great. I'll forget about the pictures I've tooken. But all right, this is the second time I've called you on on a called on another subject but previous weight. But I've never sent an email. Okay, alright, email, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to put you on hold right now and Josh will pick you up and he will give you everything you need.

Thank you very much, Lee, I really appreciate that call. I was talking earlier about Nelson's carbo load that is there ten ten twenty with a pre emerging herbicide in it, and that is a product that ever bag sool this fall is going to be a two dollars donation to Randy Lemon's new scholarship. Yeah, scholarship up there in Texa, A and M for the horticulture

department. Now, you know Nelson's forty years ago. In fact, yesterday was a forty year anniversary when Nelson Plant Food opened its stores for business. That is an amazing thing. I mean when you think of all the lines that they produced over the years, Color Star, nutri Star, turf Star, which Carboload is a part of that, Nature Star, their organic line.

It's all out there at Nelson's good quality fertilizers. You want to get that carbo load down right away though, right away, because you need the nutrient in your soil. It's designed for fall fertilization, excellent combo. But you also if you're going to put that down, it's got the pre emergent in it, and you've got to get it down and get it watered in right away because once the weeds start germinating, you've kind of missed that window

for the pre emergence. Fertilizer is still good, but you know you've missed that window, and so you want to make sure and get that down so that you can have the full effect of it. And Carboload is the kind of product that can really take that lawn that's been struggling this summer and get it ready for fall to put Why do they call it carbo load because it helps your plant produce carbohydrates, which is the ana freeze, to go into winter and make it heartier. By the way, the potassium in it also

makes it more drought resistant. So lots of good reasons to use it. It's your product. Well, wow, that hour went fast. I want almost knuck up on me there, BC. I see you on the line there. We're going to get to you. You will be first up when we come back out of our hour break. I just want to remind you guys, I'm going to be at Enchanted Gardens this coming Saturday, the twenty first of October, from eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll be out there

for two hours at a table. I will be diagnosing plant problems. You bring in, please bring them in in a ziplock or some other plastic closure bag so we can take a look at them. If you have plants you want identified, we can do that with a sample. We can also do that with photos. If you want to bring out photos of your landscape and go look at this. What should I do here? What do you think

is wrong here? We'll do all of that kind of stuff. We're gonna have a really good time, always a good time out there in Channet gardens. But write that down Next Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty. I hope you can join us. Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scape Richter. It's trim. Just watch him as look, good morning, hey, it is going to be a beautiful Sunday today.

Isn't this weather nice? Isn't it nice to have the temperatures that we're having now? Oh gosh, it just makes you actually want to leave the house squa outside and enjoy the beautiful, beautiful weather that we're having. It's safe to go back out in the yard again. I guess there's another way to put it. Hey, while you're out in the yard, you need to be thinking about what am I going to do for my law in this fall? And Nitrofoss has got you covered with their Texas three step three steps

one fertilizer two. It's a pre emergent weed control number three, it's a disease control product. Now, if you take those three and put them together, you pretty much have covered the things that are going on in the lawn in the fall. So what is a fertilizer. It's a nitrophoss fall special. Fall Special is a winterizer type fertilizer, meaning the nitrogen levels are a little lower, which we want. We want some nitrogen and a lot like

in the spring and summer. Number two, it's got a really good content of potassium the third number, and the phosphorus is important too, but especially that potassium third number. That increases winter hardiness, that increases drought resilience and so on. Those are important. Number two. The second step is nitroposp barricade. That's their pre emergent for grass weeds and for broad leaf weeds that

are coming up from seeds. You want to get those down now because you want to put that barricade down into the soil with a half inch of water, and that forms a barricade on the soil's surface so the weed seeds can't come through and establish. You never even see them. It worked. If you don't see anything, it worked, right. That's how that works.

So if you take step three. Now you're talking about the fungicide, which is a systemic fungicide soaks into the tissues of the plant, moves around inside there, and protects the plant against brown patch, against infection from take all root rot. Both of those work very well. Both of those are all part of the nitrofoss three step. It's available at Warren Southern Gardens out in

Kingwood Hardware and Sinco ranch or Growers Outlet out in the Woodlands. We're going to head back to the phones now and go to Northwest Houston and we're gonna talk to b c Hey. B c Hey, good morning, Good morning. Yeah, I just have a question. I'll have two magnolia trees in my front yard. They've been here for fifty four plus years. Well, during the summer with this heat, one of them, all the leaves turned brown. Yeah, So I don't know if he's dead or what what can

I do to bring it back to life. Yeah, if the whole thing's brown, there's probably no bringing it back to life. Usually, especially with an evergreen like that, we say, when it turns brown, cut it down. And that's a sad thing, because magnolia is a wonderful tree to have but boy, we have seen all over town this summer. Magnolia's just it seems like overnight. It actually takes a little longer than that, but

just turned brown. And it's it was the drought. It hit a price in the soil where the soil moisture in all those areas where the roots were reaching, there was just not enough moisture and the whole system collapses and so ok, you know, water in it just continued watering it. It's not going to help it. There's just no life, no life left to bring back. That's the sad news. Hate to be It's been here for so long since I was little. Oh man. Yeah, sorry to hear that.

I know how that I know that is, but yeah, that it is what it is. If you like another one, there's not a better time to plant one than now. So getting it out of there, putting one somewhere else. This is the last time to establish a magnolia, so and get some roots going. So next smeer. When it gets hot, it's a little easier to keep it alive and going, right, Okay, all right, well, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you.

I appreciate I appreciate your phone call very much. I was out in Chanty Forest a couple of weeks ago, and just I'm always impressed when I go out there and enchanted forests that is out outside of Richmond. If you're in Richmond, heading towards sugar Land, off to the right on FM twenty seven point fifty nine, that's ingended forest. They have unbelievable supply of all kinds of things. When I was there, you know, the moms were outstanding.

They always have good pollinator plants. In fact, they've got a deal. They got so many pipevine swallowtails that if you will stop by, they would love you to take a few home to put them on your pipe vine. That way you get the you know, a start of butterflies right there at your house as well. They also have woody ornamentals and things like Chinese French tree, sunshine. Lagostrum lantana is a good perennial for example. They are stocked up on all that stuff. Now's the time to plant them.

If you want native plants, they got a good supply of those coming in too, and in fact they have them on stock. Natives are good because you know they're from here. They know how to deal with this kind of stuff that just seems unbelievable difficult for most of our plants. Enchanted Forest out in Richmond. You can check them out online. You can go to the

website and find out more about them. When you're out there, visit with Clay and Danny and find out more about the different kinds of products they offer. They're really good. It's stopping taking time with customers pointing you in the right direction. You know, when you go to a place to buy plants, you want people that know what they're talking about, and that is Enchanted Forest out there in Richmond. We are going to now go all the way to Titusville, Florida and talk to d C. Hey, DC, how

are you this morning? I'm all right, Skip. How you doing today? I'm good, I'm good. What's up? Yeah? I want to know about Can I grow as Bronza's in central Florida over the ghost Absolutely? Yes you can. You sure can't. Hey, So what I'm going to sell them over here? I think I told them about one of the guard people. They go, what's that? Uh huh? I don't know why. Why you couldn't they grow all the way from the southern tip of Florida to about as far north as they can take the cold, you know,

which Central Florida shouldn't be a problem. They may die back to the ground in a coal winter. I don't know exactly where all you are, but what you described, they shouldn't have a problem with that at all. Yeah, I don't know where to get them. I'd call the county I grow extend or the county extension office and whatever county you're in over there in Florida.

Florida has an excellent extension service and they usually have horticulturists in most of the big counties, and they could point you to maybe a garden center. All right, okay, so all right, I appreciate thank you, sir. Hey, thanks for the call. Have fun out there in Florida. By the way, you know the when when I'm talking about planting in the fall, I've been encouraging you to have some hash to grow six twelve six

on hand has to grows six twelve six. Of course, it's got the nutrients nitrogen, phosphors and potassium, and it's got seaweed extracts, and it it's got humic acid in it, a Medina soil activator in it. I mean so it's a combination. When you mix it up in water and you've planted a new perennial, whether it's a perennial herb or whatever, and you watered in really well, do it again five or seven days later, another week later, do it again and those three soakings with Medina hast Grow will

help that plant get started. Falls. The best time to plant and watering in with Medina has to grow six twelve sticks the best idea if you want to help that plant, give it a boost and help it get established. Not going to burn your plants. It's easy to find. Medina hast grows six twelve six is widely available and will help get your plants off to a run and start. Hey, it's time for another break. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Good morning.

You're listening to garden line. Good Sunday morning. It's going to be a great day. I can look outside the glow oh is starting in the eastern sky. That's always I think that's an exciting thing because I think every day is a day for new beginnings, and when it comes to lawn and gardening, it is always a time of hope. You know, gardener's your eternal

optimists. I don't know if you realize that, but we are. I mean, every time you put this little brown piece of detritus called a seed in the ground, looks dead, looks like just chip off a bark or something, and you know that out of that seed is going to come a tomato, or out of that seed is going to come beautiful flowers like zinnias or whatever. It's just it is just a time of renewal. And that is one of the cool things that is just hardwired into nature from the beginning.

That just it's always there's always hope, there's always a new day, there's always a new rising up out of the earth and a new hope. And that is really cool stuff. I was out in the backyard the other day and joining the birds that are out there, and I just love the songs. I told you earlier that I've become quite the person when it comes to being conscious of birds. I just I've always been a gardener, but I never was really that into bird boy. I am now sure. I

am now. Wabird's Unlimited has a deal that you need to know about, and I need to take advantage of this too. By the way, twenty percent off a new feeder. When you bring in any old feeder, and I'm talking about some old feeder in the garage, I'm talking about a broken feeder. I'm talking about a piece of an old feeder. Bring it in.

Do you have two different feeders, bring them both in. You can get two new feeders for twenty percent off of both at all seven Wallbirds, Parlins, Kingwood, Clearlake, bell Air, Katie, Memorial Cypress, WBU dot com, Forward Slash Houston. That's the website, WBU dot Com, Forward Slash Houston. They're all there. Is it a squirrel resistant feeder?

Oh, they got a great one. I have a squirrel resistant feeder from Wallbirds that I love listening to the squirrel's curse trying to get into that feeder because they cannot. Do you need a cylinder feeder, a tray feeder? Do you need feeders free specific types of birds like a finch or for example, an oriel feeder for example, maybe a feeder that attaches to your window. And they even have feeders for squirrels. I mean, if you're merciful

to squirrels, God bless you. But they have feeders for squirrels as well, twenty percent off between now and October sixteenth. Guess when that is tomorrow. Don't delay get that done. Take advantage of that deal. If you've even thought about adding a feeder this winter, now's the time to go ahead and get it done, because you're not going to find a better deal than that at a Walldbirds. Let's go out to East Houston and we're going to talk to Sam. Now, Hello, Sam, oh Well, I have

a question about the palm tree. He's a yes time Nancy lives near Rockdale. He's bought some land. There's like, oh, a couple of bakers, former farm land, no trees at all. I told him, well, I've got the columns and I've been not molled in my yard. I could give him. He said he didn't want pecans because they're invasive. I've never heard of the described that way before. Is he I don't know what. No, that's absolutely not true. Ever. Plant to produces seeds is

going to come up somewhere. But pecans are not invasive. They are not at all invasive. Yeah. No, do you think they would do well near Rockdale? They do, okay. They like a deep well drained soil. That's why the Ocum native grown on river bottoms. Uh. So at Rockdale up in the Houston area, there are some heavy black clays. I don't know the soil on his property, of course, but uh, you just want to make sure that the soil drains well. And if it's a

heavy heavy clay, pecans will grow there. But they're gonna they're gonna struggle a little bit. Okay, all right, Well, appreciate that. You bet, Sam, you take care, wish him well, Yes, sir, you bet Bye bye. If you haven't been out to RCW, you need to go this month. And here's why. Every weekend in October they are having their celebration of fall. And listen to this. Remember I've been telling you plant, what do your ornamentals plant? What a your ornamentals plant?

What are your ornamentals? Now's the time to do it. Fifteen percent discount on all their trees. Fifteen percent discount on all their trees. They grow their own trees up in Plantersville. They've got all the types of trees that do very very well here, and now they're saying in October, fifteen percent discount. Now during their fall festival. There's fun and games for the kids. You can go out to the well, just walk through the beautiful

garden areas. You can get family photos. They have little things set up, or you can get the family together, get the kids together and take a photo. They got refreshment and snacks just to make it even more fun. Experiments, Experiment, experience. This autumn extravaganza add at RCW Nurseries is one you don't want to miss now. RCW that's the nursery on Tomball Parkway to forty nine where it comes into Beltway eight. Just go to RCW Nurseries

dot com and you can find out a lot more information. You ought to join them, get out there and have a great time because they are and other people are with them. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was visiting with Luis over at Airloom Soils the other day and he was telling me about the fall special that they're doing right now, and boy is this ever a big one. And it's on their bulk products now.

You can buy quality Airloom Soil products all over town. Buy the bag that's that's a given. If you would like a quantity, maybe you don't want to buy eight hundred bags or something to put make in a new bed, or you know a compost or molts that you're putting over some do the bulk the veggie and herb soil. The mix that veggie and herb mix is on fall special at one hundred and nineteen dollars bulk or one hundred and forty eight

for a supersack. A supersack think of those cloth grocery bags you get, you know, at the grocery store to bring your groceries home, so you know, throw away plastic. Think of one of those so big that it holds a yard a cubic yard of soil. That is a supersack one hundred and nineteen bulk for the veggie and herb one hundred and forty eight supersack. The rose soil is one hundred and seventy bulk and ninety nine for the supersack.

So whether you just want a bulk delivery, go buy pickup bulk, or whether you want them to bring that supersack to your yard or to your driveway, they can do that. Go to Airloom soilsof Texas dot Com. Don't don't miss out on this. I mean, here's your chance. You've been thinking about building a bed, you've been thinking about putting in a vegetable bed, or maybe you know, increasing your flower bed, bringing bringing it up so the drainage is a little better, all of that stuff. Now's

the time to do it. And the rose soil and the veggie and herb soil are two of the best mixes that they make as far as popularity. People love those soils because they work and they make plants work. And that's what this is all about. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give me a call and we can talk about things that are of interest to you. I was mentioning earlier about fruit trees. It's always a good

time to plant fruit trees. A lot of our garden centers have a pretty good stock, and some of them have fruit trees year round. Some of them made me getting new stocks of different kinds of things in. But anytime you're planting any plant, your first question is is it going to do well in my place? Is it going to do well in my location. You may have come from the Midwest and lilax are are your most wonderful memory of

childhood. Well let that be a memory, because the closest you're going to get to having a lilac care is to plant a great myrtle and spray it with perfume. They don't want to grow in Houston. That's just an example great plant where it belongs, but not a great plant where it doesn't belong. And that's true of all of our plants. Pick plants that are well adapted, pick fruit varieties that are well adapted, and on and on down the lie. That's your free tip of the day, among others. Let's

go out to Westbury and we're going to talk to Bentley. Hello Bentley, Hi, Hi, What I had out in the yard? I have these brown pod like looking things that are out the size of a golf ball, and I think they're a fungus. If you hit it or break it, it puffs, you know dust, Yes, you're right, and tell me about it. There's a lot of different kinds of fungi out there, a lot of them. What they're about is not attack plants. They're about decomposing

organic matter. When you see a log in the forest and it's got that little shelf thing sticking out, that shelf fungi sticking out of it, that's what it's doing. It's turning the log back into soil. There's all kinds of weird stuff. There's one that looks like scrambled eggs that you see on the top of the mulch. There's another one looks like the dog threw up on top of the mulch. And this little these little pods that you know when you stomp them, they the puff of spores goes everywhere. Is the

same thing. It's not a disease of your plants, though, No need to worry about it. And when we get to fall and get some cooler weather and rains, we see a lot of mushrooms and other things like that popping up. And it's the same story. So try to kill it, no, sir, not at all. Like I always tell people, this is one we don't have to worry about. You and I can go try

to solve world peace and not worry about this particular fund fungus. Thank you for taking my call, all right, Bentley, thank you for the call. I know a lot of other people had that same a call. We get a lot of those as well. That's it. Like those rings of mushrooms in the yard, you know, the fairy rings, they call them

white mushrooms and rings. All that's doing is decomposing the thatch layer at the surface, the organic matter right up there near the soil surface and in the soil, and it's working its way out further and further, and it sends up a little fruiting body, which is those white mushrooms, the fairy rings. You get a little bit greener lawn because it's decomposing things and releasing nutrients in that area, but not a disease of your lawn. Hey, have

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over the place wish they could. Like citrus, for example, we can grow citrus here in the Greater Houston area. And that's just one of a thousand examples of things that do really really well here. And when you've got that kind of opportunity, all you need is a good place to get what you got, and Arburgate is an example of that. I don't know I've been going to Arburgate for over ten years. I know about fifteen years or

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Well, good Sunday morning, on a beautiful Sunday morning. By the way, you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions and we're gonna be doing that for the rest of this morning, all the way up to ten am. So give us a call at seven one three two one two five eight seven four if you would like to ask a question. Uh, we're gonna head out to Missouri City and we're going to talk to Patricia Well, Hello Patricia.

Yeah, good morning, mister kid morning. Yeah McCall. My question is said, but Opra and Cassava and from Nigeria in West Africa, And that was Staple food. One of them is okra and cassava. Yes, and cassava is anti anti cancer. Yes, that is one reason why people in Nigeria we don't get cancer. But unfortunately my people are trying to be Western night. Then we go to the store and buy box chicken from China. That's why, that's why cancer is half the nine Nigeria. All right,

yes, so canap plant casa this time? I don't know where to by the roots to plant. Oh boy, that I would have to hunt down for you. But cassava is what you're talking about, right, yeah, yes, uh. In the in the South, I grew up eating tapioca, and tapioca is made from the cassava plant. It's a yeah, it's very very good popular. It's a starchy vegetable. Cassava is not fully cold hardy here fully cold hardy, but it's close uh to cold hardy. Uh.

We grow. There's some that's grown as an ornamental. It's a beautiful it's got yellow, the red petioles that hold the leaves to the stem. It's got yellow, the yellow and green splotched leaves. That's an ornamental one. That's not the one you probably grew grew up eating. But that is grown here as an ornamental, So we do know that that it can be grown here. It's just you're gonna probably have to deal with the cold weather

and maybe replant or protected over winter or something like that. As to where you would find straight casava, we would have to do some searching to look for that, because I don't know. But but yes, the plants, the plants can be grown. And Okra, oh my gosh, Okra thinks Houston is heaven. It loves to be in Houston. It loves to grow here. It takes the hot weather just as super well. I'm a I'm a big Okra fan. In fact, I actually breed Okra plants, crossing

the different varieties and things. So you're talking to probably the biggest Okra enthusiast in Texas at least, I'm gonna self self claim that whatnot. But hey, let me ask you a question, Patricia, what what did you grow up? What did you all call Okra? In Nigeria and Africa? Did have another name? No? Is the same opera, same Okra? Okay okay because it has some people call it okay. Yeah, there's a lot, a lot of names for Okra. As you go across the world.

Yeah, yeah, we call it a little in Nigeria. Of course, I've been here since nineteen seventy six. Almost forgot I said I have been in the United States is nineteen seventy six. Wow, wow, I forgot that name a litty Okay, so it's just happen to come back to me. Yes, we're good. Well, yeah, it's a great plant, many many good uses for it just does well as with you know, you you grew up with that. Most people here didn't even know you could eat

the stuff. But if I said the word tapioca, they would know what I was talking about. Okay, yeah, you're right, you're right, all right. Well, and then and then I discovered there are many of our food staple food that is anti anti cancer. But how can somebody promote something like that? Mister keep it? I want I want to help people like Bonda fish, Parmorial this yeah, anti cancer. Well that that is

all good. And I think you just bringing it up on the air, people are going to go hunt those down and see what they can learn about them. But good luck with good luck with that. If I happen to run into a good cassava source other than the the ornamental version. Uh. And I guess the ornamental version. I don't know how well it does in producing the starchy roots, but I've never looked at that part. We just grudt the one I see, the ones I see in this store, like

yes, yeah, so hard. Yeah, it looks like is that the one you're talking about? No? No, the one I'm talking about is just grown because it has a pretty top. That that's it. Okay, So but hey, thank you, Patricia, thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. Okay, you take care, call back again. Thank you. Bye bye, you bet bye bye. If you happen to live up in the Magnolia area, you need to know about Spring Creek Feed because that is your hometown feed store. So do you need to get

your lawn fertilize this fault? They've got them. They've got all the ones we talk about here on garden Line. Do you need to deal with insects or diseases or weeds, They've got the products to do that. Now. They're on Magnolia in Magnoia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine. You're always greeted by friendly cartious staff there. They will special deliver special or special order as well if needed.

They have discounts for senior citizens, military four h FFA. It's just a great place and it's a fun place to shop too. Lots lots of products, lots of good things that you need for your pets, for your livestock, and as I'm talking about today, for your lawn and garden. At Spring Creek Feed out there on twenty nine to seventy eight in Magnolia. We're going to now go out to Kingwood and talk to Joe. Hello Joe, Good morning, Skip morning. I'd appreciate a few tips from you on

trimming shrubs in the fall. October typically, is that a good month to be doing it, and just give most of the shrubs kind of a haircut and shape them. And are there any that absolutely should not be trimming? In general, I don't recommend fall trimming, and I'm not saying that it would hurt every shrub if you did it. I'm just saying in general,

I don't And here's why. When you trim, it stimulates new growth and to have tender, succulent growth when we have a pheze, it's going to burn it if not kill it, and so not the whole shrub, but that new growth it looks bad. And so I would wait until spring, when it warms up the danger of freezes past, and resume your trimming then.

And you can keep trimming like that all the way through the year, probably all the way up into oh, I don't know, maybe September sometime on your on your shrubs that are dependably hardy as a species, you can do that, but out of that now for that reason, so September is probably the last month that you would be trimming them. Yeah, and probably

early to mid September. Now with things like we used to have red tip p atinias everywhere that shrub and we trimmed those typically late August to get some new sprouts of growth that would then turn that beautiful red color when the weather cooled off. But that wasn't done at this time of the year. And again I'm not saying if you trimmed a shrub it would necessarily have a bad ending, just that principle of trimming causes succulent new growth. Succulent new growth

is not cold hearty. That's the thing. I'm concerned about gotcha. Okay, thank you for the tip. All right, Joe, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Hey, we're going to take another break. Our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four will be right back. Welcome back to Guardline. On a beautiful Sunday morning. If you haven't looked outside yet, you ought to take a look this afternoon. It would be a good time to get out and get some some gardening work

done. Maybe go around do alut to shopping, getting the supplies you need to get that gardening work done. You're listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Hey, I got a quiz for you. Who originated rose soil in the Greater Houston area? Who originated leaf mold compost in the Greater Houston

area. I can keep adding to the list because they all have the same answer, and that answer is Nature's Way, John Ferguson, and Nature's Way has created some of the best products for our soils, for our plants, for our climate that you can have and they're still doing that out at Nature's Way. By the way, if you're heading up forty five toward Conro where fourteen eighty eight comes in, you just turn right, go across railroad tracks

and you're there. Real convenient. Now you can purchase products bagged run down. You can also go buy and pick up bulk. You can go buy and or you can call them and have them deliver a bulk if you like. While you're there, if you drop by, which I'd recommend to do, uh, you can see all the quality products they have. They have a two acre nursery in a garden center. In fact, I think it's bigger than that. Now they got all kinds of trees, are really specialized

in a lot of the native plants, an amazing selection. I was out there on a Saturday appearance this fall and really impressed with the selection that they had out there in Nature's Way and the rose, soil leaf mo compost, just to a many many products that they have. Give them a call nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety ninety three six three two one six nine nine zero simple as that. Well, let's go now out to sugar

Land and we're going to talk to Jeff Morning. Jeff Morning. So yeah, So my long guy was out there on on Thursday, and I had some spots that I've had chinchbugs in the front in the yard during the summer, and I tried to treat those, but then there's a few more spots. He said, there's still some chinchbugs there. So he suggested that I get something to kill the chinchbugs with and then put some wheat and feed afterwards to kind of just stimulate a little bit of growth. So I did that.

I got some spectrocide try as a side stuff, and then I followed it with a little bit of bonus s that I got to thinking, now, was that the right thing to do? And I haven't done any of the fall you know, pre emergent or brown patching stuff, So should I go ahead and do that as well? Or is it? Am I in trouble or am I okay? Well, do you traditionally have a brown patch problem in your lawn? It's been occasional but not having been a big problem.

Okay, When you overwater, when you overfertilize with nitrogen, that's when you aggravate it and you see a lot worse problems brown patch. When you mow your lawn very very short, it makes it worse as well. That that stressful. Okay, I went I went down to number three one aboute it because I saw that you're supposed to take off some of that to get the change bugs better. Yeah, but yeah, go ahead. Well yeah, and so you know, as far as the bonus has, i'd probably

go a different direction when you're going to do that in the future. But we can call you can call back. We can talk about that at another time. As far as chug, yes, they are still active. I've got some up in College Station in my yard up there that I was out just yesterday and our date for yesterday and looking at and it is an issue. It still is an issue. We expect them to go away soon. So as to whether you treat or not, still it's like, but they're

alive and there there and they're feeding on grass. So I understand the need the need to do that. As far as a brown patch generally, I just wouldn't recommend you treat every lawn every year for brown patch, if you you know, because if you don't have it and it's not typical, then it's it's not as likely that you're going to see it again. Some lawns have it all the time, and so okay, And if you wait until the circles appear, well you're not going to make circles that are brown green

again. So yeah, pre treating it ahead of time is important. So that's kind of the conundrum that we have, is you don't want to apply stuff you don't need to apply. But on the other hand, if you wait until you see them, it's a little bit late. So focus on getting lawn healthy and green. That's and not over fertilized with nitrogen. Okay, Well I might have Yeah, like I said, I did, the

bonus has pretty much everywhere. As far as the spectrocide as well, spectrocide that stuff is it okay for getting rid of change bugs should get rid of it. It is one of the ingredients in it or one of the things that should control chinch bugs if properly applied, and it should have effect on

that. As far as the fertilization. Though, if you go online to gardening with Skip, that's my website gardening okay, skip, print out my long car guide because and you also print out my lawn pest Disease and weed management schedule, and next time you go out to purchase pre emergent or to purchase a fertilizer, all of those products are listed on there. We do special kinds of fertilizer for fall, different than spring and summer, and that

guidance will be there for you. And I would say, shift over to that schedule, and okay, yeah, I've got that. I didn't know if it was okay to do that, Like right after I've done the change bugs and the fertilized the bonus house and stuff, I a way to start that fall schedule. Oh yes, you can. Just just if you've already treated with for chinchbugs, don't treat again. If you've already done a product

for weeds or diseases, don't get it again right away. Okay, okay, all right, son, Hey, good luck, have fun out there in sugarland. All right, Well, I tell you, I keep saying fall us for planting and follow us for planting fallow us for planting woody ornamentals the most important thing in the world. If you're going to say when do I plant them, You're not going to have better time than now. And

Verdant Tree Farm three locations, in Houston. By the way, Verdant Tree Farm grows the species of trees that do best here, trees and very large shrubs as well. By the way, they got their West Houston location on Barker Cypress. If you're done in Perland on Broadway Streets, another location where Yale comes into it up in the Heights area, there's another location there and you just go in, you tag your tree, they bring it to you, they plant it, they do it right, and you're good to go.

And to do that now means next summer when the brutal tough stuff hits and that tree is not going to have a mature root system at that point in time, it's still going to be getting roots out in this oil. It will be working on that for several years. The earlier you plant, the better, and Verdant Tree Farms got the stock that you need. And if you go out there you're going to find. By the way, the website is Verdant Tree Farm v E r d A NT Treefarm dot com.

If you go out there, let them pick out your tree. They got deal going on trees as well. Just to make it even more worth it, take some pictures of your place. If you're not sure which tree you might want, take some pictures. They'll sit down, they'll consult with you, they'll get you plugged into the tree that you want. They offer a one year warranty and a ten percent discount for military in first responders at Verdant

Tree Farm. Another way, when you're getting a tree, I just think, just like you may have a shovel and a hoe and a spading fork or whatever in your tool barn, well you need to have a treehogger sprinkler in your toolbarn because anytime you're planning a tree, a shrub, a rose bush, that treogor sprinkler is the way to water at the base of that plant. There's a seven inch eleven inch and a fifteen inch diameter form. They're basically a circle that has a hinge, so that can go around the

trunk of the plant and water right there. And I mean, maybe you had a tree that's been in the ground five years. It's got a good root system, so you want a water maybe ten feet out in all directions. Treogor sprinklers can do that. Just hang it up in the garage when you need it. You got it there, and believe me, you're you're gonna want to use it because these woody ornamentals are very valuable investments in our landscapes and we don't want to we don't want to lose them. In fact,

we want some insurance tree Huger Sprinkler dot Com for insurance. That's a way to go. We're getting close to running out of another hour here, boy, this flying by again as usual. Don't forget that. My lawn care schedule and lawn pest disease weed and management schedule are both online and they're free. Can't talk you down on that price, can you? Well, you can't beat that. You can go online and look at them. You can print them out their PDFs way, you're really easy to put out multicolors.

Everything's got a you know, a number by it to connect to the products that you want for that. If you if you're organic, if you're synthetic, there's options for both of those on both of those schedules. Don't forget that. Next Saturday, I'm going to be an Enchanted Gardens in Richmond, Texas. That's a Katie direction from Richmond, and I will be there for two hours from eleven thirty am to one thirty PM. I hope you'll come out to see me. Love to meet folks that listen to garden Line

and bring some plant problems. Bring some plants for ID. Put it in a ziplock bag or some other plastic closure bag. We'll take time to look at it and to discuss your options with you. Maybe just want help with the landscape. What are some suggestions for an area? Bring me some pictures your place. We'll talk about that next Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond. Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt RH Garden Line with Scamp Richt. It's so crazy just watch him as super hot tis the club. Good morning, Good Sunday morning. If you're listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter, And what are we here for? Well, we're here to talk about gardening. What's of interest to you? Questions about a lawn, tree, shrubs. Maybe you want to put

in a vegetable garden for the first time. Maybe you got some pests or diseases that are bugging your place and you'd like some help getting some solutions to those. Well, we're here for all of that, happy to visit with you. Just give us a call at seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. It's as simple as that. We can get going on helping you find a solution

to what you're looking for. Uh, speaking of solutions, you know we just came well, I guess we're still in hurricane season actually, but it didn't take a hurricane to have the power go out. Our grid tends to at times be a little reliable. A lot of things can happen, you know, storm tree can fall. What happens when the power goes out, Well, I'll tell you what happens when the power goes out. If you have a generaic generator from Quality Home Products of Texas, the power comes right

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they're going to be there after the sale. And all of the things I just mentioned are just evidence of the fact that for years and years they've continued to do just that. Qualitytx dot com or just call seven to one to three quality and find out what they can do for you. We're going to go to the phones now and I'm going to head to a task casita and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, Hello, goodring. How are you

well? Well? What can we do for you today? Okay, I've got some barricade and some May twelve sixteen that I'm going to be putting out. Based on the schedule, I'm assuming that it's best to put out the barricade first, and then what two or three weeks, and then put out the eight twelve sixteen. No, sure, you can put them on the same day. And in fact, if you got them both on hand,

I'd do that. And here's why. You're going to want to water that barricade in with a half inch of rain to get it into the soil surface where it goes to work that incorporate we call that incorporation. That's very important.

And if you'll do them one and then turn it right around and fill up the spreader, change the setting accordingly for the fertilizer, and put it down, then you can just put that half inch of rain and you get them both dissolving and down in the ground where they're going to do what you want them to. Do. You don't have to wait for whenever the next rainfall is. You want that nutrient in so that tomorrow your grass plants beginning

to take it up. Because with each week we go into the fall, grass growth, grassroot growth slows down a little more and a little more, so the sooner the better. Okay, So it looks like we're not going to have any rain here for another two or three days. Yeah it is it. Okay, go ahead and put it down anyway. And oh yeah, well, you know, if it were my yard, I would put it down. I would just go and irrigate it with a half inch and be done with it. Uh, if you want to wait for the rain,

you can put it down now. It'll sit there, there's no problem waiting, and when the rain comes, it'll move it in. It's just we just have to remember we can't control the rain. So if you get a gully washer and water is sheet sheeting across the yard off to the ditch, you're going to lose some of your fertilizer product. Okay, probably I

should apply this after the longest cut. Is that correct? I would do Yeah, I would do that, and it just has a better chance of getting down in there, but it's not essential if you water it in especially, it's gonna water it. It's its way down. It's gonna work its way down with the water, and so either way it's fine. Okay, thanks very much, have a good one, Yes, sir, thank you for the call. Gary, I appreciate that very very much. Hey,

Buchanan's plants in the Heights. It's always fun to go to Buchanans. The shopping experience there is second to nine. I mean again, we brag about Mom and Pops, but when you go to Buchanans, you've got people that know what they're talking about, that are waiting on you. You got friendly people that are waiting on you. There are going to people or these people are going to direct you to the plant you need, or tell you, you know, you describe the situation. They go, ah, this one's

not the one for you. Look at this over here. This is a better one. Boy. That alone is worth the price of admission right there. Now. Buchanan specializes in natives, but they have so so much more. They just restocked a bunch of the favorite natives like fall Aster. By the way, if you don't have fall Aster, you got to get that one. We always forget the plants that just bloom in the fall, that include those in your landscape. We want season round beauty in the landscape.

Sava Greggy I is another good one for that purple cone flower. Oh my god. Those are outstanding and they got them all there. Buchanans. They specialize in natives. Do you need some herbs, outstanding selection of perennial herbs. I bought them there earlier this year and it's just that quality plants and just a wide variety, and that's what you're looking for. They got chimineas

with pinion wood, by the way, on sale. How about that for a fall frosty evening where you're outside and you're you're sitting outside with friends around the patio. Got nice new little chiminea with some wonderful pinion pine wood to burn in it. You get the idea everything you need for your October celebrations, your fall celebrations. They'll set you up. Their gift shop is wonderful. I could I could go on all day just listing the reasons you need

to go to Buchanans Plants. By the way. Buchanansplants dot Com is their website there on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Yeah, I've talked about a lot of different things when it comes to gardening. By the way, I don't know if I gave your phone number this hour, but it's seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh. I've talked about a lot of different things. I hadn't talked about herbs much, and I did want to talk a little

bit about herbs. Uh. You know, when you think about herbs, what do you picture? Now? I know what an You know what an herb is. I mean it typically most of our herbs we grow for culinary purposes to use in the kitchen. There are herbs that are used for a lot of other purposes or medicinal herbs. There herbs that we use to make salves and ointments and other things. A lot of reasons to grow herbs. But when you think about herbs, do you picture a formal herb garden,

you know, where everything is geometrically laid out. I mean you can do that, that's fine, But do you picture in your vegetable garden an herb at the end of each row? I use oregano as a groundcover around areas of my vegetable garden, like around tomatoes. How hard is it to make pasta sauce if you've got a regano growing under a tomato. I mean, I think you can figure that one out right. Herbs are good in containers spilling over the sides like I reckon a trailing type RB or time. Uh.

They just they can be used versatilely in so many many ways. Mini herbs bloom pineapple sage just is great, especially in the late late summer and fall for blooming beautiful red tubutter blooms that attract hummingbirds. So when I said

herbs, did you think about hummingbirds? That's an herb plant. There's so many great ways to use herbs, And I think a lot of times we get in a mindset where if I say vegetable garden, you picture this little mini farm instead of a container full of vegetables or a vego bed full of vegetables. Let's let's get outside that box. Hey, we're gonna take a little break right now seven one, three, two, fifty eight seventy four if you'd like to get on the board. So we've got some other folks

waiting. We'll get to you first when we come right back. Well, good morning. You're listening to Guardline on a beautiful Sunday morning. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to talk about the things that interest seasonal things. We always throw a few tips in, like I was just talking about herbs a moment ago. You know, when you're looking for a place to buy your products. You've heard me talk about Ace before, but

Ace has got it all. It absolutely has it all. By the way, thank you to any and the folks up there at All Star Ace and Magnolia for hosting me out there yesterday. That was a good time and I appreciate y'all having us out. Really easy to get to that place too, by the way, just write down fourteen eighty eight. So if the number fourteen eighty eight sounds like a place near you, all you have to do is head right down to All Star Ace up in a Magnolia area. But

you know ACE stores, there's thirty nine of them all over Houston. You go to Acehardware dot com, forward slash Houston, or actually go to Ace Harvard dot com and find their store locator. That's a better way to go about it. And at the store locator you can see all thirty nine stores. And when you go to an Ace Hardware, you know that the fertilizer

you heard about on garden Line is going to be there. You know that the pesticides and sexicides, herbicides, all the stuff you need to make a beautiful lawn, a beautiful bountiful garden and landscape is going to be there at Ace Hardware. That is just what they do. We're going to go now out to Pearland and talk to John. John, good morning, good morning. Over the summertime into the drought, my Saint Augustine grass turned absolutely gold.

We weren't able to water because of the water restrictions, and you walk on it and it sounded like you're walking on French fries. Anyway, it is starting to turn the green again in areas. Do I need to fertilize that or just leave it alone? Can you help me there please? You do need to fertilize it. You do not want to use the fertilizers that

you used in spring and fall. Those have a lot of nitrogen. What you want to do is put a fall fertilizer application on that and a fall fertilizer application is going to be one that has a lower nitrogen and it's got a little more of potassium the third number in it. And we've got a

lot of great ones. If you go online to my website Gardening with Skips Real Easy, Gardening with Skip dot Com, my lawn care schedule's on there and it tells you through the year if you want to use synthetic or organic. Either way, we've got options for you in there, and it tells you right when to put them down. It gives you a list of products,

and so it's just a really good way to go. You can print it out and that way you can kind of carry around with you if you go into place to buy, you kind of look at whatever kind of product you're looking for. There's also a disease, insect and weed control a schedule as well, So I would recommend you to do that. I would recommend you do it sooner rather than later. Each week we go into fall, it cools off more, the grass slows down more, and it's taking up

the nutrients slower much much less. So today is better than the day after tomorrow. You know what I'm saying. Well, I have nothing that is going on that has urged it today, So I will jump right on it, all right, Go make that happy, all right? You take care. I appreciate your call very much, you know. Speaking of those kind of fertilizers, Microlife fertilizer has a wide variety of products, but for the fall specifically, I like a combo of two things that they have. Number

one is Microlife brown Patch five to one three. Now, that is a fertilizer that is designed to make your lawn stronger, to make your lawn better able to fight brown patch, and as microbial content in it, like Microlife products, do combine that with Microlife biogrow and that you just put out a little bit because it's an inoculant. Microlife biogrow is an inoculant. It's a

kind of a violent colored bag. And when you do that, what you're doing is you're adding a lot of beneficial microbes to the soil surface, to the plant surface as they splash up there, and it just makes the plant better able to resist some of the issues that we deal with in fall, like brown patch, for example. Now that one two combination is really easy. Again, the brown Patch five to one three that's the orange bag.

It's a fertilizer. The bio grow inoculant is just used in small amounts ten pounds, covers one thousand square feet and it is the bioinoculant, and that combination for microlife is the one that I would recommend for your fall fertilization, especially for those of you who are out there gardening organically. Go to Microlifefertilizer dot com. You can find out more information and you can also find out more information about where to get these products as well. We're going to head

out to Cypress now and talk to Ike. Hello. Ike, Hello, good morning, good morning, Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, so similar familiar, similarly to the previous caller. I have I think chinchebut's got the best of my yard and it pretty much took over the majority of it. So I'm planning on resotting it. Okay, Is this a good time to do that now? Or what should I do to prepared to reside in the spring. What do you suggest as far as resauting time right

now? You could reside now, but grass growth, grassroot growth is going to be slowing a lot as we move into the next month, let's say, and you'd like that grass to have time to get roots down and establish. Well, I'm not saying don't do it now, but I'm just saying, if you do it now, do it the day before yesterday. No. In other words, don't delay. If it were my yard, and in fact, I've got areas of my yard like that, I'm gonna live

with it like it is. And in spring, when the weather warms up and get strong, it'll give me a time if I need to fill in any low spots or do any kinds of things like that, clean out the dead debris of organic matter that was your long before, and I'm gonna do mine, then I'm gonna wait to do it until then. But it's not black and white on the answer to that one. It's like, oh,

absolutely no you can't, or yes you must. You know, do you suggest that I was thinking about breaking up all the dead and material the because I can pretty much just see the dirt, yeah, in between all the graphs dying off. Should I just rake that up? Now? What can I do to that dirt now to prepare for spring? Top compost, the mushroom compost, or well, I don't think you need to right now.

Now, if you've got dirt showing, you're going to have weeds coming through and cool season weeds, so you might want to have something that prevents the weeds from coming up, like a barricade application. But this is why in your initial question, I kind of had that trade off there. I'm leaving the dead debris. I can live with that look of that, but that's helping shade the ground to keep weed seeds from coming up. And so I'm leaving mine. If you want to pull it out of there, then maybe

get it raked out, get some side, and put it down. Just depending on how soon we have a good hard freeze and the weather we have going forward ward, your lawn may establish well or may not, and it may take a little more time to get it established than coming out as we go into the spring. But uh it, I hate to give you such

a gray answer, but that's the fact you got. If you're going to rake it all out and have bear soil, then either put side on it now or use a pre emerging herbicide for now and to get us up until spring. It's gonna be about April or so before you you're going to want to put that side down when it's not going to happen. And then what the pre coller stated, I have the same fum in another area where that

the grass is just completely brown, it turned gold. Can I can I stay that down with the lawnmower and try to expose some better root system or leave alone. I would leave it grass if it has any energy, and as we go into fall it slows down. It's just a warm season thing. It's not a cool season plant. And so if you can get some leaves up to catch some sunlight, that's all the better. But I would

not expose those runners and stuff for the winter for several reasons. But yeah, now, if you got living grass areas you're asking about a top dressing like leaflow compost, Yeah, you could do that now to those areas, but doing it to bear soil it, you know, wait until spring and you got new grass growing and stuff, and once it's established, then look at those kind of practices. All right, good, great, thanks so much, Yes, sir, thank you for the call. I appreciate that.

Yeah, you know a lot of people are they're looking at a lawn that looks like heck, and you know there's those of you here do it yourself. You're going to get out there and dig and plant and do all those things. And then there's some folks that just you know, I need I need help here, and Puerce Scapes is the one you need to call for that kind of help. Maybe your irrigation system didn't have good coverage, maybe it's got broken heads and east NEETs repairs and that's part of the reason

your grass is dying. They can do that. Do you need to put in some new plants, perhaps some things that are lotartle more out resistant. Peer Scapes can do that. They're designers, they're folks. They know how to select and establish, they know how to design to make it look good. Call pier Scapes at two eight one three, seven oh fifty sixty or go to pierce Scapes dot com. It's as simple as that, and they do everything else. This is a great time for a renovation. Maybe you

need an outdoor sitting area or a hard pathway. You know they can do it all. They absolutely do it all. Do you got a bad drained area, bad drainage in an area, they can fix that. They know how to do it all. At pier Scapes, you're listening to Guardline, and our phone number is seven one three, six two six nine eight seven zero seven one three. What did I do? Good night? Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I was looking at a different

number here on a sheet in front of me. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Josh, it's a good thing you're hanging there before I run off a cliff with this vehicle. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Nikki, I think I'm losing it. I absolutely think I'm giving out the wrong number for the phone number that I give out only eight hundred times every day for crying out loud. Oh my gosh. I was looking at some trees the other day that had some damage to

them on branches, and those need to come out. And if you've got a similar thing, or maybe you'd like your trees looked over really good well. Martin spoon Moore Affordable Tree Service, Martin is the one that I would call seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. If Martin or his wife Joe don't answer the phone, you've called the wrong place with affordable in the name, hang up. Seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Why do I say that, because they know what

they're talking about. They've been doing this for decades. You can also go to their website a fftree service dot com. UH, now's the time to get on the list. By the way, he stays busy because he does good work. And so tell him your guarden Line customer. Get to the front of the list. But don't delay. Don't wait until they're all booked up. Call him now to get all that winter pruning work, the fall

pruning work you might be doing. UH, to have him evaluate a situation, and especially before you go changing something in the landscape, trenching, building adding a sidewalk, call Martin to come out and advise you before you do damage to those very valuable trees. Seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four is our number. And now I'm going to turn it

over to a sane person, Niki for the Nicky News Network News. Well, good morning on a beautiful Sunday. You are listening to garden Line and we're here to answer your gardening questions. I'm gonna start by heading out to Willis and talking to VICKI. Hello, Vicky, Hey, good morning, good morning. Loving this weather. I'm sorry, I have been unable to listen to your program for some time. Just now finally getting to where I can get into the yard, and we have Saint Augustine looking pretty good if

hand weeded as much as possible. I wanted to put on some barricade and the fall fertilizer. Is there a recommendation on doing one or the other? Can we do both at the same time. You can do them both at the same time, but not in the same fertilizer spreader. Okay, So the particle size of different products is different, and so when you mix them

up you don't get even application. And so what you want to do is spread the fertilizer and then spread the barricade or vice versa, and then water them together whatter both of those products are now down on the lawn with one half inch of water to move them into the soil surface. And that way the barricade locks up there and creates a barricade and the fertilizer nutrients get dissolved and the roots take them up. And you want to do that soon.

And the reason I like to water them in is because then that day nutrients are down there because as we go week by week into the fall. The plants are more and more slow in their movement, the roots are less and less rapid in their uptake, and you want to get those nutrients and to do as much good as possible before we get into the cool season. Okay, well that being in the next few days. Okay, So that good. Okay. I just want to make sure I could do that together.

I don't have the products yet. I'm picking them up today, okay, and I saw I'll get your vice. Ri. Which direction up in Willis? Are you from from downtown Willis? We're about eight miles east. Okay. I used to have a peach peach arched out there. Is it called Kenny Line Road or something like that out there, Yes, we used to have a peach orchard out in that area years and years ago. So yeah, I love it out here. It's really nice. It's becoming a very

popular place to move. Oh. I know we're still isolated. I'm happy about that. Well, there weren't any skyscrapers yet, so all right, Hey, thanks for the call, Vicky. I appreciate you so much. I appreciate that you have a wonderful day. Uh yeah, that all these areas are growing up round Houston, but you know it's part of the thing. People move in and that kind of thing happens. Uh. I've talked to you before about the Anti c Rozenborium. They're up in Brenham, Texas.

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Fall Festival of Roses, and they know how to throw a party. The phone number nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight, or just go to Antique Rosenmporium dot com. We're going to now head up to Bellevue and talk to Scott. Hello Scott, good morning, Good morning. How can we help today? Well, I sent a couple of pictures to you with a pic of a weed that has appeared in Yes, I've never seen before. Well, that is a common weed and it is way more drought

tolerant than our lawns. And as a result, this year, you drive around town, you see lawns that are killed by drought and they're these dark blue green weeds out there in the middle of the dead grass that is fall aster or roads actually roadside aster are slender astra. I like to use the term slender aster. It'll make a big, tall, waste high weed in

a vacant lot in our lawns because of mowing. It goes completely horizontal and it is about to pop out these little daisy like flowers that are outside of a dime. They are kind of a pinkish lavender, light light pinkish lavender color. Each flower's got fifty seeds. Each plant has what fifty flowers, I mean, we're talking one hundred flowers. You need to pull it up.

It's too late to spray it with a post emergent killer. That could have been done earlier, but most people don't notice it earlier on because it's hiding in there among the grass. But it has a taproot, as you found, and that shows in the picture. If your soil is moist, they come up pretty easily, so a good soaking. If you need to use a weed in farc go ahead and do it. I just grab them my hand with a five gallon bucket and get as much out of there as

I can. Think of it this way, every time you pull one up, you probably pulling twenty five hundred to five thousand seeds out of the lawn before they cause this problem to be much worse next year. Right, if it shows up again next year, when and what should I spray? So starting when it warms up a little bit, you could put a pre emergent product down in your lawn, like a barricade type product. That would be probably I'd probably start that in about late March maybe for this weed. Probably

repeat it again about sixty days later to extend that coverage. Now, if you don't do that, or if you see the weeds, you need to be watching for them. You kind of know now what to look for with those little slender leaves. You could use a post emergent product. I would probably use something that contains celsius to spray those individual weeds or bon eyed weed,

eater, weed beater ultra. Just squirt, spray individual weeds. Don't spray hold on, Just squirt the individual weeds and that would be the way to kill them. But again way before they hit fall and get ready to become reproductive. All right, good deal, appreciate sir, Good luck with that weed. A lot of other people have that same thing. Oh, boil boy. Oh sure, for sure. All right, you take yes, sir, you take care, take care. I appreciate that. Boy.

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Give us a call that's all you gotta do. And the phone number nine. Excuse me seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I think I need to eliminate every number in front of my eyes so I don't see something and start talking about it. Uh, just give us a call seven five, eight seven four. We will be happy to visit about the things that you are interested in. If you never called before, today'd be a good day to do that. Let's get some new callers. Had

one yesterday's first time caller ever. I always love to have a first time caller. But for now we're going to go straight out to Baytown and talk to George. Hello, George, good more to skip. Good morning. Hey. My question for you is I'm finding these I guess it's like a fungus growing in the yard. It looks like a mushroom. But whenever I hit it with the lawnmower or kick it, yes, it turns into it turns into like a purple powder or brown powder. That's a that is a

decomposer fungi. It is not a plant disease. But what it is is it's causing organic matter to turn back into soil, which is a good thing. If you got in the forest and find a tree trunk that's fallen over, and you see those shelf fungi sticking out of it. That's their job, turn a tree trunk into soil. Again. If you see the fairy rings, the little white mushrooms that come up in circles, they're decomposing thatch in organic matter at the soil surface. They're not a disease of your lawn.

And this is just another case of one of those. There's a bazillion of them out there in nature and they're all doing their things. So every time you run over one or kick one, those spores fly all over the place to find organic matter and do the same thing to it. Oh are they dangerous if you breathe them, Well, that's a good question. Uh, you'd have to ask a doctor that one. I would generally say, don't breathe them. You know, even composts. I mean, we talk

about composts all the time. It's wonderful stuff, right, it's part of nature. But they are actually a couple of lung infections that if you got in there and got the right microbes from the soil and stuff in your lungs, it could be a problem. But does that mean we quit using composts? No, And you've probably never heard of anybody got sick from compost and you're not going to hear that. But I would just I would avoid any kind of breathing in of any kind of spore that I have control over.

But as I'm sitting here talking to you, you and I both are breathing in spores because they're in the air everywhere. You got it there you go, Hey, George, thanks for the call. Have fun out there, and yeahbo out there in Baytown for sure. Hey, if you haven't done your lawn fertilization and care for the fall yet, now's the time to get it done. Nitrofoss has their three step. It makes it easy. What are the three steps? The Texas three step? I think that's a new

dance too, by the way, anyway, it's a fertilizer. It is a weak control and it is disease control. Step one Nitrophus Fall Special. You put it down, you water it into your lawn and it goes to work making your lawn stronger going into winter and therefore stronger coming out of winter. When you Putitrovas Fall Special down, now it means that next spring. Your laune's going to be healthier as a result. That's what it's for now.

Number two nitro Fos barricade. That is a pre emergent that prevents broad leaf and grassy weeds. You put it down now too. And the third step is turf fungicide called Eagle by Nitrofoss, and that soaks in. It's a systemic fungicide. Here comes brown patch season, here comes take all reinfection

season. Well, that's what it's there for. So all of these you need to get down right now, especially the pre emergent and the fungicide, because all it's going to take is another co front with some rainy weather and you're gonna start seeing brown patch. You're gonna start seeing the sprouting of all the cool season weeds. Nitrovos has got you covered with the one two three.

You can go to Katie Hardware. You can go to RCW Nursery up there on FM Tombol Parkway Highway two forty nine, or you can go out to the Arborgate in Tomball. They all carry Nitrovoss's Texas three step. We are now going to head out to sugar Land. Mike. I believe we already spoke right, Yes, good morning, skiff. Yes, we spoke yesterday. Okay, how can I help? And well my question. You

asked me to send you some photos, and I did so. There are some photographs there of some of the fungus that I have in just one area of my grass. Yes, small area maybe five feet by fifteen feet, but it grew throughout the summer, even though I did put down what I thought was some fungus retardant, but it continued to grow. I understand the springtime is the best time to take care of fungus. It depends on which one you're going after. But okay, okay, and I just you had

wanted to make certain that it wasn't insects. I don't believe it is. But you could take a look at the photos if you have those available to you. I tell you, in the lawn that's still greenish over there, there might be a little fungus called take all root rock going on. See some yellowing of the grass that's typical of takeoll. But on the big part that's all dead. The only thing green in that is a bunch of weeds, especially nuts edge. And I bet that was chinchbugs. That kind of

total wipeout. When the lawn right across the sidewalk. Part of your lawn across the sidewalk looks good, I think you had chinchbugs in that this summer and that's going to require replant. First thing I would do, though, is get out there. I'd start now with a treatment. But you need to kill that nuts edge, and there are number of products that'll do that.

There's also a little bermuda grass going on in there. Chinchbugs do not eat bermuda grass and they don't eat nuts edge, and so I would kill those weeds before you put new lawn down, because they're going to come right up through your new lawn too, and it's hard to get rid of them once you got your grass growing. Okay, So take care of the weeds and then put new lawn in the spring. Residing in the spring, yep,

it's going to look ugly for a while. If you wanted to throw a pre emergent down to keep up winter weeds from coming out while it's bare, you do that, or you could just wait in the spring and deal with the weeds in before you plunt your grass. Okay, you can see beyond the sidewalk there where the grass is green. It looked like again I thought it was fungus. Maybe maybe had blown over when I was bowing lawn from the fungus, the area had blown over to the greener area. I

should probably resaw on a good section of that. But you think that's also chinchbugs, then I think the dead part was chinchbugs. The living part may have had the start of chinchbugs on the edge there. They love to start next to a driveway, a curb, a sidewalk, something like that. That's typical of chinchbugs in the sun. But it may maybe some take all root run in there, and that would be where we do the Faull FUNDE

side application to help clean that up prevent it. You're gonna if that's the case, you would also have to do a treatment in the spring as well. Okay, it's hard with a visual to say that's a disease because there's a lot of things it can cause a similar symptom. But I've seen enough of it to where I suspect I'm suspect or whatever. Okay, So those are probably areas to really focus on chinch bugs, like you say, because they're smaller areas, they're close to sidewalks, they're close to the curb,

so next next year. Chinchbugs are worse in the fall, but they can attack in the summer as well. But when you first start to see a little bit, I hate that grass needs water in a water and it doesn't get better. Get out on your hands and knees, look in the grass. After you've looked up what a chinchbug looks like. And if you've got them, go ahead and nail them right then before they do what they just

did to your lawn this year. Okay, And I heard you just mention about the nitrofoss three step three step, Yes, fertilizer, so yeah, fertilizer, pre event preventative we control, and then a disease control, a systemic disease control TEXTA. Okay, the nitropas eagle would be the one for the take all root rot that you've got there. Okay, So my question on that is it's probably not a good idea to put all three down at one time. So you can put the fertilizer and then then wait a week

or two and then put the barrigade. No, actually you can, you can do them all. But but here's what I would do the fertilizer and the barricade need to be watered in with a half inch of water. With the disease control you can water it in a little, but I don't want to get too much washing off there. I wanted to get on the grass and have a lot of time, so I would probably with the disease control just go ahead. And you know what, I think you could do all

three with a half inch of water. I wouldn't worry about it. I would do all three and then water man. Okay, because it's a grinder. The disease controls a grandeur, so you do need some water for it too. Okay, all right, perfect, thanks that much. Good, Yes, sir, you take care. Appreciate that call you as well very much. Well, there went another hour. Lisa and Donnie, I see you on the boards. You will be the first one week. I'm back

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a raised bed, plant it with tomatoes. We want to use it again for something else, and I'm wondering what should we do to replenish the soil, just the normal fertilization you would do for whatever the upcoming crop is. So have you had your soil test it in a while in that bed before? I mean we've made new beds kind of at the beginning of last year that we have the tomatoes dyed in the heat. Okay, Well, you could have a soil test just to see where you're starting, because that kind

of tells you what may or may not need to be added. That's always the best way to go about it. And I can direct you to that if you like. The other thing to do would just be to go in a generic way. Well, first of all, what are you wanting to plant their next? Some kale, some herbs? Okay, So for that I would get a turf type fertilizer. I mean, you can buy vegetable

fertilizers. I know Nelson's makes a vegetable fertilizer. They also make an organic vegetable fertilizer, Nelson Plant Food, and so you can go those come in in jars, you know, plastic jars that you sprinkle on the soil and work it into the soil. You could do that, or you could use just a standard lawn type fertilizer. Those work well for vegetables too. I often will use that in my vegetable garden because I always have it on hand

because I bought it for fertilizing and lawns and stuff. So how often do you have to wait? How long do you have to wait before you can grow tomatoes again? Oh? Right away? No? I mean now, tomatoes aren't a cool season crop. But you don't have to wait between tomato crops. In other words, so like if you pulled one up in the summer because it got too hot, you could replant tomatoes again in July and August and early September for or not, probably July and August would be best

for the fall season. Thank you have fun out there. By the way, Vegetable gardening is a blast, that is for sure. If you're at in the Kingwood area, that Kingwood Garden Center and the Warren's Warren Southern Gardens, they've got a deal going on right now. If you buy a bag of azamite, which as mighte we talk about all the time for the lawns, but just visiting there with lease on vegetables. Is it in the vegetable garden too, because as might contains the trace minerals that are needed for all

plants to succeed and do well. So if you buy one of the forty four pound bags of azamite, you get three dollars off per bag. No limit of the heirloom soils aged leaf compost. And that age leaf compost is an excellent product. So what a deal? I mean you always needing the age leaf compost. You should have it on hand. You could use it for mulching, use, mixing it into the soil, you can use it

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Get those done now. Onion and garlic bulbs for planting in the vegetable garden are available all at the Kingwood Garden Center and Warrens Southern Garden out there in Kingwood. Now, I want you to write this down also when you're out there, just remember that Texas Native Plant Week starts today and it goes through this week. So this is a special time to stock up on your native plants as well. And their feature native plant this month is pink mewley

grass. I call it gulf Muley. They'll be selling that and featuring it this but they've got other native plants that you can purchase. Hey. By the way, Warrens is on North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of them are open seven days a week. We are now going to head out to Uh let's see. I tell you what. I am running short on time, Uh, Donnie and Jody in that order.

You'll be the first two up when we come back from break. I'm about to not be able to give you enough time to justify your call right here, so I'm going to hold you over after break. We will get to you very first. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, remember, any kind of supply you need is going to be available at ACE Hardware. Do you need fertilizer that I've been talking about, They

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straight out to Liberty and talk to Thibodeaux. Hello Thibodeaux. Yeah, how you doing, sir good? I have a pretty good little patch of mustards and collar graens growing. And uh, I just picked some leaves a while ago, and I got nose. I got some bugs eating holes in my leaves. So what can I put on it to stop this? All right? Uh? The holes are they like BB size holes or what are you looking at? Some of BB size holes and some diame holes? Okay?

Uh? And but they're in the they're not like chewing from the edge of the leaf. But it's it's it's like you shot, yes, yes, Okay, that's probably a beetle. Caterpillars also eat holes in leaves, but especially the smaller holes like that. You're probably looking at a beetle. Beetle damage. There's a yellow margin leaf beetle. There's several little leaf beetles that love mustard and colar greens as much as you do. The way to deal

with them would be an insecticide to control them. There is an organic product out there. It's got a type of BT for beetles. Most betees for caterpillars. But if there's one that has a type of BET called San Diego, like the city in California, that will control leaf eating beetles, I think I would probably suggest you use something containing spinosid. Spinosid is an organic. It soaks into the tissue though, and when anything that eats leaves,

caterpillars or beetles eats the spinosid sprayed leaf, it kills it. And it's it's a very very safe product. So it's s P I N O S A D, spine no SAD and it comes to many different ingredients. There's a part one of the the Captain jackline of products, has Spino said, but there's there's several others. Just go to your good garden center there locally Ace Hardware if you got one nearby, and say I need something with spine no sad in it, and uh make sure, sir, how long sway

can I start picking and eating my It'll be on the label. I don't know offhand the different products that we call that. Uh you know, uh uh the time you have to wait that that interval. But it's it's not going to be very long for Spino said, because it is natural and it's very very very low toxicity. Okay, but hey, you got to get good coverage. You got to spread all over the leaf. You can get a backside and top sides of the leaves just get good coverage and that ought

to knock them out for you. All right, Thank you, sir, sir, you take care appreciate that call. Hey, do you live up in the Montgomery area. You know I talk about A and A Plants and Produce all the time up there. They're right there on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. So anybody out in the Lake Conroy area, the dozens of great neighborhoods out in Lake Conroe, this is your backyard garden center. Seamster of of course Montgomery. Heck, if you're living in

Dobbin, this is your backyard garden center. That whole region up there. The A and A Plants and Produce carries all the different kinds of plants you need. They carry everything I've been talking about all day for fertilizing your lawn and managing past problems in your lawn and your landscape. Seven days a week, they're open nine to five. It's not hard to catch them open. Three acres of every kind of plant you can imagine, and right now for

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Produce out in Montgomery. We are going to now head up to Jody and Lazybrook. Hello, Jody, Hey, good morning, good morning. I have a question about crime them, Lily. How do I get rid of them? I like that that. I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing with you because I tried to dig one up and literally the bulb was the size of a volleyball. And at some point I stopped and called and found out how much does it cost to rent abaco? Because those suckers do not

want to come out of the ground. One of my mentors, doctor Bill Well, she said, crime them has never died. In other words, there's no crime in the world died. That's how type they are. Oh, they're wonderful. A lot of people are going I'll take it. I'll take it. And you just have to tell them you come get it because it's difficult to do. I mean, I guess you could spray one. I have never in my life thought about spraying or crying them to kill it.

But if you had one of those general purpose weed killers, you could spray that on there. You probably have to do it more than once. But digging them up is just a chore because they got a root system and they got strong roots that are hard to get out of the ground. But other than grubbing it out or spraying it with you know, a general purpose to kill everything, spray the foliage. That's all you have to do is spray the foliage. Are there good plants around it? You don't want to

kill no? Okay, then you could just spray the foliage without worrying about getting it on something else. That That's probably what I would do, you know, just general purpose. I'm sorry laughed, but that is funny. There are very few beautiful flowers in the world that people call and ask me how to kill them. But crying them get it? You know what you ought to do? Where's Lazybrook by the way near the heights, near the

heights. Okay, inside, boy, put you, uh, put you sign up in a you know, Buchanans or Wabash feed or someplace like that, saying free crying them, come and dig it and maybe you can get rid of it that way somebody wanted. Okay, thanks for the calling, Judy. Have a good rest of your Sunday. Thank you all right, take care bye bye, oh man, oh man. Yep. When a crime gets established, like doctor Bill Wells, a crime has never died.

That's that's probably about after Uh. We're going to go out now to League City and talk to Susan. Good morning, Susan. How can we help today? Good morning Skip. I have to laugh about that last call. I mean, that's a good that's a good call. Now. No, I'll tell you I have a question about crying them too. I have Crino, Donna, Lily's in my garden, okay, and I love them, but they didn't bloo me enough to summer for me. And I'm thinking they

are just overgrown. So I want to divide them. Okay, So I think this is the right time to do that, right, It would be fine. Yeah, you go ahead and get it done. Dig them up, divide them, you can reset some, just give them little more space, dig them up, put them in the ground, make sure they go. You got a good bulb type fertilizer for them, something that's got a good phosphorus content, Mix it into the soil, and then plant the bulb

on top of it. That bone meal or whatever kind of phosphorus you choose to use is always helpful for bulbs. You don't need a lot of it. Just follow the label on the product that you get. Okay. Now, the question I have also is that I have friends and relatives that want them. Now I know that last lady probably laughing about it, that they want them, and I want to give them to them. But some of them they're not going to take them right away. So what do I do

with them? Can I put them in the refrigerator? Can if I put them in a temporary container? Do I have to water them? Or do they do with tell me the name of the bulb? You said again, cryin no, Donna, Donna? Okay, Yeah, so you could just immediately replant them, okay in a container and water them in and then you give them something that's got roots and is going to hit the ground running.

It does a lot lot better because of that. Uh. But the thing of letting them dry out and then just you know, letting them have them as a bulb. That would be fine too. Uh it either way, there's are pretty good bulls yours. Apparently you're doing pretty good for you if you already need to divide them. Oh yeah, yeah they are. They just they just this summer, they don't you know, they don't have too

many flower stocks. So I want to encourage that. Yeah, yeah, I understand that, and they do void are yours pink blooms, big pink pink trumpets? The pink Yeah, they pink. Oh gosh, these are so beautiful. Absolutely, and they have a less smell good too, so yeah. Yeah. And they're in the same family as amarillis bulbs. Are

that the same family as it too? So yeah, you could dry them and then give them the dry bulbs, or if you're just going to pot them up, then maybe that gives them a little bit of a head start. It's up to you, Okay, So I do replan them in the pot. I have the water them right about the winter. Uh, just a little bit, just keep it moist. The roots are going to be

growing and developing. You should be getting some new yours produce some strappy foliage that comes up in the cool season, right or you see it in the cool season. Yeah, so uh yeah, you want to you want to support that because that helps get established so that next year you've already got a head start because those those leaves are going to strengthen the bulb and get it

ready for the next time it blooms. Okay, that's right. Thank you, Skip, You've been so helpful, and I'm enjoy listening to yourself. I'm glad you listen. Thank you. I appreciate that you take care good to talk to you. You know, if you're looking for anything that you need for your lawn and garden, your vegetable garden, your flower beds, your trees or shrubs, you're on down the line. Southwest Fertilizer, that's the one Southwest Fertilizer is. Guess where in southwest Houston. That's why I

called it Southwest Fertilizer Corner Bissinett and Renwick. Easy to get to. Now. They've been around a long time since nineteen fifty five, so they they're a fixture. They're an institution here in the greater Houston area. And the reason is they have everything. I like to say, if they don't have

it, you don't need it. And it's true. I have never mentioned a product on garden line that's not a Southwest Fertilizer, not on purpose, just because no matter what I mentioned, if it's a good product, Bob's got it there and he carries it there. Do you need tools? Do you want organic supplies? Do you want synthetic supplies? Do you want fertilizer? Do you want pesticide, organic and synthetic. They've got it all right there. Do you want seeds? And most of all, do you want

good advice? You know, bring them a plant, bring them a question, bring them a picture. They'll look at it and they'll tell you what you need. They will not sell you something you don't need this. They'll sell you the product that works. That's why people keep going back to Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website. While you're in there, ask them about the kneeling benches. That's that tool they got that I keep bragging on. It folds up, it hangs in the garage. You

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Texas and we're going to talk to Jerry. Hello, Jerry. Yes, my question is about relocating a young, small oak tree that's grown up. They're too close to the house and I hate just to cut it off. I'd like to relocate it somewhere on my property and I'm going to ask advice on what to do to give it his best chance of surviving. Okay, I'm assuming this is a volunteer tree. Is that right? Came up from seed? It came up from seed on its own. It's it's not

when you planted, Okay. And how big is the trunk? A few inches up above the grounds? As big as your thumb or bigger or smaller? Uh probably maybe half a dollar size half a dollar? All Right, I tell you what I'm gonna I'm gonna to talk to you about this. I want to be able to give you a little more time and the answer than I've got before I take a break here, So I'm going to ask you if you can to hold on. If you can't hold on, I'll put you on hold here. I'll just talk about it when I come back

from break. But I'd be happy to continue this discussion on the other side of our break because there are a few little bits to the instructions that I want to give you on how to have success in relocating that plant. So thank you Jerry very much for that. It is time to take a break for the Nicky News Network. If you'd like to give us a call seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. NICKI I got it right that time. It's all your well, good morning, welcome back to

Garden Line. We're looking forward to talking to a couple more callers we got here on the line. If you'd like to call, the phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four and we're going to continue now with Jerry Iden Hockley. Jerry, you've got that oak tree that's about the size of I think you said a half dollars somewhere in there. With a tree that size, it's going to a pretty good root system.

And if it was a seedling, which it was volunteer coming up, it's going to have a tap root on it, and so you want to dig out. I would try to get out at least a foot on each side of it from the trunk, and then go down about a foot deep if you can. If you have the ability to go deeper or wider, whatever, that's all good. But the first thing I would do is I would wait until the leaves start to fall off of it and you're seeing that it's okay, it's on its way to being leafless, and I would dig it

in. So that's probably going to be in November sometime. Maybe it just depends on the type of oak and the weather we have, and get as much as you can up out of the ground. If the soil falls off, that's okay, don't worry about that. If it falls off, just let it. Don't hurt you back trying to pick that up, because it doesn't take much soil to be really really heavy. Go go ahead. I'm just saying, right, I'm just bottling along. Oh okay, all right,

all right. So I remember Randy used to remember some of the discussions Randy used to have about rolls soil. It was big on that road. So I wondered if you were going to get into that, well, well we can now. Are you gonna want to put it immediately in its new location or pot it up with what's your preference. I'm gonna put it in

a new location. I'm gonna have the hole already, Doug all right, all right, So if you wanted to use an improved soil in the area, you could, But with a tree transplant, I wouldn't worry about that. I would just use the soil that it is going to have to grow in because an oak tree is going to have roots going fifty feet in all directions and then some, so a mending a little spot around the bases is not going to be that helpful. But when you dig it up, you

want to keep those roots moist. Do not let them dry out. If you've got to. You know, it's gonna be several hours for you can get it over it and get it in the ground. Then you can put them in a bucket of water, a tub of water you can throw you know, wet hay or barlap sacks, I mean anything to kind of keep them moist. Dig the hole the same depth as the depth of the root system from where that original soil line is on it right now down to the

Harvard deep. You dig, put it in there and start to fill the soil in, and as you do, fill about a third of it in, settle it in around the roots, and water it in to let it soak in. To settle that soil around the roots, fill another third and then water it in to settle it in, and then fill the rest of

it in and water it in to settle it in. Now, if you want, you can go ahead and make a doughnut shaped ring of soil, like a big round dam around the whole thing to hole water, because next summer when you water it, you're going to want to fill that dam with two inches of water and have it all. That'll make could all soak straight down where that root system is getting going, and you're gonna want to do

that when it heats up. Probably twice a week for this first at least the first half of the summer, maybe go to once a week after that, but you just the key is to get the roots in keep them moist because all those cutoff roots they're going to branch and grow. People buy bear root plants all the time that are going to have less roots on them than what you dig up what any kind of I don't know, supplements. Yes, yes, there is something called a root stimulator. There are several types

of those. They often contain they may have some vitamins. They definitely should have hormones in them, and that helps stimulate root growth too. And so you can buy a jug of those. I don't know if you've got an ace hardware store out there near you, but someplace that will sell you a good quality roots stimulator. Mix it in water, follow the instructions, and just soak the soil when you plant. The final soaking is with that root stimulator. Perfect. Yah, got I've got a worse here. Yeah,

I would do that, and then I do the root stimulator again. You know, if you got that little berm, you can just fill it up and soak it straight down in there again. In fact, you could do that maybe on the I was talking about fill some soil, settle it in. Fill some soil, settle it in. You could use a rich stimulator for that process too, there's nothing wrong with it. That sounds like a good idea. I just want to give it his best chance for survival.

Well, what I just described, you're you're digging it at the very end of the season, where those leaves are pumping water, and you're settling soil in around it. You're taking good care of it. You're making sure it stays moist. That's the best thing you can do for it. All right, Well, I appreciate that advice. That gives me a little more confidence going into this. All right, Jerry, Well you're going to do great.

Uh yeah, call me, call me when it's big enough to hang a hammock in and I'll come over there and we'll we'll have a good time. You take care of Bye, bye, take care. Let's see where we're going to go. Now, we're going to head to Katie and we're going to talk to Ed. Hello. Yeah, what's up? Hey? We head Yeah, go ahead, what's up? We have an infestation of those creeping weeds in our backyard with a little white flower. Okay, and the stem of them is sometimes almost purple. Oh okay, all right,

that sounds like Virginia button weed. Is the white flower like four petals and across. Yeah, that's Virginia button weed. Okay, for right now, it's a little late to spray and accomplish anything without Virginia button weed. What I would recommend you do as much as you can, either you or I'm sorry, Oh can you hear me better now? Yes? I can't thank you pulling up as much as you can now to get as much of those little buttons and seeds out is a lot of them, and so no one

wants to hear the words hand pulling. But if you can carefully get as much out as you can, you're reducing the battle some Next year it's going to be back, and it'll be back with a vengeance, but at least you're cutting down on it next year. When you first see that weed, you need to start to spray it and a product like a bon Eye weed Beater Ultra or a product site Bon Eyed b o n I d E b nide Weed Beater Ultra or should I do it with a weed spreader or is

a liquid? No, you're you're you're getting it into a spray bought a spray container and you're squirting each weed that you see with it, and you're gonna do this more than once. But you just squirt the weed. You don't treat the whole lawn with this product. You squirt the weeds. Another alternative is called celsius, like fahrenheit and celsius. I'm sorry, skirt again, celsius. Celsius like the temperature. All right, oh okay, And you do those, repeat them, and whenever you see it coming up,

hit them with it and just stay with it. I'm gonna have to take a break right here, ed, But that's the way a liquid or a powder a liquid. You're mixing it up as a liquid. Yes, sir, you take care. We will be right back. Folks. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Stephanie your first up. Welcome to a garden line. We are glad you're listening today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening questions. Our phone number

is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Probably gotten room for another call, maybe two if we if we hurry things along, and we're just gonna start off by going straight out to Katie and talk to Stephanie. Hello, Stephanie, Hi, Skip, I'll be real quick. I'm trying to make my own compost t okay for next year's gardening cycle, and I'm not set up to make my own compost, so I'm looking to use the bag to compost, okay, And is there something that's the better to

use right now? I have bags of the Happy Frog dual conditioner, but I just want to make sure that I'm using the you know, whatever compost is the best to make for us to use for compost. Yeah. You know, anytime you have decomposed organic matter, there's gonna be microbes in it, and there's gonna be nutrients in it, and that's a good thing, and you can do that, you know. I tend to lean toward some of the heirloom sols products, some of the Nature's Way products that are available,

just because I know the folks, I know how they're made. I know they take the time to do it right, not just rush stuff out. Uh. And so I would lean toward that. But I'm gonna tell you that if you've got some decomposed organic matter and it's on hand, you already got it there, just go and use it. Otherwise I would look for one of those, uh. And I would probably go with a leaf leaf mold compost or a fungal compost. Either one would do just fine.

But yeah, that'll get you off to a good start. Compost he's good. Just remember keep it errated. It's very important to have oxygen in. They're already use it right away. That's probably even better. Yes, I'm going to do both. Slash it around, slash it around and have fun. It'll do good. It's good stuff. Yes, great, Thank you so much, you bat, thank you very much. I appreciate your call.

You know, I just want to take a moment before we run out of show today, and I want to just congratulate Dean Nelson, the folks at Nelson Plant Food, the family, the whole team out there. Forty years ago, yesterday, October fourteenth, nineteen eighty three. I was just starting my graduate school at that time. Dean Nelson opened Nelson Plant Food, and it's the rest is history. I mean, they they have so many

great lines of products. They got the Color Star, they got the nutri Star, they got the Turfs, they got their Organic Ligne, the Nature Star products. They're all excellent products out there, and it's all grown little by little over time by taking time to pay attention to, you know, what does research say that our soils need. What is the latest information that we have on how to make quality products, What are the ingredients that are

needed? And they do that there and that's why they've had success with that. Right now, the number one product they got on the market if of this season for almost everybody is because most people have a lawn is carbo load. Carble Load is designed for fall applications. It's also got a pre emergent in it, by the way, to prevent weed seeds from germinating. Now, you need to get that on soon, especially because of that pre emergent,

to get the most benefit from it. And here's why October November and even on through the cool season weed seeds cool season weed seeds are going to be germinating. There's a lot of species that are in our lawns. And by getting it down now, watering in with a half inch of water, release those nutrients to the roots. You release the pre emergent to get in the soul surface and do the work that it's going to do. And that is very very important to do that. So don't delay on this, by

the way, as if we needed icing on the cake. Two dollars for every bag of carbole load sold this fall will go to Randy's memorial scholarship up at Texas A and M for horticulture students. So if you want to see double benefits not only to your lawn but also to future students, and in the name of a guy who hosted this show for over twenty five years, this is a time to do it. Two bucks a bag for every bag that's going out a carbo load, So don't delay get that done. Now's

the time. I mean now, it's the time you get those extra benefits, and now's the time and you do the most good for your lawn and Nelson's carbo load. It's a ten ten to twenty product. Brus the pre emergent. This is the time to get that done. Oh thank Deane, appreciate that very much. From doing that and that scholarship up and then now adding that to it to just help build it more and more. Hey, let's go out to Freeport. We're gonna talk to Anna. Hello, Anna,

Hello, how are you this morning? Are this I'm going I'm doing good? Okay, this may not be serious or it may I don't know, but I just have mushrooms coming up all over my yard. It's not a problem. It's not a proble problem, no, ma'am. When we get into fall and we get a little break from the heat or maybe get a little rainstorm come through, all kinds of mushrooms start popping up everywhere. We get the big round circles of white mushrooms sometimes in the yard. People

been calling. I've had two calls today of the little things you step on and they puff spores up out in the air like dust going up in the air. It's really common in the fall. Nothing for you to worry about. Just go on with life and have fun gardening. Okay, great, I've been calling them up, and it seems like the more I do, I thought they were bad. I didn't know if they was bunk us, you know, because you think of that. But well, here's why,

here's why they're coming back. Mushrooms are the fruiting structure of a fungus that's all in the soil or in wood and stuff like that. In moults. It depends on what kind it is. So pulling up a mushroom is like going to a fruit tree and pruning off a bloom. It doesn't do anything. It just sends out more blooms, right, and so all you're doing is you're just popping the fruiting structures off the ground. No need to do that, Just ignore it. I mean, if you're a golfer, get

your golf club. It's a lot of fun to go out there and try to whack those things across into the neighbor's yard. Okay, all right, I was just wondering, thank you so much. Okay, you bet have fun out there in Freeport, and thank you so much for the call. Yep, that's it. Don't worry about mushrooms. There are a lot of organisms that are just part of the big created order out there that makes everything

work. I mean, think about it. If you've had forests around for thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of years, grow in trees and drop in logs and trunks and everything and limbs. The reason the forest isn't a mile deep in tree trunks is because there's organisms whose job it is is to turn those tree trunks back into soil. There's organisms that turn every tree leaf,

the twalls in the forest back into soil. Fortunate for us, we've learned how to bring those in compost with them, make good good stuff, screen it and sell it to gardeners so they can have a better yard. You know, it would take I don't know, hundreds of years for a rainforest to develop beautiful, beautiful soil naturally. But you can go to your backyard with this heavy clay we got here in the southeast Texas region, all along the Gulf coast. In fact, some of you listen to me from

over in the Austin area's black clay over there. There's black clay up through Dallas and all kinds of things. Some of that soil is pretty rough to grow things in. You get organic matter and you put it in that soil, and suddenly that dense soil that holds water like modeling clay wood, suddenly gets better internal drainage. It separates the particles, It creates structure, It makes roots happy, It brings oxygen down into the soil because it's not just

a dense, thick, heavy clay. You got some organic matter in it. Throw in some expanded shale too. By the way, if you're trying to fix a heavy clay soil, that is a very long term benefit, and it takes quite a bit of it to do its full work several inches. But just keep adding it, just keep adding it, and that's the whole. I mean. We can learn a lot from nature. You know, think about the grasslands across Mid America. When the settlers came across in

wagons. The grass they said was deep as a horse's belly. Why did that grass grow like that? Who's fertilizing, who's water in it, who was rototelling it? You know, nature was taking care of it. It takes a lot long time in nature. We can speed it up in our lawns and landscapes because you don't want to wait eighty years to have a beautiful flower. Bit. But that's how it works. And we can work in cooperation with nature that way and just make things better and better. And we

brag all the time. Compost, compost, compost. It's kind of like the movie My Big Fact Greek Wedding. He thought you had to squirk wind x on anything and it would fix it. Well, I'm kind of that way about gardening. You got a problem, throw some compost on it, it'll fix it. Well, maybe that's stretching it a little bit, but you get the idea. What I'm talking about. Hey, we appreciate you

being a listener to garden Line. We're closing our show down today. We'll be back again next Saturday and Sunday from six a m. To ten am. Remember, if you miss the show, you can go listen by podcast or your iHeart radio app or whatever your podcast server is. Just look for garden Line on there. You can listen that way. Tell your neighbors about

it. We always love to have new listeners because the more people listen, the more people pay attention and follow the things we talk about here, the more beautiful the greater Houston area or wherever you're listening from can become the happier you as a gardener having success. Hey, we're in this to have fun. We're in this to grow healthy food. We're in this to create beautiful landscapes and bountiful gardens. That's what it's all about. Now next Saturday,

write this down again if you have them already. October twenty Firth twenty first, Richmond, Texas Enchanted Gardens just north of Richmond up toward Katie Direction. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll be answering your gardening questions. First of all, I love to meet you, get a chance to visit, look eye to eye. I'll answer gardening questions. I'll identify plants, I will identify problems. Bring them in in a plastic bag.

We're going to have a great time out there. And before you show up, make sure your back of your pickup is empty, the back of the car trunk empty, because you need to fill up with a lot of good stuff, because boy, they ever loaded with that out of engendered gardens. Hey, we'll see you next Saturday.