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that you band. They want sunlight, they want good drainage, they want sual moisture, they want good nutrition, they want to be at home in the climate you live in. You know, you bring a blue spruce home from Colorado and well, the Society for the Cruelty to Plants will be at your door to arrest you and book you for that. Don't do it, but plant things that want to be here. But you do those simple things that

I just talked about and you can have success. You know, gardening is supposed to be fun, and that's what I try to do here on Guarden Line is take some of the mystery out of it, help you have success, and in the meantime, remind you it's supposed to be fun. Do you know that nature kills plants every year? That means you can too, it does. I mean we get things called annuals. They live a year and then they die. We have by annials that live through one year, through

the winter and then they die. And out in nature that happens, and it's okay. Don't be afraid to experiment. Don't be afraid to try things. I don't want to see you waste your time and money planning things that are not going to succeed, or doing it in a way that doesn't work. Where do the wise? Beware of social media. Everybody on social media is an expert. Just ask them. They'll tell you. But that didn't mean they're right, or that doesn't mean what they say is right for

where you live. And that's what we're doing here in Guardlane, ktr H Greater Houston Areas, trying to help people here in the whole region of Southeast Texas to have success with their gardens. So if you would like to give me a call, ask a question. Seven one three two one two k t RH seven one three two one two kt r H. It's always kind of slow early in the morning. I know you're waking up. You probably have one eye open, one hand on a cup of

coffee trying to join the land of the living. But early on is a better time actually to call, as far as not having to wait in line to get in. Affordable Tree Service is a company. You hear me talk about a lot, and I was visiting with somebody about him the other day, and you know, they were saying, I need somebody to do such inside you on a tree, and I just call Martin because listen, Martin has been doing this for a very long time in the Greater

Houston area. Martin Spoon Moore and his wife Joe, they are the owners. They answer the phone. So when you call Affordable Tree at seven one three six nine nine two six sixty three, you're going to get them. If you call and Martin or Joe does not answer, hang up, check that number and dial again because you got the wrong place. This is where the owners are so actively actively involved in working with the customers in their business.

Now we are in tree printing season. It's going to go all the way through winter, and there's not a better time of the year to get your printing done. You can print any month of the year some but now's the time to get it done, especially when you're getting quite a bit of work done. Get on Martin's schedule. He stays busy because he does a good job. So don't mess around. And way, I'll call him in January or February. He books up, and so give him a call now, and that's seven one three six ' nine

nine two six six three. Have him look at your trees. If he doesn't need anything, he'll tell you. But have him come out and take a look. See what kind of pruning might be needed. And if you were thinking about doing anything around those trees the root system, like putting in a trench or putting a driveway underneath the branch bread of the tree somewhere, talk to him first, because when it comes to trees, when the damage is done, it's a little too late to do a whole lot

for it. There are little things you can do to kind of help, but way, before the damage is done. There's some good decisions you can make. Martin can help you with that. If you like to go by the websites well, afftree Service dot com go to afftree service dot com, or just get Martin a call seven one

three six nine nine two six six three. Just because someone owns a chainsaw, a pickup and puts a business card in your door do not necessarily mean they know anything, and in fact, from what I've seen, in most cases, it means they don't and they can ruin a tree when they don't know what they're doing. So take care of those trees. The most valuable plant you have in your landscapes or your trees comes to shade for you when it comes to value for your home property. Let's

go out to Donna Now in Beaumont. Hey, Donna, welcome to garden Line.

You put it down, you water it in, and when weed seeds try to sprout, which we are on the doorstep of cool season weed sprouting, get that down asap. Look at my schedule guarding with skip dot com. Look at the schedule. It's time. Second step or third step Eagle turf fungicide. We are on the doorstep of brown patch impact our names. I'm already seeing circles developing for brown patch out in the lawn. Eagle turf fungicide gets up through the roots and into the plant and prevents

from happening. Everything is to be done a sap because we're already now at the end of October. Nitro five three step Fall Special barricade for preventing weeds from germinating. An eagle tour fund you side for preventing diseases from attacking. You're going to find it at Ingenetic Gardens Donna Richmond, Shades of Texas in the woodlands. Plants for all seasons, on tom Ball Parkway all places to get Texas three step.

I'm going to take a little break here. When I come back, Ralph, Girardo and Greg you will be the first ones up. Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Here we go again. We got a lot to cover today, got a lot of folks to talk to, and so we're going to jump right into it. You know, one thing I have to say, I'm a broken record on this, but I'm going to keep you in a broken record because the most important thing you do to have success in your garden and landscape is to start with preparing

the soil. It is the foundation. Imagine this. You want to build a house and so you get a bunch of two bout fours and throw them on the dirt and start building. How is that going to end up? We do that with our gardens all the time when we don't prepare the soil. And I don't have a better place to do the preparation to get all the tools you need than Ciena Malts. And I like to say this, I like say brown stuff before green stuff.

That's what that means. It means get your soil right, get compost in the soil, get a raised bed for when it rains too much, so you got good drainage because sometimes it rains too much. Here, make sure you have the nutrients in the soil. All that is at Ciena Molts. They're down south of Houston. They're near Highway six and two eighty eight on FM five point twenty one. Here's the website. Just write this down and you can find out everything you need to know. Cienna Multch dot com,

CNA Malts dot com. Now when you're there, you're going to find bagged products. You're going to find bulk products. You're going to find things like Landscaper's pride products. You're going to find heirloom soils, products like their a Veggionerbix just as an example of that. You're going to find the fertilizers you hear me talk about on Guardenline, Medina and nitrophoss and microlife and Nelson's. You're going to find every thing that you need to have success. That is

what they're about. You start with seeing a mulch and then you get a good plant and put it in and you're going to have success. That's how that works. So many people go first. I understand it. You want a beautiful plant, you go buy it and you can't wait, and you bring it home and you're going to figure out where to put it. No, no, that's backwards. Get the soil right, and then when you put the plan in, it hits the ground running because you got a foundation

for success with Sienna. I'm going to head out to Katie now and we're going to talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph, good morning, Welcome to Guardenline.

my answer to it. If it's all like, well, things are basically okay, but I just went in the next year, I want to get it done, then I would do it during the growing season when the grass is actively growing. On that. As far as watering, if you go online to my schedule that my website is gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com, there's a lawn care schedule and on there it talks about fertilizing, aer rating, bowing,

and watering. And if you look at the watering row across the chart from January to December and you go all the way to October, we're at a half inch a week that your lawn is needing. That doesn't mean you have to water a half inch week. It means like if you get an inch of rain, then you don't have to water for a couple of weeks. You're good to go. But this month and next about a half inch of water a week is how much the grass is using. So as dry as it's been, it's

all up to you. You got to put that half inch on. Sounds good though, Yes, sir, you take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate that very very much. When was the last time you guys went to Plants for All Seasons? I know, those of you who are up there in the Tomball Parkway area, you know they're located right there, just north of Luetta. If you're going to Tomball, you just exit two forty nine Tomball Parkway crossover Luetta

and they're right there on the right hand side. They've been around since nineteen seventy three, and those of you in that area you know them. I mean, they've got a real strong following because people know when you go into Plants for All Seasons, you are going to find the best plants to grow in this area. But probably more important than anything is the advice and the expertise the products that they carry to go along with that. I don't care if you didn't buy a plant from them.

You walk in and you go. You know, Mayazalia, I got somewhere else. My confession, got somewhere else. It's doing this or that. Well, they'll tell you here's what you need to do, and if a products needed, they'll put you in touch with it well, help you have success.

thing is go in and check out the plants. They've got a beautiful color palette right now for fall that just looks awesome, beautiful containers. Plants for All Seasons dot com is a website, and here's a phone number two eight one three seven six one six four six. We're going to go to Girardo now in Meadows Place. Hey Girardo, welcome to Guardline.

is so big. Do I just leave that alone and will it probably will it might produce two pineapples since it's big. Or do I even try to plant the sucker? I guess that's my question.

back out when we're done with winter. Just to head your bet, make it a little easier, or you can leave it in place and be ready to cover it. If you need to.

out well, so you got to thun them out. So if you think about how big that's going to get, Let's say on a beat, you're going to be somewhere between a golf ball and a little larger you know, on harvest size on it, then you would want at least that wide apart, maybe a little wider to space the plants. If they get crowded, they don't produce good roots.

And if they if you overdo the nitrogen or to have too much shade those three things, crowding, too much nitrogen shade all all cause top growth or lack of root development.

trying to figure out what we're talking about here. If it's truly a cool season annual, a winter weed or biennial, you got to get a pre emergent down before they sprout. So the number one way we control weeds in our lawn is to grow a dense lawn and shade them out. That doesn't get rid of every weed, but it cuts the numbers down significantly. Second thing is to put a

pre emergent out ahead of the sprouting season. And winter weeds are starting to sprout, it is the temperature cools off so it gets about seventy degrees and they start sprouting with little rain coming along in there. So barricade from nitrofoss would be a product that would do just that. You put it down, you water it in. Takes a half inch of water to get it down in the soil, and then when they try to sprout, they can't.

you know you got some gaps. Then you can use a post emergent later when you see the weeds growing, but long before they begin to bloom and set seeds. All right, I'm gonna have to have to take a run for the news here. If Greg, if you want to hang on, I'll get right back to you when we come back from this hard break and lands embiaties. You'll be the next up. We'll be right back folks. Hey, welcome back. Welcome back to the Guardline. Folks. Good to

have you with us. If you have been looking at your landscape and kind of thinking, uh, that's just not what I want, that doesn't look good, I hate to drive I hate to drive up and take a look at it because it's worse for the wear. You know, we've had a bit of a rough summer in many ways, and some plants are struggling. You want to get Pierscapes to call. Pierscapes are professionals. This is a preferred landscaper for me here on Guardline, and I'm telling you it's

because of the work they do. Go to their website. In fact, if you do nothing else, just go to Piercescapes dot com. Just look take a look at the work they do. Do you need your irrigation system repaired? They can do that. Do you need shrubs trim? Do you need flower beds replanted? Do you want a whole redesign of a bed or the whole landscape, outdoor lighting? You got areas you don't drain, well, they can fix that.

I mean, if it comes to making your place look better, to making your backyard a more beautiful place that you just can't wait to get outside and enjoy with your friends, especially on these cool fall evenings. Pierscapes can do that for you pierscapes dot com. And here's the number two eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven five zero six zero. We are going to go now to Lance and beat Eyes. Lance, you and I are the only two people that know where beat Eyes

is except for people and beat Eyes. I think, how you doing well?

ninety one ninety two degree heat do that? Or am I looking at something else?

you know, damage or injury that's doing it. It is not unusual if a plant is recovering at night. That's usually a sign. You probably just need to make sure it gets plenty of water. In the heat of summer, we see that wilting. That's a normal part of the day because it can't pump water fast enough. The water's there, it just can't pump it fast enough. But this time of the year it's not that common to see that, so I would make sure dig down about four inches

around the plant, make sure the soil's moist. If not, give it some water. I just don't make it soggy, but give it a good soaking.

always have beautiful stuff going on there. I mean right now, they are loaded up with all the fall things that you can imagine, you know, if you want, if you want really really beautiful fall color, if you want to see maybe, well, for example, here's one they got cyclemen in. Do you know what cycleomen are? There are cool season plants. They are typically kind of a pink. I'm color challenged when it gets into the pink and red and orange

color variations. But anyway, pink and red and white beautiful colors if you need. Maybe you got a let's say a live oak tree or something, and you just want some beautiful color for winter under it, as long as it doesn't get like twenty degrees out there. Cyclomen are pretty cold, hardy, and they look beautiful. They got those. They have amaryllis bulbs and paper white bulbs for forcing. You're going to go see somebody for Thanksgiving, grab them a bulb as a gift, a forcing bulb that is

so beautiful to have that inside. They'll really appreciate that. And by the way, fun fact, if you will when you vote, you show up with you you're little I voted sticker that you get to put on you when you vote. If you show up with that, you can trade in that sticker for a free four inch herb or veggie for your garden. Is that cool? That's only valid from October twenty third to November fifth, But make your vote count and get an herb or veggie to

go with it there at Buchanans Plus. When you're there, I promise you're gonna find a lot of other cool stuff that you really like. Buchanans Plants there on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. It is loaded with good information. We're gonna go now to Montgomery, Texas and talk to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome to guard Line.

it's warm enough for them to take it up. So that would be the only reason to do it sooner rather than later.

then you have you've you've done both. You've you've taken care of your fall fertilization and your weed prevention too. So that's just why I mention it not hard to find it. Carbo loads the name of it.

a lot recently. I say, flowers at Silosha. Are you familiar with Solosha. It's got the plumes. There's actually a couple type. One has kind of a wavy fan like flower slash seedhead. The other one has a plume, and they're just gorgeous. I noticed them a month ago just glowing in some gardens, and I just keep seeing them now in beautiful arrangements and things. The cool thing about siloshia is you can also cut it and use it as a dried flower, because it dries and retains some

of that beautiful color. It's not the petals that are giving you the color, it's the actual structure of the flower itself, and silosia is just one of those for fall that is outstanding.

super heat tolerant as well. By the way, talking about in ingena gardens, they are stocked up on all the stuff you need for fault. They still have the beautiful moms. They've got the silosia and other things. They've got the cool seasoned flowers, you know, like dianthus and things that we want to carry us even after the first frost. And if you're looking for that gift bulb that I was talking about earlier, they have amarillis that are just

stunning in so many colors. You can even get them, you know, the containers to put them in for forcing. When we say forcing, we mean you put the ball ben indoors. The roots go down and pebbles or just in water. Some glasses are designed to hold them and just have water in the bottom and they just grow inside and they blow them inside and it's beautiful and it's the coolest thing. When you're done, you can take them out and plant them in the landscape too. That

also will work. That's alid enchanted gardens. They're on Highway or FM three point fifty nine down on the Richmond or excuse me, the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. It's been around since nineteen ninety five. And when you go to in Channigardens, you're going to find everything they've got. Oh, a new shipment of this carving pumpkins for Halloween. Haven't got that done yet. You can get them right now. And they also have pie pumpkins, a little smaller pipe pumpkins.

They're at in Channa Gardens. And when you get out there, you're going to find vegetables and herbs and everything else that you might need. Again FM three fifty nine, Katie Fullshire, side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com and Channa Gardens Richmond dot com. We're going to go out of Virginia in East Houston. Hey, Virginia, welcome to garden Line. How are you doing?

things hold up pretty good. But in the meantime, put them in front so you don't forget about them, and you use them promptly, precisely. So thank you so much.

does well going into the fall. But it also has lots of microbes in it that help fight against plant problems. You know, when you put good microbes out there, it helps fight the bad microbes. But micro Grow is not a fertilizer. It's just a bio andoculant and you can use it on anything. Put it on your lawn. I would do it a lawn right now. Sixty three different

strains of beneficial microbes in it. But I mean if you want to put it on your vegetables, your flower garden, your herb garden, whatever you want, it is safe to use. And with sixty three different strains, it's got stuff that literally fights disease. Some of these strains like okay, here we go nerding out here, but you know have bt Bacillus thuringensis. Well, it has something called Bacillis subtilests I don't think they call that BS, but anyway, I'm just

thinking on the side there. Basilla subtlest fights disease. You can buy basilla subtlest in a bottle to fight disease. It also has Bacilla's brace for this one amelo licofacis. You put that on the soil and it comes in contact that microbe comes in contact with the soil root and it signals the plant to change how it's growing to fight a disease. I'm not making that up. Go look it up, but it's all there and micro grow

along with sixty two other strains of microbes. So put that out there when you do your lawn fertilizing or after or before, it doesn't matter. Micro grow buy anoculant. It is a maroon bag from Microlife. Microlifefertilizer dot COM's the website. If you want to learn a lot more about the things that they carry, and they carry a lot of things, you know, Virginia was talking about some of the liquid products that they have and the granular

products that they have as well. Where you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Oh and by the way, if you're looking for where do you get this stuff? Well, first of all, Ace Hardware is always a good safe bet. You hear me talk about a fertilizer, you're going to get it at Ace Hardware. They carry it, they do. They also carry a lot of other products like soil type, bags of

sol related products and multz. There at Ace Hardware you're going to find fire ant control and it is still time to do that. In fact, I went out yesterday was looking at a container, a big old like half whiskey burrel sized container I have, and I saw that little boiling up soil in the middle, which means fire ants got into that thing. Well, they're not going to last long because I've got my fire ant bait. It's going out. Fall is the time to tackle fire ants.

Football season is fire ant season when it comes treating fire ants, excellent time to knock them out. So in spring you don't just get overrun with the little buggers.

in the Greater Houston area. I was just visiting with Rick from the Langham Creek Ace Hardware store this uh past week, and you know they are. They are stocked up and ready to go over there. We were just talking about some of the products and things that they have and some of the events that they have coming up. So Ace Hardware is are fun. You know, each one's independently owned. Independently owned, so that means each owner, while still having all the standard A stuff, they can do

some really cool extras for their store. I like that.

Fifteen gallon redbud tree, a three gallon, a seven gallon camellia, a flat of color plants, microlife for Eliza, in sect side, funge of sides, freeze cloth and metally yard art. I'm giving away nitroplast, three step barricade, fall special and eagle Turfunge of size bags. Come see me.

grows and kills plants every year you can too. It's easy, is that?

be much much more successful. You will suddenly look like you've got a green thumb because you just did the simple task of preparing the soil first. And one of the best ways to do that is with heirloom soils products Airloom Soil. They sell soil by the bag all over town. They sell soil by bulk. You can go get it out at the porder location of Warren's Rock and Mulch. You can also by the way, you can

also just have that deliver it. They can bring and dump it in your driveway so you can get to town making that bed and improving that bed and mulching that bed. They can also put it in a supersack and set that in your driveway. A supersac is a big old bag that holds a cubic yard of soil. Yeah, it's a heavy duty bag and they put it right there. It's neat and clean and easy to do. They're very very easy to do. In fact, they've got there. They've got a deal going on one qbic yard supersack, their

new branded supersacks. You can put one cubic yard of aged leaf mole compost and you get the supersack two for ninety nine bucks. That's seventy five dollars savings per sack and it's good through two day. So you're going to have to get on the phone and give them a call. Two eight one three five four nineteen fifty

two eight one three five four nineteen fifty. They're open from seven am to three pm today, so if you won't take a minute, we'll wait while you go give them a call seven to three today and closed on Sunday, back opening again on Monday, but the deal's no good on Monday. It's through today. You can go pick it up at the porter yard or that's on a Highway fifty nine out there in Porter, or you can have them deliver it three sacra minimum though for delivery and

it does cost for delivery fees. But book heers now get it done. You can go to a rockandmltz dot com slash delivery and get that done. But anyway, heirlom sauce, or just buy it by the bag, you know they have. I mentioned earlier that Cina Molts carries their veggie nerve mix for example. They also have fruit and berry mix. They got to cactus and succulent mix that I use for our strings of pearls and turtles and all those

other strings we have at the house. The works potting soil, rose and bloomers blend, expanded shale, lots of things from heirloom soils. All you got to do is give them a call. Take advantage of that supersacked boy, that leafmol compos that is cadillacs, really good stuff. You'll do some top dressing of your lawn. You want to improve your beds. It'll do all of that. Our phone number is seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H one

more reminder here for you folks. Nitrofoss Texas three step system. You do the two step on the dance floor, you do the three step in the lawn, and here are the three steps. Step one Nitropos Fall Special one Ariser. It is a fertilizer designed nutrient wise for fall in our area. When you put fertilizer down now in the fall in our area, just go to my schedule on my website Gardening with Skip dot com and you'll see what I'm talking about. It's all scheduled there for you.

You put it in the fall, your grass will be more cold, hardy because it's taking up those nutrients and make carbohydrates. And it also comes out in spring strong. Do you know that your early spring growth in the spring, when your lawns starts to wake up and grow, all of that energy is coming from stored energy from fall fertilizing for what it took up in the fall. Second step barricade pre emergent. You put it down, you watered in. It forms the barricade and weed seeds can't break through it.

Third step Eagle turf fungicide. Egle turf fungicide is a systemic you put it down, you water it in, it goes into the plant and when brown patch shows up, it says, uh uh, this patient has been protected. In other words, the grass itself has the ingredients inside now to fight that disease. And so Eagle Turf fungicide, Nitropross, Barricade and Fall Winnerizer, Fall Special Winterizer all from Nitroposs.

You can find them widely available. You're going to find them at places like Katiace Hardware, plants and things in Brennam Court Hardware and Stafford Growers Outlet and Willis. In fact, you want to find some, come out to RCW Nursery today. I'm going to be given away two or three bags of each one all three of those, more than one bag of all three of those. We're gonna be giving them away out at RCW today, and if you don't happen to win that, maybe you'll win one or the other.

I think over twenty prizes we're gonna be given away out there, and then you can just pick them up because they're gonna have plenty on hand as well. RCW carries the Night of Us three Step as well. All right, we're going to head to the phones and we're going out to Humbol to talk to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome to garden Line. Well, thank you very much.

the vines from stressing. When you get those little slips that you said you grew off the sweet potatoes, if they're a big, strong, thick slip, you're going to get better production than if it's a scruny little slip coming off of there. Those are all some of the things. There are some other things that can go into the process of it. But if you get a good strong slip, you get it in. It's got plenty of time. It does have adequate water, it has adequate fertilizer, but not

too much nitrogen. But some they ought to produce for them, So something along one of those lines went wrong.

It's got roots that that's fast. And those leaves are capturing sunlight. So you've got a big old vining, sprawling sweet potato plant and it's in sun and carbohydrates are being produced and they that's what makes the root of a sweet potato. So if you're not getting roots that that is where we start looking through the process of the things I mentioned something along the lines there is just not quite working right on that. But anyway, it's a great crop to grow. D and D feed up

in the Tumble area. In fact, if you go up to Tumble up to forty nine, then you turn to the left and go west on twenty nine to twenty about three miles, that's where D and D feed is And it's your local hometown feed store out there. Everybody that's in that region knows D and D dry by it every day. The Dover family has owned and operated D and D since nineteen eighty nine. They recently did an expansion. And when you go into D and D, if you hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's going

to be there. And that's nitroposs and that's Microlife, and that's Nilson's and that's Medina. They have bags of heirloom soils, they have Landscaper's Pride soil and mult type products there. They get in some plants seasonally to come through there as well. When you go into D and D, every kind of pest, disease and we control you need is in there. Really nice selection of some things that are not just readily available at every place when it comes

to fighting weeds or diseases or pests. D and D feed Store, of course, it's a feed store, very high end lines of dog food like Origin, Diamond, victor Star Pro food for other pets as well, and of course livestock food. Just go into D and D and check it out again. About three miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. Here's a phone number if you'd like to give them a call. Two eight one three five one seventy one forty four two eight

one three five one seven to one four four. I was out in my garden this past week pulling up some okra plants. It's time to get rid of the plants that I had. I breed okra, so I've got more ocre than I ought to have. Fact about the whole garden turned into okre this year because I'm crossing and seeing how they do. If they don't do good, they get pulled up and thrown away. If they do, I saved the seed and we keep going from there.

When I pulled up a plant, I saw nemotodes on the roots, and I'm going to post something to our Facebook page, garden Line Facebook page. If you don't follow us on Facebook, you should because we're always posting to that. And I'm going to put something on Facebook about nematodes. I've got a little video that I made and it's going to point you to a resource for more information.

So if you've ever dealt with nematodes, I'm not going to take time today to go into a long nematode explanation, but they're just basically, they're tiny, microscopic wormlike things in the soil that really mess up your plants, and there are very few plants they don't like. When you look at the list of things and nematodes attack, you kind of go, well, what else is there? Not many things are Nema toad resistant, but there are varieties that are.

But anyway, found that in my garden. I was discouraged because I really work hard at not bringing those things in. I don't know how they got here, probably with some soil I put in there, But the bottom line is I was dealing with them and because of that, well there we are. When was the last time you went out to Katie to Nelson Nursery and Water gardens. You know, Nelson's is the destination garden center out west of Houston.

They're out there in Katie. You just go out to Katie Fort Benroad, turn right, go north across the tracks. Nelson's is right there now. They specialize in water gardens, I always have for a long time. They're nationally known for what they do in water gardens. But there is a weekend special going on today and tomorrow ten percent off the Danner Pond Master sale. So that would be things like magnetic drive water pumps for example, and filters

and things like that. If you are if you have a water garden and you need to, you know, up upscale your pump a little bit, make sure things are good, or if you want to put one in. This would be a good time to run out there.

When I hear the sound of running water and Nelson Watergardens, it's like therapy I could do. They should. They should have chairs and charge you to sit in the chairs because it would be cheaper than a shrink. I'll tell you that, and it'll do more good too. Nelson Watergarden and nurseries loaded with fall color, things like cyclomen, things like Dianthus. They're ready to go. Uh, You're just gonna

find everything you need. And by the way, their houseplants selection you have to walk through it when you go in the door is outstanding, beautiful, beautiful house plants. Here's a website, Nelson Watergardens dot com. Just go there Nelson Watergardens dot com. You'll see everything I'm talking about and a lot lot more love that place. Always loved one out there. I say this a lot, but I'm saying again, we are so fortunate here in the Greater Houston area

to have outstanding garden centers. It's time for me to take a little break, I believe, so I'm gonna quit talking. I'll be right back.

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up blowing over were on my side. So I've got this little strip that every year I go out in the fall and do this pull fall asters up out of my lawn. Fall astra is a little tiny flower, dime sized, looks white, but it kind of has a lavender hue to it, lavender pinkishue to it. And those suckers they crawl around under the grass. You don't really

notice them or see them. If your grass gets weak, the astra shows up because it's a dark blue green color, and your lawn could dye a drought, and the astra stays alive. It is a tough ombra, and they when you mow, they just go sideways and stay in in in there. And then at this time of the year they've been blooming for a few weeks now they send out these low, tiny blooms, and that is your warning to do something about it. And here here's why you

can't spray them with a post emergent herbicide. Now it won't work. When weeds become we say reproductive, meaning they're blooming and setting seeds, it's a little late to have success with a post emergent herbicide. Those are for use when the weeds are young and growing. That's when they work best. Well fall aster, when it sets a seed, I nerd it out. One year. I decide I'm going to figure out what's going on here. And I opened up a seed, a bloom that it faded and had

seeds in it. Fifty seeds in that bloom. And I looked and this plant was biggest steirm al on my car. It had probably one hundred blooms on it. And so you do fifty times one hundred, and that's five thousand.

So let me ask you a question, would you rather what are your lone to soften the soil and go out there with one of these real cool kneeling benches like they have it Southwest fertilizer and pull one weed up if they're tap rooted, just wiggle it out of the soil and take five thousand seeds in your hand and put them in a five gallon bucket to go throw in the trash, or would you rather do with

five thousand plants next year? That's the trade off. And so get out there if they're blooming, get going, because once they fin blooming and they set seed. Now when you're dragging him out through the yard, they're dropping seeds everywhere, so you're losing some of the effectiveness of the hand pulling. But I'm telling you that is the thing to do at this time of year, to get ahead of them. And I took some pictures. I may post these to social media. There was a guy in the front yard.

I stopped and talked to him, got his permission. There were piles of these. He had gone through. The whole front yard must have been just filled with this weed, because there were a little two foot high piles everywhere in the yard that he had just piled up, maybe a foot eye all over. As he was pulling up and he's going to gather him up and get him out of there, I just said, man, way to go.

I know that's work, but you cannot imagine how much good you're doing right now, get out there and doing that. So anyway, that was my public service announcement for the day. Get those things out of your lawn. We're going to go to talk to Rick. Now, Hey, Rick, welcome to garden Line.

So that's your call. If you do plan it, just be ready to cover it up with a ton of compost and malts for those freezing nights and then pull all that stuff back away and you should be okay.

microbes do for us. They are the number one producer of serotonin in our bodies, or the microbes in our intestine, serotonins that feel good chemical So right there. Good for microbes. Without microbes, who wouldn't have beer. Good for microbes. Without microbes, our plants would not be able to thrive. Because microbes work with the roots of the plant. They protect the root from disease. They feed the root by breaking down

organic matter in the soil and releasing it. They also communicate with the root in ways that caused the plant to grow better or more disease resistant. That's why Microlife has micro grow bioinoculant. Now it's fall fertilizing season and you should do that. You can use Microlife's brown patch for that. It's very good for that. But you need to put out the micro Grow bioinoculant, and anytime you are doing any kind of planting, sprinkle a little bit in there when you do it. But on the lawn

you just spread it out according to the label. It doesn't take much like five to ten pounds per thousand square feet. We're not fertilizing here, we're inoculating. We are getting the microbes out there because the sixty three different strains in micro grow by aoculant do a lot of

good things. I've talked about that before in the air here, but just keeping right off, you ought to have a bag of that on hand pretty much all the time because whether you're planting vegetables or flowers, or doing even a container garden, especially maybe in a container garden, that that would be a chance to inoculate that soil with some additional, great beneficial microbes to help your plants to thrive. Let's set out to southwest Houston. Now we're going to

talk to Laurel. Laurel, welcome to Gardenline.

And you want to give a good soaking, you'd like to wet that soil at least four inches deep. For those wandering.

Two ways to know. Number one is you want to water until you've applied an inch of water, and it may you have the water a little bit. Let it soak a little bit, come back and water a little bit more so you don't have runoff, because putting an inch on it one time often you end up with

the runoff. That's one an inch of water. Number two, after you water, go out, stick as straight a little flathead screwdriver or whatever straight down in the soil, and it'll go through wet soil easily, and it'll be like you hit a concrete sidewalk underneath the surface when you hit that dry zone. And then you just pull it out and you know exactly how deep you wet it. Two little quick tips there that hopefully will get you off to a good start. Let's see here. I wanted

to tell you a couple of things. You know, I talk about Arbigate all the time because it's one of my favorite garden centers. Arbrogate always has the best outstanding collection of plants and ling for the landscape and everything else like that that you're going to find. I mean, they just do. They specialize in that. They just got a bunch of their bulbs in from heirloom Southern Bulb

Company excuse me, the Southern Bulb Company. Chris Weisinger. He produces these Texas bulbs found in Texas lawns and landscapes and all over the place. Chris Is collected them and it's his company now and Arburgate carries those. And so you're going to find outstanding bulbs that repeat here. And that's important. You know, you can plant a tulip and it pops up, you get a bloom that dies and

you're done. It's called a one shot wonder. Or you can plant bulbs that live in abandoned homesteads in Texas year after year after year. That's called an investment. And Arburgate's got those from there. Arbigate has their you know, brown stuff before green stuff. They have their package of products to make the brown stuff right. The soil right, it's a food, organic food complete food feeds anything with roots.

It's a soil for an application that includes expanded shale because expanded shale lasts even longer than compost and improving soils. And then finally organic compost complete, which also has expanded hill in it too. So when you take those three home and then you get those beautiful plants that Arburgate has and bring them home, you're set up for success.

And if you have any issues any questions, you can always go back because Arburgate, Bevern and Kennon and the whole group there, they are experts at advising you for success. That's why people love to go back there. You can go to Arbrogate dot com the website and earn more. They're just west of Tumbull on twenty nine twenty twenty nine to twenty And if you've never been to Arburgate, crawl out from under the rock you've been living under because it's the place everybody loves to go and for

good reason. I'm going to head out now to Mike and Brenham. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.

But it takes a considerable amount of water. One time out in west central Texas, Texas, A and M has a research center and they have these giant underground pots. Imagine a pot that is so big that it holds a mature sized peach tree, but it's underground. It's got a scale under it, you know, like those scales you drive across and it weighs the truck and then you drive on. And so they could monitor hour by hour how much water was evaporating from that tree and from

the soil. And they found that a mature peach tree pumps forty five gallons of water a day out of the ground. That's a lot of WAE I see in the summer. And so now if it has less, it stays alive, but it starts to shut down. It doesn't set buds well, it doesn't produce well, it doesn't fill the fruit well. And so my point in making that little story is just to say you need to give them a good soaking every week, a good deep soaking

for them to do well in the summertime. Now, when the leaves are falling off here soon, not really much to worry about. I mean it just adequately moist soil, which doesn't take a lot of watering to maintain them.

the leaves and go into winter. So we're on the verge of that season. If the tree was perfectly happy, it probably wouldn't be dropping leaves. Just quite yet, not.

a bountiful landscape. You can give me a call at seven one three two one two K t R H if you like. You know, I'm a broken record on the soil. The soil, the soil, how important that is. We get excited about plants kind of I get excited about soil. I mean I'd run out there to compost polemate, compost angels in the ground, lay on my back and wiggle my arms around. But a lot of people don't get that excited about the soil. But you should. And

landscapers pride. They have got a wide variety, a number of a couple dozen plus products that will help you have success in your soil. One of them is called healthy Soil compost. It's made from one hundred percent locally sourced grain material materials that they have decompost ground down, decomposed down into what's called healthy soil, very high quality. And then they have a mushroom compost. These are created

from clean local mushroom substrate. Now we've got places that grow mushrooms and they grow them on a substrate, meaning a organic material that the mushrooms grow on. And then when they're done with that that substrate goes out the door, but it is good stuff. I remember back, oh my gosh, decades ago, I was in Conroe, Texas, Montgomery County. We put in a whole new garden with mushroom composts and

you could not believe. I wish I could show you the pictures of the difference between where there was mushroom composts and whether it was it was night and day. Landscapers Prides got a quality mushroom compost too. Go to Landscaperspride dot com find out where to get it. It's widely available. You can find out. There's social links too, you need to follow them on social media, but that store locator and the product details are all there at Landscaper's Pride dot com. As they like to say, let's

grow together with these quality products from Landscaper's Pride. I'm gonna head out to Spring, Texas now and we're going to talk to Bridget. Hello, Bridget, Welcome to guard Line.

anything as far as fertilization. I know they were blooming in February.

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and to price it fairly and he does. You can call two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine, or go to fixmslab dot com. Don't delay, don't be an Ostrich. Doesn't help stick your head in the sand on this one. Have him come. Look, he will not try to sell you something you don't need. I talked to him one time recently about a situation and after we described it and talk through it and everything, he goes, you know what, no need to go in and do

major work on that. Yet it's okay. And that's how Tie is. He's honest, he's direct, and he knows what he's doing. Fixmslab dot com. We're gonna go now, let's see here. Oh, I'm running out of time trying to get you to get to you, Tom and Dickinson. You'll be our first up when we come back if you can hang around that long. I appreciate the rest of you being gardenline listeners and we our goal is to help you have success. Don't forget. I'm going to be

at RCW Nursery today. I'll be there from twelve to two and we're giving away over twenty different things. And I don't mean just little things. I mean, for example, nitrofoss three step program. There's three steps, barricade, fall fertilizer, Eagle tour funder side. There're only two or three bags at each of those. And then a fifteen gallon San Philippe and maple tree awesome variety, fifteen gallon red buds, two different sizes of camellias. We're going to play flat

off color plants. It just goes on and on and on. Some really cool metal yard Ard pumpkins for decorating your place. A really cool They have these fun fashion tumblers that have funny sayings on them. I love those as well. I'll be out there answering your questions, bring me pictures, bring me samples, let's talk, let's get our picture made. They've got some fun stuff going on out there. For example,

you can expect a barbecue lunch. There's some I don't need the prizes I mentioned, games for the kids and whatnot. All at Rcday that's the nursery. There're two forty nine combo Parkway comes in, don't lay out, Come on out twelve o'clock today. I'll be there. Will you.

the place where rose soil was born. It is the place where the leaf mold compost that we talk about all the time was born. And this fungal compost, fungal compost is good for use in the soil for sure. It's also good as a top dressing on your lawn. Screen down really nicely where you can spread it over the lawn, rake it in after. If you do a aeration, it's even better. But anywhere you put the fungal compost, you're going to see the benefits because it's nature's own

slow release fertilizer. It's nature's own mult it's a nature's own organic materials, the steamulm, it's microbial activity and therefore helps plants. That's how it works. Nature's Way Resources is located up there on Interstate forty five. You just where fourteen eighty eight comes in for Magnolia. You just turn right and cross over the railroad tracks. It's right there on Surebook Circle. I can't even say the word easy to get to. You can buy it by bulk, you

can have them deliver it. You can find bags around town of all their products. They've got composts and swells and mulches and everything you need. As I say here on Guardline, the brown stuff that makes the green stuff thrive. Nature's way resources. We're gonna go now to the phones out to Dickinson and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Welcome to garden Line.

extinguishes another brand. There's a bunch of brands. Basically, what they are is there a bait substance like cornmeal based or soy oil based kind of bait, and then they infuse a very slow acting ant growth regulator or insecticide into it, but that it's small enough that the ants pick the bait up and carry it all the way back to the colony it doesn't kill them, and then everybody starts to feed on it, and it makes some of them make the queen where she can't reproduce young.

Some of them just killed more slowly, but they work really well. Yeah, and you're right about that. Not doing the mound treatments are fine. But if all you do is mound treatments, you're playing whack them all with ants because there's mounds you can't see that I haven't come to the surface yet. That then you'll be treated.

There's even an organic when if you want that called come and get it that. You can find a lot of places too. No problem, Thank you so much. Good luck with those you bet appreciate your call. Fire Ants in the fall, boy, are they ever a problem? They spoil the show. If you have been out to Warren's Garden Center in Kingwood, both Warren's Southern Gardens is on It's on North Park Drive in Kingwood, Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive out there. Both are open seven

days a week. They are still having their pansies party. What does that mean. I means you go into Warrens, you grab an eighteen count flat of four inch pots pansies twenty five bucks twenty four nine actually now through November third, so grab some of the fertilizer while you're out there for pansies. They've got that stuff to keep the blooms coming, because when these pansies are planted, they

can bloom all winter for you. They're very hearty, but you need to continue to encourage them because the soil is cooler, the release of nitrogen from the by the microbes is a little slower in the winter, so you keep that fertilizer coming, which causes the penzies to grow. When you get growth and leaf growth, you get more blooms. And a lot of people plant these things and then they just walk off and forget them. Fertilize them, give them a boost, and you'll get a lot better blooms too.

So go out there, go to Warrens, grab a flat eighteen four inch pots of pansies twenty five bucks now through the third. They also have some specials on bed mixes of various types. They've got rye grass for those of you who want to overseed in the winter time. They've got some rye grass out there at Warrens that you can use to do that. Amarillis bulbs. It's fall, it's time for that and they've got it lots of fall, veggies, lots of mums. Of course, when you're out there, just

to join their newsletter. It don't costing thing to join. You get special coupons. You'll get author offers. They have something called a monthly lawn care coupons that they put out through the newsletter. It's fun. You can go to the website and do it. You go while you're in the store and they'll hope sign you up, or you can just give them a call and they'll get you signed up for the newsletter. For the Warren's newsletter, really worth going to. But right now you just need to

go out and see the place. Looks awesome, very very nice out there. You were listening to guarden Line. The phone number is nine excuse me, seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Makes it easy to give us a call. How can we help you to have a beautiful lawn, to help you have a bountiful landscape. I'm getting a spot on the side of my house ready for some fruit trees this fall. I'm going to be planning fruit trees and I just I've

got most of the things done. I got one water leak. I'm trying to get finished fixed, and I'll have some nice things. I got some of the lego beds, metal beds that are going in. They're just about a foot high because that spot is poorly drained, I mean really poorly drained. And fruit trees like good drainage. So if you're gonna plant a fruit tree and you got a spot that doesn't drain well, you need to fix that first.

Either either fix the drainage with subsurface drainage French what they call French drains, re route the water that's coming off the roof to make it wet there whatever, or in my case, I'm just bringing the bed up about a foot and it's a nice large bed. They're gonna grow in that and do well. And I you know, I didn't know how bad that area was until when we first moved in a couple of years ago. Several years ago. I U there was a fig tree there

and it was a fig with open eye. Those are the eyes with the holes in the end on the fig and they get soured and I don't like that kind, so I was gonna get rid of it. I got another fig tree putting in when I dug it up, and I'm not kidding you. This fig tree was probably a feet tall and at least that wide. When I dug it up, the root system was five inches deep and it was like a pancake. It went in the ground and it went totally horizontal, and I dug it,

I dug it up, I turned it over. I kept digging and looking, and that bugger not an inch deeper than five inches. It was going sideways because the soil was heavy clay that was poorly drained. And that's when I realized, if I'm going to do an orchard here, I can't have this treat. Peach trees will not put up with what a fig tree put up with there. And so I'm working on that. And so if you're thinking about planning for this winter time, I would encourage

you to check the drainage. And if you don't know how to check the drainage, if you're not sure, get something like a post hole digger or something just to dig straight down.

four hours. If two days forty eight hours later there's still water standing, that's a drainage problem and you need to do one of the things I just talked about to fix that in order to have success. I'm all run take a quick break here. When we come back, Ryan and Laporte, you'll be the first step. Hey, you are listening to Guardline and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That is

our goal. And one of the steps in that is a quality nutrient blend in your soil for plants to thrive. And I want to tell you about a couple of products that I use in my gardens. One of them they're both from Nelson Plant Food. One of them is called Nutristar Genesis. Think of that as the transplanting solution. It's got microbes in a microriza, the fungi that live with plant roots and help them. They've got bacteria and all kinds of soil microbiome content in it. You mix

it into the soil and then plant your plant. So if you're bumping it up from one container to another, mix it into the soil in the new container. If you are just transplanting from a container into the ground, mix it into the soil in the ground. Nutristar Genesis works. Another nutristar product from Miln Plant Food is Vegetable Garden Nutristar vegetable Garden. I use this in my vegetable garden.

It's got a wide array of nutrients. You can use it monthly for a release of nutrients that will increase not only the growth and quality of the plants, but of course the produce that you get from it. Five different sources of nitrogen in nutristar vegetable garden for a nice even release that results in the kind of performance you're looking for. I use it in my raised bag gardens. You can use it in containers as well. If you're

growing a garden container, you can use it. It says vegetable garden, but you can put in a flower bed if you want and it'll also perform well there. I like to use mine out where I'm growing the food in the vegetable garden. All quality products from Nelson Plant Food. We're going to go now to Laport, Texas and talk to Ryan. Hello, Ryan, welcome to garden Mine. Hey, how are you doing skip, I'm well, sir, Thank you. Hey, Yes,

I'm doing great. Yeah. We had an above ground pool and we took it out and I've been putting top soil in it and I got caught.

But you know, there's a reason why we don't say, put cat litter in your pots and plants and everything like that. I mean, it doesn't bring a lot to the table in terms of plant nutrients and growth performance and whatnot. So there's not a black and white line in nature where I'd say, you know, use twenty five but not. You know, there's not that kind of line.

But just just realize that the top soil you're bringing in is the main benefit, and if you want to mix a little catletter in it, you can do that, all right, Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, thanks for the call. That's a good question. I never had that one for so I wish we had prizes to give away. You'd win one first, throwing me a new a new curve on the questions today, Wabird's unlimited is the I was going to say, it's my favorite store for birds wlies, the only store that I go to for bird supplies.

Warbird's Unlimited is not only the place where you get super quality feeds and bird feeders and houses and everything. By the way, winter's coming, we've got a lot of bird feeding to do coming up here. But they're also the place where you get advice, you know. I was talking to someone the other day at Walbirds. They said, the ruby throated hummingbird migration is winding down, and if you will keep your feeder up at least two weeks after you see the last one in your yard, it's

not going to keep them from migrating. That thing of don't leave a feeder up. They won't migrate. No, they will when they're ready, they migrate, But if they're still sticking around, they needle more refueling for that journey. They're trying to fuel up. So leave the feeder out. After a couple of weeks you don't see one, pull it down.

You can leave one phil through the holidays if you want, because occasionally we have some rufous hummingbirds that stick around all through the winter until March, and some of them will head on down to Mexico. Others will kind of come along the Gulf coast here and say, you know what, We're not going to make that trip. We're going to hang out in Houston. We like it here, and so if you leave a feeder up, you might get lucky

and see a hummingbird through the cool season. As our days get shorter, nights get longer, that means less hours for birds to feel up. So you want to get a quality feed like wild birds Unlimited Winter super Blend. It's packed with fat and protein. So the hours they are out there feeding, they can get a high quality feed that'll help them through these winter months. And always remember keep water out. I was just refilling our water

supplies out in the backyard yesterday. It is dry and it kind of still hot, to be honest, those birds need water twelve months, every day of the year. They need water, and so always keep a supply for them that attracts them as much as good quality feet like wildberd's feet. Let's go out now, let's see where we are. Okay, We're going to go to Lake Jackson and talk to Joanne. Hey, Joanne, welcome to garden Line. Hey, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.

the long grass. But if you if you can do that, that helps. I have on my on my website. On my website, I have a weed wiper. How to build a weed wiper, and I love using those for weeds like Dallas grass because you can reach down and squeeze the herbicide through a sponge onto the weed and it really really does a good job. It's it's it's it works well to use a weed wiper to do it.

So that would be one other technique. Now, when you put a premergent herbicide down in the spring following my schedule, which is a February application, you will prevent seeds from the Dallas grass from establishing.

in your area. If if you can't find a barricade, there's another product called Dimension that is also a pre emergent weed killer that will work also if you can't find the barricade. Okay, you for your help, you bet, good luck with that. Appreciate appreciate your call. Let's see here.

I'm going to look around and see where I can find it, and if I find something, I'll say it on the air here before the end of the show today.

You can put several inches down. Just don't don't drop like a top soil right on top of a clay where you have that sudden interface, because water will tend to move through that topsoil, it hits the clay and it stops, and you have what's called a perched water table. In other words, it's like an underground water table. And so you'd rather blend those interfaces together. So okay, get like a pick and just dig some of it up, uh pick or rototiller or whatever, either way you want

to mix it in. But mainly just get all the perenni Yeah, get rid of perennial weeds and smooth it off and level it off. That's the main thing you're going to do there. Hey, I've got a run to a break here. I will be right back, folks and Bill. If I can find a source on those, I'll come back and talk about it. Hey, welcome back to Guardline.

Good to have you with us. We are looking for it, visiting with you about the questions that you have regarding the products, the plants, the processes procedures that help you have success. You know, gardening is a fun hobby and each day we get out in garden, we learn a little more and we get better at it. We do we start to learn to see things from a plant's point of view. That's really what it's all about, you understand, what a plant wants, and you give it that and

you're going to have success. And that's what we try to do here on guard Line. You know, Southwest Fertilizer. I was talking Bob the other day. They've been around since nineteen fifty five. You hear me talk about them all the time. I just don't know a place that carries the supplies, in the quantities and the diversity that

Southwest does. When it comes to synthetic fertilizing, organic fertilizing, synthetic weed disease and pest control, organic weed disease and pest control, Southwest Fertilizer is literally they literally do have the largest supply of organic products in the entire rede And if you hear me talk about a fertilizer on Guardline, a nitrophoss, Nelson, Microlife, Medina, all of those, they've got them all and then some they you know, I always say they have an eighty foot long wall of tools.

I just found out the other day and now it's not. Now it's a ninety foot wall of tools. I mean, they just have everything. You know, the weed wiper I was talking about earlier, you can build if you go to my website gardening with skip dot Com. It tells you how to build your own weed wiper, which comes in really handy. Just go to the website and read about it. Well, Bob's got the tool that you start with, the grabber tool with the suction cups that you start

with on it. He's got it there ready to go. It's just you know when you walk in there, you're gonna find everything you need. If you drag in there a plant in a plastic bag or a picture on your phone or something and you need help with it, and what is this and what can I do? Well, they know what they're talking about, Bob and his team, or they are experts at this, and they'll point you

to the product that helps you have success. They got a great bulk seed counter the shelf, which is just like all these little drawers of bulk seed, which is a very economical way to buy seed. They sell seed by the packets as well. But whether it's tools, whether it's products, whatever you need. It's a Southwest fertilizer been around since nineteen fifty five. Then it's because they are a one stop shop. You don't go in there and go, yeah, we don't have it. You have to drive across town. No,

Southwest Fertilizer has it. If they don't have it, you don't need it. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Here's a phone number seven one three six six ' six seventeen forty four. We're going to head out now to Victoria and talk to Tim. Hello, Tim, Welcome to garden line.

of rainy weather and there's fruit on it. There are some fruit rots that you can have, and I want to I want to refer you to something that that gives you a lot more information than I can give you. Just real quick here on the on a phone call. If you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, just do a search for Aggie or culture. There is on the front page there's a fruit, a fruit section, and you know, you can go to vegetables or fruit or other things.

Go to the fruit and there's a whole publication that's like six pages long on pomegranates. It goes into the varieties, how to plan them, how to fertilize them, how to prune them, we control disease issues, you know, all that kind of stuff. And it's very very good, and I would suggest you check that out. Okay, all right, because pruning printings really pruntings basically you know, keeping it a bush of maybe three three to five trunks coming up

out of the ground and removing the others. You know, that's kind of and they're going to keep sending suckers up, you know, so you're kind of aiming for three to five. If one is not doing well, you can get rid of it and let a new sucker become a main stem. But that's basically pruning. Yeah.

feed them. So all right, sorry about that. We're just kidding here sort of.

give away a flat of assorted color plants. You know you don't put some color in your flower beds, and then shrubs and trees like a three gallon and a seven gallon camellia, a fifteen gallon red bud that's a valuable tree, a fifteen gallon San Philipe red maple awesome. The best red maples you're gonna find and plan is Semphilippe. And boy that somebody gonna win one today. And then lots and lots of other things, you know, night fussbug out Max are gonna have some of that to give away.

us a call. I'll be right back after a short break. Welcome back to guarden Line, folks. Good to have you with us today. You are listening to a show that is designed to help you answer your gardening questions and have success. I want you to have a bountiful garden. I want you to have a beautiful landscape, and that's what we're here for. You can give us call it seven one three two on two kt rh. That is a good way to get a hold of us. In the meantime, I just want to remind you it is

fall lawn season. Fallow is the most important season in the lawn. I mean that the most important fertilization of the year is the fall fertilization because not only does it supply your lawn nutrients to help it be cold hardy, but it also is a time when those nutrients are going to go into the plant and be ready to come out in the spring. That's why the folks at Nitrofoss have created the three step program. First step is

the fall fertilizer. It's called Fall Special by Nitrofos. It's a winter riser type of fertilizer prepares the plants for winter. Second step barricade pre emergent prevents the weed seeds that are about to germinate and I mean any day now they'll be jar dominating. It prevents them from getting up. It forms the barricade over the soil surface. They can't get through it. Second or third Nitroposs Eagle turf fungicide.

You put it down, you water it in as you do the barricade, and it goes into the this one goes into the plant and it is a disease prevention that's in size. Like when we take antibiotics, we have them in our body and then the diseases are fought by those antibiotics. That is how the ego to our

fungicide works. It prevents the infection for example. So when you go into the lawn with these products and water them in with about a half inch of water, you've got the nutrients taken care of the diseases or excuse me, Yeah, the disease is taken care of like brown patch. And it also works on take all root rot too, which infects in the fall. And then finally the barricade to prevent the weeds. It's one, two three, it's easy to do. D and D Feed has a plantation ace hardware and

Richmond has it. Hiden and Feed and Stuben Airline carry Nitrofassis Texas three step program and today at RCW Nursery, I'm going to be given away two or three bags of each one of those along with a lot of other things. So coming up to RCW from twelve to two and maybe a win a bag if you don't. They also carry it there as well. It's time to get that done. All right, I'm going to head out to the phones. Oh my, here we go. We're gonna go to Ken and Katie. Hey, Ken, welcome to guarden Line.

the soil. It goes into the plant and then when the bugs are sucking juices out of the plant, that product kills the bug because it's in the plumbing of the plant. It's not sprayed on the outside of the plant. That would be at this point in the season, probably the best step to take.

those seeds down before they get going. Uh, doveweed is a little bit slow to Germany, and so the spring pre emergent applications that are on my schedule for almost all the other weeds it is, dove weed comes a little bit later than that. So what I would recommend that you do is, if you don't have other weed problems,

then go ahead and hold off on your pre emergent application. Typically, I would probably make it in March or April, because dove weed typically is going to be sprouting when it really gets warm in May, you know, so that that would be Yeah, you're delaying it because those those pre emergents are only going to last you about sixty days, maybe maybe up the ninety days, depending on conditions. And so when you when you no longer have the effective

pre emergent, you have to repeat it again. Okay, do I need to.

in an appearance. Well over twenty different items including, uh some shrubs like the camellias, trees like red bud and San Felipe maple, the three step nitrophosphall products, the barricade, the fall Special, the Eagle chur funge aside, some cool yard art, freeze clock. Hey, that's going to come on hand to put the scene. I can just sit a name on, on on and on. It's gonna be a fun day. Let's get a picture made too. While we're doing it. See you in a bit.

gotten in some blueberries. He's got on special and oh my gosh, the eight different varieties of blueberries are available. They're at twenty five bucks for a three gallon blueberry that's ready to go on the ground. These plants are over three feet tall, and you know, blueberries just really enjoy the climate and weather we have done here. They just want a high quality water. So you want to if you got rain water, that's even best, but a

good water on them. You want to put them in a soil mix that is somewhat acidic and high and organic matter. Some people use peat moss in the mix, some sand in the mix. So if you just have a real heavy clay, you're going to want to mend that soil and create a raised bed to have success with those blueberries. But they will grow here. I mean we have blueberry forms in the area now. Jrae has a lot of other things too. By the way, they're

open in this fall. Their hours are they're closed on Monday, but Tuesday through Friday nine to three and on the weekend Saturday and Sunday eight to four. So today and tomorrow both eight am to four pm. Go out and grab that blueberry. Those blueberries, Remember to get two different plants so they can cross pollinate. When you do that. While you're out there, you're going to see a lot of other trees and shrubs and plants and citrus and

all kinds of things that carries. He also has that three sixty tree stabilizer, So if you buy a tree from Joje, also buy one of those three sixty tree stabilizers. They are very very effective on helping stabilize a new tree until they can get a good root system down. There in the ground. We're going to head out now to talk to Evelyn. Hello Evelyn, Hey dad, this.

and allowed to decompose. That's another benefit that they can give.

But those are the key things, and probably the most important thing is keeping the weeds away at least give them a two feet mulch in all directions. Wider is even better because the lawnmower in the weed here. Sure do you tear them up?

you bet, you bet? If I can get my mouse here and there we go, all right. I was telling you earlier about the importance of building the soil. And although it is fertilizing season, uh, there is a kind of nutrient application that we make at any time of the year, and that is azamite. Azemite is a micronutrient

or a trace mineral supplement. So when you put that down, it is going to provide those minerals into the soil bank account that all through the year when a root needs main these or some other obscure little tiny mineral that is essential but needed in tiny amounts. Asmite has provided that for the soil. So Asmite is put out in small amounts. You know, forty four pound bag is going to cover up the twelve thousand square feet, so it goes a long way because you're not dumping a

bunch of fertilizer on it. You are supplementing a micro nutrient into your soil. Very important. Can be done anytime of the year. You can do it when you fertilize. Just do it in a separate application from your fertilization because the particle sizes of various products are different and therefore they don't spread evenly if you don't if you try to mix them together. Asmite Texas dot com is a website. You're going to find asmite in a lot of places.

And ACE Hardware carries that package from Nitrofoss forty plus ACE Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. Go to Acehardware dot com find the store locator to find the one near you. It's easy that way to get everything you need for your lawn and your landscape. I'm gonna take a little break here. When we come back, Lawrence and Humble, you'll be our first stop. Hey, welcome back

to Garden Line. Welcome back. Good to have you. I was just at break looking over some notes that I had about various things, and I was noticing that Enchanted Forest Garden Center and Channa Forest Garden Center has their stock right now of new plants for fall is just outstanding. I was looking at some pictures of the I was out there the other by the way, had a real good time out there. Thanks for everybody that came out.

But they've gotten a whole new shipment now of things in from the vegetable in the vegetable areas and in the herb areas. Their fall color is just still unbelievable. And when it comes to trees and shrubs and everything that you can imagine. You want some dependable perennials like Salvia's and others that'll come back here after year. That'll attract butterflies, that'll attract bees, that'll attract hummingbirds, all kinds of different things. They've got it stocked up there at

Enchanted Forest. You know, in Channa Forest is a garden center that's out there in Richmond Rosenberg, but it's in the Sugarland direction. So as you go out, you want to head down FM twenty seven fifty nine. That'll take you to Enchanted Forest, which is off to the right as you're heading up fifty nine towards sugar Land. It's way down off to the right there. It's it is so beautiful to go to. Every time I go out,

I'm just a mess, amazed. And I was telling Clay that I don't think the place has ever looked better out there, and it is. It is a load it up and by people are they loving it. You can watch people's faces when they drive it. I was like, Wow, this is cool. I didn't realize will be this cool.

It is so nice. And when I was out there wandering around looking, I was trying to keep up with what are these people carrying at various garden centers and things, and it's like, I don't know anything that's not here. The house points selection look great out there. The gifts the gift shop is awesome. They carry all the products. You know that you hear me talk about fertilizers all the time on guard Line. They've got them there in

chanted forest. While you're out there, and you know how important it is to make sure you've got the soil right for your plants to have success. So whether you're needing a holly or a red bud, or a maple, or an oak or a magnolia or a fruit tree or a shrub, fallows the time to plant them, and they got they have them. They've got them there. They're set up some beautiful little esperanzas, various types that were really in beautiful bloom when I was out there, and

lots of other things. It's just in chanting forests, the kind of place you got to go Enchanting is the word it's it's in their name, but it's also a description of the place you're going to get good advice, good direction, quality plants and top not shape and a breadth of selection that is just amazing. In Jenny Forest Garden Center. I'm going to head out now to Humbol, Texas, and we're going to talk to Lawrence. Hello, Lawrence, Welcome to garden Line.

see problems on the top. But as I look closer at it, it almost looks like a bacterial infection has gotten into those leaves, because from one point everything out from there is just collapsing and turning to mush, and so once it's doing that, there's no bringing it back to life. So I would cut that leaf off, and I realized that's going to mean doing a lot of pruning on those plants. But cut it off and get

it out of there. Those kind of bacteria can splash around, or as you're handling the plant and moving your hands around, you can spread them around that way too. Just to be extra careful, Laurence would I would make my pruning cuts with snippers, and then I would spray those snippers

with lysol between cuts. That way, if you do have some bacteria that you're getting when you cut through the branch, you'll kill it before you go cut another branch, and you can avoid That's true any kind of pruning where you're worried about cankers and diseases and things. Is sterilize those printers between cuts and life is the simplest, easiest way I know to do it. I mean, there's lots of other ways to do it, but I like to use it because it's tandy, real easy to do.

So with the eight hundred thousand types of houseplants we now have around, I just don't know which ones are safe and not, so I would use the sanitation if were you check the soil, make sure it's not soggy, wet, make sure the pot the drain holes are not plugged, keep it moist but not soggy, and then do the sanitary pruning. I think it's your best bet. Get them in as much light as you can so that they have the best chance of building the energy to recoup

and recover and put new growth out. That's kind of the whole nine yards on and trying to bring that plant around.

When COVID hit suddenly, it's like I had to learn the names the new houseplants I didn't even know existed, and people start going crazy over those things. And it still continues.

eating you. You come through Nature's way resources. They still got their fungal Friday sale on twenty percent off their fungal compost. Now, I would recommend going out there because when you're out there, they've got the sale still going on on all kinds of plants except the sun native sun perennials are the only ones that are not on sale. But they have a lot of different types of plants and they are on a super sale out there right now at Nature's Ray Resources. If you've got a vehicle

that can haul some soil back, purchase bulk. Purchase mulch bulk. Purchase soil bulk. They have every kind of blend you can imagine you need. I was talking about plant and blueberry. Do you need something for blueberries. They've got blends for acidic loving plants like azalea's commitas and blueberries and gardenias and whatnot. They have vegetable and herb soils. They've got soils that do really well for citrus, fruit trees and things like that. Nature's Way Resources just just think of

it this way. They were into soil before it being into soil became cool, if you want to think of it that way. A lot of the quality blends we now talk about in the Greater Houston era were born there, and they know how to make quality soils and quality mulches, and you can buy it by the bag there. You can buy it by the bag at various outlets around town as well. But whether you go get it, have it delivered, Buy by the bulk, buy by the bag. Nature's Way Resources is place to go. And don't forget

Fungo Friday's twenty percent fungal compost every Friday. Take advantage of that. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two k t RH if you'd like to give us a call seven to one three two one two kt r H. Look for visiting with you about the kinds of questions that you might have. I am really impressed with a number of products that the folks at Medina have produced over the years. And Carrie, right now I want to talk to talk to you about

Medina Plus. Now you probably famil with Medina Soil Activator. It's been around for a long time. Well, they took Medina Soil Activator and they really bumped it up a notch with over forty different trace elements, a lot of natural growth hormone from seaweed extract, a lot of minerals are in that vitamins, a lot of other things are in Medina Soil Activator. Excuse me, Medina Soil Plus, which is so activator plus more. I just planted a whole

bit of strawberries the other day. Got a man. Finally, you know the cobblers kids go barefoot, So sometimes my yard has to wait while I'm helping you with your yard. Well, I got a whole bit of strawberries in every plant, got a good drenching with Medina Plus. I'll do it again a week later. I'll do it again a week after that. Three applications of Medina plus drenching it. I'd put over the top of the plants. Get it on the leaves. It's good for that too. You can fold

your feed with it, but mainly for the transplanting. I'm getting it down there in the root system. Now it's Medina Plus isn't just for transplanting. It's just fall is a seasoned to plant. So you need to have Medina Plus on hand along with a watering can so you can water those plants in and drench them with the quality material called Medina plus from Medina. It works, It works well, That's why I use it. Someone was calling me the other day asking do I need to do

I need to aerate my lawn. That was a question that I get from time to time, and the answer is, well, aeration is always helpful. It's always helpful. But if your lawn is a heavy clay or if your lawn is compacted compacted clay, then aeration is just essential. Need to get that done. If your lawn's been struggling and just getting thin, it's like it's just the green is not

green enough. I need to rejuvenate it. Well, there could be a lot of things involved, but one of the things that I like to see folks do is do a core aeration follow it with a quality compost top dressing. And the folks at B and B turf Pros down south of Houston, they're the ones who know exactly how

to do that. In that region. They cover about a twenty mile area, and that would include all the way from let's say north and west up to Sugarland in Missouri City, and then as you swing down Highway six Brasnow or Colas Siena, Iowa colony Manvil, and all the way over east to Paerland. That's kind of their service region. You can go to their website and I would encourage you to do that because you can see the kind of work they do there. BB no end just BB

Turfpros dot com. What you will find is with BB you get quality materials, They only use products and companies that I trust here on guard Line, including Cnimals I was talking about earlier. They use Cnimals, So that tells you they're after the good stuff. They put that on your lawn. So they do the aeration, they do the compost top dressing. Uh, and they do an excellent job of it. And that you know, people try to erate themselves. Typically they use an narrator that doesn't pull plugs out

like bmb's does. That's what you want to do is pull the plugs out. And it's a lot of work, and it's messy, and it's dusty, and you're hauling compost and shoveling and carrying it. Let them bring their equipment and get the job done for you. Bbturf pros dot Com. Here's a here's a phone number. Seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three four five five nine eight. They're all about customer

mess ups, customer satisfaction. They care to make a relationship with you that will go on beyond just this one application, and they do quality work with quality products as a result. I'm going to take a break for the news. I'll be right back folks, well about the guardline. Good to have you with us. As always, we are here to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and fun in the process. A little bit earlier today somebody called me about Bill from Cyprus called about look at

for Tiff four nineteen and Celebration of Bermuda. Those are two Bermuda cultivars that are out there. Four nineteen has been around a long time, and I've been hunting down someplaces. I think I believe that your King Ranch Turf Grass locations are going to carry both of those. You just you just need to call them and see what they have, you know, in stock at the time, or what they can get, and they're going to carry those two. I do know that Milburger Turf also carries the four quarteen.

And you didn't mention this variety, but really an outstanding, really outstanding variety of Bermuda grass re superior and trials and things like that is a variety called tif Tough tif t Uf Tiff Tough So four nineteen is Tiff four nineteen. Tiff comes from Tifton, Georgia. Uh Tiff Tough is another good one, and Millburgers carries those. Now, Millburger is a wholesale place, but they do have retail outlets.

So I'm just going to give you a phone number if you want to call if you're trying to find a retail outlet for Milburger's mill Burger's varieties. Here, here's number seven nine. Excuse me, start over nine seven nine two four oh ninety four sixty two nine seven nine two four oh nine four sixty two. That you know, they're not gonna You're not gonna drive out their farm, but they're not gonna bring a little palette to your house.

They're wholesalers, but they do have retail outlets. So call them and say, hey, what where can I get you're four nineteen? Where can I get your your tiff tough Bermuda? That is definitely one that I would consider. You know, we don't talk about bermutilawns a lot, but Bermuda is. It is an amazing turf grass. Each turf grass has its pros and cons each one does. And so, uh what do you what do you uh, you know, what do you wreck men? Skipt for turt Well, it depends

on what you got. Do you have a whole lot of shade. Well, probably not bermuda, probably saying Augustine, or there are a few zoysias that are pretty good for that. Do you need something that is extremely where tolerant? I mean, I need something For example, here comes a question, I need something that my kids can play four soccer games a week on impound to death and still survive. Okay, well maybe that's a little overdoing it, but that would be bermuda grass. Bermuda grass, you can strip it all

off the ground and it comes right up. Have you ever try to get out of a flower bed? You know how tuugh that stuff is? You know, right, it's not easy to get rid of. That's kind of a turf you want if you're gonna have wear and tear, if you got sun, If you want the most fine textured, beautiful turf in the world and you're willing to mow it regularly, bermuda grass is that type of turf. They're the golf course greens. If you know how golf course greens are. I mean, can you have a more beautiful

turf than that? Well, that is a dwarf type of a bermuda that's mode every day and you can have that Okay, most people aren't going to do that in their yard, although you could create a putting green in your yard. But that's Bermuda's advantages, right, You like to roll around in the grass and stuff, well, Saint Augustine has any chiggers in it sometimes, as Bermuda might do.

So I kind of like Saint Augustine for that. See what i mean, everybody, Every grass has its pros and cons and each one has different specific requirements to have success with it. If you can't get out and mow regularly, which all grass wants to be mowed regularly, Saint Augustine is a little a little more forgiving of an erratic mowing schedule. You know, if you let Bermuda grass grow a while and then you cut it way back, it's going to be brown and twiggy kind of because that's

just the nature of the beast. The more often you mow it, the better it looks. But that's true of a lot of grasses. So I guess what I'm saying is there's a lot of options out there. You can go to the Aggie Turf website Aggie Turf one word, Aggie Turf, dot TAMU dot E Edu and on there you'll find a list of turf types for Texas with the description of what I just gave you, pros and cons and things and more. Also on there, or turf weeds. Where you got a weed, I don't know what it is,

go look at there. There's pictures of them. Grassyweeds, sedge weeds, broad leaf weeds are all there on the Aggie Turf website. It's very very helpful. So there's a little spiel on turf. But pretty much everybody's got a lawn, at least more so than pretty much any other plant we have. Let's go to Liverpool now and talk to Trish. Hey, Trish, welcome to garden Line.

sell it. And it's not ready. It's not been properly made, like you know, you when I talk about places you know, like airloom soils and Nature's Way and whatnot, they're making it correctly. And so these cheap places send that stuff out. I've opened up bags of potting soil, garden bed soil in those stores before the box store, and it's like there's wood chunks in there. For crying out loud, that's not good. So what you do, I mean it is

organic matter. So what you do is you get a quality compost and mix it in and just keep doing that. But go to the places to sell quality compost. Don't go back to big box do I compost get you you know?

just get the credit. Microbes do that job of turning that stuff back into good quality material and it takes time to do that and you don't rush it out. You do it right. But quality compost is always a good idea. Let's go to Danny now in Houston. Hey, Danny, welcome to garden Line.

is something unusual. Jim mosc goes all over the place and brings back all kinds of things from carved totems to you. He's got to go see it. It is really cool. One of the best selections I can you're gonna find anywhere. They always have tons of containers. They are always stocked with everything for the season. Like right now, they have maragals in stock, and they have mums in stock, and they have cyclomen cool seasoned plant in stock. If you've never planted marigals in the fall, that is the

best season for maragals that there is. In summer, spider maights will eat their lunch. In fall, spider maight populations crash and marigals get to do what they want to do without having to deal with mites. They glow right up into the first frost, orange and yellow and white types of miragals. When you go to mas nursery, you're

always going to find something you didn't expect. Right now, they got their Talavera Halloween pumpkins and ghosts on sale for thirty percent off while their supplies last, and their houseplant greenhouse is unmatched. Beautiful philodendrons of all kinds. They got the one called burkin that has little white stripes and sleeves. That is really an easy plant to grow. You know, some philodendrons can be a little picky, but barkin is so easy. I had a coworker that could

kill a silk plant. I mean she was not a plant person. She had a burkin in her window and it just got better and better and better. It's it's you know, yeah, you gotta water, but that's a great plant. Easy to grow. This this weekend, by the way, Tina's Broadworst House is gonna be out there serving Yes, brought worst, So go out grab your lunch there so you have time to shop, because you're going to need time when you go to Moss Nursery to walk through and see

it all. There's a lot to take in fifty five eleven Toddville Road in Seabrook. Maas Nursery dot com. Maas Nursery dot Com. We're gonna go now to back to Danny and Danny. We were talking about fig trees and you're talking about your fig tree just not performing. Tell me again how long it's been on the ground. I've been like three years. Three years, okay. So fig trees are pretty tough and they're not that hard to grow,

but if they don't get enough water, they struggle. And so if it's in droggy conditions, it's going to really struggle with that. The other thing that happens to figs is nematodes. Nematods are little tiny worm like creatures too small to see. They get in the roots and cause the roots to develop bumps and knots, so they look sort of like a string of pearls, or you know, like a snake swallows an animal that has this bump in the middle of the snake. You know, the roots

look like that. And so you can take a water hose, maybe a little spading fork, and loosen some soil around the tree a little bit and then sort of blast out the roots where you can get a good look at them. You don't want to tear them all off, but look at them. And if you see all those little bumps and things like that, that is a nematod problem and figs that we don't have a fig that's resistant to nematodes, and we don't have a control that you spray on the soil that kills nematodes, so you

have to go to other measures. I'm about to put something on our garden line Facebook page this week that talks about nematodes and points you to a web page that I have that tells about the options you have for managing them. If that's what you find, I would say there's about an eighty five percent chance that NEMA toads are what's going on with that tree. If you feel like it's not a problem with underwatering. Okay, thank you so much. You bet so. Watch our garden line

Facebook page. My website is gardening with skip dot com. I haven't put the NEMA toade publication up there. It's just I was just talking to my web guy yesterday about we're going to get it up there this week. So watch for that. But first thing you do is go watch those reachs out. Take a look and see if you see what I'm describing. Okay, thank you so much. Yes, Danny,

thank you for the call. I appreciate that. A lot the folks at Microlife Fertilizer make fertilizers that are chalk full of microbes in addition to the new tree, their chuck full of microbes. Whether you use their liquid products like a seaweed based product, a fisher motion based product. I like the seven one four liquid that they produce. You know, Microlife has been making quality products for a very very long time, and they know what they're doing.

And when it comes to organic type products, they are the name that everybody looks to. By the way, I said sevenfore I meant seven one three. It's the orange label Biomatrix. It works really well. They've got another one called Microlife Maximum Bloom that's heavy in the phosphorus in there. They've got the liquid humates, plus they've got a micro Grow liquid. They have a product called Cactus and Succulent.

Then there's one called Soil and Plant Energy. You just have to go online to Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You can click on any one of those and see exactly what's in it and what it does. And I would encourage you to do that. You know, we talked I got Microlife's dry fertilizers. They're a green bag. That's our summer fertilizer. They're brown patch and a brown bag.

That's their fall fertilizer. I've been talking about all morning, their bio inoculant and the quality of that and why we use that, but also these liquids. They're all there, and microlife products are widely available. Garden centers, feed stores, Southwest Fertilizer, ace hardware stores all over the Greater Houston area are going to carry these microlife products and they work. And I would encourage you if you've not used something like maybe you haven't used that biomatrix. That is a

great boost. I use it on my houseplants, but it's also great for using outdoors on plants and containers or in the soil well for micro life fertilizer. Well, you're listening to Garden Line and we are down to almost no time left, so we're not going to be able to take a call going forward from here, but thanks for listening today. By the way, I'll be back tomorrow from six am to ten am. Every Saturday, every Sunday

six am to ten am. If you miss a show, or if you listened without a piece of paper and a pencil in hand, I encourage you to do that, and I said some product like that phone number I gave a while ago for turf. You can go back and you can listen to the podcast and hear it there. We post this podcast right after we're done here. Remember to subscribe to us on Instagram and on Facebook. We're constantly putting good information out that way. And most of all, get ready to jump in your car.

come on out. Let's do that. Let's do that, and while you're out there, read to win over twenty different products. Fifteen gallon sam Philippe red maple, fifteen gallon redbud tree, three gallon and seven gallon camellias, a flat of assorted color plants. The nitrofoss three step. We've got more than one bag of barricade, Fall Special and Eagle Turf fungicide

we're going to be given away. They got a bell chime, they got a chapin spreader, they got you see what I'm saying, freeze cloth, metal, yard art, A real cool tumbler. They got these little fashioned tumblers that have funny things printed out on the side. They're cool. They have got a lot of other products that they're given away. I mean, it's just going to be product after products. So come on out. I look forward to seeing you again. I'll be there from twelve to two, twelve to two. You

don't know where they are where. Combo Parkway f M two forty nine comes into beltweight eight RCW Nurseries