Unexpected deer visits and advice for fertilizing

isn't it. Oh goodness? And we can talk about weeds, Yes we can. I was you know this fall I've been in a number of different appearances out and about, and it seems like weeds or what everybody wants to talk about. People show up with a bag full of plants for ID and they're all weeds. It's okay, I know weeds are an issue. Just a reminder that fall aster is blooming in our LUNs now, and if you have it, you'll know it. And here's how you know it.

The weed is very blue green, dark blue green, so it really stands out, especially if you're a grass is struggling. And it has little tiny daisy like flowers with a lot of skinny little petals, way more petals than a daisy would. But these things are about dime size and they're all over the place. And there's one thing you do right now for it is hand pull it. I know you didn't want to hear that. Make sure the soil is wet so it comes out easily and doesn't break off. All you got to do is give it

an irrigation and grab it at the very base. It may be a weed the size of the steerwheel in your car in terms of width, flat as a pancake because you've been mowing the lawn and it goes horizontally really easily, and you just grab it where it comes out of the ground and find that spot. Wiggle a little bit and it comes straight up out of the ground.

Get it out of there before it's at seeds. However, flower is gonna have about fifty seeds in itever and the plant can have just dozens and dozens and dozens of flowers, and so you got to get it out. Don't try to spray it. You're not going to kill it with a spray. Now that it is, as we say, gone reproductive, meaning it's blooming and setting seeds in general, post emergent broadly, if we control does not do a good job after those weeds have gone reproductive. Okay, so

just keep that in mind. Now's the time to get that hand pulled. And it is called fall aster. It's been there all well almost all year. It's sprouted when the weather warmed up and been kind of hiding from you. In a they can lot of it'll get like knee high, well higher than knee high, but in our lawns it just goes sideways and does a good job of it's a survivor. Well, you are listening to the garden Line.

I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven to one three two one two k t r H. Now, in the fall, we have three things that we are focusing on in our lawns, and that is our fall fertilization. Secondly, dealing with the weeds that are going to be germinating, for next spring's big appearance that they'll germinate. Now, sit there all winter, and then in spring they take off growing bloom set seeds. And the best way to note to think about that is our blue bonnet, our beloved

state flower, the blue bonnet. It sprouts in the fall, get a little bit of coal front, a little bit of water, little rain from it, and hear that thing comes up, but you don't see it almost all winter. It's there, but it's tiny, and then it takes off growing. That's what our winter weeds do, So now is it time to prevent them. Third thing is dealing with the upcoming disease infections, which are large patch or brown patch, big circles in the lawn and take all root rot.

Nitrofos has set us up to take care of all three with what they call the Texas three step. It's a good name for it. You just dance across the lawn with the fertilizer, which is the fall special, the barricade, which is the prevention of weeds. It prevents weeds when they try to sprout, It kills them before they get up and establish. And then third the nitrophoss eagle turf fungeicides a systemic protectant. Now the fertilizer is time to get it down. The sooner you get it down, the

more good it can do. Because as it gets cold that grass come quit growing and the fertilizer isn't as helpful as it would be right now, so get it done now, out especially now, get the barricade down. Now, watered in about half inch of water. Move it into the soil. That is required for it to work. You gotta watered in. Third, get the Eagle turf fungicide down

now it also it's okay to water after that. You don't have to water after the Eagle Turf fungicide, but if you do, it moves into the soil and it's taken up by the roots as well as the top parts of the plant. So three steps fall special wind riser,

the night frost barricade and the Eagle Turf fungicide. You can find this at Court Hardware down at Stafford Katie A s hardburre Kase it as does plants and things out in Brenham And for those of you up in Willis, just head over to Growers Outlet and you'll find it there. We're going to head to the phones now and talk to JJ. Hello, JJ, welcome to guarden Line.

We had a really good time, and I just wanted to remind you their Fungal Friday sale is still on. That's twenty percent off their fungal compost. Fungal compost can also be used for top dressing or you can put it down in your soil. It's an outstanding product, works very well on any kind of plants. So Friday's the time to get out there and get you a great deal twenty percent off on the fungal compost. Of course, it's a good time all the time to be out

at Nature's Way. You know, their mix of products is just amazing. I mean they have they have blends. Let me just give you an example. They have bent blends for your blueberry growing. You know, they have a little more acid living place. They got the cactus and desert mix. Of course, they got quality potting soil, rose soil mixes for gardens and flower beds, just general landscaping kinds of mixes,

all kinds of different mulches. I mean I could just go all day talking about their products and a lot of the products we talk about here in the Greater Houston area, like leaf mold, composed rose soil, they were born at Nature's Way, so they've been doing this a long time. Right now, they've got a really good sale in the nursery and they have a lot of great native plants too, by the way. They have fruit trees, they have houseplanted shrubs, all kinds of things. But now

through December first fifty percent off their nursery plants. So I don't know you're going to ever find a better sale than that fifty percent off their nursery plants. At Nature's Way Resources and Nature's Way Resources on Sherbrook Circle, you go north on forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left from Magnolia. You turn right across the railroad tracks and make another right and you're there, easy, easy to get to and lots of good quality things.

I was out about in the countryside the other day and was in Anti Rosing for him, and I love going there and you will too if you haven't been there. Those of you who have know what I'm talking about. Anti Rosingporium is just a wonderful destination for gardeners, and I would say, if you're gonna make that little trip out to Independence, Texas and it's not far, I mean, it's a very nice little outing, be a good thing to do today or tomorrow afternoon. Even antique rose Emporium

is it's like a wonderland. So take some friends with you and just enjoy walking around. It looks great. They are loaded. They're overflowing actually for fall. Of course they got roses and roses and then have some more roses. Everything you do you want a shrub large? Do you want a small shrub? Do you want one that's almost thornless? Do you want a climber? Do you want a climber that repeat blooms? Do you want one suitable for a container? What color do you want? What fragrance? Do you see

what I'm talking about? Anti rosing? For him? Now they're gearing up for their fall Festival of Roses, and you need to write this down. By the way, I always listen to garden Line with a pen or paper in hand, because I was giving you stuff like this. You need to write down Fall Festival of Roses November one, two and three. The first day is a ticketed garden party. That's Friday, November first, and then Saturday and Sunday are

free and open to the public. They're going to have speakers like Rosarian by the way, Chris Weisinger, the Bulb Hunter, is going to be there, Mike's Rent from micro Life will be there, Henry Flowers, doctor Stephen George with the earth Kind program from up in the Dallas area. Doctor George is a hoot. In fact, I'm going to say he's Toot's good friend of mine and you will. You will be rolling listening to that character talk. He is really good. They're going to have an artist in market

and food trucks and plants of all types. Of course, they got the gift items and of certainly of course roses. When you go to Antique Rosenpium, tell them I sent you. You got to listen to this part. Tell them I sent you. Get ten percent off at discount even if you go order online. When you order online in our coupon codes skip twenty twenty four skip twenty twenty four. Antique roses. Of course they're roses, but there's so much more.

You can give them a call at ninety seventy nine eight three six fifty five forty eight, or do this. Just go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. There you can find out everything that's going on, all the plants that they have, and Antique Roseemporium dot com will get you all set up. Four roses and a lot more. And they really do have a lot more, some really nice herbs and vegetables and other things right now out there. Well, we are in the big middle of fall according to

the calendar. And remember, don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. That's what's important when it comes to our fall gardening. For example, if you wait until it cools off and we get a cold front and some rain to put out your pre emergency may be a little late doing that. If you wait put out your fertilizer, well it'll be there in the ground, but the plant roots won't be as active as they were when it

was a little warmer warmer like now. Ace Hardware has got all of those things that you keep hearing me talk about, like your fall fertilization from all the different companies organic and synthetic. At Ace Hardware, they've got things like the barricade. They've got things like the Eagle, which is the fungicide for a brown patch and take all root right as well. They've got the fire ant control and it is still time to do that. Knock those fire ants out now with a bait. And there's several

reasons to use a bait. Number one, it gets all the mounds, even the ones you don't see. Okay, a mound treatment, you're just playing whack them mole with the bait. You get them all. ACE Hardware has several different brands of bait including come and Get It. Most aces I've been in as i've looked, have got to come and get It, which is an organic mate for Finrance if you want to go that route. And when you're in ACE,

you're gonna find seasonally everything you need. They're fixing the load up here and get us ready for the holiday season with lights and things. I'll tell you more about that later, but that's just like ACE. They're always on top of things and always everything you need. I was in there the other day needing some plumbing parts for some plumbing that I was doing, and just you know, it makes it easy because you go to ACE and

you know they have it. That's why they say ACE is the place there's forty ACE stores in the Greater Houston area. You can go to ACE Hardware dot Com find the store near you, and you're all set up. So get in there and get it all done. Get your fertilizers, any kind of weed controlling, kind of disease control, pass control, and all the tools you need, everything else you need to have a beautiful, beautiful place. And ACE

is the place for a beautiful place. We are listening to garden Line and our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. One of my daughters was out an antique rosenporium just a whole about a week or so ago, picking up some roses for their place they have just moved into, and I recently moved into a new place for them, and uh, they

just are getting it fixed up so nice. And one of the things they wanted to get done with some roses, well that's they got them fixed up out there at the antique rosing porium, which is no surprise, beautiful stuff. They bought some gorgeous some climbers and shrub roses that have unbelievable fragrance out there. We talk about issues with trees a lot, you know, I say on guard line, and we used to say this, and we do say

this in the Agrlife Extension office around the state. Three things that make the phone ring are the three t's, trees, turf, and tomatoes. Tomato and the vegetable garden number one question by far. In fact, I should have added them up over the years. I would almost say that probably thirty percent at least twenty five percent of all questions coming in on vegetables or about tomatoes. But the two big

ones really are trees and turf. You gotta take care of your trees are the most valuable part of your landscape. And Affordable Tree Service is the place to call someone ask me this week. You know, hey, what I was driving and I heard you talk about Martin Spoon Moore an affordable tree and I didn't write it. I couldn't write it down. All right, we'll allow it. If you're driving. We don't want to want you to have a wreck.

Just send them the number seven one three six nine two six sixty three seven to one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Here's the website for those of you who like to go about that direction. Aff tree Service dot com, a f ftree service dot com. Martinal Prune. He does deep root feeding, he checks your

trees overall health. You're gonna do any kind of thing like you know, trenching or doing something around the tree's root system, you got to call Martin first to come out because once the damage is done, you know, if you do it and then the tree is not looking good, well, I mean, you know, he doesn't have magic potions. He does good job. He's not miracle work, all right, So don't wait until after you've done the damage. Call him

before so he can help you avoid that so important. Uh, you got to get him booked though it is we're in the big middle of tree middle where at the beginning of the tree prime pruning season it'll go all the way through the end of winter. And he stays busy. So you got to call him and book him to come out, get him a you know, it doesn't matter if he comes out in February or whatever. Just book him now to get that done. And the number again seven one three six two six six three. I in

my garden and yard I was I was out. We're fixing the put in a patio. I've got an area that I've prepared a while back and just kind of got away from the project doing some other things. But I've got some crushed road based top materials down. I'm fixing to put a flat stone patio in in the backyard and uh, you know, just a dry not cement today in or anything. Our soil moves too much for for cemount without lots of extra efforts.

come up and have sunlight. I will win, and I am winning just staying on it. But that means I'm practicing what I preach. If you want to beat nut's edge, you cannot let it come up for air. In other words, it comes up, and you let it sit there for three weeks capturing sunlight. And it's just you're increasing the problem when you do that, You're going backwards. It's not just one plant. That one plan is making daughters, and those daughters are making daughters, and that's how it becomes

a problem. So stay with it. Well, enough of the nuts sete lecture. Let's go to Janet Important Natures. Hey, Jenet, welcome to gardenline.

with microbes. And when you get good microbes out there, there are many species of microbes that help fight bad microbes. That's kind of how nature works. And the sixty three different beneficial microbe strains in another product that I like to put down with the brown Patch, and that's MicroB

Grow Bioanoculent. So here's here's here's how it works. You put on the Microlife brown Patch, follow the label, put it down the bag, put it on the proper rate, and then I would suggest you get also the Microbe Grow bio Andoculent. It only is it only takes about five to ten pounds per thousand square feet. This isn't a fertilizer. It is just loaded with sixty three different

strains of beneficial micro organism. You put those two down, you watermen really good, and you have provided a lot of additional microbes just splashing up there on the plant surfaces and everything else as you irrigated in or as it rains. And that's your fall fertilization. And that is the double package from the folks at Microlife for your fall lawn care. And it's important to get that done soon, very soon, don't alive. I'd say this weekend would be

the time to get it done. Those organic materials are going to decompose as microbes get a hold of them and break them down, and that's what they do. They release the nutrients. That's what happens to the leaves that

fall on the forest floor. Microbes turn them into plant food and so Microlife if you want more information, Microlifefertilizer dot com is where you can find out where you can buy it, which I already save you some time and tell you everywhere pretty much everywhere I see that stuff A feed stores and garden centers, ace hardware stores, the Southwest fertilizer, lots of lots of places. Let's go to friends with now, and we're going to visit with Marcus. Hey Marcus, Welcome to guarden Line.

to print out all that dead top growth. Now if it's if it's really a mess and it's ugly, you can take some of the shoots at the bottom and reform your tree out of that or your bush out of that. Meaning you're going to cut all of them away except for maybe three or four and then reform the tree by pruning those into the shape of a tree as it grows. If it's not that bad, and you've got some parts above ground that still look good. Then you just need to cut the dead back to

where there's healthy wood. But you kind of need to look at them carefully. You may walk around them and see a trunk or a branch that has major sunken areas where it's like part of it is alive, but part of it is dead, And that probably needs to come out.

each of those two comes two more. And so you're gonna go back and like you got a trunk, and at midway up it's just got all these sprouts coming out, you know, cut it down to two sprouts there and cut the top out, and that's gonna be gonna be pretty hacked up looking. So I can't see your myrtle to you know, tell you go right here and make this cut. Some people have just gone to the bottom, cut them out there and then chosen three more trunks to come back with and then pruned into a beautiful

shape those three. Let them come up and branch, and then let the branches come up and branch. But depending on how serious the cold image is, that's your approach. Just think about a beautiful look at the most beautiful grant murder you've ever seen, and look at how the branches form on that. And that's how you're going to prim this to be all right, A lot of shrubby, a lot of shrubby stuff is gonna have to come out.

I wouldn't do it now though, that would just spur new growth and if we have another December freeze, then it's really in trouble. From that, Wait until we get into egoes fully.

you can get there at ten o'clock. Debbie Ping's one of the staff members there in Channed Forest is going to be doing a program on shade plants, and she's just really good at plants that put up with low low light. And you just want to go hear her and then stick around shop a little bit and I'll show up. Well, they've got a channed forest. They've got fall veggies and color, oh galore. It's everywhere if you need herbs or vegetables or just annual plant perennial plants.

They also have got great shipments of shrubs and trees, including red buds and holly's, maples, oaks, magnolias. They even have a good shipment of fruit trees. Then, and you know our pollinators and Chennifors really specializes in plants that attract butterflies and the various pollinators that we have. And the days are getting short and those pollinators are looking for things to eat, our things to feed on, and so you just really hard to beat the natives. Salvia's

and antanas or excellent choices for those as well. When you walk in two enchanted for us, you just go up and talk to one of the folks there. They know what they're talking about. They can point you to plants that'll do well. And if you'll come today June about eleven, let's say eleven forty five. I'll be a little conservative there. I make it there earlier, but eleven forty five and about one forty five, I'll be there answering your questions and I can point you in the

direction of some of those planets. You can bring me some samples and bags too, by the way, I'll be happy to help with those. All right, Well, here we are on another break. I got to run for that. Michael and Humble, you be our first up when I come back. Welcome back to Garden Line, folks. Good to have you with us as always, if you'd like to give me a call seven to one three two one

two ktr eight. Simple as that. You know, fall is the season to get things planted, especially the most important of all the great things we should plant in the fall, or the trees and shrubs, the woody ornamentals. And the reason is you need time for those root systems to establish before next summer when it will be blazing hot and dry when next summer arrives. So now's the time to get them planted. I would say don't plant a

tree without grabbing a three sixty tree stabilizer. Rather than getting the wires out and cutting wires and hitting stakes in the ground and you know, finding pieces of garden hose to go around the tree so you don't cut into it with a wire. Just get a three state three sixty tree stabilizer. You can just put a post in the ground. Simplest thing would just be to get a tea post. The stabilizer has an attachment where you it attaches to the te post and it holds it.

If you've got a larger tree, you want to go one kind of north south, one kind of east west, so you're holding it from both directions that way, no matter way which way the wind blows, it's got it well stabilized. You can find these things. They last forever too, and they hold the tree with a little slack so it can move just a little, which is important on it getting well established and having a good strong trunk. You don't want to just honker it down where you

can't move it. All three sixty tree stabilizers designed to do that. You can get them at RCW Nursery. You can get them at Buchanan's Native Plants way downs out in Alvin Jorges Head and Gardens. They have them there. Over at the Arborgate in Tomball Plants for All Seasons has got them on two forty nine and now south Well Southwest Fertilizer has them shooting. I mentioned that one and now the new place is cnmlch Ciena Malts is now carrying the three sixty tree stabilizer. I'm going to

head now to Humble and we're going to talk to Michael. Hello, Michael, Welcome to garden Line.

out of the pot. How big how big across the top of the pot is it? I mean we're talking about something the size of the steering wheel in your car or something bigger or smaller.

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to three pm two day. They're closed tomorrow and during the week Monday through Friday, seven am to four pm. Again. This is a special deal, the one yard Cuber super Sack. You get the sack and the age leaf mol compos one qbic yard of it for ninety nine bucks. Boy Bear jump on that one. We're going to go now to Meadows Place and talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome to garden line.

they're going to build an trick. Go in there, and any plant that you need that grows here, they're gonna point you to it. They're going to tell you how to take care of it. And I mean, if you want to go in there, maybe there's plenty you didn't buy from them. Just go in there and ask them a question about it and they'll help you. And they may they may tell you, well, here, here's one of the problems. Is you need this product or that plant. Here's a plant to replace it with a maybe not.

They've got all the stuff you hear me talk about when it comes to fall fertilizing and weed prevention and all of that plans for all seasons. Been doing this since nineteen seventy three. And it's because they know what they're doing. Let's take care of their customer. I'm gonna take a little break here, Mike and Surfside. You will be first when we come back.

tell you about your hometown feed store. I'm talking about League City Feed now, oh coming to Reale, Clare, Lake City, Baycliff, Webster, Lamark, San Leone, Dickinson, Santa Fe, all of those communities, that whole region down there. This is your feed store now. They are open from Monday through Saturday from nine to six. Closed on Sunday. They'll be closed tomorrow, but today Monday through Saturday nine to six, So you can swing by after work during the week or today, it'd be a

good time to go buy. When you get there, you're going to find your fall fertilizers that I keep telling you about. You're going to find things to control pests and weeds and diseases. Do you need to get out there and get a premergant down or something They can get you fixed up at League City Feed. You know, the Thunderbergs have been running this store since it's been over forty years ago that the store was originally built. And when you go in there, you get the old

fashioned service. They carry the bags out for you. You know it's you. It's that traditional feed store. Maybe I don't know maybe you grew up and your parents or somebody, grandpa or something took you to a feed store. That's that feel that that is just a night I love. I love going in feed stores. I love the everything from just the aroma of a feed store. I just I just think that's cool stuff. Well, this this is that kind league city feed. They take care of you.

They got the products you need. What more do you want? If you want to give them a call to eight one three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three two one six one two. We're going to go now to surf side and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line.

It's time to come the other stuff in? Yeah, what has happened to the other stuff in?

I don't know exactly what the plant's thinking, but I'll tell you that that is not unusual to see. I was talking about, but plants fall seasons. A little bit before we went to that last break, and I forgot to tell you this. They've got some beautiful fall bulbs, like the amarillas bulbs you know, have the beautiful giant trumpets on them. You can plant them in the garden. You can use them for forcing or something. They've got those, They got the paper whites in that are looking good.

And they also have got a stock of strawberries and they got some in a couple of weeks ago that are just beautiful little plants. Now's the time to get your strawberries planet. So if you thought about putting in, you know a few strawberries in the garden, or you can put them in as long as you got a sunny flower bed, you can plant them in there if

you want. Strawberries planted in the fall are the best because by the time we get past this brunt of the winter, they'll be producing and carry you all the way into May. So plunch fall season's got you set up on those as well. Nitrofoss has their three step program and the three steps are fertilizer, weed prevention and disease prevention. Fertilizer weed prevention, disease prevention. If you're going to do those processes any or all, now is the time you have to get it done. And here's why.

Fertilizer is the Nitrofoss Fall Special designed for fall. It's got the balance of nutrients. It's on my schedule. It's on my schedule if you go to gardening with Skip dot com. It's got that blend of nutrients that helps a plant go into fall, produce the carbohydrates to have more cold heartiness, and to come out stronger in the spring. It also that part of the three step program is the barricade. That's a weed pre emergent. I use the baseball analogy because it works for me, maybe it makes

sense to you. That is that if you're going to hit a baseball, you got to start swinging before the ball gets the plate. And when the picture let's go of the ball pretty quick, then your bat better start moving the pictures thrown the ball. When it comes to weeds, when we get a call front and little rain, those weed seeds are going to come up. The fall weed seeds that's clover and hand bit and chickweed and cleavers and carpet weed and just a bunch of them that

we see in the spring. Okay, they're sprouting. Now you've got to get the pre emergent barricade down before they sprout. Put it down, watered in a half inch of water. There you go. Third step disease prevention. Brown patch is coming. It will arrive. Some yards have it real bad, some yards don't have it. There's a variation in that. But fall is when you see the big brown circles, and if you're going to prevent them, you got to get

ahead of time, right, That's called prevention. Once the brown circles appear, they're gonna stay brown no matter what you spray on them, because they've already killed the grass blades. AND's wait until it warms up to regrain. So get it down now. Not fruss eagle turf fung just side now one two three fall special barricade eagle turf fung aside.

Those are the three steps. You can get it at Bear Bearing's Hardware, the one on Best and on West Teimer, all spa Ace in the Woodlands Lake Hardware and Angleton and in Lake Jackson, and you can find them at RCW Nursery as well. Folks, Time for a break. I'll be right back list today if you'd like to give us a call. Seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k

t r H A simple as that. Well, let's see here I wanted to I wanted to talk a little bit about RCW Nursery as we get going in in this next segment. R CW is the garden center that is where Hiway two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into belt wag eight. RCW nursery is always a place to go to get whatever you need, Like right now, do you need fall vegetables? Do you need beautiful color like crotons and and annual flowers? Do you need? What do you need?

those things are quarridous. They've got that up there. They have many many other trees too, and shrubs and they always have a good selection of roses at RCW. Well, I won't tell you this next Saturday. Next Saturday, I'm going to be there for their fall Fling next Saturday RCW Nursery. That's the twenty sixth of October. I'll be there from twelve noon to two pm. They're going to have barbecue lunch. They're gonna have prizes and sales and games.

We're gonna be giving away some stuff there while I'm there again there right there, We're two forty nine and Tomball Parkway. Come together. Easy to get to r CW Nurseries dot com. That's how you can find out more. Put her on your calendar next Saturday, come out and see me there. Look forward to visiting with you. This past week, I did a lot of traveling, actually went out of state, and I was like, when I traveled to go see, you know what's beautiful in that area.

I was out in North Carolina and you know, just looking at garden centers and looking you know, I always go to arboreatams and places like that when I get a chance. But I tell you, I say this all the time here. You don't know how fortunate you are in the greater Houston area with the kinds and numbers of garden centers that we have. I you know, I was out in the Raleigh and Durham and what's the

other town in that triple City's Raleigh Durham, not Wait Forest. Anyway, I was at a that triangle and there's a great arboretum, the Ralston Arboretum in Raleigh, but when it came to garden centers, it is like, what that that's not gardens. I mean, you come here, north, south, east, West, and Central, we have garden centers that you would want to take your family too. When they visit, you know, it's like, Okay, we're having a good time, but jump in the car.

I want to show you something. That's the kind of garden centers.

be here. So anyway, that just something I observed again and I said it before, But you go to San Antonio, some good guard garden centers, Austin some good garden centers, Dallas some good garden centers, but not as many, and not every kind of garden center you can imagine. No, Like you're really into native plants, or you're really really into I don't know, you fill in the blank. There's gonna be a garden center that covers that in our area. Anyway.

I'm just bragging about our garden centers because they are outstanding. You know, when I talk about plants, I always tell you that the foundation you set for the plant is at least as important, if not more important, than the plants you put in. Now, it's important to plant adapted plant, but it's most important to get the soil right. Brown stuff before green stuff. Brown stuff's the soil. Green stuff's the plant right. Okay. Landscaper's Pride has got an array

of products that'll give you the brown stuff. Their compost ped is made from local screen pine excellent soil dave. It improves the structure of the soil and adds those essential organic materials that do break down in time and feed your plant and make the soil better. They got a planting mix it so it's called planting mix from Landscaper's Pride. Locally sourced pine barks, got some sandy loams,

soil in it and organics. It would be really good for you know, filling in some areas and bringing that bed level up if you will. If your beds sunk down, which they do in time, mix some planting mix in and bring it up and it would do really, really well. It's good for pretty much anything you want a plant and then black velvet malt. You know it's not blazing hot anymore. People think, well, it's hot, I have to melt. Well, it's cool. You have to melt. Malt keeps weed seeds

from coming through. Maltch moderates soil temperature. Malt prevents rain from causing erosion or crusting or compaction. Black velvet malts, it's beautiful, it's naturally black, and it works really well. Every month is a good month to put down black velvet malts from Landscapers Pride. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find out where you can find it near you, and the answer is going to be pretty much everywhere.

It's widely available. You can also follow Landscaper's Pride on social media and as they say, let's grow something together. That's Landscaper's Pride. If you'd like to give us a call, our phone number is seven to one three two one two kt R eight seven one three two one two kt R h I'm going to be heading back to the phones here in just a little bit. I wanted to mention you've heard me talk about Quality Home products.

They're generators, for example. I talked about those a lot this summer with the two storms we had that knocked out power for what seemed like forever in each of the two storms. A lot of people now want generators and have been, and Quality Home is actually hiring. If you are a licensed electrician or plumber, electrician or plum that's licensed, you need to give them a call. You can go to their website QUALITYTX dot com, qualitytx dot

com and there you can apply, and you should. Every time I've talked to someone at Quality Home, I'm usually talking to them about their products and what they have and how does this work and all of that, But I just pick up from them they love working there. I mean, this is a place people really enjoy working. They take pride in empowering homeowners with dependable solutions for not just power but also for water quality in what

they have. And when you go to work for Quality Home, you're going to get competitive pay, comprehensive medical dental vision. They have a retirement plan that they match for one k paid holidays and time off. They got really good training programs because it is their goal to make sure that when you go to somebody's house, you are top notch and trained to do exactly what needs to be done to make sure that per and is satisfied with what happens. That's how they work. That's why they have

fourteen thousand and five star reviews. Quality Home Again. If you are an electrician or plumber, license qualitytx dot com, go check out maybe apply there online. All right, I'm going to go to Spring, Texas and we're going to talk to Lance.

it to keep it warm. And unfortunately last year the wind managed to whip up the edge of them, or not last year on big freeze it the wind got under it and froze it back to right at the right at the graph line, and I started nursing it back because I couldn't really tell am I above it?

I'm below it? I actually think now last year I got a few oranges and they were small, But this year it's looking pretty good, and they're they're probably they're larger than baseballs now, and they normally I harvest them around December. They're kind of a late late planet, I guess. But my question is how do I distinguish I mean, it's right at the graph I guess. Question one is if I've got a native root growing amongst the good shootes,

will there be any transfer of that native fruit? I don't know what you would call it into the new fruit there?

are much thornier too. That that is okay. Some types of citrus are naturally thorny more so than others, but rootstocks are very thorny, and so I think you would know. The other thing is when you look at the rootstock, if instead of having single leaves, it's got leaves and clusters of three that are smaller. Okay, clusters of three that are smaller, that's a sign of a rootstock also. But sounds like, at least in part, you're back in business with the naval.

Microlife brown patch, now that is not a fungicide. That is a fertilizer for fall. It's designed for fall. The ratio nutrients is right for fall. But it's a fertilizer that's chock full of microbial content to help fight against problems. You know, there are good microbes and there's bad microbes. There are microbes that fight disease. There's a lot of different things out there in the world that we have just in the last few decades begun to learn more

and more about. And one of the things is that when you have a population covering a plant surface of good microbes, it's very difficult for a disease sport Land and to establish successfully. Microlife brown patch is a good fall fertilizer. Get it down soon. You need to get it down. It's going to decompose away and release those nutrients to your grass to get it ready for fall and for coming out strong in the spring too. I would follow that up with Microlife bio inoculant. Now, that

is a maroon burgundycuter maroon bag. Bioinoculon has sixty three different strains of microbes. For example, it's got Bacilli subtlest. Bacillis subtlest is a natural in fact that you can buy Basilli subtlest in a bottle as a fungicide. It's got bacillis. Okay, are you ready for this nerd alert amelo licopations Bacillis amelo licopations. These bacillis are like bt that kills caterpillars, but these kill fungus, they do, and it's got sixty three of them. I just gave you

two Microlife products are widely available. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. That is the website if you want to find out where you can get some yourself, and I hope you do. We're going to go to clue leg now and talk to Mario. Hello Mario, and welcome to garden.

lot of headaches next year. So I different people have different ability to get on hands and knees and do that, and different time availability, but that is something for weeds that are flowering and have and seed. Now, as far as killing weeds post emergently, the brown, the warm season weeds are pretty much at a stage where it's going to be very difficult to kill them anyway. But now's when you would put down the pre emergent because all

the cool season weeds will be germinating really soon. And down there in Clare Lake, all you need to get is a little cold front and some some rain, and you're gonna have to eat sprouting everywhere. So don't don't delay on getting down your barricade application. If you have not done one, if you've done one since spring then or since summer, don't don't do another one?

was there a few weeks ago, Oh my gosh. And when I say pumpkins, I'm talking about pumpkins and gourds and every kind of weird, gnarly looking thing we put on our tables to decorate for Thanksgiving all the way to pumpkins for carving, or pumpkins for making pie, or the what they call the fairy tale pumpkin. It's kind of an almost pinkish orange kind of squatty thing. I guess it looks like Cinderella's coach probably, But anyway, they

got mums there. They've got beautiful, beautif full house plants, just unbelievable fall vegetables. Of course it's Buchanans. They got native plants. They specialize in native plant You're not gonna find a better place to get a variety of Nati plants anywhere in the region of the Buchanans. Nati plants in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street there in the Heights. And fall is for planting. So you know, I've been saying this all fall. I guess I'll keep saying it

for a while. But you can plan any month of the year here in the Greater Houston area, you pretty much can. If in summer it's harder. You got to kind of touch and go water them. Just live it, not too much. Fall is so easy. You put them in the ground, you give them a good soaking, maybe a little bit more here and there, but just don't delay. You're giving your plants a head start. And listen, do you remember summer? Remember this summer, Like every summer, it

is hard to be a plant. And so why not get the roots in the ground now and let them get growing. You know, roots of plants will grow. And when the temperature is even in the low fifties. Uh, And so they are slowly establishing. And I tell you you get a head start. And plus there's some good deals on plants now, so fall planting. That's it again. Buchanan Street, eleventh Big Cannon Street. Buchanan's Native Plants on

Eleventh Street in the Heights. Here's the website. Go there, check it out, look at the educational materials and sign up for their newsletter. Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com. Buchanan Street. Maybe they should name eleventh Street Buchanan Street that would be a good idea, all right, listening to garden Line. My phone number is seven to one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two.

if you'd like to do that. But right now, what you need to know is that the Wile Birds is going to be the place where you get everything you need for birds. That's a quality. They're feeders are quality. I have more than one, and they are excellent bird houses. And when it comes to bird seed, listen, they they

bag seed that goes into bird's stomachs. And you think, well, doesn't everybody know you buy a cheap bird seed that's full of red bebes and the birds kick it out, and then you got these weeds coming up on the ground below them. They the bird seed blends that are cheap are cheap. Okay, that's just the best way to put it. And I don't mean inexpensive, I mean cheap,

and it just makes sense with wild birds. They even have a no mess seed, which means like if you buy sunflower seeds, which birds love, they go crazy over that. Well they don't. They shell the sunflowers before they put them in the seed, so it's like one no mess. It's excellent products. I use their seed myself. The birds love it. I should go outside right now and bring them in here so they can tell you themselves. Because my birds love the seed from Wildbirds. I love it

at six stores in the Houston area. Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston, and there you go. That's all you need to do to find one of the six Wallbirds stores near you. Time for a break, I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. We are here to answer your gardening questions. So all you have to do is give me a call. It's seven one three two one two kt rh on three two one two kt r H I wanted to tell you a

little bit about Cienamulch. I talk about them all the time because they are an outstanding source of I'll just say this, the brown stuff the foundation for success with plants. When you go to see in a Malts, you need things like, you know, a quality soil like a rose soil or maybe maybe heirloom soils, veggie nerb nex. They carry that there. One of the products from Landscaper's pride,

like the black velvet for example. They carry that. There lots of different options from maltz to soil, to compost, to sand, to gravel to stone palletts. You're gonna put a little patio in your backyard, you need to stop in see an A malt You're open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five today seven thirty to two. Closed on Sunday. So here's your chance today to go buy there.

Pick up some stuff there at FM five twenty one, which is near where Highway six and two eighty eight come ge, just north of road sharing the website just write this down Sienna Maltz dot com, Sienna Maltz dot com, that whole region down south of Houston. This is your place. They deliver within about oh twenty miles or so with for a small fee. And when you're in there, part of the brown stuff also grabs some fertilizer. And if you hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's at Sienna Moltz.

They got microlife, They've got asamite, they got Nelson's, they got heirloom soils, they got nitrophoss, they got Medina products and I said, Landscaper's pride products there And you know people that know what they're doing. They use me Cnamal's like BMB turf Pros for example, they do the compos stop dressing. They use c Animals products for that because they know it's a quality product. You're not going to go wrong with Cienamalts. You can buy it bulk, you

can buy it by the bag. But whatever you do, go buy there and buy it. And I'll tell you this, you are not going to be treated better at any place than you are at Cenatz. They're friendly, they're helpful. They just just if you ever said I go I'm going to a mulch place because I want to have fun, well you can say that about Ciana Mount. Every time

I go by there. I just leave feeling good. I enjoy enjoy visiting with the folks and just just seeing the quality products that they have there at Sanna Mulch. Brown stuff before green stuff. So get some. They will get you set up for success. Out well in Kingwood, way out and those are you in Kingwood. Don't think you're wet in Kingwood, but those in Houston. Yeah, out there in Kingwood not too far away. Actually, nice little drive.

Warrens Southern Gardens, Kingwood Garden Center, both of those are outstanding places to go visit. You know, they're open seven days a week, so it makes it really easy to get out there. Warren's is on North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Right now, they are having something called a Pansy's Party. And here's what that means. A teen four inch pansies. That's a full flat. You got to buy the whole full flat, eighteen four inch

pots full of pansies. Twenty four nine now through November three. It's time to get that done. They've got fertilizer that you want to get when you get your pants. You want to mix that into the soil and plant your pansies. Watered in really good, and then as they begin to grow, fertilize them again. You got to push those things. You got to get growth, and oh my gosh, they will bloom, bloom bloom. We just pansies. Don't even think we have

winter done here. They're so called party. They also have some special low prices on some bed mixes and composts and other things. If you want to oversee your lawn, they have Rye grass in stock right now for doing that. They have Emerald Rellis bulbs in stock, lots of veggies, beautiful moms, something else. When you're out there at Warren's, join their newsletter. They've got special coupons and offers, especially their monthly lawn care coupons. You can do that on

their website. You can do that by going into the store, or you can do that by just give them a call on the phone. Either way you go about it. Join the newsletter there for information and some really good deals out there at Warren's Southern Gardens, And oh my gosh, the place is gorgeous right now. Fun, fun day to

get out and go do that. It's one of those destination garden centers you just love to go visit and all of you over there are Kingwood and Mbol and New Caney, Porter, Splendora, that whole part of the region. It's just down the street Warren's Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we have got got a little bit

of time here. If you'd like to give us a call, we can probably fit that in for we have to go at the top of the hour seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two k t RH. I want to remind you that today I'm going to be an enchanted forest from about eleven forty five to one forty five, somewhere in that rain time range. I'm getting there as close to eleven thirty as I can. Let's put it that way. I'll be doing Q and A. Come on out, let's visit.

What is your question? Bring me samples for identity identifying, Bring me samples for diagnosing. We can do that. Put them in a little bag, plastic bags or nothing escapes. If you've got photos on your phone, bring those. You got a weed that you want control, pull it out, put it in a bag, or take a picture of it, but make sure it's a good, sharp, clear focus picture.

I'll be there. I want to remind you. Debbie Ping, one of the staff members out there at in Chenna Forest, is going to be doing a shade plant lecture at ten o'clock today. So the minute I stop garden Line, the minute I shut up, Debbie starts talking. How about that? That's how that works. And then I'll be there about eleven forty five and we'll be doing that for at least a couple hours. Out there, I'm going to be giving away Medina products. Medina's given us some really qu

giveaways by the way that we'll be providing. And while you're out there, leave room in the car because you are going to see an awesome selection of vegetables and herbs and annual color. If you can leave room for a shrub or a tree, they've got some outstanding selections out there, including fruit trees. By the way, out at Enchanted Forest. Now, Enchanted Forest is on FM twenty seven

fifty nine. So if you were in Richmond, you're heading up towards sugar Land, towards Houston sugar Land direction, you turn to the right. They're on FM twenty seven to fifty nine. Okay, so come on down and see me. If you've never been there, I don't care where you live in town. You need to swing by and check this place out. It is really really cool and I'll be giving away those Medina products. By the way, while I'm talking about Medina, Medina Plus is kind of like

a Cadillac product that they produce. You know, you've known about Medina Soil Activator for a long time. It'scot where I don't know, a zillions, ten bazillion different kinds of microbes and other ingredients that help stimulate plant growth. Well, Medina Plus also has over forty trace elements. So take Medina Soil Activator and you know, enhance it with over forty different trace elements. Things like CID of cainans that's

a natural growth hormone. Seaweed extract is where you get that magnesium, iron, zinc, and just I can't name them all, a lot of different things. You're going to increase blooming, you're going to increase the fruit set and leaf growth if you're going to transplant. And I hope it's fall, I mean I hope it's fall. I hope you'll transplant trees and shrubs and vegetables and herbs, everything you put

in the ground. Just get your watering can, put some Medina Plus in it, mix it up according to the label and drench it over the plank, get it on the foliage, get it on the roots especially, soak it down into the soil. It's going to do really well, and it just helps your plants hit the ground running. That's at least the way I like to put it. You can use it as a folder if you want too foldier sprays. It's not going to burn plants. Medina Plus want of mini products from the folks at Medina

and follow us for planting. And if you're going to plant, you got to get some of the Medina Plus water in with that. Just keep it on your shelf because you're going to want to do foldier feeding, You're going to want to water plants in whenever you plant them. It's just a good product to have, so always keep it around. It's not just like something on the schedule that like, oh you only use Medina Plus. If no, you were twelve minths out here, makes it well that

hour went fast. Huh oh, well, we'll be right back. We got another couple hours in us here. I hope you will hang around. Give us a call seven one three two one two KTRH. If you call soon enough, you need the very first up. When I come back from the break, just again, Enchanted four TuS today. Get in your car head down there. I'm going to get there as close to eleven thirty as I can, and I'll be there answering your gardening question. So come on

out and see me. Let's visit. I always like to meet listeners face to face, you know, on garden Line. I got a few minutes that I can talk with you and answer a question to get to some other question.

Sunlight on leaves with good nutrition equals carbohydrates. Carbohydrates equal cold hardiness, carbohydrates equal stronger growth in the spring, simple as that carbo load does just that carboload also contains a pre emergent herbicide, so you do not want to delay putting it down. Get it done a sap. All we need is the cold front and some rain, and we're gonna have weeds sprouting all over the place for cool season. That'll be big and messy in the spring.

That's that's when you really notice them. But they sprout now. So get carbo load down, watered in about half inch of water, get that into the surface and prevent those weeds heats from getting started. So it's kind of like a two pack punch here. We got carbo load with the nutrients, the perfect blend of nutrients with the pre emergent harbicide all in one, watered in all from the folks at Nelson, part of their turf star Line carbo

load for fall. I'm going to head now, excuse me, head now out to Galveston, Texas, and we're going to talk to John. Hello, John, welcome to garden Line.

double dose? Would you put that over the top of that? Would you do nothing? Would you double dose with Eagle?

and the brown patches are just appearing. That's why we always try to get it in ahead of time. But it should stop additional brown patch infection for you. Now, those brown spots, they're going to sit there and in spring they'll regrown, regrow, regreen. Brown patch doesn't kill grass, but it does make it look ugly.

you're heading toward Katie Fullsher direction. Well, that's find FM three fifty nine and that's when you find in Chenny Gardens. If you want to make it simple on yourself, just go to the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They had an event there just I don't know, a day or so ago. It was called the Harvest Hound Event and people brought in their dogs, kind of dressed them up a little bit and put

them with pumpkins and mums and things like that. Just go to their Facebook page and look at the pictures. It's great. That was great. You can do that. Bring your kids in. They've got the pumpkin house. This is just a whole wall, exterray wall full of pumpkins. They've got all kinds of great. Let's just save photographic spots for your photogenic children. How about that? And you too, By the way, adults can do I think it's just

allowed for adults to do that as well. While you're out there, you're going to find everything you want to find it a nursery in the fall time, from plants of course, to the things to help plants grow, like the kinds of fertilizers you hear me talk about on garden Line, things I recommend on Guardline. You're going to find it enchanted gardens. They are open today Monday through Saturday, actually eight to five and tomorrow ten to four. Either day.

Good time to get out to enchanted gardens and enjoy yourself. I love those dog pictures. Let's go to West U and we're going to talk to Charlie. Hey, Charlie, welcome to guard Line.

see many. If you wanted to blast it with some water, maybe just get a good stream and blast it from all angles. I think that would be fine. The answer there, because they're helping take care of the aphis answer dairy farmers and aphids are dairy cattle. That's how that works.

are with us today. We've got lots of things we need to be covering today and when we get into your calls here in just a moment, if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four Spring Creek feed is just let's think of it as Magnoia northeast of tom Ball direction on twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine seventy eight. It is your hometown feed store up there, and boy is it ever a feed store. Beautiful beautiful place.

diseases or pasts. The staff there is friendly and they are courteous, and it's just it's a pleasure to shop there at Spring Creek Feed if you're an FFA or four H if you are were in the military, or or in the military, if you are a senior citizen. There's discounts for all of those groups there, and they can also special order products and they do offer a delivery service at well as well. Spring Creek Feed Center

on FM twenty nine seventy eight. Just minutes away from gand Parkway and Highway to forty nine up there, in that area. Hey, I'm going to go now out to Steven and Steven it says you're in the Rio Grand Valley. Is that right?

is going to be the same. If you put a systemic insecticide down in the soil, you drench it into the soil, it will take it up and the plumbing of that plant will have the insecticide in it, and so anything sucking juices out of the plant, which is what's causing the city mold. Something sucking juices, It poisons them, and it kills them. That is the simplest way to go. You can also try using insecticidal soap spray's horticulture of

oil sprays on a Japanese blueberry. It's hard to get good coverage, and with both the soap and the you have to coat the insect with the pesticide to kill it with the soap or the oil. So I would say for you and a Japanese blueberry, the best thing would be to use a systemic And I hear you have help there with you on the phone. Can I give you something to write down?

few letters. Only ingredients that only products that they begin with those letters. Okay, you don't need both one or the other, all right.

a trace mineral supplement. Trace mineral supplement things that are needed in tiny quantities, but that are essential, So you don't put it out like a standard fertilizer where you're putting a whole lot out because it's you know, nitrogen, and fertilizer promotes growth and makes your long green, all that kind of stuff. Now, asimite is just put out in small quantities, like a forty four pound bag will cover six to twelve thousand square feet. Goes a long way.

Don't overdo it. Follow the label, don't do that. If a teaspoons good or tablespoons better, do it at the right rate. Some micronutrient needed in micro amounts but essential as amite. You can go to asmite texas dot com find out more. If you have a vegetable garden, I would recommend doing it in there as well. About ten pounds per thousand square feet in a vegetable garden should be about right as a mite provides those essential nutrients

that you need. Okay, I see what I was had something in my head that I was gonna talk about, and now my brain just went blank on it. Oh well, does that happened to you? Just not happen as much as it does now. Right. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook is one of those garden centers you got to go to. There's not another nursery in town that is like Moss Nursery. There's not. It is a destination nursery. It is eight

acres of a gardener's paradise. This garden center has been around for a very long time, and people that are anywhere in that region. In fact, I know people from Crosstown that go down there to see it. That massive pottery selection, acres of every kind of plant you can imagine. Their house, bat plant greenhouse is outstanding and when you walk through, you're going to see all kinds of strange stuff.

You know, Jim goes all over the world bring stuff back, African masks and mineral specimens and taxidermy mounts and even some old swords and things. I mean, you never know when you turn a corner what you're going to see at Moss Nursery. Their house plant greenhouse, as I said, is awesome. If you need plants for dark rooms, plants for bright rooms. If you're into succulents and cacti. You want something to stay small, you want something to get tall. Moss has got it and then some and right now

it's time to plant woody ornamentals. They are loaded with woody ornamentals. It's time to put out color plants for fault. They're loaded for that. We're hitting the time now to put down our our actual coal season plants, you know, pansies and things like that. Moss is always going to have what's in season. They're at fifty five eleven Toddville Road in Seabrook's the Here's the website. Just go to the website Moss Nursery dot com. Here's how you spell

it m a As Nursery dot com. I'm going to head now out to Lake City and talk to Jim. Hello Jim, Welcome to garden Lining.

see me. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, we got some room on the phones if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two ATRH seven to one three two one two. KTRH is just visiting with Jim about the Nitroposs Fall Special fertilizer. That's the eight twelve six eight twelve six. Notice that first number is kind of low. That's what we want for fall. Nitrogen is important in being taken up with the potassium for fall cold heartiness.

But you don't want to overdo the nitrogen. That's why we switched to false special the brown bag by Nitrofoss in the fall. It's part of their three step program. What are the three steps? Well, first the fall special fertilizer. Second the barricade preventative weed control. It prevents weed seeds from getting established. Doesn't kill existing weeds, it prevents them. But that's why you got to do it now, because cool season weeds are going to be germinating. In fact,

they probably are in some places already. And then finally the third step is eagle turf fungicide that prevents the brown patch also called large patch, and the Takeollo route, which will also infact in the fall. If you look at my schedule, I say do that in October and do it again in November. I would do it twice for the take all, especially now for the brown patch. Just once is enough. But one, two, three, Fall Special barricade, Eagle turf funderside. All three together you can find them

an Enchened Forrest down there in Richmond, Rosenberg. You're going to find it at Ace Hardware City, a Memorial Drive, Jim's Hardware, Montgomery, Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin, all places that carry that Texas three step by Nitrofoss. And it is time upset again. It is time to get all three done. Do not delay. When you're playing baseball, you don't wait until the catchers has the ball to start swinging, do you No, You swing ahead of time to get ahead of it. That's what you got to do with

these three products. Get it done now. All righty, We're going to go to clear Lake now and talk to Ann. Hello, Anne, Welcome to garden Line.

If not, I will tomorrow. Okay, all right, I'm putting you on hold and Chris is gonna pick it up. You bet. I'm gonna go now to Dickinson and talk to Less. Hello, les, Hey, how you doing. I'm well, thank you.

wind to perune, all that kind of stuff. So all three of those books I think would would do a good job for what you're looking for.

kills the colony. That is the best least toxic way you can go for fire ants. All right, thank you? All right? All right, so thanks for the thanks for the call. Appreciate that and good luck with that. Wish you well. Where are we doing on time? Have we got time? Let's see here? Good time for another call. Let's go to West Houston and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome to garden Line.

I don't know that it would be the end of the world or anything to print it now, but if you can wait until a good coal comes through and knocks it back and then print it. Also throw some good multch, a thick layer of mulch over the base, and that way that crown of the plant is protected. So in the spring it comes back. It's going to be a slow one to come back. It's a sleepy head doesn't want to grow until about May. But mulch kind of helps protect that. After you've done the prunting.

your lawn. Price to start at five seventy five plus tax. This is a one of the single most invigorating things you can do for your plants is do that aeration and then a compost stop dressing. I say, plants for your lawn. Greenpro dot Net. That's the website two eight one three five to one forty seven thirty three. They serve about forty five miles from Magnolia, So just think of Interstate forty five and Interstate ten the northwest quadrant.

That is the area for green Pro again, greenpro dot net two eight one three five to one forty seven thirty three. We'll take a break. I'll be right back to have you with us here on guarden line. We got lots of gardening still left in us today. We'll be going till ten o'clock, at which time I'm gonna jump in a car and make a bee line for enchanted forest. We'll I'll be from about eleven thirty eleven forty five two about one forty five. So I hope you come out and see me. Enchanted Forest is done

in Richmond on FM twenty seven fifty nine. I hope you come on out. I talk about ACE Hardware all the time because when people call me and they're looking for this fertilizer, that pesticide or you know, controlling weeds or diseases or insects or something, I know there's an ACE near them, and I know ACE is going to have what they need. And ACE carry's tools. They carry, you know, everything you need outside like watering hoses and wheelbarrows and all that, but all the different products to

have success with your plants. ACE Hardware is going to have those and everything else you need inside and outside the house, whether you're doing plumbing or electrics, electrical, or maybe you're looking for some applying indoors or some beautiful, beautiful items for the home. You know, ACE Hardware is not just a hardware store. It is a hardware store, but it is that and so much more. You're going

to find some really cool gifts at ACE Hardware. With this season coming up, you're going to go see somebody for Thanksgiving, stop in at ACE Hardware and grab a really nice gift. And I'm not I am not kidding. I mean really, you you walk into an Ace Hardware, you're gonna find something that you go, you know what, Mom or Grandma or the kids or whoever you're going to see Aunt Millie, they would love to have that item.

And while you're there, you can grab the fertilizers for fall, you can grab the we control, you can grab the disease control because it's all going to be there. You can grab the fire ant control too. I told someone a while ago we were talking about fire ant baits and mentioned come and get it as an organic one. I've seen that in ACE Hardware stores as well. All you have to do is go to Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator, forty stores near you. Forty stores

near you. Let's go to Pleasantville, New We're going to talk to Debrah. Well, Hello Debrah, and welcome to garden.

twenty nine to twenty in Tomball. And you got to go just to see the take friends or family and go see yeah, people coming in for you know the holidays or something, get out take them out there to Arbrogate too. Arbrogate dot Com is their website. They are loaded with fall color, but they're also loaded with some really cool gifts and things for people that don't. They pretty much have everything right, You know how hard it is to shop. How about an air plant? Do you

know what airplan is? At Tealanzia's. It's like they're kin to pineapples and bal moss. And if Bama is any indication, I think you might be able to grow an airplant. They're easy to grow, and they're cool, and they're different

and I don't know, it's just something different. And Arborgate is loaded with not only the standards vegetables and fruit trees they fruit all year round out there, and herbs and beautiful, beautiful color plant Right now, that place is popping, And they even have a kind of a special going on on a lot of their fall and Halloween type decorations. Twenty five percent off on a lot of the ones that they carry out there. And so this would be a great time to get you one of those Talavera

pumpkins or something else like that. You know that you would just enjoy and use year after year. It's all at the Arborgate on twenty nine to twenty about a mile and a half west of two forty nine. While you're at Arburgate, grab their food, their organic food complete, their organic soil complete, and they're organic compoost complete. Those three bags are the brown stuff that helps all the green stuff you bring home from Arborgate to thrive. The

brown stuff is the foundation. Organic food complete, Organic soil complete, Organic compost complete. Only at Arburgate. We're gonna head now to Lake Jackson and talk to Charlie. Hey, Charlie, welcome to garden Line.

But when you start to cover a good volume of the area underneath the tree branch spread, then you can do some problems. So I would do it in stages, maybe two inches now, you know, we get into next year, a couple of inches sometime in the year, and then just do it that way. But also consider how you might read might divert that water away wherever it's coming from. Maybe that'd be another opportunity to to you know, kind

of avoid that standing water. But yeah, just don't overdo it. Fantastic, Thank you.

a lot of things. I mean, it's like Nature's Way products. Nature's Way knows how to put in or create some of the most outstanding products for putting out in your garden and in your lawn, in your landscape, because it all begins in the soil, and Nature's Way is all about the soil. Right now through December first, they got their year in sale in the nursery. You know, I have a nursery and they sell plants out there. Nature's Way.

Nice selection of natives and many many other kinds of plants, fruit, trees, houseplants, shrubs, you name it. Well, it excludes the native sun perennials, but fifty percent off their native plants through December first, So head out there, grab some of those. Now is the time to get them planted. And why you're in Nature's Way You're going to get everything you need in the way of brown stuff to make that green stuff happy, to build the foundation for the plants that you're bringing home.

They're on if you go up Highway forty five or fourteen eighty eight comes in, you turn right across the railroad tracks and they're they're at Sherwood Circle right there. Makes it easy, easy to find them. Sherwood Circle. Well, I believe we're putting this hour in the books. Wow, there's time's flying this morning. They say time flies when you're having fun. You know what, Permit the frog says, time's fun when you're having flies. I'm sorry, I'm a dad.

All I know are dad jokes. That's fun to do. Don't forget today. In fact, go ahead and get your car fired up. It won't be long here. We're going to go out to Enchanted Forest in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are on FM twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest. Come out and see it. If you've never been doing Shandon, I don't care where you leave. You need to come and see this place. It is outstanding. I love going

out there. I'll be there for two hours. Get there probably a little after eleven thirty here for a couple of hours answering your questions. We'll be giving away Madina products and wonderful products then they did by Medina. Bring me samples, bring me photos, Let's solve these problems, and most of all, let's just meet and have a good time.

to get out to r c W Nursery. You know they are having uh just a number of things going on. Number there, for example that their fruit tree or they're trees excuse me. Trees, shade trees, things like the magnolia, southern magnolia and the schumart oaks, those kinds of trees, beautiful, beautiful ones. They are on fifteen percent off sale. That is outstanding. That is outstanding now. They also they've had specials on shrubs this weekend, twenty percent off shrubs. The

Cajun hibiscus has been on. I was just enjoying my Cajun hibiscus I got there. It's a it is so beautiful. It is it still is just beautiful. And no matter what you're looking for, maybe a lace bark elm would be a nice one to add a burrow because a good one to add, for example, lots of good trees there and that's the place to do it. And by the way, don't forget next week on Saturday. Next Saturday, I'll be at RCW, that's October the twenty six I'll be there from twelve to two. So if you live

up in that area, come out and see me. Love for you to do that, and while you're there, pick up some of the great specials that they have going on. They also are loaded on fall color, they're loaded on vegetables, and everything. Pretty much, if you need a plant, they're gonna have it. They're ready to go. ARCW is what I call the get it, Got It nursery because if they don't have something which is rare, they can get

it for you. They can order it for you and bring it in most cases, and while you're out there, you can pick up the fertilizers I talk about here on garden Line. By the way, RCW Nursery dot Com is the website. And where are they located? Right where Beltway eight comes into FM two forty nine, also called Tomball Parklay. We're going to heading out to Cleveland and we're gonna talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, Welcome to garden Line.

the shuck, the shuck around the pecan. And interestingly enough, the material that goes inside the nut to make the kernel has to go through the shuck, and that shuck, if you get a black rotting disease on it, it blocks the flow into the pecan and you will not have good, healthy filled pecans. They'll be all black and shriveled inside. And so controlling diseases of both foliage and

the shuck itself is important. The problem is you got quite a few trees there, a dozen, and pecan trees thirty years old are pretty good size, So you've got to have quite a sprayer to not only reach the top of the tree, but give you good coverage. If you can get that kind of sprayer, you can put fungicides out during the season that stop those decays from happening.

Over here in the eastern half of the state, we get enough rain to where we have a lot more disease problems than you would, you know, west of Interstate thirty five in central Texas for example. Yeah, do you think you can do you have that kind of sprayer or can you can you find a way to spray if not get.

You got a couple of them out that direction. That yeah, uh yeah, yeah, M and D. Well talk to M and D and see what they can carry for pecan disease control.

for Us. I'll get there about oh, probably eleven thirty today, maybe eleven forty five, and I'll be there for two hours. So come on out and see me. We're gonna be giving away Medina products and I'll be answering your gardening questions. And believe me, they are stocked up on all kinds of cool plants and decorations for fall. It'll be a

fun time. I promise you that if you want to get compassed, top dressing, aeration or both hopefully both done to your lawn and you live down south South and especially south and west of Houston, bm B Turf Pro is the place you need to call. B and B turf Pros have. They have a goal, and that goal is to make you happy. And I really mean that.

It's not to them just about let's get your money and go on down the street and whatever customer satisfaction matters, and that's why they do high quality work and they do. I've seen their work. They also only use quality products that I recommend here on garden Line. So for example, when they're going to do top dressing, they're going to get it from Cenamlts and they're going to get the

quality stuff from Ciena Malts. For compost top dressing, they will errate your lawn and they'll do a compost top dressing. Make sure it's air rated right, not like the aer rators you rent at the store to do what you're selling. You can do that, but now they have much better equipment for it, and also for the top dressing. It's a messy job, but they can do it. And they basically go above and beyond to make not just you happy, but make that personal connection, make sure you're satisfied because

they know that's what's going to bring you back. It's here's the website BB Turfpros dot com, b B no end BB Turfpros dot Com. Here's the phone number seven to one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight if you are in that region, you know from over Oh,

I don't know. Let's say how far west we're going to go, maybe Sugarland direction, across Missouri City and then down through down Highway six, all through their Fresno Cnar Cola, Iowa Colony, Manville, and even as far east as Pearland. That's the region they service. And nothing will help your lawn just bounce back and look great when it's in a stress condition, especially compaction. Then a good eraation encompassed tob dressing. We're going to go now to talk to Joe. Hello,

Joe Welsome Garden Line. Thank you.

some light's not a lot, okay. Loriope and mondo grad both can be planted as a solid groundcover, and that takes a lot of plants, but it makes a really nice dense groundcover if it's moderate light. The Aztec grass is think of it as a white and green striped riope. Aztet grass is not grass. It's more like loripe, but it's white and green stripes. So it really brightens the shady areas. Shady areas are already dark, and then when you put a dark green ground cover, it just sort

of disappears in there. And it's nice to use something with some lighter colors like that. Course, ferns would be good for an area like that.

you can put an arbor. Some of them, though, are just a little too enthusiastic, if you know what I mean. You know, they want to take over the world, and they can overwhelm an arbor. So we'd like to stay away from those.

you trim it when it gets too far. But it has spring flowers that are a tangerine orange color, very pretty, and that would be an option as well.

radiating into the house half the night. Put a viine on it. We should use vines more, all right. I told you about Nelson carbo Load. That is their fall fertilizer carbo Load. It's fertilizer and it's weed prevention. It's a pre emergent. We'd prevention all in one. I want to tell you about nutristar Genesis from Nelson. Genesis is designed for transplanting plants. So whether you're moving something from

one pot up to a bigger pot. If you're doing that, mix some Genesis into the soil in the new pot to help get that plant off to a good start. If you're putting something in the ground, like maybe you're gonna plant a rose bush this year, or maybe Joe's gonna put a vine in this year, you know, well, how about putting some Genesis in the soil around it. It's one of the few fertilizers I would say mix into the soil and it's okay. It's not gonna burn

your roots. It's not salt based, all right. It's got micro riz in, it got beneficial bacteria. It's got other fungi too, by the way, that support that soil micro biome that's so important. When you mix genesis into the ground and water your plan in, well those roots come out and they're in their happy place and they really show it. And I've seen that myself. It really does work. It's from Nelson. Plant food comes in a jar, clear jar with a screw top lid, and it works. Genesis

for transplanting your plants. And as I keep saying, I hope you, I hope you're planting right now. There's not a better season for transplanting than we're in right at this time. We love our feed stores here on guard Line, and you know the D and D feed store out west of Tombol, they're about three miles west of two forty nine on FM twenty nine to twenty. This place is great. I mean they expanded it recently last summer and summer for it anyway, they recently expanded it. It's

even better now. When you go inside, you're gonna find the stuff that I talk about. You know, you hear me talking about nitrofoss and you hear me talk about microlife and Nelson turf Star and Medina products and heirloom soils and you know the Nelson all the different Nelson products, Landscaper's Pride soils. They've got all of that at D and D Feed and Supply. They also, of course their feet, so they got feed. They got quality, high quality dog foods, a little uh, I don't know what you call it,

but I call it a dog deli. It's like a little special things bones and stuff that are flavored for them to chew on. If I go to D and D my dogs find out I didn't bring them anything, I'm in I'm in trouble because they know about the dog deli at D and D Feed, D and DE Feed. Here's the phone number. Two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. Two eight one three five one

seventy one forty four. Listen the dovers open this in nineteen eighty nine and the place just keeps getting better again. Three miles west of two forty nine on just outside a Tomball. While you're there, grab you your fire ut bait. It's time to get that done. Anything you need to do to control weeds, diseases, and insects, you're gonna find plenty of it. They're in D and D feed, they really do. I was in there not too longer than an outstanding selection of those products.

buy a tree from Morae. Grab that three sixty tree stabilizer so you can stake it and take care of it. Or hees got citrus trees, he's got other kinds of fruit. Just go buy and see him. Orges Hidden Gardens. They are on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of Highway nine. So all of you down there in Alvin, Dickinson Hillcrest, Alcoa, Altalloma, or Arcadia, Santa Fe, this is your hometown garden center. Go check them out this weekend. I'm gonna take a break, folks,

I'll be right back. Things about plants and whatnot. Had a call come in a Heidi from Tree Search Farms did a little Hey, here's another idea. I was talking to Joe about a plant for a vine on a trellis, and she was suggesting a butterfly vine. That's Miscagnia micruptra. I believe it is the species. It's a good one, and why they call it butterfly vine. Okay, it has little yellow flowers, Okay, fair enough, but then the flowers

are replaced by seed pods that look like butterflies. You just got to go see it or look it up. See what I'm talking about. But they're really cool. People will let them dry and then pick them and use them in arrangements. You know, maybe spray paint them, put some glitter on them or whatever if they want to dress them up. But that's a good vine that is a billowing, strong grower. I mean, it'll produce a good

solid vine on a trellis for sure. So it's just another option there that you might want to keep in mind. I was talking about Jorge two. By the way, Orges Hidden Gardens down in Alvin Horace got a shipment of blueberries in I mean like ten different varieties and they've got both the rabbit eye type and the Southern high bush type. Those are two different kinds of blueberries, and it's important that when you buy them you get at

least two varieties of the same type. Okay, so too rabbit eyes or to Southern high bush, and he has some of each one. If you want to know more about blueberries, the Aggi Horticulture website has a really good publication on blueberries. And do you just go to Aggie.

Just do a search for Aggie Horticulture, go to the fruit and nut page and there is a publication at that page on every kind of fruit you can grow, from avocados to I don't know what is a fruit that begins with z is, but anyway, it got the whole nine yards, and if you go there you can learn about the different sections of the state where we can grow these, and then the different varieties and some

information on them. But just remember that when you get rabbit eyes, you want to get a second rabbit eye. Now they'll produce some fruit by themselves, but they do better when they have a second variety to pollinate them, because you get more seeds pollinated, and therefore the berries will be bigger. So don't buy one blueberry by at least two of the same type rabbit eye and so high bush and I know where he's got like tiff blue and climax. Those are all those are examples of

rabbit eye types. And he's got one called sharp blue and Biloxi. Biloxi, I know is a southern high Bush's. I see some others on the list, So take take a look, Premiere, that's a rabbit eye. But he's got them therein so now it'd be a good time to get those things planned before you put them in the ground.

By the way, take a box cutter knife and cut vertically through the root ball that came out of the container roots cylinder, cut vertically in four places around the plant about an inch deep, and then separate those roots out. They will establish better that way if you'll do that. Well, that was a lot of fast information right there. Let's head out to talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn, welcome to garden line.

the morning, that kind of thing. And if that's the case, you may also see deer tracks, so it could be the one could be a seedling, or it could be the deer tracks. It also could be a disease. But then you just see the rotted, fallen over, shriveled up seedling the next morning. So it's gonna be one of those three.

they come up, you know. I it could be wire, like the kind of wire you put under a rabbit cage, you know, for them to hop around on, or something that just keeps the deer from getting to those seedlings.

Pierscapes peerscapes dot com. That's the website. Now I give you that first because I want you to go straight there. Piercescapes dot com. Pierscapes is going to be the place you go when you want a landscape that is a showplace that is outstanding. With Pierscapes, you know that they are going to have the designers to do it right. They are going to have everything you need for success. They'll put the right plants in because they know what plants to plant are. You can tell them what you

want planted. They also do quarterly maintenance on your beds. You know, if you don't have time to get out there and trim and weed and fertilize and check your irrigation and change seasonal color every time we change seasons, mulching and errating pierscapes can do that. Pierscapes can fix your irrigation system. Pierscapes can fix poorly drained areas and make them drain well. They can do landscape lighting. They can create that beautiful patio rock patio with a with

a firepit or with a barbe coupitter. They can do all of that. Piercescapes dot Com. Here's a phone number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five zero six zero. Take a break. I'll be right back with your calls. We are on our final segment today before I head out to Enchanted Forest Garden Center down in Richmond area. If you have a chance to come out, please come out and see me.

I'll be there. I'm aiming for eleven thirty and maybe a few minutes later that I get there, but I'll be there for at least two hours answering your gardening questions and giving away Guess what, Medina has donated some really cool stuff that I'll be giving away in addition to giving away hopefully good accurate advice. I try to do that. Like I say on Guardline, they're any stupid questions, just stupid answer so the pressure is on me and

other words, to not give a stupid answer. Well, we're gonna we're gonna try that out right now, and I'm going to go out to Brenham, Texas and we're going to talk to Leonard. Hey, Leonard, welcome to garden Line.

that twine around stuff. It's not the vines that have little curlicues that go out there and grab stuff like a cucumber vine does. But it's the hole fast. But what I would do is if you could put up a wall in front of it of a strong material, like a livestock panel or something like that, it could grow on that and then there'd be a space between the wall and the brick. The only thing you have to worry about, Leonard, is those things with hole fasts

when they get up and start touching your painted eaves. Yeah, they can do some damage there because when you pull them off, you're left with that little woody thing sticking to your paint. And and that's not good.

And so you're not putting compost in the hole. You're you're mending the whole bed area. And then you're digging the hole and using the amended soil that came out of the hole to go back in.

of nice compost and put your plan in it. And when it rains too much or you irrigate too much, that organic matter decomposes anaerobically can get oxygen, and you get some nasty stuff coming out of there. So don't make an underground bathtub and fill it with compost and plant roots. Just amend the whole thing and figs will grow in black clay. Don't worry about that.

attack box woods. Do we have a great spray for other than one or two of the root rots that we can drench the soil for.

disease indication. Pull up some roots when you got one that's dying, and look for knots on the roots instead of normal roots. It looks like a string of pearls, or it's even knotted up worse than that, looks almost like the michelin Man all bumpy and lumpy and everything. If you see any of that and you want to send me a picture, I could take a look at it.

I'm going to put you on hold and if you choose to hang on and Chris will pick it up and we will get you an email where you can take some pictures and send them to me and I'll be happy to diagnose it at the next step.

I don't care where you live, it's worth driving down to because every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline, and then some every kind of herbicide, pre emergent and post emergent, insecticides, fungicides, or you're an organic gardener, they got the best selection of organics of anybody in the in the whole area. And if you're not organic synthetic, they got the best selection too. I mean they just have everything. Bob keeps

it all there. It'd be a good time to get your lawn mower and in your blade in and let them sharpen that blade for next season. It's coming. Don't wait until everybody else is doing it. Do you need small engine or pair? They can do that. Bring in samples, bring in I don't know pictures of things. Bob and his team, Aaron, the whole team there. They know what they're doing. They can direct you to what you need. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website, Southwest Fertilizer dot Com.

Corner of Byssinet and Runwick ben Ron since nineteen fifty five. Everybody knows about them because they've been here and they've been doing it right for so long. Seven one, three, six, six, six, seventeen forty four. Oh, by the way, when you're in there, tell Bob you want to see the kneeling bench because you need a gift. If you know anybody over forty years old, they must have the kneeling bench. And Bob's got copies of gout a supply of them there. That's

out the springs. It's the best top five tool of all the tools I own. I own a lot of tools. Top five tools. Kneeling you gotta have it all right, folks. I'm about to jump in the car here and a little after eleven thirty I'll be getting to Enchanted Forest Garden Center down in Richmond Rosenborg area. In fact, they are on FM twenty seven fifty nine twenty seven fifty nine. Come on out and see me, bring me some samples. I'm going to be giving away some giveaways from the

cool folks at Medina. Oh yeah, by supplive, I'll be answering your gardening questions. Come on out. I want to show you some of the planet. I mean to have time to walk you around and show you a few