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are well taken care of. Summer is blazing hot at times, but our turf grass can take it if it has adequate water. However, what we tend to do is overwater and miss water. What do I mean by overwatering and miswatering? Well, overwatering, which of course just means too much water. It stays too soggy wet. A grass does not need soggy soil if you will give it a good soaking, providing enough to what the soil at least six inches deep. That takes about an inch of water, depending on your soil

type of course, and then let it dry out. Let the water move out of the soil. It'll evaporate, it'll move down. The plants certainly will take up a lot and trends bire it out of their grass blades. And when that happens, oxygen gets into the soil, and oxygen is important in the plant's root zone. Any plants root zone, that is important to have that so as a result, when you do that, your grass makes a deeper rooted, more resilient turf, which means a chomp here or there

by a grub isn't as big a deal. That means a little bit of a droughty conditions isn't as big a deal because the grass has the more extensive root system to draw from a larger volume of soil and so a good soaking followed by drying out. I try to water my areas that need watering not more than once a week. Now, it's fine to water twice a week if you want put a half inch on it each time. I know a lot of people do that. And if your struggling with root issues like take all

root rod or other things. If the soil is very sandy and it doesn't hold water, well, I could see going twice a week. But I'm telling me once a week's and anough to be honest. I've got areas of my lawn I think I've watered them once or twice once this summer. Some areas of my lawn I've watered once this summer, but with just a good soaking. You know, we've had a lot of rain, so that's part of

the reason why. But the thing of having your water come on every other day all the time is just a waste of Listen, you pay money for that drinking water, and when you buy drinking water, you get to pay for your sewer bill too. Yeah, they tie them together in most places, so why waste it. It doesn't help your lawn, It promotes a disease. Water with a good soaking infrequently. That's what I mean when I say miswatering,

I mean watering too frequently, too little, too often. A good soaking infrequently and you can get the results you need. That's what we're aiming for, right, That is what we want is a healthy grass plant. A healthy grass plant. That's exactly what we're aiming for. So it's a lot of it's up to us, you know, whether they say operator error, right, it's not the system that's wrong, it's the operator of the system. Well, that certainly is true

irrigation systems. Where you're listening to garden Line, if you'd like to give us a call, we're here to answer your gardening questions. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Speaking of our lawns, if you've not done your summer lawn fertilization, now's a good time to go ahead and get that done. Fall fertilizing is coming.

It's not too terribly far away, still a few months out, but now would be a good time to put on some of that nitrofoss super turf that is the silver bag I like. I like the color coded bags. It makes it so easy. I don't know another silver bag out there. So the silver bag from Nitrofoss. It is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer, much of which is in a slow release form to give you gradual feeding. Listen to the chemistry of it. Designed for our Southeast

Texas climate and soils. The way it releases the nitrogen out feeds your long gradually over time, which means you mow less often. You know, a big dump of nitrogen and here you go. You got all this top growth in your momomo and I with super Turf, you gradually feeds it out over time. You're going to find super Turf at a lot of different places in Memorial Drive on Ace Hardware City, They've got it there, Stanton Shopping Center, down in Alvin's another place, Katie Hardware Ace out on

Pinoak Driving Katie. They've also got the Nitropuss products like Superturf. This past week, I had been trying to get a few things done, just basically and clean up and stuff. I'm still doing a little pruning and snipping here and there. And I just want to mention that, you know, we think of late winter as the best pruning season, and it is for most things. There are some things that we do not prune in late winter, that things that bloom only in this spring, for example, we don't want

to prune those past maybe mid early to midsummer. Really, I'd say early summer would be my preference, and that would be like once blooming rose, like Lady Banks, beautiful rose, beautiful rose, once blooming. A lot of climbers are once blooming. Anything that just blooms in the spring. If you had a dogwood or a red bud, or a Chinese fringe or something along those lines, those are all spring blooming trees.

So don't prune them after let's say early maybe midsummer the latest, because in late summer they're in early fall, they're going to be setting their fruit buds or fruit buds, they're bloom buds for next season's bloom. So if you were to go out right now, and let's say you had a flowering quince or a Spyria shrub or a Texas Mountain barrel, or any of the trees I mentioned before that are spring bloomers. The roses that are spring bloomers,

and you prune them heavily. Now they're not going to have time to grow new growth and set buds in order to have a bud of bloom crop for next spring. We're kind of getting to the end of that line. You might get lucky with a few blooms, but basically you're messing up the typical spring blooming. Azaleas are another example of that same thing, so it's time to hold off on those. But a little snipping here and there

is fine. If you've got an azalea with this big, old, gangly branch sticking way out and it just doesn't look right, it's not shaped like you wanted to have a nice natural look, you snip that back. That's not a problem. I've got some crape myrtles that I'm doing some pruning back on here and there because they just need it. They need some shaping. Maybe they have suckers coming out of the bottom. Now'd be a time to do that particular thing. So a little bit of chores here and

there on an ongoing basis is fine. Listen, you get out in the morning, it's not that hot. It's enjoyable. The birds. The birds have showed up up to sing you a song. When you get out to works. Isn't that nice of them? I was like that joy listening to them early early in the morning, So it's a good time to be out. Take your phone, get your iHeartMedia app, tune into a garden Line and you can turn it in your set in your pocket and head out in the garden and we'll we'll talk as you

get some stuff done. Maybe you can take a picture of something send it to me. If you got a question, we can do that too. Well, you're listening to Guarden Line. We're gonna take a little quick break and I'll be right back our phone number seven one three two one two kt RH. We love our feet stores and up in Tomball, Texas out to the west on twenty nine to twenty. You've got D and D Feed. Those of you who live out there already know about it. D and D Feed's been around a good while, and I'm

telling you they carry everything you need. They If you've got a product you need to make you're lawn more beautiful, your garden more bountiful, they've got it. They carry the fertilizers, they carry the soil products like the age leaf moole compost for top dressing. Your lawn. You need some rosa from heirloom fruit and berry and citrus, veggie and herb mixes. They got all those. They got the pesticides for dealing with insects or dealing with funguses, or dealing with maybe

with weeds in your in your garden and lawn. They've got all of that there at D and D feed If you want to give them a call, it's two eight one three five, one seventy one forty four and give them a call there or just stop buy. That's the best thing. They always got some plants out front too. That's a nice little collection of things seasonally out in the front, but inside that's where there is a lot of really cool stuff. At Erial time feed store, the

kind you used to go to maybe when you're a kid. Well, they're still around. And D and D fees a prime example just west of Tumbul twenty nine twenty. I'm going to head out now to League City and we're going to talk to Ann.

So we'll applying the triclephere to the peppervine affect the bees because I've seen them landing on the bees, I mean landing on the Pepperfine, the bees landing on the peppervine.

yes I do. It's gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com, and it's called Skip's Homemade Weedwiper, and it tells you how to make a little weed Wive's really easy to make out of one of those grabber tools, and if you want to do it, it's handy to have around because you're always gonna have pepperbine popping up, You're going to have nut's edge coming up here and there. You're going to have you know, birds or planting hackberries in your fence line, or there's all

kinds of things that this is good for. But Basically, you put the triclop here on the sponges on the tool and you just wipe it right on the leaves or along the stem. You can do that too. Pepperbine has stems that are popping up everywhere, and that's one of the things that makes it so hard to control. And the triclopair moves down into the plant. Now you're going to need to stay with it because you know it's got a lot of underground storage here there and yonder,

and so you kind of have to. Every time it sticks its head up, you wipe some on it and it goes down and kills sections of it, and you will win that war with tricle peer and the weed wiper, the homemade weed wiper you can spray it also. But if you get triclo peer on desirable broad leave plants.

com and I've got two things there. And I don't know if Ann, if you're still listening, I should have mentioned this to you too, But in addition to the homemade weed wiper publication, there is a herbicide products to put in the weed wiper. And the reason that is there is because you know, Ann is going after pepperbine, so that's triclopare. Someone may be going after nuts sedge. You know, that may be product like manage that you

put on it. There are other weeds, poison ivy. You know, there's a lot of different weeds and different kinds of Maybe it's wild onions. Have you ever seen the wild onions or wild garlic sticking up out of your lawn. You know it is because when you mow it, you can smell it, or when you break it off, you can smell it because it is it is an alium. It's a garlic or onion type plant. Well, how do

you control that? Well, a weed wiper with image on it, but it's all on that herbicide products to use with the weed wiper. The thing I like about the weed wiper is that you're not spraying a lot of chemical all out over the place. You are applying it to the leaves or stem in the case of pepperbne also the leaves or stem of the weed that you're trying to control. So if you've got a nuts edge coming up underneath the rose bush, you know what are you going to spray up under there? Is not going to

hurt your rose? Well, you don't have to worry about that. You use the wiper. It's really targeted. It's easy to do. Now, if you've got you know, like a chiap had of nuts edge through a bed, it's too tedious to use a wiper. You're going to spray that or dig it or whatever however you go about it. But the weed wiper is very effective along with that other tool as well. If you're looking for a way to turn your landscape around.

Peerscapes Peerscapes. That's a company that has the skills. They've got, the designers they've got. They have very very well trained and seasoned employees, people that have been around a while, not just you know they're in and they've only been there for a year and now you're hiring them to do something. These are folks that really have a history with the company. They are very good about that, holding

on to their folks and having quality folks. They can come to your yard and do a you know, work on your irrigation system. Our irrigation systems typically are very poorly designed or they're out of maybe they've gotten out of whack over the years, you know, damaged heads, misaligned heads, other things like that. Piercecapes can fix that for you. Do you have drainage problems, You should know it after the rains we had these past few months. They can

fix that. They can make an area drain better so you can plant things there. Ever, plant almost ever plant very fewer exceptions. Want a well drained soil. Do you need perhaps some hardscape done, some landscape lighting done. Do you want to revamp some beds, or do you just want a company to come in and do a seasonal,

a quarterly maintenance program where they come in. You know they're checking the beds, they're weeding them, fertilizing them, checking the irrigation, doing trimming, and you know, replenishing the mult maybe doing some color changes. You know, the old summer plants are giving away to cold weather, so it's time for winter color and on through the year. That kind

of color change. Piercecapes does that. You can go to the website, and I encourage you to do that because what you'll see there is some inspirational photos of the work. They can do their websites piercescapes dot com. The phone number two A one three seven zero five zero six zero two eight one three seven zero fifty sixty Pierce Caapes dot com. I always like to check out our garden centers in the area. You know, we here in Houston.

We're fortunate. I don't care which direction you live. We've got garden centers north, south, east, west and central that you can go to and they're inspiring. There are places that their mom and pop. They're independent, they know what they're talking about. They don't sell stuff that doesn't grow here. You know, you get these big national chain big boxes and things. Heaven knows what you're going to see there.

And I could make a long list of examples of the things that's like, Okay, well this isn't New Jersey, so high Bush blueberries are not for here. You see what I'm saying. Well, anyway, in Channi Gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg area, that's out southwest for those of you new to the area. In Chane Gardens is an outstand garden center. I love going there. I love to see

the supplies that they have. I love to see the wide variety of plants and even things like you know, you want to make a beautiful container that you can go buy a container that's already made there. You can also go there and get inspiration, you know, to look at what they have. Talk to some of the folks that work there that are well trained, and say, look, I want to do something like this. Can you give me an idea what plants would I put together? Because

I don't know where to start. I mean, you guys have plants from horizon to horizon around here. What do I get? They can help you with that. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're on FM three fifty nine that's on the Katie Folscher side of Richmond, North of Richmond. They're open money through Saturday eight to five and Sunday ten am to

four pm. And I guarantee you when you go there, you will be saying to yourself, I wish I had brought this family member or this neighbor along with me. This would have been a fun outing, you know, with a group do that and chanted gardens out in Richmond. The you know, those of us who, let's just say we're we're plant enthusiasts. And I know I know you are. I mean you're listening to the guard line plant enthusiasts. I go into garden centers and I'm like a kid

in a candy store. Everything is beautiful, everything looks wonderful. I need to have one of everything, and any plan I don't have, I need to have. And those of us who are plant enthusiasts, that's different than being that's different than being a design type person. A design type person starts with, here's my yard, how do I what kind of bed do I want? What plants would go well in this bed? And it's all planned out, and

then you go shopping and get those plants. Those of us who are plant enthusiasts, we just walk around, Look, I have that one, and we bring it home and we walk around and try to figure out where to put it. And I've joked about this before. Our landscapes, if we're not careful, can tend to look like a bomb went off in a garden center and every plant rooted where it hit the ground. That's not a design. It's your yard, though. If you want to do that,

that's your business. Seen you at the HOA, I guess I don't know, but what it's just fun to go to garden centers and see new plants and get exciting ideas. And I'm telling you these places just they are outstanding. I've been. I've lived in Texas almost my whole life. I spent three years of Missouri and then came back.

But I can tell you Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and then a lot of cities, Atlanta and Durham, North Carolina, all over the country, Arizona, Phoenix, and there's garden centers there too. Everywhere I've gone, there's nothing like you have here in Houston. When it comes to the kind of garden centers, the quality of the garden centers, the extensive lists of plants that they carry, it's just easy. And that's why Gardner's around here. They do like a little

localized horticulture tourism. You know, you may live way on the west side, but there's a place on the east side you haven't been too yet. And in Houston, you know, you got a pack of lunch to go east to west. That's going to take a little bit, but we've got it here. So it's a lot of fun. Great way to spend a Saturday too, by the way, So hint, hint,

there's an idea for you. Quality Home Products. I had a guy on the other day from Quality Home Products and we were talking about the crazy rush on generators going on right now, because all you know, you've had your power out knocked out twice for over a week and you suddenly realize I need a generator. Well, Quality Home has Generac. Generac's outstanding, but Quality Home has some really good deals right now. They've got five hundred off when you trade in you got an old portable generator.

I don't care the brand or the size some old portable generator. You trade it in, you get five hundred off. If you would like to have a whole home generator, they can do that. They sit down with you, they figure out the one you need, They help guide you toward it. They point you in the right direction, and they service after the sale. And they're busy now, so be patient. Get a lot of calls. But Quality Home or excuse me, QUALITYTX dot COM's website seven to one

to three. Quality is the phone number. I'm gonna have to take a break. I'll be right back, So let's turn out to Galveston and we are going to talk to John. Good morning, John, Welcome to Guardline.

down here than you can imagine. So I looked on your website. There is a question coming. I looked on your website and said, well too, if you have sodwbworms, you do this crash where you used by fentren and then you come back in with BT the next day, and then you all alternate for you know, seven days or whatever. Do you just figure I got some chinch bugs there?

wait a little second and water it again. Soap is really irritating to insects, and if they're chinchbugs, you're gonna come crawling up out of there and you'll see these little one eighth of an inch long, black and white, little long, skinnier bugs or shape more like a school bus than yeah. And then if it's side webworms, you'll see the caterpillars coming up too. It's irritating to them. But if you see those are black and white. The nymphs, the ones that aren't fully mature, are kind of a

reddish brown with a white hand across their back. But if you see that, then you got chinchbugs, and then you need to proceed. If you did the nitrofoss bug out Max Nitrofoss bug Out Max is very effective against the chinchbugs. It'll get down in there to the war the lar if you had webworms to where the larva

are hiding in the thatch. Webworms are nocturnal. They hide during the day and feed at night primarily, and so the soapy water flushes them both out of the thatch and that helps you decide if you need to do anything, and.

their their feeding. The webworms they have to come out to chew on the grass blades, so they're coming up out of the thatch to do that, and they want to do it at night when their predators aren't out and when it's cooler to get out there and do that. All right, Well, thank you so much, good luck a lot appreciate call. Yes, sir, thanks take you bet you take care. Well, that's it. Yeah, night Fross bug Out Max is it's easy to find zeinegranules. So I mean

you no problem at all finding it. I've I've seen it in a whole lot of places, you know, being a night Fross product, it's it's so easy to find it. I mean, for example, the enchanted Gardens uh out there in Richmond Rosenberg. They have just talking about them a minute ago. They carry that. The Shades of Texas and the Woodlands up on fourteen eighty eight. You're going to find night Fross bug Out Max there as well. So

and the Fisher's hardware that those of you Down's. I always try to cover the area when I'm making some suggestions. But Fisher's Hardware. There's one South Houston on Southmore, There's one Laport on Broadway Street. They carry the bug Out Max there as well. Well. We're hitting up close here to a time to take another break. I want to give you our phone number again if you'd like to

give us a call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven three two one two five eight seven four, or if you would like to dial by letters, it's seven one three two one two kt RH. In the meantime, we're taking a little break here, go look at my website Gardening with Skip dot com. I'm going to talk about some other stuff that are just put up when we come back Flooding Hardline. Glad you're with us today. We got a lot to talk about,

all kinds of things to talk about. One thing I want to mention before we go, I was just bragging on our Houston area garden centers. I'm talking about the mom and pops. I'm talking about the ones that are independent, locally owned, that hire people that know what they're talking about. Is that ever important?

of that would be Nilson Water Garden and Nursery out there and Katie. Think of it as your West Houston garden center because I mean it's just out on the west side of town. Easy to get to. You just head out I ten and turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road and crossover tracks. It's right there on the right hand side, not very far at all. When you go there, you are going to find all kinds of things. Number One, it's water gardens and nursery. So water gardens

is what they originally were known for. I mean they're nationally famous, literally nationally famous. Created that disappearing fountain that comes out of beautiful glazed pottery. You've seen those. They got all kinds of water gardens. They do them. They'll come to your place and you hire them to put in one. You can talk to them. They'll say the parts of like a disappearing fountain, and you make it yourself if you want to do that, if you're that kind of do it yourself or But they have plants,

a wide variety of plants. Always good deals going on on plants. I love to go through there and shop and just see some of the things. I'm always surprised at the extent of things that they carry at Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie. If you want to see their website, and I would encourage you to do that because you can find out what's going on Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Again

there in Katie, Texas. Turned north on Katie Fort Benroad and it's just a hop, skipping and jump north of Ien right there Nelson Watergardens. And by the way, uh, you got to see the water guarden. Take a friend with you, because I'll tell you what I enjoy. I enjoy going there and just sitting and being still and listening to the water there is. It is like therapy to hear the sound of water. It just wonderful, brings

birds in, brings me in. I love it. Have a little fountain in my backyard and I so enjoy getting out and enjoying that sound you're listening to. Garden Line. Our phone number, if you would like to give me a call is seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. I've talked about Nelson's Plant Food before, and one of the things that someone is asking me the other day about what is a refillable jar? What are you talking about when you say that, Well, Uh, what Nelson's has

done is they will sell you. There's some products, of course, that come by the bag. You know, you're putting your lawn fertilizers and things out. But there's others that you would buy a smaller plastic jar for. Maybe it's maybe it's a color star you're going to furtilize some flowers with. Maybe it's a product like the tree and shrub, the nutri star tree and shrub. That's great for what the ornamentals.

If you've got a tree you planted in the last within the last five years, you need to still be fertilizing that regularly to encourage good early growth. Well, when you run out of one of those products, you can go Tho's probably almost a dozen different garden centers and other places here in the Houston area where you go in and it's like when you go to the grocery store and you buy peanuts or something, you pull a

little lever down and fill the bag. It's like that, except it's Nelson Products and you take your old jar in and so number one, you're not putting more plastic in the environment. We know we got plenty of that already. But it's a more economical way because they're not having to package it up and buy a bottle to a jar to sell you a jar and so on. So you just go fill up, and so it's economical, it

makes environmental sense, and it's just easy. Nelson Plant Food, the nutri Star line, the color Star line, there's several lines that they have that you can just do the refillable jars, and I encourage you to do that. Of course, Nelson's is where we would find things like Slow and Easy and Bruce's Brew for the lawn as well, two top quality fertilizers out there, so you want to take advantage. I think it's pretty cool. I said that I was

going to tell you about a couple more publications. If you go to my website that is Gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com, I have I told you about the homemade weed Wiper publication and the Herbicides to use with it publication. You just have to go read those to see what they're about. There's two more on Nutsedge, and I knew when I started to write about Nutsedge this is going to be controversial because one of them is a quick tip. It's tips for

winning the war against Nutsedge. It's one page and it goes through the different things, and you got to do more than one thing, and you got to do them continually for it to work. Nuts Edge is a kind of creature that if you give it a break, it will turn one tuber into ten tubers and just a matter of a month or two. And so that's why people say, oh, I tried to kill it, and then next thing, you know, I had more than I started with, Like your spray or you're digging or whatever made more tubers.

No it, that's the creature. And the analogy I use for nuts Edge pretty gruesome but makes sense to me. So I use it is it's like you're trying to drown nutsedge. You got to hold it under water until the bubble's quit coming out. You see what I'm saying. In other words, if you let it up for air, it takes a deep breath of air and then you just you went right back to the beginning and you start it over trying to drown the thing, right, Well, we're not drowning it. In fact, it loves it when

it's too wet, yellow nuts Edge does. But what we're doing is we're stopping it from producing new tubers by consistently staying on it. The publications go into detail on this and we're getting rid of the tubers that are there by one or more ways. And there's times of the year whend sprays are effective depending on the size of the planet. There's times of the years where it just burns the top and you do not kill the tuber. You got to learn about that if you really want

to learn about it. If this is a battle that looking at comments on our Facebook page, we've got a lot of people that have battled this for a long long time. But there's a publication called Nutsedge An in Depth Look, and it's about three pages, but it goes into a lot of detail, a little bit of humor in there. We need, hey, we need to laugh a little bit, because this isn't a laughing matter, but it

goes into the details of how it works. There's a difference between yellow and purple nut set, and you need to be able to know which one you have and I tell you exactly how to know real quick which one you have. And then there's some products that work better on purple than on yellow, for example, and there's

some characteristics of each of those that are different. And so when you know what you're going after, and then you understand the fact that you can't let it have more than five leaves before you do something, or it's making new tubers, it helps guide you toward that answer. There's no one solution, and if you do anything one time or two times or maybe three times, isn't it's probably not going to be enough. You have to stay

on it. But you can win the war on nuts edge nuts edd tips for winning the wars the fast sheet and nuts edge, and end up look is the slower sheet. It goes into the different products that are labeled for its juice, and I realized there's vegetable gardens and flower beds and lawns, and you can't use one product just anywhere you want. But the bottom line is you need to read that and you need to think about it because there's a lot of principles in there.

And I see a lot of comments from people that say, well, such and such didn't work well, it doesn't work if you give it a chance to regroup. You know, a spray that makes it look like you killed it all because the plants were larger. It didn't kill the nut, so you killed it all, and then they all came back again. Maybe more so the spray didn't work. The spray didn't work because you didn't do it right. Your timing was off on it. And it actually it helped

because you weakened the plant by killing the top. But that in and of itself isn't going to get rid of nuts. So I don't know. Take a look at that gardening with skip dot com. They're both there. You need to look at them. You need to really read them and think about them, because this isn't your typical little weed, you know. I mean, if it was just a chickweed growing up in a flower bed or something. I mean, you can throw mulch on it, it dies,

you can hoe it and it's gone. You can know this is something different and understanding how it's working in differences help you have success. Well, that was a lot of words about nutsets, but I'm telling you this is an infernal weed. If you were to go around the world and say what are the top five weeds worldwide that are just a aim for farmers or gardeners or whatnot. That sedge is on that list. It's one of those

just I don't know the words, don't describe them. I can describe them better if I use words I can't say.

I'd like to try one of those sprays. But and let me just I have to interject here because sometimes folks listen to part of what you say, but not everything. And that's true universally, especially those of you have kids. Know what we're talking about. Our spouses know what we're talking about. Seriously, though a joking his side, people are not listening to everything I'm saying about nuts Edge, and I need you to hear the whole thing. It's no one solution. It's not put this spray on and that's

a miracle. It'll kill it. There are some really good sprea are some worthless sprays, but that won't do it. It's not we'll just dig it all up. Yes, you'll get most of it, and that's a great idea in terms of a non spray organic if you will way to go about it. But you're not going to get it all You don't have to dig it again, dig it again, stay on it. The thing with nuts edge is don't stop. Just look at the things I've put on my publications. There's several options on there, and none

of them is a miracle cure. But if you grab two or three of those and you stay on it and understand that once it's hit five leaves, now you got to do something or you have worse problem than when you begin. That is what's important. So if you're looking for a quality spray product as part of the arsenal, part of the arsenal that you will repeatedly apply to when this war, you can go to ACE Hardware and

they've got it. I talk about sedgehammer on there. By the way, Sedgehammer plus already has a surfacting in it, so I would get that one that was a good one.

of nuts edge. But every label has warnings. If you wait and it's blazing hot and you nuke your yard with image, especially applied over the label, you're going to cause damage to your yard. That's the case. Read the labels. It's I know we don't like to read instructions. Guys are notorious for not wanting to read instructions or stop and ask for directions.

That's the stupid tax. So don't pay the stupid tax. ACE Hardware Store can put the right product in your hand, though I'm kind of wandering off here. By the way, while you're at ACE, grab you some fire ant bait. They are back this rain has brought a bunch of the surface. Baits are the best way to go about it for the long term. The long haul, the less environmentally damaging way, the least amount of pesticide you put in your environment is with a bait as opposed to an individual mound treatment.

as simple as that. Well, I wanted to I did want to kind of reiterate a little bit on that the nuts Edge, and I'm I posted to Facebook something about it, a photo that some find humorous I did of nut said, and there's a lot of comments on it. And as I read the comments, it's like you didn't read the publication. You're just telling me it didn't something didn't work, or this or that I can take exactly why it didn't work read the publication, but I understand.

I'm I have a what is it selective hearing myself sometimes, So I just want to tell you that I don't don't care what you're going after. I don't care if you're using an organic product or synthetic product. Read the label. Everything has drawbacks, and if you get enough of anything, it can be a poison. They say the dose makes a poison. Table salt and aspirin or poisons you take enough.

There is a number I can't remember what exactly, but milligrams per kilograma body weight of table salt that will kill you, of aspirin that will kill you. Everything is a poison and everything has side effects. One of the safest, simplest, easiest to recommend products on the market for insect control, soft bidied insect control is insecticidal soap. It kills aphids, it kills spider mites, It works wonderfully. It is not

a toxin that we have to worry about. But lady be larvae or small soft bodied insects, lace wing larva or small soft bided insects, aphids with wasps growing end them when you kill the that what's left of that aphid. You can kill the wasp with soap. Even soap as its drawbacks doesn't mean it's not a good product. It just means we got to quit thinking about this is great good, this is bad. You know, Yes, there's degrees of toxicity and stuff, but I don't care what you're doing.

If you especially if you're an organic gardener, don't just assume because it's natural that you can use it indiscriminately. That is not the case. And so whatever you're using that, read the label. Please read the label. All right. Well, I guess that was a little bit of a soapbox forgive me for that. But I listen, I've been doing this thirty five years and I cannot tell you how many times I've heard stories about products that destroyed something.

And it's as simple as applicator error, failure to read and follow label instructions. Ana Plants and Produce is one of those garden centers I was telling you. We got them all over Houston that are just you gotta go. And Ana Plants and Produce is up there in the Montgomery area, so all of you up in Lake Conroe area, all those neighborhoods out there, April Sound, Belt, water and all that. That is your backyard garden center. And I know people that drive a distance to get up to

Ana because they love going there. They carry all the products I talk about on garden Line, Nitroposs, Nelson's Microlife, Airloom, Souls, Nature's Way, They're all there. They have a team that goes out and does some landscape work even if you want that. A and A Plants and Produce are on the east side of Montgomery, east side of Montgomery, right there on Highway one oh five. Their plant selection is outstanding.

They have wonderful bling for the landscape. Right now, they got a sale I believe still going on on metal art for the landscape. That is really cool stuff. Ana Plants and Produce. I'm gonna take a little break here. I'll be right back. Hey, here's the number if you'd like to get on the board. We're talking about exciting things that I like. Nutsedge. I guess we ought to put fire ants next on the list when it comes

to infernal things. By the way, in the nuts Edge publication, the in depth one that I just put online on my website, I mentioned the fact that did you know that this is a fun fact for nutsedge? And there's not much fun about nuts edge, but nuts edge. The scientific name nerd alert nerd alert is Cyparis esculentus. When you see esculentis in a scientific name, it means you can eat it. That's basically what it means. That's my

version of the Latin translation. You can eat it. Do you know you can eat the nuts the tubers of yellow nuts edge? Well you can, and you will learn quickly that there's a difference between the word edible and the word palatable. You're not the same thing. I've actually tried it. They call them earth almonds, and it's like it has an almond ish, almony almonish taste. You chow it a while, it's kind of yeah, it's a little

on the sweet side. It's a little almony, and then you kind of are going, so what do I do with this sawdust left in my mouth? Spit it out? But actually, there is a kind of it that is popular in some parts of the of the world, especially you get over in some areas of like North Africa at least, where they have one called they call it chufa chufa chiffa nuts or earth almonds or tiger nuts, that's another name for it, and they're a little plumper.

The tubers are plumper and they're set kind of close to the base of the plant so that it's you can get a harvest out of it. And they make In Spain they make a version of horchata, which it's horchata de chufa, which means that you can make horchata, which is a milky drink that's made from something like that. Well, you can make it out of nut yellow. By the way, yellow nuts ittge not purple. Purple is bitter hoteta chif

But here's the fun fact. They've dug into the Pyramids of Egypt, the pay Rose burial places and found they were buried with chiff and nuts. Now, how many of you out there want to go to your grave with nuts edge that's like throwing his zeplock of fire ants. Please, Seriously, they thought so much of them they're snack food that they were buried with their chiff and nuts. So, I don't know. You can't make this stuff up, and I'm not making it up. It is the truth. It's in

the publication. One of the few fun facts among the other things that's out there. Hey, if you're trying to do your law and fertilization, you haven't done it in a while. You need to get some boost out there in that turf. Sweet green from Nitrofoss can do just that. Sweet green is an eleven percent nitrogen which is high for a natural organic type product. Eleven percent nitrogen content.

It's made from a molasses base. Molasses stimulates microbial activity the good guys, the beneficial bacteria, for example, in the soil. Molasses is a stimulant for that because it's a carbon source for them. And sweet grain is that kind of product. Now we are in the middle of summer, and as a result, I would suggest you take that sweet grain. Normally you'd put ten pounds per thousand square feet. I

would suggest you split it in half. Go ahead and do five pounds now, and then about six to eight weeks from now, do it again with the other five pounds that you would have put on at once. That'll give you a more even growth over a period of time and carry you on up to when it's time to do fall fertilizations. Sweet grain from nitrofoss. If you have ever gone shopping for night fross products before you know. They're easy to find, widespread, easy, easy to find here.

You can get it at the ace out at Sincle Ranch. They carry nit fross out there a task, a seat to ace up in a test casito on timber forests. They've got it up there. Go down to the lake hardware include on Dixie Drive. You're gonna find it there in Jim's Hardware down up in Montgomery on FM fourteen ninety seven also has nitropos type products. Let's go ahead and head out to the phones now and we're going to go to Pearland and talk to Kay. Well. Okay, welcome back to garden Line.

because it is a poisoner for some thing. But in general, when you apply it right like this, they're not they're not going to be exposed to the the in the way or in the quantity that would be a concern for you.

It's a wonder there's a living tree in Houston still standing at with all the damage that was caused by those.

what Martin spoon Moore specializes in. Martin spoon Moore, his company is Affordable Tree Service. You hear about me talk about them all the time here on Guardline. They're are go to treecare person here on Guardline. Affordable Tree Service the website. Write this down Afftree Service dot com. Afftree Service dot Com. You don't know when you're gonna need them, but I can tell you this. It's always a good time to have Martin come out to assess things, to

look at the trees. You know, if it needs something, he'll tell you. If it doesn't, he'll tell you. But do you need to do some proper treecare coming into this storm season. I can't impress enough on you the importance of proper tree care and proper pruning, selective pruning to make them safer. In heavy winds to set them up for storm readiness, to do what's in your power. But what else are you doing around those trees?

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but the trees don't care what they're growing in. It could be the ugliest bucket on earth, and it's just got the soil volume, quality soil, and good nutrition, and it's going to be happy. But for our purposes, a beautiful container is nice. Just remember you're going to need to move it, and that's going to take moving it with a dolly and a strap so that when we do have cold weather which will come, you can protect because it has very little cold tolerance at all.

to put out. You know, if you were gonna depending on the size of the pot, you're going to put a different amount out on the surface of the soil and watered in really good. Uh, and it'll it'll start supporting that growth. Mike, I would hold off after when we get through August. Let's say, I probably wouldn't do

a lot of fertilization. Certainly not when we're like out late September and October, because fertilizer does promote flushes of late season growth, and that tender succulent stuff that hadn't turned woody yet. The first cool weather is going to really damage it more than it would the rest of the p even so don't push it into a lot of late late season growth.

Sunday a fundraiser in Laredo. Then on Monday, Vance will appear at a few events in San Antonio and here in Houston. The Trump Train rallies are hitting Texas this weekend too. They'll be local officials in Sabata, one of the biggest rallies in the area's history. A man is dead after being shot at a gas station in northwest Houston Friday evening near the Spring Branch area, and another

man is dead from a fire in Baytown Friday afternoon. Also, Houston Police say a swat team has made an arrest of a twenty six year old for the death of a woman who was killed at an apartment in downtown Houston. Our next update comes at eight. I'm Jared Lewis, News Radio seven forty KRH.

It's a great hobby. It's got mental benefits, physical benefits, health in general benefits when you grow good, fresh quality produce from your own garden, uh and just the aesthetics and so on. It does all of that, and we want you to have fun doing it. And it's the kind of hobby where I like to tell people, don't worry about failing. You can't fail unless you give up.

That's failing giving up just because a plant dies, or you're struggling with something, or it's just a matter of we need to help you understand the things to do to have success with it. We can do that. That is the goal here.

RCW is there where two forty nine, which is Tombo Parkway comes into Beltway eight Sam Houston Tollway. RCW is easy to get to right there. It's a great kind of central almost location for folks. The website, if you'd like to check them out, is RCW Nurseries dot com. RCW nurseries dot com. They've got some great deals right now on trees really outstanding, and by the way fall season is coming on, it's not very far away. You

can plan now. But if you're gonna wait and do the fall season, go ahead and get your tree, get it ready to go, and get things prepared for it, because now's the time or soon is the time where we're going to be looking at the best planning season of the year for fall, and it's always better to get things ready before you do that. Rcw's got a deal on select roses. They've got that Cajun hibiscus. I've got one of those as my favorite hibiscus of all

the Cajun series outstanding. They've got those on sale too again. The Tambai Park wet Belt wag eight RCW Nurseries RCW Nurseries dot Com. Go buy there and check them out. I call them to get it. Got It Nursery because if they don't have it, they can probably get it for you, and they have an outstanding ability to bring in all kinds of different plants that they don't have to. If they don't have it, they will do their belts

to find it for you. At r c W. I want to head out now to Magnolia and we're going to talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, Hi, how are you doing. I'm good, sir, Welcome to garden Line.

to like that. There are organic products like a ctrus oil based individual mound treatment that they're not going to look be around that either, and so you could do that. But the problem with mound treatments is you're playing whack a mole with fire ants. For example, my yard, before it was raining recently, I didn't have a single fireant mound in the yard. It rained, and all of a sudden, these mounds I didn't know were underground forming came to

the surface. Now got these little mounds of dirt where the fireants had built up. And so the mound treatments, you're sort of always a little bit behind trying to kill the mounds. The baits will kill those mounds that were invisible to me. Had I put a bait out before I saw mounds they were there. The workers would have gotten the bait and it would have killed the mounds. So baits are a more efficient way and more effective

way to put it out. You can go either way, but that would be There is an organic bait that contains spindosaid that's called come and Get It, Come and get it, and you could also use that if you wanted to take one more level of you know, getting away from some of more of a synthetic type product, you could do that. But general, when you put up bait at the right rate, it's not gonna be a problem.

You only want to bait though, when the ants are foraging to get so that the goal is you want that fresh bait to get out there, and you want to mount an ant to grab it and and not have to sit around for days in the sun and weather. And so what I would suggest is gets you something that's oily, like a potato chip, and throw a few out there here and there, just a few on the ground, and go back in fifteen minutes and look at them. And if they're fire iNTS on those chips, that means

they're out foraging. If there's not just right, and once you see that they're out, that's the time of day. Typically it's the cooler times of day in summer, during the blazing hot middle of the day, not generally the best time. But if you do that, then they find those they bring them back. It does its job and you're not worried about your pigs.

you got me a new one that time. I thought I'd heard all of them, but hey, that's part of gardening. I understand that. One of my favorite new fertilizers, and really it's pretty cool stuff is Medina has to grow supergrow Plus. Medina has to grow supergrow Plus as a product that you hook up to a garden hose. It's a one court bottle. It covers about four thousand or excuse me, sixteen thousand square for a gallon, four thousand

for the quart. So if you just get a quart, hook it up the garden hose four thousand square feet. It covers in case about ten minutes to do it. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. It's a good blend for established lawns that have been doing fine. You're just wanting to keep giving them a boost. It's got seaweed in it, it's got seaweed extract rather in it. It's got a humic acid, it's got molasses in it, and it has a form of iron that doesn't tie up

in the soil. Real quick, I'm going to be doing I'm doing a post here I'll probably get done for the end of the show on iron chlorosis and what causes that. An a keylated form of iron is resistant to being tied up in the soil, so the plant can get it and that's super grow. Plus, it's easy to find. Medina products are widely available. If you want to see a boost in your lawn. Maybe you got an area that's struggling, dude, it's some take holl root rod or something else. Give it a little boost, give

it some folier feed. With that super grow plus, it'll also go down in the soil and help it there. Easy to do, easy to find, and it works. Time for me to take a break. Seven one three two one two k t RH. If you'd like to get on the board, we will take your call when we come back.

I have those stupid answer into the deal. Uh. You ask your questions and we'll we'll respect them and give you a good answer to help you have success because some other people are too shy to call to. If you want to have success with your garden, you know here on Garden Line, our mantra is brown stuff before green stuff. And what that means is you get the soil right and then you put in a good plant and you end up with success. If you take a plant and PLoP it into an unprepared plot, you are

likely to run into some problems. Maybe drainage is not's good, maybe the organic matter content's not sufficient, maybe the nutrient content's not sufficient. Landscaper's Pride is a company that produces organic soil amendments and mulches so that you can have success. Their Gardener's Magic is a pine based blend. It contains humous screen, pine composted rice holes, and even a chicken pellet fertilizer to give you three months of feeding. They're

mushroom compost. Gardeners know about mushroom compost. It is chalk full of all kinds of nutrients based on an aged pine base, and it really helps the plants to be successful. A healthy soil compost is made with one hundred percent recycled composted plant material, neutral pH adds and the nutrients as it decomposes in the soil. It's replenishing the soil with the nutrients that are in that organic matter and then the black humans dark rich organic mix compost to

pine bark and loamy top soil. Great for putting in a new bed or even just beefing up one that you've already got. Well Landscaperspride dot com. That is the website. You can find out more about it, you can find out where to get it, and it is widely available. We're going to head out now to Magnolia and talk to Sarah this morning. Good morning, Sarah, and good morning. How can I help?

not systemic. It's not going to get in your plants. Well, our orthene is, the seven dust is not. But the bottom line is just get them so that when they go in and out they pick that up and it will kill them. That's the best way. I've known people that go to links of using a little red lens over a flashlight. Somehow with these wasps and bees they seem to not be able to see that as well

or something. I'm not an entomologist, but I would just go out at night, get a little light and just so you can see enough to toss some of that dust or whatever up against and around and in wherever these are coming in and out, and that'll take care of them.

and pour it off again. Do that about three times, and then you can bring them in and you know, you put a little on the jar, shake it real hard to get more of the kind of the organic debris that's around those seeds off, and you're just basically cleaning those seeds and getting the stinky stuff out of there.

Then bring them out and I would I would take the seeds, you know, try to get the moisture out, maybe a paper towel or something like that, press them a little bit, and then let them dry and once they're dry, put them in whatever kind of packet you're going to store them in. And when I say once they're dry, I mean i'd give them a week or two to fully dry in a dry spot, and then you can store them in a packet. They should be

fine if you're going to use them next year. If you want a little longer storage, you could store them in an air tight something in the in the refrigerator.

outside and I couldn't what was that. I didn't know that song, and so I just said listen, and the app listened and told me that was a wren, a specific kind of wren. Later I heard a different bird song did the same thing. It was the same wren. You know, birds have more inland song. See I'm kind of new to birds, but they do. And if you're interested in birds or would like to be wha Birds Unlimited WBU dot com Forward slash Houston WBU dot Com

Forward slash Houston. That's the website you're going to go in.

birds don't want to eat. It's you buy a pound of walldbird seed, you get a pound of bird feed, and it's quality stuff. They have quality feeders, they have quality bird houses, they have all kinds of things. WBU dot Com, Forward Slash Houston. You can find the six wallbird stores here in the Greater Houston area. Well, it looks like let's see here. We are just up against an end of the hour break. So Kim and Memorial

you will be our first when we come back. If the rest of you would like to get online, just I mean get on the air with me. Give chrisicol seven one three two one two k t r H. And when we come back, we'll talk to you about the things that are of interest to you. I want to remind you that on my website Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There is the new publication on Nutsench. There's two of them. One is

more in depth. I highly recommend you read it. I know a lot of people just want to look at the one page one, which is fine, but the in depth one gives you a lot of information that when I say, why didn't once you try on nuts edge that didn't work and you answer that question, the in depth publication will tell you why it didn't work, because there's a lot of things that work, but nothing's that penda seea They're on there on the website. Please go

check those out. We'll be right back here. A short serience.

beauty but also increases the value of your landscape. You know, when you're putting up a house for sale. One of my one of my daughters is in the process of purchasing a home, and you know, going around looking at all these homes, it just can't help. But the fact that when you walk up and you see beauty, you see beautiful shade trees because they were well chosen in the past, they were well planted, and they were well pruned in the past. That adds value, but it also

makes it a more soluble landscape. You're going to move it now, maybe you're not planning on selling, maybe you want to stay there. How do we have how do we have more fun? How do we have more success? That's what we're about here on Guardline. So it's as simple as that. We're going to head straight out to Memorial right now and talk to Kim.

filler sand, right underneath the side. And did some research and it looks like that's something called bank sand.

year it's just it's it's just been really bad. So you know, gradually over time and then you can see where it starts to that Saint Augustine, So it starts to grow back in some of those places, but more very you know, kind of a string grows along, and you know, I just can't tell if it's going to fill in those spots or not. But you know, and everybody else's yard looks absolutely pristine.

of that. Let me take a look at them. And because This could be you know, dying out in patches, can be chinchbugs. It could be taken root rod, It could be drought. It could be a number of different things. And so I think there's going to be a solution a lot simpler than replacing the soil or the sand in that area. So let me take a look see if I can figure out what may be going on, so we don't waste your time and money applying or doing the wrong thing.

we don't have to go through all that. You've heard me talk about plants for all season before as a super super high quality nursery've been around since nineteen seventy three. They're right there just north of Bluewetta on Highway to forty nine Tambo Parkway, FM two forty nine. They've been around and they have quality, quality employees there. You know, from the flowery family members that are that work there to the to the employees that they are. We're talking

about trained people that know what they're talking about. You go in with a problem, They give you a right answer. They point you to a product that works, they tell you how to use it. You bring a picture a sample of a plant in Hey, something's wrong with this is zela or whatever it is? What can I do? They'll look, they'll tell you and they know what they're talking about. And when you purchase from them, you know you're going to get plants that want to grow here.

They garden here themselves. This family lives here, they've gardened here for a long time. They know what works, they know what doesn't work. The website Plants for All Seasons dot com. The phone number two eight one three seven six one six four six two eight one three seven six one six four six Plants for All Seasons dot Com. Today be a good day to swing by there and stop in again. They're just north of Luetta off Highway two forty nine. I'm going to head out to La Fayette,

Louisiana and talk to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to guard Line.

be the solution. Pentas aren't prone to iron chlorosis. They can get it, but it's not like they're notorious for it, like an azella might be in a higher pH spot. So I would I would think you're probably looking at something wrong in the root system. But if it were going to be a nutrient, you could get something that has iron, like a keylated form of iron and try that. I tell you what. There's a product and it's by Medina, and it's called super Grow Plus. It's a quart bottle

that hooks up to a garden hose. It's got some kilated iron, and it's got some nitrogen, and it's got some other good things. It's made for the lawn. But I know people that use it on their tomato plant, for example, because it works. You're not you know, a court bottle will cover four thousand square feet, so I don't think you have four thousand square feet of pentus. But just use it on the pentus and use it on some other stuff. Boy, you got it, and just

see if that improves it. And that would be the simplest, easiest way. Because it's a good product. You can use it on a lot of other things. If you've got some areas of your lawn that need little boost, you could do it that way too. But I think super Grow plus from Medina. It's again a court bottle that hooks up to your garden hose. Thank you very much. Enjoy the show, you bet, you bet, Thank you appreciate you appreciate your call very much. Well's time for me

take a quick break here. I've gone a little long, so I'll be right back and Drew from Hockley. You today, we got plenty to talk about, and we're going to just run straight out to the phones here and head to Hockeley, Texas and talk to Drew. Hello, Drew, Welcome to garden Line.

the dead grass. But in the grass it's green around the dead water that and let it soak them in it and water it again, and just watch it and see if you see little black and white bugs or a little kind of orange brown with a white band on them bugs, either of that coming up onto the grass. That would be chinchbugs. And chinchbugs will often start next to pardon you had chins bug? Chinch Yeah, chinch but it's a it's a turf. They love Saint Augustine. This

is Augustine. Oh yeah, yeah. Let's let's just see if we have those or not if we If we don't, then we would look at other causes for it. It could be, you know, for whatever reason, something under the soil buried on there and the and the grass can't get a good deep root system and it's more prone to to drying out or something. It could be a disease like uh a take all root rot that's affecting them.

So there's a lot of possibilities, but I'd like to start with seeing do a self assessment like I described, and see if you've got chinch bugs and that. If you don't, then uh, let's let's let's have you send me a picture of what you see of the picture of the area. I'm going to put you on hold, Chris, give you an email. If you need to send pictures, you can send them to this email and just reference

our call on the air today. That's what we use the email for, is his photos for me to talk to people about questions on the year.

like fertilizer, Bob's got it. He has everything I talk about on guardline and then some. For example, he's got a mite. As might is the product we put down for micro nutrients on our lawn. You need to do as Mite, by the way, about once a year that's generally enough. Now do a soil test. You may find you need more or less, but that is a good gauge for what to do. You can do it anytime of the year. You can do azemite right now. It's

not going to make your grass grow. It's going to provide micro nutrients into the bank account so as that grass grows and things that stimulate grass growth or warm temperatures, adequate moisture, good sunlight. As that grass grows, it's going to have those nutrients that are essential to support that growth. That's what azemite does. You can go to asimite Texas dot com if you want to learn more about it.

But that's what it does. But that's just an example of the kind of products we get at Southwest Fertilizer Organic Synthetic. They got them all eighty foot wall of tools, a little repair shop in the back too, which is kind of handy, by the way. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com corner of Businet and Runwick. Anything you need is going to be there for sure. Let's see, We're going to go now to sugar Land and talk to Alan. Hello Allen, Welcome to Gardenline.

The problem. The reason we bag it and get it out of there is because there's a little mite that has a little threadlike web thing it creates that allows it to float on the air, and it will float some distance to another rose bush and infect it. Because it is a death sentence for the rose. You want to get that rose out of there. If there's any roses right next to it, they probably already have it. You could wait and watch, but the first sign you

see of it, get those out of there too. And I tell people to put a garbisack over the top of the rose and go all the way to the ground. I like the draw string types because you can just pull that now string and so now you basically have

turned your rose into a wrapped lollipop. You know, you got the bag all around it tied to the base, and then when you dig it, you know you're going to shake the plant trying to pull it up out of the ground, and you're not shaking mites loose to float all over the place and increase your problems.

of Road Sharing. They're on FM five twenty one. But here's what you need, Sienna Mulch dot com. That's the website tells you everything you need to know, how to get there, how to call them, everything like that. Siena Mulch dot com. It is a one stop glad you're listening in today. We got plenty of things to talk about on plants, you know. That's the thing. I don't care what month of the year is, what hour of the day it is, there's always an appropriate plant question

for the time. Something is going on out there, something needs fertilizing, something's dying. I want to plant a new what's a good type of tomato? I mean, we can go on and on and on. One of the things that I find myself doing a lot more in the summer is starting to pay attention to my houseplants. You know, you're inside. I get out and work early in the day, sometimes late in the day a little bit, but during the middle, hottest part of the day, try to stay

in more because I don't know, just it's hot out there. Well, that's a good time to be taking care of houseplants and noticing houseplants. I'm kind of interested in houseplants that I have color. There's a lot of green houseplants, and green is a color too, nothing wrong with that, but I love the kind that have some beautiful splashes of color. I just propagated an aglionema. I'm going to put that. I need to put that to a Facebook post to let you see what we did there. That's kind of fun.

It has some color in the leaves, some reddish with the green. I've got another one that's got pinkish colors, a coral pink color in the green. There's morana, which is a prayer plant that can have color in the foliage, and many others. And by the way, if you're looking for that, you're going to be hard pressed to find a better place than Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights and they are

stocked up in their houseplant greenhouse. Right now, I'm just seeing some photos of some beautiful morantas and other things that they have, and they just have a lot of them. They're set up. Of course, Buchanans is known for their native plants. They are like you'd have to drive a very long way out of this region to find more native plants in buchanan Has. I don't even know where that would be. They specialize even in Houston area natives

as well. Like if you say, I want something that grew in Harris County before we got here people got here, well they can fix up they've got that. Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights is an outstanding place to do that. By the way, Public Service announcement today ad Buchanans beginning at ten o'clock going to eleven, So right after this show you make a bee line over there. Starting a

cut flower garden class. Starting a cutflower garden class in Buchanan's next Saturday, the seventeenth, same time, ten to eleven, Tomato one oh one class. Do you know it's time to plant tomatoes? Yes, it is for your fall planting. You can still do that up and get it done, but you can do that at Buchanan's Native Plants. I'm going to head out now, We're going to go to Friendswood, Texas and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden.

So I would I would say, that's fine. Is there a problem you're trying to fix with the molasses or is it just trying to stimulate your lawn.

But that's the ratio that grass takes it up. So if you were to cut your grass clippings and send them to a lab and say give me the nutrient content, it's going to be a three or four one two ratio. So the ratio isn't the problem. It's the amount of it that you put out. So if you put out too much of that nitrogen product, then you get a flush of growth, you get increased susceptibility to things like large patrick brown patch in the fall of gray leaf spot.

We've had some of that this summer. But it's the quantity you're putting out, not the ratio. So three one two four one two is good anytime of the year. Well, we change it in the fall a little bit, but it's good now to use that. Just don't overapply it. I would say about a half pound to a pound of nitrogen at the most when you apply it per thousand square feet.

the products aren't even as effective. So if you see flowers and seed setting on your plant, that product is not even going to be as effective, not only the plant that's there, but also with the seed that it's setting. So you need to get in ahead of that reproductive stage of growth.

to worry. Well, if you'd like to send me a picture, you send me a picture up close of the dust. Maybe put some on your finger and take a picture of your finger with the dust on it. Let me take a look at it. Maybe I'll see something on there. I'm gonna put you on hold. Crystalill pick it up. If you want to stick around and send me a picture, He'll pick it up and give you my email address. Folks, I got to run. We're into a break right now. I'll be right back seven one three two one two

kt RH. Beverly and Carolyn, you'll be the first two up today. We are looking forward to visiting with you about the things that are of interest to you. Leake City Feed is down in Leakee City, Texas, and you know we love feed stores here on guard Line. Leake City Feed specifically where it is. It's a a few blocks south of ninety six on Highway three to south

of Highway ninety six on Leake City. So all of you out there in that area, all the communities like Laycliffe and Webster in League City, Santa Fe, Dickinson, San leonol Comuni Real, Claar, Lake City, all those communities, this is your hometown feed store. They carry every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline. They carry the products you need to control insects or diseases or weeds in your landscape.

They give you that old time service. This store has been around for what over forty years now, and the family has been running it. Right now, you will be able to go out there and see the second generation now that's running League City Feed.

the League City Feed. We're going to head out to Pasadena now and talk to Beverly.

moisture being flushed through it. If if the problem is that the soil is getting too dry the water's moving out, then you may want to repot with something with a little bit of a finer texture to hold a little bit of the moisture longer. Uh, if you're seeing just the you know, the brown material coming out that is just decomposing or gain matter releasing things like the humic acid or other things that are brown coming out of the bottom of the pot. I don't know if any

of those hit on it directly. If you need to give us a call back, I feel free to do that. I'd suggest right off the top of the hour on this, but I'm sorry, that's that's his best that I can hear what you're saying. Let's go now to bel Air and we're going to talk to Carolyn.

It's a different kind of creature, uh, And it just causes that proliferation of growth and you can prim them out, but there's not a spray to control. That's that's kind of normal. And the only other thing that you might be seeing that would be like a oh, gosh, what's it called mistletoe kind of thing? But I don't. I think you're seeing a witch's broom effect from a microplasm and again, no spray for it. Just print it out. If you're going to do something, print it out.

don't think that's the cause of the witchess prum. Okay, I'm running out of time, so I'm gonna have to run, But thank you for the call. I appreciate. I appreciate you, you bet, I appreciate that very much. Folks, you hear me talk about ACE Hardware Stores all the time and how they have everything that you need, and they do. ACE is a place for your lawn fertilizers, for your

pest control, disease control, weed control, everything you need. You just go to Acehardware dot com and you find the store locator and find one of the forty stores, one or more of the forty stores near you. And when you get to ACE, you're going to find the things you need to make your garden more bountiful or more beautiful. It's as simple as that. They have fire ants controls, they have things for dealing with mosquitoes. For example, they

got the mosquito dunks. Mosquito dunks is that products a little donnut. You throw it out there in a pond about a ten by ten area, and it releases a disease only of mosquitoes. Doesn't hurt birds, doesn't hurt bees, and good insects, doesn't hurt the family pet. It's only mosquita disease. That's mosquito dunks. You can break them up into little crumbles. Or you can buy the crumbles form of it and you can toss it up into a

sagging gutter where they're standing water. In mosquitos breed, you can put them in a in a bird bath, you can put them underneath and the catch basins under your plant. That's another place mosquitoes can breed. Mosquito dunks are very effective in ace hardware. Definitely a place that you're gonna be able to get it well. I hear the music that means we're going to hit the top of the hour here. When we come back, Jay and Angletrom John in League City, you will be our first two callers up.

Thanks for hanging with us. I tell you, I'm always surprised. I'll fast. The end of an hour comes. Just another reminder if you're tuning in a little bit later on my website here, I have been talking about to our two publications. One is a more in depth mosquito mosquito nuts Edge publication called nuts Edge and end up. Look.

It tells you everything you need to know. You need to read it carefully because every time someone tells me they have nutsedge and they can't control it, and I ask them for the story, there's something in this publication to explain why it didn't work what they need to do. There's another one tips for winning the war against nuts edge. It's a quick one pager. Both are at gardeningwith skip dot com.

about their co Robbie for some reason. But trees and turf they are big topics. But all kinds of other things. And I think you've heard a few, a few maybe rather obscure things today because we've had some of those. But if it's your question. It's important and someone else will have it too. Let's head out now to Angleton and we're going to talk to Jay. Hello Jay, and welcome to Guardline.

an adequate supply of nutrients to get it going. So with the microlife you're going to get a little bit of a delay in the release as it as it releases out, not a long term delay, but a little while. And so I would go with it. Do not a super heavy application, but a moderate sized application. And then your next fertilization is going to come in October in your area for where we put on our fall fertilization, and that that is on my schedule. I don't know.

Have you been to the website and seen the schedules by any chance.

But a lot of there are other reasons people aren't real fond of sweet gums. But that would be a decent fall color tree if you end up with a decent, crispy, cool fall. Even a red oat can give you a little bit of fall color, but it's really hard to come by. Crape myrtles have decent fall color, and I know that's not a big shade tree, but I'm just saying that that would be a decent tree that has good fall color. But in general, the crepe cedar elm have kind of a dirty gold yellow gold fall color

that is decent. That would be one. I don't know. Those are a few that you might want to consider. They're in that area. You're just so far south that there's a reason why people don't drive from all over the country to come here for fall color because we don't we don't have any great options for it.

You head out twenty nine to twenty just to I don't want less than a half mile outside of Tomball right there on the left hand side there it is by the way. If you haven't been to Arbrogate in a while, you need to know. They've got a new parking lot behind the store. It's on Trishal Road t R E I C H E L Trischel. You can Trishel is a loop behind Arburgate, so you can turn down Trashel before you get to Arbigate or after you pass Arburgate. Coming from either way, you go around the back.

Awesome all weather, wonderful easy access parking lot, safe access back there. You got to go check that out while you're at Arbigate. You know, those of you who've been there and those of you who don't, you need to get over there. I don't know what kind of rock you've been hide under, because this is this place has been a destination for a long time in the Houston area.

Awesome plans, awesome advice, knowledgeable people. It's just the combination for success that you're going to have to have, and Arburgate can do that. For example, they always have something different and new. Right now, they've got something called the Grace and Grit roses. It's a line of roses from Monrovia. It's called Grace and Gret because they have upright stems so you can do some cutting. So it's not like your hybrid t rose. It's a bush, but it is

a rose you can use for cutting. That's cool. And the grit part well disease resistant self cleaning. They thrive in our climate. That would be the grit part. But that's just one example of the many things you're going to find at Arbrogate. I can promise you two things when you go to Arbrogate. One, you're going to have knowledgeable staff and quality plants. You are going to have that. That is, you know you're going to get those two

things right there at Arburgate. Number two, you're going to get easy access, friendly service, and the whole experience will be a pleasant one for you. I know we're in the middle of summer, but it's still time to be planning things. There's no reason why you can't get these things in the ground and have success with them, and that starts by going to arbrogate where you get those kinds of plants and where you get that kind of

advice to have success. Cannot cannot overstress the importance of that. We're going to go now to Missouri City and talk to Paul.

weed more. But I have found that if you're not in a hurry to get grass right back in that spot, you might want to wait do the tilling and watch it for just a minute because meaning a week or so, because oftentimes you don't get all the bermuda and you may need to respray and so that you haven't put on grass, and now bermuda's coming right back in, So a second spray wouldn't be a bad idea. As far as mixing in, you know, a good quality mix in that area, that's fine. There are a number of good

quality materials out there. I would say a high quality top soil mixed in, maybe an enriched soil that had a little bit of compost in it would be a good idea for that as well. But yep, you're on your road to getting that put back together.

if you will right you know, without seeing it. If I saw a picture of the leaves and spots, I may go, oh, oh that's such and such, But I right now I can't picture what would be doing that.

heard about their products on garden Line. Whether it's a compost, whether it's a soil blend, to mault, any of those kinds of products, they're going to give you a discount, a significant discount on those products. But you got to tell them you heard about it on guardline. So if you swing by there to pick up bags, if you swing by there to pick up bulk, if you call them to say hey, I need a delivery, tell them you heard about it on garden Line. And now is

a perfect time. Fall planting season is just around the corner. Get your soil right now. Don't wait until fall. It may be rainy and you may not be able to work the soil. Get it done. What do they say, make hay well the sunshines. Prepare your beds while the sunshines, because rain will come again. When we get to the fall, if not before, now's the time to do that. And Nature's Way Resources is the product or the product. It is the place where you're going to get the products

to have success with it. They're on Sherbrooke Circle up in Conro, Texas. Here's the website Nature's Way Resources plural dot com. Going to go to Ken. Hello Ken, and where are you calling from? Brazaria, Brazoria? Okay, how can we help?

The only other thing would be if it's an area that's a little easier to protect it when we do have the doozy coal that tends to arrive, that would be another reason for that. Ken, I'm gonna have to take a break here. If you want to hang on, I will continue this after break. But if that answered your question, I do appreciate the call. All right, folks, I do have to take a break. Our phone number seven one three two one two ktr H. I'll be right back.

so I don't think that would be efficient. But if you call your county agro Life Extension office and ask for the horticulture agent, they can probably advise you, advise you specifically on that. Let's see, are you in are you in Harris County? Are you in.

extension office. For those of you who don't know, Extension is the Texas A and m Agro Life Extension Service. Every county is served by one. In our part of the state, every county has their own office. You get out in way West timbuck I where maybe there's more jack raborts than people. You may have a county that's served an office that serves two counties, but in general here every county has an office. Brazoria, Harris, Montgomery for Bed and on and on and on, Brasos, and I

mean we just keep going on. Waller County, everyone has an office and all of them have an ag agent. They usually have a Family and Community health agent and often have a four age agent there. And if it's a big county, you have a horticulture agent. In our listening area, there are horticulture agents in Harris County, Orange County, Galveston County, Fort ben County, Montgomery County, Brass County. I'm

probably leaving somebody out. I'll hear about it if I do that, But anyway, they all have horticulture agents, and so it's advice that's available. It's your connection to the university the way we used to say it is the place to go when you need to know. It is essentially taken the university of the people. So you have access to good research based information, take advantage of it.

That's where our four H programs are held. That's where our Master Gardner programs come from, is the county Agrolife Extension office. So take advantage of those. They are available, and it's good advice. Every state in the country has a lean grant college LSU Oklahoma State, Cornell, Texas A and m New Mexico State, University of Florida. Everybody's got one Auburn University. So in each of those areas there

is a lagrant college and an extension service. So yeah, friends that live in Kansas, well, Kansas State University has an extension service and they have county extension offices and they can get the same help you do here there at their level. Most people are not aware of that. They should be. It's important. You know who did that. Abraham Lincoln signed that into law that way back when. All right, enough of me, given the history of extension,

We're going to go to Terry in Montgomery. Hey, Terry, how can we help today?

And this is so cool, Bracer. It is so cool because what happens is they literally shoot this little dot that you see through the air, and it is sticky and it sticks to plants, it sticks to the sighting on your house and other things. And people don't like that, you know. I mean it's a little fungus dots sticking all of the nice white painted house. Well, that's the only problem with it. It's not a disease of plants though.

It's called artillery fungus, one of the many cool fungal things out there in nature.

wouldn't worry about it. Now I know that it's it's occurring more low on the plant than it is up high. And so it could be that if you have a sprinkler system and a mist is rising up from the sprinkler system for your lawn, that that mist could be adding to the leaf wetness, which increases the disease problems on a tree. Okay, so I would I would have Do you have irrigation systems sprinkling out there.

Go ahead and break those leaves up when they fall, get them out of there so you don't have that inoculum as we call it, to reinfect. But I think this can be cured by fixing the irrigation situation.

brand new trainee, you just got all this knowledge. When the phone rings and you answer a question, the best answer is I don't know, but I'm going to find out and get back to you. The second best answer is you shooting from the hip and thinking, well, I think it's probably because oftentimes that's not correct. Even when I answer questions, that is not correct. So we always want to be sure. And the photos do help with some kinds of questions, especially like that have you been

to Chenned Forest out in Richmond Rosenberg area before? And Chenna Forest is if you were. Let's say you're in Richmond heading towards Sugarland up fifty nine, it's off to the right and jennif Forest is on FM twenty seven TWE fifty nine and there's always stuff going on out there. And Enchanted Forest their selection right now of roses is outstanding, outstanding, their selection of herbs and vegetables, of plants that eat insects. My daughter called me yesterday about she got a new

venus fly trap plant. She want to know how to take care of it well. They got those, they got sundews, they got pitcher plants, all kinds of things out there at Enchanted Forest, beautiful selection of pogonias. The bottom line is they got you fill in the blank. They have so many kinds of plants that do well. It's time to get those fall tomatoes in, so go by there and get that. Do you want things for butterflies? Oh, my gosh, they have a selection and things for butterflies

at Enchanted Forest. It's just always something going on, and it's always a good thing. They often have food trucks out there. When we get back into fall, they're going to be having a lot of educational programs going on out there. Right now. They got some cool planters that look like boots and pots, and they have things like an atm and a Texas longhorn on them. Now, I don't know why you'd want to buy the Texas longhorn anyway, the cool stuff. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I can't, I

can't resist. I tried, it didn't work. And Jenny Forest lots of fun stuff, lots of good people, great plants, good knowledge, success, and it's a fun place to visit. FM twenty seven to fifty nine of Richmond. Here's the website. They have an excellent website. Go to this enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com intended Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Well, you are listening to Guardenline and we are getting close to the end of the show here, probably too close

to be able to do another call. So I'm gonna tell you about one other thing. I'll talk about this more tomorrow again. But take another thing that is on the website, and the website is gardening with Skip dot com. That's where all my educational materials go, which are all free, by the way, can't talk me down on that price. There's a homemade weed wiper. It's called Skips homemade weed wiper, and I tell you how to make it, and there is a list of products that are for putting on

the weed wiper. The weed wiper is sponges on a stick. You just have to go see it. Instructions on how to build it are there. It's very inexpensive to build you one. When you need to put herbicide on a weed, but you don't spray it all out there in the environment. You don't want to get it on things that it'll hurt. That are your friends, your plans. I think the picture in that weed wiper is a picture of lanana with nutsed drop beside it. You know, and some people spray

glyph essate on their nuts edge. First of all, that doesn't work well, but it sure we kill that lanana well with a weed wiper. You just squeeze the sponges onto the weed and wipe it right on there. I've used it on things like nutsedge coming up out of my turf. I've used it on grass weeds. It's stick up above the turf. Have you ever fought with torpedo grass, for example? Oh my gosh, that is it's impossible to kill it in turf unless you get my weed wiper

and you wipe a grass killer on it. But don't get that grass killer on your lawn because a torpedo grass is up higher. It is good for poison ivy, reaching in and squeezing the poison ivy. Someone called earlier with pepper vine. Oh boy, is that one ever? Invasive triclo pair kills it? But triclop hurts. You're Saint Augustine. Tric triclope pure kills every broadly plant. You would get it on just about. But with a weed wiper you can apply it right to that peppervine and not get

it on the good stuff. And two publications The Homemade weed Wiper tells you how to build it. The herbicide products to use with the Skips weed wiper tool is another article on the website, and it is a little chart. And I don't care what haven't I mentioned to? Okay, wild onion and garlic, those come up in your life and they're very difficult to control. But with a weed wiper, using image in this case, on the weed wiper, you're not getting it on your lawn. You're getting it on

the weed only. It works pretty good, and so just keep that in mind. By the way, with every herbicide product, there are ways to use it properly and ways to use it m properly. And for image, for example, it does control some tylpes of notes such pretty well. But and it's hot like it is now and you sprade all over your Saint Augustine and cause damage to it. So even though it's label for lawn use, if you read the label would see that you've got to be

careful with that kind of thing. You don't want to do that now. So another is not weed wipers so cool because you're not getting it on your grass anyway. I think you get the idea. For those of you who haven't been listening to this show today and have nuts edge issues to publications on there for free tips for against nut seedge, that's a quick one pager and Nutsedge an end depth look. That's three pages of more than you even know there was to know about nutsedge.

Remember this, I'm gonna make nuts edge really simple. You've got to stay on it, and you gotta be regular, and you don't want to let it grow pass three to five leaves before you do something