Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's
crazy. Just watch him as so many well. Good morning, good Sunday
morning. As a matter of fact, I appreciate the fact that you are
up at this hour. I hope you got a cup of coffee in your
hand or whatever it takes to get the motor running. We're gonna be talking
gardening today. There is a lot to talk about. I had a great
time out yesterday at the Arburgate Nursery and Tomball just got to meet a lot
of folks. Boy, you guys were a steady line coming through and it
was just so nice to get to, I don't know, help people with
their gardens and get to meet people, find out what kinds of things they're
interested in and growing out in the gardens, do a little bit of diagnostics
and all the kinds of stuff we do with those appearances. Those of you
who were fortunate enough to win the giveaways a fertilizer from Arburgate and from nitrofoss
uh that that was also a nice addition to the to the event. As
well. And by the way, that parking lot is the most wonderful thing
I had to get there. I got there a little early just to go
back out and you know, try it out, see how things are going.
It's it's so dead gum convenient. And I'm I know those of you
love Arburg Gate, which I was suspect to most everybody listening is you're excited
too about the fact that you can be able to go in there and when
have a big event, you know, a lot of people come in.
It just real convenient right in the back, simple as that. But thanks
to Beverly and the team at Arburgrate for hosting us out there yesterday that that
was a good time. We're gonna talk about all kinds of things today.
I wanted to start off just a little bit making some mention about birds out
in our landscapes. I was checking out my bird baths, you know,
the where we where they have their water supplies and they really need that.
By the way, it's still hot. It's still a little hot out there,
and birds need to supply of water, so make sure you're you're providing
that for them. I noticed one of my feeders was empty. I kind
of neglected keeping an eye on that thing, and so fortunately the birds were
not tapping on the window going did you get out here please? But we
got out there and got some more taken care of. You know that my
favorite feeder is one that Wildbird does. It's it's one that excludes squirrels,
and it is just I don't know whether I like the fact more that if
I want to feed a bird, I can make sure my food goes to
a bird, or the fun of just watching a squirrel trying to get into
that thing, the squirrel excluder feeder. They can't. They can't handle it.
But enough of those things, you know, it's it is umming bird
season and I had some swing through just the other day. They you know,
there's a lot of things we can plant that attract hummingbirds. But the
feeders are cool because I mean you can put them up instantly in any location
and they just they show up there. And my favorite, I've told you
this before, is my high perch feeder from Wall Birds Unlimited. And I've
got several feeders, and it is the one it's easiest to see the birds,
it's easiest for the birds to you know, get in there and they
seem to love it. They really do seem to enjoy that feeder. Always
remember don't put don't buy colored water for your hummingbirds. Just take four parts
of water, one part of white table sugar. I heat the water up
just to make it easier to dissolve that much sugar and water. Four parts
water, one part sugar, and just plain white sugar. And it'll last
in a feeder the last couple of days out there. And if you buy
their nectar defender, if he drops in there, it'll carry it out to
ten days. You know, because you think about the sugar water in warm
weather. I mean there's a lot of little microbes would love to take off
growing in sugar water, so you want to keep that clean. Wildbirds also
has a little cleaning brushes to keep your feet are clean. Just makes it
a live even a little extra special. And you know, Wildbirds are everywhere.
I don't know if I've mentioned this lately, but they have seven stores
here in the Houston area, one in Cyprus up on Barker, Cyprus,
one down on bel Air in Houston. They're on the west side Memorial Drive
in Houston. Out in clear Lake, there's Wildbirds and Katie. There's Wildbirds
on West Timer Parkway. Kingwood has one up on Kingwood driving them Parland Parland
down down in Pearland on Broadway Street there's Wildbird's unlimited, so easy to find
one, and they are really really nice. You're ever looking for a gift
for somebody too that I have utilized them a number of times because it's it's
such an outstanding gift. You know, you wonder what do you buy for
somebody who has everything already? Well, go into Wilbirds. Let them answer
that question. You will be really impressed, and so other people you give
the gift to, by the way, it's just it's really special. Well,
we are here to talk to your to you about gardening, and I
think it will probably help if I gave you a phone number, wouldn't it
seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. You know that the fall season is here.
It is, I mean officially on the calendar, this is fall. But
we've had a warm day and yesterday's a little on the warm side, but
it is gradually cooling off more and more, and I'm just excited. I
was excited at ninety five. I thought that was pretty special. We're going
to keep going on the way down and down in temperatures and it's gonna eventually
get real nice and pleasant. Let's go out to sugar Land. We're gonna
talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hello, good morning. I'm wondering
the difference in the three products that are in not false Okay, and then
and then the product that you would buy from, like Helen Chemical, don't.
I don't know which you're talking about. Helen is a big chemical company,
So I'm sorry. The like the the Fall special yard fertilizer. Okay,
the Fall Special is from nitrofoss. It's a brown bag and it has
a good load of potassium that's the last number in it, and drops the
nitrogen down a little bit, and that combination goes in the plant well and
fall, and instead of stimulating just tons of green growth, which we don't
want to do in the fall, it helps the plant produce carbohydrates to go
into winter and come out stronger. So that's that. That is the plan
of any fertilizer that you would call a winterizer or a fall fertilizer, is
you want to have enough potassium the third number to be able to really really
do the good that it can do. But would the potassium that the large
chemical companies have. Do they furnish potassium to nctro fause company? Oh?
I don't know that. Does it all come? Yeah, I don't know
how the sausage gets made on that. It's just there's their number of forms
of potassium that fertilizer can use, from organic forms to synthetic forms. There's
a lot of options out there for getting that out into the plant. Did
you have another question about about the fall fertilizing mic No, just you know,
I've used the Medina products, but but one of the recommendations to get
rid of of the sticker birds is go heavy and heavy with nitrogen, and
Medina products don't have nitrogen. Uh, that's not no, that's not true.
They do have. Medina has a fertilizer for the lawn that has a
higher amount of nitrogen in it. But that's something that we would need if
we're going to go into grasp or that would be a whole another question.
We can do that, but I'm gonna have to have you hang on after
break to do that. All right, If you'd like to continue the discussion.
Yeah, we're going to take a break right now. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four is the number we are talking gardening,
and if you're interested in giving us a call, it's seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. I was mentioning being on at the Arbigate
earlier, just a moment ago, and while we're out there, we gave
away some of their their organic food, the complete Organic four four three.
It's got some calcium in it, it's got a lot of other good things
in it. It's I was joking with somebody, they said, what can
I use it or not? Go well? If the plant has roots,
don't use it on silk flowers, But any plant with roots it'll work well
on and do a pretty good job. They've also got part of their one
two three system at Arbigate is the organic soil complete and they're going to compost
complete. And both of those products are loaded with organic matter that's just rich
and microbial activity. Also, they have that expanded shale in it, and
that expanded sail is important every time you get a chance to add expanded shell
to a clay soiled In the Greater Houston area, the Upper Gulf Coast.
It's a good idea because expanded shell helps the things that clay is not so
good at, like draining, aeration and things like that. We're gonna go
out now to Kima and talk to Cheryl. Hello, Cheryl, Hello,
good morning. I took your advice. I put the nitro foss sweet green
okay and hundred degree. I had to have faith in that yard. Guy
didn't want to do it, okay, but he did it. He put
it in the spreader and the yard looks great. That was about a month
ago. Then I used weed beater before he I mean about a week or
two weeks ago. I used we'd beat it right before we got the rain,
like a day before. And what I did, and I think I
made a mistake, But I lifted up the weeds that were just lying there
because he hadn't cut for like six weeks. I wouldn't let him cut the
yard because you know, too too too much skinning it, you know.
So and I lifted up the weed and I sprayed the stock kind of down
into the ground towards the route. But I think I made a mistake.
I think you're supposed to spray that on the on the leaves, aren't you.
Yes, on the foliage, and just barely wet the foliage. You
don't need to drench him, just just get him wet. Okay, I
think I heard that. Yeah, I think we just met easier for you
because you went through there. It was a little bit of work. Yeah,
exactly. H questions that Texas three Steps does that include the pre emergent
herbicide in there? I'm sorry, Texas you talk. Sorry, I missed
your question. Sorry, go ahead, true, Okay, On that Texas
three step program is does that include pre emergent herbicide? Yes, yes,
there there is the pre emergent herbicide as one of the three of the nitropos
Texas three step. Now, when is the last kind of date? I
can do that because I don't want to be loading stuff on top of stuff.
And well there's no problem, you know, doing things on the same
day, that's not a problem. But here's how it works. Your winter
weeds are going to start germinating. As we get a little bit of a
cool front through and little rain, you'll start to see all them begin to
germinate. And that'll happen in October. It can also be going on in
November. But if you wait until after weeds have come up to put the
pre emergent down, you could miss the opportunity to prevent them. That how
it works is it doesn't allow a germinating weed to establish a weed plant.
And so that's why we don't want to We don't want to find out how
long can we wait? We want to go ahead and get them down.
I would do it, and down in your area. You could do it
sometime in early to mid October. If we have a year that comes a
little cool front a little early in things, then maybe you'd want it to
get it on a little bit earlier than that. Okay, early to October.
Thank you so much. Yeah, I really appreciate it. All right,
Cheryl, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. I hope
that was helpful for you. I talk about the importance of soil all the
time, and and it is nice now. I remember the day when you
could buy a big positive compost, but that was about it. But now
our soil providers, and boy do we ever had a great soil provider in
a greater in this greater Houston area here, they have created blends that are
just magical for all kinds of things. If you do want to blend for
roses, do you want, you know, a rose soil, Well,
we've got that. Do you want something that might be good for containers.
We've got blends designed for containers now available. Do you want something to be
for veggies and herbs? Maybe you're putting a raised bed in and you just
want to ready to go drop it in the box and let's hit the ground
run. And we've got that. And Airloom Soils carries all of those.
They carry them in bulk, they carry them in bags. They'll deliver a
supersac which is a cubic yard to your door if you if you like that,
you can go get it. There's a lot of options. Go to
Airloom Soils of Texas and look at the product line of what they have.
While you're there, there's a little calculator online. It's an outstanding one where
you can figure out exactly how much, how many cubic yards do you need
to buy? Well, how wide, how deep? You know, the
calculator will figure that out. It'll even come down to five callon buckets of
composts. I mean, if you want to figure it down to that it's
a very very helpful thing. And Airloom Soils with their product range, product
line and availability all over town, it's just a winning deal and you will
find that your green thumb gets greener when you use a quality soil like Airloom
Soils for your plants. We are hitting let's see, Okay, I wanted
to I wanted to mention something about general lawn and plant care this fall.
As we bring our plants out of this brutal summer that we went through,
you want to remember a couple of things. Number One, you want to
create a setting where that plant can recover and thrive. Think of a hospital
room, you know where you have plenty of ivy fluids and you know what
I'm saying, You're getting the patient back on its feet. Well, that's
what we're doing, and so we need adequate soul moisture. Number One,
If it rains, great, If it hadn't rained in a week, and
you need an inch, then go ahead and put it down. As we
go into fall, we're going to back off of that inch a week to
about a half inch a week because it's cooling off. But today it's still
warm enough to where I would water if it needs to water and then again
to gradually provide those products that we're talking about when you're putting in your fall
plants. For example, when I do transplanting, I always water them in
with a quality product, and one of my favorite is has to Grow six
twelve six. I've talked about it before. Put it in a watering can.
Mix it according to the label. You're going to be adding six percent
nitrogen, twelve percent phosphor six percent potassium. You're also going to be adding
me dinostral activator which stimulates the biological activity. You're going to be adding humic
acid, You're going to be adding seaweed extracts. All with that watering in,
those roots have the best chance possible to establish quickly a week later,
do it again a week later. It I do mind three times to water
men. But has to Grow is one of those products. It's just easy.
You're not going to burn your plants with it, and it provides beyond
just MPK the nitrogen, phosphor potassium. It provides a lot of other things
that are helpful for that plant, getting a good root system and getting started.
I would in courage you to think about that when you're putting plants in.
We want to give our plants. We want to set them up for
success. We don't want to put them out there and go, well,
I hear you're a tough plant. Good luck. Let's see if you make
it. We want we want the most out of them. If they have
blooms, we want blooms. If beautiful foliage, we want foliage. If
it's a lawn, we want density and health for the lawn. And that's
why we take care of our plants in those kind of ways. Some of
you the summer, it probably decided, you know what, after this kind
of summer, I'm going to move to some more native types of plants.
And I don't blame you for that. There's a lot of great natives out
there. These are plants that have lived here a lot longer than we have,
and they know how to survive. They've been through you know, for
us, this may be like, oh my gosh, that's the worst summer
ever. Well not for them. They've been through it many many times over.
They know how to live here. And Buchanan specializes in those kinds of
plants. In fact, their name Buchanan's Native Plants, ought to tell you
that they're in the Heights on Eleventh Street. Buchanans doesn't just sell natives,
so they have everything you can imagine. I think their houseplants selections one of
the best I've seen. It's just really really cool that Buchanans is a kind
of garden center. You go into, You've got knowledgeable staff, you have
an incredible selection, and you add add to that where they grouping plants,
like here's a table just a Houston natives, or there's an area just for
shade loving plants. Or check out the gift shops too. While you're there.
It's easy to find what you need and to find really cool quality stuff.
When you go to Buchanans Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights, you
are listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four, or if you like to spell with letters seven
one three two one two K T R H. That makes it a little
bit simpler as well, doesn't it. We are gonna we're gonna talk a
little bit more later. I'm going to mention a few things about some fruit
and also some of our vegetable gardening and stuff. As we go a little
further into the morning, but just to just to kind of lead off her.
Fall is a good time to plant anything, pretty much except maybe a
plant that only lives in the summer, like basil. Basil is not a
freeze tolerant plant. But when you go beyond that, all the perennial herbs
and pretty much everything else follow is a good time to get them planted.
And I encourage you to don't delay. Uh you know, I know this
summer fried our landscapes and fried our brains and patients as well. But now's
the time to turn it around. And by preparing your soil now, by
getting the right plants now and getting them ready to go, October and November
are just super big planting months coming up. We are right on the doorstep.
In fact, you don't have to wait till October. Today is a
good day to plant. But go ahead and get set up for that,
because I know, I know what it felt like coming out of summer.
But trust me, false false here, Winter's coming and when next spring comes,
the things you're doing now will make your law the most beautiful it can
be. That make your landscapes beautiful. Uh, don't delay. There there
is what did Uh? What's the song? There is a time and purples
from ecclesiastic time and purpose for everything. I can't say the name of the
song. I just went blank. Oh yes, anyway, yes, that
one. There's a time to a time to laugh, a time to cry.
Yeah, And now's the time to garden. I mean it is.
It's the time to prepare everything because that way, when it comes to fall,
we may have a gully washer rain for a week and if you've already
built your beds, you can get out there and plant. You don't have
to dig up the soil, which we shouldn't do when it's saggy wet.
But now turn, turn, turn, Thank you. My gosh, my
brain was going blank on that one. There you go. But there's a
time and now is the time for doing your fault garden for getting the most
success, and that's what you want. You're spending money, you're spending time.
Why not reap the rewards for that for years to come. And now
is also the time for the Nicki News Network. And so I'm going to
turn turn, turn it over to Nikki. Yes, a time to plant,
and this is the time to get ready for planting all kinds of things.
Hey, if you live up in the Tumba area, your hometown feed
store is DND Feed. DND Feed. The Dover family has been running DND
out there on Highway twenty nine twenty west, just about three miles west of
two forty nine outside Tumball. They've been doing this since nineteen eighty nine.
They have quality feed for your pets, for your livestock. Do you need
products for your yard? I'm talking about fertilizers. I'm talking about composts and
bag products like that. Do you need you know, pesticide, secticide,
fungicide, herbicide. They have all that. DND feed stay stocked up and
they help you have a beautiful, successful landscape as a result of that fact.
You know, the last time I was out there, I always like
to go and check out what's new. And there's always something new, you
know, expanded this summer and it just keeps getting better and you get the
kind of service that we would expect from our hometown feed stores. And that's
D and D for all of you up in the greater Tomball area. Go
by there and see what I'm talking about. You will be impressed. And
seasonally they get plants through there. It's really nice to be out and shopping
around. And I think that one thing I've noticed when I go into dn
D is there's always the product that I'm looking for to deal with whatever it
is I'm trying to deal with, whether it's fertilizing or managing a past or
whatever. That's nice to be able to walk in and know that that is
exactly what you're going to get. Our phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two five eight seven
four. Your lawn, I suspect if it's like mine, And boy,
if I showed you a picture of my lawn, you turn your radio off
right now and go somewhere else. This summer, I traveled and the water
didn't come on when it should, and one thing led to another, and
I've got a big area out front that just looks horrible. Let's give me
a chance to experiment with a lot of different things. I'm trying to,
you know, see what works. So as I give you advice, it's
not just like, well I read this in a book somewhere, but no
I did it. It worked or it didn't work, and I can advise
you better. Anyway, now's the time when I need to get out and
go ahead and move forward with a aeration and a compost top dressing. Our
lawns are struggling, and they have been struggling. Some of you may have
been able to water enough, some may not have been able to. When
you do a core aeration on your lawn, you pop those plugs out of
the ground and you end up with a nice open, deep core that's been
taking out of the soil. You're aerating the roots. And then when you
compost top dress, compost moves down in those aeration holes as well, and
you're building your soil and it just gets better and better. And Greenpro does
that. The folks at Greenpro for five minion and nine plus sales tax depending
on your location and size. They that is where they start, depending on
you know, if it's big lawn, it's gonna cost a little more and
there are other factors in it, but Greenpro knows what they're doing. You
can go to greenpro dot net greenpro dot net and see exactly what compost top
dressing looks like in aeration as it goes over your lawn, or give them
a call two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. I need
to do that, and you know it. Just in general, anytime we
can top dress our lawns of the quality material is good, and anytime you
get a good aeration in there. We got to get those roots stimulated,
and we got to get the plants going, get them back on their feet,
get them going again. And that's the goal. And we have one
month that is key for all of that in your lawns, and this is
October. This is the and so fertilizing and pest controls and disease controls and
aerating, compost top dressing, and all of those kinds of things need to
happen sooner rather than later, especially the compost top dressing part. By the
way, you are listening to Garden Line our phone number seven one three two
one two ktr H seven one three two one two kt r H if you
haven't done your fall fertilization yet, and don't worry, you're not late.
You're not late. And just in case you haven't, now is a good
time to get that done. Now. The summer fertilizers are high in nitrogen
because we're pushing growth. We want green, we want growth. We want
vigor in the fall. We do not want to push growth. We do
not want to push vigor. We want to increase the strength and health of
the grass plant. And that takes only a moderate amount of nitrogen and a
decent a good amount of potassium. The third number, and Nelson Plant Food
has packaged something just for that. It's called carbo load. Carbo Load is
a ten ten twenty fertilizer. You put it out there, it gets you
know, at twenty that's a very high, high concentration of the potassium,
and that is very good for your plants. So what's going to happen.
You're gonna put it down. You're gonna get a little bit of a green
result from it. But mainly what's going to happen is the grass plant is
going to take up the compounds it needs, including nitrogen potassium to get a
good strong plant going into winter. And that is critical because the strength that
ere long goes into this coming winter will be the strength that it comes out
of winter. In fact, it could even come out weaker if you don't
take care of it. Now. Take care of it now, get it
boosted, get it strong. Don't push a lot of fresh new green growth
that just aggravates brown patch, but use a quality fertilizer. Carbo Load is
an outstanding example. Also has a pre emergent herbicide in it to help with
some of the weed issues that are coming up. But that's another reason to
get it on sooner rather than later, because we don't want to delay getting
the pre emergent down if you're going to use one in your lawn. Yeah,
there's there's a lot to talk about when it comes to laund right now
because we just we just have a lot of things going on. I did
a video for Aggy Horticulture the Hot Culture Department Facebook live up at A and
M, and I just posted it to the other day to our Facebook page.
And so if you go to the garden Line Facebook page, I hope
you do. I hope you hope you follow that one. We're always posting
stuff to that and check out the video. It's about seven minutes long.
So but it's not you know, it's not going to sit there a long
time. But what I do is I cover what have our lawn has been
through and what's happening with them as a result, and then what about fertilizing,
what about diseases, what about weeds? You know, what are the
things that we're needing to look at and deal with right now? And it's
an overview. I'm pretty concise with it, but I think that you will
find it to be very helpful. I'm going to also get that video over
the website as soon as I can here, but in the meantime, you
can see it on our Facebook page. Please please do go check that out.
I think that you will find it very helpful. And it also just
reminds us that October's the big month. It is the big month for our
lawns in the fall. If you live down south of the Houston area,
let's say you're down in the League City area or maybe Dickinson, San Leone
or elkom Into Real Bay, Cliff, Webster, Santa Fe, all of
that area. League City Feed is your hometown feed store. The Thunderbergs he
began with the dad. Actually the store began and forty years ago in an
Okra patch, which I find to be humorous. And you know, anything
that starts in an Okra patch's got it turned out now West and Madison and
sister weren't run the place, and it's just that old time feed store.
It's the service you expect. But also when you go in there a push,
you're gonna find feed. It's a feed store, quality feed. It's
that kind of feed store. But you're going to find everything you need for
your lawn and garden. Two you need fertilizers, I'm talking about them today.
They've got the ones that we talk about there. If you need a
insecticide or a herbicide or a fungicide, they've got it there. In your
backyard chicken deal, I mean that is popular now, and the Thunderbergs at
League City Feed have got you set up on that too. Monday through Saturday
nine to six pm, closed on Sunday phone number two eight one three three
two sixteen twelve to eight one three three two sixteen twelve, and they will
get you set up on everything you need. So you're fortunate down there by
the way. League City Feed is on Highway three, a few blocks south
of Highway ninety six, so it's really easy to get in and out of
and be an open till six after work. You can just swing by there
and pick up the supplies you need for your weekend warrior activities. You know
you're one of those lawn rangers. Right, well, it's time to take
a break. Here our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH seven
one three two one two KTRH. Give Josh a call and he'll get you
on the board for when we come right back. Everybody's saying hooray for our
side. You're listening to garden Line and we are looking forward to your calls
today so we can talk about what you are interested in. That would be
the phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. I've been talking about lawns a
lot this morning, because everybody's concerned about their lawn right now. I also
want to mention a little bit about trees. I posted something to the website
a while back on understanding tree stresses and how stresses affect trees and how we
alleviate those stresses. And boy, have our trees ever been through stresses?
Oh my gosh, we had. You can go back to February twenty one
when it got so darn cold and that heard a lot of plants around here.
We had a brutal summer last summer, a brutal summer. This summer
we had an early free in December, and each of those have taken its
toll in different ways on different ones of our species, if not all of
them, And as a result, our goal is to get those trees back
on their feet, so to speak. Trees are resilient, but when you
weaken a tree, things that can just flat kill it show up and take
it out, and so our goal. You know, those things that just
flank kill it we can't control. I mean, hopoxal and canker on oaks,
there's not a spray for that. But what we can control is alleviating
stress and keeping the tree healthy as best we can, and good tree care
is a big part of that, making sure it has the nutrients it needs,
making sure that if there's sole compaction, that we're doing something to alleviate
and avoid that. When we water a good deep soaking to wet the soil
eight or ten inches deep if we can, and then don't water for a
while, trees do not. They're not like a little African violet sitting on
the window where every day they got a little drink of water from Now,
we're talking about a plant that is resilient, So give it a good soaking
and then let it go. Don't try to make it dependent. But your
trees are valuable, of course, they're important, of course, and that
kind of care is really really important. And I would, if I would
encourage you, go go to my website. It's gardening with skip dot com
and I've put that information on tree stresses, and also there's one on lawns,
the same kind of thing, what's been going on with lawns this summer
and check check those out, read them. I think you'll find them to
be very helpful and at least it'll give you the mindset so as you're thinking
about treecre going forward now with your landscape, you kind of have a way
of thinking that helps you do the things that help and avoid the things that
don't. That that is kind of what it really boils down to. Soil
and soil and soil is so so important for everything. And if you're going
to plant anything, whether it's a potted plant, whether it is a new
garden bed, whether it's putting in a rose bed or a shrub bed or
a flower bed, Nature's way resources up in Conro area. They absolutely have
super quality soils. They you know, they're inventors of the rose soil,
inventors of the leaf mold compost, and they know how to make quality soil,
and that's exactly what they do. Take the time to do it right.
That is important. Anybody can shove a bunch of organic matter and a
pile, wet it and wait until it turns dark, and then try to
sell it. But it's something else to blend it right, to do it
right, to take the time to do it right. And that's what Nature's
Way does. By the way, next Saturday, stop the presses, get
out the pens and paper Next Saturday. I will be at Nature's Way on
September thirtieth, and I'm going to be out there after the show so you
can come out and see me. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one
thirty, spending a couple hours out there. They're going to have one heck
of a shindig. It's called the Fall Garden Festival. Now, I hope
you come out so I get to meet in see and we answer your question.
They're gonna have Latin food, live music, local vendors, adult beverages.
For the kiddos, there's a little kid's scavenger hunt, They're even gonna
have a demo class in the morning before I get there, creating enchanting fairy
gardens and learn the magic of a miniature garden. Mark your calendars September thirtieth.
This is a Nature's Way. While you're out there, you can grab
some bag products or put in an order for a bulk delivery of one of
the many, many products they have. And don't forget, they're still having
their fungal Friday sale ten percent off the bag product, twenty percent off the
bulk on Fridays of the fungal compost. That's one of the many quality products
at Nature's Way. We are going to now head over to Cyprus and talk
to Sandy. Hello Sandy from Cyprus. I skip, good morning, how
are you well? Thank you? I just wanted to ask you. I
have an oprah that's been a container. It's got three stalks in it,
and although the production is still going, but it's slowed down. How can
I prune it because I've got new growth at the bottom, but the top
is like the one stock looks like it's almost brown, right, but at
the bottom of it it's green. Well, Sandy, at this point in
the season probably not much benefit, and trying to prune the ocra, We're
we're gonna we still have some months or another month or so of ochre production,
but it's gonna get so slow, and if you prune, it's I
don't have time to regrow and set ocra pods and mature them. So what
going into future years if you have more than one container or more than one
plant. When we get into oh, let's say early August, you could
do a cutting back of your ocra, cutting it back even by half,
and it'll resprout new growth that will then set okra pods. But I wouldn't
do the whole thing. What I'll do in mine patch is I'll prune some
of them in August early August, and then not others. And that way
you're still getting ochre from the ones you didn't prune, and by the time
the ones you pruned resprout and start producing, they carry you on into fall.
But at this point we're a little late. Okay, Well, thank
you so much, Skip have a wonderful day, you too, have a
wonderful time out there in Cyprus with the ochre patch. Love love ochre.
Hey up, you are wanting to take care of your lawn. You're wanting
to take care of your garden. You're wanting to put in maybe some herbs,
maybe you want to put in some container plants. Where do you go
and get everything that you need to make those plants have success? Well,
Ace Hardware, it's an easy one there. You need Furlijer lawn with the
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why I'm so excited about and why I keep bragging about what all they have.
I know it's hard to I can't describe it, and you imagine it.
Walk in the store, take a look and be like, oh,
I did not know they had that. That is really cool. And believe
me, you may go in there for a bag of fertilizer, but you're
going to find a lot of really cool stuff to make your homescape and enjoyable
place to hang out and to make your plants healthy and successful in the process.
Well, you're listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer your gardening questions. I'm about to take a
little break here for the news, and if you would like to give us
a call seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one
two ktr H. Josh will get you on the board and you'll be first
when we come back. I don't forget again. I mentioned this is a
minute ago, but next Saturday, September thirty, eleven thirty to one thirty
I'll be at Nature's Way Resources and the shindig they are planning out there is
really cool. You definitely need to be there for this, They've redone a
lot of their native plant nursery area, put in some water feature and a
lot of other cool things. I was visiting with John and Ian the other
day about it, and I can't wait to get back up there and see
it. They're always taking things a step forward up there. Nature's so what
a great idea. Go out there on Saturday, Let's visit, Let's do
diagnostics or whatever kinds of things. Questions you might have, love to meet,
you, have fun at the party, go home with some products,
because it's time to begin getting our soil ready to rejuvenating our plants. And
it all begins in the soil, and that's what Nutrius Way is all about.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor so Smelly.
Just watch as mid Sunday morning, gardeners, we are looking at the glow
in the eastern sky as that sun comes up. Quick care. We're getting
a little bit of light shining through. That means it's gonna be a good
day, you know. I think if the sun comes up, that means
it's going to be a good day, right, it does. That's the
way to look at it. At least, Hey, every day is a
good day in the garden. I enjoy getting out in the garden, and
even you know, you can find you can find pleasure and a lot of
different activities in the garden. And if you let things get away from you,
and now you've got eight hundred acres of weeds to pull and while fire
ants climb around on you. Wow, that's no fun. But you don't
have to let that happen. You can mult your plants. I can't tell
you how many times in fact, the last week back yesterday, just talking
to gardeners yesterday, over and over again, people will be talking about there's
this weed and here's a picture of it, and what do I do?
And I'm looking at bear dart with weeds coming up. Wherever sunlight hits the
soil, nature plants of weed. Just remember that. So how do we
control weeds? Well, there's a lot of ways, but the first way
is the way nature controls weeds. And what does it do. It drops
leaves on the ground and it covers the soil and it doesn't let the sun
hit the soil. That protects the soil in a lot of ways for erosion,
from crusting, from excessive summer temperatures, from very cold winter temperatures if
we have one of those kind of winters. It does all that, but
it blocks the weeds. And now there are weeds. It'll come through mulch.
But why not get rid of all the weeds. It won't by just
putting organic matter on the soil, because it's a When when you put it
down it does its thing, I think it looks beautiful and on top of
it all, you get all the benefits of it. So let's deal with
the weeds it can control, that can overcome a mulch cover, which is
the smaller group of weeds, and just make it really easy. And so
again I'm here to help anyway we can. But when I see a whole
bunch of bare dirt and weeds and people are going, what do I do
about these weeds, It's like, well, don't invite them in the first
place. That's the easy part. One way that we deal with weeds in
our lawns is by building a good, dense, healthy lawn, and Nitrofosts
has their Texas three step it's a one two three system, very easy to
do. I mean all you do is, first of all, there is
a nitrofost fall special winter riser fertilizer that has that right chemistry in it to
put the right nutrients and the right ratios into your grass to strengthen it without
pushing a lot of lush fall growth that's going to be more of a brown
patch problem. So it's fertilizing smart. It's feeding the plants in a way
that helps them prepare for winter, overcome drought, and come out strong in
the spring. Number two, you want to deal with the weeds. The
nitrofosts barricade is a pre emergent herbicide. Now, if your lawn is thin
and we and sunlight is setting the soil, a pre emergent herbicide will help
prevent weeds from getting established. It's easier to deal with the weed before it
starts than it is to take a weed that's already knee high in the spring
and try to kill it. That's no win deal back then, so why
not now make sure you prevent It's too late to build turf density this fall,
Although fall fertilizing gets you set up to build it next spring, so
you may have to deal with those weeds. Barricade is designed to do just
that. And then finally, Nitrofus Eagle turf fungicide. That is a fungicide
that is systemic, it's a protecting it also does some curative effects in the
lawn and with large patch season coming on, with take all root rot reinfections
coming on, with the cooler weather arriving soon, that helps to prevent that
problem because we don't need to add insalt to injury. Let's get the patient
healthy, let's avoid the things that attack it. Nitrofus Texas three step,
one, two three, all three are available at Katie Hardware, at RCW
Nursery or at the arbor Gate and Tomball Nitrofus products widely available for the things
you need. Let's go out to Kingwood and we're gonna visit with Joe this
morning. Hello Joe, good morning. Skip. Before I get to my
main questions real quick, you were just talking about the NCROTHOSS three step.
I'm planning to apply barricade in early October. Should I apply the fall feeding
special a few days after that, like a week after that or before?
Or does it matter it does not matter. You can do them the same
day. In fact, you're out there doing it, just go ahead and
knock it all out. Just don't put them both in the same fertilizer spreader.
Particle size is different, the setting will be different for applying each of
those correctly, so apply them separately. But you can do it the very
same day. Great. My main question was I'm in a month or so
getting ready to plant some replacement hedges of about five plants each of wax leafs
augustrum, boxwood and sunshine augustrum. Okay, and I've heard you recommend medina
has to grow for plants to help those plants get set up early, and
I had a few questions about that. The direction say to mix one allance
per gallon of water. How much should I use per shrub? I would
just use the amount of water that you're watering them in with. Okay,
so follow the label on the medinas has to go six twelve six. Mix
it in water according to that concentration. But then just water the shrub in
really well, so you would just a good soaking like you would water a
new plant in. But you're using that that concoction. Is that roughly half
a gallon per per shrub or what size is the containers for the shrubs?
They're probably gonna be three gallons? Okay, Yeah, if I would just
say even a good a good gallon of water would probably be enough to water
those those in a three gae If we're so one gallon for a three gallon
shrub, what if if I get a seven gallon shrub? How much for
that? But a little bit more on? Okay, I mean, there's
not a magic number. Here's what we're trying to do. We're just trying
to wet the soil thoroughly around that newly planted shrubs root ball or roots cylinder,
and we want to wet it with a solution that contains the product at
the label rate. And so if you were to put four gallons on,
it wouldn't hurt anything other than you maybe just be overwatering you And you say
it's best to use like a little watering can rather than a pump up sprayer.
Oh yeah, because you can drench you can drench the root ball.
A pump up sprayer just you know, barely wets the surface. Yeah,
I mean, I guess there is a hose en version of that product.
I generally use just the regular one where you pour it out and mix it
up, but there is a hose inversion, and you could walk along if
you had a bunch of shrubs, and you could just took it up to
the hose end through the settings like it tells you to do, and then
and then just use your hose to squirt and water that. But you're going
to need to water one, move to the nexon and water arette. Moved
to the next and waterett and then come back to the first one, because
at one point in time you're hose in sprayer, it may be putting it
out faster, the liquid faster than it can absorb. Yeah, I've noticed
that even with the watering. Can you know you try to dump one gallon
instantly on a plant, you may not get it all in the ground.
And for storing the products like has to grow or soil activator, do you
usually store those inside in your house or is the air condition or is it
okay to keep those in the garage? I keep everything in the house.
You know, there are things that can tolerate the heat, but my garage
gets blazing hot, and so wherever possible I'll put stuff, especially like liquid
products, whether it would be to control insects or diseases, or weeds or
you know, things like that. I would usually put those inside because freezing
and excessive heat are both enemies of long long, long term life storage life
for those kind of products. That's great tip. SKIP. Really appreciate your
help on those. Thank you very much. All right, thank you,
Joe. I appreciate that call. Well, it is time for us to
head out and do a little bit of business on the news here. We're
gonna be right back our phone number seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. Hey, good Sunday morning. Welcome to Garden Line our phone
number seven one three two one to five eight seven four, talking about our
garden centers and whatnot around here. The folks that enchanted forest, they have
a wonderful selection of moms that have come in. They got more coming into,
by the way, but just the callers. I mean, when you
think of a chrysanthemum, they've got that. But they also have ones that
you look at and go, what is that a chrysanthemum? Is that a
daisy? It's beautiful. They're absolutely beautiful. I've got a good stock of
them in and oh my gosh, the pumpkins came in. And if you
want a deck rate for fall, you got to go check out all the
different types of pumpkins they have out there at Enchanted Forest. Of course,
when you're out there, it's a good time to buy and plant herbs.
This is a season for that. It's a good time to buy and plant
a lot of things, including getting your fertilizers and your soils, and they've
got all of that out there. By the way, the Enchanted Forest.
If you're in Richmond and you're heading up toward Sugarland direction, they're off to
the right down south of fifty nine. They're really easy to find. Enchanted
Forest, and Danny and Clay Lenderman, they have really created a place that
is a It's just it's so much fun to visit. The quality of the
staff, the quality advice, the way they take time with you to help
you find and know how to plant your things and care for them so you
have success. That's important to them and that's why customers keep coming back there
and Enchanted Forest out there in Richmond. I need some pumpkins this fall.
I think it's time to get the front door decorated and be ready to go
for that. Hey, let's it out to League City and talk to John
V. Hello John V. Good warning, skip and garden line. Yes,
I've got a little bit of a three part question now. This flower
is famously the largest flower species in the world and is called Rephusia are a
F F L. E. Sia flower is on the capul that I imagination
of enormous specs of red pele titles and a risk of extinction. And re
research has warned us on Wednesday the refuse is actually a parasite that lives in
the tropical vines across the parts of Southeast Asia, producing blooms that are large
in the world. Is something of enigma, this flower emerging unpredictably as a
batumous as a limited propagation as outside of natural environment us. One important thing
about that flower the smell. Yes, it says one of these species of
the flowers currently classified quickly endangered according to the International Union of Conservation of Nature.
Right so well, yes, I said, right now, they're working
at forty The botanists examined forty two known Raffisia species in their habitats and Brunei
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Well, I'll tell you that is
a very unusual flower. It's actually kind of attractive. But boy, hold
your nose because it smells like rotten flesh because they attract flies for pollinating,
so they they smell like rotten meat. Yes, And so I wanted to
see what what genetic engineering and genetic coating needs to be done to be able
to you know, save species of endangered species. And then the third part
question is, uh, what kind planetary rules and regulations are there in place
for as I know, like there is a black market and the economy,
and there's a black market on the species ride as well. So you know,
John V. I, I don't know on that what kind of things
are doing. And as far as genetic engineering on these, I don't know.
I think it's just a matter of protecting habitat and that it's the same
story it's been true for plants throughout the ages that sometimes they'll find they'll get
a place it's kind of a preserve where people can't come in and do things,
and and they'll try to protect them that way. But that's a little
bit outside my area of expertise. But that is a very unusual flower,
that is for sure. Yes, thank you, it's magnificent. I saw
just this article just a few days ago, and so I'm like fascinated,
and so I'm really excited about getting connections with everybody on the article. And
yeah, lord, what's very very interesting stuff. Hey, I appreciate I
appreciate the call out there. Sounds like you're doing some some research out there
online. Thank you. Thank you all. Have a wonderful Sunday. All
right, all right you as well. Thank you. I appreciate that very
much. You know, I It's been a while since I've talked about Starve
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Star of Hope. We uh you know. We're here to answer your gardening
questions and if you would like to discuss anything related to gardener, you can
give me a call at seven one three, two, one two five eight
seven four seven one three two and two fifty eight seventy four. I was
visiting I think with you a little bit yesterday. I talked to somebody in
there. Here is their take. It's like some are just about killed a
minute, did kill most of their lawn and their plants, and they're just
like man, I it's hard getting the energy to want to get back out
there and do something. Well, that's fine. I wish I could talk
you in to getting out and doing something because it's good, it's fun,
it's enjoyable, it's healthy, and seeing the visual change is mentally helping too.
But if you need some help with this, just call pier Scapes.
That's what they do. I bet your irrigation system needs some work. Most
systems are not efficient. And after trying to keep plants alive this summer,
when the system it's not working right, no more, get it. Let
them fix it. They can do that. Do you need a designed sprinkler
system? Do you want led lighting for outside? Do you want to replant
and redesign some landscapes? Call pier Scapes two eight one three seven zero fifty
sixty Pierce Scapes dot COM's a website. Give him a call and say,
look, I need you to come in. We need to do some revamping
here and I want plants that are more dropped tolerant than the ones I just
lost. What can you suggest, take some pictures, sit down with them,
walk through it. Fall is for planting. Now is for calling them
and getting an appointment, getting in there, getting them working on it,
so that by the time we reach the holidays, you've got something that is
beautiful happening in your landscape. And why not just go ahead and pull the
plug and get that done because they can really turn it into a magical place.
You can go online go to their pearscapes dot com and look at pictures
of the kind of work that they do. You are listening to garden line
the number seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one
two ktr H. I mentioned that my new lawncare schedule is online at gardening
with Skip dot com and you will see on there that fall is a big
month. Whether you apply organic or synthetic fertilizers. It is the month to
get it done. If you need aeration. It's an important time to get
all that important time to get trace minerals put out too. If you haven't
done that this year, make sure and get that done as well. And
asomite is a product. We talk about it a lot, but it is
a mind trace mineral product. Asamite comes out of the ground and it is
chock full of all kinds of things that you don't think about when you're fertilizing.
Like have you ever grabbed a bag of fertilizer and gone, I wonder
if there's manganese and boron in this The answers probably no, But you need
to think about that because all of these minerals are essential, and asomite provides
those trace minerals that you need so much. Don't put it in the same
hopper as your fertilizer because it's a different particle size. But do your fertilization
and then follow with an application of azamite. It doesn't take a lot.
These are trace minerals. We're not putting a ton of it out there.
But the fact that they're needed in small amounts does not at all change the
fact that they are absolutely essential for plant health and growth. I was take
care of some areas in my landscape and in my garden too, there will
need a little bit of extra care. I've got a little automatic watering system
in the garden, and boy do I ever love that. It just comes
on. It's a hose end deal. It's not a little fancy clock on
the wall in the garage. It's just a hose end deal. But it's
a timer and I can set it to water what days I want for the
amount of time I want, And that just takes a lot of the difficulty
out of that, and I think it makes it just makes it a lot
easier for sure, to take care of your plants and keep them going.
I don't know, you're like me. You end up running around doing a
lot of different things, and sometimes you all of a sudden go, oh
my gosh, I haven't gotten around to do in that in my garden or
in my lawn, and I need to Well, anything we can put a
timer on and make it easy, that sure is a good idea. Well,
let's head out to Magnolia and we're going to talk to Michael. Hello,
Michael, good morning to Skip. How are you doing. I'm well,
what's up? Hi? Hey? I need to We have put in
a pool in the backyard and the yard is just tora up bad, and
I want to put down some Saint Augustine. But we have very as you
I'm sure you know, very sandy soil. Okay, So I want to
put down something I want to put in, and I want to top top
dress or bring in some soiled that would be good for the Saint Augustine.
Do I need to Can I just lay that on that on top of the
sandy clay soil that I have now, or do I need to till it
into the eat of the sandy clay. If you can scratch the surface between
the two a little bit, like a little bit of a light telling,
maybe you put a lot of the new soil down, or a little of
the new soil down, do a very light telling, and then put more
of the new soil that breaks that sudden transition zone between the two. And
if I were you, you're you're just down. You're not very far away
at all from nature's way, I'd give them a call. They have a
number of different blends, from just regular top soil to other blends that I
think they could kind of key one in on your specific site and what you
might need to make that happen. Okay, we're talking about eventually doing about
two acres with that. They do they have the bulk or is it?
No? No, no, no no. They're very book, very book.
And it may be that you're just pulling little compost down and mixing it
in too with the soil you have. But they they can help you with
that. Uh, here's the phone. Let me give you a phone number
for I forget about it. Nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety.
Just just give John or Ian a call over there and just explain to
them what you're trying to do, and say, I need to figure out
the best way because I got a lot of area to cover here. So
that's going to be part of the factor. Okay, okay, Is this
something that I would want to do during the fall in preparation for laying down
the Sign Augustine in the spring? You you could, now, I probably
would just wait until it's closer to when you're gonna lay down the Saint Augustine
a little bit closer to that. That way, you know, you get
one or rains gullywashing through there or whatever. It just gives you a low
way to hedge your bet Hey, Michael, I'm gonna have to run it.
We're on a hard break here, but good luck with that, and
thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, good
Sunday morning. You are listening to garden Line and what are we doing.
Well, we're talking about anything you're interested in regarding gardening that is important.
And speaking of important, the most important plants in your landscape, in my
opinion, or your trees. And that's because it takes a long time to
grow a big beautiful tree, and it doesn't take a long time to kill
him a big beautiful tree by not caring for him properly, by letting weather
do what weather did to us this summer that stresses trees, and the folks
had affordable tree care. Martin spoon Moore, you know that he knows what
he's doing. He've been doing this long time. His dad was in the
business. And when you were looking at a tree that's turning brown, it
needs to come out of there. I mean it, very few times when
a tree goes brown, is it going to bound track back, especially if
it's going brown in the midst of summer. Essentially what's happening is everything's collapsing
and the final thing you see is the browning. Well, Martin can get
it out of there. You need to remove it. Maybe it just needs
pruning. Maybe have trees that just need pruning. He can take care of
that. If you want to get on the pruning schedule, you need to
call him up because you know, once we get into the winter season,
it gets really busy with things like pruning, and someone like Martin that does
a good job for a good price, they stay booked up. Tell him
you're from you listen to guardline, so you get up at the front of
the list. But seven one three, six, nine nine twenty six sixty
three seven one three, six nine nine two six six three. Have them
come out and look, if you're going to do anything around your plants,
especially around your trees after the summer we had, like let's say you need
to trench or bring in so or take soil away or anything like that,
have them come out first because you can do a lot to protect plants before
the damage gets done. But after the damage it is very difficult to make
a huge difference. So avoid that by having someone that knows what they're talking
about, like Martin, come out and help you with that. We're going
to go out to Spring right now and talk to Rake. Hello, Reike,
good morning, Skip. How are you doing? I'm well. How
are you today? Well, I'm fine. My question apparently is going to
dovetail right into what you've just been talking about. I've noticed that probably sixty
percent of the magnolia trees in the Spring area, whether they're in someone's yard
or in an esplanade, are turning brown and dying. And I've got one
that's nice and big, nice and healthy. I keep it well watered.
But if there's some sort of blight that's affecting the trees, is there something
that I can do to prevent it? You have already done it. This
is a water deal. This summer was long and hot and dry, and
it really is coming after other brutal issues that these trees have gone through.
And I just think I've noticed that all over town Magnolia's hit a point where
they just flat ran out of adequate moisture to keep the plants cooled off,
to keep them adequately hydrated in order to make it through the summer, and
a lot of them just you're right, complete brown. Usually, no,
you're not that deeply rooted that it can reach the water table. Well,
it's moderately deeply rooted. But the thing is, the deeper you get in
the soil, the less oxygen there is and the less root activity you can
have. And because of the length of the heat and the drought, those
reserves even reserves down deeper or getting depleted, and you hit a point where
the tree cannot pump water fast enough. It's got limited water and it's doing
its best to get it absorbed and up in the plant, but the demands
are just way too high, and as a result, it crashes. And
when you see a magnolia turn all brown, I don't see it coming back
well, mind still nice and green. How often during the week should I
water? And for how long did you you know? If you water a
tree once every ten days to even fourteen days during the summer, with a
good soaking where you've wet the soil eight inches deep or more, that gets
it through the regular watering like you do for your lawn. Don't do that
for the trees. They don't need that. They need a good soaking and
then drying out, and you've already done that and right now, to be
honest, right we're we're kind of through this, maybe for another few weeks.
We kind of watch it a little bit with some rescues if it does
rain, but in general, once we cool off and we get some rain,
then that supply is going to be there to carry something like a healthy
magnolia on through winter. Okay, well, I'll just keep watering it.
And I appreciate your advice. Thank you so much. All right, thank
you. I appreciate appreciate that call very much, very much. Hey,
folks, done in Ciena Plantation, sun Creek Estates, Rochera, and Manville
all the way down there. CNA Mulch is your hometown mulch and rock supplier,
but not just mulch and rock. Do you need the fertilizers I talk
about on garden Line. They've got them. They have a wide variety of
products. They have sand stone, gravel, beautiful beautiful stone on palettes.
They'll deliver in bulk. You know, maybe you want a rose soil,
maybe you want a compost, maybe you need some hardwood mulch. They also
have bag products. They're available at CNA Maltz Sienna mulch dot com. It's
as easy as that, just north of Roschera near Highway six and two eighty
eight on FM five twenty one. They're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to
five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sunday, and later this
fall. I'll tell you about it more later, but I'm gonna be out
there. I'm gonna make an appearance out there, and I hope you'll be
able to come out and see me those years down in that part of the
countryside. Siena maltch, quality products, friendly service too, and always everything
you need, everything you need to make things go. We're gonna head out
now to Montgomery and talk to Dave. Hello, Dave, Yeah, high
Skip. How you doing. I'm good. What's up? Hey? So
I've been in this house about a year and I've had the lawn guy,
which I think is using just really you know keeper malts, these malts twice
but and I still get a tunnel weeds. So I'm about to upgrade and
you know, do a really good malt. My question is is it worst
scraping all the old malts chat out there before I remolt season a quality malt.
No, you just just put the put the new on top. That
old stuff will eventually rot and uh you know, and I mean unless you
had just like what they call a toxic mold, something that's made and the
way they make it a well, let's I'm just going to drop that conversation.
You're not going to have that kind of malts in the situation you just
described me. Just throw fresh mulch on top. Think of the forest floor,
old stuff riding on the surface, new stuff dropped on top. That's
exactly how to take care of your plants. Excellent. I was not looking
forward to doing that. Yeah, we save you some work. Now you
got time to find something else to do out there to have fun. Thanks
all right, thank you, Dave. I appreciate that call very much.
You know, Ace Hardware stores specialize in having what you need when you walk
in the door. Here's what I mean. Do you need a fertilizer?
I heard this on garden Line. Do you have it? Of course they
have it. Ace Hardware does that. They carry what we talk about.
Do you need a fungicide and insecticide and herbicide? Do you need tools for
your lawn and garden? Do you just want to do things outside that are
that beautify and make it a more enjoyable outdoor area. You know, I
was bragging on their barbecue equipment, and now that it's cooled off a little
bit, I'm getting outside on the patty. I'm doing some grilling and oh
my gosh, they have everything you can imagine for that. Do you want
to beautify that outdoor sitting area. It's all there. It's one stop shop.
You walk in, you're gonna go home with all the things you need.
And with thirty nine eight stores, it's not hard to find one in
your area. Ace Hardware dot Com do their store locator and you'll see what
I'm talking about. There's gonna be more than one near you. And when
you walk into ACE, you walk out with what you need to have.
A beautiful lawn, a bountiful garden, a gorgeous landscape. It's all right
there waiting for you. Well, it's time to take a break and we're
gonna do just that. If you'd like to get on the boards. Seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. Well, good morning,
you're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. I was just visiting, you know, with
right up and spraying about a magnolia's and he's keeping his trees alive while a
lot of them are not staying alive around town this this year. You know,
watering a tree properly is important. And when you water, here's what
you want to do. You want to focus your water on the area underneath
the branch spread. So think of the sun straight up overhead, twelve o'clock
high, and where's the shadow of a tree. That shadow tells you where
to water. You can water a little beyond that, but a focus your
watering attention on that, because here's what we're doing. We are not trying
to provide a tree with ever drop of water it might ever want. We're
trying to provide enough of a rescue treatment to keep them healthy until rain returns.
Trees are resilient, they have huge root systems, and so an extended
drought one hundred degrees no rain, days and days and days and weeks on
end, yes, it depletes the soil and we need to help them.
But other than that, don't think that trees need your water hose in order
to stay alive. They don't. They do just fine on the rainfall we
get here. It's just the exception. And when we need to water a
tree, you're not going to find a better device than that than the tree
hugger sprinkler. And the reason I like them. You put them on a
hose and it goes up to your tree and he kind of goes around the
tree. There's like three sizes. There's a seven eleven inch and a fifteen
inch size, and you can turn them on a little bit and water just
that new planted trees root ball just barely have them come on. To do
that. You can turn them on, crank them all the way up,
and you can water a very large area. But it's a circular area around
the trunk and outward from the trunk, not so much right there, but
outward that gives the soaking we need. And you may run it a while,
have it go off and soak, run it a while, have it
go off, and so it's easy to do. But tree hugger is a
way to do it. And it's insurance. I know. The name says
tree hugger. It's also a rose bush hugger. It's anything you want to
plant and put that thing around any kind of woody ornamental rose, shrubs,
trees. It'll take care of them, and it is a good way to
save not just keep the plant alive, but to help it thrive, because
that's the goal. Right. But we're gonna head out to College Station now
and talk to Brenda. Wello, Brenda high Skip, how can we help?
I have some three I have three mature post oaks, okay, in
a native area behind my house. It is it's a city drainage easement,
but they've left it native and wooded, and all of a sudden, I
noticed that the leaves on all three trees, almost at the same time,
are yellowing and kind of turning brown, and they're they're dropping. Yeah,
So am I losing these trees? Or is it early leaf drout? Maybe?
Well, I'm afraid that you may be losing them, but I'm not
making a call that. Okay, let's give up that they're done just yet.
Post Oaks are resilient trees. They live in the gravelly post oak belt
that goes north and south from don at Quero all the way up you know,
way past north of College Station. And they do well except when they
get into stress, they have problems. And when we you know, It's
fortunate are not in a landscape because that's where we create problems for post oaks.
But out in the wild like that. You'll notice driving around town a
lot of post oaks up in the Bryan College Station area have died this year.
They just turn brown. And here's what's happening. The tree is resilient,
but it hits a point where it gets weakened to a point where it
essentially just collapses. And it seems to happen overnight, but it actually takes
longer than that for it to happen. But when you see the browning,
that's usually not a good sign. Now, the fact that yours are turning
yellowing and some browning, we've got some cool rains that have come through.
I suspect you had rain at your spot right recently in the last couple of
weeks. We did. We got about an inch and a half last week,
and that is all that they need for now. Don't don't go well,
they're in a natural area. You're not going to water them anyway.
But if we can just get another rain like that in a few weeks,
they'll go on into winter. And if they're gonna come out, you'll know
it in the spring. If you don't see them in the spring come out,
then than I would make the call. They're probably a lost tree.
Okay, does I've noticed they do have some acorns on them? Is that
a good sign? Or is it? Does? It not matter? I
know, it's just part of the life cycle on all of our oaks.
And uh, you know that's it's neither here nor there. Okay, just
part of part of their cycle. But yeah, that they're they're a nice
tree. It's just they're persnicketty. There's a reason why you you will not
go into any garden center and find a posto tree for sale that just that
doesn't exist. Okay, So I just need to hope for a flowering spring
and rain here. Yeah, I hope that the hope the damage and stress
was not too great and then it can bounce back. I just watching so
many die up through that whole region this summer. It's uh, it's a
wait and see in my opinion. Okay, all right, thanks for the
call, and good luck with that. Good luck with that tree. I
hope. I hope that turns out really well for you, you know,
for your lawns out there. It's time for fall fertilizing. October is the
month to get that done. And the sooner you do it in October,
the better off you are. And here's why it gets. We've got a
bunch of months of really wonderful mal winter weather that your grass will love coming
up. But then when we get into November and December, grassroots are just
essentially stopping their growth. They're shutting down. It's cool at the days are
shore temperatures are cooler, and it's not moving. Get the fertilizer on now,
Get it on early October and have the most time possible for it to
do the most good building up that cool season resilience and Nelson Plant Foods carbo
load does just that. It's a ten ten twenty, so it's got a
good third number that's potassium, and that's important for drought stress. It's important
for winter heartiness, and it's important for building up the energy and your grass
plant so that coming out in spring it comes out strong. It's already weak.
We don't need to let it get weaker. We need to give it
that nutrition and carbo load ten ten twenty will do just at It also has
a pre emergent herbicide in it. So if you get it on a little
earlier because it's got that product, you can make sure and be ahead of
the weeds that are going to be germinating in October as well. But don't
delay. Just look for carbo load ten ten twenty for your lawn. We're
discussing a number of different things today. A lot of it still is related
to the elephant in the room, which was the brutal summer we just went
through. But I just want to remind you that now's a great time to
put in fall color. You know, if you've got some warm season plants.
We have a good ways to go before we expect to see a frost
here in the Greater Houston area, and you can go ahead and get some
of those in too, and then continue to enjoy those. It's a good
time to be able to do that. And where do you get Where do
you get plants? Now? If you're not in Kingwood, You've got two
places. You've got Kingwood Garden Center and you have Warren's Southern Gardens. I
just love visiting both of them. I mean, excellent selection, excellent supply.
The gift shops are wonderful. Kingwood especially just got a Kingwood Garden Centers
gift shop just amazing, and Warren's has their own gift shop as well.
You know, it's just easy to go to places like that because you have
trained staff who know what they're doing. They guide you, they answer your
questions, they point you to the plants that you need to do their best,
and you just can't do better than that. And I would check them
out. Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood both went through their interview, interview their
inventory. A couple of weeks ago. They open back up. I think
it's last Sunday. They already open again and they are going full steam ahead.
While you're there, pick up soil. Member, don't buy a plant
without buying some soil to make it survive and thrive. As a matter of
fact, always get a good quality soil. Maybe we need a Texas law.
Talked about this before. If you're going to buy green stuff, you
have to also buy brown stuff. It's just it's the law. It's kind
of like can't drive by BUCkies without pulling over. That's the Texas law.
By the way, I don't if you need that, but you gotta buy
the brown stuff when you buy the green stuff. Why because the brown stuff
makes the green stuff do what you bought it for. When you buy that
little plant, you're you're imagining blooms, you're imagining foliage, color, you're
imagining fruit, You're whatever you're buying the plant for. That's your mind's eye
picture, that's your dream. The brown stuff makes it happen. The compost,
the leafmo compost, the mixes like a rosemegs or whatever. That's the
secret sauce, so that the beautiful plants do what you wanted to do.
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Just watch him as Woody Good, good morning, Good morning on a
beautiful Sunday morning. Oh my gosh, look outside, the sun is shining,
little breeze blowing, clear skies. Gonna be a good days, Gonna
be a very good day. You know. We uh when it comes to
gardening, our our desire is to have beauty, is to enjoy ourselves in
the process. Our desire is to create that kind of setting that we just
want to live in. I mean, know, it's a beautiful lawn,
it's a beautiful landscape, it's outdoor sitting areas, it's being out in the
garden, it's picking fresh produce, it's it's a thousand things all the way
into beautiful house. Plants to decorate the indoors part of the house. And
we can provide that kind of success whenever we purchase plants that are made to
do well here. And that's what Ana Plants and Produce sells if you go
up to the Montgomery area Lake Conro area, that's where ANA is. They're
just on the east side of Montgomery, right up there on Highway one oh
five, and they serve that whole area. And boy, you're fortunate if
you live anywhere around Lake Conro or Montgomery or Conro itself. An A Plants
and Produce is going to have that kind of selection. They're going to sell
things that do bo here right now. They're Boy, they're new selection of
a bunch of moms coming in up there. Just looks great. And I
think they really specialize. In addition to ten bazillion kinds of plants and quality
staff that can help you, I think they really specialize in bling you.
If you're looking for a gazebo and arch atopiary kind of thing. If you're
looking for decorations, oh my gosh, there their fall decorations are unbelievable.
It's going to take you a while just to go through and seble a and
a plant to produce. Well worth a visit. Hey, that's a good
thing to do. And get out there and do this afternoon. They're open
seven days a week from nine to five, go out to A and A
plants and produce right on the east side of Montgomery. Heay, Well,
let's step back to the phones now. Our phone numbers nine, seven nine,
excuse me, seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. We're going to go to
the woodlands and talk to Veronica. Hey, Veronica, good morning. I
have a question about grass. We have a large area that needs to be
resided, like fourteen tallots of sides, so I don't want to go that
route. I've heard that there are some grass seeds that will take and I'd
like to know your thoughts on which seed and when to plant. Okay.
Is this a very very bright sun area or is it partially shaded or what
it's partially shaded? Okay. The grass that I would say you could plant
from seed would be the dwarf bermuda grasses. There are a few types.
So there's one called Sahara that's a bermuda that can be seated, Saint Augustine,
no, Zoisia no, and so it's just a bermuda. But bermuda
doesn't like the shade. It doesn't do well doesn't make density in the shade.
Also, Bermuda is an invader of flower beds, and so that's one
that I'm not real crazy about for that reason. So that takes us back
to having to choose sodding. If you're trying to make the dollar go a
little further, you can cut side chunk side blocks up and plant them in
strips about a foot apart and eventually get coverage over that area through the course
of a season. That's a lot of labor and then you're dealing with the
weeds and between the strips in the meantime. But if you're trying to go
from the expense of a full sidding and maybe looking at seating, that side
strips would be kind of an intermediate option. So if you do go bermia,
what time of years should you plant that? You want to wait until
it really warms up, and so I would say probably about mid April I
would I would start putting those out. These are little tiny seeds. They're
gonna come up and they're gonna be weeds around them and rain splashing and washing
soil and things, so you kind of have to work with them a little
bit. It may take more than one planting. I've seen people plant and
they get a gully washer and all the seed washes down into one spot,
and so you've got to go replant those other spots. So that's just part
of the touch and go of the seeding process. Okay, great, thank
you, all right, good luck with that. Have fun up there in
the woodlands with that long If you are out in mont Bellevue, you are
fortunate because you have one of our best feed stores we've got around the area,
and that is Texas Feed Stop. Texas Feedstop is on north on Highway
one forty six, just north of I ten, just a few minutes north
of I ten one one forty six in mont Bellevue. So if you're on
in Baytown, Texas Feed Stop is still your hometown feed store. They're not
very far away. You will not find better customer service than Brian and Hope
Rhodes make sure happens at their store, the Texas Feed Stop. They carry
the bags out for you. They have what you need. You walk in
there and it's not like, well, we don't have any more of those.
They stock all the fertilizers we talk about, and they stock soil mixes.
They like heirloom for example. They've got that on hand there. Mosquito
dunks that I brag about a lot of other things. Do you need pest
control, disease control, weed control, They've got it. You can walk
into Texas Feed Stop and you head home and you've got what you need to
have the most beautiful lawn that you could have, or a garden if that's
what you'd like to do. Again, just a few minutes north of Ytown
on Highway one forty six, Texas Feed Stop out there in mont Bellevue,
serving that whole region. We're gonna go now up to north Shore and we're
gonna talk to Donnie. Hello, Donnie, Hello, Damn miss Skip,
good morning morning. Let then to your show. Got streat things you just
putting out there? Being on the north short side, that Texas Feed Stop
would probably be the closest uh feet store to me or Kingwood probably, so
yeah, I'd have to get a map out to see which is closer to
you. But yeah, I think I think Texas Feed Stop not too far
away. What are you looking for? Okay? But several things. I've
got a large area of grass that have turned brown between my house and the
neighbor's house. Okay, I have a sprinkler system, but I've been doing
more water than the neighbor, and I've been raking dead grass, trying to
get some sunshine in there and let those uh Saint Augustine roots started to spread
again. I see little patches coming up. So am I going the right
way with that? Yes? If you've got living spriggs, then we can
get those things healthy and they'll cover back over for you next spring when it
warms up and the grass really starts growing right now. You just want them
to go into winter as strong as they can, and you need to get
a good fall fertilizer for that. That's one that has a lower first number
than we've been fertilizing with all through the summer, but it's got a good
third number amount in it. And there's a lot of good products you know,
that are out there for that. Whether you gardener, I don't know
if you gardener organically or synthetic or whatever, but there are options no matter
what for that. Okay, Yeah, Well, I used to work for
an agricultural chemical company that produce dack and nail. Huh bravo, yep arsenates
and back all stuff for golf courses and okay, ornament ornament plants and stuff
like that, but they are no longer in business. Okay, well,
you know, I was just looking at them. Matt Bellevuees is probably your
closest place to go out there for that if you want to head out that
direction out I ten you were saying Kingwood versus Mont Bellevue. Mont Bevue be
a little bit closer for you. The Texas feed Stop, Texas feed stop
out of Mont Bellevue. Yeah, if you're if you're looking for fertilizers that
they're gonna have them, and just ask them for their fall fertilizers. They've
got. They've got more than one option for you. What about plants for
the fall to those, they carry a few stock of some vegetable plants usually
out front. Just give him a call and check them out and see they
probably have some on stock there for it. They're pretty good about carrying that.
Okay, all right. I've heard several people talking about the trees,
the leaves turning brown. Yeah, yeah, branches brown falling down. Yeah.
You say the best thing for that is the water around the shaded area
of the tree. Yeah, underneath the branch bread. Hey, Donny,
I am I'm pushing past a little break here if you want to hang on
and keep this going otherwise, I do appreciate your call. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give me all
and we will talk to you when we come back. All right, Good
Sunday morning, on a great day to be outside, for sure. I
hope this afternoon you're planning on getting out and getting a little bit of activities
done around the yard, maybe perhaps visiting a few garden centers. Hey,
if you're out in the kingwod if you're out in the Richmond area, you
want to swing by and check out in Chanted Gardens. In Chanted Gardens is
the garden center that is. You're in Richmond, going up toward Katie on
Highway three fifty nine FM three fifty nine. They are on the Katie Full
Shure side of Richmond, and boy, oh boy, if you go there,
you will see why I am always bragging about in Channic Gardens. It
is a beautiful place. It is a just absolutely chock full of everything you
need for your plants, from the products that help the plant grow, like
your lawn fertilizers to a huge variety of plants. I mean we're talking about
everything from flowers and herbs and fruit trees and house plants and shrubs and vegetables
and just on and on and on down the line. I mean, it
never stops. I was looking the other day. They even had a nice,
really nice selection of some beautiful herbs out there. They got some great
succulents that they brought in, and then the pumpkin patch has arrived. Oh,
really cool collection of all that fall decorating stuff that you have and that
you're interested in. Hey, and Chanted Gardens is in chant The website is
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the one we're talking about. Monday through
Saturday eight am to five pm. Sunday ten am to four pm. So
a good afternoon. We've ordered great weather for you, so go ahead and
head out there and check them out, and you will be all set up
for taking care of your lawn, for getting your fall plantings done this fall.
We're gonna head out now to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hello,
Doris, good morning, how are you. I'm well, what's up
with you today? I'm thinking about putting barricade out. Okay, what setting
do I use on my scutspraighter you need to chang? Okay, go ahead,
and also do I water it in afterwards or just wait until the frame
or system comes on. Okay, So you follow the label, flip the
bag over, whatever kind of information it gives you on setting. Barricade is
a pretty small sized particle, so you're going to have your setting down a
little bit tighter where it's not putting out so much. If in doubt,
whenever you're applying anything, whether it's something like barricade or a fertilizer, I
always go a little bit less in the setting, and that way, as
you go over your lawn, you don't realize, oh my gosh, I
ran out and I've double dosed, you know, because I had it open
too much. If you have a little lecture, then you can come back
crossways across the lawn and apply the second half of it. But I always
go a little bit light, just to be sure, because on something like
barricade, you want to get it out at the right rate, but not
double or triple the rate. Okay, that's very important. Now as far
as watering it indoors, you can water it in that very same day.
Or if you wanted to sit there and you know it's gonna rain todays from
now, that's fine. There's no it'll be fine just sitting there. But
it does need about a half inch of water to get it down in the
soil so that it does what you're wanting it to do. And that's prevent
the October weeed germination of cool season weeds. Okay, what about the brown
Banks fall fertilizer. Okay, the fall fertilizer fall Fall special is going to
be a perfect blend for the health of your of your grass plant going into
winter. We need to strengthen our plants and get them ready for winter so
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do the fall fertilization now and again look at the bag, and then with
whatever kind of spreader you have, look at the bag and follow that,
and again, if in doubt, go make the opening a little smaller because
you can always come back over again cross ways and make sure you get it
out evenly. Okay, yep, that to do it all right. We'll
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phone number is seven one three, two one two five eight seven four seven
one three two and two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, if you are
looking to get your lawn rejuvenated and you would like a quality natural product that
gets that done, Microlife Fertilizer has got you covered. Microlife has a wide
variety of options for their fertilizers and their other products that are good for the
lawn. But the two that I would focus on right now is the microlife
brown patch. That's a five one three fertilized that's a good one to put
down in the fall, and in addition to providing the nutrient, it provides
a lot of microbes, and microbes help protect our plants. Now, the
other thing that I would do with that is the bioinoculant that's kind of a
purplish violet colored bag. The bioinoculant is only put out at about ten pounds
per thousand square feet because we're not fertilinging with it. We are innoculating the
plant surfaces with microbial activity. And the goal is to have those surfaces filled
with good microbes so that when a bad microbe would land to cause a plant
disease, you have a very hostile environment there for them. And plus there
are a lot of good microbes that just directly fight diseases and issues. But
let's make it simple. Microlife brown patch that is a orange dark orange bag
five one three with Microlife bioinoculant, the violet colored bag and those two together,
water them in really well and get that done. Now, by the
way I would, I would do it right away. I mean, you
could wait until October, or you could just just go do it right now,
because we want to get those down. We want to start releasing their
nutrients, and we want them to be in place helping with the lawn health
before the arrival of the brown patch which is coming this fall. Microlife Fertilizer
dot com you can find them all over town. Not difficult at all to
find Microlife fertilizer products. I had a call, you know, a little
bit earlier from up in College Stationary and it just reminded me that my favorite
feed store up in that whole region is the Grimes County Feed. They're out
in Carlos on Highway thirty. I like, if you're in College Station you
head out, head out Highway thirty towards Carlos. They're about two miles west
of FM two forty four. Now. The Roy family has been operating this
store and they're doing an excellent job of it. They carry the fertilizers we
brag on here. You're going to get your tree hugger sprinklers there by the
way too. They're going to have the mosquito dunks there too. They have
a lot of things. Of course, it's a feed store. You've got
feed for your dogs, your cats, quality feed, you've got livestock feed
products, and you've got things to take care of your pond. Maybe you
need to deal with weeds in the pond or fish food or something. You
know, they do fish stocking twice a quarter throughout through the Grimes County feed
out there as well. Not going to do better than that. So all
you folks that are listening out in that part of the woods, Iola and
beat Eyes and Roans, Prairie and Richards. If you're in Kingwood Oak or
king Oaks, or if you're in Mere Woods subdivision, this is your hometown
feed stores just right around the corner. And the stuff you need to have
a beautiful lawn and to keep your trees healthy is all there waiting on you.
Let's set out to Clear Lake. Now we're gonna talk to Lane.
Hello, Lane, Hi, good morning. Get. I was wondering if
I can use try as a side insect chiller for lawns and landscapes. You
can then put I can right now? You can't, well you can if
there's an insect you're going after right now? Are right not full of fire
ants? Are we talking about fire ants? Yeah. Now then now it's
all over. Okay, well fire rance, yeah, it'll it'll control those.
I would if it was fireants, I would go with a bait instead
of that. Try the triside you mentioned is a is an insecticide, a
contact insecticide. I would get a good fire ant bait and put out at
the label rate H and that will take care of about eighty or ninety percent
of the mounds. And then if some are missed, you can just go
after those with the other insecticide. Okay. There's not any time of the
year you use this. Uh, fall is the best time to fight fire
ants, but we fight them pretty much year round, but fall is especially
important going into winter. So this morning, next month important times to get
the fire at control done before it gets too cold, okay, okay,
and then then put down the feed in the fertilizers for the ask. Yes,
well you can do. Yeah, you don't mix. Don't mix fire
at bait with fertilizer in a hopper, but you can put them both on
the same day. I would water in the fertilizer and then put out the
fire at bait. Okay, okay, great, thank you, thank you.
Lane. I appreciate that call. Hey, you're listening to garden Line
and we're gonna take a little break here. We'll be right back. Our
phone number if you'd like Josh to get you up on the board, so
you'll be first up when we come back to talk. That is seven one
three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two ktr
eight. Good Sunday morning. It is a great day outside and boy,
I hope this afternoon you'll get outside and do a little bit to take your
lawn to the next level, right. I mean, we definitely need to
be doing that right now. And one of the things that our lawns will
really benefit from at this point in time after that brutal summer is a good
deep tying aeration with a compost top dressing. Deep tin aeration punches holes through
the hard clay soil or hopefully it's moist in order for the aeration to work
well, but it'll get some holes down in there in the clay to provide
oxygen for the roots system, and that's important for grasses to thrive in our
area. Now. Secondly, following it with the top dressing of composts that
is going to give you the organic matter down in those holes as well as
on the surface, and it just is a win win When you fertilize,
someone is going to move down in those holes as well as you wash that
fertilizer into the soil, and the lawn just gets better and better. And
who does that well? Greenpro does that. You can go to greenpro dot
net. Greenpro's prices start at five ninety nine plus sales tax depending on the
size and the location of your property. But they come in and they do
it right. Go to greenpro dot net. Greenpro dot net. You'll see
a little video on there of the kind of work that they do with their
compost top dressing. It is probably the single best thing you can do to
culturally bring your lawn back out of what we just went through and to if
it the best chance it can for surviving. I would get that done soon,
sooner rather than later, and then follow it up with your good fall
fall application of fertilizer that we've been talking about. Either way you go,
you're it's gonna be a win win for your long with greenbro. I'm gonna
go out now to Katie and I'm gonna talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn,
Good morning, skipod Morning, Good morning. I've questioned for you.
I have a cottage stall house that sits off the ground. I had some
azelias planted around the base of the house, on the sides of the house
to keep from being able to look under the house. The heat killed him.
They were old, They're probably about twenty three twenty five plus years old,
and they finally died out. I would like to replace those. Could
you give me some recommendations on some types of shrubs I can plant around the
house, okay, to replace those. I'm assuming you're you're inferring to me
that you would rather not go back with azalias. Is that I love those
values. But if you had something else that you could recommend another okay,
point, that would be great too. I would like to do some options
if possible. Tell me about the sunlight in that spot. Is it dappled,
is it deep shade? Is it pretty bright? What do you see?
It's pretty bright? Okay? Well, we have a number of different
plants. There is a there's one called Chinese witch hazel. It has a
burgundy maroonish kind of foliage color, real pretty in the spring. It has
a little shaggy hot pink blooms. They're very unusual looking. You can go
online and search for it. You want to check the varieties where you go
shopping and make sure you're getting a dwarf one. They can get quite cable
in time, but there are some that stay a little smaller and then you
just keep them sheared and they look pretty good. So if you've got decent
light, they will bloom for you and look good there. If it's a
little too shady for them, you would probably have to go a different direction.
But there are some hollows that can grow down lower in the shade.
They're just an evergreen shrub and so you know, there's not necessarily blooms or
anything on those, But hollies will be another good option for that as well.
Great, and they will take the winner, the cold winner, all
of those will take the winner. Yes, that's beautiful. Great, Okay,
that's great, all right, thank you, skip good luck out there,
and Katie with getting that all spruced up around the house out there.
Yeah, you're listening to garden Line. And our number, by the way
is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four yesterday, I was out and about around town
and I stopped by RCW Nurseries and I always like to stop into our CW
because they have a great supply of all kinds of things. I would just
wandering through, and you know, Henry thought about this before, but the
big beautiful shade trees all around, and just wandering through and enjoying the shade,
you know, as of ninety five degrees yesterday to a little on the
warm side, and it was just a pleasure being out there and enjoying that
and looking at their trees. It reminded me a lot of folks are wanting
to get trees and shrubs planted this fall, and r CW has an outstanding
selection. They grow their own trees up in Plantersville on their farm up there.
And I mean, if you need a tree and you need one that
grows well here, an adapted species for our area, for our soils,
r CW will get you set up on that. They got the supplies you
need to go with your tree, you know, the roots, stimulators and
other things that you might want to use. As you're getting that established,
they can come out and plant it for you. You can plant it yourself.
Just be careful if you get very big root ball that your caropractor's kids
are going to have a free ride through college based on your numbers. So
either hard them to come out and do it, or do it yourself.
Either way, do it right. They'll tell you how to do it.
They give you the right kinds of plants list to choose from, and they
help you with that. R c W Nurseries dot Com. Now all the
bling of fall is there all you know. I was looking at their their
herbs or perennials or flowers and shrubs and everything. They've got it all there.
They carry the products to the fertilizers. I recommend they're there at at
our CW Nurseries again Tambo Parkway which is two forty nine where it comes into
Beltway eight. Very much worth a stop. Our phone number is seven one
three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. If you haven't done a soil test in a while,
you ought to do that, because a soil test tells you what's already there
in your soil, so you can fertilize accordingly. Maybe there's a nutrient that
is way too high or way too low. And our standard recommendations don't always
fit the bill perfectly in every time. If you know that from a soil
test, then you can fix it accordingly. And one thing I was visiting
with Bob out in Southwest Fertilizer while back. He's got a soil probe that
he loans out and that is so helpful. Trying to get a good lawn
soil test without a soil probe is a little bit of a challenge to do.
But with a soil probe, you push it in. It takes a
core of soil out. You put a bunch of them in a bucket,
mix it up and send it to the lab. And then when you come
back, take Bob your sample results and say here's what it said, and
he will pair it with the perfect fertilizer for that. Now at Southwest they
have everything that you need. If they don't have it, you don't need
it. That's how I like to refer to it, because when it comes
to fertilizers and secticides, pesticides, herbicide, if you're an organic gardener,
you want organic, they've got it. They've got the best selection in town
of organic. Southwest fertilizer dot com and there, as the name implies,
on the southwest side of town, that is near the corner of Bissonette and
Renwick. Everything you need is there at Southwest Fertilizer. I need to get
out and do some salted I haven't soil tested my yard in about three years.
It's time to get back out there and to do that so I can
fertilize a little bit more accurately. When I go about it again, the
number seven one three, two one two five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Chashi call, He'll get you
on the board. You will be first up when we come right back.
Good Sunday morning, folks. You are listening to Garden Line, and that
is what we're all about here. We are here to help you recover from
this summer. If your lawn is struggling, if your trees are struggling,
if you've lost inspiration, and I know some people do, I get it.
I mean it was a brutal one to walk through. The good news
is fall is here. We officially hit the first day of fall. It
is only ninety five degrees yesterday. You know, I said when it dropped
five belies degrees below one hundred. That's call fall here in Texas, and
we're going to run with it. Well, it's gonna get cooler and cooler
as times go on. Our plants are going to get happier and happier as
we take care of them. I just want to remind you that don't wait
until the inspiration bug re arrives. Act. Now. Now's the time.
Now's the time to get your soil ready. Now is the time to do
all the things we do to have success. And timing is important because think
about this. Let's say it was one hundred and five outside right now,
that would not change the fact. Then in order to have a vegetable crop,
get in and get out and get planted and do the things it needs
to do. It has to be done right. So the weather may not
respect the calendar, but when we look at when the first frost is going
to occur, when we look at the temperature changes that are happening and things
like that, we have to honor that and respect that. And fall is
for planting, and so get ready, get ready. Now, now's the
time. You know, the folks get quality feed. Kin and Chris that
they have got a excellent selection of new vegetables in a whole bunch of new
transplants have come in. They also have an unbelievable selection of garden seeds.
So if you want to you're into growing in your own food, which I
hope you are, but you're not going to eat any healthier than that.
They've got a wide variety of heirloom seeds that they carry there, and so
this is the time to go. I mean, it's it. We're planting
cool season crops like Broklyn cabbage, cauliflower, collars, corabi, spinach seasons,
lettuce seasons coming up here, carrots and all the different things you would
want to grow for fun and for health in your garden. They've got it
right there. A Quality Feed they by the way, the website is quality
feed coo dot com. They're on eighteenth at eighteen thirteen Luzon Streets, near
the intersection of Equipment and Illusion and they're open today, by the way,
from eleven thirty to four. A good time to get out. Say hey
to the folks. Ken and Chris they're at Quality Feed. While you're there,
pick up the fertilizers I've been talking about all day and every week that
I talk about. Pick up some of the quality soil mixes that we brag
on. Here Ken has them. They've got them in stock right there at
Quality feed. If you need anything for pest control, weed controlled, diseases
things, they've got that as well. It's just an easy one stop shop.
But please do consider doing a vegetable garden this fall. Fall is the
best season in the world for growing vegetables. I love it, absolutely,
just love it. You're listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two and two
five eight seven four, and I hope you will give us a call talk
about things that might be of interest to you. One of the things we
talk about a lot right this season of the year is how to have a
beautiful lawn. What do you need to do to your lawn? The folks
at Nitrofoss have come up with a really good one two three step system.
It's the Texas three step. What is the Texas three step? Well number
one. It's a fertilizer four fall designed for fall, to designed for our
soils, designed for our lawns. It's called nitrophosphall special and the nitrofosphall special
will provide some phosphate for the root development and growth. It'll also provide the
very important potassium along with a lower amount of nitrogen, which is what you
want for fall, so that the plants get stronger and stronger going into winter
and come out stronger in the spring. This is the secret sauce, folks.
It's a secret sauce to having healthy plants. When you put potassium in
a plant along with some nitrogen, winter heartiness goes up, drought tolerance goes
up. Potassium has a critical role in both of those. Switch out from
your summer fertilizers do the fall special. Now that step one, step two
nitrofhosp barricade that is a pre emergent weed control. Your lawn may be a
little thinner because of what it just went through. When sunlight hits a soil
nature plants of weed. Barricade put down and watered in creates a barrier on
the soil ser and the weeds cannot germinate and establish. Follow the label carefully
on how much to apply, on how to apply it, and on how
to water it in. Those are all three very very important if you want
success. And then third step is the Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide. Eagle is
a systemic protectant. It's a curative fungicide as well. We've got large patch
brown patch season. It's coming. It will get here when we get a
coal front and low cooler temperatures. You're gonna see the big brown circles before
they appear. Get that eagle down. It is best to use before you
see the circles, and so early October is a good time to do that.
One two, three steps the Texas three step Nitrofoss Fall Special, Nitrofuss
Barricade, Nitrofus Eagle turf grab one of each three when you're out shopping and
where do you get it? Well, Cyperus Ace has it, fish Or's
Hardware and Laport has it. Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond area. Has
it easy to find nitrofus products in our area. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Hey, I want to remind you that next Saturday,
please write this down on your calendar. This is one heck of a
shindig you do not want to miss. I'm going to be out at Nature's
Way. Nature's Way Resources is up forty five. Like you're going to Conro
about where fourteen eighty eight comes in. You just turn right across the railroad
tracks and you're Nature's Way. And Nature's Way is the home of all kinds
of great products for your soil. Rose soil. We're talking about soils like
a fungal compost like just you name it. They have it composts and other
mixes. That's what they specialize in. But on next Saturday they're going to
have the Fall Garden Festival, and this is a big deal. I'm going
to be out there answering your gardening questions, visiting with You'd always love to
meet the folks from different areas. So if you're up in the Conro direction,
please come out for sure out there to Nature's Way. They're gonna have
Latin food, They're gonna have live music, they're gonna have local vendors,
they're gonna have adulpt beverages. I told you it was a shin dig for
kids. There's gonna be a scavenger hunt. They're gonna have a morning class
at nine am before I get out there creating and enchanting fairy gardens. I'll
be out there from eleven thirty till one thirty. I hope you'll come out.
Hey, here's a phone number for more information. Nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety This
is free. It's a free event. Check out their native plants too when
you're out there that They just keep making that area even better. Let's head
out to Porter now and we're gonna talk to Margie. Hello, Margie.
Oo, how are you this morning? Well, I'm good. I'm good.
I'm officially calling it fall, so I'm all excited. Yes, long
as the temperatures would go down some, it would be nice. That's coming
next week. I put in there, Okay, I have a highbiscus and
I was out putting water in the I have it in a pot putting water
in. It's morning. I noticed I have some ants in there. I
have a bag of soil mender. It's a white like powder stuff that starts
with DA. Don't ask me to pronounce it, okay, And and it
has earth in it too. Can I put some of that nibiscus plan or
would that hurt it? It won't hurt it. I don't know how much
good it'll do for the for the insects, dietemacious earth. Think of it
this way. It's like broken It's like broken glass shards that are real time
like a dust like material. So when insects walk through it, it gets
caught in the joints, you know, of their arms, their legs and
their bodies, right, and it laceerates and cuts and causes fluid to leak
out. So it's kind of a it's like you walking barefoot through glass,
is what it amounts to for the insects. Okay, so it helps,
but it's not you know, if you're trying to control answers other ways to
do it? Are these fire ants any chances? No? They are a
little small looks like black ants. I stepped in time yesterday and oh they
do Okay, Well, yes, I don't know. I might. I
might just try. Another option would just be to drench them with an insecticide
through that area. If they're in the pot, that might be okay.
That might betide anything that's labeled for killing ants. There's a lot of products
out there. It just depends on, you know, the kinds of things
you want to use. I wish I could determine for sure if they're fire
ants or not. It doesn't sound like they are. But like I say,
these are small little ants, okay, and they do? Why all
right? Well try the datamasia serf. See if that runs them off first.
That would be the simplest, least toxic product. Hey, I'm having
to hit a break. It's time for the new the top of the hour
news. But thank you, Margie, good luck. We Oh, I
have one. I have one more question. Hang on until we come.
I'll thank you our phone number seven one three two and two fifty eight seventy
four. We will be back shortly to answer more of your gardening questions.
Uh, this is going to be going into our last hour. So if
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skip rictor so crazy just watching us. So many piasts did good Sunday morning,
folks. It is a beautiful day out there, and we have arrived
at the doorstep of fall. It is time to begin doing all the things
we need to do to a get our struggling plants back on their feet.
And b put in new things because fall is the best planting season of the
year. Do you have some shrubs that just couldn't take the sun where you
had them planted, Maybe they need to be moved to the shade. Fall
is a good time to do that. I would do that in early November
probably, it's about the best time to make a move like that. Maybe
you've got an area that a shrub that needs more sun, or maybe you
want to replace a shrub something that's a little more drought resilient. Fall fall,
fall, it's a time to do it. We are on the doorstep
of fall, and it's time to be talking about a lot of things like
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continue a conversation with Maggie. Hello, Maggie. Hello. Okay, So
I have a yesterday, today, and tomorrow plant and it has survived this
heat, okay, which I'm surprised. Can I trim it back though?
Can you trim back? You can? It's a summer bloomer. But when
you trim a plant and the mild weather we're going to have the next few
weeks, it's going to try to regrow, and that regrowth is going to
be very cold tender when the first hard freeze comes. So I would wait
and do that trimming at the end of winter if you could. And yeah,
I still have some bloom a couple of blooms still on it. So
that's right. That's a beautiful plant for those that haven't seen. Oh,
I love it. Yeah, brune felsy with the way that the reasonings call
that for the other folks listening is the flowers change each day. That's why
they call it yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It looks a little different
each day it does. And I have one more question on fertilization, so
both by brown patch. I put humates down too before I put that down
or not? Yes, you can, you sure can. I would.
I would consider their bioinoculant product. It's kind of a violet colored bag.
It's used at a very low rate, just ten pounds per thousand square feet,
but it has a lot of the microbial activity to the surface out there
of the plants, because we're about to hit head into the season where things
like large patch or brown patch can really be a problem. So that's okay.
They're all good. You could use them all at the same time if
you want. They do different things. Oh, I can use that bio
and I can use hummates and the brown patch too. Yes, the humans
are going to get down, they're going to overtime as you do humates year
after year and your soil, you're building and improving the soil. Now the
brown patch is going to have microubs in it, but it's also going to
have the nutrients for fall that we put down. And then the bio as
you said, bio stuff, the bio monoculant. That's okay, that's okay.
Bio stuff is just good. We could abbreviate it, but that would
get a little weird on a Sunday. So yeah, the bios would.
The bio stuff is an innoculant, so that's a different purpose. But those
are all good products. Uh yeah, But I don't want to put in
I don't want to put all three in the spread or at the same time.
I need to do one at a time. But I can do it
all on one day, absolutely. Yeah. Because in a spreader, whether
it's insexticide, fungicide, herbicides, aisam, whatever you are, fertilizers,
whatever you put down, it's had different particle sizes, so each application needs
to be set for its own particle sizes. Yeah, okay, okay,
okay, that's what I need, so I'll probably put down pre emergent first
and get that over with, and I can do it anytime in October,
right, I would do it earlier in October. You, well, I'm
going to try because I'm gonna be gone the first two weekends in October.
Okay, well you could, you could. I mean, you could do
it at the end of before you go for the first two weekends. But
your way up in the northern hinterlands of Porter, so fall comes a tad
bit earlier than it does for folks down. Let's say, really, okay,
I know I'm giving you a hard time. Seriously, don't delay in
getting all those things down. Okay, okay, okay, thank you,
all right, you take care. You've heard me talk about Star of Hope
here, and it's because I believe in Star of Hope. And I know
that you're a compassionate person and you would like to help people. You don't
want to give somebody something that's not going to do them good. In fact,
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There's children with new hope and new future because of what Star Hope does
for mom, dad and the family. We're gonna go now out to you
know what, I'm bout out of time here on this segment. Jim and
Steve, you're the first two up. When we come back, I don't
have enough time to do justice to your call right before we go to break.
So I'm going to go ahead and we're just going to head to a
little break here and we will come back and we will join up with you
in just a moment. Our phone number is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. We'll be right back and when we do, we'll
get to your calls. Plus, I got a couple of the things I
want to add today as we wind up on last segment of the weekend,
the last hour of the weekend here on guarden Line. Well, good morning.
You're listening to garden Line, and we're having a good time today because
summer is past and we are celebrating the fact that all that miserable is gone.
Forget the fact that it's in the nineties today. We're okay, we're
on our way down. We're heading in the right direction, and it is
time to kick into gear and get this stuff done. For example, if
you need to fertilize your lawn, if you need to do fall activities for
your lawn, Nitrofuss has put together their Texas three Step. Texas three Step
is absolutely an ingenious combination of three different things that are designed exactly for the
problems your lawn has. Right now, here's what I'm talking about. For
example, Texas three step starts off with nitrofoss Fall Special. That is a
fertilizer designed for the soils and the conditions that your lawn faces in the fall,
and it's exactly the right mix to provide cold heartiness, to provide recovery
from drought, and to strengthen the grass so that coming out next spring it's
better off. The most important fertilizer you put on all years in the fall.
It really is. If you had to pick one time you're gonna do
fertilizing, this will be it. And it's because it sets you up for
next year once a grass gets growing next year and everything's moving along. Yeah,
we fertilize, we do things like that, but it's not going to
come out of winter like it will without that fall fertilizer. So secondly,
second step nitrofost barricade. It's a pre emergent weed control. Your lawn may
have thin areas sunlights hitting the soil, therefore weeds begin to come up in
those spots. Barricade prevents that from happening. You got to get it down
before the weeds come up, which means, let's do that in early October
and watered in. Follow the label. Always follow the label. Listen.
It is really important when using any kind of a product that you follow the
label. A teaspoon on the label means a tea spoon applied, not a
tablespoon. You're not going to extra kill weeds. You cause problems when you
over dose things. It shouldn't be overdose. I mean, do you take
a bottle of aspurn or do you take the number of aspurn that's prescribed to
fix the headache? Right, it's the same kind of thing. A good
thing. Overdone is not a good thing. So let's do it right and
barricade will do exactly that for you. Secondly, or thirdly, night Fuss
Eagle is a turf fungicide. What does that mean? It means it protects
your turf against take all root rot coming this fall. It'll be reinfecting and
also the large patch, the large patch we deal with also called brown patch.
That's the common name for it. Well, that's what it's designed for.
One, two, three fall Special Barricade Eagle All three from Nitrofiss.
Where do you get them? Jim's Hardware and Montgomery Ace Hardware, Memorial Lake
Hardware include all places that you can get this great combination of products to take
care of your lawn going into the cool season. We're gonna head out now
to Jim and Meadow Springs. Hello Jim, Hello Skip. I've got a
problem with sedge weed infestation in my flower beds. I know you can kill
it with round up, and I've used round up on it in the borders
where I have no plants and in the yard, but okay, I'm a
little luctant to spray the round up in the flower bed with the flowers in
it. Yeah, yeah, you ought to be it. I mean that
it'll kill whatever you get it on, that's for sure. So when there
are several different kinds of sedges that are out there and so kind of it
would be good to know exactly which one if it is something like nuts edge,
purple nuts edge, or yellow nuts edge, those are harder to kill.
There's some other sedges that are easier to kill. But there's a few
products gym that are designed for sedge control, and they'll have names like sedge
ender or sedge beater or things like that. And when you go to a
quality you know, garden center or a supplier of products that really, you
know, really knows what to carry and carries the wide variety. They're going
to have something specifically for sedges, and I would I would use that.
Sedges are a little they're different than grasses and they're different than broad leaf weeds.
Yeah, I will the barricade. I'm getting ready to do fertilizer and
barricade and the fung aside next week. Will the barricade help stop them or
I should treat them first? Not really, it's a pre emergent and the
sedges that are there or they're probably perennial. They're just those plants are to
come back. Now. I guess if you had some seeds of the sedges,
the barricade might work on those. I'd have to check the label.
It's primarily a grass and broad leaf weeat control. As far as how well
it would work on sedge seeds, I don't know, but I know if
you've got sedges, you need to just kill those plants. Okay, what
were the two products you recommended? Well said, I gave examples of sedge
beater and sedge ender. Uh, they' you'll see sedge in the name.
There's one called sedge hammer. Sedge hammer that's also labeled. Okay, but
just read the label on all these because each is going to be labeled for
different parts of the yard. Maybe the grass, maybe not flower beds.
Maybe flower beds but not the grass and so on, so just pick it
accordingly. You're in meadow springs? Is that? Are you talking about the
Kingwood meadow springs or meadows place? Okay, okay, all right, I'm
just trying to figure out who would be close to you? Were you?
What about a heavy duty after I treat him a heavy duty cover with the
black velvet mulch. It's always good to put a mulch down. Now,
multiple stop weed seeds from coming up through it. If you got a strong
existing you know, plant a little multa over the top it and will kill
it. But it will prevent weed seeds. Plus, it moderates slow temperature,
It prevents crusting when it rains, it prevents erosion when it rains.
It just has a lot of good reasons to It's always a good thing to
do mulch. Okay, all right, Well, I appreciate the help.
All right, Jim, you take care hope that works out for you.
Yeah, that is for sure. Hey, do you have a little piece
of property and you've been thinking about getting a tractor, but you just haven't
gotten around to it. You need to call the folks at Landsdown Moody because
here's the deal. This is only gonna last till October thirty. First,
we got about a month left of this deal. But I've never seen anything
like it. It is zero down, zero interest, seven years, eighty
four months. The Cabota L twenty five one. That is a very nice
tractor. I like to refer to it as a sweet ride. If you
want to get work down out on your piece of property, you're not going
to find a better tractor than that, and you need to go check it
out. Just go buy a Lansdown Moody. You can go online to LM
tractor dot com, find lands Down near you, go by there and set
on one. Just climb up there and just get a feel for it.
I think you will see what I'm talking about. This is a workhorse that
does a great job. And oh my gosh, if you're looking for a
deal, you're not going to do better than the deal they have going on
right now. We're gonna head back out now to Steve and the woodlands.
Hello Steve. Hi. Yeah, this is just a real quick guy and
might have been bad. But during the middle of the summer, we were
planning some boxwoods and watering them. They looked like they were doing well,
and then all of a sudden, I was getting all these yellow leaves and
I have one boxwood that's completely dead. I was speaking to my neighbor.
He said the same thing was happening to his and it was a fungus.
And I've never heard of funguses for boxwoods, So one, what could it
possibly be on fungus? And what can I do about it? Well,
I wouldn't jump as to fungus as the most likely cause here's what's happening to
your boxwoods. Moisture is not getting up into the leaves from the roots,
so that the first thing we think about is is too dry. It needs
watering more, and we've had to water a lot this summer to keep things
happy because the demands have been so great. The second thing it could be
is too much water. If you drowned a root system and it can't get
oxygen, roots dye and you end up with the exact same symptom as if
it was too dry, because it can't get water if it didn't have roots.
The third thing that it could be is nematodes. Nematodes attack box woods.
If you've got a sandy soil, you're up there in the woodlands,
there's a little bit of sand here and there. Nematodes can proliferate and they
end up making the roots system less and less efficient. All the little knots
and wounds they create on the roots, water has trouble getting through, so
you end up a drought symptom. And then the final thing would be a
sea born fungus which plugs the plumbing. Boxwoods can get that and that would
also create So what we know is water's not getting to your plant. Exactly
why, we don't know for sure. If you feel like you've given good
deep soakings on an infrequent basis, then we're going to eliminate that it didn't
get enough water. If you feel like you didn't overwater, we're going to
eliminate that. And now we're looking at we'll do we have nematodes on the
roots, you can take a hose and wash some roots out near the surface
and look for little knots on the roots. That's a symptom. Or if
you see roots that are brown, kind of almost like a cigarette filter,
that gray, brown stain looking thing, that's a symptom of the fungal diseases
of the roots. And so it's going to be one of those things.
Okay, let's me know what I need to check for then, because I
don't think I overwatered, because I've got a few that are still doing fairly
well. And I've got and I know I didn't really underwater because when I
first planted them, i'd give them a little bit of water twice a day,
okay, and then it was once a day after about a week and
this was over a month ago, and things looked like they were don't fine,
And then we got the rain and a few looked fine, and one
died and another one looks like it's about to die. Okay, Well,
the one that's about to die before it's fully dead, you may just want
to kind of get a shovel under it and lift it up when things cool
off a little bit here and take a look at the roots like I'm talking
about. All right, Hey, son's great. I hope that helps.
Thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. We're going to run right now
out to Katie and talk to Ray. Hello, Ray, good morning,
Escape, Good morning. I just had a quick question I have. I
have my grass on the side of the house. It's really patchy, dead
grass, brown grass, but still it's trying to grow. And I was
I was going to ask you about the three steps you were talking about.
Yes, how long after I put all three ill watered them in, how
long should I leave the grass alone before I mow again? Because I think
that I've been doing it wrong. I'll put the fertilizer down and a couple
of things. After that, I'll be I'll be still mowing, okay,
and it's counterproductive what I'm doing, I think. All right, Well,
a good question, but not so much for you to worry about. We
put the fertilizer down and we watered in to get it in the soil so
it starts working. So you know, you can put the fertilizer and mow
or mow and put the first it doesn't matter, just whenever you want it.
Just remember it's got to be watered in barricade. The second step,
the weed control, It has to be watered into work. So if you
wanted to fertilizer lawn and then come right back and get the hopper, change
the setting and put the barricade out, and then water, I'm both in
with about a half inch of water. You could do it that way or
you could do them separately. Then the fungicide though, that we're going to
put in on the surface, and I would rather not water right after I
put the fungicide down because it's protecting the grass plant. It's on the grass,
but it's also getting into the soil a little bit and being taken up
that way. So I would do my watering and the fungicide would come after
watering. Okay, And the same with mowing, go ahead and mow and
then put the fungicide on what you got left. Perfect. Thank you,
Skip, Thank you for everything. You have a great week. Thank you
for everything you do as well. Also, uh, you know, if
you want to put in a vegetable garden as fall, and I hope you
do. If you want to put it in a flower bed or a herb
bed, Vego Gardens is the absolute best garden bed you're going to buy.
And I really mean that. I actually approached the folks at Vego and said,
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I cannot recommend anything higher than a Vego bed. We're going to take
a break right now, Gilbert, you are there and the first in line
when we come right back. Well, good morning. You are listening to
garden Line and we are entering our last half hour of the weekend. So
now it'd be a good time to call if you've got some gardening questions.
You'd like to visit about seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four,
and we're gonna head straight out to Katie and talk to Gilbert. Hey,
Gilbert, thanks for waiting. Hi, Skip, I just purchased a
second property and home in Tulsa. Do you think the lawn care schedule will
work that far north? Uh? No, the scheduling concept of it will
work, but the timing is going to be way off. So because for
example, are right now we're talking about putting on fertilizer because this is the
month for Saint Augustine at this location north south through the country. If you
go all the way up to Tulsa, fall comes way earlier up there.
And also you're probably not going to have Saint Augustine. You're probably gonna have
some zoysier bermuda grass up, maybe even fescue bluegrass mixes up in that area.
And so that would be a whole different monster. Okay, But I'll
tell you what I would do. The Oklahoma State Extension Service has offices in
all the counties. I would go to the OSU their website and look for
lawn care information, talk to the county agent up there in the county you're
in in Tulsa, and they're going to have a lot of local information that
can help you. Perfect. Okay, thank you, yes, sir,
you bet all right. Well let's see here tree time. It is time
to plant trees in the fall. It is the best time to plant trees
in the fall. You can plant a tree in Houston any month of the
year. I mean, you really can any month the year you can plant
it. But if you were to look at and say, okay, i
just want to know what the best time is, I'm flexible. I can
plant now later whatever. When's the best time? Fall falls it It gives
all winter season and spring for the routes to get established and get ready for
that next brutal summer. We're a long way away from it, So why
not get them into ground this fall and do that. Bredett Tree Farm grows
a wide variety of trees that are that are chosen because they do well.
Here Bredett Treefarm dot Com. V E R D A n T Treefarm dot
Com. Now you're going to find that they're verdant tree farms wherever you are.
I mean, if you're out in West Houston, bark or Cypress.
There's one down in pear Land on Broadway Street, there's one up in the
Heights where Yale comes into a ten. There's a Verdant Tree Farm there too.
They have a wide variety. They also specialize in palm trees. I
mean they're selection and palms unbelievable. But on all the other trees up to
seven hundred gallons. I mean, so if you want a real quick zippy
I mean instant pizzas, they can do it. They can absolutely drop a
tree in there that looks good the day after they plant it. Now they
know how to do it. They give a one year warranty with installation.
There's a ten percent discount for military and first responders. Another good reason to
go to Verdant Tree Farmstead. Out now to pear Land and we're gonna talk
to Glinda. Hello, Glenda, Hello, Hey, how are you?
How can we help today? Thanks for taking mark call. I'm not gonna
tell you who did it. I don't want to play fire or in trouble,
but somebody's rade my yard to kill the weeds and it totally killed the
whole area. There's the grass. I meant, unbelievable. So who would
you recommend dear to uh come in with a backhode dig it out and uh
plant new grass. Well, they're not gonna definitely not gonna use a backcode,
but they'll get that old grass out and put it down. I would
get Pierce Keps the call and see if they could could do a job like
that. You are a little bit far south. I don't know if they're
covered that far, but it would be worth talking to them because if they
don't they can. They can refer you to someone who does well. I'm
sure would appreciated. The rest of my yard is dropped dead beautiful. That's
just a shame. I'm so sorry. You don't do you happen to know
what product ingredient they used that sprayed? I think they accidentally picked up the
wrong container. Okay, produced weeds. Okay, I think eight got the
one for everything? I got you. Okay, do you have their phone
number? Live? Let me look here. I'm gonna have to find it
while we're talking, but i'll grab it for you, all right. Yeah,
Pier Escape's folks again. I don't thinking you're a little far south for
him, but it's worth it's worth giving them a try. It's two eight
one three seven zero fifty sixty two eight one three seven men. Wait a
minute, I'm running down. Hey, you're two quick for me two eight
one three zero fifty sixty. You got it, you got it. While
I live in fair Land and you have a bliss Live and I love to
see your yord I Noah's gorgeous. Well, thank you, Hey, I
appreciate the call, and good luck. We're getting that mess fixed up.
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Oh Achuly new me and God,
we'll get it all right. There you go, all right, have a
bliss Live. Thank you, appreciate that. Glinda, oh my goodness,
for sure. You know I'm gonna have to tell you when you're looking at
a lawn that is in need of help, not dead like Glenda's law,
but just struggling. The Microlife folks have got a combination of products that will
really help turn it around. And that's important. It's all about cultural control.
So here's what I would do. We're going into fall. I would
get their Microlife brown patch. That's the orange bag, dark orange bag.
It's a five one three fertilizer, so you get the nutrients you need down
to get ready for fall. That's very important. And then it's got lots
of microbes on that material as well, so you are also inoculating as you
do that. But then I would come back and additionally do the micro Grow
bioinnoculant. It's only used at about ten pounds per thousand. We're not fertilizing
with it, we're inoculating with it. And when your turf has a good
supply of beneficial microbes around it that are protecting it, us like disease problems
become less. And that's just it's how nature defends against diseases. Is you
just get a lot of the good guys around and it's it's a very inhospitable
place for the bad guys, the bad diseases to be able to do what
they do. So Microlife, Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You're going to find
it all over the place. You can learn more about these two key products
for fall, which is the brown Patch five one three orange bag and Microgrow
bi Inoculant, which is a violet colored bag. I would do both of
those, and I would do them soon because it's time for those things to
get to work so they can benefit your plants. We're going to take a
break right now. Our number is seven one three, two, one,
two, fifty eight, seventy four. We got one more segment left.
Reese and Jackie, you are going to be our first folks up when we
come back from break, and we will see you shortly. Well, good
Sunday morning, and you are listening to Gardenline. We are having a good
time here talking about all kinds of things because we're excited about fall. We
we we survived this summer. We ought to make a T shirt. I
lived through the summer of twenty twenty three somehow, and my plans most of
them did as well. That would be a good T shirt to where,
Hey, we're gonna go out first thing here to sugar Land and talk to
Reese. Hello, rece do we have a race? All right? I'll
tell you what. It would help if I took him off and picked the
phone up, wouldn't it? Hey? Race? How you doing morning?
Skipping? Doing good? Okay? We got some operator error going. It's
been a long week. What's up? Well, I've got uh. I
restarted my lawn back in this past May, of course, not knowing what
kind of try we're gonna have. It's been difficult, but I've got it.
It's it's a rowing. I've got a lot of nuts edge in it,
and I wanted to get some sedgender to use on it. But the
literature says that it it should be a well established lawn, and I wanted
to see if that's you know, since it's been it's been growing. I've
keep keeping it water. It's growing. Yeah, I've mooded, you know,
over the summer. But should it be well established from May to now?
Yes? Yes. What they're really saying is, don't put on side
that doesn't have roots quite in the soil yet and then apply that product.
Let's get them, let's get it rooted in, and it's well rooted in
the long time, it's yeah, you can use it. Okay. There
are a number of different products that control nuts edge and turf. They each
have their pros and cons. But yeah, staying after it is going to
be important. Going into fall is a very important time because that nuts edge
is pulling in carbohydrates to store in those underground tubers that make it so difficult
to control. So we would love to spray it and haven't take that product
down into the tuber and do some damage. Okay, well it sounds good,
I will do that, you bet. Is it Is it pretty widespread
or is it in just in certain areas? It's a certain area. Yeah,
well if you can focus on that area, that would be good.
Also, just kind of notice, is that area a little wetter than normal?
In other words, is it low lying? Is it a heavy clay?
Does a sprinkler double lap over that area or something? Because the wetter
you keep it, the happier the nuts edge is. So just letting it
dry out kind of gives you a little bit of an edge as you work
toward getting rid of the nuts edge. Okay, okay, yeah, it
does seemed to be more the grass is growing more in that area also,
Okay, yeah, it's probably probably a little bit better conditions, and so
well that ought to do it. Just be ready to stay with this for
a while. It's not going to be a one and done. Nuts edge
control is not just you spray it once and it's all gone and you kind
of have to stay with it. Probably, Okay, Skip appreciate it,
Yeah, Reese, thanks for the call. I appreciate that very much.
Let's see we are going to also now go out to League City and talk
to Jackie. Hello, Jackie, Hi, I have a question. I
have an oak tree that's probably i'd say forty or fifty years old, and
around the oak tree. Years ago I used to pile mulshop, which I
know that's a bad thing, and I don't do it anymore. But I've
noticed in the last while, I don't know, a few years, there's
kind of a dark, very fibrous, I don't know what to call it,
stuff growing on top of the ground and like you can tap on it
or like hit it with something. It almost sounds hollow. And then you
can take and like take a cultivator or something and kind of pull it in
it that it pulls back in like a sheet almost you know, it's all
together. What is that it's on the ground or it's on the it's on
the ground, and it would be like, you know, how I'm on
the bottom of a tree. How normally you would see roots going into the
ground and you would see the top of the wood and the roots and the
all that this covers it. It almost looks like dirt covering it. But
if you try to like cultivate it, like to dig it up or something
like that, it comes off in big pieces like they're all together. Okay,
I think what you're looking at is you're looking at a decomposer fungi.
And there are a number of different types. They look very different each one.
One of them looks like scrambled eggs on top of the ground. One
of them now that looks black, looks like it looks black and fibrous like
it's and it's real tough. You can't pull it apart. Right, You're
probably talking about a decomposer fungi. What it's doing is fungi break down woody
tissues, things that are hard to break down. So in our multus,
in our mulches or even the dead outer surface you know of bark and roots
and things like that, they break that down and they form this this kind
of a matted network that is almost like a crust or a shell, or
it can turn. It can turn loose mulch into this chunk that you pick
up. And they're not diseases. They don't hurt the plants. You can
just ignore them. They tend to come and go. They're going to go
through a cycle where they break that down. That's what they're there for,
is they're the reason that the forest outside of town is not a mile deep
and tree trunks after thousands and thousands of years of tree growth. They turn
everything, They turn everything back into soil. Okay, okay, all right,
I should just leave it alone then and let it do its job.
Yes, this is the best news you've got here all week. You don't
have to worry about it. Yeah, it is really Thank you so much.
We'll hang up here and you and I both will go work on world
peace and other big issues because this is not Yeah, I don't have to
worry about that. All right, take care of Jackie. Do you have
a great weekend, you too, Bye bye bye bye. Yes, we're
going to head up to Conro now and talk to Stan. Hey, Stan,
Hey, good morning. Thanks taking the call. Yes, sir,
I have I've been listening to your show this morning, and I believe I
have some crab grass. Okay, in some areas where there is no grass,
the half of my yard has Saint Augustine. Yeah. I don't know
what happened to the other half. I guess the drought really did a number
on it. But the crab grass is still thriving, and I was just
trying to figure out what to do besides you know, pulling it out or
you know, an easier way to trying to prep it for next next spring.
So you've got there are several things you could be doing. The first
one you probably don't want to hear, but it's the one I have to
lead off with, and that is when we have weeds like crab grass,
they have a lot of seeds on them right now. And if you can
take a little hoe and take it out or hand pull it out or anything,
not to get rid of the crab grass, but just to get all
those seeds out of there, you will be way ahead rather than having to
deal with all those weed seeds next spring when crabs re sprouts again. So
hand pulling. I had someone come in when I was at Arborgate yesterday and
brought in a number of different weeds and all of them were loaded with seeds.
There was the spurs that has a little milky sap that spreads out flat
on the ground. It was just loaded with seeds. Well, to get
those out of there, it gives you at least a head start. Now
the next thing is to remember all those weeds or worm season weeds, and
they're going to go away with the first frost. They're not here for long,
so Spraying them isn't going to help a lot. They're not long for
this world anyway. Getting the seeds out as helpful. But spraying won't kill
the seeds, and so I would not worry about it. I would mow
it and ignore it for now. But next spring, when we get into
February, a pre emergent herbicide will be in the soil protecting against crab grass
trying to sprout in March, in April and May. So you want to
do that in February, because yeah, you've got air soil, you've had
weeds, they've made seeds. They will be back. Unless you can get
that lawn to fill in very thickly so that there's no sunlight hitting the soil.
Then you don't have to worry about the pre emergent on them. The
lawn is choking them out at that point. But in the meantime, bear
dirt means you've got some weed control to do. Okay, all right,
I just want to get them inside. I appreciate it. I have a
great rest of the day, all right. I wish I could give you
a good recipe for crab grass, because we could feed the world if if
that was an edible plant. It loves my backyard. I know that.
I know it does. Stand have a great rest of your weekend in the
week as well. Thank you. We'll go bye bye. Oh my goodness.
Yeah. Weeds. Uh, you know, there's different ways of looking
at weeds. First of all, what is a weed. A weed is
a plant we don't want where it's growing. So, for example, if
you've got a corn patch and Saint Augustine got in there, Saint Augustine would
be a weed in your corn patch. Right. It's important to think about
it that way. It's not like weeds are certain plants, they're bad plants,
and so they're weeds. It's like we don't want them there, So
they're weeds. So what do we do well? Number one, stop sunlight
from hitting the soil. That's the main thing we can do. That is
that is called good lawn care. My lawn schedule online on gardening wiskip dot
com talks about mo watering, and fertilizing, as well as a few other
key cultural activities that help that long get denser and denser. Then the weed
discussion in many situations goes away. We have perennial weeds that are very that
are very able to hang on and that soil. But most of our weeds,
when we make a good dense sunlight can hits the soil, they're not
going to be able to survive in that kind of grass. And that's that's
our step one and we take care of that. And there's times to do
all that, and it's it's it's part of the deal. Our lawn's coming
out week. They're struggling and we're going to see more issues with those lawns,
like weed control issues. That's just part of the deal. Well,
we've had a good time this weekend here on garden Line. I'll be back
next week. Remember a garden Line is a show that you can listen to
both on Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am. Tell your friends,
family about it. We are available by podcast if you miss something on
the show. But here's what I want you to do before we go away
today. Ride down next Saturday at Nature's Way Resources up north Interstate forty five,
up toward Conro. That is a place where you get all kinds of
good quality soil mixes. But they're going to have their Fall Garden Festival on
Saturday at nine am they're going to have a class on creating enchanting little miniature
ferry gardens. They're going to have stuff to the kids, like scavenger hunts.
They're going to have food, music vendors, adult beverages. It's quite
the shindek. I'll be out there from eleven thirty to one thirty. All
of you up in that whole region, that whole listening area. I hope
you'll come out. Bring me some samples of plants to identify or to diagnose,
Bring me some photos of things we can look at and make suggestions.
While you're out there. You're gonna have a good time. Check out their
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