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Herbicides for Your Lawn

By Wells Brothers
Sunday, January 15th, 2023

Spring weed control options at Wells Brothers in Plano, Texas.Within a month, it will be time to start applying pre-emergent herbicide to your lawn. Pre-emergent herbicides do one thing and that’s to stop weed seeds from growing. Hence the Latin term “pre,” means before. Post-emergent herbicides kill after the plant is growing, hence, the Latin term “post”, means a large stick in the ground that you attach to a fence. I urge everyone to know the square footage of your lawn before heading to Wells Brothers. Also, don’t forget that pre-emergent is not fertilizer.

The synthetic pre-emergent products that Wells Brothers recommend are Gallery for the control of broadleaf weeds and Dimension for the grass weeds. The 10-pound bag of Gallery will cover 2,000 square feet. This application will last around 4 months. Dimension is available in a 12-pound bag that covers 3,500 square feet and in a 35-pound bag that covers 10,000 square feet. Dimension can be reapplied every 4 weeks.

The all-natural product is called Corn Gluten Meal. It’s available in powder and pelleted forms. The powder works faster but is a mess to deal with. The pelleted is slower to activate but easier to apply. The application rate for both is 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet and needs to be applied now.

We get asked a lot about applying pre-emergent and fertilizer at the same time. The answer is you apply one, then the other. Do not mix them in the spreader at the same time.

Check out the Wells Brothers easy-to-read schedule for the application of fertilizers and pre-emergent. I hope these will fit your needs. Please note that these are guides. Weather conditions such as rain and heat will alter the timing of these products.

Bermuda Grass Planning Guide

Bermuda Grass – Product Application Guide

 

St. Augustine Grass - Product Application Guide

St. Augustine Grass – Product Application Guide

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Dick’s Garden Blog – Crop Rotation & Early Spring Onions

By Wells Brothers
Sunday, January 15th, 2023

spring onionsGardening season is right around the corner. Things you need to know are the square footage of the garden and what’s in the soil, nutritionally speaking. If you don’t know, then do a soil test. For gardens, I recommend a soil test every 18 months to 2 years. The reason is different crops use nutrition at different rates. Since most folks grow 2 to 4 crops a year testing is critical. Wells Brothers sells soil test kits and also does soil testing. Once you have the results, picking amendments become easier.

Next, you need a good crop rotation plan. Farmers have been moving crops around their fields for more than a millennium. Even so, I still talk to folks that insist on planting the same crop in the same space year after year and expect the same results.

Onion sets (45-50 onions in a set) are here! Plant onions as soon as they become available in full sun and well-drained soil that is loose to about eight inches deep. Onions should be planted deep enough to hold up the plant and about four to six inches apart. Once a root system is established (10 – 14 days) pull some of the dirt away from the top to expose the bulb to sunlight. Don’t let them get thirsty. Onions require good moist soil during the first part of the growing cycle. Once the bulbs start to form, moisture becomes less of an issue.

Onions require more fertilizer than most garden crops. They really enjoy moderate nitrogen (1st number) and high phosphate (2nd number) fertilizers. The fertilizers that work well are Ferti-lome Tomato/Vegetable (7-22-8), Hi-Yield garden fertilizer (8-10-8), 13-13-13 from Carl Pool and 10-10-10 from Espoma. Apply fertilizer when you prepare the bed. I have also used Wells Brothers “Jump Starter” or bone meal when planting. At three weeks, top dress with fertilizer and then again when the bulb starts to grow. I also fertilize every three weeks or so until the end of April. You should be harvesting onions towards the end of May.

Red LaSoda potatoes are also in.

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Dick’s Garden Blog – What Is A Weed?

By Wells Brothers
Sunday, January 1st, 2023

weed controlSince pre-emergent season is just around the corner, what is a weed? The simple answer is anything you don’t want growing. Weeds fall into three categories: grasses like crabgrass, broad leaf-like henbit, and sedges. From here they are broken down into annual or perennial categories. These categories must be known if you are to be victorious in the fight against them. It is also very important to know the type of lawn and how many square feet of lawn you have.

Annual weeds germinate from seed, grow to maturity, and die within twelve months. Crabgrass is an annual summer weed and henbit is an annual winter weed. Annual weeds are best controlled with a properly timed application of pre-emergent herbicides. If we miss the timing, they can also be controlled with post-emergent herbicides.

Perennial weeds live for more than one year. They can reproduce from stolons, rhizomes, tubers, and seeds. Pre-emergent herbicides are only used to control the spread of seeds but they will not kill the parent. To rid an area of perennial weeds requires a post-emergent herbicide applied during the active growing season. Dallisgrass is a perennial grassy weed and Dollarweed is an example of a broadleaf. The last category is the sedges. The most common in our area is nutsedge. Sedges need to be treated like perennial weeds. To kill the plants, use a post-emergent herbicide that is labeled for the type of sedge you are fighting.

Weed ID: https://aggieturf.tamu.edu/turfgrass-weeds/

 

 

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Easy Tips For Growing Fruit Trees in Texas

By Wells Brothers
Sunday, January 1st, 2023

fruit trees in texasThinking about planting fruit trees in Texas? Choose carefully and you can enjoy a bountiful harvest for years to come. Of all the trees in the world, the fruit tree is close to the ultimate multi-tasking tree. They provide shade, add focal points in the landscape and provide you with something to eat. They don’t get as tall as pecan trees and there is a lot less work to eat their fruit. Like everything else in a landscape, some forethought is needed. Full sun and enough space for a mature tree are necessary. Trees like figs will use up to 500 square feet at maturity so pick the location carefully.

Selecting a specific type and variety of fruit tree is the next step. Pick healthy plants from reputable dealers in a two to five-gallon container. Please pick the ones that are adapted to our area of the planet. Planting pineapples and coconuts in backyards around the DFW area is just not a good idea. Varieties of apples, apricots, figs, peaches, pears and plums are the most common. The term “chill requirement” refers to how many hours of temperatures between 32 and 45 degrees we have annually. These chill hours are critical for proper bud and leaf growth in the spring. In the DFW area, we normally have around 800 hours. Choosing a variety that needs 1,200 chill hours is doomed from the start. Some other issues to be considered are late freezes, summers too hot, humidity too high or low, having enough pollinators and of course disease and insects. All this might sound like an iffy proposition. I will tell you that when you pick fruit off trees in your backyard it’s well worth the labor.

There are thousands of pages dedicated to choosing a plant variety for home fruit production. My recommendation for picking the right one is to get in touch with the folks at the Collin County Agricultural Extension office.

 

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A Little January History

By Wells Brothers
Saturday, December 31st, 2022

What does Ellis Island, NASA and the Roe vs. Wade all have in common? They are all historical events that happened in January.  Read A Little January History and brush up on these significant dates in January History. January 1, 1892, Ellis Island opened. Until its closing in 1954, over 20 million people legally arrived in America. January 5, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill approving NASA to build and test the space shuttle. January 7, 1999, the impeachment trial of President Clinton began. January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense”. January 16, 1991, Operation Desert Storm started as allied aircraft conducted a major raid against Iraqi air defenses. January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber collided with its refueling plane over Palomares, Spain. Seven crewmen were killed and the bomber released its four H-bombs. January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Roe vs. Wade. January 24, 1848, gold was found during the construction of a sawmill on the American River in California. January 27, 1967, American astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire erupted inside Apollo 1 during a launch simulation test at Cape Kennedy, Florida. Stop by Wells Brother, your one stop shop for all your pet, gardening and lawn supplies. Check out our January Savings Coupons and sign up for one of our many events this spring.What do Ellis Island, NASA, and Apollo 1 all have in common? They are all historical events that happened in January.  Read A Little January History and brush up on these significant dates in January History.

January 1, 1892, Ellis Island opened. Until its closing in 1954, over 12 million people legally arrived in America.

January 5, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a bill approving NASA to build and test the space shuttle.

January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense”.

January 16, 1991, operation Desert Storm started as allied aircraft conducted a major raid against Iraqi air defenses.

January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber collided with its refueling plane over Palomares, Spain. Seven crewmen were killed and the bomber released its four H-bombs.

January 21, 1954, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched.

January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Roe vs. Wade.

January 24, 1848, gold was found during the construction of a sawmill on the American River in California.

January 27, 1967, American astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire erupted inside Apollo 1 during a launch simulation test at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

Stop by Wells Brother, your one-stop shop for all your pet, gardening, and lawn supplies. Check out our January Savings Coupons and sign up for one of our many events this spring.

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