Neil Sperry

Neil Sperry - helping Texas gardeners since 1970. Sunday mornings 8-10 on WBAP 820AM. See his new book on his website. Follow him in 16 Texas newspapers.

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Our son lives in the LA area. They've just had a strong earthquake within the past 3-4 minutes. This one, he says, was a 7.1 with the same epicenter as yesterday. He and his wife abandoned their house. Watch the news.

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That photo I posted of all the Dirk fans at the Mavericks game last night? Our son Brian took it as he walked in to do stats for the TV broadcast. As he was driving home after the game I called him. He told me... https://t.co/c1i9YGgevL

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Garden Tip: MANY of the questions that are asked here have been addressed in my free weekly newsletter e-gardens. Sign up for it from the link on this page or by going to my website, also linked here.

To give... https://t.co/73I7DRRwY2

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For our friends in East Texas: Greg Grant, one of Texas' finest plant people ever since this place became a state (I mean it!) will be speaking April 4 (Thursday) on "Gardening Naturally: Landscaping with Native... https://t.co/mD0BRw6yBm

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If you were at the 11:10 service of the First United Methodist Church in McKinney this morning you heard something priceless.

Pastor Tommy Brumett is one of the most gifted speakers I’ve ever heard.

His... https://t.co/vQ7qfShlb3

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Please, no questions posted here for a day or two!

I'll be doing three different radio programs this weekend. They may be the best way to ask me your gardening questions, as I'm needing to pull away from the... https://t.co/FAL5supJgm

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Garden Tip: Short and sweet. This one is about TAKE ALL ROOT ROT on St. Augustine (but also observed on all other lawn grasses). Turf is slow to green up in spring, often showing yellowed blades in washes across... https://t.co/3vsMD4GFPp

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Garden Tip: WOW! Did I learn something this morning from my friends at Wild Birds Unlimited in DFW. Here's what David Hurt of the store on Lover's Lane just west of the Tollway wrote to me. (Just reinforced by... https://t.co/9lYppVx9Nj

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Hi, friends – to repeat a couple of favors. As vestibular migraines make it difficult for me to spend long times at the computer, please help me with these things as you post questions:
1. Scroll to see if... https://t.co/VxQttIivXx

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Happy Pi Day! Here’s our 9th grade bassoonist, but from last year’s big celebration. Pi to 100 places in half a minute - from memory. https://t.co/bJHa3zwP1i

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Addendum to this morning's Garden Tip – to be read along with it!

Folks, several of you have asked about specific cities/areas and where they fall in the timing of application of pre-emergents. Let me try to... https://t.co/vjVxGnSSRh

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Garden Tip posted March 8, 2019 (from last night's e-gardens, my free weekly newsletter):
IT'S TIME TO APPLY PRE-EMERGENT GRANULES TO LAWNS OVER MOST OF THE STATE!

If you’re between Huntsville/College... https://t.co/swjg6YZB5a

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Garden Tip: For much of the state the rains are supposed to stop before the really cold weather settles in tomorrow. If you intend to cover tender plants, do so during that window of time. Old sheets can work,... https://t.co/BPxvTogAQ9

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Garden Tip: If you haven't checked this weekend's forecast for your local area, it's probably going to be a lot colder than you expected. I'll have a lot of details on it in tonight's e-gardens, my free... https://t.co/m9GZiOagyr

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FB friends, Jeff B. called my radio program Sunday to ask a question I couldn't answer. I asked him to post it here so I could do my homework, which he did. But I still can't find good information free of... https://t.co/got9QFT9Pr

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Folks, a couple of favors. I haven't talked about it much for a year or more, but I have struggled since June 24, 2016, 8:30 a.m. with migraine-associated vertigo (MAV), now more precisely identified as... https://t.co/1HsgpLVPZ2

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Garden Tip: Look at your 10-day forecast. It's going to be near or below freezing early next week over all but Deep South Texas. You can go ahead and sow seeds for leafy and root vegetables. It won't bother... https://t.co/i4FurGvGMV

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Garden Tip: FB friend F.P. asked when the best time to aerate his lawn would be. He gave a couple of times of year he was considering, but actually my answer goes a different direction. My contention always has... https://t.co/9dIc5qcPsW

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Garden Tip: Things you can do while it's still chilly...
• Finish late-winter transplanting of trees and shrubs unless they've already started to bud out and grow.
• Dig and divide summer- and fall-flowering... https://t.co/0gjos1TX9R