You know edd, most people would be against the "weed and feeds" with pre-emergents as I beleive the pre-emergent needs to go down normally when the grass is still dormant, hence why put fertilzer down while the grass it still asleep as it will wash out. Since you are in Houston, I would have to beleive your Bermuda is is coming out of dormancy now, so maybe at this stage, and you running late, the weed and feed may be an okay option. Keep in mind, your late on the pre-emergent. I use Andersons Granular Dimension which I can get at my local farm coop. I would beleive you would be able to find it somewhere in the Houston area considering I live in nowhere land in TN and can get it. http://www.ourcoop.com/productcatalog/Main/Item.aspx?fl=940&ii=190588&mod=I&stx=dimension&midsc=dimension

i have the space, so i planted a food plot for the vermin (deer and rabbits) to aid in keeping them out of my real stuff. i also have a large stand of some kind of wild dogwood that they really go for. so until the snow got too deep they were really going for the rape and turnips i planted, and i know this will be unpopular, but they dont niblle on a 22 for long. it got to the point last year that you could look out any window almost any time of day and see between 5 to 10 rabbits,,i am all for sharing, but they even tore into my cactus bed last winter and it took me tons of copper to eliminate the fungi infections there damage created, and almost all summer for most of the species to get back to where they were. try going to a hunting store and buy some fox or coyote urine and spray it on your prized things every week or so through the hardest part of winter

Re: curled rose slugs. Well they certainly uncurled fast when I threw them into the soap suds and water and sank to the bottom of the measuring cup. Eventually they went bye bye due to it so just poured the water out with them in it on the other side of the fence. My Shield rose had one curled up inside the blossom but I pulled it out of there. I think there must have been more eating it but no more as in that section of the garden out the back there are robins and catbirds and chickadees all feasting on them. Wish I could make a sign pointing to the ones out the front saying this way for more goodies. Pulled off 3 more today and 10 the other day. Same plant I think I am getting the upper hand. I also sprayed it with the safer spray Sat. night that one will not harm the bees only the bad bugs. Also won't harm the flowers either.

Time for this topic to move down the line.