William Carney, I would never buy from someone with unethical business practices like you are exhibiting. As the owner of your company, Globe Franchise dba ProPlugger, you signed up for Gardenweb just to post SPAM in our forums and knowing that you planned to disregard Gardenweb's TOS. You promised not to post SPAM when you signed up just yesterday, but then did it anyway. Hopefully, your unethical business practices will not lead to profit for you! I wouldn't use your product for this purpose anyway. Wild garlic/onions are often present in larger clumps than your fancy, overpriced bulb digger will handle. What do you think that monster is going to do to our daylily roots? Better to just wait until the soil is moist and pull the plants up, leaving the soil. Again, shame on you and your ripoff business for your disrespect of this website!

This news about House Finches is incredible. I thought I knew a lot about my feeder birds but I truly forgot that HFs are so menacing. Sure is good to go through these older posts to learn new things. I had so many HFs this summer and it never occured to me they were the reason I had not much else. Thank you so much, hokle and other commenter above.

Never heard of Randy Lemmon, so I had to check in. If you do not live in Houston, I would not take any of his advice seriously. While it might work for some not living in the greater Houston area, he will have you buying a lot of product you do not need. Since the OP is in the Houston area, I would still caution you not to buy into all the specific NPKs, timing, exotic dusts, and fungicides. St Augustine should not need fertilizer until May. It will come out of dormancy enthusiastically with the nutrients developed in the soil over the winter. Toward late April you might see it slowing down or yellowing. Fertilize then. In early to mid April you should have a healthy crop of weeds. That is the best time to spray the herbicide I mentioned earlier in this topic. Fertilize again in early September and late November. St Augustine is really easy. Don't make it hard with all the different items in Lemmon's catalog of potions. Besides, he's a journalist more than a horticulturalist. He's simply spouting the TAMU main line of selling sponsored products. So I checked on his organic schedule. He spends more time trying to convince you not to use organics than he does telling you what to do. He clearly is giving the TAMU line once again. Organic lawn care has moved far beyond expensive commercially bagged fertilizers, compost, and cow manure. Yes, it is slightly more expensive than chemical fertilizers, but not like he would have you believe.

Unfortunately I will likely have it removed because it is crowding my other roses and I don’t want a sucker to take over! ==>> im glad you came to this conclusion without me having to write you a tome on why you need to do it... just do it.. ken btw: welcome to the forums.. include your big city location in every post.. or add it to your name line.. it sounds like you crept into t z5 winter... and it might behoove you to add some winter protection in late fall ... especially on your more foo foo roses ... in my ground freeze MI area.. i had a hard time growing ANY yellow hybrid T roses.. and getting them to winter over... i just presumed it was the fact that they were bred so far out from the common stick.. that they were inherently weak.. or what i called.. foo foo... i just quit wasting money on them ... buying rose plants as annuals got expensive real fast.. lol ...