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Todd Farber, B.S. Horticulture from Texas A & M and President of Garden Guy, Inc. has owned and operated his company since 1991.

🌟 Aggie Horticulturist & Expert Landscaper
📍 Sugar Land, TX | Serving Houston + The Gulf Coast
💡 30+ years solving Houston lawn & garden problems
🎯 Expert advice + Full landscape services Congrats to Garden Guy for WINNING Nextdoor FAV 2021! We make landscape dreams come true every day! We love working with the homeowner and integrating your ideas with our professional experience. Garden Guy, Tod

d Farber uses his Aggie Horticulture degree and 30 years of dealing with Houston-area plant issues, which means you can trust him to recommend design ideas and plants for your home that will GROW more beautiful with time.

09/07/2026

🥬 NOW THAT’S A CABBAGE! 122.7 POUNDS!

This giant cabbage won first place at the Alaska State Fair, grown by Scott Robb. And yes… it really weighed 122.7 pounds. 😳

So why can Alaska grow vegetables this enormous when their growing season is so short?

Here’s the fun part: during the summer, Alaska gets extremely long daylight hours — sometimes close to 20 hours of daylight a day. That gives vegetables a lot more time each day to photosynthesize and grow. Combine that with cool temperatures that crops like cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower love, and you can get some truly gigantic vegetables.

And that actually brings us back to Texas fall gardening.

We obviously don’t get Alaska’s summer daylight, but we do get something cool-season vegetables love: a long, mild fall and winter growing season. As our temperatures begin to come down, this is when Houston-area gardeners can start thinking about crops like:

• Cabbage
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Kale
• Lettuce
• Carrots
• Radishes
• Swiss chard

No, we probably aren’t growing a 122-pound cabbage in Houston 😂 — but fall is one of our very best vegetable-growing seasons.

📸 Photo/info credit: Alaska State Fair /

What are YOU planting in your fall vegetable garden this year?

Need help figuring out what to plant and when here in Houston? We’ve put together our Houston Fall Vegetable Garden Guide for you:

👉 bit.ly/houfallvegetablegarden

And if you have a garden question, send it to us anytime at AskGardenGuy.com.

09/07/2026

🦋 Fun fact: The monarch is the official state insect of Texas! 🦋
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09/07/2026

🦋 WE’VE SEEN OUR FIRST MONARCHS!

After all the excitement over the hummingbirds, another favorite visitor is beginning to get our attention.

We’ve already spotted a couple of monarchs enjoying the blooms on our Vitex! Houston’s peak monarch migration normally comes later—around October 10–22—so these could be early travelers or monarchs already living in our area.

Either way, now is a fun time to start thinking about how our gardens can support butterflies, bees and hummingbirds.

We’ve updated our Houston pollinator guide and created a beautiful free Pollinator Planting Cheat Sheet you can save or take to the nursery. It includes:

🦋 Eight plants that thrive here
🌿 Host plants for caterpillars
🌸 What blooms during each season
🏡 A simple pollinator-garden layout
💧 Important planting and care tips

Read the guide and download your free handout here:
https://bit.ly/pollinatorsgardenguy

Have you seen any monarchs or other butterflies yet? Tell us your city, what they were visiting and share a picture if you have one!

09/07/2026

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Happy Labor Day Y'all and Thanks!
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09/07/2026

🪴 HOW DO I BEAT SQUASH VINE BORERS?

Kevin asked:

“How do I beat squash vine borers??”

This is one of the most frustrating squash pests we have—especially in Texas, where overlapping generations may remain active from spring well into fall.

The adult is an orange-and-black moth that resembles a wasp. It lays eggs on the squash plant, and the newly hatched larvae quickly tunnel inside the stems. Once they are inside, ordinary sprays cannot reach them.

Here is your best defense:

✅ Grow less-susceptible squash such as Tromboncino, butternut or cushaw. Tromboncino can be harvested young and used much like zucchini.

✅ Protect young plants with fine insect netting. Remove it when flowering begins so bees can pollinate—or leave it covered and hand-pollinate the flowers.

✅ Inspect the lower stems regularly. Wet, sawdust-like material called “frass” is the telltale sign that a borer has entered.

✅ Once the moths become active, protect the lower 12–18 inches of the stems and leaf stalks with a product labeled for squash vine borers on edible squash.

We found this option:

Bonide Eight Vegetable, Fruit & Flower Concentrate
https://amzn.to/46aOg5s

Apply it in the evening after bees have stopped visiting, keep it off open flowers and follow every direction and harvest interval on the current label.

Already have a wilting plant? Carefully slit the affected stem lengthwise, remove the white caterpillar, close the stem and mound moist soil over the injured section. Sometimes the vine will form new roots and survive, although heavily damaged plants are often lost.

One interesting advanced method is to plant Blue Hubbard squash as a trap crop. It attracts vine borers away from your preferred squash—but you must remove or control the pests on the trap plant before it becomes their nursery!

Save this one before your next squash planting—and show us what you’re growing!

- The person applying any product is responsible for reading and following the label.

—Garden Guy
Houston & Gulf Coast gardening help since 1991
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09/07/2026

How many stars does this backyard from Garden Guy get? We are very proud of this Japanese garden we created for our client in Bellaire. 🥳

We LOVE answering your questions and that is more than likely how you found us. But since 1991, Todd Farber, Garden Guy has been designing and installing real landscaping for homes just like yours.

Looking for something beautiful this year? We serve Sugar Land, Missouri City, Southwest Houston, Sienna, parts of Pearland too.

Email us to set up your home consultation. [email protected] or visit: www.garden-guy.com

09/06/2026

HUMMINGBIRD FACTS EVERY GARDENER SHOULD KNOW 🌿

Before the weekend is over, here’s one to save for your garden.

Hummingbirds may be tiny, but they are incredible little visitors — and right now many of us are seeing plenty of activity as migration continues through Texas and the Gulf Coast.

A few good things to remember:

• They are important pollinators.
• They love tubular flowers like salvia, Turk’s cap, cuphea and firebush.
• Feeder nectar is simple: 4 parts water to 1 part plain white sugar. No red dye.
• In hot weather, change nectar every 2–3 days and keep feeders clean.
• They don’t live on nectar alone — tiny insects and spiders provide important protein.
• Moving or shallow water can make your yard even more inviting.
• And yes… these tiny birds can hover, fly backward and remember dependable food sources.

We made this graphic as a quick reference for our Garden Guy friends, so save it and share it with another hummingbird lover.

And we want to see what’s happening in YOUR yard! Have new hummingbirds shown up this week? Drop your newest photos or videos in the comments. We’ve loved seeing what everyone is spotting.

Happy Sunday night from Garden Guy — two real people helping real gardeners make their yards a little better. 🌿

09/06/2026

NEW ST. AUGUSTINE—AND FOUR DIFFERENT WEEDS. WHAT NOW?

A real question from Rhonda:

“We put in new St. Augustine grass in April. It did great for a while, but we didn’t treat with an herbicide. We have crabgrass, chamberbitter, nutgrass and, in a few places, Bermuda grass. Since it’s hot, we cannot use an herbicide now, so I’ve been pulling them up manually by the roots a little every evening. Is there anything else I can do now—or later when it’s cooler?”

OUR ANSWER:

Assuming the w**ds have been identified correctly, these are four separate problems. One herbicide will not fix all four.

CRABGRASS: Continue pulling mature plants. Celsius can control large crabgrass only while it is young and before it begins tillering. Mature crabgrass is much harder to control. A correctly timed late-winter pre-emergent is the best defense against next year’s crabgrass.

CHAMBERBITTER: Pull it now and bag it before the tiny seed capsules underneath the leaves mature and scatter. Celsius lists chamberbitter on its label. Because this is first-year St. Augustine, we would wait until the grass is healthy and no longer heat- or drought-stressed before spot-treating.

Celsius: https://amzn.to/4x6cEjv

NUTGRASS/NUTSEDGE: Stop simply pulling off the tops. Nutsedge grows from underground tubers called nutlets, which are usually left behind when the plant is pulled. SedgeHammer is labeled for controlling yellow and purple nutsedge in established St. Augustine.

SedgeHammer: https://amzn.to/3UVlkMb

BERMUDA GRASS: This is the difficult one. There is no simple selective herbicide that will remove Bermuda from St. Augustine without also risking damage to the St. Augustine. Dig out small patches and follow every runner you can find. Larger infestations may eventually require removing the affected area and replacing the St. Augustine.

Celsius will not eliminate Bermuda because Bermuda itself is one of the turfgrasses on the Celsius label.

WHAT ABOUT PRE-EMERGENT?

Barricade prevents certain future w**ds—it does not kill anything already growing.

A late-September application can help prevent susceptible winter w**ds. A properly timed late-winter application can help prevent crabgrass next spring.

Because this sod was installed in April, use Barricade only if the lawn is fully rooted, healthy and the exposed sod edges have filled in.

Barricade pre-emergent: https://amzn.to/4zVNVBf

For now, keep the St. Augustine watered properly, mow it around four inches tall and avoid w**d-and-feed products or heavy nitrogen fertilizer.

IMPORTANT: These are general product suggestions—not application instructions. The homeowner or applicator is responsible for confirming the w**d identification, reading and following the entire product label, measuring and applying the product correctly, observing weather restrictions and preventing drift. Garden Guy cannot be responsible for misuse, application errors or resulting damage.

Did our free advice help? You can leave Todd and Sabrina a few coffee tips here:

https://bit.ly/coffeegguy

Save this post! You may need it when one of these four troublemakers shows up in your lawn.

Garden Guy | Aggie Horticulturist | Todd Farber
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09/06/2026

🚨 KNOW THIS GARDEN PEST: LEAF-FOOTED BUGS

This excellent photo was shared by Cynthia Thompson in the Louisiana Plants group, and we’re sharing it with credit because it’s such a useful identification lesson for gardeners across Louisiana, Texas and the Gulf Coast.

Look closely:

The adult is the larger brown insect. See that widened, leaf-like section on the back legs? That’s the feature that gives the leaf-footed bug its name.

The nymph is the smaller orange/red insect. Young leaf-footed bugs often show up in groups, which can make them easier to spot and control before they mature and begin flying.

These are not garden friends. Leaf-footed bugs have piercing-sucking mouthparts and feed on tomatoes, peppers, citrus, pomegranates and other fruits, vegetables and seeds. Their feeding can leave fruit with yellow, discolored, misshapen or sunken spots.

A few things gardeners can do:

* Check plants regularly, especially fruit and seed heads.
* Handpick or knock nymphs into soapy water when populations are small.
* Remove clusters of eggs when you find them.
* Sunflowers can sometimes act as a trap crop, drawing them into an area where they’re easier to find and remove.

The nymph stage is generally the best time to go after them — once they become adults, they fly and are much harder to catch.

📸 Photo credit: Cynthia Thompson, Louisiana Plants

This is exactly why we love gardeners sharing real photos from their yards. One picture can help thousands of other people recognize what’s happening in theirs.

— Garden Guy | Ask Garden Guy
Real gardeners. Real plants. Real problems. Helping Gulf Coast gardeners learn what they’re looking at.

09/06/2026

WHAT IN THE GRASS IS GOING ON?

Every photo in this graphic came from a real person who emailed Garden Guy asking for help with a struggling lawn. These are real Houston-area lawn problems—not stock photos or AI.

A few of the questions we’ve received:

🌱 “Why are brown spots suddenly appearing in my Bermuda grass?”
We explained that heat stress, uneven watering, insects and disease can look very similar. The pattern, soil moisture and close-up condition of the grass all matter.

🌱 “What is this grassy w**d spreading through my lawn?”
We helped narrow it down and explained why correctly identifying crabgrass, dallisgrass or another grassy w**d is important before choosing a treatment.

🌱 “My St. Augustine is turning brown and getting worse every day. What should I do?”
We looked at where the damage started, discussed watering and heat stress, and explained how to check for chinch bugs before treating.

🌱 “Is my grass dormant—or is it dead?”
Unfortunately, some damaged grass will not recover. The cause needs to be identified and corrected before replacing it.

Grass problems are difficult to diagnose from pictures alone, but we do our best to help every person who reaches out. There are two real people behind Garden Guy, looking at real photos and trying to point homeowners in the right direction.

Got a grass problem of your own? Send us your question and clear photos at AskGardenGuy.com.

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