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News From Wells Brothers Pet, Lawn & Garden Supply
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 It's hard to believe in this scorching Texas heat, we're talking about fall....fall seminars that is! Mark your calendars for our Fall Organic Gardening Seminar on August 22 and our White Tail Deer Seminar on September 3. Our Adult Chicken Seminar is coming up on July 23rd and the Collin County Master Gardeners Annual Bulb Seminar & Sale on July 25th. All of our seminars are free but space is limited so please call, sign up on-line or come by to get your name on the list.
If it's time to pull your determinant tomato plants from the ground, replace them with heat tolerant varieties. Wells Brothers has several heat-tolerant tomato varieties such as the Heatmaster, Florida 91, Phoenix and the Heatwave variety. Read our tips for growing tomatoes in hot, Texas heat.
Our Garden Tonic is brewed fresh every Friday and Saturday. If you haven't tried our all-natural Garden Tonic pick up a gallon and save $1 with the coupon from our July coupon sheet!
Just an analog store in a digital world. Dick Broussard "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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Adult Chicken Seminar
July 23, 6:00pm
Join us for an Adult Chicken Seminar on Thursday, July 23rd at 6:00 pm, here at Wells Brothers. Bob Wucher with Purina Animal Nutrition will discuss family flock education including chicken nutrition, environment, parasite control, maximizing egg production and the challenges of raising chickens in summer heat. The goal of this seminar is how to raise healthy chickens and magnificent eggs. S ... |
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CCMG Annual Bulb Seminar & Sale
July 25th, 3:00 pm
Mark your calendars for the Collin County Master Gardeners Annual Bulb Seminar & Sale at Well's Brothers on Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 3:00 pm. Bulbs ordered during the Bulb Seminar can be picked up at Wells Brothers Pet Lawn & Garden Supply on October 16th. Fall is the best time to plant perennials and spring flowering bulbs. The Collin County Master G ... |
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Fall Organic Gardening Workshop
August 22, 1:00 pm
If you like gardening in the spring, you're going to love gardening in the fall! Join us Saturday, August 22, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. for our Fall Organic Gardening Seminar. This seminar will be taught by Dick Broussard, and cover topics such as bed preparation, vegetable selection, organic garden products and philosophies. The seminar will last approximately one hour and Dick w ... |
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Dick's Garden Blog - Get Ready For Fall Gardening
I think most gardeners are like me, we read, listen, succeed and fail. Sometimes all in the same growing season. We have crop rotation plans and visions of gargantuan yields. Then comes this giant variable called Mother Nature. She is the one that sets the rules and she changes them with every season. You can do everything right and wind ... |
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Beware of Chinch Bugs
Chinch Bugs are little critters that literally suck the life from a lawn. They prefer St. Augustine grass, but will also feast on Bermuda, Zoysia, and Centipede grass. Chinch bugs like it hot and dry. For this reason a lot of the damage occurs next to streets, driveways and sidewalks. Grass damaged by chinch bugs remains attached to its roots ... |
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Are You Ready?
Remember that disaster preparations for a weather event are regional. The folks in Idaho don't worry about hurricanes just like the Brownsville folks not worrying about blizzards. So depending on what part of the planet you inhabit depends on what preparations you should make. The next questions are how long will you need to survive on your own and ... |
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How To Grow Tomatoes in Hot Weather
Sizzling summer temperatures can bring your previously productive tomato plants to a screeching halt. When days hit 85°F to 90°F and nights hover above 75°F, tomato flowers often fail to pollinate, then drop - which in turn puts new fruit production on hold. The longer the heat lasts, the longer those tomato flowers will continue to hit the pause button. In ... |
