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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Skip Ricter. Just watch

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him as a sign. Well,
good Sunday morning. So you are glad

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you're listening this morning, looking forward
to having a great time talking to you

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about things that are ventuest to you
regarding your garden, your landscape. You're

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listening to garden Line and I'm your
host, Skip Richter. Here is a

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phone number. Please write this down
so you have it handy when you need

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to give us a call. Seven
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four. What are we going to
talk about today, folks? We got

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all kinds of things, lawns and
trees and shrubs and herbs and house plants

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and what flowers I don't know,
insects, diseases, weeds, there's plenty

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of talk about in gardening, always
something to talk about. If nothing else,

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we can just grap about the weather. How about that. Well,

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let's start off. We're gonna go
right out to League City. Get going

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here with John V. Good morning, John V. Are you there?

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Today? This morning is on the
trumpet flower? That flower that looks like

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is that the right name? I'm
so sorry. Yes, Angel's trumpet Angels

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trumpet. Yeah, I knew it
was either between trumpet or angel and also

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called Angel trumpet. Yes, yes
here it is, okay, Yes,

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sure. Pretty tall they, I
mean they're pretty wide and tall and high.

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I'm the true shut for one stock, one plant. You know,

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they it depends most of most folks. They don't get that big. You

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know, they're six seven foot something
like in that range. Probably I've seen

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them get, you know, as
far as like eight feet wide, you

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know, when when they really are
growing and you got a robust plant and

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strong and maybe you get through winter
without a freeze back or things. So

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there's a range there if it's in
a container. Mine and containers have usually

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been within the four to six foot
range something like that. But you know,

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of course they could get larger,
but it just depends on how much

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soil growing conditions and all that good
water, good nutrition that you provide it.

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I was thinking about putting it in
the center of the garden because you

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know, my queen and runa like
true murder, you know, in that

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center there outside we have kind of
like a round circle in the backyard with

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the bricks. Would it be survived
throughout the winters if I planted there,

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Yes, as long as it's all
about temperature. It doesn't take much to

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freeze one back. Think of them
like you would think of a tomato plant.

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You know, it doesn't take much
to kill a tomato plant. Back

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to the ground. Fact, with
these, if we mult around the base,

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they will pop back out of the
ground again for us, especially if

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they're growing in the soil. But
oh, wonderful. It just depends on

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the on the weather that we have. Mine usually freeze back each year,

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but I've had years where they didn't. Okay, well, wonderful, Thank

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you so much. I'll have a
blessed Sunday. Well you too, Thank

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you for the call, and enjoy
that angel's trumpet. Those, by the

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way, do you know what color
blooms you have on that? Oh gosh,

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my mother. We're pink and purple
fanatics, so we're going to have

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to pick between one or the other. Maybe maybe what we can do is

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extended out to do two or three, or just want to do pink,

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purple and yellow? Well would't that
be? Yeah? Pink and yellow and

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coral. Those are going to be
pretty common. I don't know if I've

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ever now the purple one. There
is a not a bragman a day tura

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that is also sometimes called angels trumpet
that is purple and white. Gosh,

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I forgot about the color coral.
That's so beautiful too, right, Well,

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enjoy it, thank you, thank
you for the call. Yeah,

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the angels trumpet's named because the blooms
hang down from the branches, as if

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angels trumpets were pointing downward from heaven. That kind of idea is why it's

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given the name Angel's trumpet. Um. There's also one a different plant called

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datura, and day tura is more
of a little short growing shrub like plant.

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It's not a woody plant that lives
year after year in a shrub form.

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It dies back. But um,
the day tura is actually a poisonous

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plant. It's um. It's blooms
don't hang down, they kind of point

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sideway ways are slightly up, and
it is typically a purple and white form

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of a bloom. They're also beautiful, they're absolutely beautiful, uh, form

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little spiky seed pods. But just
know that it is poisonous. I think

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that day tura, I'm not mistaken. If you all remember the song Back

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in the Saddle again Gene Autry Oak
Singing Cowboy, where he sings about the

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jimson weed that the cattle feed on. I believe jimsonweed is a type of

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day tura too, so it's a
it's a it's also called loco weed.

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You know, it's not a good
not a good thing for anything to eat.

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But there you go where you want
to know about that. You know,

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if you have been taking care of
your lawn outside, you've got your

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lawn fertilized except for summer and everything. I would like to suggest you turn

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your attention to your indoor plants as
well when it comes to nutrition. And

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here's why Microlife has a product to
have a liquid line. A number of

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different liquid products that are available.
There's one called Microlife Biomatrix. It's an

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orange label that I love it that
they color code their labels. That makes

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it easy. You'll remember orange.
You might not remember by the time you

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get to a store. What biomatrix
What were those words? Well, let

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me see what biomatrix is. It's
a seven one three fertilizer. It's a

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liquid fertilizer organic it's got beneficial microbes
in it. This is a nice extra

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plus. I use it for my
houseplants. It works really really well at

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that seven percent. The higher percentage
of nitrogen compared to phosphorus and potassium works

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really well for our foliage types of
houseplants. It's most of our houseplants.

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We grow them for their foliage.
The second product I want to about is

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Microlife's Ocean Blue Harvest or Ocean Harvest, and it's a blue label, and

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that's a four two three a fish
emotion based fertilizer. Now this is good.

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I love it. For the outdoor
plants. You can use it as

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a folior spray. Follow the label
carefully on mixing it. Spray upward underneath,

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get the bottoms of the leaves wet
in the morning early in the morning

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when it's cool, and you'll get
better absorption at that time. It's not

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going to burn your plants. You
can also just put into watering can and

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drench it over But both Microlife Biomatrix
the orange label and Ocean Harvests the blue

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label are available where you Wherever you
find your Microlife products, you can go

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online Microlife Fertilizer dot com and it'll
tell you exactly where you can find them

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as well as if you want to
learn more about these two excellent products for

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liquid feed. Just giving little boosts
along the way, which is how we

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like to feed our house plants and
many of our outdoor plants as well.

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Works pretty cool. You know we're
entering that season where here comes the storms?

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What is it when we're June through
what? September? October? I

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don't know. The hurricane season is
upon us. That's the short. Well,

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if you need any kind of roof
work done, Brinkman Roofing is the

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place you need to call. I
mean, Brinkman's been here for twenty five

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years. Actually they've been here for
fifty years. They warrant their roofs for

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twenty five years of service, which
is a long long time. Now,

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the roof's a big investment in your
house, so you want to get it

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right. Okay. They have a
number of options. You can do this

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the solid seam standing seam metal roof
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business. Either way, Brinkman will
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shingle timberline solar shingle, so you
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That's kind of an unsightly thing.
Your shingles are a solar panel,

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and I think that is pretty cool
stuff. Now, Brinkman, they know

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what they're doing. Again, you're
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great job. But when you need
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get a fair price, and you're
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Brinkman. Let's take a break.
Our phone number seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Good
morning on a great Sunday morning. We

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are glad you're listening to garden Line. Looking forward to talking gardening with you.

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Give Josh a calf, keep you
on the board and we will talk about

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whatever kinds of gardening things you're interested
in. Hey, if you're thinking about

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purchasing a home maybe, you know, kind of looking for a place to

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go settle in for retirement. Well
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communities, walking paths, it's just
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have a lifestyle programs that are built
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example the Dellweb community out there in
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them develop a community garden. So
not only we have a beautiful home,

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you want to plow up the backyard
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enjoy the social events. You know
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It's just it's just a fun thing, a fun thing to do.

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for yourself. Let's head out to Willowbrook

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now and we're going to talk to
Anne. Good morning, Anne. Hello,

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how do you on the radio again? I need to turn it off.

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Yes, it's best. It's best
if you turn it down where we

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can't hear it. Okay, I'll
turn off. Okay. My question to

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you is, yesterday you mentioned about
not watering too much during this heat wave

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that we're having. Yes And I
had and I had new sod laid about

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a month ago that they told me
to water every day for about fifteen minutes

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um every single day. And I've
been doing that and it's thriving. But

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I don't want to get into a
situation where it's going to eventually, you

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know, kill the roots. Like
I think you mentioned yesterday about watering too

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much. Yes, could you help
me with this? You bet? Okay.

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A couple of things going on in
the question. Number one, what

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I was talking about yesterday was when
you water so much volume so regularly that

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the soil never has a chance to
drain and it just stays soggy. That's

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deadly dependants. Okay. So that's
that's that. It's a it's a function

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of how often do you water,
how much do you water? What kind

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of soil do you have? You
know, there's not just a water for

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X number of minutes as an answer, it's you have to It depends on

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your soil. But with the side, for the first week or two,

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we do water about every day,
just a very light watering. Though we're

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not turning the lawn into a swamp. We're just making sure those little shallow

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roots. You know, how the
side comes in, it's got this little

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thin leriu soil. Well, that's
the whole root system of the side plant

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when it comes to your house.
So we've got to give time for those

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roots to get down in the soil. Then it becomes really resilient. And

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eventually we're only going to water once
a week, so if it doesn't rain,

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and so for the first week or
so, you're you're just kind of

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pampering it with just a little bit
of water, not too much. Then

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we go to every other day,
maybe about twice a week. Then eventually

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once a week. So by the
time you've been in, you've had that

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side in for three weeks, you
should be moved back to a good soaking

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with a drying out period of soaking
with drying out period and so you shouldn't

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have to be doing the daily watering, certainly not past one week. So

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okay, good, even in its
brutal heat. I mean yeah, seriously.

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Yeah, well but again, picture
picture like a cutaway of your lawn.

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You know how you do those cutaways
and you see the soil and the

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sod on top. Well, first
off, you just have a little roots,

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and so you're watering it frequently,
and then the roots are slowly moving

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down, and so you're watering a
little more but a little less often,

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and then the roots finally get down
and they're normally deep, you know,

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saying augustine roots easily six eight inches
into the ground. If it's a good

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it's a good quality soil. And
at that point you're just giving. You're

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filling that sol volume with water and
then you're letting it drain out and it

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may not you may be watering twice
a week or even just once a week.

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Okay, good, And I know
you don't really know the volume for

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the minute, but utad rage is
about fifteen minutes or you saying for good

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watering, you know, I would
I would rather because there's there's people listening

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that have pop up solid sprinklers.
They have people that have rotors, and

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they have multi stream rotors, and
they all are vastly different in how they

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put out water. So what I
would rather say is put a little coffee

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can, a little tuna fish can, a little cat food can, any

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little straight sided can out there in
the yard. Put several of them if

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you can, or even rain gages
if you got them, and turn on

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the water. And when you've caught, when you first put inside, I

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would say you need probably about a
quarter to a third inch of irrigation every

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day at first, and then you're
gonna you're gonna gradually work your way to

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where you're watering with about a half
inch twice a week or an inch once

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a week. That's kind of in
general now in in superside versus lots of

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shade that varies a whole lot too. Yeah, okay, great, thank

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you so much. Research your house
and I'm glad to have you with us.

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Thank you well, thank you.
I appreciate the call very much and

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appreciate that very all right. You
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have um, I'm gonna have Papa
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today in the eight o'clock hour.
I hope you guys will stick around and

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hear that. You know, the
B Supply is out there in Dayton,

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Texas, and they if you are
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are a beekeeper, maybe you want
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the place that you need to go. And you're going to hear about this

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in the eight o'clock hour a whole
lot more. But you can go online

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to the B Supply dot com,
the B supply dot com and find out

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more. They have beginner classes once
a month out there in Dayton and you

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can learn all that you need to
know about beekeeping. I mean, it

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is amazing the classes they teach.
You can also if you just are interested

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in teaching or learn about bees or
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free honey tours out it's to B
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month. Just call them. If
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could probably even schedule a specific tour
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honey, you get to learn about
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while the kids are there, you
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hive in the world. It's this
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walk into the room and it's just
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out this long tube. It's really
cool stuff. But I'll be talking to

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Paul a little bit later this morning
and you can learn a whole lot more

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about that. Let's see where our
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talk to Joe. Good morning,
Joe, Good morning, Skip. I've

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had mealy bugs on my high biscus
that I've been washing off every couple of

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days or so. I sent you
a photo of knowing you've had a chance

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to pull it up. But it's
a losing battle with me right now,

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and as one to call to get
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do. These are the tropical type
of hibiscus. Yes, and it's in

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a container. Okay, I do
not see up. I do see you

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did semi a picture. I'll take
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Yeah, the mealy bugs that they're
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get rid of. I would you
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use a systemic insecticide that goes up
in the plant. The only thing you

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want to watch on that is when
you use those and you have flowers that

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the bees may come to. That
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But the good thing about the systemic
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system up into the stems, and
when the mealy bugs or aphids or white

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flies or anything is sucking juices out
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poison and it kills them that way. So rather than spring poison on the

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surface, you're putting it in the
in the plumbing of the plant. That

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is probably what I would do to
just knock these out. You can use

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there are contact materials like oils and
soaps and things that we knock them back

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with, but that's never one hundred
percent because you got you don't get all

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the nooks and crannies. You can
use you know, like a synthetic perrethroid

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type sprays to kill them, but
they've got that that fluffy coating that just

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really you know, kind of deflects
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get on them. So I think
I would go systomach and just be aware

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that you know, you want to
be careful about the bees and things until

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you get these these mealy bugs knocked
out. Which one would you recommend?

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I used look for a product that
has a meadow cloprid in it. And

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if you have a pen or pencil
handy there, yes, I would write

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down I AM I D O in
medd and then clo pr I D clo

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prid a metocloprid. It's the only
thing spelled close to that. So if

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you even got half those letters,
you'll find it. And a granular or

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a a liquid form. It's a
liquid form typically for plants like that.

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They do have a granule form.
It's using the yard for grubs. But

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I would just get you a good
liquid form. There's gonna be a number

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of them out there. You know
you're out in the king Would area.

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You're fortunate to have Kingwood Garden Center
and Warren Southern Gardens and they're going to

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carry something with a medicloppred in it. Great. And one more quick question

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on that hibiscus. It's got one
of the main stocks has a crack in

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it. Yes, Should I try
to save it or put something on the

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crack or just let it heal itself
naturally? The crack is on what plays

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I miss that it's on one of
the main stocks of the hybiscus. I

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would there's nothing you need to put
on it. Yeah, don't don't worry

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about trying to put anything on the
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Okay, Yeah, while I'm while
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You are in Kingwoods, so you've
got K and m ace there in

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Kingwood. And then it was J
and R Over and Porter and they definitely

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are going to have a very large
selection of products if you have any trouble

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finding it. All right, skip, thanks for your help. All right,

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thank you. I appreciate that.
Good luck without hibiscus. Well,

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it looks like we're running into another
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here we go. Give Josh a
call at seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four so he can
get you on the board. When we

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come back, you will be the
first up and we will continue talking gardening

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here on garden line. Good don't
you know me? Good morning, Good

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Sunday morning. We are here talking
gardening this morning with you our phone number

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four appreciate you listening to the

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garden line, and it's always kind
of fun getting a call see and what

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on earth are we gonna talk about
next, because you guys kind of set

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the agenda when it comes to you
know, is it herbs or is it

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house plants? Or you know,
why is my tree leaves falling off?

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I don't know what kinds of things
that come up with. You know,

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if you want to have a beautiful
landscape, if you're like me, you're

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a plant collector. Okay, Now
what that means is I go to garden

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centers, I see plants I have
to have, and I bring them home

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and I try to figure out what
on earth I'm going to do with them.

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I'm sorry, but that's a fact. That's called a plant collector.

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Our yards look like a bomb went
off in a garden center and everything rooted

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where it landed. But if you
want a real landscape, you need to

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call the folks at Peer Scapes.
There are preferred garden lined landscaper. Peerscapes

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have been doing this for a long
time. They know exactly how to design

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and install a landscape that will make
your home a show place. We're talking

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about rock borders. We're talking about
good drainage. By the way, do

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you have drainage issues, They can
fix that. How about walkways, hardscapes,

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new gardens. They know how to
put in sprinkler syst They know how

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to take care of the lighting needs. You know, that beautiful evening setting

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where the landscape lighting is perfect.
They can do that. Peerscapes. You

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can find out more. Go to
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column two eight one three, seven, zero five zero six zero. This

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is a good time to get some
landscape work done, so when fall comes,

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your garden is just or your landscape
just going to be even more beautiful

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than ever before. I was driving
up through kind of the Navasota area just

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was it last week or week four? It was last week anyway, and

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drove past Grimes County feed and you
know they're one of our Sponsorshire on Garden

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Line Grimes County. If you live
up there, I call it God's Country.

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I mean it's the area out there
around Carlos and Iola and Bad Eyes

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and Roan's Prairie and Richards and most
of your stand what where is that?

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Well? You need good check it
out. It's up just a near Navasota,

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near College Station to a lot of
College Station Brian folks go down to

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it. But this Grimes County Feed
is that that good old time family owned

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feed store that provide a service that
has all the supplies you Need's easy to

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get in, easy to get out. The fertilizers we recommend, you're going

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to find them there, a tree, he sprinklers, things like that.

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The mosquito dunks we talk about.
They're going to have those quality dogging,

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cat food, livestock food. Do
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fish stocking. Several times through the
year they will have fish come in.

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If you have a little farm pond
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can take care of that too.
Grimes County Feed for those of you who

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live in King Oaks or the Murewood
subdivisions, they're your hometown feed store and

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I hope that you will check them
out. You will really enjoy spending time

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with Chris and the rest of the
family out there and letting them prove to

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you why Grimes County Feed is a
place that you want to do your shopping.

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I'm looking outside seeing the daylight starting
to show up. Finally, the

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breeze is moving the trees just a
little bit. About It's a good day

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to get out there and do some
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weather. That's why we have mornings
and late late days, early evenings to

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get out and get some of that
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done right now. I mean,
there's still things we can be planting.

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There's things that we can be trimming
and pruning and fertilizing and feeding and taking

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care of and checking for pests and
staying ahead of things. One of the

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most popular kinds of gardening right now
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That is just a hot topic.
And when I think about where would

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you go if you're going to buy
plants for butterflies and pollinators, one of

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the top places is Buchanans and Native
Plants. They're on the Heights on eleven

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Street in the Heights. You can
go online to Buchanansplants dot com to find

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more out about Buchanans to find out
where they are and what they have and

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what's going on right now. They
have a lot of milkweeds for sale now.

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A lot of you are familiar with
a tropical milkweed, the non native

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that a lot of people grow for
the beautiful blooms. They also have Asclepius

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tuberosa, another beautiful native milkweed that
we have here. They've got a green

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milkweed Sclepius vartas. They've got an
aquatic milkweed Sclepius perennis. So if you're

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looking to make monarchs happy, and
this is the place you need to go.

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They specialize in native plants, but
they have every other kind of plant

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you can imagine, if you need
shade plants, if you want herbs and

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vegetables and house plants and trees and
shrubs, and but natives is really the

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heart of what they do there.
And boy do they ever have an excellent,

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excellent supply of bucannons plants dot Com
Eleventh Street and the Heights. I

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was in there recently and just yeah, every time I go, I'm surprised

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at some of the things they have. It's stuff that you wouldn't find in

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a lot of other places, you
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It's just not like everybody didn't just
carry a huge amount of natives,

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but if you're into interested in natives, they certainly do. That would be

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a great place to stop and check
out, especially on a day like today.

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Our phone number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seven and four. You know the Josh

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will get you on the board.
Give him a call. I love to

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visit with gardeners about all kinds of
gardening questions that they have, and I

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know that a lot of people ask
about trees and ask about turf and stuff

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like that. In fact, trees
and turf are the two teas that make

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the phone ring most often on garden
Line as well as in the county Agrilife

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Extension offices around the state, where
your county extension agents are helping you with

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gardening and ranching and all kinds of
different questions that you might have out there.

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But when it comes to trees,
you want to start with a quality

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tree that was grown right and that
was planted right if you're going to have

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success. That is really important.
In fact, I'm going to be doing

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a talk for the Obapalooza coming up
here within a month, and we're gonna

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talk about the two things that make
the phone ring the two tees and we're

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gonna talk about trees and what goes
wrong with trees, and some of the

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things that go wrong are you don't
pick the right tree and you don't planet

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correctly. Verdant Tree Verdant Tree Farm
is a place where you can get the

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right tree and you can get it
planted correctly. You can go online to

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Verdant Treefarm dot com. They've got
the old location or original location, I

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should say it's out in West Houston
over on Barker Cypress near Bear Creek Park.

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They've got the Verdant Tree Farm down
in pair Land on West Broadway and

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then up in the Heights where Yale
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where you can get Verdant trees.
You go pick your tree, they'll tag

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it, they bring it to you, they plant it. One of the

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best selection of palms you're going to
find in town, but all the other

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kinds of trees up to seven hundred
gallons, ten percent discount for military and

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first responders. Verdant Tree is a
veteran owned company and they will provide a

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beautiful tree that will add value to
your landscape for decades to come. Remember

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the best time to plant a tree
was fifty years ago. Second best time

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is today. So I hope you'll
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one three two one two five eight
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I want to be a cowboys sweet
well. Good Sunday morning, on a

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great day to talk about gardening.
Get outside, get a little early morning

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work done, perhaps or maybe late
day today also good day this afternoon,

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get out and visit one of our
garden centers. We've got a lot of

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great ones around here. And I
was talking earlier about Kingwood Garden Center and

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also Warren's Garden out there in Kingwood. If you live out there, I

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keep putting it this way, but
you guys are rich with garden centers.

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I mean, that is so fortunate. Anybody in the Kingwood Order, New

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Caney Valley Ranch at Tascaseda, with
all those places all out northeast here,

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you guys have some really great spots
to go check out. And they have

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so many good plants, they have
so many good products. They know what

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they're doing. You know, if
you want to learn how to build a

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multi let's see what a combination ornamental
container. Maybe you've got a real large

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container and you want to have plants
growing over the sides and growing up through

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the center and all that kind of
thing and just a showstopper. They can

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tell you how to do that,
or you can just go there and buy

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one that they put together themselves and
it's like instant there you go take it

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home. Warrens is one of those
garden centers that is just a destination place.

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If if you have family and friends
come in from anywhere around the area,

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that would be a place I would
take them to see, just to

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see the kinds of things that they
have there in the Kingwood area. Warrens

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is on North Park Drive, Kingwood
Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Both

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of them are open seven days week. They also have those filling stations.

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If you bought Microlife or Nelson plant
food and the plastic jugs, you can

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take them back in there and refiled
a little bit less costs to do it

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that way, and you don't throw
more plastic into the environment. We already

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got enough of that right. Warren's
Garden Center, Kingwood Garden Center seven days

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a week today. It'd be a
good data check those out. You're listening

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to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
I opened a drawer at the house the

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other day and a silver fish ran
by. I don't know, Deanna,

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what silverfish are little flat silvery insects
or actually are the insects. I need

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to call Scott McGrath and ask if
those are insects. I can't remember if

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theyre or not. I think they
are anyway, silverfish ran by. They're

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the ones that get in your papers
and chew up all the papers in your

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books and things like that if you
leave them stored for a while. Whether

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it's cockroaches or silverfish or fungus nats
or anything bugging your house. Maybe it

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00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:12.079
is fire ants outside or issues in
your lawn. McGrath pest Control is the

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00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:16.519
place to call it. Go to
mcgrah McGr at H McGrath pest control dot

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00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:22.319
com or column two eight one four
six nine eight two four zero. They've

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been around for over forty eight years
here in the community. You don't stick

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around like that if you don't do
a good job. They schedule a time.

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They don't tell you, well,
sometime Saturday afternoon in five hours.

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00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.000
We may show up. No,
they tell you when they're going to be

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00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.240
there, and they're there. They're
highly rated. They serve the whole Houston

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00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:46.039
area and the owner is still involved
in day to day operations and is accessible

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to the customers. So no matter
what you're dealing with, if you're concerned

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00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:54.680
about termites, if you're concerned about
rodents squirrels in the attic, call McGrath

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00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:58.400
pest Control and they can take care
of it for you. And I need

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to give them a call and say
I saw a silver flat silverfish. State

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of emergency. Get over here.
We gotta put an end to this because

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I have opened up old books before
and found those things in them where I

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stored them out in the garage or
something like that. Oh my gosh,

457
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.160
just ruins your day to know that
your stuff is being destroyed by past.

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Let's head out to East Houston and
we're gonna get Paul a minute here to

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talk about whatever is on his mind. Hello Paul, good morning, Skip.

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I have a question about a gardenia. It's the ever blooming gardenia.

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And I know that you've already addressed
this probably a dozen times, but I've

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missed it, so I just wanted
to ask you. The leaves have completely

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turned brown. And I don't know
what all to do the same thing with

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the azalea. About the only thing
that I'm thinking is just clip off those

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old brown leaves and hope for new
growth. What do you think? So

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are you saying the entire bush there, it's all brown, there's no green

467
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leaves. There's maybe not anything that
stands out. It might be real small

468
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trying to grow out. I got
a tarp and put over it. It's

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it's one of those sun blocking type
of tarps that um you see it garden

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centers to try to protect it and
save it. But I don't know what's

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to do for it. Is it
in a container or is it in the

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ground? And how long? How
long have you had it? Probably about

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maybe a month? Okay, maybe
maybe a month and a half. Yeah,

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it's it sounds like it might have
gone without water for a while in

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the heat. That's a possibility.
It's a possibility that, of course,

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if you kept it two saggy wet, didn't have good drain holes in the

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container, that that can also kill
roots and result in the same effect as

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if you water it. Uh.
I can't think of anything else other than

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a root rot, which would be
you're you're kind of up a creek there.

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When a whole plant turns brown like
that, it's often the case that

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you don't get it back. But
sometimes if it was just a temporary and

482
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you came back in time for it
to recover, it may slowly put out

483
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some new growth. And all that's
going to mean is putting it in a

484
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very bright shade location where there's light
intensity coming in but not direct sunlight on

485
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it, keeping that soil evenly moist, and then just waiting to see if

486
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there's enough left in the plant to
be able to push back out. My

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gut feeling is this is not going
to end well for that plant. But

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I wouldn't give up on it yet. I know it was a real vigorous

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one when I bought it. But
anyway, yeah, I just was wondering

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how many I'm just going to try
to take the leaves off. It has

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excellent drainage, Okay, I've really
gone the extra step to give it everything

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it needs to survive. And then
I guess just the heat. Just one

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day it just laid down. Yeah, yeah, all right, Well that's

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that's strange. But you know,
in a container it can get dry quick,

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especially when it's one hundred degrees outside
and right, and it also just

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gets so blazing hot. I mean, you know, when it's one hundred

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degrees already and now the sun is
shining on the container, and so that

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soil volume is way way warmer,
hotter than it would be if it was

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on the ground. There's just a
lot of factors that come into play when

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we start dealing with containers, right
right, okay, all right, very

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well, doing a great job,
brother. I appreciate your help. Well,

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thank you, and good luck with
that. I hope things turn out

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well for it. Appreciate the call
pole our phone number seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. Hey, if you haven't
done your summer fertilization, you need to

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00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:54.159
consider getting that done asap. And
we're talking about when we say summer fertilization

507
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:59.920
here on Guardline, we mean a
slow release fertilizer. And Nelson Plant Food

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00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:02.320
has a turf Star line. In
fact, they've got about a half dozen

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00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:05.840
different products in the Turf Star line. But I'm going to focus on the

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slow and easy twenty two two ten
twenty two to ten slow and easy,

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gradual release over the summer. It
does not push a lot of fast growth

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that creates thatch that makes you have
to mow, that limits the root system.

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Slow and easy will get the job
done by Nelson Plant Food. Nelson

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00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:28.840
Plant Food all their products Colorstar,
Nutrastar, turf Star, Nature Star available

515
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:30.440
all over the place. You need
to check them out. Hey, we're

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gonna take another break here, and
I hope you'll hang around with us.

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We'll be back to talk more about
gardening in the meantime. Right down the

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number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four and Josh, we'll

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00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:50.760
get you on the board so you
can be first up this morning. We're

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gonna talk when we come back about
some other things. I want to talk

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a little bit about some of the
common pest problems that we deal with in

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00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:04.079
our lawns end in our trees as
well in the summertime. If you would

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like to discuss things like beneficial insects
attracting them to the to the landscaping garden.

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If we got some time, we
may even get to that as well.

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I want to remind you in the
eight o'clock hour, folks from v

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00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:19.360
B Supply VB supply are going to
be here and talking about bees, and

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00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:28.440
you need to not miss that.
It's going to be fascinating stuff. KTRH

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Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

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00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:47.639
program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line
with Skip Rictor so just what him as

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00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:07.119
good Sunday morning. You're listening to
Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip

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00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:14.280
Rerector. We're here to talk about
things of interest to you regarding your garden,

532
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:17.079
your landscape, your lawn, any
kind of thing related to plants,

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00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:21.719
horticulture. We're happy to visit about
that. I'm gonna give you a phone

534
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:22.920
number here. Write this down,
give us a call if you would like

535
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:27.079
to be on the line. Ask
a question of interest to you. That

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00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:31.679
is seven one three two one to
five eight seven four seven one three two

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00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:37.840
one two fifty eight seventy four.
And I'm gonna talk now about I mentioned

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some insect things I wanted to visit
about earlier. The summertime. Bring some

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00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:47.519
insect issues to our yards. And
one of those issues is grubs, the

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white grubs. You probably have heard
about grubs in the lawn before. They

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feed underneath the surface and they sever
the roots. They cut off the roots

542
00:39:55.440 --> 00:40:00.599
of the plant, so you can
literally pick up your let's say it's the

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same augustine yard. You can pick
it up like it was a throw rug,

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and it just lifts right up.
There's no roots down in the ground

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to hold it to the ground.
They're they're very short and cut off,

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so it's will easy to lift it
right up. That's a symptom of grubs.

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Now they're grubs everywhere. There always
are grubs in your lawn. I

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mean, they're just they're ubiquitous.
But it's when there are a lot of

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grubs that it becomes a problem for
a lot of folks. They don't think

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this way about insects, But insects
there's a threshold, there's a level where

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we are concerned. And I'll let
me use a green bean plant in the

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garden as an example. They did
a study one time where they picked leaves

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off of a green bean bush and
they looked at the yields as they removed

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leaves that you know, of course, it was replicated trial, and they

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found out that you had to pull
about forty percent of the leaves off of

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a green bean bush before you saw
a significant decrease in production. So let's

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apply that now to insects. If
you've got some insects that are like how

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to or beetles or whatever's eating on
a green bean bush and they've eaten a

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00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:08.159
fourth of the leaves off, it's
okay, it's not worth worrying about because

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your bush will still produce it.
That's how nature is. It's resilient and

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it's made. Now, if you
have a major infestation, yes that's a

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problem, we've got to shut it
down soon. But my point is that

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just because a pestice present doesn't mean
a control is needed at that point in

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time. So with grubs, the
entomology researchers tell us that it takes somewhere

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between around seven five to ten grubs
per square foot before there are enough grubs

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to do enough damage to where it
would warrant doing a spray to control them.

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So go out and dig around where
there's especially grass type plants, could

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be grassy weeds in the garden,
and you'll often find grubs in the soil.

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That's just like I said, they're
ubiquitous. They're here, but when

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there's a lot of them, that's
a problem. And that's how we need

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to think about it in order to
know when we need to respond or how

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we need to respond. So with
grubs, they typically and you know,

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we grew up, probably you did, calling the little things flying around in

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the air june bugs or june beetles, or maybe maybetles. If you're hearing

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in the southern parts of Texas,
the southern half of Texas, it's more

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of a may beetle than a june
beetle. But anyway, a little brown

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00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:25.840
beetles flying around, maybe on your
porch light at night you notice them in

578
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the summertime, Well, that's a
mating flight of one of several types of

579
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beetles that forms the grubs that eat
our grass. There's more than one.

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So when we see that, then
we know they're gonna be laying eggs soon.

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And after they lay eggs, the
eggs hatch out and they're little,

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tiny, tiny caterpillars. I mean
this is hatching out as something that's an

583
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:51.719
egg maybe the size of a lowercase
typed o letter O. So if you've

584
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got an egg that little and it
hatches, how big is that caterpillar going

585
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to be? Really tiny? And
it feeds a while near the surface,

586
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and it goes through molts and gets
bigger and bigger until it finally becomes that

587
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big, fat grub that we see
when we dig a hole in the ground

588
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and find those C shaped, creamy
looking grubs in there. Well, for

589
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the first few weeks of its life, it's feeding near the surface, and

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then as it gets hot, it
moves down deep in the soil now here.

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That's your window for grub control.
So if you spray early and they

592
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haven't laid all the eggs, eggs
haven't hatched yet, then you're gonna miss

593
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:30.960
some of the eggs that would hatch
a little bit later, and those grubs

594
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you would miss them. If you
wait until they've moved down into the soil

595
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.079
or started moving down, then your
products are not going to get down at

596
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that level. They're just not We
want to catch them when as many as

597
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:46.440
possible they've already hatched out and yet
before they've started heading down. So that's

598
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the window, and for us that
window is in June. It's typically about

599
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mid June, which if I look
at my calendar right, we're just a

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little past the mid June, so
now would be the time if you're going

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to do a grub treatment. Don't
delay any longer. Get it down there,

602
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:07.239
get it done. You can treat
earlier. Some products are very persistent.

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They last a good while, and
so if you get them down a

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little earlier, they'll st still be
around when the grubs show up. Some

605
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:16.239
don't last very long at all.
Some of the old products, you know,

606
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:21.679
seven people use seven dust and stuff, those kind of things don't last

607
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.920
as long as some of the newer
ones in the soil. But grubs,

608
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:27.960
this is the window. Now,
we're in that time when you need to

609
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:31.000
go ahead and get that grub treatment
done. A SAP if you have a

610
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:34.559
grub problem. And again just because
you saw a du and bug, just

611
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:38.679
because you found a grub somewhere,
doesn't mean you necessarily do so. Something

612
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:42.079
to keep in mind there. Hey, if you've got a little piece of

613
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.480
property and you would like to get
a tractor to help take care of it,

614
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:46.800
to make it nice, to make
your work easier, you know,

615
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:51.199
maybe a front end loader that helps
you haul feedsacks, you know, from

616
00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:53.679
the truck out to the barn or
wherever you're going. Maybe a box blade

617
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:58.840
to help smooth soil out, or
a mower, a rotary cutter to just

618
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.440
you know, do some may your
large scale mowing on the property. Lansdown

619
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:07.079
Moody and Cauboda have combined to create
a deal that you do not want to

620
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:13.199
miss. That is the Caboda Texas
Edition L twenty five oh one. It's

621
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:17.320
got hydrostatic transmission. You can buy
all those UH accessories to go with it

622
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.880
and more than I talked about.
But this deal, and by the way,

623
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:23.960
it's only lasting until June thirtieth,
So what is that? Five days?

624
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:29.559
Here you go. This is your
warning, zero down, zero interest

625
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:34.679
eighty four months, seven years,
zero down, zero interests eighty four months

626
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:42.400
on Lansdown Moodies Cauboda Edition Texas Edition
twenty L twenty five o one. You

627
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:44.920
you're not going to find a better
deal than that, but you have until

628
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.239
June thirtieth to get it done.
Go to LM tractor dot com and you

629
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:52.239
can find out more about you know, where where are the Lansdown Moodies in

630
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.159
your area and how can you go
buy you need toy and check it out.

631
00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:58.480
Take a look at one hop up
on one kind of imagine what it

632
00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:01.480
would be like to have something like
that out there on your place. It

633
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:06.519
just makes work easier and it's just
It's just a pleasure to be part of.

634
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:08.880
Believe me, I've had a lot
of old, clunky tractors that were

635
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:13.920
more work to keep them going than
they saved me. Probably not with this

636
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:15.800
one. No, this is this
is one gonna be a pleasure to be

637
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:21.000
a part of. You're listening to
garden Line our phone number seven one three

638
00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:24.840
two one two fifty eight seventy four. We are hitting on break time.

639
00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:28.920
I'm gonna take a break and when
we come back, if you will give

640
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.599
Josh Cale will be first up.
Otherwise I don't keep talking about some things

641
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:55.840
regarding insects in our landscapes. Good
morning, good Sunday morning. Beautiful day

642
00:46:55.880 --> 00:47:00.000
outside. I was. I was
loved to be able to say that,

643
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:02.719
you know, because around here it
rains a lot, and when it does,

644
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.079
it's not always such a beautiful day, although you know what I like

645
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:15.239
rain to There's something about just watching
the different phases of the weather. I'm

646
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:16.159
good with all of it, man, I'm telling you, except, of

647
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.840
course, one hundred degree heat.
Yeah, not so much that one.

648
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:24.079
And I do I lodge it a
formal complaint yesterday against whoever you know,

649
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:29.320
I could lodge it against that.
I think that one hundred degrees for a

650
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:32.480
week or two at a time,
or anywhere close to that in mid or

651
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:37.719
to late June, is just that's
unacceptable. That we've got August, we

652
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:39.800
got July, we got even September
to get all that kind of stuff done.

653
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:43.440
Let's not do it now. Could
we just go ahead and cancel that

654
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.880
and go back to about ninety four
or ninety three, or who knows,

655
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:50.559
maybe even a good front come through
and we get in the lower nineties.

656
00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:53.639
That would be more acceptable in my
opinion. I bet you agree with that.

657
00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:58.239
We're talking about insects. I was
telling you about the grubs and the

658
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.039
lawns. Oh, by the way, our phone number seven one three two

659
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:04.159
one two five eight seven four,
if you'd like to be on guard line,

660
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:07.360
ask a question. We got the
grubs in the lawn, but we

661
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:12.480
also have chinch bugs. Chinch Bugs
typically are a big problem in late summer

662
00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:16.119
to early fall, and they have
a spring generation they go through here where

663
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:19.599
we see some a little bit of
a cropping up of them, but then

664
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.880
sort of goes away, and then
here comes a later generation that really is

665
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:27.840
a significant problem in many years,
not all years, but a few years

666
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:31.199
ago I guess probably five to eight
years ago something like that. I was

667
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:37.039
in Cyprus and we had an outbreak, and I mean there were entire yards

668
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:40.519
turned completely brown, and that is
not something you usually see every year in

669
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:45.960
yards here and on chinch bugs.
But chinch bugs have piercing sucking mouth parts.

670
00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:50.079
They put their mouth in your grass, they inject a toxin and they

671
00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:52.079
suck the juices out of it,
and it turns brown and it looks like

672
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:57.800
it needs watering at first. It
almost always starts in the sun near a

673
00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:01.480
sidewalk or a curb or some of
the masonry structures. That is one of

674
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:06.639
the things I look for and diagnosing
chinch bugs is yeah, it's over by

675
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:09.639
the sidewalk or driveway, and it's
like the grass needs watering, and you

676
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:14.719
watered and it doesn't perk up,
and it's gradually moving out. It's not

677
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:19.559
a clean line. It's just this
gradual loss of color and just browning of

678
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.960
the grass. That's how chinch bugs
go. And that's when we need to

679
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:25.920
get a treatment on either either dide
ahead of time. If you know it's

680
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.000
going to be a problem for me, I never know for sure, so

681
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:32.159
I wait until I see the first
signs and then I jump right on it

682
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:37.280
and treat at that point in time, but they they are a problem.

683
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:42.199
One year at a library and Lockhart, Texas. Now there's halfway across the

684
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:46.519
state. I was walking down the
sidewalk and the grass. It was a

685
00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:51.840
Saint Augustine lawn by the library,
and it had weeds in it, and

686
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.440
the weeds were perfectly green. Chinchbugs
did not want them, but they turned

687
00:49:55.440 --> 00:50:00.800
the grass completely brown, nothing to
eat, and they were heading across the

688
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:07.159
sidewalk and it was just like you
know, herds of buffalo on the great

689
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:10.920
planes migrating across the planet. There
were just solid chinch bugs heading across the

690
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:15.360
sidewalk to get to the other side
where there was some green grass over there,

691
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:19.760
and it was just it was an
interesting thing to see that the Saint

692
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.760
Augustine's gone and these dead gum weeds, which if I could have paid,

693
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:27.000
we need to breed a chinch bug
that eats weeds and not grass. No,

694
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.960
No, if there's any researchers listening, there's an idea for you,

695
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:36.239
a weed eating, not grass eating
chincherbug. But anyway, that was kind

696
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:37.880
of interesting to see that. Hey, I've talked to you about Dell Web

697
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.800
before you know. There's a community
out in Fulshure going in. That's a

698
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:45.719
new Dell Web community about two miles
from downtown and they're putting in a community

699
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:50.760
garden and I'm helping them with that. And now with the Dell Web community,

700
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:53.559
you get beautiful houses, you get
a gorgeous community, walking paths,

701
00:50:54.199 --> 00:51:00.079
incredible lifestyle programs for you designed around
people age fifty five and are active adults.

702
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:04.320
And if you want to learn more
about this community, go to dellweb

703
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:07.599
dot com slash Houston for more info
or give him a call to eight one

704
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:14.719
four five nine zero six zero nine. They can help you find out about

705
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:20.199
that Dellweb difference and see it for
yourself. Let's head out to Lake Charles,

706
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:24.360
Louisiana and talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, what's up? Hey?

707
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:28.400
Good morning? You know I'm good, I'm good. How things in

708
00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:34.119
Lake Charles? So? Uh?
You brought up sebinc about Jane bugs.

709
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:40.039
I have several swarms a year,
and I got some young countries that overnight,

710
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:45.280
these June bugs will eat every leaf
off the echountry. Is that right?

711
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:49.320
The little brown, little brown beetles. Huh, Well, I have

712
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:54.199
I have different varieties, oh,
like three swarms. Okay, due to

713
00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:59.199
all the hurricanes, they wiped out
seven my oak trees, so they cut

714
00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:04.719
the popular jew bugs significantly. But
I was I was always wondering if I

715
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:09.079
get a big old bugs effort and
start killing these June bugs because at night

716
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:13.039
I'll go out and turn the swimm
pool light on, yeah, and they'll

717
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:15.719
just pop in there, and then
my chickens love it the next morning.

718
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:23.280
So if I put the bugs app
out there to cut the population down,

719
00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:30.719
am I actually cutting the population down
or increasing population by attracting morgin? Well,

720
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:32.360
if you if you turn your porch
light off. Now I'm a I'm

721
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:36.400
not a bug expert, but I
know there's different kinds of bulgs you can

722
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.880
put in a porch light where it's
less attractive to some bugs. So you

723
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:43.000
might want to look into that and
see if that's the case for jim bugs.

724
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:45.960
But I would put that you can
you can go online and learn how

725
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:51.199
to make a trap, and basically
you use one of those little clamp lights

726
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.400
and you put it over a five
gallon bucket and you fill the bucket full

727
00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:58.599
of soapy water or not full.
But you know what I'm saying, and

728
00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:00.639
then jim bugs come flying up there, just like they would your porch light,

729
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:04.639
and they fall into that water and
they just drowned. But I would

730
00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:07.079
put it out across across away from
the grass, right from the yard,

731
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:12.320
you know, your house and stuff
over there, and just let that run

732
00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:15.360
each night, and especially during that
season, maybe put a couple of them

733
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:19.840
out and see how many you can
pull out of the air and capture that

734
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:22.480
way. Now, the problem with
trapping insects is we never get them all.

735
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:24.960
And sometimes even though we get a
bunch of them in this case,

736
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:29.679
June bugs in the bucket, that
doesn't mean there's still not enough out there

737
00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:32.559
to cause us serious problems. But
at least you're cutting the numbers down.

738
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:36.199
And that's a homemade way to do
it. I wouldn't I don't think a

739
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:42.760
bug zapper would would work, because
I always wanted to buy attracting. Am

740
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:46.079
I attracting more or am I fleet
deep creek well greefing to population? You

741
00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:51.880
know? You it just depends with
those mosquito things that capture mosquitoes like that.

742
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.159
Some of them put out sense,
you know, kind of a carbon

743
00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:59.360
dioxide kind of things that attract the
mosquitoes in and if you put those in

744
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:01.960
your patio, Yeah, you're bringing
mosquitoes from all over over to your patio

745
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:05.639
and you're going to trap some of
them, But then there's gonna be a

746
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:07.880
lot of others that are buzzing around
that are after you. Now, So

747
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:12.119
that's why I said, put it
away from where you want to attract them,

748
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:15.480
to attract him, away from from
where you don't want them feeding in

749
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:19.519
things. But I don't know that'd
be the best thing I can think of.

750
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:22.000
Certainly, spraying them in the adult
stage is not going to be very

751
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:27.480
practical. Yeah, I've tried,
you know, I have three acres that

752
00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:32.840
maintained. I've tried to kneeme all
and nothing really worked. And I didn't

753
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:37.440
know is after the hurricane quite down
some of those priest the population is decreased.

754
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:40.679
Okay, all right, very good, Well, good luck with that.

755
00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:44.400
I'd give me a call back if
you try that trap thing, see

756
00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:45.760
if that worked, how that worked
for it. I'd be curious in hearing

757
00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:51.480
about it. All right, Hey, thanks a lot, John, I

758
00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:55.880
appreciate or Kevin, I appreciate that
call a lot. You know, if

759
00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:01.039
I was looking at my U in
my house in a back room. I've

760
00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:05.119
got a little tall floor and I
noticed a crack in it last summer and

761
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:07.639
the first time that had happened.
But it happened because it, you know,

762
00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:13.360
forty five days over one hundred degrees
no rain, and the soil shrinks

763
00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:16.920
and swells as it gets wet and
dry. And whenever that happens, you

764
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:21.199
are going to crack a foundation on
a house. And that's going to happen.

765
00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:23.679
And if that happens to you,
you need to call Fix My Slab

766
00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:29.760
Foundation Repair. That's a good name, Fix my Slab Foundation Repair. Ty

767
00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:34.599
Strickland's owner. They've been doing this
since twenty twenty three years now. A

768
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:38.639
local business, small business service the
experience that you need to have. So

769
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:43.000
it may not just be that you
see a crack. Maybe the doors are

770
00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:45.679
sticking, the bricks on the outside
are cracking or walled, the sheet rock

771
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:50.480
is cracking. Before you do any
home improvements to fix that sheet rock,

772
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.519
make sure that you got your foundation
right otherwise it's just gonna shift and re

773
00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:58.400
crack again. Now tis committed to
a fair price, They show up on

774
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:00.480
time, they know what they're doing, and they don't just do home foundations

775
00:56:00.519 --> 00:56:06.599
they'll do your crack sidewalk. They'll
do they'll fix the driveway that's cracked as

776
00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:08.920
well. They do it on time, they have a fair price and they

777
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:14.199
get it fixed right called two eight
one, two five five forty nine forty

778
00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:17.840
nine, or just go to fix
myslab dot com and they will get you

779
00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:22.719
set up. We're gonna head out
now to Moss Hill and talk to John.

780
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:25.280
Hello, John, tell you good
mourns. Thank you for taking my

781
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:30.079
call. Yes, sir, I
was telling your screener that I've got a

782
00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:35.719
couple of hibiscus plants that, uh
they're about ten years old and first couple

783
00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:39.360
of years they bloomed. The last
five or so they have it, and

784
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:45.760
I was wondering where I should start. I have a sandy loam and uh,

785
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:49.639
okay, I don't have a brain
comb. Now these are these are

786
00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:53.199
not the tropical hibiscus that have the
glossy dark green leaves, but these are

787
00:56:53.239 --> 00:56:58.880
the large, dinner plate sized bloom
perennial hibiscus or which one. Well,

788
00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:05.199
no, sir, they're green.
They are pretty glossy. Other than that,

789
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:09.320
I can't really answer. I've got
them from a Houston area retail center

790
00:57:09.960 --> 00:57:15.039
does a lot of plants. Okay, Well, hibiscus needs sunlight, they

791
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:19.159
want decent drainage, but they want
moist soil. They don't want to get

792
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:23.559
dry. They need a good quality
nutrition in the soil. So it's it's

793
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:28.480
going to be one of those things
going on. If they're growing and they're

794
00:57:28.559 --> 00:57:31.639
alive, but they're just not blooming, I would probably look at getting a

795
00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:36.360
hibiscus food. A number of the
different products we talk about here on garden

796
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:40.000
Line will sell you specifically a hibiscus
food, and I would use that,

797
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:45.960
follow the label and just be a
little extra careful and attentive to keep in

798
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:49.840
the soil adequately moist so they don't
go through stress. Because when a plant

799
00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:53.159
stress is often what would have been
a normal follow through with a bloom and

800
00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:58.280
whatnot. It will abort that and
you won't get good blooms. So good

801
00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:05.079
good dependable moisture, good dependable sunlight, and a good quality nutrition done according

802
00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:08.239
to label. Don't overdo the nitrogen, just moderate them out. You don't

803
00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:13.719
want to push them into the vegetative
growth as at the expense of slowing down

804
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:17.679
and producing bloom buds and blooms.
Yes, sir, they will grow roof

805
00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:22.199
high every year with no blooms.
I keep them moist. Are on the

806
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:23.960
south side of my house. I
think they get plenty of sun. Okay,

807
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:28.440
do you for the high business food, do you recommend a certain brand?

808
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:32.320
You know, Nelson's has a good
brand for that. The folks that

809
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:37.480
nitrifies have a good brand for that
as well. I believe Microlife even may

810
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:39.360
have one for flowering plants like that. That would be a good one to

811
00:58:39.360 --> 00:58:43.840
do. So you're not gonna go
wrong with any of those. But watch

812
00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:46.920
the nitrogen. As I'm listening to
you and thinking through this as we talk,

813
00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:51.920
it almost sounds to me like they're
a little too vigorous and that they

814
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:54.760
might need to slow down a little
bit get the other nutrients that they need

815
00:58:54.840 --> 00:59:00.719
other than just nitrogen being overdone.
Well, thank you very time. I

816
00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:05.000
really do appreciate. I have my
bill and I'm going to the store,

817
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:07.519
all right, Good luck with that. Thank you for that call. I

818
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:10.119
appreciate that. Hey, we're gonna
take a break seven one three two one

819
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:23.480
two fifty eight seventy four. We
will be right back after our news break.

820
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:36.559
Yet, good Sunday morning. If
you're listening to Garden Line, I'm

821
00:59:36.599 --> 00:59:38.880
your host Skip Ricker, and we
are here to answer your gardening questions.

822
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:44.079
You can give us a call at
seven one three two one two fifty eight

823
00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:47.039
seventy four if you would like to
talk gardening. In the meantime, I

824
00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:50.760
have an idea. You know,
the fourth of July is about a week

825
00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:52.119
away, and what does that mean? What what do you think of me

826
00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:54.280
a fourth did you lie? I
mean, can you do a Fourth of

827
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:58.719
July without cooking out on the grill? I mean, I'm not I'm pretty

828
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:01.599
sure it's illegal in this country to
not cook out on the fourth of July.

829
01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:05.920
I think that's required. But if
you need some good equipment, I

830
01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:07.400
know a place you can go and
get it, and that is Ace Hardware.

831
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:12.960
Ace Hardware has one of the largest
grilling sections in the market. And

832
01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:15.719
if you don't believe you just go
check one out. There's thirty nine of

833
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:17.639
them here. You can go to
Ace Hardware dot com, Ace Hardware dot

834
01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:22.559
Com, do a store locator and
there's going to be a more than one

835
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:25.920
near you. You're gonna find the
Webber grills, You're gonna find the Trager

836
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:29.440
grills, You're going to find the
big Green Egg. I mean, we're

837
01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:35.840
talking about the cadillacts and all above
of grilling equipment here. All the blame

838
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:37.960
you need to go with it,
whether you know, just you name it,

839
01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:42.400
everything that goes with part of grilling. They're going to have it at

840
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:45.559
ace Hardware dot Com. Of course, they also happen to sell all the

841
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:47.880
fertilizers that we talk about here.
They've got every kind of product you need

842
01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:52.639
for pest and disease and weeds and
everything else, plus a bazillion other things

843
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:58.039
you need for outdoors, outdoor furnitures, stuff for decor and lighting and things

844
01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:00.760
like that. It's holidays hardware,
but consider this, it's time for new

845
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:05.719
grill and so I would swing by
an Ash Hardware between now and next July

846
01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:10.000
fourth, which is next week,
and let's get set for one of the

847
01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:15.280
best grilling seasons you've ever had yet. Hey, it's one hundred degrees outside.

848
01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:17.719
You could just about throw the meat
on the sidewalk and cook it there.

849
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:21.840
But hey, a grill makes a
lot better. It makes for a

850
01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:24.760
lot better eating. If you're listening
to Guardline, we've been talking all kinds

851
01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:29.559
of things regarding insects and past I
was just talking about chinch bugs, for

852
01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:32.559
example, while ago. Another thing
that we deal with in our lawns,

853
01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:37.159
but it comes and goes, and
that is a side web worm. When

854
01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:40.239
they're bad, they're bad. But
we can go years and essentially you don't

855
01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:43.519
see side web worms in your yard. If you do, it's just one

856
01:01:43.639 --> 01:01:45.880
or two here and there. It's
not a big deal. But when they

857
01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:49.920
occur, it's those little moths or
tiny moths that fly real low. They

858
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:52.199
lay eggs in the turf, they
hatch out into caterpillars. They feed at

859
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:55.199
night, they eat your grass leaves
and it just looks like your grass is

860
01:01:55.239 --> 01:01:59.440
sort of shrinking down as the leaves
are eating a way. When you have

861
01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:00.880
those, you need to treat for
them, and there's a number of products

862
01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:05.679
you can use. You can use
persistent products that you put down and they

863
01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:08.920
go on and on for weeks and
they're continuing to provide some control, or

864
01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:13.960
you could wait and the first sign
to your treatment. Then typically they're going

865
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.679
to be midsummer to late summer.
We can have them at different times,

866
01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:21.719
but that's when I've generally noticed them
the worst. But that is yet another

867
01:02:21.800 --> 01:02:24.760
and probably the last of the biggies
of the pests that we deal with in

868
01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:29.320
our lawns. By the way,
when you're needing supplies like for pest control

869
01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:34.480
or whatnot, a quality feed store
like a Spring Creek Feed center is going

870
01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:37.599
to have those. And a Spring
Creek they're up there in Magnolia on FM

871
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:42.800
twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes
away from Graham Parkway and Highway to forty

872
01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:45.719
nine. They've got the fertilizers that
we talk about. They've got the herbicides,

873
01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:50.280
the fungicides, the pesticides for dealing
with these lawn pests and others.

874
01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:53.159
They have supplies for your lawn,
for your garden, for ponds. The

875
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:58.280
staff is friendly, they're courteous,
they greet you. They if they don't

876
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:01.840
have a something you need, ask
them about getting it in. They probably

877
01:03:01.880 --> 01:03:06.400
can bring it in for you and
find it for you. If you need

878
01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:09.760
pet food, quality pet food supplies
for your chickens, supplies for your livestock,

879
01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:15.519
it's all there. They deliver,
They will special order products and they

880
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:19.119
do have a delivery service as well. At Spring Creek Feed in Magnolia and

881
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.280
FM twenty nine seventy eight. I
always love going in there, just a

882
01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:28.079
i don't know, just fun,
fun place to go and go visit our

883
01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:31.360
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three

884
01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:37.239
two one two five eight seven four. I was in the backyard yesterday and

885
01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:40.719
I finally got one of my feeders
that I've had a couple of feeders that

886
01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:45.320
I've been trying to get set up
and get going with things for the birds.

887
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:50.599
And I'm just enjoying, you know, watching the birds come and visit

888
01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:53.119
the feeders and and I don't know, I just enjoy. To me,

889
01:03:53.280 --> 01:03:57.760
birds are like part of gardening in
that you go out in the garden.

890
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:00.119
You see beautiful flowers, right,
you see a beautiful law and a beautiful

891
01:04:00.199 --> 01:04:04.679
landscape. That's all there. But
then there's the flying flowers and that would

892
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:09.039
be the butterflies they go by,
or the birds, the colorful birds that

893
01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:12.639
go by. There's the movement,
there's the songs of the birds in the

894
01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:16.159
morning. It's just part of making
that wonderful setting. Whyer birds come to

895
01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:19.400
your house, Well, they come
to your house because there's pests that they're

896
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:24.280
eating. They eat caterpillars. That
is a big deal for birds. That

897
01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:27.760
is an important food source. They
come to your house because there's water.

898
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:30.440
So if you don't have water.
You're messing out on bringing songbirds in.

899
01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:34.840
It's blazing hot one hundred degrees a
long time. Birds need water. Give

900
01:04:34.920 --> 01:04:38.840
them water, a water, a
bird bath, any kind of a thing

901
01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:42.840
that provides them some water. Make
sure that they have that. They're still

902
01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:46.440
doing nesting. Bluebirds are nesting.
A Cardinal's chickeneese rinds are all still nesting.

903
01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:50.840
Stop by a wild Birds near you
and get some of their super blend.

904
01:04:50.920 --> 01:04:56.639
They have a nesting super blend.
It's perfect for the summer feeding.

905
01:04:56.639 --> 01:05:00.519
You want to continue offering nesting super
blend through August to supp worth the birds

906
01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:02.840
as they go through this period.
There's seven wall birds around here, so

907
01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:08.079
it's not hard to find one.
Katie Kingwood Cypress, parlamb Belair, West

908
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:14.039
Houston, clear Lake. Go to
WBU dot com, WBU dot com,

909
01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:17.239
forward Slash Houston and find the wall
birds near you. Isn't one of the

910
01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:20.320
coolest stories you're gonna walk into.
I mean, even if you're not into

911
01:05:20.360 --> 01:05:24.239
birds, you walk in there and
suddenly it's like, you know what I'd

912
01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:26.639
like to do this. I want
to feed her, I want a birdhouse,

913
01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:30.599
I want just go check them out. You'll see what I'm talking about

914
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:36.159
really really cool hobby to add onto
gardening. It goes naturally along with gardening.

915
01:05:39.239 --> 01:05:42.239
Walking through the yard the other day, I was checking out some of

916
01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:45.000
my trees. I've got some cypress
trees that were dropping some limbs in the

917
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:47.599
yard, and I was kind of
looking out, seeing what's going on up

918
01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:50.599
there and taking care of them.
And I noticed in one of my trees,

919
01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:55.639
I've got a fork up in the
tree where two branches are competing to

920
01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:58.760
be the boss branch, if you
will. They both think they're in charge,

921
01:05:58.760 --> 01:06:01.239
and so they're kind of fighting it
out. That creates narrow angles that

922
01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:04.119
are a problem when when a storm
comes, those narrow angles are going to

923
01:06:04.199 --> 01:06:08.280
break out. You may want to
check your trees out, or even better

924
01:06:08.360 --> 01:06:13.360
yet, just call Affordable Tree Service. Call Martin spoon More. Either he

925
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:16.280
or his wife Joe will answer when
you doll seven one, three, six,

926
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:23.079
nine nine twenty six sixty three or
go to aff Tree Service dot com.

927
01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:26.840
And here's why this is important.
Now it is hurricane season. Do

928
01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:29.800
you have limbs that need to be
removed like that fork up in the top

929
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:32.079
of my tree I need to get
taken care of. Are there limbs rubbing

930
01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:35.239
your roof or under the eaves,
or is there a dead tree that needs

931
01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:39.719
to come down, Maybe a limb
hanging over your roof or over your neighbors

932
01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:44.159
or your property, over the fence
line. How about power lines, the

933
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:46.519
drop line coming into your house.
The last thing you want is a limb

934
01:06:46.519 --> 01:06:51.079
falling on that and you losing power
when it's one hundred degrees outside, right,

935
01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:55.840
Have Martin come out, have him
take a look. It's worth hiring

936
01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:59.599
them to come out and do a
consultation. If you need anything done to

937
01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:01.719
take care your trees, from deep
root feeding to pruning, to training,

938
01:07:01.719 --> 01:07:06.000
even planning, call Martin Spoon more
seven one, three, six, nine,

939
01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:14.119
twenty six sixty three. Lots of
topics to talk about this morning,

940
01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:17.519
you know, regarding gardening and the
different things that insects that we're dealing with.

941
01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:21.440
That's kind of been the topic of
the day, is the insects that

942
01:07:21.480 --> 01:07:28.039
we're managing and when you need to
get things taken care of in your property,

943
01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:30.679
when you need to be on top
of things and getting them identified.

944
01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:33.679
That's one of the reasons we're here. You can call us on Garden Line.

945
01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:36.079
You can talk with Josh. You
find out how to send me a

946
01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:40.159
picture of a bug or something will
identify it and tell you what you might

947
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:42.920
need to know about it and do
about it. But for right now,

948
01:07:42.920 --> 01:07:45.119
we're going to take a break,
So if you want to call Josh,

949
01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:48.440
get on the board seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four and

950
01:07:48.480 --> 01:08:15.039
we will be back with you shortly. Well, good Sunday morning. You

951
01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:17.039
are listening to Garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and our

952
01:08:17.159 --> 01:08:21.840
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. We're

953
01:08:21.840 --> 01:08:27.000
going to be visiting with Paul Fagala
from the B Supply here in the eight

954
01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:30.279
o'clock hour, which is just coming
up in a little bit here. Looking

955
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:32.640
forward to that, And if you've
got some questions about bees, that would

956
01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:36.479
be a good time to call and
ask Paul. He is the b expert

957
01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:42.720
when it comes to all things that
are bees, speaking of all things that

958
01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:45.399
are if when it comes to all
things that are, all the products you

959
01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:49.600
need, all the advice you need, everything you can need to make your

960
01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:55.319
lawn and garden the most beautiful,
bountiful place. We're talking about Southwest Fertilizer.

961
01:08:55.520 --> 01:08:58.119
I mean, if you've not been
in there. I don't care where

962
01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.760
you live. You need to drive
over to Southwest and check this out.

963
01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.840
They are over at the corner of
Bissonette and Renwick. You can go online

964
01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:08.239
Southwest Fertilizer dot com. But if
you've never been in the place, you

965
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:11.119
need to see it. And I'm
not exaggerating, and you need to see

966
01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:15.479
it for yourself. Eighty foot long
wall of garden tools, the city's largest

967
01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:20.319
selection of herbicides, insecticides. Fun
decide you. We've been talking to insects

968
01:09:20.359 --> 01:09:26.880
all morning. I don't care if
you are a synthetic gardener on organic gardener,

969
01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:29.720
and I don't care either one.
Just sell me what works. They

970
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:32.439
have got it there. They have
all those kind of supplies, every kind

971
01:09:32.439 --> 01:09:38.159
of fertilizer we recommend, and many
more, including Southwest's own premium Goal that's

972
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:43.359
their own fifteen five ten slow release
fertilizer at Southwest Fertilizer. They've been sponsoring

973
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:45.720
garden Line since I don't know when
Doe Compton days. They've been around since

974
01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:49.399
nineteen fifty five. In fact,
I believe that I'm the fifth garden Line

975
01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:55.319
host to speak for Southwest Fertilizer.
That's the kind of institution they are here

976
01:09:55.680 --> 01:10:00.359
in the Greater Houston area. Do
you need your lawnmower blade sharpened? You

977
01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:03.119
need to because a sharp blade makes
a clean cut. It's easier on your

978
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:05.960
mower, and it actually looks better
because you don't have all those little brown

979
01:10:06.039 --> 01:10:12.159
tips from a blade that just rips
the ends of the grass blades off.

980
01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:15.600
If you need to bring a sample
in or a photo of they'll take a

981
01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:17.039
look at it and they'll take you
to the product you need. They won't

982
01:10:17.079 --> 01:10:21.119
sell you something you don't need again. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Go see

983
01:10:21.119 --> 01:10:26.359
Bob and his team of well trained
folks over there, and you will see

984
01:10:26.359 --> 01:10:30.800
why they've been around for so very, very long and are so popular with

985
01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:34.000
gardeners here in the Greater Houston area. You know, we have a lot

986
01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:38.439
of things that we talk about on
garden Line, and one of my broken

987
01:10:38.520 --> 01:10:42.319
record things is soil, soil,
soil. It's all about the soil.

988
01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:45.079
It's always about the soil. Do
you want success with your plants, Well,

989
01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:47.600
what's the soil? Like? I
mean, you're going to PLoP them

990
01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:51.800
in to whatever happens to be at
your house because you got on a you

991
01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:56.000
know, a kick and just brought
home some plants one day from a garden

992
01:10:56.039 --> 01:11:00.079
center. Well, you're going to
get the results that equal the soil prep

993
01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:03.680
that you did. Did you add
compost, did you add the nutrients that

994
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:06.560
it needs? Did you prepare the
soil right? Did you build a raised

995
01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:10.960
bed? Do you have good drainage? All of that sets you up for

996
01:11:11.039 --> 01:11:14.199
success. It makes your thumb turn
green if you will. Well, where

997
01:11:14.239 --> 01:11:15.760
you're going to get that, Well, you're gonna get it from nature's way.

998
01:11:16.039 --> 01:11:18.800
You know. Nature's way is up
there on I forty five, up

999
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:24.000
toward Conrow about where fourteen eighty eight
comes in, and they sell bulk,

1000
01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:28.319
lots of things bulk there. They
also sell by the bag if you want

1001
01:11:28.359 --> 01:11:30.039
to purchase by the bag. Their
bags are available in some of our garden

1002
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:33.840
centers as well. But if you're
looking for a quality mix, you know

1003
01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:39.920
they originated the rose soil and the
leaf mole compost. They've been a leader

1004
01:11:39.920 --> 01:11:43.880
for a long time because they take
time to make it right. Anybody can

1005
01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:46.399
rush some organic matter through, make
it turn brown and sell it and call

1006
01:11:46.439 --> 01:11:53.039
it compost. It's very different to
make a quality compost in a way that

1007
01:11:53.239 --> 01:11:56.000
takes the time to do it and
that's what they do, by the way,

1008
01:11:56.039 --> 01:12:00.960
every Friday, ten percent off their
bag products, twenty percent off their

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01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:03.520
bulk products. So they got a
lot of fungal composts there. If you

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01:12:03.520 --> 01:12:08.000
want a top dresser lawn this summer, a good place to get your fungal

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01:12:08.119 --> 01:12:11.560
compost to do that. They also
have a two acre nursery and garden center

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01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:15.520
with all kinds of plants, probably
one of the better selections of native plants

1013
01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:20.279
in our area there at Nature'sway dot
Com. Another good reason to stop in

1014
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:26.039
and check them out. We're getting
kind of close to the eight o'clock hour,

1015
01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:29.640
but I did want to mention one
other thing. When we're talking about

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01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:32.479
pests this morning. I've talked about
chinch bugs, I've talked about what else.

1017
01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:35.640
I talk about the grubs, the
soil grubs that get into your lawn,

1018
01:12:36.359 --> 01:12:42.000
and a little bit about the sideweb
worm that can be a problem here.

1019
01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:45.840
By the way, we're fortunate,
fortunate is tongue in cheek here on

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01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:47.800
the Gulf coast to have the sideweb
worms. You go up to College Station

1021
01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:53.760
Waco, Austin. Sideweb worms,
I've never heard of them even being in

1022
01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:57.479
those areas. They like it a
little bit warmer down here on the coast,

1023
01:12:57.560 --> 01:13:03.640
So another nice addition to our gardening
challenges here. But we know what

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01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:09.079
to do about them when they show
up. I don't know if you got

1025
01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:12.600
out and got around to some garden
centers this weekend, but I hope you.

1026
01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:16.079
I hope you got a chance to
and one of the places that I

1027
01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:19.239
would say, no matter where you
live in this region, and if you

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01:13:19.239 --> 01:13:23.159
have family and friends coming in,
you need to take them to his Enchanted

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01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:26.399
Gardens that's out in Richmond. If
you're in Richmond and you head up Katie

1030
01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:30.840
Way, that's in Chanted Gardens.
Chanted Forests is towards sugar Land and a

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01:13:30.880 --> 01:13:35.039
little bit south of fifty nine,
and Channed Gardens is north of Richmond towards

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01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:40.880
Katie. The Lenderman family has been
part of that community since nineteen ninety five.

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01:13:40.920 --> 01:13:45.159
When in Chenny Gardens open, this
is an experience. This isn't just

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01:13:45.239 --> 01:13:47.840
like I go by a plant.
This is you wander, you walk,

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01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:51.399
you're amazed, you get inspiration,
you get ideas, and again they have

1036
01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:56.239
folks that know what they're talking about. That's why we love our mom and

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01:13:56.279 --> 01:14:00.000
pop garden centers around the area.
Every kind of plant you can imagine,

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01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:02.319
and hey, it's time for a
herb garden, even vegetables. There's vegetables

1039
01:14:02.319 --> 01:14:05.520
to be putting in right now.
Do you want antique or hybrid roses,

1040
01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:08.960
trees? Do you want to buy
seeds? Do you want to buy all

1041
01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:12.640
the products we talk about, the
different soils, the different fertilizers. They've

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01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:15.239
got it. They're open today,
by the way, from ten am to

1043
01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:18.720
four pm, and during the week
Monday through Saturday eight am to five thirty

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01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:25.359
pm. Go to Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com. Check them out on Facebook,

1045
01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:29.920
check them out on Instagram, get
ahold of the newsletter so you find

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01:14:29.960 --> 01:14:33.439
out what's going on there in Chenni
Gardens is one of the most fun places

1047
01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:38.079
that you will visit if you are
at all into plants, or maybe you

1048
01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:42.119
got someone who in the family who's
not super gardening, but you could haul

1049
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:45.319
them out there and buy them one
of those beautiful Cajun hibiscus or something like

1050
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:48.720
that. It'd be a fun outing
to get out and do an Enchanted Gardens.

1051
01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:55.479
We're going to head to Sugarland and
we're gonna talk to Ronnie. Good

1052
01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:59.159
morning, Ronnie, how are you
today? Hello, Good morning, how

1053
01:14:59.159 --> 01:15:03.079
are you doing? Thanks? Stay
cool over there. Uh well, yes,

1054
01:15:03.199 --> 01:15:08.600
it's in a studio, so not
until I walk outside there you go.

1055
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:14.560
Hey, real quick, I've got
some brick walkways that are just being

1056
01:15:14.680 --> 01:15:18.039
taken over concerned by weeds, you
know, between the bricks. Okay,

1057
01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:24.239
Any any suggestions on some type of
weed control? Yeah? Do you know?

1058
01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:27.920
Do you know at all of what
kind of weeds you're dealing with here?

1059
01:15:28.359 --> 01:15:31.920
By any chance? All right?
Well, so, if it's an

1060
01:15:31.960 --> 01:15:35.479
annual weed, you can just burn
the tops. You can use anything from

1061
01:15:35.479 --> 01:15:42.680
a vinegar product to a translocated herbicide. You know, there's a lot of

1062
01:15:42.720 --> 01:15:45.479
different herbicides. The general purpose things, the glyphless sate kinds of things will

1063
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:48.960
kill just about anything you get them
on. So if it's a perennial weed

1064
01:15:49.039 --> 01:15:54.600
like nuts edge or like bermuda grass
or something that's just going to keep coming

1065
01:15:54.600 --> 01:15:57.720
back and keep coming back, you
might want to use one of those kind

1066
01:15:57.720 --> 01:16:00.359
of things. Otherwise you can just
top burn them. Lots of good products

1067
01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:03.439
out there that'll do it. Again. The vinegar is kind of an organic

1068
01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:09.079
end of the spectrum, but we
may have many others. If it's grassy

1069
01:16:09.159 --> 01:16:13.319
weeds, there's a couple of ingredients
that kill just grasses and not broad leaves,

1070
01:16:13.560 --> 01:16:17.079
and you can go after a reflose. Now that you mentioned it is

1071
01:16:17.159 --> 01:16:21.039
primarily nuts edge, nuts edge.
Okay, for nuts edge, I would

1072
01:16:21.079 --> 01:16:27.720
get something called manage. Manage is
going to be a good one. There's

1073
01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:32.640
another one called sedge hammer, and
another one called image. All of those

1074
01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:38.039
will work on nuts edge. But
nuts edge is a tough weed, and

1075
01:16:38.279 --> 01:16:43.039
usually one shot doesn't get it.
So when you spray it and it dies

1076
01:16:43.119 --> 01:16:45.880
back, then when it comes back
once it's has three to five leaves,

1077
01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:50.159
you have to spread again right then, or it'll just create more daughter nuts

1078
01:16:50.199 --> 01:16:55.920
underground and you won't have accomplished anything. You know what I'm saying. It

1079
01:16:56.000 --> 01:17:00.560
just reproduces itself, and so killing
the old plant didn't help. So three

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01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:02.439
to five leaves, it gets sprayed, it goes away. When it comes

1081
01:17:02.439 --> 01:17:05.720
back up, three to five LEAs
sprayed again and then again, and you

1082
01:17:05.760 --> 01:17:11.399
will get rid of it that way. They are that is an amazing weed,

1083
01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:14.319
because you know how you can take
a weed eater and go down in

1084
01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:16.840
between the crack. Yeah, oh
yeah, you say, man, I

1085
01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:23.119
got it now, Yeah, it
is, that's true. That's true.

1086
01:17:23.159 --> 01:17:26.399
It is an amazing weed. In
fact, this is a fun fact,

1087
01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:29.000
you know. They I always say, if you can't beat them, eat

1088
01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.439
them well. Nuts edge, yellow
nuts edge. The tubers are called earth

1089
01:17:32.520 --> 01:17:36.079
almonds, and I've actually tried one. You put it in your mouth to

1090
01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:40.680
chew on it. It's somewhat almond
like in flavor, and then you spit

1091
01:17:40.720 --> 01:17:45.439
out sawdust. That's kind of Egyptian
phay rows were buried with their chief of

1092
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:50.479
nuts, which is a form of
nuts edge. So I heard that and

1093
01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:54.079
I wondered, you know, if
they were from Texas. But they've also

1094
01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:58.399
wanted to be buried with their fire
ants because I can't imagine taking nuts edge

1095
01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:00.800
with me to the grave. Paul
or Ronnie, thank you very much.

1096
01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:09.720
I appreciate the call of good luck
with that. Ktr H Garden Line does

1097
01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:15.560
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

1098
01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:33.840
to ktr H Garden Line with Skip
Rictor, so just watch him as any

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01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:50.560
club ticket not a sign. Well, good Sunday morning. You are listening

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01:18:50.680 --> 01:18:55.000
to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we are here

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01:18:55.039 --> 01:18:59.119
to answer your gardening questions. Give
us a call seven one three two one

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01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:03.520
two five, eight seven four.
Hey, have you thought about getting solar

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01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:08.199
panels for your house? We'll wait
a minute. I've got an idea.

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01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:11.720
How about a solar shingle instead of
a panel on top of your roof.

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What about a shingle that creates the
solar power itself. Well, Brickman has

1106
01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:21.159
a product called Timberline solar shingles that
are just that, They're not above the

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01:19:21.239 --> 01:19:26.920
roof, they are the roof.
Now, Brickman's been providing quality service for

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our area for over fifty years now. And you don't stay in business that

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long without doing things right and doing
things right? What does that mean?

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That means to be in a full
service roofing company, residential workman or commercial

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as well. That means standing behind
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up to twenty five years. You
know your roof is one of the largest

1113
01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:49.159
investments you have in your home.
You need to get that right. You

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01:19:49.199 --> 01:19:54.359
need someone that you can trust,
for example, someone who is a twenty

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That's the website Brinkman Quality dot Com
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six six three. Brinkman provides all
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shingle we're talking about, but also
metal roofing, standing ce metal roofing.

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For example. Don't just wait for
someone to knock on your door and drop

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off a business card because a storm
came through. Hire someone who's local,

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01:20:24.399 --> 01:20:27.760
who stands behind their work, and
that would be that would be Brinkman.

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01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:33.039
We had a really good conversation just
a minute ago with Paul Fagala from the

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01:20:33.039 --> 01:20:36.279
B Supply and I hope you guys
enjoyed that. If you didn't catch the

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01:20:36.319 --> 01:20:41.720
website, it's the B Supply dot
com. Lots of good information. They've

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01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:45.399
got the monthly magazine online. It's
an online magazine you can get monthly by

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01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:48.319
going to the B Supply dot com. You can look at the monthly webinar

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01:20:48.479 --> 01:20:53.640
they have the first Thursday of every
month at six pm. There's a YouTube

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01:20:53.720 --> 01:20:58.039
channel you can learn bees twenty four
seven with the folks at the B Supply

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01:20:58.119 --> 01:21:01.479
and whether you end up being too
beekeeper, not just learning about being the

1130
01:21:01.600 --> 01:21:06.079
fascinating thing. I think all youth
should have the opportunity to learn about that

1131
01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:12.319
fascinating world of nature science. That's
involved in the whole world of bees.

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01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:16.560
You've heard me talk about Microlife products
in the past, certainly the green and

1133
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:19.479
a bag and the purple bag that
we put on our lawns. In fact,

1134
01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:24.079
you can put them anywhere. Great
products that they also have a liquid

1135
01:21:24.079 --> 01:21:26.920
line, and that's something that I
would like to talk about. You know,

1136
01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:30.279
it's a hot outside now. I
mean, you probably got your summer

1137
01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:33.239
fertilizing done, but what about your
houseplants, what about the patio plants and

1138
01:21:33.319 --> 01:21:36.880
things like that. Well, Microlife
has two products that I want to tell

1139
01:21:36.880 --> 01:21:42.239
you about today. That's Biomatrix.
That's an orange label, easy to remember,

1140
01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:45.399
orange label seven to one three.
I use it on my houseplants.

1141
01:21:45.800 --> 01:21:50.279
It is a high nitrogen liquid organic
and it includes beneficial microbes. Microbes are

1142
01:21:50.279 --> 01:21:56.119
important for root systems of plants.
It helps make everything better for the roots

1143
01:21:56.119 --> 01:22:00.199
of the plants and therefore the plants
themselves. Microlife Biomatrix orange label seven one

1144
01:22:00.319 --> 01:22:05.159
three super quality product works well.
I can attest to that personally. Secondly,

1145
01:22:05.159 --> 01:22:11.239
as Microlife's Ocean Harvest blue label that's
a four two three that is I

1146
01:22:11.399 --> 01:22:15.319
use that for the outdoors. It's
a fish based fertilizer. Some people like

1147
01:22:15.359 --> 01:22:18.119
to use it as a folior feed. You just mix it up according to

1148
01:22:18.159 --> 01:22:21.439
the label. Spray upward from under
the plant to coat the bottoms of the

1149
01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:25.359
leaves. That's where the stone mates
are that open up and they're open in

1150
01:22:25.399 --> 01:22:28.520
the mornings. That's why we like
to do it in the morning. Also

1151
01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:30.760
the top of leaves, that's fine. Or just put it in a watering

1152
01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:34.720
can and drench your plants to fertilize
with it. A natural organic fertilizer works

1153
01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:40.039
well. Where to buy it well
everywhere. Go on Microlife Fertilizer dot com

1154
01:22:40.039 --> 01:22:44.520
website Microlife Fertilizer dot com and you
can find all the places where you can

1155
01:22:44.520 --> 01:22:47.720
get these and other Microlife products as
well as find out more information about that

1156
01:22:48.039 --> 01:22:56.159
orange label Biomatrix or the blue label
which is the Ocean Harvest Super super Products.

1157
01:22:57.479 --> 01:23:00.760
Our phone number if you'd like to
be on and talk guarding is seven

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01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:04.720
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two

1159
01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:10.840
five eight seven four. You know
now that it's hot, our lawns are

1160
01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:14.720
needing water to do well. Now, hopefully we get a little rain every

1161
01:23:14.720 --> 01:23:16.720
now and then and over the long
haul. We get a lot of rain

1162
01:23:16.840 --> 01:23:21.640
here and we don't have to water
our lawn all the time. But when

1163
01:23:21.680 --> 01:23:25.479
it hadn't rained for a week,
it's time to put some water on your

1164
01:23:25.520 --> 01:23:29.560
lawn, especially when it's one hundred
degrees. There is an app that will

1165
01:23:29.600 --> 01:23:32.159
help you do it that efficiently,
and I've used this app for years myself.

1166
01:23:32.640 --> 01:23:36.720
It is called the water my Yard
App. You can find it on

1167
01:23:36.760 --> 01:23:41.560
the Apple App Store. You can
find it on Google Play the water my

1168
01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:45.479
Yard app, or you can go
to the website water my yard dot org

1169
01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:49.600
orgy water my yard dot org.
What it'll do, you put it in.

1170
01:23:49.720 --> 01:23:53.479
You tell it well, I've got
pop up solid sprinklers, or I've

1171
01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:57.600
got a rotary, or I've got
a multi stream rotary or whatever, you

1172
01:23:57.600 --> 01:24:01.119
know, whatever kinds of irrigation you're
doing, and tell them where you live.

1173
01:24:01.279 --> 01:24:04.560
Because there are weather stations all over
the area, and they will find

1174
01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:09.680
the closest weather station. They'll measure
the sunlight, by the way, this

1175
01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:14.640
is all free, They'll measure the
sunlight, the humidity, the let's see

1176
01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:18.800
solebrated sunlight temperature, the wind speed, all the things that affect how much

1177
01:24:18.880 --> 01:24:24.439
water a plant will use, and
they have a little formula. They crunch

1178
01:24:24.479 --> 01:24:27.880
it through and they can tell you
you're Saint Augustine lawn this last week at

1179
01:24:27.920 --> 01:24:30.680
your house used about a half inch
of water or used about an inch of

1180
01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:33.079
water, and you can get an
email that says just that it's time to

1181
01:24:33.119 --> 01:24:36.359
water. Here's how much you need
to put on. You can't get any

1182
01:24:36.399 --> 01:24:40.560
better than that. I mean that
is that saves you money. You're not

1183
01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:45.880
spending money on drinking water. You
don't need to overwater that your lawn.

1184
01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:51.439
Doesn't need to overwater your lawn and
it's not running down the curb side either,

1185
01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:56.319
because you've overwatered. When we overwater, we create plant problems. So

1186
01:24:56.359 --> 01:25:00.560
it's like a negative negative. You
waste money and you cause problems for your

1187
01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:03.159
plants. Why not get the water
my Yard app or go to water my

1188
01:25:03.319 --> 01:25:08.800
yard dot org and find out more
information. I cannot speak more highly of

1189
01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:11.600
it. And again I've been a
user of it and it costs nothing.

1190
01:25:11.840 --> 01:25:14.800
I mean, what else can we
what else can we do than that?

1191
01:25:15.199 --> 01:25:17.560
When you're you know, when you're
out taking care of your lawn too.

1192
01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:21.000
By the way, if you have
not put on your azamite application for the

1193
01:25:21.079 --> 01:25:25.119
year, I'd recommend you go ahead
and do that. We generally put it

1194
01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:28.520
on earlier in the year when we
do our fertilizing, but you can put

1195
01:25:28.520 --> 01:25:32.039
an azomite application on any time of
the year. Azamite is a mind material

1196
01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:36.479
full of trace minerals, and those
trace minerals are all the things that plants

1197
01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:42.079
need in addition to those big three
on the fertilizer label. I put it

1198
01:25:42.119 --> 01:25:45.319
in my vegetable gardens because I want
my produce to be more packed with all

1199
01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:51.119
the nutrients that my body needs as
well. Asamite is a wonderful product that

1200
01:25:51.199 --> 01:25:55.479
works very well. It's azamite Texas
dot com. If you want to learn

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01:25:55.560 --> 01:26:00.600
more azomite mte Texas dot com and
and learn a whole lot more about that.

1202
01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:04.800
But asamite is available in most of
the places we talk about here on

1203
01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:10.119
garden Line. Just when you grab
your fertilizer, grab some asamite as well.

1204
01:26:10.920 --> 01:26:13.520
We're going to take a break right
now, Cyrus, I see out

1205
01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:15.199
there. You'll be first up if
you would like to get on the board

1206
01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:34.279
with Josh seven one three, two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Yeah,

1207
01:26:43.479 --> 01:26:46.600
here we go. That's a good
song to follow up a nice segment

1208
01:26:46.720 --> 01:26:50.039
on bees and honey. By the
way, thank you Paul Forgolla for coming

1209
01:26:50.079 --> 01:26:56.039
in from the bee supply spend a
little time with us this morning and fascinating

1210
01:26:56.119 --> 01:27:00.479
us with all kinds of cool stuff
regarding the world of bees and how they

1211
01:27:00.520 --> 01:27:03.159
interact with us in our gardens.
We're gonna head out to League City now

1212
01:27:03.199 --> 01:27:08.560
and talk to Cyrus. Good morning, Cyrus, Good morning, sir.

1213
01:27:08.800 --> 01:27:12.239
How can we Hell? Yeah,
well, I've got an herb garden and

1214
01:27:12.399 --> 01:27:15.520
have some fire antswer decided they like
herb garden all right, so I'm wanting

1215
01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:19.680
to get rid of the fire ants
without making the herbs toxic. Okay,

1216
01:27:19.800 --> 01:27:24.600
got you good, good question.
Well, first of all, you can

1217
01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:28.239
apply any of the fire and controls
around the herb garden. Outside the herb

1218
01:27:28.279 --> 01:27:30.680
garden. You're not drenching, you
know, dumping them on top of your

1219
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:32.880
herbs. The fireans will go out
and find that one little granule out there,

1220
01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:35.600
in a granule here and wherever their
home is, they bring it back

1221
01:27:35.640 --> 01:27:39.680
and feed it to the colony.
And it's not going to toxify your herb

1222
01:27:39.720 --> 01:27:42.720
garden to do that. Okay.
If you want to use something in the

1223
01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:45.720
herb gardener, in the vegetable garden. There is one product. It's an

1224
01:27:45.800 --> 01:27:50.600
organic called come and Get It.
Come and Get It, and it has

1225
01:27:50.680 --> 01:27:57.319
the ingredients Spinos said, which is
an organic insecticide that's attached to a bait

1226
01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:00.520
and it is labeled, I know, for use in vegetable gardens, the

1227
01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:02.079
edible garden kind of thing. So
if you want to put something in the

1228
01:28:02.079 --> 01:28:05.119
garden, that would be one you
could use to you want to use those

1229
01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:09.439
baits when the answer out foraging,
if it's one hundred degrees outside, they're

1230
01:28:09.479 --> 01:28:13.319
probably hold up underground. Well,
and the reason they're there is because I've

1231
01:28:13.319 --> 01:28:15.039
been water in the garden. Okay, well there you go. Well what

1232
01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:18.159
I'll do is, if you've got
some potato chips or like an old oily

1233
01:28:18.279 --> 01:28:23.720
tunican lid or even a little hot
dog, throw a piece out there on

1234
01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:27.399
the ground and come back in fifteen
minutes, and if the ants are out

1235
01:28:27.439 --> 01:28:30.039
foraging, they will be all.
They will have found it and be on

1236
01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:31.640
it. And if you see that, that's the time debate. If you

1237
01:28:31.640 --> 01:28:34.920
don't see that, wait until it
cools off to it earlier in the morning

1238
01:28:35.039 --> 01:28:39.159
or later in the day and catch
them when they're out so they grab that

1239
01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:42.960
bait right away before it starts to
be affected by sunlight and you know,

1240
01:28:43.199 --> 01:28:46.520
starts to not become as desirable to
the fire ant as a bait. Okay,

1241
01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:48.920
all right, very good, thank
you, sir. I appreciate it.

1242
01:28:49.000 --> 01:28:51.920
I appreciate your call very much.
Thank you. It's good to talk

1243
01:28:51.960 --> 01:28:57.159
to you. Hey, if you
thought about maybe retiring and coming up with

1244
01:28:57.279 --> 01:29:00.520
a nice community, where would I
live? Where would I want to Well,

1245
01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:02.720
you need to think about Dellweb.
They've got a new community down in

1246
01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:06.239
Full Sure on FM three fifty nine, a couple of miles from downtown.

1247
01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:11.720
Now. Del Web builds those communities
for active adults age fifty five and better,

1248
01:29:11.720 --> 01:29:15.159
and they've been doing it for over
seventy years. This Full Sure community

1249
01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:17.279
is going to have a community garden, and I'm helping them with creating that

1250
01:29:17.359 --> 01:29:21.039
community garden there. I'm really excited
about it. If you're a gardener,

1251
01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:26.920
I mean, what more could you
want? Dell Web plus a community garden

1252
01:29:26.960 --> 01:29:30.960
in your community. You just can't
do better than that. Dellweb dot com

1253
01:29:30.960 --> 01:29:34.159
slash Houston will get you more information
or just give McCall. It's two eight

1254
01:29:34.199 --> 01:29:41.279
one four five nine zero six zero
nine and now we are going to head

1255
01:29:41.319 --> 01:29:45.159
out to Katie and talk to John. Hello, John, how are you

1256
01:29:45.199 --> 01:29:50.399
this morning? Fine? How you
scip? I'm good, I'm good.

1257
01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:58.479
I've got a burroke tree that I
think I might have a lot of either

1258
01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:03.119
spongy or uh gypsy moth caterpillars in
it, because I got a lot of

1259
01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:10.760
droppings all over the truck in the
driveway. Okay, And I've read that

1260
01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:15.840
BT is something that you can use, but I uh, I'm not sure

1261
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:19.880
how how high up and then the
tree I need to get or if I

1262
01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:29.359
do it on the on the bark
or or or water. Also saw something

1263
01:30:29.399 --> 01:30:33.439
about BTK BTK. Okay, well
let's talk about that. So BT and

1264
01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:39.039
BTK when it comes to caterpillars,
that's the same thing. The bt the

1265
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:43.279
K type of BT is what kills
caterpillars. There are other bts. There's

1266
01:30:43.319 --> 01:30:47.039
a BTI that kills mosquito larva and
that's in the mosquito dunks. But the

1267
01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:51.239
BTK, that's the caterpillar one you
can use that it's only gonna last the

1268
01:30:51.319 --> 01:30:54.640
day or two out there when you
spray it, and you gotta get it

1269
01:30:54.720 --> 01:30:57.560
all over the foliage. So if
the tree's too big to spray. That's

1270
01:30:57.560 --> 01:31:00.439
gonna be a bit of a challenge
to do, but you can do it.

1271
01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:03.560
That bt you'd spray it about ever. I would spread about two or

1272
01:31:03.560 --> 01:31:08.800
three times every about ever three days
to really shut everything down. The earlier

1273
01:31:08.840 --> 01:31:12.279
you catch it, the younger the
caterpillars, the more effective it works.

1274
01:31:12.920 --> 01:31:15.239
And by the way, I don't
think you have gypsy moth. There's a

1275
01:31:15.319 --> 01:31:18.880
number of caterpillars out there now.
Having said that, here's something to think

1276
01:31:18.920 --> 01:31:26.720
about caterpillars or bird food, and
the more we create caterpillar free landscapes by

1277
01:31:26.920 --> 01:31:30.159
planting things that don't get caterpillars,
like a lot of our shrubs and trees

1278
01:31:30.279 --> 01:31:36.039
here have come from parts of Asia
and they don't have a local pest.

1279
01:31:36.399 --> 01:31:42.079
Nothing is eating your waxley flugustrums,
for example, because they just don't have

1280
01:31:42.159 --> 01:31:45.359
that pest here. So having some
is important. And there's really a movement

1281
01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:50.119
to plant more native plants and more
oaks because they do get some caterpillars to

1282
01:31:50.239 --> 01:31:56.399
help support the songbird populations. Otherwise
it's a food desert for the songbirds.

1283
01:31:56.800 --> 01:32:00.359
And if you think about it,
a tree can lose a lot of leaves

1284
01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:05.000
before it is in any way of
stress to that tree. So just having

1285
01:32:05.079 --> 01:32:10.479
caterpillars seeing some droppings, you know
that in and of itself is not a

1286
01:32:10.520 --> 01:32:13.840
threat to the tree. Now,
I realize if you're sitting under the tree

1287
01:32:14.159 --> 01:32:16.920
with a glass of iced tea or
some other favorite beverage and you're getting little

1288
01:32:16.920 --> 01:32:20.399
caterpillar poop dropping in it, that, you know that's not much fun.

1289
01:32:20.439 --> 01:32:24.720
But I guess you could put a
little umbrella in the drink to shade.

1290
01:32:25.000 --> 01:32:27.960
Shade, you get the idea.
So if you're trying to get rid of

1291
01:32:28.000 --> 01:32:30.960
the little droppings, I would just
blow them off, wash them off,

1292
01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:33.319
you know whatever, of furniture and
things. I don't think it's worth going

1293
01:32:33.359 --> 01:32:36.359
the full fledge. Let's snook the
tree and try to kill all the caterpillars.

1294
01:32:36.399 --> 01:32:40.920
But that is an option if you
choose to do that. Okay,

1295
01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:45.439
the tree looks fine, Well,
yeah good, I don't have a problem.

1296
01:32:45.479 --> 01:32:47.840
I don't see the birds up there
and eating them. Yeah, well,

1297
01:32:47.840 --> 01:32:51.319
there they are. They are there. You know, anytime birds are

1298
01:32:51.399 --> 01:32:56.079
raising young in a nest, it's
not the bird feeder that's keeping them going.

1299
01:32:56.439 --> 01:33:00.079
Well, unless the bird feeder has
dried meal worms or something in it.

1300
01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:01.560
But it's not the bird's seed,
I should say, that's keeping them

1301
01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:05.199
going. It's the it's the protein, and it's the caterpillars, and especially

1302
01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:09.640
in spring, but even still now
we've got a lot of our songbirds that

1303
01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:15.119
are raising young, still blue including
bluebird, and they need those caterpillars.

1304
01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:17.000
So, you know, I kind
of walk the line here between Yeah,

1305
01:33:17.000 --> 01:33:20.479
I understand you don't want that,
but at the same time, we live

1306
01:33:20.479 --> 01:33:25.520
in a nice natural environment that we're
trying to keep balanced. So something,

1307
01:33:25.520 --> 01:33:29.319
okay, something to think about.
Okay, I think I'll go with a

1308
01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:32.399
rat with the bird food. There
you go, and just thinking, you

1309
01:33:32.399 --> 01:33:36.319
know, those that caterpillar poop is
just that's just organic fertilizer. You know,

1310
01:33:36.399 --> 01:33:43.119
basically they've taken they've taken your tree
leaves and they've microbially decomposed them in

1311
01:33:43.159 --> 01:33:48.279
their intestinal tract. And now you've
got organic food pellets dropping on the lawn

1312
01:33:48.359 --> 01:33:51.800
and in your in your plants and
everything else. I guess that's one way

1313
01:33:51.840 --> 01:33:55.279
of looking at the lemons and saying, hey, I know how to make

1314
01:33:55.359 --> 01:34:00.159
lemonade on I'm at okay, keeping
your help. I appreciate it, all

1315
01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:02.680
right, John, thanks a lot
at least you got a couple of options

1316
01:34:02.720 --> 01:34:05.720
there. We can keep going,
Oh gosh, you know, talking about

1317
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:11.600
fertilizers and things. The Nitrofos folks
have so many great products out there.

1318
01:34:11.640 --> 01:34:15.039
We talk about their fertilizers and whatnot. But early today I was talking about

1319
01:34:15.079 --> 01:34:18.119
the insects of the lawn, you
know, the things that you have to

1320
01:34:18.159 --> 01:34:21.840
deal with that their insects of the
lawn. Nitrofoss has those kind of products.

1321
01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:26.399
You know. They've got they've got
the one that is the firing killer.

1322
01:34:26.439 --> 01:34:29.439
They've got the one that we call
bugout Max to deal with that.

1323
01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:32.680
But when summertime comes, that's when
we need to have a good application of

1324
01:34:32.680 --> 01:34:38.199
a slow release nutrient on the turf. And that's the silver bag. That

1325
01:34:38.359 --> 01:34:43.479
is Nitrofoss's silver bag. It's really
easy, just oh yet to remembers the

1326
01:34:43.520 --> 01:34:47.880
color silver and there you go.
You're ready to go. The Nitrofoss fertilizer

1327
01:34:48.079 --> 01:34:53.119
that's the Super Turf is going to
feed your lawn gradually over time. It's

1328
01:34:53.159 --> 01:34:56.600
a nineteen four ten. Those are
the three numbers. But it's going to

1329
01:34:56.640 --> 01:35:00.840
cut down on your mowing because it
feeds gradually. It's gonna help promote deep

1330
01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:04.720
rooting because it feeds gradually and it's
going to even help with some of those

1331
01:35:05.239 --> 01:35:09.720
issues that we deal with, like
chinch bugs and large patches we get into

1332
01:35:09.720 --> 01:35:14.239
the fall when excessive nitrogen creates a
problem. You're going to find nitro foss

1333
01:35:14.279 --> 01:35:16.079
everywhere. If you don't know where
to look, look at a nice hardware

1334
01:35:16.119 --> 01:35:19.560
store. You'll find it there.
You can go up to shades of Texas

1335
01:35:19.560 --> 01:35:23.479
in the woodlands. You can go
up to the Tomball area and go to

1336
01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:27.720
arbigator D and d feed lots of
places and channing forests and channing garden,

1337
01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:31.640
all kinds of places that you're going
to find nitro foss products available. Why

1338
01:35:31.680 --> 01:35:35.000
don't we head out to Matta Gorda
and we're gonna talk to Rudy. Now,

1339
01:35:35.119 --> 01:35:41.399
Hello, Ruddy, we catch you
there off guard a little, Ruddy,

1340
01:35:41.439 --> 01:35:44.840
Are you ready to go? All
right? I will put Rudy on

1341
01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:46.560
hold and we'll come right back to
you. Don't hang up. We'll get

1342
01:35:46.560 --> 01:35:50.920
you right back, Ruddy, to
talk about things that you are interested in.

1343
01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:55.960
You know, when people think about
summertime, what do you think about

1344
01:35:56.079 --> 01:35:59.079
You think about outdoor grilling. And
when you think about outdoor grilling, you

1345
01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:02.720
need to think about a hardware.
Ace Hardware dot Com is where you go,

1346
01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:09.920
click on the store locator and find
the thirty nine Ace Hardware's here in

1347
01:36:09.920 --> 01:36:13.000
the Greater Houston area. I mean, you can throw a rock from wherever

1348
01:36:13.039 --> 01:36:15.680
you live and find an ACE Hardware. They're going to have the fertilizers we

1349
01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:19.720
talk about on garden Line. They're
going to have all the products you need

1350
01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:24.479
in sex side, fungicide, herbicides, things to take care of your lawn.

1351
01:36:24.520 --> 01:36:29.720
They've got it. But fourth of
julys next week, why not a

1352
01:36:29.840 --> 01:36:34.079
brand new Webber grill or Tragger grill
or Big Green Egg, or maybe some

1353
01:36:34.119 --> 01:36:39.359
of the bling and accessories that go
with outdoor grilling. I mean, set

1354
01:36:39.399 --> 01:36:44.479
yourself up for a summer of wonderful
outdoors. Maybe you need some outdoor furniture

1355
01:36:44.680 --> 01:36:48.640
decor or other things, outdoor power
equipment. ACE Hardware has all that and

1356
01:36:48.720 --> 01:36:51.760
more. Go to Ace Hardware dot
Com, find one of the thirty nine

1357
01:36:51.840 --> 01:36:57.399
stores and find out why I am
so excited about Ace Hardware. Let's head

1358
01:36:57.479 --> 01:37:01.039
now to Mattagorda and we're gonna try
Rudy again. You there, Rudy.

1359
01:37:03.000 --> 01:37:08.239
Okay, So for some reason we
are not able to hear you, So

1360
01:37:08.279 --> 01:37:10.840
we're gonna put you back on hold, Josh. Maybe you can get Rudy

1361
01:37:10.920 --> 01:37:15.640
there. We can figure out what's
going on with him out there. If

1362
01:37:16.039 --> 01:37:20.560
you are planting new transplants in the
ground, and I was just planning some

1363
01:37:20.680 --> 01:37:25.119
the other day, we're doing a
container planting a mixed color. By the

1364
01:37:25.199 --> 01:37:29.199
way, you need to have big
mixed color containers around your patio. They're

1365
01:37:29.239 --> 01:37:31.600
just so gorgeous. You need to
grab some. Medina has to grow.

1366
01:37:31.640 --> 01:37:35.399
That's a six twelve six. It
comes in a hose in, but I

1367
01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:39.439
like to buy the one that's a
court bottle with a low measuring cup that's

1368
01:37:39.560 --> 01:37:44.079
in. It's made into the bottle
and so you can put it in a

1369
01:37:44.199 --> 01:37:48.279
watering can and water it in.
It's got the Medina soil activator in addition

1370
01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:54.680
to the six two four nutrients that
helps stimulate the biological activity. It's got

1371
01:37:54.800 --> 01:37:59.199
humate, humic acid, and it's
got seaweed extracts all kinds of things your

1372
01:37:59.239 --> 01:38:03.159
plants need when you water in a
new transplant you need to try has to

1373
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:09.680
grow six twelve six plant food.
It provides what those new root systems need

1374
01:38:09.760 --> 01:38:13.319
to get established and get going.
Get that plant off to a good start.

1375
01:38:13.560 --> 01:38:15.039
I'll use it after transplanting. I'll
do it a week later, and

1376
01:38:15.039 --> 01:38:17.399
I'll do it again a week later
after that, just put it in the

1377
01:38:17.439 --> 01:38:21.319
water and can really simple, simple
and easy to use. That's a has

1378
01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:27.359
to grow. That's the six to
four. We're going to head to Kingwood

1379
01:38:27.439 --> 01:38:30.119
and we're going to talk to Tom. Hey, Tom, I got about

1380
01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:31.319
a minute. Let's see if we
can get it done then. If not,

1381
01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:35.720
we'll hold you until after break.
Yes, sir, I've got two

1382
01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:43.239
potted hibiscus. They're pros. However, they're coming back, but they're only

1383
01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:48.119
blooming half the size of the last
year. Okay, what can I do

1384
01:38:48.199 --> 01:38:54.880
to But they look great, but
they're only half the saves well, Tom,

1385
01:38:54.880 --> 01:38:57.479
in a nutshell, you want a
good quality of hibiscus food, and

1386
01:38:57.479 --> 01:39:00.199
there's a number of good ones on
the market. We talk about them here.

1387
01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:02.720
You want to support good growth.
You don't want to overdo the nitrogen.

1388
01:39:03.039 --> 01:39:05.479
But when you have a good strong
plant, you're going to have a

1389
01:39:05.520 --> 01:39:11.239
good strong root system. And that
requires consistently moist soil, not saggy,

1390
01:39:11.439 --> 01:39:15.279
not too wet, but not too
dry. Just keep it moist, provide

1391
01:39:15.319 --> 01:39:18.279
the good food and provide lots of
sun and that's it. If you want

1392
01:39:18.319 --> 01:39:21.840
to hang on for more on that, we'll come right back after break.

1393
01:39:21.840 --> 01:39:25.960
I'm gonna put you on hold for
now if you're done. Thank you for

1394
01:39:26.000 --> 01:39:29.760
the call. I appreciate that our
phone number seven one three two one two

1395
01:39:30.079 --> 01:40:02.960
fifty eight seventy four. I don't
know what anyway, Good morning on a

1396
01:40:03.039 --> 01:40:11.479
beautiful Sunday morning. Little Harmonics a
capella from Pentatonics, not the quirky romano

1397
01:40:11.640 --> 01:40:15.560
version, but uh it's close enough. Right, Hey, let's head out

1398
01:40:15.800 --> 01:40:18.760
to Kingwood again. Tom, did
looks like you may have had some additional

1399
01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:25.039
questions on the hibiscus. Yeah,
well, I've used color Star and I

1400
01:40:25.119 --> 01:40:31.680
always so used a color Star by
Business Food and then Space citys Sperlizer.

1401
01:40:31.960 --> 01:40:36.239
But still I'm not getting the blooms
that I got last year. Yeah,

1402
01:40:36.239 --> 01:40:40.960
well that you know that's interesting because
the blooms are based on the leaves making

1403
01:40:41.000 --> 01:40:43.760
carbohydrates. That's how we get a
bloom, or that's how we get a

1404
01:40:43.800 --> 01:40:48.880
fruit and so healthy foliage, which
means adequate water, adequate nutrition, but

1405
01:40:49.119 --> 01:40:54.680
not so much nitrogen. And the
color Star that you talked about is it

1406
01:40:54.840 --> 01:40:59.039
should not have excessive nitrogen in it. So unless you're just putting a whole

1407
01:40:59.199 --> 01:41:00.760
lot of the colors are on there, that ought to be a good way

1408
01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:04.439
to go. I don't know what
else to tell you. They ought to

1409
01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:10.119
be producing the bloom size that you're
looking for if you've got those the factors

1410
01:41:10.319 --> 01:41:14.359
that I just mentioned all together,
So maybe kind of watch them a little

1411
01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:16.000
bit, watch the vigor. If
it looks like the plants are just really

1412
01:41:16.119 --> 01:41:20.000
vigorous in and of themselves, then
maybe back off on the furlijah for att

1413
01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:21.960
while, give it a little bit
of time, let us settle in a

1414
01:41:23.000 --> 01:41:26.960
little bit. Okay, that's what
it did. The voice are really free,

1415
01:41:27.479 --> 01:41:31.600
Yeah, really agree? Well yeah, let's yeah, the tropical biscuits.

1416
01:41:31.600 --> 01:41:34.239
They've got big dark green leaves.
That's a that's a normal thing.

1417
01:41:34.399 --> 01:41:38.479
But yeah, we can we can
push things too far. But I'm trying

1418
01:41:38.520 --> 01:41:41.720
to troubleshoot here, you know,
without seeing the plant and knowing the full

1419
01:41:41.800 --> 01:41:45.760
history and everything. So but that's
I think that's that's what I would look

1420
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:49.840
at. And I do appreciate you
given us that call. I'm gonna head

1421
01:41:49.880 --> 01:41:54.279
back out to Matta Gordon again.
Ruddy, We'll give it one more shot

1422
01:41:54.359 --> 01:41:57.920
here. Are you there, Yes, I'm here there you go good.

1423
01:41:58.079 --> 01:42:00.840
How can we help today? Well, I'm gonna give you a little fact

1424
01:42:00.880 --> 01:42:04.039
to it. I'm I go back
a long time. In fact, I

1425
01:42:04.159 --> 01:42:09.000
was on the radio on listen to
the morning you came on and you come

1426
01:42:09.039 --> 01:42:11.720
a long way. You're doing a
great job. But I go back to

1427
01:42:11.760 --> 01:42:16.079
the nearest buried in Dallas and and
uh Compton and hit Boy and UH when

1428
01:42:16.119 --> 01:42:21.199
I was in the uh Bavan in
Dallas also as well as Randy eleven for

1429
01:42:21.279 --> 01:42:25.479
twenty years. To you what you're
doing. A good job. Thank you.

1430
01:42:26.640 --> 01:42:29.439
Listen my question. I had a
question for the be man, but

1431
01:42:29.560 --> 01:42:32.800
he's gone on. Question about hybridized
be I had. We had to burn

1432
01:42:32.880 --> 01:42:36.239
the little house down there in Vouta
Gorda because it was a pull of the

1433
01:42:38.039 --> 01:42:44.199
gods. Said they were hybridized African
African hybridized be and yes they were.

1434
01:42:44.600 --> 01:42:47.319
They were a problem out there.
They were all over the place. Do

1435
01:42:47.479 --> 01:42:53.199
they do they intermixing in the hide
to the regular bee. Yes, the

1436
01:42:53.319 --> 01:42:58.760
African bee is a honeybee and it
will cross with the standard European honeybee that

1437
01:42:58.840 --> 01:43:01.119
we think of when we think honey
bees around here. It's been happening for

1438
01:43:01.199 --> 01:43:04.760
a long long time. I can
remember decades ago when they first African bees

1439
01:43:04.800 --> 01:43:10.119
first moved up into the area.
That was a big concern. What is

1440
01:43:10.199 --> 01:43:14.359
being done now, though, is
they beekeepers are our first line of defense.

1441
01:43:14.520 --> 01:43:19.119
They are constantly re queening their hives. So if there's some Africanized blood

1442
01:43:19.279 --> 01:43:24.840
in the bees that are out,
with a brand new European queen in,

1443
01:43:25.119 --> 01:43:27.239
you know, dilutes that down.
Then you do it again, and you

1444
01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:30.880
do it again, and now the
you know, we don't worry about Remember

1445
01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:33.439
at that time, everybody called them
killer bees, like well, they're just

1446
01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:38.600
they're just a honeybee, and they're
they're more aggressive, a little more aggressive

1447
01:43:38.640 --> 01:43:42.039
than other bees would be, and
so they became a cause for alarm.

1448
01:43:42.399 --> 01:43:45.600
You don't hear that anymore, that
concern anymore. They're still around, the

1449
01:43:45.640 --> 01:43:50.359
blood still around in the lines out
in the wild, but just by requeening,

1450
01:43:50.560 --> 01:43:56.720
we we avoid that problem. Yeah, we have an issue in Alvin

1451
01:43:56.800 --> 01:44:03.319
here. A couple three years ago
Albost die from kind of with h But

1452
01:44:03.399 --> 01:44:08.199
anyway, the other in fact,
I asked you the question the first day

1453
01:44:08.199 --> 01:44:10.640
you were here. You were a
little a little bit nervous, but the

1454
01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:15.279
ladies. They did a good job
of taking care of you. Yeah.

1455
01:44:15.920 --> 01:44:20.560
What what's the best way to I
have a a ponytail palm I've had fifty

1456
01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:25.439
years. I'll hold it all over
the state, okay, and the pros

1457
01:44:25.520 --> 01:44:29.000
and it's got doesn't babies. I
need to clone number. What's the best

1458
01:44:29.039 --> 01:44:33.479
way to do that? Oh boy, I don't know how to clone a

1459
01:44:33.560 --> 01:44:36.840
ponytail. You know, it's not
like they have little offshoots off the base

1460
01:44:38.039 --> 01:44:42.560
like some bulble can you do?
Do you have babies pups on the bottom.

1461
01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:47.000
No, they're they're all over the
trunk, oh, up on the

1462
01:44:47.119 --> 01:44:55.720
trunk um. And I love I
love those uh those ponytailers. Yeah,

1463
01:44:55.760 --> 01:44:58.840
I was thinking about something that I
was saying. They don't have something like

1464
01:44:59.000 --> 01:45:03.760
has roots down coming out from round
level. If the main try I don't

1465
01:45:03.800 --> 01:45:06.159
know if you cut them loose from
there, if you could rout them or

1466
01:45:06.239 --> 01:45:10.359
not that. I just don't know. I'd have to look into that,

1467
01:45:10.680 --> 01:45:13.880
Rudy. I'm not fabilar, you
know, with the plants, with the

1468
01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:15.800
plants to produce little pups at the
base like in a gaby will do that

1469
01:45:15.920 --> 01:45:20.279
and other things. Those you can
dig and plant. They're fine. I

1470
01:45:20.439 --> 01:45:23.960
just don't know on the ponytail.
That's a good question. I'll try to

1471
01:45:24.000 --> 01:45:27.239
look into it and if I figure
something out, I'll mention it. Okay,

1472
01:45:27.760 --> 01:45:30.199
okay, Well anyway, keep up
a good keep up the good job.

1473
01:45:33.199 --> 01:45:36.720
Nobody missed, no, well,
nobody ever ever forget Randy Lemon.

1474
01:45:36.960 --> 01:45:44.239
That's what people. People wonder,
Well, we need Randy Lemin. We

1475
01:45:44.319 --> 01:45:53.640
got well Randy. Randy will always
be uh I remember do a complema,

1476
01:45:54.279 --> 01:45:57.119
Yes, sir, that's right.
Just by the way, I'm not a

1477
01:45:57.159 --> 01:45:59.720
three year old, all right.
Ruddy, Hey, Ruddy, thank you

1478
01:45:59.800 --> 01:46:03.039
for the call and the kind words. I really really appreciate that. Listen,

1479
01:46:03.079 --> 01:46:06.239
if you, if any of you
have listening, have planted a tree,

1480
01:46:06.359 --> 01:46:10.640
a shrub, a rosebush, anything
like that in the last year,

1481
01:46:11.199 --> 01:46:15.119
you really need to know about the
tree hugger sprinklers. And here's why.

1482
01:46:15.760 --> 01:46:18.279
The minute you put a plant in
the ground, all the roots are still

1483
01:46:18.399 --> 01:46:23.000
in the cylinder you put in the
ground, and it takes weeks and months

1484
01:46:23.199 --> 01:46:27.199
and even longer even over a year, as the roots further and further and

1485
01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:30.319
further established themselves, and that's when
it becomes a totally resilient You don't have

1486
01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:34.520
to pamper it plant. But in
the meantime you got to water that cylinder,

1487
01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:38.399
and a tree hugger does that.
You turn it on real low and

1488
01:46:38.520 --> 01:46:42.159
it waters right at the base,
and then you turn it on higher and

1489
01:46:42.239 --> 01:46:45.199
it waters wider until you can water
a very large area. There's seven inch,

1490
01:46:45.319 --> 01:46:49.279
eleven inch and three and fifteen inch
size tree huggers. They go around

1491
01:46:49.319 --> 01:46:55.199
the plant hook to a hose,
super easy. The investment and a tree

1492
01:46:55.279 --> 01:46:59.119
hugger will save you not just in
keeping your shrub or tree or rose alive,

1493
01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:02.479
it'll say you in terms of faster
growth, better establishment, and just

1494
01:47:02.760 --> 01:47:08.279
overall faster success. Go to tree
Hugger sprinklers dot com to find out more.

1495
01:47:08.920 --> 01:47:11.239
We're about to take a break,
and when we come back, we

1496
01:47:11.359 --> 01:47:14.439
will talk to Greg and Laport,
and we will talk to Margaret out in

1497
01:47:14.520 --> 01:47:17.319
southwest Houston and anyone else who wants
to dial seven one three two one two

1498
01:47:17.600 --> 01:47:35.399
fifty eight seventy four. We've got
being music coming out of the woodwork to

1499
01:47:35.479 --> 01:47:39.479
day out. That's a good one. I had forgotten about that song.

1500
01:47:40.920 --> 01:47:43.840
All right, you're listening to garden
Line and here we go. It's our

1501
01:47:43.920 --> 01:47:48.039
last segment of the weekend. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1502
01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:51.399
four. We're not gonna wasting time. Run right out there and get in

1503
01:47:51.640 --> 01:47:56.800
laport to talk to Greg. How
are you doing Greg this morning? Good

1504
01:47:56.840 --> 01:47:58.880
more escape. How are you doing, sir? I'm well, thank you,

1505
01:47:59.600 --> 01:48:03.279
good good. Hey. I just
received some red oak seeds in the

1506
01:48:03.399 --> 01:48:06.520
mail, and I don't know if
this is the wrong time of a year

1507
01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:09.880
to try this, but I want
to try to get them started in some

1508
01:48:10.000 --> 01:48:14.960
pots or in the refrigerator, which
I've heard you could do too, Yes,

1509
01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:18.720
but could I get those go ahead
and go now? Or well at

1510
01:48:18.760 --> 01:48:23.039
the wrong time? Did the folks
that sold you the seed by mail order

1511
01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:26.479
did they happen to say if they
had already been stratified? Did they use

1512
01:48:26.560 --> 01:48:30.520
that term or not? Well,
I'd have to look at the website I

1513
01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:35.199
got them off of. Okay,
I don't know U skilp. Well here

1514
01:48:35.279 --> 01:48:40.159
here, here's here's what I would
do. I would put them in something

1515
01:48:40.319 --> 01:48:46.960
moist like moist sphagnum moss or moist
sand, in a ziplock bag his zip

1516
01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:51.079
close your bag and put them in
the refrigerator. However many you're going to

1517
01:48:51.159 --> 01:48:55.079
try to sprout, put them in
the refrigerator and just took them in the

1518
01:48:55.119 --> 01:48:57.439
refrigerator, put them right where you
have to look at them every day.

1519
01:48:57.800 --> 01:49:01.800
After about a month, you ought
to see some little roots coming out of

1520
01:49:01.840 --> 01:49:05.840
the aren and going into the sand. Once you see that, then you

1521
01:49:05.880 --> 01:49:09.720
could pull them out and put them
in the containers. You're going to grow

1522
01:49:09.760 --> 01:49:13.479
them in the container, should it. Ideally it would be nice to be

1523
01:49:13.640 --> 01:49:15.800
square as opposed around, because that
way the roots don't go round in a

1524
01:49:15.880 --> 01:49:19.520
circle. I've used the old milk
cartons for that. You can buy containers

1525
01:49:19.600 --> 01:49:24.359
for that, but something that just
forces the roots to hit a corner and

1526
01:49:24.439 --> 01:49:28.520
go down, And often I will
put mine on like a hardware cloth and

1527
01:49:29.279 --> 01:49:31.520
just leave the bottoms open and the
air burns the roots as they get to

1528
01:49:31.520 --> 01:49:35.159
the bottom. It makes a much
better transplant that way. But either way,

1529
01:49:35.720 --> 01:49:39.680
that's when you plant them, and
then this fall I would take them

1530
01:49:39.720 --> 01:49:43.560
out and put them in the ground. Once things have cooled off really well,

1531
01:49:43.680 --> 01:49:46.039
likely October orly November, go ahead
and get them in the ground then,

1532
01:49:46.520 --> 01:49:50.960
but that cooled moist. It's important
that the sand is moist or the

1533
01:49:51.079 --> 01:49:58.399
moss stratification is part of that process
of simulating winter and getting those acrons to

1534
01:49:58.560 --> 01:50:03.800
sprout, I understand, but what
what kind of solut that? Oh?

1535
01:50:03.880 --> 01:50:09.760
And well to stratify them in the
fridge, you can use moist sphagnum moss,

1536
01:50:10.039 --> 01:50:13.800
just that string string, Yeah,
the stringy moss that you used to

1537
01:50:13.880 --> 01:50:16.680
line hanging baskets and stuff with.
You can use that, or you can,

1538
01:50:16.880 --> 01:50:19.960
I mean you could put them in
you know, some potting mix if

1539
01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:24.000
you want it. But I usually
just use a moist sand or a moist

1540
01:50:24.199 --> 01:50:29.279
moss. Just it's just something to
hold moisture around the seeds and in the

1541
01:50:29.399 --> 01:50:32.680
plastic bag and that way you can
check them in. No when to pull

1542
01:50:32.760 --> 01:50:38.079
them out to plant. So you
call that mouse what what's it called?

1543
01:50:38.560 --> 01:50:45.319
Sphagnum p s sph A g n
u M. I can't spell sphagnum.

1544
01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:48.880
Sometimes it's not it's not just it's
not just the peat moss. It's not

1545
01:50:49.000 --> 01:50:55.199
the brown ground up. It's more
strings, right right, Yeah, I

1546
01:50:55.279 --> 01:50:58.039
know what you're talking about. I
know what looks like sphagnum moss and some

1547
01:50:58.560 --> 01:51:03.199
moist sand and or moist well just
you like with the moss, I would

1548
01:51:03.239 --> 01:51:05.720
wet it. I would grab it
in my hand and squeeze all the water

1549
01:51:05.800 --> 01:51:09.159
I could out of it, put
it in the bag of the seeds.

1550
01:51:09.279 --> 01:51:12.520
With sand. It's the same kind
of thing. You just need moisture,

1551
01:51:12.640 --> 01:51:15.199
you don't need, you don't need, definitely not soggy. But it's just

1552
01:51:15.399 --> 01:51:18.439
to get those things. They go
through a cool period that breaks down some

1553
01:51:18.560 --> 01:51:23.199
of the things that inhibit sprouting,
and then they're ready to go and you'll

1554
01:51:23.239 --> 01:51:26.279
be in business. Oh okay,
okay, Well I'll go ahead and start

1555
01:51:26.359 --> 01:51:29.439
that, Dan, I'll is that
spaggen of moss I might get up here

1556
01:51:29.439 --> 01:51:31.239
at the store or is it?
Yeah, you can get that at a

1557
01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:34.039
garden center. You can get that
at ash Hardmore store I think would probably

1558
01:51:34.079 --> 01:51:38.640
have something like that. But again, there's nothing magic about the spagna moss

1559
01:51:38.680 --> 01:51:43.039
I mean right right, It's just
it's just something that holds moisture and you

1560
01:51:43.119 --> 01:51:46.000
can wring it out really easily.
And so yeah, and sand just sand

1561
01:51:46.640 --> 01:51:50.119
is sand sand anything like that.
And like I said, if I don't

1562
01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:53.600
know how many seeds you got,
but if you if you want it,

1563
01:51:53.640 --> 01:51:56.359
you just put them in some moist
potting soil too. It's just a little

1564
01:51:56.399 --> 01:52:00.560
harder to see in the dark potting
soil. What's got right? Okay,

1565
01:52:00.720 --> 01:52:05.079
okay, okay, okay, thank
you, Greg. I appreciate that call.

1566
01:52:06.880 --> 01:52:11.199
If you if you live in the
Tamball area, you know about arbur

1567
01:52:11.279 --> 01:52:14.960
Gate. I mean, it is
an institution. People come from all over

1568
01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:18.079
the place, not just here in
Houston, not just northwest Houston. People

1569
01:52:18.159 --> 01:52:21.680
come from all over to go to
Arburgate because it is a destination garden center,

1570
01:52:21.760 --> 01:52:25.880
as we call it, a gardener's
garden center. They're about a mile

1571
01:52:25.920 --> 01:52:29.920
and a half west of two forty
nine on twenty nine twenty, just on

1572
01:52:30.000 --> 01:52:32.079
the west side of Tamball. They've
got all kinds of things. I was

1573
01:52:32.119 --> 01:52:34.640
out there the other day looking at
some of the fruit trees. You know

1574
01:52:34.680 --> 01:52:39.560
they have fruit trees. You're around
out there at Arburgate. They've got beautiful

1575
01:52:39.640 --> 01:52:44.880
blooming. The herb section is going
strong and it is packed with herbs right

1576
01:52:44.920 --> 01:52:47.359
now. Great time start an herb
gardener a herb container. But when you're

1577
01:52:47.399 --> 01:52:53.279
out there, you need to get
there one two three completely easy system.

1578
01:52:53.560 --> 01:52:57.960
That's number one. It's a food, an organic food, a four four

1579
01:52:58.159 --> 01:53:04.520
three nutrient plus organic food for feeding
your plants. They've got the organic soil

1580
01:53:04.680 --> 01:53:09.640
complete for all the soil needs that
you might have. I mean any kind

1581
01:53:09.680 --> 01:53:13.159
of a soil mixed need that you
have. The organic soil complete is going

1582
01:53:13.239 --> 01:53:16.800
to be just that it has compost
in it. It has got a large

1583
01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:21.560
particle sand in it, and it's
got expanded shale. And our very heavy

1584
01:53:21.600 --> 01:53:27.319
cly soils. Expanded shale is very
important for keeping them open up when we

1585
01:53:27.439 --> 01:53:30.680
do that. Now, the third
part is organic compost complete, which also

1586
01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:36.359
has expanded shale in it. It
helps promote soilration and drainage. Two different

1587
01:53:36.439 --> 01:53:44.520
kinds of composts are blended together.
Incredible micrologic, microbiological activity in that Arbourgate.

1588
01:53:44.680 --> 01:53:46.359
Hey, go to arburgate dot com
to check them out for more.

1589
01:53:46.399 --> 01:53:49.600
If you're listening from outside the Greater
Houston area, next time you come to

1590
01:53:49.720 --> 01:53:54.800
town, you have to stop at
Arburgate. You will be amazed and know

1591
01:53:54.960 --> 01:53:58.279
why I get so excited when I
talk about that. Well, real quick,

1592
01:53:58.359 --> 01:54:00.439
here, let's run out to southwest
Houston and we're going to talk to

1593
01:54:00.600 --> 01:54:04.680
Margaret. Hey, Margaret, you
are our final caller of the day,

1594
01:54:04.800 --> 01:54:12.000
So congratulations, how can we help? Well, I have a I bought

1595
01:54:12.279 --> 01:54:16.520
two angel wing but goings and evidently
didn't look very closely at how tall they

1596
01:54:16.560 --> 01:54:21.880
were they're very nice on top.
Can I cut or do anything to put

1597
01:54:23.079 --> 01:54:27.159
something and make them look a little
less tall. You can do some pinching

1598
01:54:27.239 --> 01:54:30.039
on them and branch out. You
know, if you cut everything off and

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just leave a bunch of like fence
posts sticking up, it's kind of a

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01:54:33.159 --> 01:54:36.560
shock to the plant. I would
do it kind of gradually and see how

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that's going. But angel wings are
not that difficult. But they are known

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for being lanky and a little brittle. That's kind of a normal growth habit

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01:54:45.399 --> 01:54:49.560
for those. Well will they grow
if I cut it? Will it grow

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01:54:49.880 --> 01:54:55.760
from the dirt or do I have
to plant the top? You will probably

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01:54:55.840 --> 01:55:00.479
see some branching from further down from
where you cut it, depending how far

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01:55:00.600 --> 01:55:03.199
back you cut, you know.
I mean, if if you've got two

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01:55:03.239 --> 01:55:06.600
feet tall and you cut it to
four inches, that would be an awful

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01:55:06.720 --> 01:55:10.439
heavy shock. I'd be a little
concerned. I won't say it wouldn't make

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01:55:10.479 --> 01:55:16.399
it, but that's a little overdoing
it. Maybe have two or three different

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01:55:16.520 --> 01:55:20.039
lengths, one in the middle and
a little higher. That would be a

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01:55:20.119 --> 01:55:23.840
good way to kind of hedge your
bet, and then as you see how

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01:55:23.840 --> 01:55:26.199
it respond, you can do a
little more pruning later if you need to

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01:55:26.279 --> 01:55:29.159
pinch it back. Each angel wing. Though some of them are kind of

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01:55:29.199 --> 01:55:31.119
thin in the stems, some of
them have very thick stems, almost like

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01:55:31.159 --> 01:55:35.399
your little finger sticking up there,
and that's what they look like. Yeah,

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01:55:35.520 --> 01:55:39.279
And so depending on how high you're
wanting it to be and how high

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01:55:39.319 --> 01:55:43.319
genetically it thinks it needs to be, you may be fighting fighting a little

1618
01:55:43.319 --> 01:55:45.119
bit of a losing battle. But
I think you can cut them back a

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01:55:45.199 --> 01:55:48.720
little bit and they certainly will do
well. It's a beautiful plan, isn't

1620
01:55:48.760 --> 01:55:53.479
it. I love them. I
love them. Yeah, so many nice

1621
01:55:53.520 --> 01:55:57.479
thank you, thank you so much. Well you're welcome. Good luck with

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01:55:57.600 --> 01:56:00.359
that. And you know, when
you cut it back a little, give

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01:56:00.359 --> 01:56:02.640
it a small amount of a fertilizer, not a lot. You don't want

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01:56:02.640 --> 01:56:06.680
to push luxuriant growth, but just
a little bit to support it as you

1625
01:56:06.760 --> 01:56:10.600
go along. That's why I like
the liquids I mentioned earlier, the Microlife

1626
01:56:11.079 --> 01:56:15.079
seven one three, the orange label
that would be a great one to use

1627
01:56:15.199 --> 01:56:18.079
on it, as well as that
fish emulsion one that I talked about,

1628
01:56:18.079 --> 01:56:23.720
the Ocean Harvest, a blue label
that is just a really really good product

1629
01:56:23.760 --> 01:56:26.720
as well. If this is an
outdoor, I would use the I would

1630
01:56:26.800 --> 01:56:29.960
use the blue label outdoors, not
indoors. Just because it is a fish

1631
01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:32.520
based products had a little bit of
a fish odor to it. Well,

1632
01:56:32.560 --> 01:56:36.760
that's fine. I thank you for
all you do. You are really very

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01:56:38.000 --> 01:56:41.840
very good. Well that that's kind
of you. I appreciate you saying that.

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01:56:42.079 --> 01:56:45.600
Good luck with those angel wings by
the way, Okay, thank you,

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01:56:45.800 --> 01:56:51.439
all right, by Margaret. Well, there's another weekend in the bag.

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