WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.280 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:11.240 advertised on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with scarre Rictor It's 3 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:36.320 smell the Crazy trip, just watching as wos so many tables back taking a 4 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:46.240 sign. Well, good morning, Welcome to garden Line. Glad to see 5 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.320 up this early in the morning. I'm looking forward to talking to you about 6 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:54.520 whatever you're interested in regarding gardening, taking care of the lawn, surviving, 7 00:00:55.399 --> 00:01:00.479 helping your plants survive what we just went through this this past brutal, brutal 8 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.959 summer. You know, the one of the most common questions I get is 9 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.760 about what's wrong with my lawn? Because everybody's got a lawn and or I 10 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:14.280 just about everybody, and people care about their lawns. They want them to 11 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:18.200 be beautiful, they want them to be green and lush and just you know, 12 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:22.040 a nice setting for the lawn, for the landscape. Basically, lawns 13 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.680 or one of the two carpets of our landscape the others or our ground covers, 14 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:30.359 and we like things to be nice. People have a tolerance range in 15 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:36.239 terms of what they will allow in a lawn. Some people or you know, 16 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:38.280 if it's not absolutely perfect, if there's a weed anywhere, it might 17 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:42.519 as well have a neon signs above it flashing on and off, and that 18 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:47.680 that can't be allowed. And other people are you know, it's green and 19 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:49.959 I mow it and it looks pretty good and that's good enough for me. 20 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:53.680 And depending on where you are on that range, you know, we can 21 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.400 help you to achieve the kind of lawn you want to achieve. And that's 22 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:00.439 what that's what we're here about trying to do that. There's a lot of 23 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:02.680 ways to go about law and care, a lot of things, a lot 24 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.400 of aspects that are important, the most important or the cultural practices. That's 25 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:15.199 where we start. It's basically mowater, fertilize and making sure that you make 26 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:20.199 the lawn have every opportunity or give the lawn every opportunity to be healthy. 27 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.560 And if you mowater and fertilize right, you're still gonna have diseases, You're 28 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:25.960 still gonna have weeds, still gonna have insects. It doesn't make them all 29 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.680 go away. It just reduces some of the issues you have to deal with 30 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:36.120 and it helps your lawn look good. You know, you just need to 31 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.919 think about it same way we think about human health. We do what we 32 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:43.240 need to to take care of our bodies so that we don't get sick as 33 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.560 much, and if we get sick, it's easier to bounce back because we 34 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:50.280 have good health. And that is also true for plants. I think that's 35 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.800 one place where anthropomorphizing is not a bad idea. There are a lot of 36 00:02:53.800 --> 00:03:00.719 similarities between human health and plant health and understanding that I think gets us on 37 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:05.000 the way to success. Well. Our phone number is seven one three two 38 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.520 one two five eight seven four if you would like to give us a call. 39 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.159 Josh will get you on the boards and we're going to start out going 40 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.240 out to League City talking to John V this morning. Morning, John, 41 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:19.599 very good morning, Good morning, Skipp and Guardenline this morning. My question 42 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.639 is on the weather. Now, I am an aerospace research scientist and I 43 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:28.639 work on Icono Stic Connection weather satellites, so I know a bit about it. 44 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.599 Okay, but you know hurricane season doesn't end from November thirty FS. 45 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:38.120 We've got complications with weather systems going on in space affecting us and on planet 46 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:44.840 Earth. So just to manage around what we have to manage with the four 47 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:51.400 seasonal changes. You know, I'm just trying to bear with it, the 48 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:55.360 changes well that are going on. So what what's your question? What are 49 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:00.639 you thinking about? Well, I'm this land that I'm going to be buying 50 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.479 next year, and you know, I'm just you know, I've got these 51 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:08.800 grand plans for it, and so i just want to make sure that I 52 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.840 do everything right and proper for it. And you know, I just at 53 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.279 fifty three acres and I'm just getting concerned. But I'm doing my blueprints, 54 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:20.600 I'm doing my research on listening to y'all, and so you know, I 55 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:28.759 just want to make sure everything gets done properly around the weather systems. Seasonal 56 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:30.839 changes. Well, it's kind of a step by step. And you know, 57 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:35.439 weather, as you know, is hard to predict, and long term 58 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:41.399 weather is somewhat of a challenge too. And even though we may be heading 59 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:44.360 in one direction, we could have a year that's very much in the other 60 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:49.560 direction. That doesn't change long term direction. But I think the goal is 61 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:56.399 to do all the horticultural practices that we should do to have success a period, 62 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.639 like preparing the soil right, taking care of our plants with proper care, 63 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:06.600 and so on, choosing plants is important. But you know, I 64 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:12.759 hate to see people in reaction to this summer go out and you know everybody's 65 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.720 going to put in cactus in a gaby everywhere in Houston, because that's not 66 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:21.879 our that's not where we are now. And landscapes evolve and landscapes have a 67 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:28.360 lifespan. There are plants that, you know, beautiful Southern live oaks that 68 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.800 live just forever, it seems, and those are long term plants. But 69 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.199 for a lot of the shrubs and plants around our house, there is a 70 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.199 time where we pull them out they get too large, or something better comes 71 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.399 out, more disease resistant or more compact or whatever we're looking for. And 72 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:49.160 so I wouldn't overthink the long term, but I would consider the resilience of 73 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.120 plants that you choose to put in. I don't know if that helps or 74 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.959 not. So would tremendously. Thank you so much. I hope you all 75 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.680 have a wonderful Sunday. Thank you well, you too. I appreciate that 76 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:06.279 you as well. All right, thank you for that for that call. 77 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:13.000 Uh yeah, I uh you know it. I'm not ready to pull everything 78 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:15.399 up and change the whole landscape, that's for sure. But it is worth 79 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:20.519 thinking about where you want plants and what plants you want there. And if 80 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:26.160 you've got a plant that you are fighting to have success with, then maybe 81 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.800 it's the wrong plant for that spot. And I can give a lot of 82 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.240 examples for that. You know, azalea and the full brun of the sun 83 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.959 and you're trying to water it enough to keep it going and putting up with 84 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.879 some you know, leaf burn and whatnot. Well, that's not the spot 85 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.319 for it. There's a place for azalias for example. If you are trying 86 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.360 to cut on your water bill, there are plants that are able to go 87 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.079 without water and bounce back. And that's that's the kind of thinking that we're 88 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:54.079 trying to do here. Uh, just just keep that in mind. I 89 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.519 know that, you know, when I go to nurseries, I checking out 90 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.079 A and A plants the day and I just look at all the plant options 91 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.959 that they have, and each plant that I look at, I recognize the 92 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:10.240 beauty of it and the benefits that it can offer. And saying good plant, 93 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.120 bad plant, I don't think is the best way to approach things. 94 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.720 It's like, what do I need for this spot? And that's why you 95 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.879 know, go into a place like an Ana Ana is they've got staff on 96 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.800 hand that know what they're talking about, and they can guide you and you 97 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:26.560 can say, hey, look what about this plant. If I am not 98 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.680 able to water for a while, how's it going to hold up? Is 99 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.120 that gonna be okay? Or what would you suggest for this area? And 100 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.480 I love that there For those of you who don't know, they're located on 101 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:39.319 the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. So the whole Lake 102 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:43.720 Conro region is your A and A's your hometown nursery for that whole region up 103 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.480 there, and they carry a lot of a lot of stuff, a lot 104 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:48.079 of plants, seven days a week. They'll be open today nine to five 105 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.759 at three acres to wander through. And so I would I would focus on 106 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:58.879 talking to people at a garden nursery like Ana where you can get that kind 107 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.519 of expertise as you're planning renovations and things to your landscape. Hey, we're 108 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:05.800 gonna have to take a break here. We will be right back our phone 109 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.759 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. And as we 110 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.079 come back, Brian, Ralph and Ken you will be the first step. 111 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.360 Good morning, Welcome to Garden Line. We are looking forward to visiting with 112 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.800 you about all kinds of things. I've got some folks on the line today 113 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.920 if you would like to join the show seven one, three, two and 114 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.079 two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna start by going out to Brian in 115 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:33.799 Richmond. Good morning, Brian, morning skipped. This is your coovered extension 116 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.720 service loving friend from Richmond. Hey man, how short can I come a 117 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.799 bermuda grass? I've got a chance to get a really really good deal on 118 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.240 a Toro Flex twenty one golf course more. Oh wow, But I don't 119 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.600 think I can mow it to three quarters of an inch, which is as 120 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:54.480 tall as that moraill go. You know, I have not tried cutting bermuda 121 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.200 that short. The common bermuda. I don't think it's going to perform well 122 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:03.159 at that height, but I would need I need to take a closer look 123 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.120 at that. That's the first time I've been asked that kind of question. 124 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.879 You know, take taking the common up. If you got a great deal 125 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.919 on it and you want a three quarter inch have you thought about getting rid 126 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.480 of a common and putting something else in because you there's some bermudas that will 127 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:22.399 be really attractive down at that low cut. Yeah, I'm sure that would 128 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:26.279 be a huge fight with my h A. So okay, really okay. 129 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.679 I mean I'm owned about an ans in five eights now and it's really sick 130 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.600 and lush. I just was wondering if I could go any shorter, you 131 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.919 know, let me look into that, Brian, if I can find if 132 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.480 I can come up with an answer, I'm more confident in I will say 133 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:48.960 something in the air this morning. I yeah, I just I'm just hesitant 134 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.679 on three quarter inch on common that that seems all right, sir, that's 135 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:58.600 sir already. Everybody take advantage of Quaver Extensive Service Agents the big help for 136 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.000 you, you bet. Thank you for saying that. Yeah, we do 137 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.720 ever all two hundred to our counties in Texas. You have a county extension 138 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.399 agent. You can call for help and they can contact specialists and it's a 139 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:13.200 lifeline to a lot of good information. And Skip didn't play me to say 140 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.559 that either. My dad was forty years an lsu so and plus I'm too 141 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.279 cheap to pay for stuff like that. Hey, thanks for I appreciate the 142 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:26.200 call to take care. That's good. You know part of part of having 143 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:31.039 a beautiful lawn is having a lawn that has been taking care of properly. 144 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.799 And taking care of properly is a regular moment that that is important. But 145 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:39.799 it's also fertilizing properly, dealing with the weeds you have, and when you 146 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.399 have issues with disease, dealing with those as well. The nitrous folks have 147 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.799 put out their Texas three step and it's really so it makes it so easy. 148 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.320 The first is to put a winter riser type fertilizer on there, one 149 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:58.960 that is designed for going into the cool fall season, and that would be 150 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.399 something called FoST Fall Special. It's got the right numbers, the right blend 151 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.360 designed for the Gulf Coast for ensuring increased winter heartiness. By the way, 152 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:13.279 it also helps with drought tolerance and vigorous regrowth in the spring, very important. 153 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.200 If you want your lawn to come back strong in the spring, you 154 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.360 have to put on a winter rizer type fertilizer in the fall in order to 155 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.360 provide that potassium to ensure that kind of growth, because everything it has coming 156 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:30.039 out is based on what it had going in to the winter time. That's 157 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.200 why the fall fertilization is so important. Secondly, with weeds, they have 158 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:37.440 a barricade product. It's going to control your grassy weeds or broad leaf weeds. 159 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.759 It works a very long time. In fact, you do it this 160 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.679 fall and it's still going to be benefiting you as we get into the springtime 161 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.279 season as well. That's the nitrofoss barricade. Follow the label carefully, imply 162 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:52.159 it. Apply it at the right rate. Don't think if the label says 163 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.200 a rate that if you double that rate you'll kill the weeds. Debtor. 164 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.720 It doesn't work that way. You always whether it's any kind of pest, 165 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.080 say you follow the labe well, that's important. Second or thirdly, nitrofus 166 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.480 eagle fungicide, that is a systemic protectant. It's also a curative. We're 167 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.480 gonna be dealing with large patch coming up. You got to get this on 168 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.039 ahead of time, ahead of time before you see the circles. So that'd 169 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:16.960 be I would say it depending on if we get a coal front, that's 170 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:18.200 the time to put it on. But if not, about the first of 171 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.679 October, I would get it down in most of our area. And I 172 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.960 realize we have people listening as far north as Buffalo and down to Corpus and 173 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.840 on, but try to get it on early October roughly. Just look at 174 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.240 that weather. That one two three is really simple. And where do you 175 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.840 get nitrofos Well plant Fall Seasons carries it, and Channet Gardens and Richmonds carries 176 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.279 it, Lake Hardware and Angleton carries it. I mean you can find it 177 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:45.440 at Katie Hardware. You can find it rg W Nursery. You can find 178 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.960 it at the arbor Gate and tom Ball. Not hard to find the nitrofus 179 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.200 one two three. I want to go now to see Brook and we're going 180 00:12:52.240 --> 00:13:01.039 to talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, going well sent she's some pictures 181 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:07.000 of five five tree growth innis fan palm and one died. It's got it's 182 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.960 got bugs on it or I think it's bugs though. All along the trunk 183 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.399 there is places where the sap is running out and the trees died. And 184 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.000 you asked me to call you back. I was about that, all right, 185 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.759 Ken. I am looking for your email and I'm not when did you 186 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:28.440 send that? Oh that's it has been at least two weeks ago. Oh, 187 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.720 okay, okay, And we'll see if I can find it here. 188 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.879 I may have to she's I do not see it, and that is very 189 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:43.919 strange. What can you give me a little more like the first two letters 190 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:50.080 of your last name? W E? No? Okay, okay, sorry 191 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:54.879 about this? Uh okay, Well, I'm ken I'm gonna have to look 192 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:56.759 for it. Can I put you on hold for just a minute here while 193 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:00.440 I take another call and I will find it in the meantime. Hang on, 194 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.559 just all right, sorry about that. Let's now we're gonna pretend on 195 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.759 hold, We're gonna go out to Katie. Hello, Ralph, good morning. 196 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:11.559 How are your skis? I'm good? How are you this morning? 197 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:18.000 Great? Okay, the three products that you mentioned, we should wait till 198 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.879 the beginning of October, Uh is that right? Well? Yes, for 199 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:28.799 fertilizing, I would wait till the year down pretty far south, so winter 200 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.559 comes a little bit, you know, a little bit later than it would 201 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:37.080 wait up in Conro or north. So I would say probably the first of 202 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.200 October for you would be would be good. As far as the dealing with 203 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:45.559 brown patch. You know, if we had tomorrow a co front come in 204 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.679 and the highs were in the seventies for the days and we would start to 205 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.960 see on brown patch. But generally, we're not going to have that happen 206 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:56.240 until we get into October sometime, so I generally wait until October for that. 207 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.200 Okay, okay, same is true with and germination. Got it, 208 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.840 But don't put them all down at the same time. Is that correct? 209 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.679 You could? There's nothing wrong with it. Don't put them all in the 210 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.679 same if they're granular products. Don't don't mix different kinds of products in the 211 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:20.519 same bass. I mean, I do it, right, I do. 212 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:28.399 It's separate. Last thing, you put something on Facebook about the Microlife product? 213 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:33.320 Yes, can you expand on that what that actually does? Well, 214 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.679 we've put more than one thing on Do you know which which product you're talking 215 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:41.080 about? Say about the ones I'm talking about now, If you'd like to 216 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.279 do that, sure, go ahead. Well with going into fall, Microlife's 217 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:50.080 brown Patch five one three is a fall fertilizer. It's what we would call 218 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:54.240 a winner fertilizer, meaning that it's got We've dropped the nitrogen a little, 219 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.600 we got that potassium still up good, and it does everything that I've been 220 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.279 saying that a fall from lizer is gonna do. It's gonna get your lawn 221 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.240 ready to go into winter and to come out of winter. They also have 222 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:08.480 a brown patch or excuse me that that is the brown patch. They also 223 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.159 have a bio innoculant. The brown patch, by the way, is kind 224 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:17.320 of in an orange ish bag. The bionoculants kind of in a violet colored 225 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:21.120 bag. And the bionoculant, you just put a little bit of it out 226 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:26.559 because what you're doing is you're putting microbes out there that will inhabit the runners, 227 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.279 the surface of soil, the roots right up there at the top, 228 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:34.519 and help cut down on issues like brown patch and and so you're essentially you're 229 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:38.919 putting microbes out that are working against the disease, but also microbes that are 230 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.919 competing with the disease just for space on the grass plant. And those two 231 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.919 combinations, the brown patch and the bionoculants, what I would do as a 232 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:55.639 combo for the microlife. Okay, very good. I appreciate that. All 233 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:59.159 right, you take care, Ralph, thank you, thanks so much. 234 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.399 Good Bet, thank you very much. You know, if you're if you're 235 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:10.000 dealing with issues with your roof and it's time to maybe have somebody look at 236 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.119 it or have someone do something about the roof, you're not going to do 237 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:17.440 better than Brinkman Quality Roofing, Brickman, They've been here for fifty years. 238 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.119 You don't stick around fifty years. If you're not doing people right, you 239 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.920 don't win the twenty twenty two Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award if you're not giving 240 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.599 people a good deal, doing what you say, quality work, and making 241 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:34.200 sure your work work is warranted. In the case of Brinkman for twenty five 242 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:38.680 years of service. You can contact Brinkman at Brinkman Quality dot com. You 243 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:44.400 can give him a call at two eight one four eight ozero seven six six 244 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:49.000 three two eight one four eight oz seventy six sixty three. I'm let's see 245 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:56.720 we're go back here to go back? Ken in cibro Ken, I am 246 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.200 still looking for your email. I am sorry, I just am not seeing 247 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:07.839 an email. Okay, Ken, there there's something. I'm sorry to do, 248 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.559 this kind of bad radio sit there over the air looking for emails. 249 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.200 Can you can you give me the first few letters of the email address and 250 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.000 I'll try it that way because I'd like to help you, and I remember 251 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:25.039 you talked about this. Yeah, it's okay, I am remember MSc t 252 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:30.240 al okay, Oh Kim Okay, that was what I was doing wrong. 253 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:34.200 All right, we're gonna try this one more time. There we go. 254 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:40.759 No, that's nope, that's boring insects. Oh boy, I'll tell you 255 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:42.519 what if you don't mind hold a little bit more. It's k I am 256 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:48.559 first name. That's great. Okay, this is I've never done this before 257 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:56.880 on the air. Okay, let me mc tl Okay, I got it. 258 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.319 I've got it. All right? Boy? Is that a boring insects 259 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.359 and a fan? Pa? Yes, got you. Let's go with it. 260 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.319 Now. What what's uh? What is your what are you? Is 261 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:11.319 your question? Well? Whatever that insect is has killed the fan palm Okay, 262 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:15.079 the one that why I can do the spray the other four that I 263 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.519 have, so they don't get it. You know, I'm not sure. 264 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.359 Are you sure it's a boring insect? I'm seeing sat but I'm not seeing 265 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:27.119 any signs of boring and they're issues. They're just it's definitely a boring insect. 266 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.319 It goes in and makes a hole in the and the satis runs out 267 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:37.440 from the brand to wear the frown start. All right, what I would 268 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:42.119 in that case, what I'm going to recommend is my my first shot would 269 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:48.359 be to use a systemic like a meadow cloprid or dino tepheron. Those are 270 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:53.319 two ingredients that will move up in the through the juices of the plant, 271 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.960 and whatever's chewing inside there will be subjected to them. They're not going to 272 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:02.079 get on the outside of the p land or anything Like ladybug lands on the 273 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:03.720 palm, it's not going to kill it because it's inside the plumbing. So 274 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:10.759 only something in there eating the palm is gonna is good. Yes, I 275 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:17.880 am I D O C l O p R I D the second one d 276 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:21.960 I N O. Let me just say D I N O T E F. 277 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:23.799 If you'll stop right there, that'll get you to the right thing. 278 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:27.319 I'm having to take a break here. Thanks for being patient and waiting, 279 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:30.799 but that would be where I would start with those. If a palm is 280 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:36.000 severely effected already, you probably are not able to turn it around. It 281 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.319 all right. Thank you, appreciate the call, and we are now going 282 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:45.759 to go to Nikki and find out what is happening with the news. Oh, 283 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.240 good morning. We are listening to little music there on the side. 284 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.720 I love Saturday. In the part that goes back pretty far distance to that 285 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.720 number. Some of you may remember it. You're listening to Guardline and we're 286 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:02.839 here talking about gardening this morning. I was just check in Kim on the 287 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:07.119 board thing. I've got us sources that I use in Florida, which they 288 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.440 know a lot about palm trees down there. And I think the only thing 289 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:14.359 I would add to what I had said for you in the radio is that 290 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.240 number one, keeping your trees in good health is really important. As they 291 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:21.799 get weakened, the palm borers can become more of a problem. And generally 292 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:25.039 getting when a tree is affected, just going ahead and getting out of there 293 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:29.480 is a good idea because it's gonna have boor larva inside, and you know, 294 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.480 just whatever you can do to get them off the site is a good 295 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:37.680 idea for dealing with that. Well, we are here to answer your gardening 296 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.039 questions and our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 297 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:47.519 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. You know, if 298 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.640 you if you're looking at your landscape, and let's just say that this summer 299 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:55.000 has not been kind to it, I think that's an understatement of the year. 300 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.640 The lawn's dying. There's some shrubs that have died, just the nations 301 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.440 of all the weather extremes really we've had the last three years, it may 302 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.039 be time to just get a new do over on it. You know, 303 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:10.200 you can go out there, you can plant things yourself, you can work 304 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:11.920 and get it done. But a lot of people are getting discouraged with trying 305 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.680 to deal with all that, and you're not going to do better than given 306 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.440 a call to peerscapes and saying, hey, look at this, take them 307 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:23.359 some pictures. What can I do? Fall is the time the best time 308 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:29.279 to get major landscape renovations done, and by right now getting with them, 309 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:33.319 getting on the schedule of you know, their different projects they got going on. 310 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.119 They can come out and they can do a turnkey renovation and before long 311 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:41.039 you're looking out there and it's a beautiful landscape. Tell them, hey, 312 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:45.079 i'd like can you give me some things that are a little more drought tolerant. 313 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.319 What are the best options for this area. I've got a problem with 314 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.799 my irrigation here. I couldn't keep the long life because it's the design, 315 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.599 the way it's applying water is so poor. I need help. I mean, 316 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:57.839 those are the kind of things Peerscapes can come out and do. You 317 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:03.640 can find more information if you want about Peerscapes at peerscapes dot com. It's 318 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.079 really easy peerscapes dot com. I'll give him a call to eight one three 319 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.880 seven zero fifty sixty two eight one three seven five zero six zero. It's 320 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:18.000 been a brutal summer. Peerscapes can transform that landscape you got. They can 321 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:22.640 get it looking beautiful again, and that can be really an encouraging thing to 322 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.359 get out and to just get a good new start with a design and with 323 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:33.640 plants that are more likely to survive these kinds of vicissitudes of nature. How 324 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.359 about that we'll use big words on Sunday morning. We're gonna head out to 325 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.799 Bear Creek now and we're gonna talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, Hi, 326 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.640 good morning. Let's say I have a lot of problems. I need 327 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:55.000 resting, sprinkler repair, probably tree trimming, and some help with replacing plants 328 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:00.359 in my front garden bed and adding a new bed in the yard. So 329 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:07.000 I'm looking for recommendations. Who do you recommend for sprinkle repair? Well, 330 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.519 I would I was just talking about peer Escapes and they do that. They 331 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:15.440 will do sprinkle repair. They you know, if you need maybe to change 332 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:22.400 some irrigation out, maybe you're considering drip irrigation or micros what they call microsprinklers 333 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.000 and some beds. I would talk to them and have them do that. 334 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:30.000 They know what they're doing there. Okay, okay, Can I ask a 335 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:36.279 specific question about you want to water? I have a live oaks that are 336 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:38.720 in need need of water, and one of my neighbors said, you know, 337 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:45.599 your canopy is pretty wide and that requires more watering. Is there any 338 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:52.319 relation to the connection between the diameter of the canopy and the need for water 339 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:57.559 The size of the bigger the tree, the more leaf area it has, 340 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:03.599 and therefore the more water can use. But as far as how wide or 341 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.039 I know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't think of it that way. I 342 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.359 would just think about the size of the tree. But I don't tall something. 343 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:14.319 Live oaks are incredibly resilient. You drive around the whole Southeast Texas region 344 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:17.359 and you look at trees and see the ones that are dying and turning brown, 345 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:21.759 and it's not live oaks. They are pretty darn tough, and so 346 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:25.720 I'm not so worried about them as I am some of our other trees. 347 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:30.359 Yeah, they looked and they're they're finding the roots coming to the surfers too. 348 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:36.000 That's another problem. They're finding water somewhere. But they look pretty good. 349 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:41.400 But I know they need a trink and how long can I wait? 350 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:45.039 I want to do it as soon as possible, but in this hot weather, 351 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.319 I'm not so sure. You talk about the trimming. About the trimming, 352 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:51.920 yeah, I'm sorry. You could do minor trimming anytime of the year. 353 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.759 If you're gonna do major, we generally aim that for a little bit, 354 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.400 you know, in the cold winter, a little bit late mid to 355 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:00.839 late winter. But here's here's what I would recommend. Just call call the 356 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:06.799 folks that affordable tree. They're the ones we trust and we go to and 357 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:10.400 they will come out. They'll do an assessment. They stay pretty busy. 358 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.440 So if you call them, tell them that you're a guardenline listener, because 359 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:15.359 you do get to the front of the line when you do that. But 360 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.200 they will come out. They can just do an analysis and they may say, 361 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.440 you know what, Bill, this tree's okay as it is, or 362 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.440 they may say that limb over there is the one that's concerning us. Here's 363 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:27.880 what we think you need to do that. They'll give you an honest assessment 364 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:33.319 of what might need to be done. And okay, let me give you. 365 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:38.960 Can I give you a phone number or web okaye, grab grab a 366 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:45.640 pen. The website is real easy. It's aff Tree service dot com. 367 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:48.440 Eight. That's good enough, thank you. Well, let me just give 368 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:49.960 the phone. Some other people may hear may hear this, and I want 369 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:53.319 to call them at seven one, three, six nine nine twenty six sixty 370 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.640 three. But but have them come out and look at it. They can. 371 00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.119 They can also do the deep root watering if you're still in the middle 372 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.799 of a drought, if you weren't fortunate enough to get any in these last 373 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.200 days. Okay, we sure need a lot of help at my place. 374 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.240 Second, I tell you everybody does. But congratulations on surviving the summer. 375 00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:18.599 Thank you, appreciate it. I appreciate that call. Thank you very much. 376 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.640 Hey, Hey, you know yesterday I was telling you that Kingwood Garden 377 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.839 Center and Warrens was closed down for some inventory work. They've got that done. 378 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:30.839 They are open up now. You need to get back out there. 379 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:34.920 It's always a good time to visit Kingwood Garden Center and Warrens Gardens. Remember 380 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:40.839 when regarding the Kingwood they're going to have their urban fused to fall into prosecco 381 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:45.799 event on September twenty feet at six pm. September twenty feet at six pm. 382 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:49.319 You don't want to miss that. Now you can go to Kingwood Garden 383 00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:53.759 Center dot com or just call them and make sure you get signed up. 384 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:56.160 Tell them that you would like to come to that. What they're going to 385 00:27:56.200 --> 00:28:00.680 teach us how to grow some herbs, but how to also use those and 386 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:06.440 making herb infused cocktails. They call it their gartending class. I like that 387 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:08.960 a lot. Hey, those places have lots of good color out there right 388 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:15.400 now there are. They also have a great supply of the various heirloom soil 389 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:18.960 products that we brag about here on garden Line. So you know, if 390 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.599 you're looking to get a good rose soil, or if you if you want 391 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.160 some leafmo compost, all the things I talk about it, they're gonna have 392 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.400 a good supply of those as well as well as things like as MTE. 393 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:34.039 They carry that many many other things. Both Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center. 394 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:37.160 Well, and it's time for another break. Boy. It seems like those 395 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:41.519 things sneak up on us really quick. Our phone number is seven one three 396 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:47.000 two one two fifty eight seventy four. All right, Josh, I'm gonna 397 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:51.079 impress you with us. That's twenty five six to four. I don't know 398 00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:53.400 if you would knew. I would't know that, but I do. I 399 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.920 remember that we played that in stage band back when I was in high school, 400 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:03.400 so that was kind of it's oh really, oh man, that's cool. 401 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.480 It's live, live, live. Hey, you're listening to Garden Line 402 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.440 and we're having fun with collars with music, just having a good time this 403 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:12.400 morning, and we're glad you're listening. You know, if you're looking for 404 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:17.119 a quality fertilizer to get out there on the ground to get ready for the 405 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:21.000 fall, to get your lawn ready to go, that would be carbo Load 406 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.960 by Nelson Plant Food. Nelson produces a lot of quality products. They were 407 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.480 with the Color Star line, the Nutral Star line, then the Nature Star 408 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.920 line that's our organic fertilizer line, and then they have the Turf Star line. 409 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:34.799 We've been talking about the slow and easy all this summer that gradually releases 410 00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:41.759 over releases over time, got that high nitrogen content that's important and springing summer, 411 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:44.799 but now fall, we've got to get that potassium in the plant and 412 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:49.640 bring that nitrogen down. Over fertilizing with nitrogen and the fall promotes a kind 413 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:53.400 of growth that is going to be more susceptible to the brown patch disease that 414 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:57.559 it's attacking the lawns, making the big brown circles. So with carbo load 415 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:03.480 they drop it's a ten twenty, which is perfect for the fall season. 416 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.160 Now the ten ten twenty is going to help your lawn get ready. It's 417 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:11.240 going to make the carbohydrates. By the way the potassium in there, that's 418 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.880 like it's a way that the plant helps make anna freeze. In other words, 419 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:21.039 it's a component that the plant needs to make the carbohydrates to get ready 420 00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:25.519 for winter, to help overcome drought, to deal with drought, also to 421 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.720 be stronger going into winter, because then it's stronger coming out of winter. 422 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:32.559 It's as simple as that. Nelson Plant Foods. For over twenty years they've 423 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:37.680 been making commercial grade fertilizers available to homeowners and for this fall, the carbo 424 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:42.359 load, which also includes something to help fight your weed problems as well. 425 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:48.599 We're going to go now to West University and talk to Jonas. Good morning, 426 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.839 Jonas, Hi see, good morning to answering my call. I've heard 427 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.880 you referencing a little bit ago about the live oaks. I have on my 428 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:02.839 property three water oaks. Two of them are about thirty five years old. 429 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.880 And each of these two oaks have their water oaks, but they have different 430 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.680 colored foliage. One is pale and the one is a little bit darker, 431 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:14.559 and the other one, the third one is the younger tree is about twelve 432 00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:18.279 years old and it has dark foliage. I guess the question that I have 433 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.519 for you is are they as resilient as resistant in this area as the live 434 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:30.519 oaks, And also why would they have the different shades in the foliage, 435 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.359 different species or what might that be. Yeah, that's a good question. 436 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.519 No, they're not as resilient as the live oaks, but the water oak 437 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.400 is. It's a native tree to the region. It's a decent tree. 438 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.119 Tends to get a little tall, as opposed to the live oak, which 439 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.880 tends to get a little wide, you know, compared to the height proportionally 440 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:53.960 the water oak. As far as color, new growth is going to come 441 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.039 out lighter. So anytime you're getting a lot of new growth, the tree 442 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.160 is gonna look lighter and then it darkens a little. But there is some 443 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:05.039 genetic difference between them as well. And then there's always a possibility that you 444 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:09.960 are dealing with an issue that's more nutrient. Maybe a super high pH soil 445 00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:14.880 is causing the leaves to be a little bit more chlorotic, not getting the 446 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:19.240 iron that they need up there to the plant. So there's several reasons that 447 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:22.519 could be for that, but the bottom line is if they're reasonably green, 448 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:28.000 they should be. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, they're recently green 449 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.880 in there. I'm want to have them looked at and serviced this winter that 450 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.680 they can see. That's that's always a good idea. Yeah, that's true. 451 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:37.799 Now they're gonna they're gonna drive you dropping some leaves here too, so 452 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:44.079 but yeah, right now I have an elm tree as well. Is that 453 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.720 considered a good tree as well? Well. There's a lot of kinds of 454 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:51.240 elms, or the leaves about a size of your thumb or they're about you 455 00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:55.720 know, maybe three or four inches long, they're about about three or four 456 00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:00.279 inches as well. Okay, that could be an American elm. That's that's 457 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.240 one of the elms that has a larger leaf elms are good yard trees. 458 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.680 But every tree has its pros and cons. If I were to, you 459 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.519 know, say the pros of elms is their native in the country. Various 460 00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.880 elms are. They are a pretty resilient tree. Sometimes as they get older, 461 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:21.200 some of the species can get some interior decay a little more so than 462 00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:23.920 certain other plants that are other species of trees that we have out there. 463 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.519 My biggest rap on elms, even the native elms. You know, we 464 00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:34.039 don't talk about natives as being invasive because they're native, but elms cast seed 465 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:37.319 and you get them in your flower beds and you're you're always dealing with little 466 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:42.000 volunteer elms. Now that's not a huge rap and it's not a reason not 467 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.200 to plant an elm. But that's the only thing I've when I've had elms 468 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.359 that have been a little bit annoying for me. But it's still still a 469 00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.839 good tree to plant. Yeah, well, this is great. Well, 470 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.000 thank you, Skip. I appreciate this a loverly weekend. Yeah you too, 471 00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:58.519 Jonas, thank you for the call. Great great to visit. Our 472 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.599 phone number is we're about out of time for a call this hour, but 473 00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:05.039 if you like to get on the board. Josh will get you up there 474 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:09.639 for first thing next next hour when we go through our newsbreak at the top 475 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:13.320 of the hour seven one, three, two, one, two, five 476 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:16.239 eight seven four. Now, if you're looking for a feed store and you 477 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:21.480 live up in the Magnolia area, you need to know your hometown feed store 478 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:27.239 is Spring Creek Feed Center. Spring Creek Feed Center is on FM twenty nine 479 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.000 seventy eight. It's up there in Magnolia. It's just minutes away from Graham 480 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:35.679 Parkway or Highway two forty nine. They're going to carry the fertilizers who recommend 481 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:38.039 here. They have a full line of you know, things like turf Star, 482 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:42.920 Microlife, nitrofists. They've got those there at Spring Creek Feed They've got 483 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.920 lots of supplies for your gardening that would be herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, 484 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:51.280 other kinds of things that you need to have a beautiful lawn and a beautiful 485 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.480 landscape. Of course, there are a feed store and they carry quality pet 486 00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:59.639 food and products like Victor and Purina. They've got livestock food they have. 487 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.239 They have food for wildlife. You're looking for some deer corn, things like 488 00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:06.800 that. They've got that there a grooming center for your pets. I mean, 489 00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:09.800 there's a lot going on at Spring Creek Feed. They greet you, 490 00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:14.440 they're friendly, they're courteous. You know, you get the service that you 491 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.360 want to get when you go to any kind of a business. FFA for 492 00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:22.119 h military and Senior citizens. Discounts are all available there at Spring Creek Feed. 493 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:25.400 And if they don't have it, they will probably be able to special 494 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:29.360 order it and get it in for you. So it's a one stop shop 495 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.920 for what you need. Really easy to go on the Spring Creek Feed. 496 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:38.480 I always like to go out there. I am, you know, when 497 00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:42.519 I'm when I'm out and about, I like to stop in and visit our 498 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.599 sponsors that just to see what's going on that way. When I'm talking about 499 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.119 him, I going, oh, I didn't know they had that. And 500 00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.000 I was at ACE the other day, one of the Ace hardware stores, 501 00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:58.079 and noticed we were in the barbecue section shopping. I think I mentioned this. 502 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.000 I bought one of those little grilling basket to go on the grill and 503 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:05.199 whatnot. But going out to the Garden Center area, I was really surprised. 504 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:09.840 It just seems like the sections always growing with more fertilizers, more products 505 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:15.039 for your lawn, taking care of your plants, just everything you might think 506 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:19.400 you might need. They're going to have it there. And that's just Ace. 507 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:22.119 You can go to ACE Hardware dot com. You can find the store 508 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:25.079 locator thirty nine of them through the area. You'll find them near you. 509 00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:28.239 And believe me, when you go in there. You may go in there 510 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:30.119 for fertilizer, which is a good thing to do, but you're going to 511 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:35.960 find a whole lot of other things that are awesome as well. Hey, 512 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:38.840 I want to tell you coming up next Saturday, get out of pen and 513 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:42.800 paper. Write this in ink on your calendar. I'm going to be at 514 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:47.360 the arbor Gate. That is from eleven thirty to one thirty Saturday, September 515 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:51.880 twenty third of either for two hours now. We are going to be giving 516 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:54.960 away there one, two, three, completely easy system. The food, 517 00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:59.079 the soil, and the compost that I'm always bragging on here on guard line 518 00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:01.800 two, completely easy system. We're going to be giving those away. I 519 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:06.480 think Beverly's got some other special surprises she's going to be giving away as we 520 00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:07.800 go through too. Have you ever been to Arborgate, You know how much 521 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:12.400 fun it is to go there, lots of fun wandering around and learning. 522 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.280 I'm going to be there at the table for two hours. Bring me some 523 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:17.159 samples. Put them in a little ziplock bag. We don't need to be 524 00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:21.599 bringing bugs and diseases into the garden center. Just put them in a little 525 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:23.519 ziplock back. Let me look at them, or bring me photos even better 526 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:28.880 yet in good sharp focus. I hope you'll show up next Saturday from eleven 527 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:34.840 thirty to one thirty at the Arbor Gate. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily 528 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:40.280 endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH 529 00:37:40.440 --> 00:38:07.400 Guarden Line with Skip rictor just watch him as so many. Well, good 530 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:13.440 morning, good Sunday morning. It's gonna be a beautiful day out there today. 531 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.440 Some of you got some rain this week, and the last couple of 532 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:21.239 days have been pretty good to us in the rainfall. If you didn't, 533 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.039 it will come. We are heading into the fall season. I said it 534 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:29.159 yesterday. Once we broke five degrees south of one hundred, I call that 535 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.000 fall. We're officially in the fall. I know, I know it's gonna 536 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:36.599 get warm again. That usually happens, but not for long and not so 537 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:39.480 bad, and at least we're getting a break. Our plants are getting a 538 00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:44.960 break these cooler evenings, cooler days, or even a few degrees makes a 539 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.880 lot of difference. And hopefully continue to get some rain in here for everybody 540 00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.920 else. By the way, if you have have trees and lawns that are 541 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:55.199 struggling in this heat and drought that we've been going through since good night, 542 00:38:55.320 --> 00:39:00.199 what was it June May, I don't know when the thing started. It's 543 00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:05.480 been brutal. I put some information online on my website, gardening with skip 544 00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:08.320 dot com, and there's a sheet on there that you can print if you 545 00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:13.440 want, or just read it online, and it's how trees go through stress, 546 00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:15.000 What stress does, how do we alleviate it, how does it work? 547 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.800 And what can you do to help your trees? And then secondly, 548 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.519 when you're dealing with the lawn and it's still dry, maybe you didn't get 549 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.159 rain. I was talking to folks out at the home show yesterday and had 550 00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:29.320 a show of hands like who didn't get rain? And a few hands went 551 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.840 up on that as well. If you didn't, well, how do you 552 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:35.639 get the most out of your water when you water the lawn. You know 553 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:39.719 the the waters purveyor says, our supplier says, you know what, you 554 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:43.400 can only water this much on these days? Well, what do you do 555 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.599 with that water to get the most out of it? And that's what that 556 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.159 sheet talks about there. So I encourage you to go to gardening with Skip 557 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:53.800 dot com and check that out. When it comes to taking care of our 558 00:39:53.840 --> 00:40:00.320 trees, making sure trees have what they need. The nitrofus folks have set 559 00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:04.400 up the Texas three step system. In Texas three Step, it's a great 560 00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:07.760 idea. It's taking care of the three things we are most concerned about when 561 00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:13.000 we go into the fall season. Number one, are we are our lawns 562 00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.679 rather, are they getting the nutrients they need in the right ratio for going 563 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:22.360 into fall, because that really matters and fall we want more of the potassium. 564 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:27.639 We want to drop that nitrogen down so that we don't promote things like 565 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:34.800 brown patch which we also call large patch and nitrofust Fall Special Winterizer is exactly 566 00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:38.039 that. It's going to provide the ratio of nutrients you need to do just 567 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:43.079 that. It's designed for the Gulf Coast, it's designed for the fall season. 568 00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:49.519 Potassium is very important, and they put plenty of it in their nitrofust 569 00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:54.440 Fall Special because it helps with drought resilience. It also helps with winter heartiness. 570 00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:59.880 And when you put this combination that they've got in a fertilizer, you're 571 00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:05.199 grass is going to go into winter stronger and therefore come out of winter stronger. 572 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:07.880 And people think, well, you know, in the spring, if 573 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:09.519 I throw fertilizer down, it's gonna make the lawn all happy and grow. 574 00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:14.199 Well, at some point it is when it warms up and the grass can 575 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:19.400 grow. But that early growth on your grass is dependent on going into winter 576 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:24.360 strong. It's using stored energy in early spring to get going. Fall fertilization 577 00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:28.559 is what enables us to do that. Don't wait too long, go ahead 578 00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:31.400 and get it down, and I'd get it down early October because you want 579 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:36.960 to give your grass time to take it up and to build that hardiness to 580 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.639 store those carbohydrates that it needs. Secondly, barricade is their pre emergent. 581 00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.199 If you have grassy weeds and broadly weed problems, those are going to be 582 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:50.519 sprouting in October, depending on our weather. Typically the month of October is 583 00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:53.079 when we get a lot of weed sprouting, and by getting the barricade down 584 00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:58.039 ahead of time, you can do it late into September. Early october's fine 585 00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:02.039 too. I tend to lean toward early October for most of the area watered 586 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:06.639 in really well, and it's going to keep you out of the weed problems 587 00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:08.840 all the way into the spring. It will last, and it will work. 588 00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:13.880 It locks up in the soil at the surface and when we try to 589 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.079 when weeds try to sprout, they can't get through it. And then finally, 590 00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:21.639 the step three is the nitrofuss eagle turf fungicide. You want to get 591 00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:23.960 that down pretty soon. I would say the first part of October, maybe 592 00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:28.519 the end of September if you're living a little further north. We get one 593 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:31.440 of those cold fronts in where the daytime tempts are now in the seventies as 594 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:37.079 opposed up in the nineties. Boy, you definitely need to have that fungicide 595 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.239 down the eagle turf ahead of time. For the large pats that's going to 596 00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:44.320 hit after the circles appear. It's a little late to apply these kinds of 597 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:45.760 things for large pats, so we want to get them down ahead of time. 598 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:51.599 One two three Texas three step really easy, Nitrofus Fall Special, Nitrofuss 599 00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:53.760 Barricade, Nitrofuss Eagle. Where do you get it? Well, you get 600 00:42:53.840 --> 00:43:00.320 Nitrofuss in a lot of places such as cypers Ace, Fisher's Hardware and report 601 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:05.000 Our Plantation Ace Hardware. Well, we're gonna go now out to the phones. 602 00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:07.079 By the way, our number is seven one three two one two fifty 603 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:14.599 eight seventy four. We're going to visit with Allen. Hello Allen. Yea 604 00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:16.599 sir, how are you doing this morning? How can we help I'm doing 605 00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:21.320 bod We got an inch and aphrain and Wallace yesterday. Oh man, that's 606 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:24.320 a way to go. It's not yes, it is, yes, it 607 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:29.320 is. So how can I help you today? All Right? We had 608 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:34.519 I've got coun trees that are probably a couple hundred years old, and this 609 00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:38.320 year is the first year I've had what they called black walnut caterpillars. Yes, 610 00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:42.960 if they just eat the durned things up, they do, and I 611 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:45.719 don't know what to do with them when they form to keep for next year. 612 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:50.960 Yeah, well, there's no pre treating. But what you need to 613 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:52.800 look for is you need to look for them when they first hatch out. 614 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:57.519 They're gonna be a little herd on the trunk typically, and then they move 615 00:43:57.599 --> 00:43:59.679 up into the tree. They may be on the limbs, but if you 616 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.880 catch him early, when you first see them, just start watching for them. 617 00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.760 Because some years they're bad as they were this year for you. Some 618 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:08.599 years they're not so bad at all. But I would expect if you had 619 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.199 a bad year this year, we probably will have one next year. And 620 00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:16.719 then you want to use a product on the foliage that kills caterpillars and so 621 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.800 on. The organic end of it, you got BT which is only going 622 00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:23.519 to last about two days after you spray it, and it's not working anymore. 623 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:28.039 So that's the negative of it. The good news is it doesn't hurt 624 00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:32.199 all the beneficials that are helping you with your other pests. Sipicons, Spinosaid 625 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:37.679 sprays is probably what I would go to, is my best bet. Spi 626 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:43.360 No Sad, spin No Sad. A lot of brands of it out there, 627 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:46.719 but Spinosaid soaks into the leaf tissue. It's also an organic, by 628 00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:52.239 the way, and when the cap can barely hear, your fading out so 629 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:55.000 bad. Okay, I don't know, Josh, Is there something we can 630 00:44:55.039 --> 00:45:00.719 do? Here, I'm right on my mic spinosaid is the one I would 631 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.840 probably go to for an organic and it soaks in the tissue, it lasts 632 00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:07.920 a little longer in the leaf, and it will kill anything that eats a 633 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:13.320 leaf, including caterpillars. And then there are plenty of other insecticides that are 634 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:15.960 you just have to watch are they label from my pecan trees and if they 635 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:22.800 are, most any insecticide is going to kill that walnut caterpillar. You put 636 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:27.480 this around the base of a tree are red where they go down and once 637 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:30.360 they're done in their business for the year, they go down and they nest 638 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.760 around the base of a tree and that's where they come back from to next 639 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:37.960 year. Well, I don't know that there's any treatment down there that's going 640 00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:44.039 to be as effective. If you see caterpillars down around the base, See 641 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.119 what they're doing is they're eating the leaves, and then it's just like a 642 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:52.079 butterfly. They go into their little pupil case and they typically will overwinter or 643 00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:55.280 either as pupa or as eggs and then come out the next year. Hey, 644 00:45:55.719 --> 00:45:59.039 Alan, I'm going to need to take it. Take a break here. 645 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:00.360 If you want to hang on and keep talking, or if that took 646 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.840 care of it, and I appreciate your call very much. Our phone number 647 00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:09.119 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. All right, 648 00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:14.679 now, that is right. Hey, if you have not put any micronutrients 649 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:17.039 on your lawn this year, you need to get a hold of some asmite 650 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.920 and get that put out. Azamite provides all those trace elements that are only 651 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:28.280 needed in tiny supplies but are absolutely essential to the health and life of your 652 00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:31.119 lawn. They have to have those nutrients things like manganese. For example. 653 00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:35.920 You know you don't see manganese and a fertilizer typically well, plants have to 654 00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:38.639 have manganese, and azemite provides that sort of thing. You can go to 655 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:43.559 azemite Texas dot com find out lots more about it. It's easy to find 656 00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:46.199 sold all over the place. Whenever you're going to put your fall fertilizer out, 657 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.840 just when you get done with that, drop some azemite in there. 658 00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.480 Doesn't take a whole lot of it, About forty four pounds will go six 659 00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:55.480 to twelve thousand square feet lawn. So but get it out there and make 660 00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.159 sure that your lawn has the nutrients it needs when it needs them. We're 661 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:02.599 gonna go out now to Cyprus and talk to Ed. Hello, Ed, 662 00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:09.559 good morning, Good morning. I sent you some photos of some roses that 663 00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:14.880 we talked about yesterday. Yes, sir, I saw those. That is 664 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:17.559 Rose rosette, and I just sent you an email reply just a second here 665 00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:24.400 a Goo. There are some great webs references for that. Texas A and 666 00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:30.039 M at the agrilife Learn website has a couple of free PDF publications on rose 667 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:34.719 rosette. It is a virus. It's in the plants. You can't get 668 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.519 rid of it, and there's a little tiny mite so tiny it can literally 669 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:43.480 float on the air to other rose bushes down wind or nearby, and that's 670 00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:46.480 how it gets spread. When you have it, all the roses right in 671 00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:51.239 that area need to come out. And i'd watch your other roses really carefully 672 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:58.440 for that super thorniness, that reddish like scrunched up growth habit and the thorniness. 673 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:00.440 When you see these publicans, it's going to show you what to do. 674 00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:06.159 I recommend people slip a trash bag over the rose, go down to 675 00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:08.280 the bottom and pull it, because what's going to happen is you're gonna pull 676 00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:12.199 it up. But in jerking it and pulling it up, you don't want 677 00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:15.320 to shake all the mites loose and have them floating around everywhere. So you 678 00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:20.800 trash bag it and then you get those out of there. Just watch and 679 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.320 if your neighbors have roses, you might kind of look at those talk to 680 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:28.119 them about this, because if you can get them out of that area, 681 00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:30.039 if you get all those roses out, pull the roots that you can out 682 00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:34.400 of the ground, just because they're the virus is in the plant all through 683 00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:37.639 the plant, and so you want to get those roots out of there and 684 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.800 then you can replant. I'd give it a little time, maybe quait and 685 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:45.719 plant in February. Just give it a little bit of time. But rose 686 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.280 rose, that's a bad one. And we have major research projects across the 687 00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.519 country, including A and M, going on about breeding roses that don't get 688 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:59.639 it, because a lot of roses get it. Can I replace a meeting 689 00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:05.360 color are in those beds? And I'm not I mean, I don't have 690 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:09.119 to have roses, but I'd like to have something that comes back, you 691 00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:14.199 know, every year, that don't have to replant. These are about a 692 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.039 foot and a half tall and then they spread out, yeah, foot, 693 00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:22.519 and that's what I need for these beds. Well, yeah, I understand. 694 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:24.159 First of all, I would say, just because you had roses, 695 00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:30.039 that doesn't mean you're gonna replant and have it again. Now, if your 696 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:35.280 neighbor has roses and the mites are coming in from there and they've got rosas 697 00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:37.559 at yes, your new roses will get it. But it's not like the 698 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:42.440 mits hang around for two months and waiting for a rose to be planted, 699 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:46.119 to crawl up on it and attack it. So there is a you know, 700 00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:49.760 I wouldn't give up on roses. If you like roses, there's a 701 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:52.760 lot of good ones out there. As far as other plants, you know, 702 00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.519 there's a wide variety of things that bloom, and so I wouldn't even 703 00:49:55.519 --> 00:50:00.960 know where to begin on what esthetically you're looking or and what you like, 704 00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:06.440 but I wouldn't give up on roses on that one. I did send you 705 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:09.119 those the link to where you can get the tea called locations, And if 706 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:13.280 you will read through that carefully, it goes into great detail, more than 707 00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:16.239 I can on the air, about the disease, what you do about it, 708 00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:22.239 how you deal with it, and so on. Well, this prompted 709 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:25.280 me to look elsewhere in the yard, and it's all over. Oh on 710 00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.199 all your roses. Not all of them, but I've bet on thirty percent 711 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.480 of them. Okay, the front and the back here, Well, you 712 00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:37.559 can watch the others for now. Just because you have a rose nearby doesn't 713 00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.280 mean it has it yet. But watch them very closely, and if they're 714 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:44.440 if they're in a grouping, like all in the same bed, I would 715 00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:50.400 just clean them out and go in with a new planting. But you know, 716 00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:52.639 you can have it on one end of the bed and it's not infected 717 00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:57.280 the plants on the other end yet. And so our goal is just this 718 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.960 huge, super careful sanitary measure of getting it all out of there as fast 719 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:07.239 as we can to prevent further spitch bab Like being a room with somebody that's 720 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.159 sick and they're coughing and you're just hanging around breathing in the air. That's 721 00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:15.119 not going to go well, thank you? All right, all right, 722 00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:16.920 you bet sorry to be the bear of bad news on that one, for 723 00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:22.079 sure. If you are looking for a way to get supplies for anything you 724 00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:29.960 need for your garden and landscape, I'll get two words Southwest Fertilizer. If 725 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.079 Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have something, you don't need it because they have everything you 726 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.880 need. They have all the fertilizers we talk about, insecticides, fungicides, 727 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:43.079 herbicides. You say, but I'm an organic gardener. They have organic products 728 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:46.360 in those categories as well. They have everything that you need. It's really 729 00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:50.360 as simple as that. If you have problems, you want to bring a 730 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:52.960 sample out there, let them put a pair of eyes on it and see 731 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.480 what it is. If you want to bring them a picture, they can 732 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.920 diagnose it and then take you to the product you need. Southwest Fertilizer is 733 00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:02.760 in Southwest Euston as you'd expect, a corner of Bissonette and Renwick, and 734 00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:08.000 you can go to their website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. But walk in there 735 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:14.119 and see that what I'm telling you is absolutely the truth. Eighty foot wall 736 00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:16.840 of garden tools. I mean, there is no place that carries as much 737 00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:21.559 stuff as Southwest Fertilizer. I'm going to head out to the Woodlands now. 738 00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:25.280 I'm going to talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, High Skip. I 739 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:30.480 have a couple of questions for you this morning. I live in a patio 740 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:37.960 home out here that has a wrought iron fence that divides my yard to the 741 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:44.119 preserve, and I have several bucks woods along the fence line. I'm looking 742 00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:51.639 for a perennial to put between these shrubs, but the grass has grown in 743 00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:58.519 between there and these big tufts of which I've sprayed with weed killer, and 744 00:52:58.599 --> 00:53:04.599 now I'm concerned that I've kind of ruined to soil. What do you think? 745 00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.840 What should I do something about this? And what do you suggest for 746 00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:14.079 plants? You? Yeah, Sandy, do you remember what weed killer you 747 00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:20.679 used on it? Yeah? I can look at it right now. So 748 00:53:21.159 --> 00:53:23.519 as far as plants, now, what what? What do you What kind 749 00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:25.559 of plant are you looking for? Do you want a shrub? Do you 750 00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:31.159 want little flowers? Or I think i'd like little flowers or a perennial of 751 00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:36.559 some sort. Okay, but the weed, yeah, the weed killer is 752 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:43.000 a specter called weed and grass killer that I got at HP. Can you 753 00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:45.320 can you read me the ingredient on there? Please? If you can find 754 00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:47.920 that in the fine room, that's kind of what I need to know. 755 00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:57.039 Oh, okay, it's just kill the root, hoot active ingredients. While 756 00:53:57.039 --> 00:54:01.559 you're hut while you're hunting that down. Uh that perennials have their season and 757 00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:07.840 as some bloom a long time, like the gold Star Esperanza, they bloom 758 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:10.440 all summer long. That you know, there's a number of plants that will 759 00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:13.719 blom a long time. Some have a very short season, some of the 760 00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:16.079 bulbs, for example, just a few weeks and then there's nothing else. 761 00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:21.000 So you may want to if you use perennials, fill in with annuals, 762 00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:23.599 so you can trade some of the annuals out and have color all through the 763 00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:27.800 year. That's what i'd recommend you find. Did you find that ingredient? 764 00:54:28.440 --> 00:54:35.239 I get it says uh die quot uh dibri mine okay. And then there 765 00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:42.920 then there's but let's just zolt. I can't really read this. Spell it 766 00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:47.440 for me. That's l u a z okay. I got that one. 767 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:54.320 Is there another one dike tamba okay, all right? And then it just 768 00:54:54.320 --> 00:55:00.760 says other ingredients. Okay. So if you can replant that area, it's 769 00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:02.159 not going to be one of these things at lasts for months and months and 770 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:06.760 months. But with the die camba, you're not gonna want to put seeds 771 00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:10.400 in for a while. It's going to prevent it could have an effect on 772 00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:16.760 that. But okay, you know the die camba, I wouldn't worry about 773 00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:21.840 it a lotty on the seeds. But anyway, that's just in fact, 774 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:24.280 you know what I'm I'm crossing that with another one. It's fine to go 775 00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:28.519 ahead and plant. You're gonna be okay, don't worry about it. Okay, 776 00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:32.360 okay, good? And is there anything I can do to prevent that 777 00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:37.639 grass from coming over? Uh? Just some sort of a border that prevents 778 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:42.440 it from crawling in on periodically, a little edging or something like that. 779 00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:45.920 Okay, if you want to send me a picture of the grass, I 780 00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:49.639 could see if you know, some grasses go underground and then come up in 781 00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:52.880 the bed. Those are harder to fight, yea. Others just crawling in 782 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:55.559 over the top, so it's kind of hard to give a gene. Yeah, 783 00:55:55.599 --> 00:56:00.760 this comes from underground. Okay, that's going to record. Are the 784 00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:07.079 flu a z that you were spelling me? Look for just that product and 785 00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:09.840 you spray it on grass and it doesn't kill your flowers, it kills grass. 786 00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:14.400 Oh okay, But we don't go re buy what you bought. Just 787 00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:19.039 buy the flu a z ingredient. Okay, okay, that's fine, all 788 00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:24.559 right. My second question redbuds. We replaced two live oak trees in our 789 00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:30.280 backyard and I had a hard time finding redbuds. So I ordered them online 790 00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:34.960 from a place in North Carolina. Okay, they came. They were pretty 791 00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:38.679 sparse looking. We planted them, they both died. Okay. The company 792 00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:45.280 replaced them. They sent me two more. We planted them again and they 793 00:56:45.320 --> 00:56:50.880 died. Okay. Then they sent me go ahead. Okay, they sent 794 00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:55.719 me two more, and we decided we'd just put them in five gallon buckets 795 00:56:55.880 --> 00:57:01.679 okay, and put them under cover under my Pa Patila rope so that, 796 00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:08.239 you know, because the sun was so bad this summuning. Okay, that's 797 00:57:08.280 --> 00:57:14.679 where they are now. Okay, this fall, late October and November. 798 00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:17.440 Get those on the ground at the same depth that they were growing. That's 799 00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:21.199 the best time to plan them and gives you the best shot. And just 800 00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:24.440 remember all through next year when it's hot. They still have a limited root 801 00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:28.639 system. They're getting established, and so you need to water them with a 802 00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:34.199 good soaking to keep those things moist but not continually soggy wet. All right, 803 00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:37.519 Hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate your call. Very much. 804 00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:42.239 Thank you for calling. If you live in the Richmond area and you haven't 805 00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.760 been out to Enchanted Forest yet, you need to go see this place, 806 00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:49.800 Enchanted Forest. If you're in Richmond, you're going up toward let's say Sugarland. 807 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:52.880 It's off to the right south of fifty nine. Enchanted Forest is one 808 00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:57.760 of those enchanting places. I mean if you go in, the beautiful trees, 809 00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:00.760 the buildings, they just built a new area for their vegetables and their 810 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:06.199 herbs. It's just really cool. Enchanted Forest is so fun to go around 811 00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:08.760 and see things. Danny and Clay are on staff there on staff. They 812 00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:14.559 own the place. They absolutely will help you. Their staff helps you. 813 00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:17.159 They walk around, they direct you to things, they answer your questions. 814 00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:21.159 They are just about to get in a bunch of pumpkins coming up soon. 815 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:23.679 The mums are there, the cool seasoned vegetables are in shrubs, trees, 816 00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:29.760 flowers. Perfect time to go out and see Enchanted Forest. Just an absolute 817 00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:31.880 great time to go out to that place. And always like it, always 818 00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:37.519 see something new when I go out there as well. We're gonna be taking 819 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:39.880 a break here in just a moment. I want to remind you that on 820 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:45.719 next Saturday, September sixteenth, I will be at the Montgomery County Home and 821 00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:49.440 Garden Show. Excuse me, I'm reading the wrong line. I'll be at 822 00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:52.639 Arburgrate for Grind Out Loud. I just set it a minute ago, two 823 00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:54.440 hour appearance I did at Arburgrate. We're going to give away the one two 824 00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:59.840 three completely easy system and a lot of other things that Beverly is coming up. 825 00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:02.079 She's gonna be there. Of course she's gonna be there. And when 826 00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:07.519 she says she's pulling out some surprises, it's all Beverly, all right, 827 00:59:07.599 --> 00:59:10.199 Nikki, it's all yours. Well, good morning. You are listening to 828 00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:14.119 Guarden Line on a nice Sunday morning. It's gonna be a beautiful Sunday. 829 00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:17.599 As a matter of fact. Out there, you know we were hitting that 830 00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:22.280 season. That is my favorite gardening season of the year. Now. I 831 00:59:22.280 --> 00:59:27.480 know most people get spring fever for gardening. I get fall fever two because 832 00:59:27.559 --> 00:59:34.079 fall has its advantages even over Spring falls a great time to plant perennials, 833 00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:37.119 to plant perennial herbs, to plant woody ornamentals like trees and shrubs and woody 834 00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:43.039 vines. He gives the plants the longest period of time you can give them 835 00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:46.400 before the blazing heat and demands of another summer arrives. That's important. Maybe 836 00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:50.679 you're thinking about putting a tree in this fall. If you are, I 837 00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:54.039 would recommend you give a call to Verdant Tree Farm Verdant Tree Farm, Varda, 838 00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:59.679 nt treefarm dot com. They have a wide variety of trees and they 839 00:59:59.719 --> 01:00:02.280 car there are the kinds of trees that do well here. They also grow 840 01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:06.360 them right, so they do well here, and they plant them right, 841 01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:09.039 so they do well here. We're talking turnkey service. You go there, 842 01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:12.639 you pick out your tree, they tag it, they bring it, they 843 01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:15.840 install it, and it's done right. It's as simple as that. And 844 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:20.280 if you need instant tree, they have large and beautiful palms as well. 845 01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:23.880 They have large and beautiful other types of trees up to seven hundred gallons. 846 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:30.000 Even it's amazing the kind of plant material they have on site. And when 847 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:32.760 I say on site, I mean both out in West Houston on Barker Cypress, 848 01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:37.800 I mean down in Parland on Broadway Street, and also up in the 849 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:42.800 Heights where Yale Street comes into I Ten, there's a Verdant there as well. 850 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:46.440 And so whether you're needing a large shrub like or one of the big 851 01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:51.880 beautiful kinds of hollies that we have. Whether you're wanting a tree, Verdant's 852 01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:55.519 place to call Verdant Tree farm dot com. Good time to get that done 853 01:00:55.599 --> 01:01:00.599 too. For sure. I was. I'm taking a look at some of 854 01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:04.880 the trees in my yard and I was able to get them through the drought 855 01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:08.440 this summer without a lot of problems, just by doing that deep and frequent 856 01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:12.880 watering just to rescue treatment here and there. And they're doing okay even in 857 01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:16.800 areas where the lawn didn't do is good. And going into the fall season. 858 01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:21.920 You know our trees, this has been a tough summer on them, 859 01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:24.400 and we want to make sure that they don't lack for moisture. Hopefully we're 860 01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:28.920 going to get plenty now as we go forward, and as the temperature drops 861 01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:30.599 down, the demands dropped down, so we're not having to water them all 862 01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:34.559 the time. We want to water them properly, but we don't have to 863 01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:37.960 water them all the time. And one of the one of the important things 864 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:43.880 to remember is trees need moist soil. Plants need moist soil, but they 865 01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:45.840 don't have to have soggy soil, and in fact, soggy soil can be 866 01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:52.159 deadly. So when you water water wisely, apply that, apply that wisely. 867 01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:57.000 If your lawn's not looking so great this fall, don't forget the most 868 01:01:57.039 --> 01:02:00.199 important fertilizing season of the year is here, and that is the fall season. 869 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:06.920 And a product like Nelson's carbo Load will set your plants up for success. 870 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:09.599 Your plants, meaning your yard, your grass plants, your lawn. 871 01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:15.199 Your lawn right now is recovering from what it just went through. It's been 872 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:19.559 drought stressed, and it's about to have some cold weather come in as well. 873 01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.320 It's in a week in state and it needs to be strengthened and carbohydrates 874 01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:25.679 are need to be produced to go into winter. And how do you do 875 01:02:25.719 --> 01:02:30.199 that You put on a fall fertilizer like Nelson's carbo Load. Carbo Load is 876 01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:36.679 a ten ten twenty fertilizer and it provides exactly what the plant needs. It 877 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:42.320 gets the carbohydrates produced so that it strengthens the plant to fight the diseases and 878 01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:46.079 the issues that our lawn grass plants have to deal with to take it into 879 01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:51.480 fall to come out into spring with strength, so that then when it's time 880 01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:54.159 to spring fertilize. You've got a lawn that has hit the ground running and 881 01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:59.400 it's ready to go and it's able to take up those nutrients for the spring 882 01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:04.239 fertilize. Carbo Load is available in many places. Nelson Plant Food has been 883 01:03:04.679 --> 01:03:07.320 providing these kind of quality products for a very very long time. I believe 884 01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:12.880 over twenty years ago that Dean started Nelson Plant Food. Carbo Load is what 885 01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:15.239 you need to know for this fall, for your lawn and after the summer 886 01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:20.480 we've been through, your lawn would like you to get it some carbo load 887 01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:24.360 to help it get its feedback under it. Again, very important. You're 888 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:30.119 listening to garden Line our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight 889 01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:35.119 seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I went 890 01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:38.440 out on the patio this past week and was just, you know, outside, 891 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:43.679 dreaming of the days when it's so pleasant to go back out on the 892 01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:45.519 patio again, which, by the way, they are getting here. We 893 01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:49.760 are, we are at that point. And I was out there and all 894 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.519 summer long. One benefit of the drought is we don't even mosquitoes this summer, 895 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:55.199 hardly at my house I just hadn't gotten the rain to do it. 896 01:03:55.239 --> 01:04:00.719 And I'm always real careful to watch for leaving bowls and basin and things that 897 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:04.480 breed mosquitoes. I always you know, mosquito dunks and mosquito granules are so 898 01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:08.719 important to you. Well, now it's rained again, so here we go. 899 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:13.239 We're back in the mosquito season. I was swatting a few this past 900 01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:16.199 week on the patio, and mosquito dunks are so simple. It's a disease 901 01:04:16.239 --> 01:04:19.719 of mosquitoes. You put it out there and that's all it hurts is mosquitoes. 902 01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:23.920 One dunk will cover a hundred square feet. It'll last thirty days. 903 01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:26.960 You can get their granules, or you can break a dunk up if you 904 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:30.119 want to put a little crumbles here in the bottom of your catch basins where 905 01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:32.159 you're not dumping them out, or in a bird bath. It doesn't hurt 906 01:04:32.199 --> 01:04:35.239 birds, doesn't hurt insects, doesn't hurt fish, doesn't hurt people, doesn't 907 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:39.719 hurt pets that drink out of the water. Can't get better than mosquito dunks, 908 01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:43.719 and they are so easy to find. All of our sponsors are going 909 01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:47.480 to carry the retail garden centers the hardware stores of each art they're going to 910 01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:53.320 carry the mosquito dunks. Makes it really easy to find them and to do 911 01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:56.239 that, So don't delay, get ahead of the deal. Don't don't be 912 01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:00.280 a squito breeder. You want to get ahead of that because you know, 913 01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:02.760 here's football season. Time to get out there and grill and do some cooking 914 01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:06.320 and things like that. You don't want to be swatting mosquitoes out there on 915 01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:10.440 the patio. And it's so easy to get ahead of them. If you 916 01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:14.119 got neighbors. They got a little I don't know, a pond or something. 917 01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:15.760 They're not taking care of the water on I don't know, Maybe toss 918 01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:20.320 a mosquito dunk over the fence or ask them permission. But don't let your 919 01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:26.800 neighbors be skita breeders either, because it's so easy to manage with a product 920 01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:32.119 like that. Talking about barbecueing, we my ocra patch is producing some really 921 01:05:32.119 --> 01:05:36.000 good ocre and I am ready to get out there and do some more grilling 922 01:05:36.039 --> 01:05:39.920 on the okre. We havell throw some okra on two minutes on each side. 923 01:05:39.960 --> 01:05:43.440 It's so wonderful. If you don't like oak or slime, olive oil, 924 01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:46.280 brush it over the ochre pod, sprinkle salt two minutes on each side, 925 01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:51.159 and you have got tasty ocre without the slime, but also the meats 926 01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:54.440 that go on the grill and the vegetables. You know, I just said 927 01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:58.159 the other day, I bought those baskets for fish grilling from Ace Hardware. 928 01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:02.599 Ace Hardware has all kinds of things like that to make your outdoor patio just 929 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:06.360 a wonderful haven during the football season. Now, while you're there, of 930 01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:10.639 course, you need to go pick up the fertilizers for your lawns. I'm 931 01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:14.320 talking about him yesterday and today, and I'll keep talking about him because fall 932 01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:18.400 fertilization is important and ACE carries them all. Ace Hardware dot Com find the 933 01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:23.440 store locator. There's thirty nine near you. Easy to find. Hey, 934 01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:27.440 we're gonna take a break seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 935 01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:30.599 Give Josh a call and you will be first up when we come back. 936 01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:34.679 Well, good morning on a beautiful Sunday morning. If you looked outside, 937 01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:40.840 this is one heck of a day. It is gorgeous outside and pleasant 938 01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:44.440 a temperature. It's pleasant. You don't break a sweat walk into your car 939 01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:48.039 like we were doing. All summertime long. Oh man, hey, you're 940 01:06:48.079 --> 01:06:50.880 listening to the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're 941 01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:55.400 here to talk to you about whatever is of interest to you regarding gardening. 942 01:06:55.480 --> 01:07:00.440 So give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four 943 01:07:00.760 --> 01:07:04.639 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. As a matter of 944 01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:09.000 fact, just a little tip on the side here, this would be a 945 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:11.400 great time to call. We had a little lull in the calls, so 946 01:07:11.840 --> 01:07:14.800 if you want to you don't want to have to wait or get in now 947 01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:18.760 now that would be a good time to do that. We were discussing things 948 01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:23.000 about our plants and care of our plants, you know, our lawns, 949 01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:28.039 getting our lawns through. I'm putting together something to go on the website that's 950 01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:32.320 also along the lines of our lawns and what do we do now? You 951 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.519 know, the thing I just put up was like, okay, here's the 952 01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:38.840 drought. How do you get the most out of ever drop you have to 953 01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:42.360 keep your lawn alive. The next one is going to be that I'm putting 954 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:45.199 together now is what do we do for our lawns? This fault? You 955 01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:49.079 know what, let's look at the things that have happened, and what do 956 01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:53.840 we do now to get them ready? And of course I've been talking about 957 01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:57.639 the importance of putting the right kind of fertilizer down in the fall. Maybe 958 01:07:57.639 --> 01:08:00.480 you had chinch bugs that you're dealing with, and where do we go from 959 01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:01.840 here? Maybe you have to take all root rot that you're dealing with. 960 01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:06.159 Maybe you're worried about large patch coming up in the lawn and creating those brown 961 01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:12.159 patch, creating those big circles. I wish they wouldn't change the name of 962 01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:15.600 diseases and things and plants. That drives me crazy because everybody knows what brown 963 01:08:15.640 --> 01:08:18.680 patches, but actually it's called large patch now, So which name do I 964 01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:23.720 use? I guess I should just say brown patch because that's what everybody knows. 965 01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:27.279 But anyway, how do you do all that? How do we get 966 01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:30.319 our lawns ready? What about the weeds that are coming up? Maybe your 967 01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:31.960 lawn is thin? How do we manage that? That's what the next one's 968 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:36.479 going to be about. It's kind of like tips for going into fall and 969 01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:40.920 what do we do? And I want to tell you we are on the 970 01:08:41.119 --> 01:08:45.960 doorstep of some very important things. We need to be doing to have a 971 01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:49.640 dense, healthy, beautiful lawn going into next year, and we have to 972 01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:56.000 be doing it now. October is like a traffic jam of things that need 973 01:08:56.039 --> 01:09:00.239 to happen in the lawn for good success. It's when the cool season weed 974 01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:04.439 sprout. October is when large patch or brown patch starts to appear. It's 975 01:09:04.439 --> 01:09:10.399 when take all root rot also will reinfect. It likes cooler, milder temperatures, 976 01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:14.000 even though you see die back often in the summer because the plan is 977 01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:17.319 losing roots and it's getting hotter and needing more water and it can't get it 978 01:09:17.319 --> 01:09:23.199 falls the time when it can attack a lot. What about the weeds? 979 01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:26.720 What are the weeds we're dealing with now? How do we manage those? 980 01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:30.119 What is our long term and short term strategies? Do you see what I'm 981 01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:33.720 talking about? It's October's a big important, a very important time out there 982 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:36.640 in the lawns. And so I'm going to write something. I'll get it 983 01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:41.039 up on the website. I'll probably hopefully be able to talk about next weekend 984 01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:44.720 when we're back here again. But always check the website. Something else about 985 01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:46.359 that, you know, my lawn care schedules up there the website, by 986 01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:53.239 the way, is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. 987 01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:59.439 Always check back because I'm constantly updating things. There's a couple more tweaks 988 01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:02.319 that I'm going to be putting on for our lawn care guide, a couple 989 01:10:02.359 --> 01:10:05.760 of a little small things that I want to do to it, improve on 990 01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:11.039 it a little bit, and so just always be willing to look back up 991 01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:14.159 there, check on it and things. Don't just assume it's a one and 992 01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:17.000 done, because it's it's a work in progress. Let's say, we're always 993 01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:20.199 learning new things, we're always getting new experiences, We're always thinking of other 994 01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:27.800 ways that we can improve it. And that's important if you are interested in 995 01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:34.159 a quality, a quality organic compost mix. Nature's creation organic compost is just 996 01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:40.159 that nature's creation is a compost. Of course, it's got the micro rhizal 997 01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:44.800 fungi added in there. That is what's a micro rhiza. It lives with 998 01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:47.239 the root. There are micro hizer that go around the root and protect it. 999 01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:50.960 There are microizer they go in the rout and then they reach out in 1000 01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:55.680 the soil and bring nutrients back to the root. Is that cool? Eleven 1001 01:10:55.720 --> 01:11:01.960 different strains of microhiza in Nature's Creation made from recycled trees and shrubs one organic. 1002 01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:06.960 It has those microiyes in it. It does not use Canadian Sphagnum peat 1003 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:12.880 moss. It does not compact. It's just a quality product Nature's Creation organic 1004 01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:15.079 compost. Where do you get it? Well, they have it. It 1005 01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:16.720 grows Outlet and Willet's. They have it at Moss Nursery. They have an 1006 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:23.840 RCW on two forty nine Wabash feet down in north central Houston and Houston Garden 1007 01:11:23.880 --> 01:11:30.039 Centers all carry the Nature's Creation organic composts. Not hard to find at all. 1008 01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:34.479 I'm doing some planting and this coming week I've got some things I need 1009 01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:38.479 to get out there. You know, they say the Cobbers kids go barefoot, 1010 01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:40.760 and I haven't had time to get out in the garden and do some 1011 01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:44.039 of the stuff I need to do in my own garden. But I'm gonna 1012 01:11:44.039 --> 01:11:46.760 be getting some of that done. The cool season vegetables, it's time to 1013 01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:51.600 get those in and that I love broccoli, I love kale, you know, 1014 01:11:51.680 --> 01:11:55.880 cabbage, cauliflower, those are all the blue leaf vegetables that we know 1015 01:11:56.199 --> 01:12:00.479 have so many compounds in them that are good for your health. And boy, 1016 01:12:00.520 --> 01:12:02.359 I love growing them in the cool season because when when we get a 1017 01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:08.279 little frosty weather, those things are just sweeter and better. That's that's their 1018 01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:11.920 best that they're ever gonna be. Getting some of that stuff done. I'm 1019 01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:15.840 still finishing up with some of my ocra trial plantings. This summer. I 1020 01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:20.119 did a lot of ocra breeding and trying out the new trials, new seed 1021 01:12:20.159 --> 01:12:26.479 lines that I've produced and getting the final touch done on those because that time 1022 01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:29.399 is coming upon us too, so I can't wait to get back out there 1023 01:12:29.399 --> 01:12:31.039 in the yard. We've got a herb planner we're working. I got a 1024 01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:35.359 one of the Vego garden planners, you know Vego garden beds there. They 1025 01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:41.560 are really quality quality garden beds. I brag on them all the time because 1026 01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:45.159 they work, they're they're excellent. I've got one of those rollers above ground 1027 01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:48.920 that above ground beds. It's self watering and things, so that's kind of 1028 01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:54.119 cool fun to work with. Also, Uh, you know, now that 1029 01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:56.640 it's cooled off a little bit and it's worth being outside, you ought to 1030 01:12:56.680 --> 01:12:59.319 consider running out to the Antique Rosen Poor him. I don't know if you've 1031 01:12:59.319 --> 01:13:01.760 been there. It's out just north of Brenham and Independence, Texas. Their 1032 01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:06.039 website is Antique Rose Emporium dot com and as the name implies, they've got 1033 01:13:06.079 --> 01:13:11.399 antique roses, all of those great old time roses that have been saved over 1034 01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:15.319 the years and just have so many great qualities about them. That's Antique Rosemporium. 1035 01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:19.199 You can go to Antique Roseemporium dot com and you can find out more. 1036 01:13:19.399 --> 01:13:23.760 You can give m a call. Nine seven nine eight three six fifty 1037 01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:27.680 five forty eight nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight. They've 1038 01:13:27.720 --> 01:13:30.279 got their Fall Festival of Roses coming up. Go to the website find out 1039 01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:33.720 more about that. Lots of speakers on both a Saturday and a Sunday. 1040 01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:38.199 They're gonna have food trucks and snacks and it's all free. Oh my gosh, 1041 01:13:38.520 --> 01:13:42.960 that is a great deal. Antique Rose Emporium is well worth a visit. 1042 01:13:43.079 --> 01:13:45.800 And I tell you fall is a great time because roses have their rebound 1043 01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:50.279 and it's just beautiful, beautiful out there at the Rose Emporium. I'm going 1044 01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:54.279 to head out to clear Lake now and talk to Lane. Hey, Lane, 1045 01:13:54.279 --> 01:13:56.439 I got about a minute and a half or so. Let's see if 1046 01:13:56.439 --> 01:13:59.520 we can get it done. Yeah, this is a quick question, thank 1047 01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:08.359 you, because we're still on water restriction from uh fly them. How long 1048 01:14:08.359 --> 01:14:14.319 shall we water the grass to proving brown plat patch if we have a sprinkle 1049 01:14:14.439 --> 01:14:17.159 system. Okay, you want to water enough to put at least a half 1050 01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:21.039 inch in the ground, and you can use straight sided containers like a cap 1051 01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:25.239 food can, a tuna fish can. Is your little rain gage as you 1052 01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:29.720 put out there, that'll tell you how long your system lane is needs to 1053 01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:33.399 run. Now, as far as the brown patch, the thing that makes 1054 01:14:33.399 --> 01:14:38.319 it worse is when you water too often. So even right now with the 1055 01:14:38.359 --> 01:14:41.800 temperatures, once a week, a good, good soaking is all you're going 1056 01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:44.720 to need to do. Don't wet it frequently or you'll make the brown patch 1057 01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:47.680 worse. Okay, great, thank you you bad, Thank you for the 1058 01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:51.159 call. Good luck with your line out there in the clear Lake area. 1059 01:14:51.239 --> 01:14:56.920 Appreciate your call. You are listening to Garden Line and we are here to 1060 01:14:56.960 --> 01:15:00.720 answer your gardening questions. We don't have enough time for an another call right 1061 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:02.920 now, but Kathleen out there in Missouri City, you will be the first 1062 01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:09.079 up when we come back. I want to remind you that on next Saturday, 1063 01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:13.079 I will be at the arbor Gate in Tomball, Texas from eleven thirty 1064 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.000 to one thirty. Be there for two hours at a table answering your gardening 1065 01:15:16.079 --> 01:15:20.760 questions. Bring me some samples of problems you're having, plants you want identified. 1066 01:15:21.479 --> 01:15:25.359 It's great if you can take pictures and check them, make sure they're 1067 01:15:25.399 --> 01:15:30.439 in good sharp focus. I can't diagnose or identify fuzzy, but I will 1068 01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:33.479 be out there. We're going to be giving away the one two three completely 1069 01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:40.239 Easy system several times during that appearance, and Beverly storing in a few extra 1070 01:15:40.359 --> 01:15:44.279 surprises. Is giveaways out there. It's always fun to visit the arbor Gate, 1071 01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:46.760 and so I hope that you'll put next Saturday, the twenty third on 1072 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:50.159 your calendar and come out and see me. I look forward to seeing you, 1073 01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:51.880 and by the way, I look forward to going out there. It's 1074 01:15:51.920 --> 01:15:55.119 been several weeks it's have been out to the arbor. I need to get 1075 01:15:55.159 --> 01:15:59.920 back out there and check out what's new, because there's always something new. 1076 01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:03.520 I mean that that is the fun thing about going to visit. We appreciate 1077 01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:08.079 you being a garden Line listener. We are looking forward to coming back here. 1078 01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:12.560 For our next hour and visiting with Kathleen and whoever else would like to 1079 01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:17.640 give Josh a call at seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1080 01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:30.000 We'll be right back. Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 1081 01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:35.439 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to k t r 1082 01:16:35.560 --> 01:16:54.199 H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's a small crazy just watching as so 1083 01:16:54.399 --> 01:17:03.880 many crazy. Well, good morning, good morning on a beautiful Sunday morning. 1084 01:17:03.960 --> 01:17:09.079 Sun is shining out there, and it is going to be a gorgeous 1085 01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:12.399 day. And I don't know if you feel like I do, but like 1086 01:17:12.439 --> 01:17:15.560 I said the other day, when we drop five degrees below one hundred, 1087 01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:19.920 I'm calling it as fall. I already feel like it's fall here. And 1088 01:17:20.279 --> 01:17:25.119 that's okay because fall is coming. We're on the doorstep of fall, and 1089 01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:28.399 it's good to get excited to renew our hope in gardening. That's one of 1090 01:17:28.439 --> 01:17:32.439 the things about gardening is every year's a new year, every season's a new 1091 01:17:32.520 --> 01:17:38.199 season. We go through things. I mean, it's the vicissitudes of nature. 1092 01:17:38.279 --> 01:17:41.600 As I referred to earlier. It's okay, we'll make it through it, 1093 01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:44.439 and we know how to get through it and right now is it time 1094 01:17:44.520 --> 01:17:47.520 to get back in full swing, get excited about things again. There's things 1095 01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:50.560 to plant, there's things to do, there's preparing your soil, doing a 1096 01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:55.840 lot of good stuff, very very important. And when you're talking about preparing 1097 01:17:55.880 --> 01:18:00.760 your soil, Heirloom Soils has been making a quality product and making sure that 1098 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:03.479 wherever you are in Houston you can get a hold of it. And I'm 1099 01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:08.880 talking about their veggiean herb mix for example, new batch of that going out 1100 01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:12.880 to retailers and the probably already out there, but it definitely, if not 1101 01:18:13.000 --> 01:18:15.760 in these next few days, they're gonna have a whole new batch out so 1102 01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:18.880 you can go load up because that veggiean herb mix can be used in a 1103 01:18:18.920 --> 01:18:23.239 lot of different things, not just veggies and herbs, but it's especially good 1104 01:18:23.279 --> 01:18:26.920 for that. They've got in bulk, their rose soil, their leafmol composts. 1105 01:18:26.960 --> 01:18:30.319 They're veggiean herb mix. Also, you can go pick it up out 1106 01:18:30.359 --> 01:18:32.199 at porter. You can have them deliver it and dump it in your driveway. 1107 01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:38.159 You can go have them bring a supersac one cubic yard super psych set 1108 01:18:38.199 --> 01:18:42.560 it in your driveway. They're open Monday through Saturday, from seven am to 1109 01:18:42.600 --> 01:18:45.600 five pm out at the Porter location. Just go check out Heirloom Soils see 1110 01:18:45.640 --> 01:18:51.520 the wide variety. Go to Heirloom Soils of Texas dot com. We're gonna 1111 01:18:51.520 --> 01:18:56.560 go out now to a Missouri city and talk to Bob. Hello, Bob 1112 01:18:57.239 --> 01:19:00.119 good Loring. Sure, how are you? I'm doing well? Well? 1113 01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:03.119 How are you doing well? I'm doing okay. But my magnolia tree looks 1114 01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:08.199 like the leaves turn around and it's a dead or what. I'm worried about 1115 01:19:08.199 --> 01:19:13.199 that being dead. Magnolias generally don't turn brown and then green back up again. 1116 01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:15.720 I'm not saying it couldn't happen. I'm just saying that you've got a 1117 01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:19.359 tree that was using water and ran out of water on the roots to the 1118 01:19:19.399 --> 01:19:24.760 point where it had to drop every leaf on the tree and or turn it 1119 01:19:24.760 --> 01:19:29.079 brown, and so the chances of it coming back are slim. I wouldn't 1120 01:19:29.159 --> 01:19:31.800 give up on it just yet. Let's give it a little time to make 1121 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:35.079 sure I'm not wrong about that. Go ahead and water it. Oh yeah, 1122 01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:39.159 yeah, good, deep, soaking good deep, soirker. I'd apply 1123 01:19:39.640 --> 01:19:44.279 stick a sprinkle under there and something to catch sketch the sprinkle that has straight 1124 01:19:44.279 --> 01:19:46.039 sides, could be a rain gage, could be a tuna fish can. 1125 01:19:46.840 --> 01:19:49.840 But but water until you've caught an inch. You're probably got have to water 1126 01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:53.439 a while, let it soak for about forty minutes, water a while, 1127 01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:57.000 let it soak for about forty minutes, or really better yet, just get 1128 01:19:57.039 --> 01:20:00.079 you hear me talk about tree huggers all the time, and it's for exactly 1129 01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:03.439 this reason. You put a tree hugger around that sprinkler, hook it to 1130 01:20:03.439 --> 01:20:05.880 your hose, and you can turn it up a little, or you can 1131 01:20:05.880 --> 01:20:09.520 turn it up a lot. If this is a little magnolia, you can 1132 01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:12.079 water a four foot circle. If it's a big one, you can water 1133 01:20:12.199 --> 01:20:16.279 a probably a twenty five or more, actually more thirty foot circle with a 1134 01:20:16.279 --> 01:20:21.199 good tree hugger sprinkler. And that way you water all underneath the branch spread 1135 01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:25.920 of that tree, or even just a little beyond that, and that is 1136 01:20:25.960 --> 01:20:30.720 where you need to concentrate that water. Okay, thank you very much, 1137 01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:32.119 ki zore your show. Yes, sir, and thank you for the call. 1138 01:20:32.239 --> 01:20:34.560 Good luck with that tree. I hope, I hope I'm wrong about 1139 01:20:34.560 --> 01:20:39.079 it. Yeah, the tree hugger sprinkler. You can go to treehucker Sprinkler 1140 01:20:39.119 --> 01:20:41.520 dot com. You can find a retailer, do you. But I can 1141 01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:44.920 tell you this, every time I go into our our sponsors, our hardware 1142 01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:47.039 stores, or feed stores, our gardens, and I see treehars all the 1143 01:20:47.079 --> 01:20:49.840 time, all over the place. So they're not hard to hard to find, 1144 01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:57.079 not hard at all. You just need to make sure your trees are 1145 01:20:57.119 --> 01:21:00.640 getting a good, good deep soaking. Well, let's go out now to 1146 01:21:00.720 --> 01:21:05.439 Missouri City and we're gonna talk to Kathleen. Hello, Kathleen, good morning. 1147 01:21:05.479 --> 01:21:09.720 How are you. I'm well, how are you doing today? I'm 1148 01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:13.600 doing great. Temperatures are down, so it's a lot nice are to walk 1149 01:21:13.640 --> 01:21:17.680 in the morning, isn't that nice? Yes? I have a question about 1150 01:21:17.800 --> 01:21:23.640 organic and synthetic products. Is it okay to mix the two? Is it 1151 01:21:23.680 --> 01:21:28.399 harmful or should you just go straight organic or straight synthetic. Well, that's 1152 01:21:28.479 --> 01:21:30.239 up to you, you know, if you want to go one or the 1153 01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:33.920 other. It depends on what products you're mixing. So, if it was 1154 01:21:34.119 --> 01:21:38.560 a fertilizer, you used the synthetic, Now use an organic or something. 1155 01:21:38.640 --> 01:21:42.079 That's fine. I wouldn't put them in the same hopper of the fertilizers, 1156 01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:45.520 for example, because the particle size is different, and your fertilizer spreader setting 1157 01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:48.000 is going to be different. Now, on the other hand, if you're 1158 01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:53.439 talking about using a fungicide and then using a bioinoculant, I wouldn't put that 1159 01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:59.000 together because the fungicide. Talking more about using maybe an organic fertilizer and then 1160 01:21:59.199 --> 01:22:03.279 synthetics for weed killers, and there's not a problem with doing both of those. 1161 01:22:03.359 --> 01:22:08.560 It will not affect the effectiveness of weed killing nor the effectiveness of the 1162 01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:13.560 fertilizer going out. Okay, And then I have another question. I'm having 1163 01:22:13.600 --> 01:22:18.359 someone put some composts in my beds about half inch or so it should I 1164 01:22:18.399 --> 01:22:23.199 mix it with the soil and then put malt on top. And how thick 1165 01:22:23.279 --> 01:22:29.039 should the malt be? What's growing in these beds? It's mostly just shrubs? 1166 01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:34.840 Okay, Yeah, so sunshine like gust rum. Yeah, shrubs. 1167 01:22:34.920 --> 01:22:40.199 That's that's all I need to know. So I would just throw it in 1168 01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:43.439 there, and then even if you want to throw a little malt over the 1169 01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:45.920 top of it, yes, that's a good idea. I mean, if 1170 01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:47.479 you want to scratch it in a little the surface, that's fine, but 1171 01:22:47.560 --> 01:22:51.800 it's not necessary. Think about nature. Nature drops leaves on the ground in 1172 01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:57.439 the forest, and those leaves start to rot where they touch the soil, 1173 01:22:57.520 --> 01:23:00.560 and then their more leaves fall on top, and more leaves all on top. 1174 01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:02.960 So you have this transition of the dry leaves up on top, which 1175 01:23:02.960 --> 01:23:06.479 would be in your case adding a mulch or wood chips or whatever you got 1176 01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:11.439 shredded hardwood would be a good one. Uh. And then you've got the 1177 01:23:11.479 --> 01:23:14.840 composting material, and then you got your soil, and that that's a very 1178 01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:21.239 natural forest. I generally keep mine, depending on the mult material, I 1179 01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:27.800 keep mine about three inches to four inches thick if it's something loose and open, 1180 01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:34.000 maybe a little thicker if it's something that's condensed particle size. Yeah, 1181 01:23:34.079 --> 01:23:39.000 some people use compost as mult which is fine, but that's really dense, 1182 01:23:39.159 --> 01:23:42.319 and it does you don't need three inches a compost to be a malt, 1183 01:23:42.520 --> 01:23:45.920 right, it's denser, So just the courser your mulch. Maybe the thicker, 1184 01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:49.560 but in the three inch to four inch range is pretty good. And 1185 01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:54.520 don't ever take the old mulch away, just to add fresh mulch on top 1186 01:23:54.600 --> 01:23:58.520 as needed, because you're recreating the forest floor and that's what trees and shrubs 1187 01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:01.640 were made to grow in all right, all right, well, thank you, 1188 01:24:01.760 --> 01:24:05.159 Kathleen. I appreciate that very much. You know, it's interesting. 1189 01:24:05.159 --> 01:24:10.560 I had a call one time from someone that said, hey, can I 1190 01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:15.359 mulch with oak leaves? And I thought about it. I thought, well, 1191 01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:18.720 I'm pretty sure God mulches with oak leave down the forest. I mean, 1192 01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:24.199 how long is how long has our natural system been going? And tree 1193 01:24:24.279 --> 01:24:27.479 leaves are falling on the ground and rotting and feeding the plants the same thing 1194 01:24:27.520 --> 01:24:30.840 in a meadow. Grassroots they live and they die and they build the soil 1195 01:24:30.880 --> 01:24:33.439 and grass leaves fall down. It's really easy to do. Hey, we're 1196 01:24:33.439 --> 01:24:35.319 gonna come back. I'm gonna talk about that a little bit more in a 1197 01:24:35.359 --> 01:24:40.319 minute, but right now seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 1198 01:24:40.479 --> 01:24:44.159 we'll be right back there you go. Have you heard from Elvis in 1199 01:24:44.199 --> 01:24:47.399 a while? Boy? That guy turned around music? That is for sure. 1200 01:24:47.640 --> 01:24:50.920 Hey, you're listening to garden Line. We are here to answer gardening 1201 01:24:51.000 --> 01:24:55.359 questions. So here is the number if you'd like to call. Seven one 1202 01:24:55.479 --> 01:25:00.199 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one to fifty 1203 01:25:00.239 --> 01:25:06.279 eight seventy four. You know that with this new hope that we have springing 1204 01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:12.800 eternal from the gardener's chests. We are absolutely just ready to go for fall 1205 01:25:12.880 --> 01:25:16.399 and it is time. It is time to get going. RCW Nurseries is 1206 01:25:17.039 --> 01:25:20.840 that I like to call them. They get it got at nursery they probably 1207 01:25:20.880 --> 01:25:23.840 have it, but if they don't have it, they'll get it for you. 1208 01:25:23.920 --> 01:25:29.239 They specialize in that fall is the time for woody ornamentals for sure, 1209 01:25:29.520 --> 01:25:33.079 and they have their own tree farm. I mean they grow everything from fifteen 1210 01:25:33.119 --> 01:25:38.119 gallons up to two hundred gallons, all kinds of trees. They pick species 1211 01:25:38.159 --> 01:25:42.239 that will succeed here and that's what they sell you. They grow them right 1212 01:25:42.399 --> 01:25:44.720 and they provide them for you there. I mean, I'm come out and 1213 01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:46.199 plant them for it, but you can also just take them planting yourself. 1214 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:49.640 If they're small. I wouldn't attempt that for very large and only if you 1215 01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:55.199 know what you're doing, because planting a tree properly is critical for success. 1216 01:25:55.239 --> 01:25:57.960 And I don't have time to go into how to plant a tree right now, 1217 01:25:58.359 --> 01:26:00.039 but just know that when you are them to do it, it's going 1218 01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:04.960 to get done right too. They've got a rose selection like you've never seen, 1219 01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:10.680 pages and pages of all kinds of hybrid teas and other roses that just 1220 01:26:11.079 --> 01:26:15.000 outstanding, outstanding selection. They're going to carry all the fertilizers I'll talk about 1221 01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:19.239 as well. Where are they there on Tomball Parkway Highway two forty nine where 1222 01:26:19.279 --> 01:26:24.960 it hits Beltway eight. You can go to RCW Nurseries dot com. RCW 1223 01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:28.720 nurseries dot com and find out more. But it's time to get out there. 1224 01:26:28.760 --> 01:26:32.640 They're getting their supplies in for fall. The just outstanding outstanding selection, 1225 01:26:33.680 --> 01:26:38.479 you know. The I was talking about tree leaves and things like that, 1226 01:26:38.560 --> 01:26:41.840 and I want to come back to that in just a moment. But before 1227 01:26:41.880 --> 01:26:44.479 I do that, I want to go out here and we're going to talk 1228 01:26:44.560 --> 01:26:49.800 to Maryland and Hockley. Hello Maryland. Oh hi, it's Marianne and I 1229 01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:54.079 have a question. Oh no, no, it's fine. I have a 1230 01:26:54.159 --> 01:26:59.560 question about malagranite. I wanted to find out. I had a friend who 1231 01:26:59.640 --> 01:27:04.680 told me it's really good for nourishment for your shrubs and your lawn, and 1232 01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:10.359 I wanted to find out is it safe to use after the drought right now, 1233 01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:15.920 and will it indeed feed it instead of maybe using a synthetic fertilizer or 1234 01:27:15.720 --> 01:27:19.359 some other type of fertilizer. One of your thoughts on that mill organize is 1235 01:27:19.359 --> 01:27:23.439 one of the products out there that's made out of sewage sludge. This one 1236 01:27:23.520 --> 01:27:27.520 is made comes from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That's where the mill and the name 1237 01:27:27.560 --> 01:27:30.359 comes from. I don't recommend them. I don't recommend a sewage sledge based 1238 01:27:30.359 --> 01:27:33.720 product. I just I just would rather not go there. If you want 1239 01:27:33.760 --> 01:27:38.600 an organic product, we are a lot of great organic fertilizers are good options. 1240 01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:42.840 If you want a synthetic, they're synthetics. But I'm not a fan. 1241 01:27:43.119 --> 01:27:45.840 Now. I know people are that used one golf courses a lot in 1242 01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:49.279 things, but I don't know, just my own personal preferences, I'd rather 1243 01:27:49.359 --> 01:27:53.920 stay away from the sewage sewage sludge products. By the way, I think 1244 01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:57.399 they misnamed it. They should have called it Yankee doodle, because that's really 1245 01:27:57.439 --> 01:28:01.399 what it is. Okay about that, I know, I appreciate it. 1246 01:28:01.479 --> 01:28:04.760 Thank you, you bet, you bet? All right, okay, all 1247 01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:10.439 right, you take care, take care for sure. It is all about 1248 01:28:10.439 --> 01:28:13.119 the soil. You know, we talk about fertilizing and things, and the 1249 01:28:13.159 --> 01:28:15.520 soil is critical. And if you're down south of Houston, you have got 1250 01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:21.159 an outstanding soil yard out there, CNA Mulch. It's just north of Rochcheron. 1251 01:28:21.239 --> 01:28:26.319 It's on five twenty one near Highway six and two eighty eight. The 1252 01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:29.800 folks at Sienna Mulch they carry it. All they have. If I'm talking 1253 01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:33.560 about fertilizers, it's all there. They have outstanding selection. If you want 1254 01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:39.359 bagged material like compost or malts, they've got it. If you want bulk 1255 01:28:39.640 --> 01:28:43.520 material like compost or mult you've got it. They've got rock. They have 1256 01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:47.319 all kinds of quality things, first rate. So anyone in Siena Plantation, 1257 01:28:47.439 --> 01:28:53.680 Quell Valley, Rocheron like Olympia, sun Creek Estates and out toward you know, 1258 01:28:53.760 --> 01:28:56.800 Brazispin State Park. They're your place. They're your place to go. 1259 01:28:56.880 --> 01:29:01.880 They deliver within twenty miles for small charge. SNA Mulch dot com CNA mulch 1260 01:29:02.159 --> 01:29:04.520 dot com. You go check them out. I'm gonna be out there with 1261 01:29:04.560 --> 01:29:09.640 this fall by the way coming up. Well, let's head out now to 1262 01:29:10.000 --> 01:29:14.199 Fairfield and we're gonna talk to Marty. Hello, Marty, Hi, Skip 1263 01:29:14.359 --> 01:29:17.560 Yankee Doodle is not Vanity, No, that's a I just thought that was 1264 01:29:17.600 --> 01:29:20.119 a funny thing. I told a guy from a largery that one time they 1265 01:29:20.119 --> 01:29:24.840 ought to get out of those orange and brown or green bags and make it 1266 01:29:24.880 --> 01:29:27.880 in red, white and blue bags and call it Yankee dood. He did 1267 01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:30.119 not think that was funny, but I did. Oh goodness, Well, 1268 01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:33.800 gotta have a sense of humor sometimes, yes, we do. Hey, 1269 01:29:34.039 --> 01:29:40.520 I had some BOOKUNBILLI as they're blooming, and they're okay, but a couple 1270 01:29:40.520 --> 01:29:45.359 of them have faded, the bracts have faded, and I was just wondering, 1271 01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:47.880 is there anything I can do to perk it up. I've given it 1272 01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:54.279 Fox Farm fertilizer. I've given it, oh gosh, throughout the drought. 1273 01:29:54.560 --> 01:29:59.119 I guess because it was water too much or too much sun. But I 1274 01:29:59.199 --> 01:30:02.560 just wondered if you knew of anything or had had that no perience, you 1275 01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:08.199 know, periodic fertilizing, adequate watering. You know they're not real picky on 1276 01:30:08.239 --> 01:30:11.760 water, but keeping them adequately watered if you want vigor and new growth, 1277 01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:14.800 which is what you need to have new blooms, is good. You know, 1278 01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:16.840 we're getting towards the end of our season here, and so I don't 1279 01:30:16.840 --> 01:30:21.119 know that I would push a bogun v with any more fertilizer as you push 1280 01:30:21.319 --> 01:30:26.640 late season growth, things that are marginally hardy become even less hardy. So 1281 01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:29.000 I don't know if you're able to bring it in or not. But uh, 1282 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:32.760 anything that's kind of marginal, I say, always, you know, 1283 01:30:33.079 --> 01:30:38.119 sometime in August, for sure, you need to stop fertilizing them. Well, 1284 01:30:38.199 --> 01:30:42.159 okay, that's that's fine. What about I mean, it's full of 1285 01:30:42.239 --> 01:30:45.840 brack, so I'm watering fine, Okay, the brack, the brack are 1286 01:30:46.239 --> 01:30:53.520 faded, they're it was the one that I had was kind of just a 1287 01:30:53.560 --> 01:30:57.640 regular pink one. I have some variegated ones that have got it. They're 1288 01:30:57.640 --> 01:31:01.319 more rosy, pink red, okay, but this one was a pink one. 1289 01:31:01.520 --> 01:31:03.880 I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Did you happen to move? 1290 01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:08.079 It is a sun exposure different than it was, but I don't know that. 1291 01:31:08.279 --> 01:31:11.880 Yeah, I would just let's let's keep going and see. Who knows. 1292 01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:14.720 Maybe it got a little on the dry side or I don't know, 1293 01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:18.479 just that fading a little bit. I don't know that there's something you can 1294 01:31:18.520 --> 01:31:21.479 do other than good care, which sounds like what you've been providing. It. 1295 01:31:23.319 --> 01:31:25.960 Okay, not a problem. The novelist, Wait, thank you so 1296 01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:28.760 much. Have a good one. All right, Marty, thank you very 1297 01:31:29.319 --> 01:31:31.960 much. You know, this hot weather and drought has got people thinking, 1298 01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:36.079 you know what, maybe I need to consider native plants because native plants live 1299 01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:41.159 here, they're from here, they know how to grow here. And Buchanan's 1300 01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:45.600 Native Plants in the Heights is a great place to do just that. Buchanans 1301 01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:49.119 outstanding selection any plants, by the way. They're on Eleventh Street, they're 1302 01:31:49.119 --> 01:31:53.279 in the Heights. They carry all kinds of things, not just natives. 1303 01:31:53.279 --> 01:31:57.039 I mean Buchanans as pretty much ever kind of plant you can imagine, even 1304 01:31:57.079 --> 01:32:00.600 a wonderful house plants selection too, by the way, so you know that's 1305 01:32:00.600 --> 01:32:01.680 what we do in the wintertime. We go inside and take it to our 1306 01:32:01.720 --> 01:32:05.079 house plants a lot, go buy and check them out. By the way, 1307 01:32:05.199 --> 01:32:11.520 if you're interested in natives. On September thirtieth, from nine to twelve 1308 01:32:11.920 --> 01:32:15.079 in the morning, nine to twelve, they're going to have the Native Plants 1309 01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:17.520 Society out there for a meet and greet. Those people chat with you, 1310 01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:21.560 visit with you, talk to you about native plants, and learn a lot 1311 01:32:21.600 --> 01:32:24.920 more. While you're out there. You can pick up other things too. 1312 01:32:24.960 --> 01:32:28.399 Some color plants. They got a lot of cool season color out of Buchanans. 1313 01:32:28.439 --> 01:32:30.479 Good time to visit, and you know we got that gardening fever back. 1314 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:34.520 Now, time to head out and check out Buchana's native plants. You'll 1315 01:32:34.520 --> 01:32:36.960 see what I'm talking about. If you haven't never been there before, you 1316 01:32:38.039 --> 01:32:41.119 gotta go. You gotta check it out. I love, always love when 1317 01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:45.840 I visit there. We're gonna head out now to Dave and Cypress. Hello, 1318 01:32:45.960 --> 01:32:49.239 Dave, Skip, how you doing. I'm good, Thank you. 1319 01:32:50.039 --> 01:32:55.000 This is a This is a good segue native plants to my question about high 1320 01:32:55.039 --> 01:32:59.479 dranges. Okay, yeah, they're they're natives somewhere. Well, they're natives 1321 01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:02.000 somewhere, and it looks like I think they call them lime light as the 1322 01:33:02.079 --> 01:33:09.359 most best opportunity to try to grow down here. But I want to see 1323 01:33:09.399 --> 01:33:13.479 if I can't be successful with the ones that give you the pink and the 1324 01:33:13.520 --> 01:33:16.479 blue and the deep maroons. Okay, I just don't know if the heat 1325 01:33:16.520 --> 01:33:20.680 down here is too oppressive for hydrange is to make it to the summer, 1326 01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:26.920 and if it is possible to grow them, should I leave them in containers 1327 01:33:26.960 --> 01:33:29.399 so I can move them around or can I put them in the ground. 1328 01:33:29.680 --> 01:33:32.920 That's the question. Alrighty, hydrangees will grow in the ground here. Give 1329 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:36.760 them a forest floor soil, which means lots of organic matter and good mulch. 1330 01:33:38.159 --> 01:33:44.000 Give them bright light, but not direct sun, especially after the first 1331 01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:48.159 part of the day. Don't give them afternoon blazing sun. Keep them moist, 1332 01:33:48.319 --> 01:33:51.520 keep the soil a little bit. On the acidic side. The color 1333 01:33:51.680 --> 01:33:56.039 between pink and blue is with the acidity of a soil, and you can 1334 01:33:56.079 --> 01:33:59.119 go on line and learn more about that. But as you move things towards 1335 01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:00.960 alkaline, or as you move them toward a sidic, the color is going 1336 01:34:01.000 --> 01:34:04.199 to change from the blue and the pink or yeah, blue to pink and 1337 01:34:04.279 --> 01:34:08.680 back and forth like that. So depending on the color you want, you 1338 01:34:08.680 --> 01:34:12.319 can move the pH a little bit and that's how you achieve that. But 1339 01:34:12.439 --> 01:34:15.600 you've got to keep them moist. They are not a drought resilient plant at 1340 01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:20.880 all. Okay. I would put them in the ground, Dave, because 1341 01:34:20.920 --> 01:34:24.520 I tell you, in a container. I don't know if you're like me, 1342 01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:27.439 but I forget the water for a day or two and hydrans will get 1343 01:34:27.479 --> 01:34:30.199 in a big amount of trouble on hot, hot weather in that kind of 1344 01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:35.000 situation. Okay, Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that. 1345 01:34:35.039 --> 01:34:40.159 Thank you, sir. Appreciate the call very much. About the tours that 1346 01:34:40.199 --> 01:34:46.199 they have out there at the Texas b Supply out in the really the b 1347 01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:49.520 Supply. Think of it this way. If you're a beekeeper, it's a 1348 01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:53.239 place to go because you get all the supplies in the training you need. 1349 01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:56.960 If you are just a person who is interested in bees, they're the place 1350 01:34:57.000 --> 01:35:00.319 to go because you get a really cool tour. You head out to Dayton. 1351 01:35:00.399 --> 01:35:03.359 I know it's a little distance out there, but it is well worth 1352 01:35:03.359 --> 01:35:08.640 the trip. They just got their new indoor beehive set up and it is 1353 01:35:09.079 --> 01:35:12.680 unbelievable. Trust me, just I'm not going to try to describe it, 1354 01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:16.279 but just know this. It's a big plexiglass area that you can watch bees 1355 01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:21.159 working in fascinating. The tours are offered out there about once a month. 1356 01:35:21.199 --> 01:35:25.720 They're free. You'll get to taste kinds of honey. It's good for a 1357 01:35:25.760 --> 01:35:30.199 group, it's good for individuals to go out the Bee Supply dot com. 1358 01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:33.039 It's really simple, not not hard to remember. And you may think, 1359 01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:38.199 well, I'm not into honeybees. I promise you if you go, you 1360 01:35:38.239 --> 01:35:42.800 will come back going. I had no earthly idea how cool honey bees are, 1361 01:35:43.279 --> 01:35:47.000 what they do, the interactions of the colony. It is just a 1362 01:35:47.119 --> 01:35:51.239 fascinating thing. If you got kiddos, if you've got a garden club group, 1363 01:35:51.800 --> 01:35:56.479 if you're a homeschooler and want to add it to your science that you're 1364 01:35:56.520 --> 01:36:01.199 teaching your kids, it is really really well aren't that Have you ever been 1365 01:36:01.239 --> 01:36:05.119 around bees? I'm not, Oh, well, it's it is fascinating. 1366 01:36:05.239 --> 01:36:09.399 I know some people are like definitely afraid of honey When you go on the 1367 01:36:09.399 --> 01:36:12.520 tour, you're not gonna get honey bees all over your name. It is 1368 01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:15.439 really really cool. The thing that one of the simple things I was fascinated 1369 01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:19.279 about honeybees is they do everything in the dark in the hive. And when 1370 01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:24.119 you look at honeycomb, every cell is the same size, it's all six 1371 01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:27.880 sided, and it's all in a straight row there. I couldn't do that 1372 01:36:27.920 --> 01:36:31.199 in the daylight. That's less the dark, but honeybees can't. What's happening 1373 01:36:31.239 --> 01:36:35.920 in the news, Well, you're listening to garden Line and we are here 1374 01:36:35.960 --> 01:36:41.479 to answer gardening questions, which which is what we are about to do. 1375 01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:45.840 I love to getting to visit with gardeners and talk about all kinds of things 1376 01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:47.880 gardening, and it just says I think it's the best hobby in the world. 1377 01:36:48.039 --> 01:36:53.079 I hope you agree with that. You could be into just succulents, 1378 01:36:53.199 --> 01:36:56.760 or just houseplants, or just orchids, or just vegetables, or just having 1379 01:36:56.800 --> 01:37:00.640 a beautiful lawn and landscape. There's a lot of room and the whole world 1380 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:03.760 of horticulture to have a whole lot of fun and to enjoy the things that 1381 01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:08.720 I think make our health better in number of ways, mental health, physical 1382 01:37:08.760 --> 01:37:11.920 health, and so on. It's just a great, great hobby to be 1383 01:37:12.000 --> 01:37:15.600 into. We are going to head out now to Spring and doctor Rich. 1384 01:37:15.880 --> 01:37:24.479 Hello Rich, good morning, skip morning. Question regarding plant growth regulators and 1385 01:37:24.560 --> 01:37:30.920 the use on Saint Augustine, because I've done a lot, i'll say a 1386 01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:36.039 lot of research and it seems like there's a lot more benefits than cons and 1387 01:37:36.199 --> 01:37:40.960 I don't know anybody that's ever used it, so looking for your input. 1388 01:37:41.199 --> 01:37:48.600 Yeah. PGRs are something that's very popular in commercial horticulture, people growing plants, 1389 01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:55.439 for example, and for various reasons. I have seen them used in 1390 01:37:55.520 --> 01:37:58.640 lawns. At number one, they're hard to come by for the home garden 1391 01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:01.479 retail market. I mean, you can find them, but that's not a 1392 01:38:01.560 --> 01:38:06.159 normal thing. The things with plant growth regulators is when they're not used properly, 1393 01:38:06.199 --> 01:38:11.520 you can cause a lot of damage to a plant overdosing, using them 1394 01:38:11.600 --> 01:38:15.920 during stress conditions and other things. So in general I don't recommend them for 1395 01:38:16.159 --> 01:38:23.399 people with home lawns. That's not to say that if someone was using them 1396 01:38:23.439 --> 01:38:29.920 a quarter according to professional specifications that they couldn't have a place, But as 1397 01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:32.399 far as the economics of it and the benefits of it, I just don't 1398 01:38:32.520 --> 01:38:39.359 quite see it. Got it. Appreciate your input. SKIP, Thank you 1399 01:38:39.439 --> 01:38:42.000 all right, Rich, good, thank you. I appreciate that call. 1400 01:38:42.279 --> 01:38:45.680 Yeah, that's an interesting call. I have not had a person call about 1401 01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:48.199 PGRs on lawns before. That's interesting. Well for those of you who are 1402 01:38:48.239 --> 01:38:54.560 wondering what that is. For example, when you go buy a plant from 1403 01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:58.439 a garden center and it's all compact and it's full of flowers and things, 1404 01:38:59.399 --> 01:39:02.680 that plant might normally be real lanky. It's still the same quality plant, 1405 01:39:02.840 --> 01:39:06.079 but it might at the at the shelf in the garden center not look so 1406 01:39:06.119 --> 01:39:12.279 attractive. So certain plants they will use plant growth regulators on to just keep 1407 01:39:12.319 --> 01:39:16.239 them from getting all stretchy, for example, or to cause a better bloom 1408 01:39:16.439 --> 01:39:20.039 a cycle or something along those lines. And that's how they're used in the 1409 01:39:20.079 --> 01:39:28.039 industry. Some of our some great plants don't make it because they're ugly in 1410 01:39:28.079 --> 01:39:30.840 a pot in a garden center. And that's just the bottom line. And 1411 01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:38.079 when you walk in, you know, the typical let's say home garden purchaser 1412 01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:42.560 walks in and they want a little plant that's in a little tiny pot and 1413 01:39:42.560 --> 01:39:45.119 it's got a flower as big as a biscus on top. You know right 1414 01:39:45.159 --> 01:39:50.159 away, and that is that is not the best way to purchase a plant. 1415 01:39:50.520 --> 01:39:55.319 But if that same plant just had leaves and it had a picture of 1416 01:39:55.399 --> 01:39:58.800 the flower, you'd be a little less likely to buy it. You should 1417 01:39:58.800 --> 01:40:00.960 buy it if it's a good plant in a good pretty plant does well here. 1418 01:40:01.479 --> 01:40:04.720 But people just don't chop that way. And it's unfortunate because we do 1419 01:40:04.760 --> 01:40:09.600 have some good plants. They just don't look good at that level, and 1420 01:40:09.680 --> 01:40:14.720 people can't believe that. Okay, that's going to be anybody that does their 1421 01:40:14.760 --> 01:40:17.000 research on plants and knows about plants, or you go to a good garden 1422 01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:21.159 center where they steer you right. They'll tell you, yes, here's what 1423 01:40:21.199 --> 01:40:24.880 this will do, and here's what you know all that. They'll tell you 1424 01:40:24.920 --> 01:40:27.159 that, and you can believe them and take it to the bank and it'll 1425 01:40:27.159 --> 01:40:30.279 work. But for a lot of folks, you know, you got to 1426 01:40:30.319 --> 01:40:32.359 have the big, shiny, flashy no bugs, no holes, no nothing 1427 01:40:32.479 --> 01:40:36.760 on it. And that comes at a cost, you know. It's it's 1428 01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:42.680 important when you're growing anything in your yard to do it in a way that 1429 01:40:43.399 --> 01:40:48.239 produces health and your plants. And the number one way we create healthy plants 1430 01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:55.840 is by starting with quality soil. I was out at the Home and Garden 1431 01:40:55.880 --> 01:41:00.760 show up there in Conro yesterday and visiting with Ian from Nature's Way, John 1432 01:41:00.760 --> 01:41:04.800 Ferguson and End from Nature's Way about their products and stuff. By the way, 1433 01:41:04.840 --> 01:41:09.640 I'm going to be out at Nature's Way on September thirtieth. They're going 1434 01:41:09.720 --> 01:41:13.520 to have their Fall Garden Festival, quite Ation indeg going on up there. 1435 01:41:13.800 --> 01:41:16.000 I'll be there answering gardening questions. Are going to have food and music and 1436 01:41:16.079 --> 01:41:20.479 vendors and adult beverages and a kids scavenger hunt, lots and lots of stuff. 1437 01:41:20.520 --> 01:41:25.039 So anyway, that's September thirty. I'll talk about it more. But 1438 01:41:25.119 --> 01:41:30.640 they make quality soil and they have a good supply of a quality fungal compost 1439 01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:35.079 and that is top not soil, and I would go out there and buy 1440 01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:38.840 a bulk. I'll go out and have them deliver it. You can get 1441 01:41:38.840 --> 01:41:43.319 it in bags. But fungal compost is a super quality product. They make 1442 01:41:43.359 --> 01:41:45.119 a lot of stuff at Nature's way. It's all done, it's all done 1443 01:41:45.520 --> 01:41:48.880 properly, so the product is quality coming out. They don't rush it out 1444 01:41:48.920 --> 01:41:54.880 the door. But check out their fungal compost especially, that is really an 1445 01:41:54.880 --> 01:41:59.880 important product that does wonders for your plans. We're gonna head out two months 1446 01:42:00.119 --> 01:42:04.960 Mery now and talk to Brett. Good morning, Hey, good morning. 1447 01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:12.119 What's up? Quick question? We skipped the fertilizer in June because of the 1448 01:42:12.239 --> 01:42:15.479 rain and that yes, eat But anyway, we're getting ready to think we 1449 01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:21.560 need to start fertilizing. So should we put that high nitrogen on or should 1450 01:42:21.600 --> 01:42:26.399 we go with the high phosphorus? No, no, no, high phosphorus. 1451 01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:30.199 No, you don't need high phosphorus. You need don't put the high 1452 01:42:30.279 --> 01:42:33.079 nitrogen on. Now, get a fertilizer's got nitrogen. It can have phosphorus 1453 01:42:33.119 --> 01:42:38.119 in it, but especially the potassium. That's the one that matters. Now, 1454 01:42:38.199 --> 01:42:42.359 if you push a plant, grass plant with nitrogen, now, brown 1455 01:42:42.399 --> 01:42:45.640 patch is going to be even worse than the fall if it hits your lawn. 1456 01:42:45.279 --> 01:42:50.640 And so you don't want to create the succuments that brown patch loves. 1457 01:42:51.079 --> 01:42:55.359 Okay, that's that's perfect. That's what I needed. All right. We 1458 01:42:55.439 --> 01:42:59.880 are up there in Montgomery, Texas. So you you're lucky to have a 1459 01:43:00.359 --> 01:43:02.720 right on your back doorstep there. That's a good right. That's right, 1460 01:43:02.760 --> 01:43:06.199 all right. Will you take care. We appreciate it, yes, sir, 1461 01:43:06.800 --> 01:43:13.000 bye bye, Yeah, don't push them now. The fertilizers we talk 1462 01:43:13.039 --> 01:43:16.720 about from spring through summer are different than fall and fall. We change the 1463 01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:20.520 blend a little bit, and I keep talking about it. I'll keep talking 1464 01:43:20.520 --> 01:43:26.039 about it. It is an important fertilization and our goal is not to make 1465 01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:30.560 the grass grow fast, and our goal is to stock that plant with the 1466 01:43:30.640 --> 01:43:35.079 carbohydrates needed to go into winter, to recover from what they've been through, 1467 01:43:35.399 --> 01:43:41.720 and to come out strong in the spring. Because in the spring, what 1468 01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:45.000 it's using to take off is what it had from the fall, and if 1469 01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:46.239 you don't stock it up in the fall, you're not going to have it 1470 01:43:46.279 --> 01:43:48.840 in the plant in the spring. It's already weak. Let's not leave it 1471 01:43:48.840 --> 01:43:53.319 weak, or let's make it stronger. That's the bottom line when it comes 1472 01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:59.880 to our fertilizations. And you know, it's really it's really kind of simple 1473 01:44:00.359 --> 01:44:04.159 when you think about it. There, it's just a matter of good nutrition, 1474 01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:08.039 just like with us. Hey, let's take a break. It's seven 1475 01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:11.359 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like to give 1476 01:44:11.399 --> 01:44:14.800 us a call, we'll be right back. I think just got a sock 1477 01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:18.319 hop going on today or something here. I love that kind of music. 1478 01:44:18.359 --> 01:44:23.079 Though. Hey, you're listening to guard Line and we are talking all kinds 1479 01:44:23.079 --> 01:44:26.680 of things gardening. That is very important. I was just visiting just a 1480 01:44:26.720 --> 01:44:32.199 moment ago with Brett up in Montgomery about the proper kinds of fertilizer for fall, 1481 01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:36.520 and that is really important to get those numbers right and to put on 1482 01:44:36.560 --> 01:44:40.479 the kinds of things that help us go into fall. And micro Life has 1483 01:44:40.479 --> 01:44:44.840 put together I think it's a dynamic duo. Really. It's the brown Patch 1484 01:44:45.279 --> 01:44:48.319 five one three fertilizer which has got that dropped the nitrogen into a little bit 1485 01:44:48.359 --> 01:44:53.680 and make sure that potassium is still in a good level up there. And 1486 01:44:53.720 --> 01:44:59.119 then their micro life or excuse me, micro grow the bio innoculant that's kind 1487 01:44:59.159 --> 01:45:01.479 of the violet colored bags. You just put a little bit of it out 1488 01:45:01.479 --> 01:45:06.640 about ten pounds per thousand square feet, and what that does is it inoculates 1489 01:45:06.920 --> 01:45:14.800 your soil and your grass surface with microbes that help fight disease, but that 1490 01:45:14.920 --> 01:45:19.199 also help just to out compete diseases. The surface of anything, including our 1491 01:45:19.239 --> 01:45:24.079 hands, it's full of microbes, right, and as you get good microbes 1492 01:45:24.199 --> 01:45:27.640 in there that are populating the surface, it's more difficult for a bad microbe 1493 01:45:27.640 --> 01:45:30.720 to get started. So there's a number of ways microbes can work and help 1494 01:45:30.800 --> 01:45:34.560 us. But that combination the brown patch five one three and the bi inoculant, 1495 01:45:34.880 --> 01:45:40.319 that combination for this fall is going to be especially important for our lawns 1496 01:45:40.439 --> 01:45:44.800 coming out of one heck of a rough summer and going into a season where 1497 01:45:44.880 --> 01:45:46.840 large patch is going to be an issue. Even take all root rot, 1498 01:45:46.880 --> 01:45:50.560 it is going to be an issue infecting in that season, and that combo 1499 01:45:50.640 --> 01:45:54.439 with microlife will do it. If you want to learn more, about those. 1500 01:45:54.479 --> 01:45:57.640 Just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. They have a lot more information 1501 01:45:57.680 --> 01:46:00.520 there online. We're gonna go now to pair Land and talk to Beda. 1502 01:46:00.680 --> 01:46:04.600 Hello, Bida, Hi, Skip, love your show. Thank you. 1503 01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:10.079 I think have a question. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the pream 1504 01:46:10.199 --> 01:46:15.039 products. I mean, what do you think of them? Because I'll get 1505 01:46:15.159 --> 01:46:19.640 my flower beds and weed everything, and then you buy the granular and sprinkle 1506 01:46:19.720 --> 01:46:23.840 that on, and then you go and buy the prem mulch. Right, 1507 01:46:23.920 --> 01:46:27.399 do you think that's a waste or is there maybe something better you could use? 1508 01:46:28.760 --> 01:46:30.520 Yeah, it's not what I would do. A prene has a pre 1509 01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:34.199 emergent herbicide in it. There's a lot of versions of pren, like with 1510 01:46:34.319 --> 01:46:41.159 a lot of products that different things. But the regular PREN weed preventer is 1511 01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:45.239 going to be a pre emergent herbicide that you're sprinkling out there. Used at 1512 01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:47.960 the right rate and the right way and stuff, it will prevent some of 1513 01:46:48.000 --> 01:46:53.159 the weeds that you're dealing with. But I would say, let's talk about 1514 01:46:53.279 --> 01:46:56.640 what is going on in the flower bed and whether you need even need that 1515 01:46:56.800 --> 01:47:00.279 or not, because mulches will also prevent weed seeds. Prints not going to 1516 01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:03.199 kill a weed that's already in your in your flower beds, not gonna kill 1517 01:47:03.239 --> 01:47:08.680 bermuda grass you in your flower bed. But if it's something coming from seed, 1518 01:47:08.720 --> 01:47:10.960 that's what it's designed for. But you've got to use it right. 1519 01:47:11.000 --> 01:47:14.319 And the problem of flower bed is when we put a pre emergent down, 1520 01:47:14.399 --> 01:47:17.199 it gets into the soil surface and it locks up there and prevents the seeds 1521 01:47:17.199 --> 01:47:21.199 from coming through. The weed seeds and other seeds you want to plant, 1522 01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:26.359 like flower seeds. It'll prevent those two. But when in flower beds, 1523 01:47:26.399 --> 01:47:29.920 we're constantly mixing the soil, we're pulling out plants and planting, we're mixing 1524 01:47:29.920 --> 01:47:32.079 in composts, and you're breaking that barrier and you're not going to get anything 1525 01:47:32.079 --> 01:47:36.479 from that product. If if that's what's happening in the soil in the bed, 1526 01:47:38.760 --> 01:47:42.119 yeah, I'm just tired of slaving and pulling those weeds. Yeah, 1527 01:47:42.239 --> 01:47:45.600 I understand that. Well, Again, if your weeds are like bermuda grass 1528 01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:49.159 and things, that's one approach we talk. If it's if it's weed seeds, 1529 01:47:49.199 --> 01:47:53.720 which is what the prene would have done for you, then just keep 1530 01:47:53.720 --> 01:47:58.600 a kip a two three inch laru mulch on in your flower beds and block 1531 01:47:58.680 --> 01:48:01.840 the sunlight from the soil. Then what kind of mults do you recommend. 1532 01:48:01.840 --> 01:48:05.000 They've heard you say it before, I forgot where. Well, you're saying 1533 01:48:05.000 --> 01:48:08.760 a flower bed. You're talking about annual flowers, right, not shrubs and 1534 01:48:09.239 --> 01:48:13.800 perennials, big tallerble. Actually it does have a few shrubs and there as 1535 01:48:13.800 --> 01:48:16.800 well, like maybe boxwoods, there are a lot of quality products. I 1536 01:48:16.840 --> 01:48:20.119 like a shredded hardwood mulch. I think that's a very good one to use. 1537 01:48:20.600 --> 01:48:24.720 That's a wood chippy kind of kind of mulch. But it's not like 1538 01:48:24.800 --> 01:48:28.439 wood chips. I shouldn't even use that term. It is a hardwood bark 1539 01:48:28.560 --> 01:48:32.479 that's been ground up and shredded and decomposed, and it partially and it works 1540 01:48:32.560 --> 01:48:36.560 very well. Compost makes a decent mulch over the top of the soil, 1541 01:48:36.680 --> 01:48:42.039 put about an inch deep. Shredded tree leaves make a decent I mean a 1542 01:48:42.039 --> 01:48:45.439 lot of organic materials do it. And our quality soil providers will sell you 1543 01:48:45.840 --> 01:48:50.880 a variety of mulches that have been designed for the best use in those beds. 1544 01:48:51.640 --> 01:48:56.359 Okay, okay, I was going to do that today, So I 1545 01:48:56.399 --> 01:48:59.720 thought, let me call to make sure I'm not wasting money or time on 1546 01:49:00.359 --> 01:49:02.199 well good. I hope we saved you a little bit there, but that 1547 01:49:02.319 --> 01:49:05.319 those are the facts. Those are the facts on it. Okay, thank 1548 01:49:05.359 --> 01:49:11.720 you very much, appreciate that call. Uh. You know, if you've 1549 01:49:11.760 --> 01:49:15.279 if you've not been back out to Enchanted Gardens recently, you really ought to 1550 01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:18.279 check them out. They've got a lot of new stuff that's come in out 1551 01:49:18.319 --> 01:49:21.560 there, but they always do. I mean, I mean that I could 1552 01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:25.520 say that every time I talk about in Chanted Guards. They're always bringing new 1553 01:49:25.560 --> 01:49:30.239 things in. You know, your decorations for fall, new shipments of plants 1554 01:49:30.279 --> 01:49:32.760 coming in all the time, a lot of good information. They carry all 1555 01:49:32.800 --> 01:49:36.399 the everything I've been talking about today. Product wise, you're gonna find it 1556 01:49:36.520 --> 01:49:41.439 out there and Enchanted Gardens Richmond And that's our website. By the way, 1557 01:49:41.560 --> 01:49:45.840 Enchanted Gardens Richmond. If you're in Richmond, you go north toward Katie. 1558 01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:49.760 They're on three fifty nine up toward Katie direction from Richmond. Really easy to 1559 01:49:49.800 --> 01:49:55.439 find Monday through Saturday eight am to five pm. On today, they're open 1560 01:49:55.560 --> 01:49:58.640 one pm to four PMS. Such a great thing to do. Get out 1561 01:49:58.680 --> 01:50:02.159 this afternoon and go buy and visit and pick up those products that we've been 1562 01:50:02.199 --> 01:50:05.960 talking about so you can head things off. They've got some really good got 1563 01:50:06.000 --> 01:50:12.439 a little posts they put up on their on their social media post Drought a 1564 01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:15.279 lawn Recovery A Plan. It's a really good one. It's good information on 1565 01:50:15.319 --> 01:50:19.319 They're very very helpful, and I encourage you to go check that out. 1566 01:50:19.840 --> 01:50:24.439 We're going to head back now, let's see, we're gonna go to Spring, 1567 01:50:24.520 --> 01:50:28.760 Texas and talk to Jerry. Hello, Jerry high Skip. I sure 1568 01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:30.600 love for your show. Anyway, I'll get right to it. I know 1569 01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:36.760 time short. I have some dwarf Beauford Holly said they're twenty five years old 1570 01:50:38.000 --> 01:50:42.119 that I've not had any problems with them. But I see now I have 1571 01:50:42.279 --> 01:50:48.920 one big brown area in just one of them, brown leaves and bears stamps 1572 01:50:50.439 --> 01:50:56.439 in about towards the top, and I just want to keep it from spreading, 1573 01:50:56.479 --> 01:51:00.439 and wonder what to do. I've been deep watering per year suggestion twice 1574 01:51:00.479 --> 01:51:04.760 a week, okay, good, good, Yeah, that if it's just 1575 01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:09.399 a branch or two up in there, then it's probably not like the overall 1576 01:51:09.479 --> 01:51:12.359 drought that tends to kind of hit the whole bush pretty much, or it 1577 01:51:12.359 --> 01:51:15.079 could be half the bush or something. I would follow that dead area back 1578 01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:20.319 and and wherever it connects to another branch that leads out to living leaves, 1579 01:51:20.680 --> 01:51:25.000 I would prune the dead one out and it'll go back in in time. 1580 01:51:25.359 --> 01:51:29.600 I think that's going to be enough if you're doing your due diligence and keeping 1581 01:51:29.600 --> 01:51:32.239 the soul moist, not soggy, but but adequately moist. I think, 1582 01:51:32.880 --> 01:51:38.159 Okay, it's probably not an organism or anything. I don't think so. 1583 01:51:38.319 --> 01:51:41.640 I mean, there's a possibility that it could be a physical injury in there. 1584 01:51:41.640 --> 01:51:45.000 It could be a little canker on the branch from a wound. Hollies 1585 01:51:45.039 --> 01:51:48.560 are not prone to big borer problems, but boors can do that kind of 1586 01:51:48.600 --> 01:51:53.680 thing. Yeah. Oh, I love these. They're they're carefree and they 1587 01:51:53.760 --> 01:51:57.920 look good. Yeah. Yeah, anyway, another quick question. I switched 1588 01:51:58.039 --> 01:52:05.199 from Randy's chemic goal to its organic schedule a few years ago and it just 1589 01:52:05.199 --> 01:52:10.039 didn't seem quite as nice. I didn't like. So this year, for 1590 01:52:10.079 --> 01:52:14.039 the first time ever, I put humates down the spring and I just think 1591 01:52:14.119 --> 01:52:17.479 they're great. Yeah, they're great, But go ahead. Well, my 1592 01:52:17.640 --> 01:52:21.800 question is where does that fit into the schedule. Well, the humates are 1593 01:52:21.840 --> 01:52:25.680 not a nutrient. Well, I mean they have nutrients in them, but 1594 01:52:25.720 --> 01:52:30.319 you're not putting them out as a fertilizer. You're putting them out because humates 1595 01:52:30.359 --> 01:52:32.279 help open up the soil. They have a lot of compounds in them. 1596 01:52:32.279 --> 01:52:38.800 It's it's organic matter that's reached its final stage of decomposition, and they're very 1597 01:52:38.800 --> 01:52:43.600 good for soil structure and for improving even the microbial content in the soil. 1598 01:52:44.239 --> 01:52:46.720 But the humates is good right now. If you're wanting to go with a 1599 01:52:46.760 --> 01:52:51.000 microlife product like that, I would do that double wemmy that I mentioned before, 1600 01:52:51.079 --> 01:52:55.479 and that is the brown Patch, which is their fall special. They're 1601 01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:59.880 winterizer, it's brown Patch five one three. But I would use them bio 1602 01:53:00.119 --> 01:53:04.119 andnoculent. That's Microlife bioinnoculent. It's used at a low rate. It's in 1603 01:53:04.199 --> 01:53:08.960 kind of a violet colored bag. And what that does is it puts a 1604 01:53:09.000 --> 01:53:12.880 lot of microbes out there on the grass plant and on the soul surface. 1605 01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:16.760 And when diseases try to come in, if you've got a nice population of 1606 01:53:16.800 --> 01:53:24.439 good, healthy microbes, it's difficult for the disease to get. Microlife purplish 1607 01:53:24.520 --> 01:53:30.119 bag, bilet bag. It's bio andnoculent. To look for bio andnoculent. 1608 01:53:30.279 --> 01:53:32.039 That's the one there, and then the other one. It's the it's just 1609 01:53:32.119 --> 01:53:36.439 called brown patch, but it's it's the fall fertilizer. Okay, it's the 1610 01:53:36.479 --> 01:53:41.319 Okay, So what you would use in the fall? Okay, I've been 1611 01:53:41.439 --> 01:53:44.319 using green bag. I guess that's not for a fall. No, it 1612 01:53:44.399 --> 01:53:46.960 isn't. And hey, I'm about to hit a commercial. Thank you get 1613 01:53:46.960 --> 01:53:50.479 a heartbreak? Yes, sir, thank you, Jerry, I app you 1614 01:53:50.520 --> 01:53:55.399 bet very very much. Well, you've been listening to Guardline. If you 1615 01:53:55.439 --> 01:53:59.600 want to get on the board for our upcoming last segment of the weekend, 1616 01:53:59.680 --> 01:54:03.000 last hour of the weekend, that would be seven one three two one two 1617 01:54:03.279 --> 01:54:08.880 fifty eight seventy four, get your pen and paper out. Mark your calendar. 1618 01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:15.479 Next Saturday, September twenty third, arbor Gate Nursery and Tomball. I'll 1619 01:54:15.520 --> 01:54:19.359 be there from eleven thirty till one thirty answering your gardening questions, doing plan 1620 01:54:19.479 --> 01:54:24.439 IDs, doing diagnosis, whatever kind of questions you have. Bring me samples 1621 01:54:24.520 --> 01:54:28.720 in a bag. Please bring them in a bag and bring some photos if 1622 01:54:28.720 --> 01:54:31.000 you want to look at those we're gonna be given away arbour gates one two 1623 01:54:31.119 --> 01:54:35.520 three, completely easy system, A food, a soil, a compost, 1624 01:54:36.000 --> 01:54:40.720 give me a voy several times and Beverly's got some surprises she's going to give 1625 01:54:40.720 --> 01:54:46.119 away as well. You don't want to miss this one. KTRH Garden Line 1626 01:54:46.159 --> 01:54:51.399 does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. 1627 01:54:51.560 --> 01:55:17.720 Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with Skip Rictor. It's crazy just watching well, 1628 01:55:17.760 --> 01:55:24.600 good Sunday morning on a gorgeous Sunday to be out and about. Oh my 1629 01:55:24.720 --> 01:55:27.439 gosh, this afternoon is going to be great. Hey, while ago, 1630 01:55:27.760 --> 01:55:31.920 I accidentally said the wrong time for in Channa Gardens. Channa Gardens is open 1631 01:55:33.039 --> 01:55:36.800 Monday through Saturday from eight am to five pm, but the correction is Sunday 1632 01:55:36.840 --> 01:55:40.560 from ten am to four PMS. You get you get more time to go 1633 01:55:40.600 --> 01:55:43.199 out there and shop today, and it'd be a good day for doing that 1634 01:55:43.520 --> 01:55:45.720 ten am to four pm on Sundays out it in China guards are on the 1635 01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:49.720 k Pulsher side of Richmond. I don't know where I came up with those 1636 01:55:49.840 --> 01:55:55.239 times, but at least we'll get that, get that right, you know, 1637 01:55:55.720 --> 01:55:59.760 If you have a little piece of property and you are looking for a 1638 01:56:00.079 --> 01:56:01.880 use of equipment to help you get the work done, you're not going to 1639 01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:05.760 do better than a Caboda tractor from Lansdown Moody. You know, there's a 1640 01:56:05.840 --> 01:56:10.000 number of Lansdown Moodies around the area. I was just driving out forty five 1641 01:56:10.039 --> 01:56:12.439 passing one the other day on my way up to the Home and Garden show 1642 01:56:12.439 --> 01:56:15.239 in Conro. There's it's not hard to finding Lansdowne Moody. And when you're 1643 01:56:15.239 --> 01:56:20.239 at Lansdowne Moody it is a great spot for Cabodas. They've got the Caboda 1644 01:56:20.439 --> 01:56:26.720 L twenty five zero one that is a really sweet ride and they've got a 1645 01:56:26.760 --> 01:56:30.479 deal on it that you just can't beat, and that is zero down, 1646 01:56:30.880 --> 01:56:34.640 zero interests for eighty four months, seven years. If I want to save 1647 01:56:34.720 --> 01:56:38.439 you doing the math, that's a long time. Now. You can go 1648 01:56:38.479 --> 01:56:42.560 to LM tractor dot com. LM tractor dot com. You can find out 1649 01:56:42.560 --> 01:56:46.000 more about it there, find out where to get one. If you've got 1650 01:56:46.039 --> 01:56:48.680 any kind of work you need do out on the piece of property. It 1651 01:56:48.840 --> 01:56:53.680 is just a heck of a sweet ride and I would highly recommend you go 1652 01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:56.039 by it. Just go by and sit on one and you'll see what I'm 1653 01:56:56.079 --> 01:57:00.000 talking about. Lansdown Moody LM tractor dot Com. We're gonna head up now 1654 01:57:00.159 --> 01:57:03.720 to Grimes County and we're going to talk to carry. Hello, Carrie, 1655 01:57:03.760 --> 01:57:09.800 how are you today? Great? Thank you. I have two miniature boxwood 1656 01:57:10.079 --> 01:57:14.439 plants trees whatever they are, and my wife picked them out and we put 1657 01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:19.680 them in a watering trough about three feet by two feet with mulch and all 1658 01:57:19.760 --> 01:57:25.760 the good nutrients she could find. And one of them, it is really 1659 01:57:26.039 --> 01:57:30.479 in dire straps, losing leaves and some limbs or browns. Some of thembs 1660 01:57:30.520 --> 01:57:35.680 are green, but it probably has ten percent of the leaves the spring. 1661 01:57:36.079 --> 01:57:41.479 And the other box with the other plant is doing okay. It's got some 1662 01:57:41.560 --> 01:57:45.760 brown leaves, but it doesn't look nearly stressed out. And I was wondering, 1663 01:57:46.640 --> 01:57:48.960 I've got a little moisture meter in the ground, and it's like, 1664 01:57:49.039 --> 01:57:54.720 I'm it shows moisture, but it didn't show a lot. So yeah, 1665 01:57:54.920 --> 01:57:59.720 I don't think I'm overwatering it, okay, but you don't think you're underwatering 1666 01:57:59.760 --> 01:58:08.239 it that I don't know meter is showing it. Yeah, I could probably 1667 01:58:08.239 --> 01:58:11.680 water more you get the meter up. But well, let me, let 1668 01:58:11.720 --> 01:58:14.319 me, let me mention carry tell me again, when did you say you 1669 01:58:14.359 --> 01:58:19.239 planted them last spring. They've been in there a while. They should have 1670 01:58:19.279 --> 01:58:23.600 a good root system all through that. Bad meters can be kind of iffy. 1671 01:58:23.640 --> 01:58:26.640 If the materials were chunky, the meter's not going to show it to 1672 01:58:26.640 --> 01:58:29.800 be as wet as it is. If the materials will find textured, and 1673 01:58:30.000 --> 01:58:32.159 you know, clings all around the sides of the little meter probe you put 1674 01:58:32.199 --> 01:58:36.119 in so they're a guide. But I always dig down with my hands about 1675 01:58:36.119 --> 01:58:40.119 three or four inches down and feel the soil, and that I'll tell you 1676 01:58:40.239 --> 01:58:44.439 right there. Are you sure that that trough has good drainage underneath? The 1677 01:58:44.520 --> 01:58:50.439 good drain holes Back when the timbers are triple agents had water at least every 1678 01:58:50.479 --> 01:58:54.920 other day, if not every day, and then I would see water slowing 1679 01:58:55.000 --> 01:58:57.680 al from underneath it. It's on two boards. Okay, good, That 1680 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:02.439 was my next question. We're we're gonna assume that it rains well, We're 1681 01:59:02.439 --> 01:59:08.000 gonna assume that you're probably keeping it moist in that kind of bed and the 1682 01:59:08.399 --> 01:59:10.800 you know, you put a special mix in there. You didn't just dig 1683 01:59:10.880 --> 01:59:15.359 up sand from around the house or anything to get it. Okay, we're 1684 01:59:15.359 --> 01:59:18.640 gonna assume that we're gonna take nematodes out of this equation. We're gonna take 1685 01:59:19.720 --> 01:59:23.760 versul and wilt out of the equation. I think it's going to be a 1686 01:59:23.880 --> 01:59:29.159 soarm moisture combined with just the heat and temperatures that we had Somewhere along the 1687 01:59:29.199 --> 01:59:31.680 way in there, things got a little stressed. Uh does it? Does 1688 01:59:31.720 --> 01:59:36.920 it look like it essentially it's dead and it just hadn't finished drying out yet 1689 01:59:38.039 --> 01:59:42.720 or is it just not getting quite the color you wanted to have Now it's 1690 01:59:42.760 --> 01:59:47.159 it's probably has ten percent of the lead we planted. There's a lot of 1691 01:59:47.199 --> 01:59:51.119 bare lambs. Okay, And I just take my fring with the ground moist 1692 01:59:51.159 --> 01:59:55.960 the soil, I mean yeah, and it feels moist okay, you know, 1693 01:59:58.920 --> 02:00:01.439 okay, somebody it might be heat stresses as well. Yeah, why 1694 02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:05.800 wouldn't he stripped both of them? Yeah, that's true. Well, there 1695 02:00:05.840 --> 02:00:10.840 are other factors that can affect two plants side by side, don't always behave 1696 02:00:10.840 --> 02:00:16.640 the same But I'm going to go back now to kind of wondering about maybe 1697 02:00:16.640 --> 02:00:23.680 the possibility of some cold injury that happened to hit that one backless last December 1698 02:00:23.680 --> 02:00:26.279 when we had a good hard cold, you know up in Grimes you probably 1699 02:00:26.279 --> 02:00:30.359 got down in the mid teens in December. A lot of our plants weren't 1700 02:00:30.359 --> 02:00:32.359 ready for that, and that's why you see a lot of crepe myrtle damage 1701 02:00:32.359 --> 02:00:35.840 as you drive around Grimes County. Crepe myrtles are hardy, but they weren't 1702 02:00:35.840 --> 02:00:41.000 ready for the coal when it hit. And boxwoods are that way too now, 1703 02:00:41.039 --> 02:00:44.039 depending on you know, east west, north south. Who knows why 1704 02:00:44.039 --> 02:00:46.520 this one? Go down in the branches the trunk, the branches and look 1705 02:00:46.560 --> 02:00:50.520 for splits. And if you see that, that's old coal damage and the 1706 02:00:50.520 --> 02:00:55.039 plant just has not been able to hold on. If you don't see that, 1707 02:00:56.239 --> 02:00:58.399 you would have to dig it up and send it to a state plant 1708 02:00:58.680 --> 02:01:01.119 disease lab to figure out what else might be going in there. I can't 1709 02:01:01.159 --> 02:01:05.520 just tell you over the air, right, all right, all right, 1710 02:01:05.560 --> 02:01:09.119 we'll just wait it out and see if it lives. Yeah, thanks for 1711 02:01:09.159 --> 02:01:11.920 the call. Hey, y'all are lucky to have Grimes County feed up there 1712 02:01:12.600 --> 02:01:15.640 in Carlos direction. That's a great, great place, it is. It's 1713 02:01:15.640 --> 02:01:18.600 an awesome place. They got everything you need out there, all right, 1714 02:01:18.640 --> 02:01:24.000 Well, thank you for your call. I appreciate that. Thank you, 1715 02:01:24.000 --> 02:01:29.039 you bet you bet hey. Have you noticed hummingbirds coming through? I was 1716 02:01:29.079 --> 02:01:30.640 out on my patio the other day and a couple of them came by. 1717 02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:34.760 They're fussing at me because I wasn't keeping up the hummingbird feeders as I should. 1718 02:01:35.640 --> 02:01:39.520 But my favorite feeder is the one Wallbirds has by the way. That's 1719 02:01:39.560 --> 02:01:42.640 the high perch feeder. And I have several hummingbird feeders, but that's the 1720 02:01:42.640 --> 02:01:45.359 best. One. Comes in four different sizes. If you haven't been taking 1721 02:01:45.399 --> 02:01:48.319 care of you hummingbirds, you need to make sure and keep fresh nectar out. 1722 02:01:48.479 --> 02:01:51.479 You need to change it every couple of days really in this hot weather. 1723 02:01:53.199 --> 02:01:56.880 Four parts water, one part white table sugar. I'll heat the water 1724 02:01:57.000 --> 02:02:00.399 up and the microwave get it good and hot, so that's sugar dissolves fully 1725 02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:03.640 and then it's ready to go. Do not put red food dye in it. 1726 02:02:03.880 --> 02:02:06.199 Do not do that. Don't need to do that. Not good to 1727 02:02:06.239 --> 02:02:10.960 do that. They if you go to wildbirds, they carry nectar defender. 1728 02:02:11.239 --> 02:02:15.000 It's a little put a few drops in your hummingbird water and it will make 1729 02:02:15.359 --> 02:02:18.159 instead of one to two days it going bad, it'll ten days. It'll 1730 02:02:18.239 --> 02:02:21.399 last ten days, and that's that makes it a little easier. They'll sell 1731 02:02:21.399 --> 02:02:25.279 you a little brush for cleaning notch feeders if you want. You know, 1732 02:02:25.319 --> 02:02:28.840 we get microbial content in that sugary water, and that's not good for the 1733 02:02:28.880 --> 02:02:31.479 hummingbirds, so take care of them. Check out the Wallbird websites and their 1734 02:02:31.520 --> 02:02:35.880 social media pages. We got seven Wildbirds stores around town and they have everything 1735 02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:40.039 you need for birds and right now hummingbirds or the bird or the hour. 1736 02:02:40.479 --> 02:02:45.760 They also have information on hummingbird festivals around town or other kinds of things that 1737 02:02:45.840 --> 02:02:50.479 you need to know. Great source of information, great folks, and really 1738 02:02:50.520 --> 02:02:56.000 good supplies at Wilbird's Unlimited. We're gonna take a break seven one three two 1739 02:02:56.039 --> 02:02:59.880 one two fifty eight seventy four. We'll be right back. Little John My 1740 02:03:00.039 --> 02:03:02.960 Chael Montgomery lead us into our next segment. Here, you're listening to Garden 1741 02:03:03.039 --> 02:03:08.159 Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricter, and we are in a long 1742 02:03:08.279 --> 02:03:13.720 term discussion today about all kinds of things important getting ready for fall. One 1743 02:03:13.720 --> 02:03:15.279 of the things you need to know is, first of all, fall us 1744 02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:18.880 here it is here. We're calling it I'm done with summer. It is 1745 02:03:18.920 --> 02:03:25.000 now fall. Okay, we got a break in the temperature gardening excitement is 1746 02:03:25.159 --> 02:03:28.239 flowing through our veins again, and we're ready to get out and do things. 1747 02:03:28.279 --> 02:03:31.319 And trust me, you don't want to wait until it feels like a 1748 02:03:31.359 --> 02:03:35.359 certain temperature outside. You gotta do things when the calendar says to do them. 1749 02:03:35.479 --> 02:03:39.880 We fertilize when the calendar says to do it. We do certain kinds 1750 02:03:39.920 --> 02:03:44.880 of other activities for a successful lawn, garden and landscape when the calendar says 1751 02:03:44.920 --> 02:03:47.000 to do it. Especially when it comes to things like planting vegetables for example. 1752 02:03:47.399 --> 02:03:50.880 Well, right now you need to know about getting out to arbigate and 1753 02:03:50.920 --> 02:03:56.840 grabbing you some of the one two three completely easy system, because you're gonna 1754 02:03:56.880 --> 02:03:59.760 be planting. It's time to get that done, whether it's a container, 1755 02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:03.319 whether it's a garden bed. The one two three system gives you a food 1756 02:04:03.359 --> 02:04:08.920 that feeds anything with roots, a soil for any application, and a compost 1757 02:04:09.000 --> 02:04:14.560 that improves any and all really soil. It's a completely organic, completely easy 1758 02:04:14.600 --> 02:04:19.159 one two three. The food has a four four three organic fertilizer plus calcium 1759 02:04:19.319 --> 02:04:26.279 loaded with microbial life. The soil not only is it a quality soil that 1760 02:04:26.359 --> 02:04:30.479 drains well and is made for beds in our soils that we deal with here. 1761 02:04:30.479 --> 02:04:32.359 We have a lot of problem soils in this area. But it'll help 1762 02:04:32.399 --> 02:04:36.520 fix that. It also has the expanded shale which helps a clay. Always 1763 02:04:36.520 --> 02:04:41.119 good to add a little expanded shale to a clay. Just keep building it 1764 02:04:41.199 --> 02:04:44.560 up. You need a lot in there, keep going. And the compost 1765 02:04:44.640 --> 02:04:47.479 complete has two different kinds of compost and expanded shale in it as well. 1766 02:04:47.520 --> 02:04:50.800 And that's all at the Arbourgate. Arbourgate is about a mile and a half 1767 02:04:50.840 --> 02:04:56.039 west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty out there in Tumball. It 1768 02:04:56.159 --> 02:05:00.000 is really one of the true gardener's garden centers. You talk to anybody through 1769 02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:03.920 the region that nose garden centers, it's into gardening. They're gonna know about 1770 02:05:04.000 --> 02:05:09.039 Arburgate. They can tell you that Arburgate dot COM's the website if you want 1771 02:05:09.039 --> 02:05:11.159 to go check it out. By the way, don't forget I'm gonna be 1772 02:05:11.159 --> 02:05:15.399 out there next Saturday from eleven thirty to one thirty. I hope you will 1773 02:05:15.399 --> 02:05:17.560 come out to see me. We're gonna give away some samples of that or 1774 02:05:17.680 --> 02:05:21.560 some sets of that one two three completely easy system, as well as some 1775 02:05:21.560 --> 02:05:27.119 other cool stuff out at the Arburgate. I'm gonna head now to the phone 1776 02:05:27.159 --> 02:05:31.520 and we're gonna talk to Jerry in Hempstead. Hello, Jerry, good morning. 1777 02:05:31.520 --> 02:05:35.279 How are you today? Well? Thank you? So you were talking 1778 02:05:35.319 --> 02:05:40.239 about hummingbirds. I've got a couple of feeders in my backyard and I've got 1779 02:05:40.319 --> 02:05:45.199 at least sixty to seventy hummingbirds out there right now. Oh my gosh. 1780 02:05:45.239 --> 02:05:47.239 Your hummingbirds called earlier Jerry. I don't know if you've heard this, but 1781 02:05:47.279 --> 02:05:50.119 they said you need five more feeders. Are getting tired of waiting online. 1782 02:05:50.239 --> 02:05:57.960 Well, I'm going through six cups of sugar water a day. Holy so 1783 02:05:58.880 --> 02:06:01.159 yeah, So, I mean I've filled it it every single day with six 1784 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:06.279 cups of sugar water to make sure that they've got enough energy wood. It's 1785 02:06:06.319 --> 02:06:12.800 great having it around it. It is a go ahead. No, what 1786 02:06:12.880 --> 02:06:15.640 I was calling about it is, I wait. I killed Tilden filled my 1787 02:06:15.760 --> 02:06:20.279 yard this year in June, just before I got crazy hot, and I've 1788 02:06:20.279 --> 02:06:25.640 been pouring water on it of course, but I'm questioning whether or not I 1789 02:06:25.680 --> 02:06:30.640 should errate right now and compost top dress it, well, how deep did 1790 02:06:30.640 --> 02:06:36.920 you till it? So backstory is I bought this house seven years ago, 1791 02:06:38.239 --> 02:06:43.479 and in the seven years since I've owned it, I've put down about one 1792 02:06:43.520 --> 02:06:47.000 hundred and twenty yards a compost good over the yard. Okay, I actually 1793 02:06:47.000 --> 02:06:51.760 went out and bought a compost top dresser, a pull behind. Do you 1794 02:06:51.800 --> 02:06:56.760 do anything before? Do you do anything halfway? Jerry, No, you 1795 02:06:56.800 --> 02:07:00.079 can't. I've got I've got about an acre I'm doing Okay. So when 1796 02:07:00.319 --> 02:07:03.800 when I bought this, I had told Randy about it or posted in on 1797 02:07:03.960 --> 02:07:08.079 Facebook, and I was having problems getting my yard to come in. It 1798 02:07:08.119 --> 02:07:10.680 just wasn't doing it right. And he was actually supposed to come out this 1799 02:07:10.760 --> 02:07:15.560 year and look at it. Unfortunately, you know what happened happened. So 1800 02:07:15.720 --> 02:07:18.640 I killed, tilled and filled it. I put down forty five palettes of 1801 02:07:18.720 --> 02:07:24.840 snooze sade. I would say I tilled it to probably eight inches deep, 1802 02:07:24.920 --> 02:07:29.359 maybe ten inches deep, okay. I let it set for about a week, 1803 02:07:30.319 --> 02:07:32.319 water in it to get it to firm up and get pact up a 1804 02:07:32.359 --> 02:07:36.840 little bit before I put the sad down. And so the sad has now 1805 02:07:36.880 --> 02:07:44.439 been down for ten to eleven weeks twelve weeks and it's been very well watered. 1806 02:07:44.479 --> 02:07:46.119 I mean I walked every single day. Well, let me let me 1807 02:07:46.159 --> 02:07:50.079 cut to the answer to your question. Then, Uh, Normally I would 1808 02:07:50.079 --> 02:07:54.159 say it's always a good time to do some you know, some aerating on 1809 02:07:54.159 --> 02:07:59.079 the lawn because a lot of lawns do have compaction. But if you put 1810 02:07:59.079 --> 02:08:03.199 that much organic matter until that deep, you should not have a compaction issue. 1811 02:08:03.319 --> 02:08:05.880 So I don't think you're going to see a big benefit from the air 1812 02:08:05.000 --> 02:08:11.479 rating. But that probably the first time I've ever said no, aeration is 1813 02:08:11.560 --> 02:08:15.319 not going to help you, because it almost always helps with the lawn. 1814 02:08:15.760 --> 02:08:20.039 But for crying out loud, you after that description, I think you're good 1815 02:08:20.039 --> 02:08:24.720 to go. Okay, what about the compost top dress A little, a 1816 02:08:24.760 --> 02:08:28.720 little, Yeah, A quality compost leafmo compost, some kind of a finely 1817 02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.640 screen put at a light rate is always a good idea. It gets over 1818 02:08:33.680 --> 02:08:37.439 the soil if the lawn is at all thin in any areas, it just 1819 02:08:37.680 --> 02:08:41.000 is like a little mini thin mulch over the surface. It helps a little 1820 02:08:41.039 --> 02:08:45.640 bit with the weed seed germination issues that we have in things. So there's 1821 02:08:45.680 --> 02:08:48.720 no problem with doing that, Okay, all right, all right, then 1822 02:08:48.760 --> 02:08:52.800 that's what I'll be doing next weekend. All right, thanks a lot, 1823 02:08:52.000 --> 02:08:54.039 you take care. You have a great thing. Yeah, all right, 1824 02:08:54.079 --> 02:08:56.920 I'm gonna I'm gonna hang up with you so you can run over to wildbirds 1825 02:08:56.920 --> 02:09:01.239 and gets seven more feeders for those poor hum birds that are starving to death 1826 02:09:01.279 --> 02:09:05.680 at your plants. You know, Quality Home Products of Texas. 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If you do it before October first, you can get a 1836 02:09:45.439 --> 02:09:50.880 ten year warranty over a thousand dollar value free, absolutely free and quality home 1837 02:09:50.920 --> 02:09:58.000 Products. Seven time winner Better Business Bureau Award, seventy seven thousand satisfied customers. 1838 02:09:58.000 --> 02:10:01.199 Do you see what I'm saying. I mean, Interac is a great 1839 02:10:01.279 --> 02:10:05.640 generator. Quality Home Products is a great supplier that provides service after the sale. 1840 02:10:05.840 --> 02:10:11.319 So seven one three quality, simple as that, seven one three quality 1841 02:10:11.439 --> 02:10:18.760 or quality tx dot com. Let's head out now to Sharon in West Houston. 1842 02:10:18.880 --> 02:10:22.880 Hello Sharon hig in morning skips. So I have a quick question about 1843 02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:28.399 my rose bush. Okay, it's stressed out because of the summer heat. 1844 02:10:28.239 --> 02:10:33.800 I tried to keep it watered underwater restrictions, but it's really stressed. So 1845 02:10:33.159 --> 02:10:37.119 is it safe to go ahead and trim it now? Or should I wait? 1846 02:10:37.640 --> 02:10:41.920 It's all straggling and very stressed. In fact, it's lost most of 1847 02:10:41.920 --> 02:10:46.520 its sleeves. You know, Normally I would do a late summer printing, 1848 02:10:46.600 --> 02:10:50.960 like an end of August pruning, early September pruning on roses. Remember you 1849 02:10:52.000 --> 02:10:54.720 said that, Yeah, yeah, that's to stimulate a flush or growth. 1850 02:10:54.920 --> 02:10:58.239 If your plan is so weak that it's it's not going to respond to that, 1851 02:10:58.279 --> 02:11:01.800 You're probably not get much benefit from it. But I would go ahead 1852 02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:05.319 and do a little bit of a pruning, maybe a third of the way 1853 02:11:05.359 --> 02:11:09.680 back, make sure and put some good quality fertilizer on the ground, scratch 1854 02:11:09.720 --> 02:11:13.000 it into the soil, watered in real well, and try to get some 1855 02:11:13.039 --> 02:11:16.840 fresh new growth on that plant. I think that's going to be important before 1856 02:11:16.880 --> 02:11:20.319 it goes into winter, to get some leaves out there to catch sunlight, 1857 02:11:20.439 --> 02:11:24.920 make carbohydrates and strengthen those bushes. Hopefully you'll get some bloom out of it 1858 02:11:24.960 --> 02:11:26.920 as well. But the main thing right now is let's get that. Let's 1859 02:11:26.920 --> 02:11:31.079 get that internal storage back up in that rosebush. So it's it's more rest 1860 02:11:31.319 --> 02:11:37.760 it's really weak. It's no blooms all summer, and it's just so yeah, 1861 02:11:37.840 --> 02:11:41.319 okay, so it third of the way back about about what variety is 1862 02:11:41.319 --> 02:11:46.439 it? Do you know? Off hand knock out, knock out, Yeah, 1863 02:11:46.439 --> 02:11:50.000 they definitely do that absolutely. Okay, great, thank you, good 1864 02:11:50.079 --> 02:11:52.640 luck with it. You take care. Yeah, I appreciate your call if 1865 02:11:52.640 --> 02:11:56.760 you are wanting to get your lawn in the best shape it can be. 1866 02:11:56.840 --> 02:12:01.640 This fall, nitrofost has put together other a really cool thing. It's a 1867 02:12:01.760 --> 02:12:05.920 Texas three step. What does that mean. It means a proper fertilizer for 1868 02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:09.640 our soils for this time of the year, and that's a Nitrofoss Fall special. 1869 02:12:11.000 --> 02:12:15.560 The Nitrofoss Fall special. Not only it's got the potassium levels up in 1870 02:12:15.600 --> 02:12:20.119 it. That's gonna First of all, potassium is important in drought resilience. 1871 02:12:20.159 --> 02:12:24.560 It's also important in winter heartiness, and it'll provide that. Secondly, they 1872 02:12:24.600 --> 02:12:28.680 have the barricade in there for weeds the cool season, weeds start to germinate 1873 02:12:28.720 --> 02:12:33.159 in October. You need to get that out early October because it's like playing 1874 02:12:33.199 --> 02:12:37.920 baseball. You don't swing after the ball's gone over the plate. You swing 1875 02:12:37.920 --> 02:12:41.600 when the ball's there. And in this case for weed control, don't wait 1876 02:12:41.640 --> 02:12:43.840 until you see them. You've got to get the pre emerging out before they 1877 02:12:43.840 --> 02:12:46.520 appear, and it'll ast you all the way into spring. And then they've 1878 02:12:46.560 --> 02:12:52.960 got the nitrofoss eagle turfungicide that's step three. Now, step three is a 1879 02:12:52.079 --> 02:12:56.800 protectant and a curity fungicide because when large patch shows up, if you've had 1880 02:12:56.800 --> 02:13:00.800 a problem with it year after year, it's probably coming back again when we 1881 02:13:00.840 --> 02:13:03.800 get cool weather and rains. When that happens, you want to have put 1882 02:13:03.840 --> 02:13:09.319 down some of the protective that's the eagle that prevents it from coming back. 1883 02:13:09.359 --> 02:13:13.399 That's why they put those three together. You can find nitrofoss at Cypersace Hardware. 1884 02:13:13.600 --> 02:13:18.560 You can find Nitrofoss at the Gem's Hardware down up in Montgomery. You 1885 02:13:18.600 --> 02:13:24.600 can find it in City and Hardware in Memorial and also done include at Lake 1886 02:13:24.640 --> 02:13:30.199 Hardware. They've got Nitrofoss down there. Nitrofoss products, the one two three 1887 02:13:30.239 --> 02:13:33.600 easy system. It makes it easy and it works. Let's see we are 1888 02:13:33.720 --> 02:13:37.239 running here. We got a little bit of time here. I think took 1889 02:13:37.239 --> 02:13:43.279 care of John already. Good good. You know, when when it comes 1890 02:13:43.319 --> 02:13:48.000 to the seasons, when we get storms and things, roofs or roof problems 1891 02:13:48.000 --> 02:13:52.119 are often an issue and the thing that drives me nuts. And I've had 1892 02:13:52.119 --> 02:13:56.079 this happen. You get a hailstorm comes to an area and eBoy runs along, 1893 02:13:56.239 --> 02:14:00.880 driving down the road, putting their business cards in your door because they 1894 02:14:00.920 --> 02:14:03.760 just flew in from Florida because this is the latest hailstorm in the country. 1895 02:14:05.159 --> 02:14:09.319 Don't get the fly by nights. Get someone who's been here for years, 1896 02:14:09.640 --> 02:14:13.600 and we're talking Brinkman fifty years of service in this area. They're a Better 1897 02:14:13.640 --> 02:14:18.640 Business Bureau Pinnacle Award winner. And you don't get that by not treating your 1898 02:14:18.680 --> 02:14:24.840 customers really well. You do a quality work, you use a quality product. 1899 02:14:24.840 --> 02:14:26.640 That's Brinkman. Hey. By the way, they've got their Timberline solar 1900 02:14:26.680 --> 02:14:31.079 shingle. That is really cool. Now you've seen solar panels on the roof. 1901 02:14:31.399 --> 02:14:35.279 These solar shingles are the roof they roof with the solar shingles. Is 1902 02:14:35.319 --> 02:14:39.520 that cool or what? Go to Brinkman Quality dot com and ask them about 1903 02:14:39.560 --> 02:14:43.520 that. Make a little bit of you know, a summer like this where 1904 02:14:43.520 --> 02:14:46.319 it's blazing sun all summer, why not make money off the roof. Well 1905 02:14:46.399 --> 02:14:50.439 you can do that with Brinkman Quality shing I say, make money, you 1906 02:14:50.479 --> 02:14:54.159 know, save money on your electric bills. Two eight one four eight zero 1907 02:14:54.399 --> 02:15:01.319 seventy six sixty three two eight one four eight seventy six sixty three real simple 1908 02:15:01.319 --> 02:15:03.359 and easy. All right, Nikki, we're going to turn it over to 1909 02:15:03.399 --> 02:15:09.760 you because we know that you have your finger on the pulse of everything happening, 1910 02:15:09.920 --> 02:15:11.520 and so we're sitting on the edge of our seats. Well, let 1911 02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:16.680 me just tell you if you you've heard about the construction that's going on at 1912 02:15:16.720 --> 02:15:18.960 six ten in the Southwest Freeway, Yes, I have. Oh, I 1913 02:15:20.039 --> 02:15:24.560 got bad news. No con Oh boy, here we go. Hey, 1914 02:15:24.600 --> 02:15:28.039 you're listening to Garden line. We are glad you are listening, and we're 1915 02:15:28.159 --> 02:15:31.319 looking forward to talking about whatever you're interested in. Seven one three two one 1916 02:15:31.399 --> 02:15:37.359 two fifty eight seventy four. We are going to go to John out in 1917 02:15:37.399 --> 02:15:39.880 Cyprus. Now, Hello, John, Hey, good morning. How are 1918 02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:45.319 you doing. I'm well, thank you good. The question I have is 1919 02:15:45.800 --> 02:15:50.960 in our backyard, we have ligustrium plants that we have primarily for privacy, 1920 02:15:52.079 --> 02:15:56.520 Yes, and so we put out on the back part of it. We've 1921 02:15:56.560 --> 02:16:01.720 got one that's about ten feet tall, and I'm wanting to trim that back 1922 02:16:01.199 --> 02:16:05.119 a couple of feet, saying about eight feet or less. Okay, So 1923 02:16:05.560 --> 02:16:11.399 when would be the best time to do that. Pruning is a stimulating process, 1924 02:16:11.560 --> 02:16:15.720 especially for an evergreen like that, So I would not do that now. 1925 02:16:15.920 --> 02:16:20.319 You don't want to encourage secondent growth going into winter. Some of our 1926 02:16:20.359 --> 02:16:22.239 logustriums I don't know if years took a hit, but especially even a little 1927 02:16:22.279 --> 02:16:26.760 further north in Cyprus when we did, yes, when we went through the 1928 02:16:26.800 --> 02:16:30.000 February twenty one, I mean, they were really hammered by that. And 1929 02:16:30.279 --> 02:16:33.440 so we're gonna stay away from that. I would wait until kind of when 1930 02:16:33.479 --> 02:16:35.680 winter's over, when we feel like we're in spring, and I mean maybe 1931 02:16:35.680 --> 02:16:41.399 there's a frost coming, but basically we're past all the freezes. I would 1932 02:16:41.440 --> 02:16:43.799 do the trimming. Then I would trim it below where you want it to 1933 02:16:43.840 --> 02:16:46.879 be, because what's gonna happen. You're gonna cut it back. It's gonna 1934 02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:52.360 look bad from that cutback, and then it's going to resprout. And as 1935 02:16:52.399 --> 02:16:54.680 the sprouts begin to grow, after they get about a foot on them, 1936 02:16:54.719 --> 02:16:58.319 then you're going to trim them back and cause them to get bushier and you're 1937 02:16:58.360 --> 02:17:03.760 gonna rebuild a good dense hedge. So if you want it to be eight 1938 02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:05.479 feet and you cut it to eight feet, well it's gonna end up above 1939 02:17:05.520 --> 02:17:09.479 eight feet. You see what I'm saying. Oh okay, yeah, okay. 1940 02:17:09.639 --> 02:17:11.559 So you just want to do that kind of trimming and once you hit 1941 02:17:11.600 --> 02:17:15.360 that season, it'll be fine. It probably is going to have plenty of 1942 02:17:15.440 --> 02:17:18.440 vigor anyway. But if you want to throw a little fertilizer underneath it watered 1943 02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:22.760 in really good at that time, then you can get that good, good 1944 02:17:22.799 --> 02:17:28.159 vigor. Just kind of watch it. Lagustrum, the waxley fugustrum is susceptible 1945 02:17:28.319 --> 02:17:33.120 to a leaf spot called circospera and it causes big old brown spots on the 1946 02:17:33.200 --> 02:17:39.079 leaves. Looks horrible seeing it. They're surrounded by yellow and a lot of 1947 02:17:39.120 --> 02:17:41.840 seculent growth. It's gonna even be a little more prone to that, and 1948 02:17:41.879 --> 02:17:48.559 so you may have to follow up with some protective sprays of a fungicide to 1949 02:17:48.680 --> 02:17:52.799 prevent those spores from infecting the leaves, especially if we go through a rainy 1950 02:17:52.879 --> 02:17:58.280 period. That's one of the negatives of that plant. It's a well used 1951 02:17:58.360 --> 02:18:03.239 and why used shrub for a privacy screen does a good job of that, 1952 02:18:03.319 --> 02:18:07.079 but that that's one of the drawbacks of it, is that disease. Okay, 1953 02:18:07.239 --> 02:18:11.399 okay, And they had one other question on the other fence line. 1954 02:18:11.440 --> 02:18:15.120 We have a lagustrum, but it's not growing to the heights that we would 1955 02:18:15.120 --> 02:18:20.879 like for it too, And so I'm considering or wondering about replacing that with 1956 02:18:20.319 --> 02:18:24.520 some sort of a tree okay, might grow to a height. And I 1957 02:18:24.600 --> 02:18:28.799 was wondering if you had a suggestion on that. We want a little bit 1958 02:18:28.799 --> 02:18:35.159 more privacy along that fence line. Okay. So okay, this is how 1959 02:18:35.200 --> 02:18:39.120 tall do you need it to be? I'd be thinking maybe no more than 1960 02:18:39.399 --> 02:18:45.440 fifteen twenty feet a little higher, but not much. Well, hollies make 1961 02:18:45.639 --> 02:18:48.920 a good one. There are some good, old, dependable hollies. Nelly 1962 02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:52.120 are Stevens and there's a bunch of other good hollies that they're evergreen. That's 1963 02:18:52.120 --> 02:18:56.000 one thing you want out of a screen so you don't see through it in 1964 02:18:56.000 --> 02:18:58.520 the winter. The hollies make a good one. With hollies, you need 1965 02:18:58.559 --> 02:19:03.360 to water them in well, uh the first year, make sure they never 1966 02:19:03.440 --> 02:19:07.319 hit drought because hollies don't warn you that we're thirsty and we may be about 1967 02:19:07.319 --> 02:19:09.040 to die. They just flashed our turning brown and you don't get them back. 1968 02:19:09.639 --> 02:19:13.040 The first two years with a holly is important to keep it watered. 1969 02:19:13.079 --> 02:19:20.479 After that they've become pretty resilient. But they're relatively fast growing to relatively fast 1970 02:19:20.479 --> 02:19:22.319 growing. Yeah, a lot of these new hollies out there. You know 1971 02:19:22.360 --> 02:19:28.079 you're up e're rope in the Cypress area. You're gonna you are really close 1972 02:19:28.079 --> 02:19:31.719 to our CW nursery, you are. You know, they they're going to 1973 02:19:31.840 --> 02:19:37.200 have a lot of pardon and arbourgate and arburgate absolutely and plants frost seasons. 1974 02:19:37.200 --> 02:19:41.440 They're all up there, and all those places are going to have the kinds 1975 02:19:41.440 --> 02:19:46.239 of plants we're talking about here. Uh that that that whole, that whole 1976 02:19:46.280 --> 02:19:48.920 area up there is just you're fortunate to have a lot of good sources of 1977 02:19:50.159 --> 02:19:52.000 plants like that. Holly would be a good one. There are some other 1978 02:19:52.079 --> 02:19:56.639 ones that you could consider. The problem with our hedges is that they get 1979 02:19:56.639 --> 02:19:58.680 bigger, they get wider, and so you don't want to give up half 1980 02:19:58.680 --> 02:20:01.879 your law onto big fat heads trying to get it up to the height you 1981 02:20:01.920 --> 02:20:05.879 want. So yeah, well, yeah, I spend a lot of time 1982 02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:11.639 controlling those lugustiums. I like the hype that we get out. I like 1983 02:20:11.040 --> 02:20:15.239 there are you know, there's some yopons that do pretty good. They tend 1984 02:20:15.280 --> 02:20:16.479 to get a little some of those get a little too tall, and then 1985 02:20:16.520 --> 02:20:20.079 they get kind of lanky and start flopping apart and everything. I'm trying to 1986 02:20:20.079 --> 02:20:24.000 think. I was talking to Beverly. You mentioned arbigate. I was talking 1987 02:20:24.000 --> 02:20:28.920 to Beverly about a plant that, oh my gosh, not thinking of the 1988 02:20:28.040 --> 02:20:31.479 name. But you just have to call him and ask him, say, 1989 02:20:31.680 --> 02:20:35.360 you heard that some of the hollies that yopons start to open up and fall 1990 02:20:35.399 --> 02:20:37.440 apart. What's the one they're recommending now? And the name of it is 1991 02:20:37.600 --> 02:20:43.000 escaping me at this very moment. Okay, but it's is it is going 1992 02:20:43.079 --> 02:20:46.680 to be a little bit better about keeping a decent shape to it. Okay. 1993 02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:48.920 Well, we heard you're going to be there next weekends. We may 1994 02:20:50.000 --> 02:20:52.319 show up. I hope you do. I hope you do. Yeah, 1995 02:20:52.360 --> 02:20:54.760 bring me a picture of that area. I'd like to see it. Well, 1996 02:20:54.760 --> 02:20:56.319 take a look at it and see if I have any other thoughts when 1997 02:20:56.360 --> 02:21:01.840 I'm looking at it. Great, you're catching me. You know what about 1998 02:21:01.120 --> 02:21:05.840 twenty minutes before the end of two days or radio. And I've got one 1999 02:21:05.879 --> 02:21:09.520 and a half brain cells left. One of them is keeping my lungs and 2000 02:21:09.600 --> 02:21:13.840 heart going, and so you know, my ability to think of plants right 2001 02:21:13.840 --> 02:21:20.360 now somewhat limited. So I understand. Well, thanks for the call. 2002 02:21:20.479 --> 02:21:22.000 Look forward to seeing you up there at Arborgate when you okay, sir, 2003 02:21:22.440 --> 02:21:26.600 all right, thank you, all right? You take care, bye bye. 2004 02:21:26.120 --> 02:21:31.280 Oh my goodness. You're gonna be planning this fall, I hope, 2005 02:21:31.440 --> 02:21:35.000 because fall is for planting, and I don't care if you're putting in a 2006 02:21:35.120 --> 02:21:39.639 vegetable transplant. An herb, a perennial, a shrub, a tree has 2007 02:21:39.680 --> 02:21:46.959 to grow is an awesome product to water those things in with Medina has to 2008 02:21:46.000 --> 02:21:50.840 grow it just it just has the qualities that you need. You know, 2009 02:21:50.879 --> 02:21:56.040 it's got the nutrients that you need. It's also got the Medina soil activator 2010 02:21:56.079 --> 02:21:58.120 in it, and it's got the humates in it. It's got all the 2011 02:21:58.200 --> 02:22:01.239 things. And when you put a plant in the ground, you have got 2012 02:22:01.319 --> 02:22:05.120 this little plant with a watered upset of roots that you're sticking on the ground 2013 02:22:05.120 --> 02:22:07.399 and saying, hey, take off, do good. We want you to 2014 02:22:07.719 --> 02:22:11.479 make things beautiful for us. Well, you need some help on that and 2015 02:22:11.840 --> 02:22:16.319 has to grow. That's their six twelve six that I'm talking about. By 2016 02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:18.639 the way, it's got that. I will put it in a watering can. 2017 02:22:18.719 --> 02:22:22.799 I will water in a plant on a planet, about a week later, 2018 02:22:22.000 --> 02:22:26.000 watered in again, about a week later, watered in again. So 2019 02:22:26.079 --> 02:22:31.000 there's three applications to help get those roots established. Because you really do want 2020 02:22:31.040 --> 02:22:33.479 it to hit the ground running. That's the goal. You want success. 2021 02:22:33.840 --> 02:22:37.719 You don't want it to just thrive survive. You want it to thrive and 2022 02:22:37.760 --> 02:22:41.000 that has to go. Will do that for you. Hey, it's time 2023 02:22:41.040 --> 02:22:43.680 to take a break. Terry out there in base City. You are the 2024 02:22:43.840 --> 02:22:46.760 first up, when we come back our number seven, one, three, 2025 02:22:46.799 --> 02:22:52.280 two and two fifty eight seventy four. Well, good Sunday morning. On 2026 02:22:52.920 --> 02:22:56.799 look outside, this is a gorgeous day this afternoon. Be a good time 2027 02:22:56.840 --> 02:23:01.280 to get out. Go visit some garden center, get you visit some of 2028 02:23:01.280 --> 02:23:05.120 our suppliers and get you the products you need to get out there, and 2029 02:23:05.200 --> 02:23:09.639 let's get going. It is fall. It is finally, we're finally out 2030 02:23:09.680 --> 02:23:15.000 of this mess of incredible, miserable temperatures. We're ready to go as gardeners. 2031 02:23:15.280 --> 02:23:16.479 Right, all right, Well, let's go out to Bay City and 2032 02:23:16.520 --> 02:23:20.559 we're gonna talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, Hello, good morning. 2033 02:23:20.760 --> 02:23:24.639 It's lovely in Bay City. Oh thanks, thanks for the report. I 2034 02:23:24.680 --> 02:23:30.319 know it is okay, Well, okay, Now I'm pretty much on the 2035 02:23:30.360 --> 02:23:35.559 fence about whether I'm going to plant my little fruit trees. I already talked 2036 02:23:35.559 --> 02:23:39.799 to you one time about containers, so I've got that down, but I 2037 02:23:39.959 --> 02:23:45.200 have questions about if I keep them. If I keep things in containers, 2038 02:23:46.440 --> 02:23:48.239 do I fertilize them now? Because when it gets cold, I'm going to 2039 02:23:48.319 --> 02:23:52.399 bring him in the seashed And I remember I did that one year and they 2040 02:23:52.399 --> 02:23:54.879 all bloomed. And when you opened up the door, it smells the smell 2041 02:23:54.959 --> 02:23:58.920 that just knocked you out because it was so gorgeous. It smells so great, 2042 02:23:58.360 --> 02:24:03.120 so bloom, and they'll they'll think it's spring inside the seashed. So 2043 02:24:03.200 --> 02:24:05.399 should I go ahead and fertilize the things that I'm going to keep in containers? 2044 02:24:07.479 --> 02:24:09.200 What kind of fruit tree? What kind of fruit trees are you're planning? 2045 02:24:11.959 --> 02:24:13.879 Well, I don't know if I'm going to plant them on I'm on 2046 02:24:13.920 --> 02:24:16.760 the fence because I don't exactly know where I'm going to plan them, Okay, 2047 02:24:16.760 --> 02:24:18.280 And I know I'm always going to I'm always going to keep my lime 2048 02:24:18.319 --> 02:24:22.719 tree in a container because it froze down and now it's done great and it's 2049 02:24:22.799 --> 02:24:26.799 up about five feet tall. Yeah. And then I have a I have 2050 02:24:26.879 --> 02:24:31.920 two great fruit. I have a quum quat. I have a Hamilton seet 2051 02:24:31.920 --> 02:24:35.600 orange, and I have a Washington Naval orange. I see okay, yeah, 2052 02:24:35.680 --> 02:24:39.319 Citrus, citrus types of trees in lemon tree, I have a I 2053 02:24:39.399 --> 02:24:41.239 have a Mira lemon. Yeah. Well, though that you can grow those 2054 02:24:41.280 --> 02:24:45.959 in containers. The bigger the citrus a little bit more of a challenge because 2055 02:24:45.959 --> 02:24:48.799 you need more container because the you know, as the roots get so confined, 2056 02:24:50.760 --> 02:24:52.120 it limits the size of the plant. Now, if you're talking about 2057 02:24:52.120 --> 02:24:56.920 something's really small, like your your limes, for example, that's not a 2058 02:24:56.000 --> 02:24:58.879 huge plant that does really well on a container. You get all the way 2059 02:24:58.920 --> 02:25:01.600 up to some of them, like something like a grapefruit, that's gonna take 2060 02:25:01.680 --> 02:25:05.159 quite a container to be able to grow that. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm 2061 02:25:05.159 --> 02:25:07.680 gonna put my two grapefruit in the ground. But I think if I put 2062 02:25:07.760 --> 02:25:11.239 them in the ground now, will they have enough time for the roots to 2063 02:25:11.280 --> 02:25:15.959 get happy before winter? They should? They should normally. You know, 2064 02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:18.399 I think about planning citrus a lot when we get into spring and we get 2065 02:25:18.440 --> 02:25:22.799 through that last freeze, because you never know what if this was one of 2066 02:25:22.840 --> 02:25:26.600 those doozy winters that just went historically cold. Well, you know, if 2067 02:25:26.600 --> 02:25:30.159 it was in a container, you put it inside and protect it. If 2068 02:25:30.159 --> 02:25:31.879 it's in the ground, it's gonna be a little more challenging. But in 2069 02:25:31.920 --> 02:25:35.120 general it's okay to plan them. Now, just be ready if you need 2070 02:25:35.159 --> 02:25:39.120 to to get a cover to go over them and to get a little bit 2071 02:25:39.120 --> 02:25:41.600 of a heat source underneath them. If we have that miserable weather, you're 2072 02:25:41.600 --> 02:25:45.280 far enough south where I don't think it's going to be a problem. I 2073 02:25:45.319 --> 02:25:46.600 wouldn't worry about it. If you want to get them in the ground, 2074 02:25:46.680 --> 02:25:50.879 do it, just do it sooner rather than later. But don't fertilize them 2075 02:25:50.920 --> 02:25:54.239 just yet. Just water them in. Well, don't don't fertilize anything, 2076 02:25:54.719 --> 02:25:58.840 not not at this time. And here's why. Fertilizer in this mild weather 2077 02:26:00.319 --> 02:26:03.399 that we're going to have for the next month and more and more, it 2078 02:26:03.520 --> 02:26:07.719 stimulates growth, and succulent growth is even more coal tender. And so you 2079 02:26:07.760 --> 02:26:11.840 would like them to settle in and do okay, get established, but you 2080 02:26:11.840 --> 02:26:16.879 don't want to push them to be growing a lot right now, right right, 2081 02:26:16.159 --> 02:26:20.639 okay, okay, Well that's answered my question. Thank you very much. 2082 02:26:20.760 --> 02:26:22.799 All right, Well, good luck with them. And all we ask 2083 02:26:22.920 --> 02:26:24.600 when we help you with plants is that you bring half the produce to the 2084 02:26:24.680 --> 02:26:30.079 KTRH studio and drop it off. That sounds good. That's a fair trade, 2085 02:26:30.159 --> 02:26:33.479 right, sure enough. I wish I was there instead of Bay City. 2086 02:26:33.520 --> 02:26:35.959 We don't have all the garden places like you talked about on the radio, 2087 02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:41.120 and I like every time I listen to you, I'm thinking I wish 2088 02:26:41.159 --> 02:26:43.600 I was closer. So I could go visit those places. But because we're 2089 02:26:43.600 --> 02:26:46.399 about an hour and a half from Houston, I know, I know how 2090 02:26:46.399 --> 02:26:50.159 that is. But I want to tell you something. I can tell you 2091 02:26:50.239 --> 02:26:52.040 this for a fact. I can't tell you how many times I've talked to 2092 02:26:52.079 --> 02:26:56.680 people that drive from Austin, Texas to come all the way down to Houston 2093 02:26:56.760 --> 02:27:01.200 some of our gardens enters, or they come from way up in Central Texas 2094 02:27:01.200 --> 02:27:05.000 somewhere, or the people drive a long way to go to the kind of 2095 02:27:05.000 --> 02:27:09.159 places we have here, and that that is a testimony, and it reminds 2096 02:27:09.200 --> 02:27:13.879 me and I keep telling you guys this. We're fortunate in the Houston area 2097 02:27:15.040 --> 02:27:18.440 to have the best set of garden centers I've seen anywhere in the state. 2098 02:27:18.479 --> 02:27:22.000 And I've been to other states too and seen some of the cities. You 2099 02:27:22.040 --> 02:27:26.799 know, there's a lot of garden centers all around, all places, but 2100 02:27:26.959 --> 02:27:30.760 nothing like this, nothing like Houston, North, South, East, West, 2101 02:27:30.840 --> 02:27:37.000 Central. You have got unbelievable places. You've got destination places. We 2102 02:27:37.079 --> 02:27:39.719 talk about them here on Garden Line. And you know there are a lot 2103 02:27:39.719 --> 02:27:41.319 of places I don't talk about on garden Line. There's a reason for that. 2104 02:27:41.360 --> 02:27:45.280 You're not going to hear me promoting a big box store or something like 2105 02:27:45.319 --> 02:27:50.879 that, big chains and and all that stuff. Our garden centers their mom 2106 02:27:50.920 --> 02:27:56.840 and pop and I'm just saying that you need to know how fortunate you are. 2107 02:27:58.680 --> 02:28:03.639 You go in there, and the staff at these places, the owners, 2108 02:28:03.719 --> 02:28:07.200 the staff, everybody that they know what they're talking about and they can 2109 02:28:07.280 --> 02:28:09.280 guide you. They've got experience. They've lived here, they've gardened here, 2110 02:28:09.319 --> 02:28:16.000 they know this area, and they hire people and they train people to know 2111 02:28:16.040 --> 02:28:18.840 what they're talking about. I bragged down garden centers all day to day, 2112 02:28:20.440 --> 02:28:24.680 do it every time, and they're all that way. I really mean that. 2113 02:28:24.200 --> 02:28:28.399 It really is amazing. And you know, as you go around Texas, 2114 02:28:28.440 --> 02:28:31.719 if you're gonna take a trip to some other city, I can tell 2115 02:28:31.719 --> 02:28:35.680 you good garden centers to go visit over there. Because I love doing horticultural 2116 02:28:35.520 --> 02:28:41.559 touring around around the state and botanical gardens and garden centers. It's just fun. 2117 02:28:41.319 --> 02:28:46.399 But one day, there's no place like Houston when it comes to these 2118 02:28:46.440 --> 02:28:50.319 garden centers and the kind of advice you get. And I guess I'm gonna 2119 02:28:50.319 --> 02:28:52.799 go a little soap box here, if you'll forgive me. We're getting towards 2120 02:28:52.799 --> 02:28:56.000 the end of the day. Here it is a pet peeve of mine for 2121 02:28:56.040 --> 02:29:01.280 people to talk about. You know, where can I find a sale on 2122 02:29:01.360 --> 02:29:03.360 this or that, or save a nickel and this or that kind of thing. 2123 02:29:03.399 --> 02:29:09.920 I understand the importance of economy, but I'm concerned about that my budget 2124 02:29:09.959 --> 02:29:13.920 and things like that. But you need to think about what you get for 2125 02:29:15.000 --> 02:29:20.360 what you pay for anytime you're buying anything. And quality is important, advice 2126 02:29:20.600 --> 02:29:26.440 is important, and service is important. And you can go buy something from 2127 02:29:26.440 --> 02:29:28.920 a place that they haven't taken care of it since it got off the truck. 2128 02:29:31.000 --> 02:29:33.799 It may look okay today, but by the time you get at home 2129 02:29:33.840 --> 02:29:37.120 you start to see the problems happening. It's something that probably shouldn't have been 2130 02:29:37.159 --> 02:29:41.239 planted here, but it was sold here because some company ordered it for all 2131 02:29:41.280 --> 02:29:46.360 their stores all over the country. That's not saving money. I don't care 2132 02:29:46.399 --> 02:29:50.879 what the deal is on it. That's wasting money. And if you go 2133 02:29:52.079 --> 02:29:54.840 and you talk to somebody and they don't know what they're talking about, and 2134 02:29:54.879 --> 02:29:58.040 they steer you to the wrong plant and the wrong products, that's not saving 2135 02:29:58.079 --> 02:30:01.680 money. That's way eating money. Or if you buy it and you bring 2136 02:30:01.719 --> 02:30:05.360 it home and you plan it and you have problems and you want to go 2137 02:30:05.399 --> 02:30:09.440 back and bring them pictures. You're going to get that kind of help from 2138 02:30:09.440 --> 02:30:13.239 a good independent garden center, somebody that knows what they're talking about. And 2139 02:30:13.280 --> 02:30:18.079 so you know, think about you get what you pay for, and it's 2140 02:30:18.120 --> 02:30:22.200 just it. Yes, it's good to be economical, and yet you know 2141 02:30:22.399 --> 02:30:26.920 it's wise and stuff and how we spend. But just realize this, you 2142 02:30:26.000 --> 02:30:31.920 cannot pay for the kind of expertise that is in a lot of the places 2143 02:30:31.959 --> 02:30:35.159 I talk about here, not just garden centers. I mean bragging on Southwes 2144 02:30:35.159 --> 02:30:39.479 fertilizer, bragging on our ace hardwarees, bragging on others that you can't That 2145 02:30:39.559 --> 02:30:45.159 kind of expertise is important. You need that kind of expertise to have success, 2146 02:30:45.600 --> 02:30:48.479 because look, you don't want to go out and spend money and time 2147 02:30:48.520 --> 02:30:50.920 and work and just get disappointed and throw it up in the air and say 2148 02:30:50.920 --> 02:30:54.760 I've got a brown thumb. No, we want you to have success. 2149 02:30:54.840 --> 02:30:58.600 Wants your place to be beautiful and bountiful. That's why we talk about all 2150 02:30:58.600 --> 02:31:03.000 this stuff one garden line, and I hope you will do that. And 2151 02:31:03.079 --> 02:31:05.479 also, if you're listening to this, especially those of you outside this area. 2152 02:31:07.479 --> 02:31:11.159 You've got the Agerlife Extension Office in two hundred fifty four counties in Texas 2153 02:31:11.600 --> 02:31:15.600 that can help you connect to your experts, connect to local people. And 2154 02:31:15.680 --> 02:31:18.959 that is important too, and I encourage you to take advantage of that. 2155 02:31:18.959 --> 02:31:22.159 That is a great resource. I try to steer you that way when we 2156 02:31:22.200 --> 02:31:24.959 get the chance to do that. But that's another important resource. Hey, 2157 02:31:26.000 --> 02:31:28.760 before we run out of time today, I just want to remind you one 2158 02:31:28.799 --> 02:31:31.319 more time that, speaking of a great garden center, I'm going to be 2159 02:31:31.399 --> 02:31:37.120 at the Arbor Gate on next Saturday. I will be there, that's Saturday 2160 02:31:37.120 --> 02:31:41.079 to twenty third, from eleven thirty to one thirty, eleven thirty to one 2161 02:31:41.200 --> 02:31:45.000 thirty. I will be answering your gardening questions. If you want to bring 2162 02:31:45.000 --> 02:31:46.760 me some samples, put them in a plastic bag, seal them up, 2163 02:31:46.879 --> 02:31:50.680 bring them in. We can identify a plant, we can look at a 2164 02:31:50.719 --> 02:31:54.719 problem and suggest a good remedies for that problem. If you want to bring 2165 02:31:54.760 --> 02:32:00.479 me pictures like I was talking about earlier, you know with I think it 2166 02:32:00.520 --> 02:32:03.079 was John and Cypers. You know you got an area you want to put 2167 02:32:03.079 --> 02:32:05.520 a shrub in there. Let me take a look at it with a good 2168 02:32:05.520 --> 02:32:09.479 fresh set of eyes and mind on it and come up with some suggestions. 2169 02:32:09.520 --> 02:32:13.760 We can do that too as well. We're gonna be given away there are 2170 02:32:13.760 --> 02:32:16.639 one, two, three, completely easy system several times during the time I'm 2171 02:32:16.639 --> 02:32:20.280 there, so we're gonna give several sets of that. And that is a 2172 02:32:20.360 --> 02:32:24.280 quality set of products right there. You are about to get into fall gardening 2173 02:32:24.360 --> 02:32:28.760 and you need to have good quality products like that, fix the soil, 2174 02:32:28.920 --> 02:32:31.760 get the right plants, and put them in. Beverly's going to be coming 2175 02:32:31.840 --> 02:32:33.959 up with some surprises too to give way. I'm always excited about that because, 2176 02:32:35.000 --> 02:32:37.159 oh my gosh, the products and some things they have there are just 2177 02:32:37.440 --> 02:32:41.479 out of stand We've been listening to garden Line and we've been doing what we 2178 02:32:41.559 --> 02:32:46.000 love to do, and let's talk to you help you to have a beautiful 2179 02:32:46.000 --> 02:32:50.040 garden and a bountiful landscape. We're gonna be gone for the rest of the 2180 02:32:50.079 --> 02:32:52.680 week. We'll be back next Saturday and Sunday. You know, if you 2181 02:32:52.719 --> 02:32:56.639 ever miss a garden Line and or maybe you heard me say some product and 2182 02:32:56.680 --> 02:33:01.440 you didn't get it written down, go to your iHeart media app, or 2183 02:33:01.440 --> 02:33:03.399 if you have a different podcast app, go to that, Listen to the 2184 02:33:03.479 --> 02:33:09.120 garden Line podcast and you can catch up on things that we've talked about before. 2185 02:33:09.719 --> 02:33:13.520 In the meantime, go to my Gardening with Skip website. There you'll 2186 02:33:13.559 --> 02:33:18.319 find the lawncare schedule. It gives you the organic and the synthetic options for 2187 02:33:18.399 --> 02:33:22.399 lawncare from the fall. I've also put up some good information and I'm about 2188 02:33:22.440 --> 02:33:26.239 to put something up on how to recover your lawn from what it just went through.