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Welcome to Katie r. H Garden
line with skip rictor it's gas. You

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just watch him as many people takes
the sepotzy gas not a sorry credits salmon

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between welcome, Welcome, welcome to
garden line, good morning, good Sunday

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morning. Still dark outside. If
your neighbor's lights aren't on, go bang

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on the door and let them know
they're missing guard line. They will really

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appreciate that a lot. I know, because I always like to be reminded

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of things when I'm forgetting. Well, maybe don't do that today. They

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may not be appreciative of it at
this point in time. Well, we're

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here to answer gardening questions and to
help you have a beautiful, beautiful,

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beautiful landscape, a bountiful garden.
Whatever it is you grow, we want

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you to be able to do it
better once you have success with it.

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You know, gardening is not rocket
science. It is not sure. There

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are things you need to observe and
learn. I think someone who is a

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guy that once said that he spent
a lot of his life learning to see

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things from a plant's point of view. That's a good way to put it.

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You know, if you were a
plant, what would you want that's

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what we got to do. And
it really gets simple too. You know,

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you need good soil. That's number
one. Soil is important because it

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holds the water and the nutrients that
a plant gets. That's absolutely essential.

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So if your soil is built in
a way and I do mean the word

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built that creates excellent internal drainage.
Water goes in and it just moves down

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through the soil, but then it
holds adequate amount of moisture, so you're

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not watering day to keep it alive. If your soil is chock full of

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a nutrient bank account, and if
you keep it adequately moist, not soggy,

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not dry, adequately moist, that
plant root system is ready for success.

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You put that plant in the amount
of light that it wants. Some

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plants like full sun, and typically, as a very general rule, if

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it if it grows roots, fruit
or flowers that we're going to eat the

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roots or the fruit, or if
it's growing flowers fruit looking at then it

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needs as much sun as you can
give it. Six hours is kind of

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the magic number we throw out there. Plants don't have a little timer to

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see, was it you know,
five hours and fifty minutes or they don't

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have that, but of course,
but good amount of sun for the plant.

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Some plants can tolerate shade, but
even shade loving plants have to have

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light energy in order to grow and
survive and thrive. And there's a difference

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between staying alive and producing and doing
what you wanted to do. Can you

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grow a tomato and three hours of
sun? Yes you can. Can you

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get tomato fruit? No you can't. And why do we grow tomatoes for

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the fruit? Of course? And
the same thing goes to with flowers and

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things. So good soil, a
good sun exposure, and then of course

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picking plants that want to be here. There are some plants that just don't

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want to be here. You may
have a vacation plan to Colorado this summer.

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Don't bring back those blue columbines and
the blue spruce and other things you

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fall in love with up there.
Just leave them there. If you want

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a columbine, we got some that
grow here. It's a different kind of

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columbine, very different, very tolerant
of our situation. The Society for the

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Prevention of Cruelty to Plants needs to
have a check station at the Texas border,

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going every north southeast west everywhere,
just to make sure we're not bringing

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things that we're going to kill here. That would be a whole nother purpose.

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So yeah, learn to see things
from a plants point of view.

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That's what it all is, what
it all amounts to. And we give

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you little tips on that here on
garden Line, hopefully guide you in the

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right way, and you know,
most of all have fun. We no

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longer live in a hunter gatherer life
where if we don't find some food we're

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going to starve to death if we
don't chase it down and kill it with

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a spear. We no longer generally
speaking, most of you listening to me

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are not just have no idea how
you are going to eat tomorrow. Fortunately,

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unfortunately there's there are people in that
situation. But we don't garden just

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to survive. We garden for the
enjoyment of it. Now, the benefits

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are, yes, you get beautiful
flowers. It really does help your sense

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of wellbeing. Gardening is like I
mean, it is like better than meds

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for making you feel encouraged, hopeful, depression, staying healthy, and it

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just goes on and on down the
line. We get that out of it.

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We also get good healthy food.
We enjoy eating. But if your

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tomato plant only produced one tomato,
aside from being disappointed, it's not the

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end of the world. We're growing
tomatoes and other things because we like to

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do it. We like we enjoy
getting out there and being part of nature.

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And you know, the way I
like to put it is, as

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a horticulturist, I always tell people
I'm working in the original profession of mankind.

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You know, it all started in
a garden and here I am still

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doing the same thing. And in
many ways you do that as well,

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and so our goal is to have
fun. So how do we make it

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more fun for you? That is
one of my one of my goals here

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on garden Line is you know,
if you go to a nursery and you

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find this plant that oh man,
and you picture it in your landscape and

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you bring it home and you're excited
about it. I want that hope and

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I want that joy and fulfillment and
everything to actually come to pass as you

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take it home and you plant it. So how do we help you to

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have that success. Don't be afraid
if you fail at something. You never

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fail at gardening. Unless you give
up, you may lose the skirmish if

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you will. That rosebush you brought
home didn't make it. Well, Okay,

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let's figure out why and let's try
it again, because you can do

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it. Gardening is fun. That's
the bottom line. That's kind of what

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I'm saying here. Your lawn is
something that people, a lot of people

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enjoy. They love the beautiful carpet
of the lawn. It has many actually

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has many environmental benefits, moderating soil
temperatures. We live in an area around

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big cities and those are heat islands
where it really gets hot. Well.

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Nitrofoss has their Silver Bag that is
a super turf. The super turf feeds

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your lawn all through the summer season. It's going to give you three months

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plus of nutrition releasing to your lawn
and when you then return the clippings,

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you're set up until fall when it's
time to fertilize again. You're going to

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find superturf, the Silver Bag the
nineteen four to ten at RCW Nursery on

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I forty five North, not I
forty five on Tomball Parkway. You're going

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to find it at the ace and
a task Asda or up at the arbor

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gate or maybe at Lake Hardware down
in Angleton. It's easy to find that

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product and it is an excellent product. The way it's designed is to make

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the nitrogen gradually available, and that
matches the way your grass takes up nitrogen

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a little bit at a time,
day after day overtime. That is why

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Nitrofas has the design that it does
on Superturf Nitrofass Superturf, the silver bag.

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All right, it's time take a
little break. Our phone number seven

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one three two one two KTRH if
you'd like to get involved, and I'll

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be right back. We are here
to talk about the things that interest you

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when it comes to gardening. Let's
go straight out to the phones right now,

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by the way. The number if
you'd like to call in seven one

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three k t r H. We're
gonna talk now to Gerardo in meadows Play.

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Hello, Hey, good morning,
Skip. I had a question about

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and uh particularly ants on fruit trees. I seem to be losing the battle,

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especially with my Asian pear tree.
I have ants all over. I've

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tried demetrious earth. I'm not sure
if I'm pronouncing that correctly. UH have

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tangle foot, that's really goofy and
sticky. Is there anything I could put

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down the uh? Not the ants
from calling up the tree? And do

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you do you feel like they're they're
tunneling into the wood, eating eating the

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I feel like they're I feel like
they're bringing up a bunch of uh I

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hope I'm right, bringing up a
bunch of a fits and stuff like that.

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And it's just it, I don't
know. It seems like some of

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my leaves on the Asian para tree
you're dying and uh, and there's the

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ant all over it, and I
just I'm like, well, I don't

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know if there's something I can put
down that I because it's not bar and

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a through right now. So yeah, well, in general, you know

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answer that there there's a carpenter ant
that literally digs tunnels in wood and weakens

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trees over time. And then there
are the ants that are up on the

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tree because they're farming the aphids up
there, taking care of the aphids and

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and uh, basically it's like a
dairy cow situation. The ants literally milk

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the aphids, if you will,
by using their antenna. It's kind of

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cool, but not not when you
have them all over your tree. I

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think the only thing that I would
suggest is maybe get a persistent product to

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spray on the trunk around on the
base so that they would have to come

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down there or to have come up
and down and walk through it to go

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up in the tree. And that
could be something containing by fen Thren.

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By fen Thren is a synthetic perithroid
that persists out there a good while,

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so you're not having to spray it
every week, uh, in order to

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get good control. Okay, And
where would I get like that at?

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Uh? Oh you can. You
could just go up up the street southwest

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fertilizers not far from you and they
they definitely will have that and more corner

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of binet and Runwickay. Okay,
thank you so much, kid, all

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right, good luck with that.
Yeah. Answer. It's an interesting thing.

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Sometimes there are I said, those
are the two situations with ants and

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our plants that we have. That
that sounded interesting, uh, But actually

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the fire ants will get in some
kinds of plants just to get the moisture

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or the protein kinds of material in
them. But for example, ocrapods,

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you'll find fire ants that are feeding
around ocrapods and stuff. But in general

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ants are not there to attack our
trees. But I'll tell you what.

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They when they start taking care of
a fits, it's a problem. They

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literally they will pick an a feed
up, carry it up onto a plant,

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and set it down. And it's
just like dairy cattle. Dairy farmers

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bringing in cattle on their property.
And then they basically use their antenna to

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make the ant produce a little drop
of honeydew which they feed on. And

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so if anything tries to come and
get the ants, like a beneficial insect

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that would attack aphids, well,
the ants are there to protect the cows,

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right, and they will. They
will make it very difficult for beneficial

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insects to get in there and get
them. Kind of interesting natural situation going

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on. Let's go, I'll tell
you what. Let's go to Oak Forest

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and talk to b C. Hello, BC, Hey, how are you

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doing. I'm good, I'm good. How are you? Oh? Pretty

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good? I loved y'all. So
I'm just my second time wald. Hey

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did I call you baby? Your
tree? After the heat waiting last year?

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So we end up chopping it down. Anyways, I'm planning some rose

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bushes and four rose bushes and three
of one of them on he came up,

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Uh, you know they sprouted a
rose, you know, did his

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stay, grew leaves and branches,
But uh, I got squirrels, did

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it around by other ones? Is
that the reason why they're not coming to

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light? No? No, they're
squirrels are not hurting them other than a

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little disturbance of the soil. But
I think number one, lots of sunlight

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at least six hours very important if
you're gonna get out of here. Get

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that. They get that. Okay
number two where I'm playing them at this

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nothing butts okay, well number two. Then they need adequate water, but

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good drainage. If it's just a
heavy clay soil and a low spot,

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it's going to tend toward the saggy
wet side and not be good if it

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drains. If it's too loose,
like a sandy soil, for example,

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you're gonna have to water more often
to keep it moist. But water and

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sunlight or key? Have you done
any fertilizing on those roses yet? Now

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I too, because the soil I
use was the miracle growd type soil,

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and then I put some bulk over
that. But then I use some miracle

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grow for the roses. I thought
that would help, but nothing. Okay,

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Well, if I were you,
I would grab Nelson Plant Food has

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a couple of things. They've got
something called color Star that we use on

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all kinds of plants. But they
also have a rose food and a little

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canister, and that is going to
be one that It's pretty easy to find

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Nelson products around. But just follow
the label, sprinkle some of that around,

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and I think I think that I
think that will work pretty pretty well

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for you. Okay, that's great
because I was like, it's made like

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only one came up and I'm like, oh man, I wonder what's wrong

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with the other one. But what
do I do about the squirrels? Uh?

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Well, not much. You know
that they they're they're gonna do what

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they do. And I would say, other than you know that there's nothing

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practical in town that you can do
about squirrels. Uh So, I guess

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you know. I like him because
I'd like to see them playing around in

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my front yard, But when it
comes to my roses, I'm like,

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uh yeah, taking too far deep
down in there. Yeah, I don't

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think so. I think they're okay. I don't think there are problems if

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you were trying to raise some pecans
in the front yard. Yeah, that'd

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be a that'd be an issue.
But the roses. Okay, all right,

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well there you thank you byes.
All right, you take care,

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bec I was talking earlier about the
silver bag nitrofoss super turf. I always

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have to remind myself when when I'm
talking to you about fertilizing your lawn.

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I always want to remind you that
it's not just the numbers on the fertilizer

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bag that are important. There's a
lot of nutrients over twenty nutrients. If

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plants need to survive and do the
various processes that they do in order to

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survive or produce, if that's why
the plant's there to produce something for you.

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Well, asamite is a mind product
out of Utah, it's mind out

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of the ground, and it's chock
full of all kinds of trace minerals.

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And when you apply azamite to your
turf, this isn't the fertilization that you

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put on to make it greener and
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It's just putting a bank account of
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whole process in there. So,
in other words, putting a zinc down

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and are putting selenium or all these
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It's not something we do in a
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a very small quantity, and azamite
is designed just for that. Now you

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can find azmite information at asmite Texas
dot com. You can find azamite in

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a lot of places. It's widely
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our garden centers, our ace hardware
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know, they're the opportunities to find
asmite or everywhere. Feed stores. That's

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another good example. And another example
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Montgomery for those of you who are
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That's your hometown garden center, and
boyd did they ever have a lot

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of really really good products and things
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just noticing that the gosh, I
can't say kuffia. The kufia ignia also

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called a firecracker plant. It's it's
a shrub like perennial dies back to the

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ground oftentimes when we have cold weather, but then it comes right back out

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and it has these little red tubular
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took a picture of a hummingbird on
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an amazing little tough plant. They
got that at Ana Plants and Produce things

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like Turk's cap, another hummingbird favorite
that is absolutely bulletproof. I mean,

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that is one tough plant. They've
got that. And of course they carry

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every single fertilizer I talk about on
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They're on the east side of Montgomery
and so it's real easy. As you're

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going across one oh five between Conroe
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Every time you do that, Ana
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out. And especially if you're looking
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area. They're going to have everyone
that you hear me talk about. Well,

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let's see. Our phone number is
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A seven one three two one two
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Let's talk about the things that are
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to give you another reminder heads up
that Nature's Ways Summer sale is still on,

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but not much longer. We're about
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being over. What is the sale. It's thirty percent off most of the

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plants, all the way through the
month of June through July first. Now

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that is excluding The only thing I
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sun perennials. Only native sun perennials. Now, Nature's Way has a huge

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selection of Texas native plants, a
huge selection of plants for pollinating. Oh

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and also and this, you got
to take advantage of this one twenty percent

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discount on all composts, mult and
or soil blends. So if you're just

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buying composts, if you're buying a
bed mix, if you're buying mulches,

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twenty percent off, that's both bagged
and bulk. Either way, you go

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and buy it in Nature's Way.
That's it. But you have to mention

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Garden Line. I'm gonna say that
again when you call up Nature's Way,

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when you go to Nature's Way,
tell them you heard about it on guard

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Line about this twenty percent discount.
Now's a great time to stock up.

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Summer's here. It's time to get
mulch, all right, And it's time

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for me to stop and let the
news be the news. I'll be right

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back seven one three two one two
Kati, welcome back to garden Line.

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What are we going to talk about
today? Well, why don't you tell

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me that? What is of interest
to you? What are you accomplishing in

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your yard or what are you trying
to accomplish in your yard or your garden?

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Maybe growing tomatoes, grow in some
fruit trees. I don't talk about

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fruit a lot, and we should
talk about it more because there are a

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number of different kinds of fruit we
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For sure, we are far enough
south to avoid some of the worst

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of the cold weather that takes out
things like citrus and what and just do

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the things a plant wants. Remember, learn to think like a plant.

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What does a fruit plant want?
Wants good drainage in the soil, It

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wants good sunlight. And let's just
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your vegetable garden or in your orchard, or if just one tree is your

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orchard. When you have roots and
fruit, you gotta have sun because think

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about a carrot that is lots of
carbohydrates packed into a root so that we

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can pull it up and take it
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peach, a tomato, a pepper, or a squash. All the fruits

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on a plant our sinks. Where
the plant puts a lot of carbohydrates,

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it sends them there to build that
fruit. So when you don't have good

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sunlight, you have trouble with roots
and fruit. That just is a normal

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thing. Storage roots is what I'm
talking about, like sweet potato, for

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example, or a carrot or a
turnip. But when you provide it that

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you're able to have a really successful
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Now, if you have a vegetable
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but the trees have gotten bigger every
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sunlight, well that's where you would
turn to your leafy greens. Now,

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it doesn't mean let us wants to
be in shade or spinach wants to be

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in shade. It just means that
it doesn't take as much carbohydrate production to

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produce a leaf as it does to
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your leafy vegetables, if you've got
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do it this way. If you're
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spot that's very, very sunny,
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to produce the roots in the fruit. Put your leafy vegetables over there in

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the shadier spot. Now, they
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but they can do the shade a
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roots and fruit. All right,
hopefully that makes sense. Our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. I haven't talked about Star Hope in

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a good while, and I'd like
to just for a moment. Star of

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Hope is a christ centered community that
has been in Houston since nineteen o seven.

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That's right. They've been helping the
homeless for now what one hundred and

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over one hundred and sixteen years at
this point. They provide lots and lots

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of different beneficial services. You know, when someone is having a time of

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it, when for whatever reason faulted
their own or someone else's, it doesn't

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matter in terms of Star of Hope
helping. Starf Hope steps in and they

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provide him a pathway to put their
life back together, which certainly helps them,

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but also their kids, the children
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It's just a tragedy, it absolutely
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for mom and dad, but the
children especially, I think. But you

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can't just go from having nothing to
suddenly you're driving to work every day with

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great job. There's a process,
there's training involved there. In many cases

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there's like a substance abuse issue that
needs to be dealt with. Star Hope

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does all that. They serve about
six thousand meals a week. They've got

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over three hundred beds in the Downtown
Men's Center, Women and Women and the

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Family Development Center. See I think
the one hundred and eighty I believe women

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individual women or one hundred and thirty
different families. And I've been in there

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before. I've seen it. I've
seen everything for providing care for the kids

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so mom and dad can learn and
whatnot, to the way they basically walk

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someone from wherever they start to a
productive life for them and their kids.

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And you know what, to be
honest for the greater Houston community as well.

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To take someone and turn a life
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good for all of us as a
community. So Star of Hope kind of

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going on and on about it,
but it's because I believe in it.

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My wife and I support Star of
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If you would like to donate to
them, I guarantee you your money

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will be well spent and even just
like two dollars and eighty cents provides a

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meal for someone in that situation.
Go to s o Hmission dot org,

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s o H Mission dot org,
and I would ask and just really encourage

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you to do that. The more
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the stories of lives turned around,
it's exciting. And I know you're I

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know you're a compassionate person and this
is a channel, one of many channels

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we have now in our lives where
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You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and our phone

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number is seven one three two one
two k t R H seven one three

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two one two k t R h. Ace hardware stores are ubiquitous. They're

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everywhere in the Greater Houston area,
like forty stores in the Greater Houston areas.

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It's not hard to find one.
And when you find one we use

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that phrase that ACE uses, and
that is ACE is the place. ACE

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is a place to get your turf
fertilization products, your pest control products,

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disease control, weed management products.
ACE is a place to get those mosquito

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dunks we were talking about yesterday with
Bill. It's the place to get fire

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ant control products like baits, for
example. ACE is the place to get

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that fogger to turn that backyard patio
area into a little more hospitable place,

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at least for a while, so
that you can enjoy it with family and

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friends. ACE is a place for
all of that and much much more.

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Acehardware dot Com is their website.
Go to the store locator and you get

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a nice little map with red dots
all over it. That is ACE Hardware.

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And I really enjoy so much walking
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each one's independently owned, and so
the guy that or Galva whatever runs that

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Ace Hardware store gets to decide exactly
how they want that store to be.

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You know, do you want a
fudge bar in your storage? You know

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you have fudge bar in hardware store? Do you want to They just have

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a lot of cool stuff, lots
of cool stuff. By the way.

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Next Saturday, the twenty ninth,
it's a week from yesterday. I'm going

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to be at the Langham Creek Ace
Hardware. Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Now

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Langham Creek is over in the Copperfield
area. That's northwest Houston, just south

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of Cypress. If you've ever been
to the Berry Center over there, it's

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a little further south than that,
But Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Next Saturday,

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it's on. If you know where
FM five nine and Barker Cypress,

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for example, come together that that's
the spot. I'll be there from eleven

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thirty to one thirty and be answering
your gardening questions. Bring me some photos

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things you want to ask about,
bring me some samples, put them in

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a bag and bring them over there. And see the store Langham Creek Ace.

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The new owners have been in place
for a while now there and they

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just continue to take that store better
and better and better. I love going

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in. I love to just see
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So next Saturday, come see me. This, by the way,

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is my last appearance for this spring
season. I'll pick it up again in

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the fall. But if you'd like
to come out to a place and meet

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so we can visit. Well,
here's here is the last call Langham Creek

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as Harbor FM five point nine and
Barker, Cyprus there in the northwest Houston

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area. All right, I'm gonna
take a break here for some more news

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and I'll be back. Here's a
phone number if you want to. We've

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got to open lines at this point, so if you would like to give

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Chris a call and get on the
board, will come to you when we

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come back. Seven to one three
two one two k t RH. We

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welcome back to Garden Line. Good
heavy with us, Thanks for listening to

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back. We're here to talk about
the things that interest you. To have

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a more beautiful garden, a more
bountiful garden, that is what it's about.

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And so if you'd like to give
me a call the number seven one

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three two one two ktr H seven
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Plants for All Seasons is they've been
around since oh gosh, nineteen seventy

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three. I believe this family owned
operation has really become a fixture. Everybody

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in the whole region knows about Plants
for All seasons because it is a popular

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place. And why is it popular, Well, it's because it's because they

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provide the kind of plants that want
to grow here. But even more than

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that, it's because they provide the
advice and the guidance and the help so

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that you can have success. Remember
how I said gardening is supposed to be

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fun, not stressful. Don't worry
about failing at it. Well, when

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you go into plants for all seasons, you can take a branch or a

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leaf, or a bug and a
bag, or you can take a photo

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and say, hey, look this
is the weed I'm dealing with or whatever.

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They're going to point you to the
product you need and talk to you

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about how to do it. When
you buy a plant, they'll tell you

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how to plant it. If you
want to put a combo planting together,

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they'll tell you about how you go
about that and even help you pick out

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some plants for that. And now's
a great time too. By the way,

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listen, we got three more months
of hot weather coming up here,

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and you should be planting now.
Still, it is okay to plant now.

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And if you will and get a
good heat tolerant flower, which they're

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going to have it. Plants for
all seasons. If you will do that,

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you will find that you have beauty
all the way up until it's time

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for fall planting for the cooler season. So don't just set out three more

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months of blazing heat and maybe not
so exciting landscape. You need to provide

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that good color that will carry you
through, and plants for all seasons will

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do that. They're on Luetta,
or just actually there north of Luetta.

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If you exit Luetta going toward Tomball
on two forty nine, crossover Luetta,

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and they're just right there on to
forty nine, the number two eight one

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three seven six sixteen forty six.
Two eight one three seven six sixteen forty

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six. Go by there and you
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also with the help that you get. We're going to go out to need

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Bill now and talk to Bill.
Hello, Bill, Hello, good morning.

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I have some I have some oak
trees in my front yard, live

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oak trees and the mature trees,
but they keep putting shoots out from the

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roots, and I can't stop them. Is there any way to stop that

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without hurting the tree? Are there
are these shoots coming up fairly close to

407
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the trunk. Yes, Okay,
Shoots coming up have to be one of

408
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.279
two things. They're either coming up
from acorns, being a seed and that

409
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:10.079
can happen under a live oak.
That generally happens just randomly all around,

410
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not just closer mostly closer to the
trunk. Or it can be a root

411
00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.200
sucker. And that's the ones you
see. As you get closer and closer

412
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:19.200
to the trunk, you get more
and more of those, and as you

413
00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:23.480
cut them, it just makes them
produce more. They just like pruning a

414
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:30.400
limb and getting you know, regrowth
from pruning a limb. There there's not

415
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.519
a good product to control them.
Certainly you don't want to kill them because

416
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.079
you'd be that would translocate into the
tree if you sprayed them with something.

417
00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:42.160
I've seen people cut them back as
far as you can. It's be a

418
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.440
little bit of a job. Get
it. Get them cut back. Put

419
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.400
a very strong ground cloth down like
you see in a garden center that they

420
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.880
set plants on that black fabric,
and then cover that with a mulch.

421
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.480
And when you cover it with mulch, if especially if it's a little bit

422
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:01.920
of a heavier multch, not not
something really lightweight, uh, that can

423
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:07.000
help suppress them or at least keep
them down a little bit. But there's

424
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:12.319
not a really good answer to this
bill other than what I just mentioned.

425
00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.240
Okay, well, I've tried cutting
them off, and you're exactly right.

426
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:21.759
They just keep coming back, even
more dense than before. There is a

427
00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:29.279
product called sucker stopper. I can't
remember which of the companies makes sucker stopper.

428
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:34.079
You know, it's Boneyde or High
Yield or Monterey or Fertilan or whatever.

429
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:40.319
But sucker stopper suppresses that kind of
regrowth and so as you as you

430
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:45.400
spray that that that can be helpful, but you have to follow the label

431
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:51.480
instructions. Okay, sucker stopper.
Okay, thank you very much. Yeah,

432
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:54.559
what you've got there is a live
oak that is from more of like

433
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a Texas Hill Country original source after
we get oak motts, because oaks sucker

434
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:07.200
a lot that type. When you
get along the southern Gulf Coast, you

435
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:09.680
know, Louisiana, Mississippi, all
three there, you see you don't see

436
00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:14.400
as much of that, and it's
because that type of live oak that is

437
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:21.880
native there doesn't sucker so much.
That's just a fun fact that doesn't really

438
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:24.759
help you, but it's just just
a fact about why we're seeing that on

439
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:30.720
some trees and not others. Okay, well I'll give it a try and

440
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:32.680
see what happens. Appreciate it all
right, Bill, Thanks, appreciate your

441
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.440
call. Thank you very much.
Let's uh, well, let's go to

442
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.640
another Bill. This time we're going
to go to Jersey Village. Hey,

443
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:46.880
Bill, good morning. This is
Bill. I've got some Magnillia trees and

444
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:55.680
they're this smaller variety. They're rather
old, but need some trimming. Probably

445
00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:00.680
will get a professional to come out
and trim the bottom limbs out of the

446
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:06.839
trees. But I'm concerned, well
will they be damaged to just be prined

447
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:13.239
or should we put some sealer on
the wounds after primming. You do not

448
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.519
need to use a sealer on the
wounds when you're punting magnolia tree. You

449
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:20.599
just want to cut the limb.
If you're going to remove a limb,

450
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:25.199
cut it back to where it flares
out to attach to the trunk. So

451
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:30.519
if you're if you are following a
limb backward, it has a fairly consistent

452
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:36.480
diameter and as you get just a
few inches away from the trunk, it

453
00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:39.280
flares out, and so you want
to cut it right where the flare starts

454
00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:46.119
there. Okay, And no printing, say or anything is necessary. Sad

455
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:49.920
is necessary. And if you want
to have somebody, you want to have

456
00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:53.039
somebody to come in and do it
professionally. Yes, I've got I've got

457
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:58.159
several of these trees and it'll it'll
be kind of a big job. Yeah,

458
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:01.199
you ought to give Martin spoon more. Recall he's with Affordable Tree Service

459
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:06.920
and tell him your guardline listener.
Uh. He stays busy because he does

460
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.320
a good job. People over the
years have been doing this a long time.

461
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:13.079
Over the years, people have,
you know, kind of latched onto

462
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.960
him. Well his number. Let
me give you his number and a website

463
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:20.519
in case you want to take a
look at that. Okay, okay,

464
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:25.440
thanks, thank you very much.
It's seven three six twenty six sixty three

465
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:32.760
seven win three six nine nine two
six six three or aff Tree Service dot

466
00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:37.639
com. Hey ff Tree Service dot
com. All right, all right,

467
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:39.360
thank you very much. All right, Bill, you take care. Yeah,

468
00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:44.840
Martin right now, he is busy
because after that storm got our attention

469
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:49.679
just a few weeks ago. Now
people are calling to get their trees pruned

470
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.920
and taken care of, because we
know until November we're in hurricane season and

471
00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:57.480
it's just a matter of time before
some wins come back. This way,

472
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.599
as we learned a few weeks ago, it didn't take hurricane to really do

473
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:05.920
a lot of tree damage. And
it's just part of nature out there.

474
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.239
But why not get your trees ready? In fact, I can't express enough

475
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:15.239
the importance of proper tree care coming
in to this storm season. So Martin

476
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:19.840
spoon Moore Affordable Tree aff Tree Service
dot com, give him a call,

477
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:24.239
go ahead and see when he can
come out. By the way he charges,

478
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:29.119
he turns like one hundred and fifty
dollars to come out, and then

479
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:34.119
that money you paid for him to
come out becomes part of what you're paying

480
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:36.719
him to do the job. In
other words, it's not like you lose

481
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:40.119
the one fifty. It's just hey, it's just a are you really serious?

482
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:45.000
Do you really want some help here? And when he tells you what

483
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:46.440
needs to be done, you can
harm to do it, and you've already

484
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:50.559
paid one hundred and fifty for it. I think it's a good way to

485
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:52.800
do it. Isn't a big place
I wouldn't want to drive all over town

486
00:36:54.119 --> 00:37:00.679
based on people's curiosity. Just coming
up at this tree the garden Line.

487
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:04.880
We're here to answer your gardening questions. If you will like to write down

488
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:07.360
this number, I courage you to
do that. Seven one three two hunch

489
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:13.119
k t r H. Just another
reminder next Saturday, I'll be at Langham

490
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:17.400
Creek H Hardware, which is over
in northwest Houston, just south of Cypres,

491
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.199
south of the Berry Center. If
you will, John Barker Ciphers and

492
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:28.440
what's on FM five twenty nine?
What was that try to and Spencer Road?

493
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:34.000
I believe is Yeah, that's a
proper name. FMI. Anyway,

494
00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:38.679
I hope you can make them next
Sad we'll be right back. Welcome to

495
00:37:38.920 --> 00:38:22.719
kd r H Guarded Line with Rickards. Just watch him as crazy side starting.

496
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:30.800
Welcome back to garden Line. Welcome
back. Good to have you with

497
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:34.119
us. The sun is shining.
We've got another good day today. Uh,

498
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:36.320
it's going to be a great day
this afternoon. You got to get

499
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:39.280
outside, just take care of some
things you need to do in the yard

500
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:43.480
landscape. We can kind of help
with that. I'll in fact, i'll

501
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:45.639
talk here a little bit about some
of the things we need to be doing,

502
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:50.559
and also go out to a garden
center. Remember it is warm now,

503
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.280
but it is a great time still
to plant plants. All you have

504
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.840
to do is just keep a little
more attention to keep them watered well when

505
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.880
they're getting a stablish you know,
and think about this. When you put

506
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:08.719
a plant in the ground, the
roots are still in that cylindrical shape they

507
00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:12.639
were in the pot. And so
if you were to take a pot and

508
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:15.840
set it right down in the ground
and don't take the plant out of it,

509
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.760
just plant the pot and plant,
that is how it will be for

510
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.360
a while. After you plant,
roots will try to move out, but

511
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:28.519
you need to think as if that
pot is still there because that's where the

512
00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:31.519
roots are after you plant. So
I don't recommend planting the pot, by

513
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:35.559
the way, But what I'm saying
is it's going to take time. So

514
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:38.760
the soil can be pretty moist all
out and about, but that whole plant's

515
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:43.519
root system is having to come out
of that original cylinder. And each week,

516
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:46.280
each month, as we go forward, it becomes better and better established,

517
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:52.159
and it's less and less needy for
us to provide everything it needs.

518
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:55.840
So when you plant a plant,
just remember for a while you're watering it

519
00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:59.119
as if it were still in the
pot. I think that's a good way

520
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.079
to do it, maybe in that
area, but a little beyond that area,

521
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:05.280
because roots are going to slowly be
moving out. Just a little tip

522
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:10.639
right there. Uh, other things
that we can be doing, by the

523
00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:15.320
way, our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

524
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:22.480
Just a tip on mowing your lawn. There are a few factors in

525
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:27.400
lawn mowing that really make a visual
difference in your lawn. Did you know

526
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:31.480
that mowing your lawn is one of
the key factors in terms of having a

527
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.280
beautiful, attractive lawn or mowing it
right. The more often you mow,

528
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:43.440
the denser your lawn is going to
be. To let the lawn get real

529
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.559
tall and then cut it way back, that's a that's a kind of a

530
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.880
shock, a sat back for the
lawn. Of course, it bounces back,

531
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.760
but it looks terrible for a while, Especially things like bermuda grass.

532
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:57.480
They have most of their green up
on top, and when you cut back

533
00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:01.960
into that, it's real sticky,
uh like as in sticks looking, and

534
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.519
it eventually greens back up again regular
lawn mowing very important. Mowing with a

535
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:12.079
sharp blade, that's the second one. Mowing with a sharp blade makes a

536
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.920
cleaner cut. And at the tip
of every cut grass blade, it's going

537
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:20.280
to turn brown after you mow,
right up at the tip. But if

538
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:23.920
your lawnmower is dull and instead of
slicing a clean cut, as if you

539
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:30.679
use scissors to cut your lawn,
instead of that, if the ends of

540
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:37.079
the grass blades are just sort of
shredded, just sort of hammered apart,

541
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:40.320
if you will, by that dull
mower blade, now we have a larger

542
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:45.239
brown tip on each grass blade.
Now why am I on my hands and

543
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.119
knees down in the lawn talking about
this? Well, here's why you got

544
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.079
billions of grass blades all over the
place in your lawn. And if you

545
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:59.519
think of it in a pixelated way, the more brown pixels or tampixels from

546
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:04.039
those tips that were cut with a
dull mower, the more of those you

547
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:09.360
have, it lessens the overall beautiful
deep green uniform effect that we want to

548
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:13.960
have in our lawns. So it
also is easier on your lawn mower to

549
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:20.440
have sharp blades as well. So
mow regularly and mow with a sharp blade.

550
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:25.679
And then finally the height the more
the shorter you cut your lawn,

551
00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:29.440
the more often you mow your lawn, because when you mow, you cut

552
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:31.559
off a third of the leaf blade. That's the goal is a third.

553
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.960
So let's say you want to mow
your lawn at two inches high. When

554
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:40.880
it gets to three inches, you
cut off that third one inch, and

555
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:45.519
now you're back two. That's how
that works. So the shorter you cut

556
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:50.239
your grass, the less it has
to grow before it's time to mow again.

557
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.079
If you moved all the way up
with say Saint Augustine, especially in

558
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:57.360
a little lower light area, and
you're cutting it let's say three and a

559
00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.639
half inches high, well, then
and it can grow a lot more before

560
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:04.920
it's time to cut it again.
You see what I'm saying. So golf

561
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:09.039
course greens remote every day at a
very very tiny, little low cut that

562
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:14.800
they do. That's what makes them
such a wonderful playing surface is the regular,

563
00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:19.239
regular mowing. So mowing is important. Have a good sharp mower and

564
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:23.039
set it so that you are cutting
at the right height and then the right

565
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:29.320
frequency and all of that with a
sharp blade. That that's your mowing tip.

566
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:32.320
That's how your lawn mower makes your
lawn more beautiful and greener. It's

567
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:37.000
not just a matter of keeping it
from becoming a jungle. It's a matter

568
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.840
of building a dense carpet that you
the kids can play on, that you

569
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:47.119
enjoy walking across as part of the
overall painting a landscape around your home.

570
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.519
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

571
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:55.440
If you'd like to give a skull
seven one three two on two five eight

572
00:43:55.559 --> 00:44:00.920
seven four if you are anywhere out
in the Katie area, in fact,

573
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:07.519
if you're anywhere West Houston area,
the folks at Nelson Nursery and Watergarden have

574
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:12.880
really built a destination garden center out
in Katie and it's just a hop,

575
00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:15.599
skipping or jump outside of Houston.
Well. In fact, I think Houston

576
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:22.440
ate Katie a good while back,
as big cities tend to do. Nelsonwatergardens

577
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:25.119
dot Com is the website. But
when you go there, take a friend

578
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.960
because you're going to enjoy it and
it's okay to hang out a while.

579
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:34.559
In fact, you can just think
of it as therapy. I want you

580
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.440
to go over in Nelson Watergarden and
Nursery, and just go where they have

581
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.920
waterfalls and those disappearing fountains. You
know, they're the ones that invented that

582
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:46.000
large, tall, beautiful container where
the water spills over the side and recirculates.

583
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:51.599
Just go sit there and just enjoy
the sound of water. Number One,

584
00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:54.760
you're gonna want that for your own
home landscape. We had put a

585
00:44:54.840 --> 00:45:00.440
water feature in our landscape a year
ago. It's just a nice to sit

586
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.920
out and just listen to it.
And that also is attractive to birds.

587
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:08.880
They hear that too. Anyway.
Nelson Nursery and Water Garden one of a

588
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:13.039
kind plants. They have pots,
they have fish, they have fountains,

589
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.800
and they have expertise to help you
have success. But you got to go

590
00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:19.400
see it. You got to go
see it. See what I'm talking about.

591
00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:23.400
You go to Katie Turn North on
Katie Fort Ben Road and there you

592
00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:30.840
are just a rocks throw down the
street. I wanted to say a few

593
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:34.920
words. I don't talk about house
plants a lot on Guarden Line, but

594
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:39.920
pretty much everybody has one buy and
large and a lot of people struggle with

595
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:45.760
their houseplants, so they feel like
they're just not doing good. The number

596
00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:50.199
one reason that I see house plants
struggling is a lack of light for that

597
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:55.880
species. Now, every species of
plant that we bring into the house has

598
00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:01.119
different light levels that it needs.
There are plants that can take very low

599
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:05.760
light, and that would include the
sense of area, which is also called

600
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:12.159
mother in law's tongue. The zz
plant is a great low light plant,

601
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:15.639
and the one they call closet plant
as if you could grow it in the

602
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:22.559
closet, which is an exaggeration.
Spathophylum is an excellent plant for low light

603
00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:24.079
areas. Then you have plants that
are going to have to have more Any

604
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:30.559
houseplant that blooms is going to have
to have a lot more light than that.

605
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.280
A lot of the herbs that we
have can take shade, but not

606
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.000
that much shade, and they're going
to struggle along. But getting the plant

607
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:43.119
in the right exposure is important.
And just remember our eyes adjust to the

608
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:45.519
light, and so you may look
at something and go, well that that

609
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:50.880
ought to be enough light. Well, go stand outside in the sun for

610
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.480
a while looking around, and then
walk in the house and look at that

611
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:58.440
area until your eyes make the adjustment. It's like, yeah, they're not

612
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:01.360
much light here. At all,
and so making sure they get adequate light

613
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:07.480
because light produces food. It's the
fuel for the plant. So you take

614
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:12.199
all these these nutrients that are being
taken up, light shines on the leaves.

615
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.239
The leaves make carbohydrates. And we
talk about fertilizer like plant as plant

616
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.480
food, and I get that.
That's all right, you can call it

617
00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:23.119
that. But the real food for
the plant is when that fertilizer is turned

618
00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:28.920
into carbohydrates and all the other things
that the plants make out of the nutrients.

619
00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:32.440
That is important. You cannot make
a plant and super low light grow

620
00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:37.760
better by fertilizing it or watering it. It has to have light first.

621
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.960
But when you do, you want
to make sure that you give them the

622
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.679
adequate nutrition. And there are a
lot of great fertilizers for doing that.

623
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:52.519
That you keep the plant moderately moist, moderately moist. I see a lot

624
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.280
of house plants that die because they
were overwatered. And root rot is a

625
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:02.599
bad thing. Two things promote that. Number one, you've got a soil

626
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:07.679
mix that may be a little too
mucky, a little the particles are small.

627
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:10.159
There's lots of lots of organic matter, and our potting soils uh,

628
00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:14.280
and it just sort of gets mucky. It doesn't have good oxygen down in

629
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:19.440
the root system versus one that's a
little bit looser, and in the internal

630
00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:22.840
drainage is a little bit better.
So water adequately, water often enough to

631
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:27.519
keep it going, but don't over
water them. So the light and the

632
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:31.760
watering are the main two things I
see where people struggle with their houseplants.

633
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:36.920
Also, just know some plants do
not like to sudden changes. If you

634
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:39.920
have a little Fcus tree in the
house of fiddlely fig or or the other

635
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.760
types of Ficus, the common ficus, uh, and you move them from

636
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:49.320
low light to highlight or highlight to
low light, gonna they're gonna drop leaves

637
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.960
or you're gonna see sunburn on the
leaves. How that works? All right,

638
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:54.800
let's take a little break here our
number seven one three two one two

639
00:48:54.920 --> 00:49:00.840
KTRH. I'll be right back.
A welcome back to line. Good to

640
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.079
have you with us. Here we
go on another hour. Well in the

641
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:12.119
middle of they are almost if you
are looking for an excellent source of all

642
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.360
the things that I talk about when
I say bron stuff before green stuff.

643
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:22.199
Ciena moltch down south of Houston.
Cena Molts down south of Houston is by

644
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:24.199
the way. They're on FM five
twenty one, just near Highway six and

645
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:29.000
two eighty eight down north of Roe. Sharon Well cnmals dot com. Go

646
00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:30.719
to that website you can find them. You can find out a lot more

647
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:35.559
about the products. But they're going
to have the stuff that I call brown

648
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:37.079
stuff. And what is that.
Well, that would be composts. That

649
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:40.519
would be the mulches that go on
top of the ground. That would be

650
00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.159
the bed mixes. That would be
things like, for example, the veggie

651
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:52.320
mix that you get from Airloom Soils. They have that down there at Cienamulch.

652
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.559
They also have brown stuff. In
terms of the soil. All the

653
00:49:55.599 --> 00:50:00.159
fertilizers I talk about on guarden Line, all of them they end. Then

654
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:04.800
they have an excellent selection down there. So when you drive into Cenamalts or

655
00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:07.480
when you call them up, they
deliver within about believe twenty miles for a

656
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:13.159
small fee. If you go and
come home with the good stuff they have,

657
00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:15.760
your plants are going to hit the
ground running. That's how that works.

658
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:20.000
And Ciena Maltch they don't they don't
take short cuts. They don't mess

659
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:23.559
around. They provide quality products for
their customers, and if you listen to

660
00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:28.679
people who go their talk, you
know they are in love with Ciena Malts

661
00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:31.639
because of all those kinds of things. Cienamultch dot com. That's the website

662
00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:37.239
on FM five twenty one. Now
they're closed on Sundays, but they're open

663
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.960
Monday through Friday till five and Saturdays
from seven thirty in the morning until two.

664
00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.960
So check them out. Get the
brown stuff right and you will have

665
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:52.760
much more success than otherwise. Let's
go now out to Mike in surfside.

666
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:55.199
Hello Mike, Hello, Skip,
how are you doing today? I'm well,

667
00:50:55.280 --> 00:51:00.199
sir, what's up? I got
a couple real quick questions. One

668
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:04.800
is a gut some tomato plants left
over from the from the summer, from

669
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:07.880
the spring. Is it worth keeping
those things alive or just go ahead and

670
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:13.360
replanting it fall, you know,
Mike, Uh, It depends on the

671
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:17.199
condition of them. If they are
loaded with spider mites and leaf diseases and

672
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.320
everything like that, I think I
would get all that out of there,

673
00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:25.199
with all the you know, all
that mass out of there and replant What

674
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:28.960
kind of what I was thinking?
What I have done? Before though,

675
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:32.000
is take the end of a tomato
shoot, cut it off where it's about

676
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:37.199
I say, eight inches long something
like that, and then take it inside

677
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:43.119
and just swish slash it really vigorously
in water to wash off any spider mite

678
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.159
or things like that, and then
put it. You can put it in

679
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:49.119
water to root, or I'd like
better to put it in a in a

680
00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:52.800
growing medium like a potting soil with
a lot of pearl lighte in it.

681
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:57.119
You can get that thing rooted,
and now you've got a brand new plant

682
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.519
that you've taken from the end.
It's the exact same variety you took it

683
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:02.880
off of, and you could just
plant it out in the ground once it

684
00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:07.519
gets a good root system on it. So that would give to get all

685
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:12.440
those old plants and spider mites and
leaf diseases, spores and everything, get

686
00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:15.760
them out of there, get it
all cleaned up and ready, because July

687
00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:22.199
is a great time to plant tomatoes
for fall. Second questions, real quick,

688
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:27.519
I also raise bees. What is
a if you can think of one,

689
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:30.239
a high pollen producing plant that grows
at this time of the year and

690
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:36.079
this extreme heat, well, as
you know, there's not a lot blooming

691
00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:39.000
right now in the bees need that
pollen and I can't. I don't know

692
00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:44.280
if there's anything out there that that
produces pollen at this time of year.

693
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.760
Well, when you're talking about as
a bee keeper, you need you need,

694
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:52.800
you need an acre of flowers and
things to provide plenty for the bees.

695
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:58.400
But around our landscapes some popular bee
plants. The African blue basil is

696
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:04.239
unbelievable pollinator attractor in the landscape.
I see honey bees on a lot of

697
00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:09.440
different things. There's one called melaluca
that is a little shrub with kind of

698
00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:14.039
a silvery green leaf and a pink
flower through. Pretty they like that.

699
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:17.599
At my house we got some Mexican
heather as lining a driveway and I'm telling

700
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:22.679
you, they love the flowers on
Mexican heather. That's another one. There

701
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:27.159
are just a lot of different kinds
of plants that bees like. Later in

702
00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:34.320
the summer, we're going to see
the coral vine start to bloom. That

703
00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:40.119
is a vigorous vine that produces huge
clusters of pink blooms and bees all pollinators

704
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:45.599
loved that one as well. You
know. V Text is one that used

705
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:50.840
to say v Tex was a beekeeper's
friend because it's blooming at a tough time.

706
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.920
And Kramerless a while back at TEXA
and M they did a study in

707
00:53:55.000 --> 00:54:00.920
college station on all the bees that
were coming back to the high there as

708
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:05.000
part of one of the researchers in
entomology, and they found the number one

709
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:08.760
pollen bees were coming home with was
crape myrtle pollen, which tells you that

710
00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:13.400
that crpe murder, which blooms for
about ninety days in the summer, that

711
00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:17.519
is an important plant for sustaining bees. Oh. Absolutely, Yeah, this

712
00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:21.480
time of year, there's not a
lot there's really no vegetables out there going.

713
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:23.880
These love to get the pollen from
the vegetables, right, something,

714
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:27.039
man, They've got to be something
else they'd really like. This is just

715
00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:30.920
kind of a supplement their rather their
regular diet. Get them something little extra

716
00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:37.159
for summer. Yeah. Monarda is
called bee balm, and for very good

717
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:42.400
reason. They love they love Monarda's. They there's a wildflower that's a Monarda

718
00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:45.719
type plant that they love as well. But anyway, yeah, that was

719
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:49.000
a great recommendation. I could go
on and on. There's a lot of

720
00:54:49.079 --> 00:54:52.840
plants, but you know what I
would do, And I was out at

721
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:59.239
Arbrogate Nursery just the other day and
walking through they have so many kinds of

722
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:04.679
plants. Our landscapes full of plants. You can walk through and what where

723
00:55:04.719 --> 00:55:07.719
are the bees? What are they
on? And you know that it's it's

724
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.639
a simple way to go about it. But as you go to a garden

725
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:15.079
center, look at the bees.
I did the same thing of plants for

726
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.320
all seasons over on two forty nine
a good while back, and it was

727
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:22.760
just interesting because the bees know the
flowers are there, and so they're gonna

728
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:28.440
they're gonna go for their preference if
they have a choice. All right,

729
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:30.480
appreciate your recommendation, Skipp, thanks
so much. All right, Mike,

730
00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:36.119
thank you. Good luck with all
that. Our phone number is seven one

731
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:40.199
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. You know, we we had

732
00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:44.559
that heck of a storm a while
back that knocked out power, and that

733
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:47.199
can happen. It doesn't have to
be hurricane season, but that it doesn't

734
00:55:47.199 --> 00:55:51.719
have to be caused by a hurricane
for that to happen, because that storm

735
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:55.159
we had wasn't a hurricane. What
do you do? You got a freezer

736
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:59.760
full of food, you've perhaps you
work from home, and you have to

737
00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:02.440
have internet all the time to have
access. What do you do well,

738
00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:06.960
You get a generator, but not
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739
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:13.559
any place. A Generac generator is
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740
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But I want to tell you it's everything

741
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742
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:25.679
Here's what I'm talking about. They
take care of you. They walk you

743
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through the process. Number one,
just making sure you buy a generator that's

744
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:36.840
adequate for what you're trying to accomplish. Number two, getting the permits necessary

745
00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:38.199
to put that there at your house. They work on that. They don't

746
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:42.719
just tell you go do that putting
a slab out there, They actually do

747
00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:45.360
that as well, getting the generator
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748
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:49.599
away and you're ready to go,
you've got this generator that's ready to come

749
00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:52.880
on when the power goes out.
Once they walk away, that's when the

750
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751
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752
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753
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754
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WHOA, yeah, home grown tomatoes. Nothing's like a homegrown tomato, that

755
00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:23.679
is for sure. We obsess over
tomatoes. Tomatoes the queen of the vegetable

756
00:57:23.719 --> 00:57:29.960
garden. And you know, I
always say that tomato is the number one

757
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.840
vegetable that makes the phone ring here
on garden Line. Nobody ever calls me

758
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:38.400
about their core Robbie. I don't
know why, but anyway, tomatoes.

759
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:45.360
What would a gardening year be without
some really great new tomatoes and things?

760
00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:47.840
We just can't live with that like
that? All right, Well, let's

761
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:52.760
go talk to Joyce now out in
Cyprus. Hey, Joyce, Yeah,

762
00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:57.840
good morning. I just had a
couple of sunshine lagustrums planted yesterday, and

763
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.119
I've had conflicting information on how often
to keep them watered, you know,

764
00:58:01.519 --> 00:58:07.760
for a while while they've just been
freshly planted. Okay, here's what will

765
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:12.760
help you to think this way.
Imagine when they planted them, they set

766
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.679
the whole pot in the ground,
where would all the roots be well still

767
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:21.480
in the pot, right, And
when they plant them, the roots are

768
00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:24.840
all quote still in the pot,
meaning they're still in that cylinder shape that

769
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:29.559
came out of the pot. Now, week by week, month by month,

770
00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:32.400
the roots reach out further and further. It becomes better and better established,

771
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:36.519
where we almost don't water it at
all. Nature takes care of it

772
00:58:36.599 --> 00:58:39.480
pretty much. But early on it's
as if it was sitting in a pot

773
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:43.840
above the ground, which means those
things are getting watered every day in a

774
00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:46.840
small amount. So you want to
water in that cylinder area where the roots

775
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:51.280
are a small amount. You can
dig down and feel the soil. You

776
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:54.159
can tell, but just by feeling
about three inches deep, is it wet

777
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:59.239
or is it dry? Or is
it in between? Just don't overwater them,

778
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:04.559
but know that they will go completely
too dry fast because the roots are

779
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:08.039
so confined. Still Okay, yeah, they didn't plant them very deep.

780
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:13.880
They kind of build up, can
think of a word to describe it,

781
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:16.199
but kind of a pile around the
bottom of them. They didn't put them

782
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:23.559
in too deep. Is that area
poorly drained? Does it tend to stay

783
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:30.159
wet or something not? Particularly?
Okay? Well, you know I'm not

784
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:32.719
there looking at it, so I
don't know what else to say about that,

785
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:37.519
but I can tell you this,
Those plants are using water every day,

786
00:59:37.639 --> 00:59:39.800
especially when it's hot and the sun
is shining, and you just take

787
00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:45.559
them out. And like I said, each week, each month, less

788
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:50.280
and less is dependent on you.
Early on, it's it's all dependent on

789
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:53.119
you. So every day, a
little bit, a little bit. Maybe

790
00:59:53.760 --> 00:59:58.639
what size pot with it was like
a gallon pot tree gallon? Three gallon?

791
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:07.079
Okay, I would put about probably
a half gallon of water, maybe

792
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:12.559
a gallon around them. You could
do that. That probably is the best

793
01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:19.039
amount. I guess, all things
considered, Okay, okay, thank you

794
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.079
very much, you bet, Thanks
Joyce. I appreciate that a lot.

795
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:27.519
Listen to Medina's new product. Have
you heard about the new one, super

796
01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:30.280
Grow Plus. It's one of the
has to grow products and you probably have

797
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:32.880
used has to grow or has to
grow for lawns. Well, this is

798
01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:39.880
has to grow super grow plus.
And it is a really nice formulation number

799
01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:45.920
one. It's sixteen percent nitrogen.
It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. It

800
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:50.920
comes in a court bottle that you
hooked your garden hose, so it'll cover

801
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:53.519
about four thousand square feet and so
you can do your line in about about

802
01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:58.000
ten minutes or so. Just walking
through the lawn real quick with that on

803
01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:01.440
the end of the hose. It's
got the about about a fifth of the

804
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:06.800
nitrogen is in a slow release form. It's got iron and achilated form.

805
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:09.679
That's very important. So if you
want to green something up, nitrogen and

806
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:16.280
iron are two of the primary things
that we see needed when something is lacking

807
01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:20.639
good green color. It's got molasses
in it, it's got humic acid in

808
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:23.320
it, it's got seaweed extract in
it. This is a great formulation.

809
01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:29.960
So super Grow plus sixteen zero two
from Medina. It's widely available now.

810
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:34.800
Stores are carrying it, and it's
just simple and easy. Makes it very

811
01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:37.599
very easy to take care of your
lawn and have success, which, as

812
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:40.360
we say all the time, that's
what we want is for you to have

813
01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:44.760
success. Let's go to Sugarland now
and we're going to talk to Greg.

814
01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:50.719
Hello, Greg nice, how are
you doing. I I have a question

815
01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:54.920
now, when should I start seeding
my newly planted trees. They've been in

816
01:01:55.679 --> 01:02:02.000
for about a month now. And
once you got start feeding those trees,

817
01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:07.519
you know, I would say providing
them a little bit of nitrogen, especially

818
01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:13.199
in small amounts over time, you
could begin that now if they've been in

819
01:02:13.360 --> 01:02:17.400
that long, they also have a
very confined root system still, you know,

820
01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:22.239
it takes time for the roots to
move out of the original roots cylinder

821
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:27.840
and fully filled the soil. So
I would focus my feeding within the branch

822
01:02:28.119 --> 01:02:31.000
spread of the tree. So imagine
the trees is an umbrella. Where does

823
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:37.280
the water drip off the umbrella?
That's that's the drip line we call it.

824
01:02:37.480 --> 01:02:42.519
And you know, primarily fertilized inside
that area. Okay, and so

825
01:02:44.239 --> 01:02:47.199
missing nitrogen. Yeah, yeah,
I'll tell you, Greg, there are

826
01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:52.960
products for trees and shrubs out there
on the market and they're good. Just

827
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.000
because I always have lawn fertilizer on
hand for my lawn. That's what I

828
01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:00.840
use on my trees as well.
And easy. There's nothing wrong with doing

829
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:08.119
that. Uh So, Yeah,
I mean I could Ncrophos and Nelson they

830
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:14.119
both have you know, products that
are geared toward you know, woody ornamental.

831
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:17.519
Wow. Yeah, okay, all
right, all right, and thank

832
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:24.199
you, all right. Thanks In
the trees, you know, the number

833
01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:30.920
one thing to make trees grow fast, let me not do that. I'm

834
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:34.039
not gonna do the number one.
I'm going to do a series of important

835
01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:38.199
things. How about that, planning
them right, making sure if they got

836
01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:42.559
circling roots, those roots are cut
so that then they move out into the

837
01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:46.320
soil readily, and and by the
way, they will do that. One

838
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:51.159
time I was, uh, you
know, working with Beverly up at Arborgate,

839
01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:54.440
and she had some trees in there. Uh always do uh, And

840
01:03:54.599 --> 01:03:59.719
I got permission to take one up
out of the pot and do some root

841
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:02.519
running on it, put it back
in the pot, and then come back

842
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:06.320
in two weeks and look at it, and there were already fresh new roots,

843
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:10.559
white roots, just coming out from
behind those cuts. It's just like

844
01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:14.079
if you pri in a branch,
what happens You get ref sprouting. That's

845
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:16.760
what happens in the ground. Number
one, cut those roots, that's important.

846
01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:21.840
Step number two, of course,
plant it correctly, but provide adequate

847
01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:28.639
water. And number three would be
nutrition. Those three combined are what is

848
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:32.280
going to produce fast growth when you
plant a tree? What is the what

849
01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:35.480
is the goal? How soon can
I hang a hammock in this thing?

850
01:04:35.679 --> 01:04:39.960
Right? In other words, I
got to get it growing well. Of

851
01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:44.599
all those things. Of all those
things, more so than fertilizer, adequate

852
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:48.360
consistent water is very important. A
young tree has a confined root system.

853
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:53.039
You know, an established live oak
tree or big old whatever kind of tree,

854
01:04:53.199 --> 01:04:56.079
red oak, whatever, whatever you
have in your landscape. Established,

855
01:04:56.320 --> 01:04:59.360
they've got roots two and a half
times a height the tree in all directions,

856
01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:02.079
so they have a huge bank account
to draw from. The new trees

857
01:05:02.119 --> 01:05:09.400
you put out don't and so providing
regular water and small doses the very opposite

858
01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:14.599
of what our long term goal is. Providing regular water and small doses initially

859
01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:17.760
is important because when they go into
drought, even if it doesn't kill the

860
01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:24.119
tree, it causes growth to slow
down or shut down, and then when

861
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:28.840
it gets water it can grow again. So, more so than even fertilizer,

862
01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:32.920
is good consistent water, especially during
the first I'll say five years of

863
01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:38.400
the tree's life, with each year
becoming a little less critical than the one

864
01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:42.400
before. The first year is we
got to be all in for that one

865
01:05:43.239 --> 01:05:45.760
year two, you want it to
grow fast. When we go into summer

866
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:49.599
it hadn't rained in two weeks,
give it a good soaking, and then

867
01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:54.440
year three and to year five were
By year five we're probably not worrying so

868
01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:57.880
much about water to sustain the tree. But that's important. That's how you

869
01:05:57.960 --> 01:06:00.760
do it. If you want to
hang a hummockfast, you gotta cut the

870
01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:04.840
roots that are going in circles before
you plant planet right, and then make

871
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:10.079
sure it gets adequate water, and
then of course some fertilization as well.

872
01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:14.519
Well, you're listening to Gardenline.
I'm your host, Skip Richter. Our

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phone number here is seven one three
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Zach Buchanan, and you know this
week has been a week of the pollinator

876
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week. And I'm gonna when we
take I'm gonna take a break here,

877
01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:35.719
but when I come back, I'm
gonna talk a little bit about the pollinators.

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it is summertime, right, can't
do summer without the beach boys. Welcome

901
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back to Garden Line. I am
your host, Skip Richtor, and we're

902
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:28.520
here to answer gardening questions or just
if I'll even allow you to call and

903
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.760
brag on how many tomatoes you grew
last year? How about that, because

904
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:33.600
that's important. You know, the
goal is always to have the earliest and

905
01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:38.359
the best tomatoes on the block.
All right, well we'll do that.

906
01:08:38.720 --> 01:08:43.399
Seven one three two one two k
t r H. That's the number I

907
01:08:43.560 --> 01:08:46.640
was talking about yesterday. Zach A. Buchanan from Buchanus Native Plants in the

908
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:51.039
Heights. He came by and we
were talking about pollinators because this was Pollinator

909
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:57.199
Week. Pollinators we pollinator Week,
and I think it ends today. I

910
01:08:57.279 --> 01:08:59.560
believe it is the last day of
it, but anyway, it doesn't matter.

911
01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:04.520
Week is pollinator Week in the garden
because pollinators serve such an important role.

912
01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:12.640
They number one. Our food supply
is by and large thanks to pollinators

913
01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:15.720
that in the cases of fruits,
for example, vege, certain vegetables,

914
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:19.840
we wouldn't have them if it wasn't
for the pollinators that are helping take care

915
01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:25.039
of things. But you know,
whether it's bees like honey bees or bees

916
01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:29.520
like native bees, a bumblebee,
a leaf cutter bee, there's a lot

917
01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:34.119
of different kinds of solitary dwelling bees
and are pollinators that are important. And

918
01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:41.520
the more you provide in your landscape
an array of blooms that continue through this

919
01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:45.680
season. So if one plant's going
to like wimp out by summer, then

920
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:48.119
let's have a summer plant that's blooming
all summer take over for it. The

921
01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:51.520
more you build a landscape like that, the more success you're going to have

922
01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:59.520
in atracting pollinators and becann as native
plants. They've got a just an unbelievable

923
01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:01.800
selection and of natives. They have
natives. If you want something that is

924
01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:05.359
native just Texas in general, of
course they got that. But if you

925
01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:12.079
want something native just to the greater
Houston area, they specify that particular division

926
01:10:12.199 --> 01:10:15.680
as well. You can go to
see them at Eleventh Street in the Heights,

927
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:19.239
six eleven East eleventh Street in the
Heights, or you can go to

928
01:10:19.319 --> 01:10:23.479
the website, which I'd recommend you
to do that. You do that and

929
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:30.520
you sign up to receive their newsletter
information. Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot

930
01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:33.800
com. They have been serving Houston
gardener since nineteen eighty six. Right there

931
01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.880
in the Heights. They have all
the fertilizers that I talk about on garden

932
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:43.760
Line and many many other helpful products, including a beautiful gift shop that is

933
01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:47.119
always a good idea when you're looking
for a nice little gift for somebody.

934
01:10:47.479 --> 01:10:56.319
Buchanans Native Plants in the Heights.
Pollinators. We had a call earlier people

935
01:10:56.399 --> 01:11:00.800
ask a guy was asking about bees. How to you how to you know,

936
01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:05.199
support the bee? That was Mike, they called him, and you

937
01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:09.560
know, we were just it got
me thinking about what are the plants that

938
01:11:09.680 --> 01:11:15.279
bees like the most? So while
back I started compiling a list of be

939
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:21.319
favorites. But here's the thing.
Bees are not all in agreement as to

940
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:26.600
what the favorite plant is. There's
actually a bee that's called a squash bee,

941
01:11:27.159 --> 01:11:32.760
and it it literally its love is
to plant is to pollinate cue curbets,

942
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:38.159
is to visit ce curbet flowers for
the nectar and the honey. That's

943
01:11:38.199 --> 01:11:40.520
what it focuses on. Have you
ever thought about that? Do you have

944
01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:42.520
squash bees? At your house.
I don't know, maybe you do.

945
01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:46.479
They are around here. Uh that
there's the leaf cutter bee. And there's

946
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:50.159
just a lot of different kinds of
bees and they each have their prefectly So

947
01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:54.319
making a list for bees is a
little bit of a challenge, but I

948
01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:58.039
think we need to put something like
that together. They already exist. If

949
01:11:58.079 --> 01:12:02.359
you're interested in learning more about pollinate
the xerx Sees Society. Uh, and

950
01:12:03.039 --> 01:12:05.720
I was gonna spell it, and
then I realized I would butcher it if

951
01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:10.840
I did. But it's xe r
cees. Am I spelling that right?

952
01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:16.560
X e r cees the xerk Sees
Society. Yeah, that's right. They

953
01:12:17.359 --> 01:12:23.760
focus on pollinators and it's xerxees dot
org. Go there. Look at the

954
01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:28.000
material they have. It is amazing
the kind of material they have. Maybe

955
01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:32.439
you're interested more in a flower garden
for butterflies, we can do that.

956
01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:38.560
Remember when you're planting a butterfly garden, you want to plant things for the

957
01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:41.760
children and the parents. So what
do I mean by that, Well,

958
01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:45.640
a monarch. We use monarch.
That's a familiar one for everybody. Milkweeds

959
01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:50.079
are an example of something you plant
for the children, for the larva,

960
01:12:50.439 --> 01:12:56.000
the monarch, lazyego, milkweed,
and there we go. It's it's larva

961
01:12:56.079 --> 01:13:00.359
has something to eat. Then things
that the adults can feed on. That

962
01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:04.279
would be the nectar from the flowers. And there's plants that are very attractive

963
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:10.479
to butterflies. A Zac and I
talked about some yesterday. There are a

964
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:13.560
number of different plats depending on the
butterfly you want to attract. So with

965
01:13:13.680 --> 01:13:16.560
monarchs we think of milkweed. With
the goff frittlary, that's the orange butterfly

966
01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:23.520
around here, passion vine very popular. There is a pipe vine, swallow

967
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:28.920
tail, and number of different types
of pipe vine that you can plant.

968
01:13:29.199 --> 01:13:33.720
But that particular butterfly that's with the
larva feed on. So if you plant

969
01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:36.079
it, they will come. That's
a good way to put it. And

970
01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:40.560
if you want to attract butterflies,
learn a little bit about them, find

971
01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:43.960
out what kinds you like, and
you can attract. You can plant the

972
01:13:44.039 --> 01:13:46.520
things that are going to be popular
with that and as I said, if

973
01:13:46.600 --> 01:13:50.000
you build it, they will come
and it just gets better and better over

974
01:13:50.119 --> 01:13:58.560
time. One of my favorite bee
plants is African blue basil. Now it's

975
01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:03.119
not really blue, but anyway,
it is a basil. I suppose it

976
01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:08.239
has some culinary uses. I've never
used it in a culinary way. I

977
01:14:08.319 --> 01:14:11.800
kind of like the genobe s basils
and for making pesto and things. But

978
01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:16.920
the African blue makes a really good
sized bush. I don't know three feet

979
01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:23.119
even possibly, I guess four feet
in width and height and time. But

980
01:14:23.239 --> 01:14:28.199
when we get toward the end of
summer, that bush is loaded loaded with

981
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:31.880
bees because it is a very important
source. They love that. They love

982
01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:36.159
that plant. Now, bees love
all kinds of basil flowers, but just

983
01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:40.640
the stature and the growth of that
plant is amazing. So we could go

984
01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:44.399
on and on about other kinds of
plants. I think I mentioned earlier that

985
01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:51.079
my Mexican kufia is always a bee
favorite. The flowers are not huge,

986
01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:57.079
not a lot to write home about
on the standard type of Mexican heather,

987
01:14:58.199 --> 01:15:03.079
but the bee find them and they
love them. They love that. I

988
01:15:03.159 --> 01:15:09.520
was talking earlier about the importance of
finding the right products and taking care of

989
01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:13.800
the lawn, and no matter what, you need, any kind of fertilizer,

990
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:16.439
any kind of pest control, disease
control, weed control. Bob Patterson

991
01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:19.720
Southwest Fertilizer go there. Talk to
Bob, talk to Aaron, talk to

992
01:15:19.840 --> 01:15:23.600
the team there. They're experts.
You can bring them a picture, they

993
01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:28.920
look at it. They're on Bessin
out corner of Bessinet and Renwick in southwest

994
01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:32.520
Houston. I would recommend you go
there if you've never been. Hey,

995
01:15:32.720 --> 01:15:40.000
it's air conditioned in there, A
good time to go. They have unbelievable

996
01:15:40.119 --> 01:15:44.239
selection and knowledge. Oh my gosh. The last thing you need, and

997
01:15:44.319 --> 01:15:47.039
you've got a weed or something,
is to just start buying stuff that someone

998
01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:50.600
at a store that doesn't know what
they're talking about. Just set here,

999
01:15:50.760 --> 01:15:54.439
go use this, and they don't
know what they're talking about. They do

1000
01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:58.920
it. Southwest Fertilizer. You'll get
it right the first time. That's that

1001
01:15:59.279 --> 01:16:01.640
tie work. All right. We're
gonna take a little break for the top

1002
01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:03.880
of the hour in the news.
If you would like to get on the

1003
01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:10.439
boards with Chris my producer seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four,

1004
01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:25.840
give us a call. You're right
back. Welcome to kt r H

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01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:38.680
Garden Line with Scip Richard. It's
crazy. Just watch him as a world

1006
01:16:43.640 --> 01:16:47.640
may well. Welcome back to garden
Line. Let's hop in here and get

1007
01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:51.840
this hour rolling if you would like, if you have a gardening question seven

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one three two one two k t
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1009
01:16:57.000 --> 01:17:00.119
two k t R eight. We're
gonna head straight out to Katie and talk

1010
01:17:00.199 --> 01:17:04.600
to Dwyane. Hello, Dwayne,
good morning, Skip. I've got I

1011
01:17:04.680 --> 01:17:08.800
sent you some pictures. So I've
got a plumb tree that it may be

1012
01:17:08.920 --> 01:17:10.920
fire blake, but I want to
get your opinion. And I've got some

1013
01:17:11.039 --> 01:17:14.840
sap seeping out of some of the
limb areas, and I wanted to see

1014
01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:18.279
what your thoughts were on it.
Oh okay, yeah, that does not

1015
01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:23.600
look like fireblight to me. Well
that's good. What did you say?

1016
01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:26.960
What type of tree? So if
you look down in those pictures, there's

1017
01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:29.479
one or two of those pictures that
I sent you that's got some sap,

1018
01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:32.039
it looks like sap kind of seeping
out of right around where the branches or

1019
01:17:32.079 --> 01:17:34.920
where the one of the branches coming
out of the main trunk. Okay,

1020
01:17:36.159 --> 01:17:43.760
oh yeah, I see that.
Okay, Well, a lot of things

1021
01:17:44.279 --> 01:17:48.479
can cause that just by wounding the
trunk. So it could be like a

1022
01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:53.960
kinker where the trunk has a disease
in it that is an infection in it

1023
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:57.520
if you will. That causes the
plant to bleed the sap out. It

1024
01:17:57.600 --> 01:18:02.039
could be an insecting on it in
there plums did you say plum tree?

1025
01:18:02.720 --> 01:18:04.760
It is a plumb. I don't
know if that's a bruiser or a methley,

1026
01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:08.000
but it's either a brucher or methley
plumb. Okay, yeah, I'm

1027
01:18:08.039 --> 01:18:13.359
seeing the leaves now. Yeah.
They can be really prone to leaking sap

1028
01:18:13.479 --> 01:18:17.039
as campeaches their cousins. Okay,
And so I would just watch it,

1029
01:18:17.760 --> 01:18:21.319
you know, give it the regular
care, adequate moisture not too much,

1030
01:18:24.079 --> 01:18:28.439
and moderate fertilizer not too much.
It's not going to need a whole lot

1031
01:18:28.479 --> 01:18:32.239
of fertilizer. It looks like to
me that it's growing at an adequate pace

1032
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:36.119
too, So that's kind of what
we're looking for as a moderate rate of

1033
01:18:36.239 --> 01:18:41.680
a growth. That tip burning.
I think maybe it got dry for a

1034
01:18:41.720 --> 01:18:45.399
little while, or it possibly some
sort of a chemical used around the tree

1035
01:18:46.359 --> 01:18:49.880
could have been There's no nothing goes
back there except fertilizer. I don't I

1036
01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:53.520
try to keep it. Okay,
Well, I'm not using organic on the

1037
01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:56.399
fertilizer, but I don't put any
type of pesticides or anything in the backyard

1038
01:18:57.479 --> 01:19:01.760
around any of that. No straight
yeah, okay, Well, and this

1039
01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:05.039
is something that happens every It seems
like it's every summer. I do fight

1040
01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:08.279
this. So maybe it has to
do with the heat. I don't know

1041
01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:11.159
if that's something that's prone for the
plumbs. Well, I'll tell you this,

1042
01:19:11.279 --> 01:19:15.800
Dwayne, diseases do not know where
the tips and margins of the leaf

1043
01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:20.199
are. They land where they land
and infect where they land, and so

1044
01:19:20.479 --> 01:19:26.840
disease bacteria and fungus is more of
a random thing. When you see the

1045
01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:32.479
tips and margins, that means either
water isn't getting to that spot, or

1046
01:19:32.880 --> 01:19:39.840
if you use fertilizer, assault type
fertilizer and you overapply it, it's flowing

1047
01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:44.319
along and as the leaf is transpiring
water out, it's leaving the fertilizer salts

1048
01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:48.399
behind. So we can get tip
and margin burn from an excessive fertilization.

1049
01:19:49.439 --> 01:19:53.319
But that's about it. That's about
the only things I can think of that

1050
01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:56.199
would do this. Okay, well, thank you, sir. I appreciate

1051
01:19:56.199 --> 01:20:00.439
it all right, Good luck with
that, Thank you. Good our phone

1052
01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:08.640
number seven one three two one two
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1053
01:20:08.680 --> 01:20:14.960
pier scapes before and it's I am
very impressed by Peerscapes. And here's why.

1054
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:17.479
First of all, right, I
want you to write down this website

1055
01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:21.560
and I want you to go there
and look at it. It's Piercescapes dot

1056
01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:27.000
com. Pierscapes dot com. Look
at the work that they do. Do

1057
01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:31.479
you need a hardscape put in the
back. Do you need a perhaps area

1058
01:20:31.520 --> 01:20:35.119
that doesn't drain well to drain well? They can fix that. Is your

1059
01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:41.800
irrigation system not in good shape,
it needs some evaluating and repairing, they

1060
01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:45.560
can do that too. They also
do quarterly service for your beds. So

1061
01:20:45.720 --> 01:20:49.800
if you have a bed that you
would like somebody to come once a quarter

1062
01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:55.680
and weed it and do any trimming
that's necessary, fertilizing is needed, make

1063
01:20:55.720 --> 01:20:59.840
sure the irrigation's working, and maybe
periodically a color change, like hey,

1064
01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:02.600
the Panzies don't like summer, let's
put in a summer color. They do

1065
01:21:02.760 --> 01:21:05.960
all that. You can sign up
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1066
01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:09.600
well. But no matter what you
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1067
01:21:09.640 --> 01:21:15.800
we're talking about landscape lighting, we're
talking about pathways, just anything in the

1068
01:21:15.880 --> 01:21:20.000
way of hard escape. They specialize
in that. And certainly in designing.

1069
01:21:20.119 --> 01:21:24.520
If you'd like to have them come
in and really create a showplace for you,

1070
01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:28.840
they can do any level of that
that you want. Piercescapes dot com

1071
01:21:29.199 --> 01:21:33.880
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1072
01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:40.279
seven oh five zero six zero.
Give them a call or especially go to

1073
01:21:40.319 --> 01:21:43.439
that website and look at the work. I think you'll be as impressed as

1074
01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:49.359
I have been. In Chani Gardens
down in Richmond is one of those destinations

1075
01:21:49.479 --> 01:21:54.039
showplaces. You know, if you've
ever been there, you know what I'm

1076
01:21:54.079 --> 01:21:56.760
talking about. If you haven't,
well, I got something for you to

1077
01:21:56.840 --> 01:22:01.760
do then this afternoon in Janet Gardens
Richmond dot com. That's the website Enchanted

1078
01:22:01.920 --> 01:22:05.239
Gardens Richmond dot com. They're on
the Katie Foster side. So if you're

1079
01:22:05.279 --> 01:22:11.600
down in Richmond Rosenberg area, you
head north and they're on FM three fifty

1080
01:22:11.720 --> 01:22:16.399
nine FM three fifty nine. It
is a beautiful mersery. It's really an

1081
01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:20.680
unforgettable experience to go. You're going
to find every kind of plants you want.

1082
01:22:20.800 --> 01:22:25.319
You're gonna find people that know what
they're talking about to help you.

1083
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:30.800
They are experts at putting together combination
planters. You ought to see some of

1084
01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:33.439
the things that they put together there, and they just have everything you need.

1085
01:22:33.680 --> 01:22:36.800
You can bring your samples in for
some expert advice, put them a

1086
01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:40.920
little plastic bag. Walk in there
and say, hey, what is this?

1087
01:22:41.159 --> 01:22:43.239
What do I do about it?
And they can help you with that.

1088
01:22:43.359 --> 01:22:45.399
They carry all the fertilizers I talk
about on garden line. They're open

1089
01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:50.720
Monday through Saturday eight to five and
on Sundays from ten am to four pm.

1090
01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:55.680
So, as I said, that's
something for you to do. Remember

1091
01:22:55.880 --> 01:22:59.760
it is not too late to be
planting just because things have warmed up.

1092
01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:05.640
No, take advantage of anytime you
can pull aside to get some beautiful summer

1093
01:23:05.720 --> 01:23:10.000
color planted. Maybe it's a hanging
basket, maybe it's a flower bed,

1094
01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:15.399
maybe it's starting a shrub or a
rosebush. In general, now's the time.

1095
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:20.119
Get that done. Don't wait we
get I get impatient with plants.

1096
01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:24.640
I you know, you buy them. I know what this thing's going to

1097
01:23:24.720 --> 01:23:27.119
look like when it grows up.
Oh my gosh, it's going to be

1098
01:23:27.199 --> 01:23:30.920
gorgeous. But right now, especially
if it came out of a four inch

1099
01:23:30.039 --> 01:23:33.800
pod, it's like, okay,
that's a little bitty thing, let's go,

1100
01:23:33.960 --> 01:23:39.439
let's grow. So but that's why
we got quality fertilizers. Speaking of

1101
01:23:39.520 --> 01:23:44.920
a quality type fertilizer, nitrophoss is
sweet green is a natural type fertilizer.

1102
01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:50.800
It's based on molasses with microbial activity
to create an eleven percent nitrogen eleven percent

1103
01:23:50.920 --> 01:23:57.399
that is high for an organic type
product. Eleven percent nitrogen product that will

1104
01:23:57.479 --> 01:24:00.680
really green up your lawn. And
I would say right now, if you

1105
01:24:00.760 --> 01:24:03.720
were going to use a sweet green, first of all, it smells wonderful.

1106
01:24:03.880 --> 01:24:06.439
That's why they call it sweet green. If you're going to use that,

1107
01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:10.800
I would put it out now at
a moderate rate, and then keep

1108
01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:14.760
returning your clippings, and probably a
couple of months from now, maybe let's

1109
01:24:14.760 --> 01:24:18.720
say we get into I don't know, sometime in August, you could put

1110
01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:24.000
another application out to carry you on
into the fall season when you do your

1111
01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:27.520
fall fertilization. Now, it's a
nitroposs product, So you're going to find

1112
01:24:27.560 --> 01:24:30.760
it in a lot of different places. D and Defeat up there in Tomball

1113
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:35.920
will carry it. Fisher's Hardware in
Baytown will carry it. Plants and things

1114
01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:40.640
out in Brenham, Jim's Hardware,
Montgomery It's easy to find Sweet Green and

1115
01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:45.039
other nitroposs products, and I think
that this one will be interesting. I

1116
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:47.840
was joking the other day that it
smells so good that you want to take

1117
01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:51.560
the long way home from the store
just so you can enjoy the smell a

1118
01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:57.920
little bit longer in the car.
All Right, that's exaggerating a little bit,

1119
01:24:58.039 --> 01:25:00.520
but I love the smell. Our
phone number if you'd like to give

1120
01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:05.840
us a call seven one three two
one two KT right seven one three two

1121
01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:15.279
one two k t r H.
I. I had Bill Stingle from Mosquito

1122
01:25:15.319 --> 01:25:17.399
Dunks on yesterday. I hope you
were able to hear that. I want

1123
01:25:17.439 --> 01:25:19.680
to talk a little bit about mosquitos. We're gonna take a break here,

1124
01:25:19.720 --> 01:25:23.199
but when I come back, I
want to talk a little bit about mosquitoes

1125
01:25:23.239 --> 01:25:26.800
and how how this product works,
as well as some of the other things

1126
01:25:26.840 --> 01:25:35.800
we can do for mosquitoes. We'll
be right back. Welcome back to Garden

1127
01:25:35.880 --> 01:25:41.399
Line. We are hoping here today. I love I love upbeat music,

1128
01:25:41.880 --> 01:25:45.199
just especially or kind of mid morning
here. It's time to get going here.

1129
01:25:45.800 --> 01:25:50.239
That's enough coffee for me today,
and I'm ready to hit a head

1130
01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:55.319
out of here after the show and
get some actual work done this afternoon.

1131
01:25:55.720 --> 01:25:58.159
I don't know. I say work, it's not work for me. It's

1132
01:25:58.239 --> 01:26:01.239
play out in the lands ape some
things I want to get planted. We're

1133
01:26:01.279 --> 01:26:05.600
gonna go first to Northwest Houston and
talk to Malcolm. Hello, Malcolm,

1134
01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:10.039
Hey, good morning, Skip.
How you doing. I hope you're doing

1135
01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:14.520
well. I am. I've got
a small problem in my Saint Augustine yard.

1136
01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:17.119
I've been following your schedule and my
yard's looking really great. But my

1137
01:26:17.479 --> 01:26:23.840
tree drafted a bunch of acorns,
and I've got little acorns trees sprouting up

1138
01:26:23.960 --> 01:26:27.680
everywhere, hundreds, maybe thousands of
them. Okay, can I do you

1139
01:26:27.760 --> 01:26:30.840
know if you if it's just mow
them, they tend to kind of go

1140
01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:34.279
away when they're a little tiny ceiling. They just if they can't get good

1141
01:26:34.399 --> 01:26:39.960
leaves up there to capture sunlight that
that little ceiling doesn't have a great wet

1142
01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:42.800
to to. There's not a spray
for them. I mean, well,

1143
01:26:43.119 --> 01:26:45.640
there are sprays that kill them,
but I don't recommend doing that on a

1144
01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:49.119
long Well, that's fine, it's
I just didn't know if that was the

1145
01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:53.359
case. I didn't want them to
get stronger in the roots and then up,

1146
01:26:53.359 --> 01:26:55.439
I'll never be able to get rid
of them. So that's right,

1147
01:26:55.479 --> 01:26:58.039
I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. Yeah, keep keeping mode. And

1148
01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:00.319
I mean, if you end up
having to kill something like that, you're

1149
01:27:00.319 --> 01:27:03.640
gonna have to be very selective and
how you spray so you don't hurt your

1150
01:27:03.720 --> 01:27:08.199
lawn too. Yeah. No,
that sounds like Mowen's the answer. Man.

1151
01:27:08.239 --> 01:27:10.239
I appreciate it. Thank you very
much. All right, Malcolm,

1152
01:27:10.319 --> 01:27:15.399
take care. Appreciate your call very
much. Start of Hope. I was

1153
01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:19.640
talking about Star Hope earlier. That
is a place that and the name is

1154
01:27:19.760 --> 01:27:24.960
so so appropriate. That is a
place that brings hope to people. And

1155
01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:27.520
I'd like you, just just for
a moment, just kind of go with

1156
01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:33.039
me on this. Maybe you've got
a mom that has kids that is alone

1157
01:27:33.159 --> 01:27:38.520
now and for whatever reason, she's
lost her job, maybe living in a

1158
01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:42.119
car. How do you take somebody
like that and set them on their feet

1159
01:27:42.640 --> 01:27:45.880
where they're self sustaining and there's a
future for those children. Well, here's

1160
01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:47.880
what you do. You bring them
in, you give them a place to

1161
01:27:47.960 --> 01:27:51.439
eat, You take care of the
kids with some daycare so mom can learn

1162
01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:57.399
get some job skills. Whatever if
substance abuse is part of it. Provide

1163
01:27:57.479 --> 01:28:02.000
help with that too. No Hope
has the whole pathway kind of laid out

1164
01:28:02.239 --> 01:28:05.840
for people that are willing to take
the time, stick around and do it

1165
01:28:06.159 --> 01:28:09.600
for them to have a new life. And you don't hear the stories of

1166
01:28:09.760 --> 01:28:14.680
people that have been through Star of
Hope and now have a wonderful part of

1167
01:28:14.720 --> 01:28:18.239
our community, contributing people leaders in
the community and in their areas. We're

1168
01:28:18.319 --> 01:28:25.199
talking about hope, and I know
you have a compassion about you. This

1169
01:28:25.399 --> 01:28:27.920
is a way to put that compassion
to work. It doesn't take much.

1170
01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:30.319
You know, about two dollars and
eighty cents, I think is what it

1171
01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:34.239
takes to provide a meal for people. But Star of Hope, let me

1172
01:28:34.279 --> 01:28:42.520
give you the website shmission dot org. Shmission dot org. You need to

1173
01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:45.560
learn more about it. My wife
and I support Star of Hope. I

1174
01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:51.279
completely believe in Star Hope and I
cannot think of a better group in terms

1175
01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:56.039
of using money to get the most
out of every single dollar. That's what

1176
01:28:56.159 --> 01:29:00.920
they do at Star Hope. So, Sohmission dot org come out. We're

1177
01:29:00.960 --> 01:29:03.600
going to go now and talk to
Lee. Haylee, how you doing.

1178
01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:10.439
I'm fine. I talked to you
yesterday about my yard. I have some

1179
01:29:10.880 --> 01:29:15.640
orchids that I bought about three months
ago and they were boomed out. How

1180
01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:21.479
can I get them to reboom?
Did you get these at a at a

1181
01:29:21.600 --> 01:29:26.880
garden center or a grocery store?
Where did you I bought them at home

1182
01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:32.319
depot? Okay, those are called
moth orchids. That's why I'm asking where

1183
01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:41.079
it's moth orchids. Moth Orchids are
the easiest ones for us to grow in

1184
01:29:41.199 --> 01:29:45.680
our homes. When they finish blooming, you can cut the bloomstalk off if

1185
01:29:45.720 --> 01:29:48.800
you like, and you want to
give them a lot of light, but

1186
01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:55.039
not direct sun. So if your
moth orcid is looking deep emerald green,

1187
01:29:55.279 --> 01:30:00.800
chances are it's not getting enough light
deep deep green. It's almost like it's

1188
01:30:00.840 --> 01:30:04.000
packing more chlorophyll in the leaf to
try to capture the light little light that

1189
01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:10.720
it's getting so good sunlight. Occasionally
you repot them, and that would mean

1190
01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:14.159
pulling them out of their container.
You know, they typically are going to

1191
01:30:14.199 --> 01:30:18.039
be in a real chunky mix.
It may be sphagnum moss in the mix,

1192
01:30:18.159 --> 01:30:21.680
or maybe chunks of wood, but
that's how they grow in nature.

1193
01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:25.920
They grow on the side of a
tree and tree bark, grabbing onto tree

1194
01:30:25.960 --> 01:30:31.000
bark and cut off any roots that
are damaged or dead and just move them

1195
01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:35.199
into a new pot. It can
be a little bit larger pot. And

1196
01:30:36.159 --> 01:30:40.920
make sure you use something that's not
like potting soil. You want a good

1197
01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:45.920
chunky orchid mix in our garden Center
selbows, and then begin watering them with

1198
01:30:46.079 --> 01:30:53.479
a dilute, very fertilizer solution,
not the full label rate. I'm talking

1199
01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:57.880
about just a little bit. And
as you water them with that, it'll

1200
01:30:58.039 --> 01:31:00.800
encourage new growth and they will go
through other bloom cycles. I've got some

1201
01:31:01.039 --> 01:31:05.560
that I've had for years and unfortunately
some that have really been neglected by me,

1202
01:31:06.239 --> 01:31:10.399
and I'm always surprised they stay alive
and with us a little bit of

1203
01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:14.680
care, I actually get reblooming on
them. And I think that's the best

1204
01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:20.960
thing in the world. Well,
when the home people have that fertilizer or

1205
01:31:21.439 --> 01:31:28.920
Walmart, I have no idea.
I don't. I just don't. What's

1206
01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:31.800
your name of it? You know
what you could use? You could use

1207
01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:35.960
a number of different things. Microlife
has an orange bottle. It's a quart

1208
01:31:36.039 --> 01:31:41.920
bottle, it's orange and it's it's
a seven to one four. I think

1209
01:31:42.520 --> 01:31:46.479
my brain just lost that last number
seven to one for it's a microlife product.

1210
01:31:46.560 --> 01:31:49.640
I use it on houseplants a lot. But when you use that,

1211
01:31:49.760 --> 01:31:53.720
you're not going to burn the roots. It's not salt based. But just

1212
01:31:53.880 --> 01:31:57.039
use it dilutely. Read the label
and then I would even go lower than

1213
01:31:57.079 --> 01:32:00.600
the label on the rate that you're
using it when you water. Okay,

1214
01:32:01.079 --> 01:32:03.880
Okay, there's a lot of products
out there though, I mean, we're

1215
01:32:03.920 --> 01:32:10.600
just talking about just a slight amount
of nutrient to help it out. Well,

1216
01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:14.800
I appreciate the value. Can grow
African balance myself, so I love.

1217
01:32:15.239 --> 01:32:17.520
Yeah, I just take a leaf
and stick it in the soil and

1218
01:32:17.640 --> 01:32:24.119
let it root. Isn't that cool? That is really it's amazing. Yeah,

1219
01:32:24.399 --> 01:32:27.520
hey, Lee, thanks for the
call. I appreciate that very much.

1220
01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:35.520
Okay, bye, bye bye.
The Landscaper's Pride folks have twenty plus

1221
01:32:35.680 --> 01:32:44.479
products that help you have a successful
garden of a successful containers, successful take

1222
01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:46.800
care of that brown stuff like I
talk about all the time. Right now,

1223
01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:50.520
I want to talk about their mulches. Though. Mulch is very important.

1224
01:32:50.880 --> 01:32:56.800
Mulch blocks sunlight from hitting the soil, which means weed seeds can't get

1225
01:32:56.840 --> 01:33:01.119
a start, and that's important.
Mulch moderate soil temperature, which is critical.

1226
01:33:01.399 --> 01:33:06.720
Listen on a summer day ninety five
degrees the sun baking down on the

1227
01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:10.520
soil. That soil gets so hot. Roots can't live up there near the

1228
01:33:10.600 --> 01:33:15.039
surface. When you have a malt, it stays moist and it stays cooler,

1229
01:33:15.199 --> 01:33:18.520
and that's important. How about their
black velvet malts, a naturally dark,

1230
01:33:18.800 --> 01:33:23.600
dark colored mult that is just beautiful
and it's not dyed. They have

1231
01:33:23.720 --> 01:33:28.560
hardwood mulches, which is a shredded
material from hardwood from trees and things.

1232
01:33:29.079 --> 01:33:31.439
It's a recycling of that. They
have pine bark multch, which is the

1233
01:33:31.479 --> 01:33:38.039
most popular product they have. They
have a cypress mulch that is very durable.

1234
01:33:38.319 --> 01:33:41.680
It kind of sticks in place too. It's not likely to float away.

1235
01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:45.159
In fact, it won't flow away. Cyper smultch, cedar multch made

1236
01:33:45.159 --> 01:33:47.800
from whole cedar logs topped up,
has a real nice aroma as you put

1237
01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:51.920
it out, and a beautiful kind
of a natural red streaked color. All

1238
01:33:51.960 --> 01:33:58.159
those are good mulches, and all
those are from the folks at Landscaper's Pride,

1239
01:33:58.279 --> 01:34:00.720
and you can find them all over
the place. Just go to Landscaperspride

1240
01:34:00.760 --> 01:34:04.880
dot com and you'll see the many, many, many places that carry their

1241
01:34:04.960 --> 01:34:10.279
products. I'm gonna head out now
to talk to brother Daryl. Hello Daryl,

1242
01:34:11.479 --> 01:34:15.960
Good morning, Skip. How are
you good? Hey? I got

1243
01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:20.680
a question. We got a fig
tree last year. I think it's it's

1244
01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:26.800
a Celeste fig. We've got it
last year and the summer heat just almost

1245
01:34:26.880 --> 01:34:31.079
completely decimated it. But this year
it's come up. Well. It's very

1246
01:34:31.159 --> 01:34:36.199
green, but a lot of the
buds, a lot of the the immature

1247
01:34:36.479 --> 01:34:43.680
figs have some just like a brownish
color to them, like they're not maturing.

1248
01:34:44.079 --> 01:34:47.880
Is there anything that I could put
on there? Or I would think

1249
01:34:47.920 --> 01:34:51.279
that they should have started to,
you know, ripen by now. Yeah.

1250
01:34:53.119 --> 01:34:57.640
Sometimes sometimes figs just take their time. A lot of different varieties that

1251
01:34:58.279 --> 01:35:01.960
ripening at not all the same time. I don't know on the brownish and

1252
01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:06.479
I almost have to see a photo
of it to know for sure that any

1253
01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:11.119
kind of a scarring on the surface
of a fruit like a fig can create

1254
01:35:12.279 --> 01:35:16.920
a brownish kind of an area.
It's like a surface, it's like the

1255
01:35:17.119 --> 01:35:23.319
plant tried to heal having damage to
the surface. That's a possibility I'm not

1256
01:35:23.479 --> 01:35:28.640
aware of a disease that causes brownish
areas on the fruit of a fig.

1257
01:35:28.720 --> 01:35:31.279
I'm sitting here trying to think through
is there anything, and I'm not aware

1258
01:35:31.279 --> 01:35:35.720
of it. We know the I'm
just going to say that, I know

1259
01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:39.359
that. You know, we've been
very cautious about, you know, not

1260
01:35:39.560 --> 01:35:44.199
watering it because you know, overwatering
tons to turn the leaves brown and the

1261
01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:48.680
die off. Yeah. Absolutely,
well, figs are pretty tolerant of a

1262
01:35:48.840 --> 01:35:53.439
range of things. But you know
what, let's do this. If you're

1263
01:35:53.520 --> 01:35:56.760
if you would like me to help
you further, I'm going to put you

1264
01:35:56.840 --> 01:36:01.479
on hold and have my producer Chris
pick up the phone and he will give

1265
01:36:01.560 --> 01:36:06.960
you an email where you can send
me some photos and if you could get

1266
01:36:08.159 --> 01:36:12.359
up really close so we can really
see exactly what's going on. Maybe a

1267
01:36:12.439 --> 01:36:16.479
picture of the whole tree, but
some stuff that's up closed. I'll take

1268
01:36:16.520 --> 01:36:19.960
a look at it and see if
I see anything that's not coming to mind

1269
01:36:20.079 --> 01:36:26.520
right now. Yeah, that'd be
great because we really wanted to start producing.

1270
01:36:26.680 --> 01:36:29.560
We love our figs, you bet, you bet. I appreciate that.

1271
01:36:30.239 --> 01:36:32.600
All right, Well, thank you
appreciate the call very much. I

1272
01:36:32.760 --> 01:36:39.039
certainly do. Let's see carry in. I'm gonna hold you till after break

1273
01:36:39.119 --> 01:36:43.640
so we have time to handle your
specific call. Have you been to our

1274
01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:47.000
CW Nurseries. They've got some really
incredible sales going on right now, and

1275
01:36:47.640 --> 01:36:50.720
on trees and shrubs and things like
that. You know, they grow their

1276
01:36:50.760 --> 01:36:56.880
own they have outstanding quality and they
only grow stuff that's gonna be here.

1277
01:36:56.920 --> 01:37:00.199
I mean they've been doing this I
think nineteen seventy nine when the Williamson family

1278
01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:04.199
opened up RCW Nursery and it's still
the family that runs it. They're right

1279
01:37:04.279 --> 01:37:09.720
there where Tomba Parkway comes Ato belt
Way eight. They have a selection of

1280
01:37:09.920 --> 01:37:12.359
any kind of thing you would want
to plant. But I just want to

1281
01:37:12.399 --> 01:37:15.880
brag on their woody ornamentals, the
roses, and the shrubs and trees.

1282
01:37:15.439 --> 01:37:19.119
They are really set up to help
you have success with that as well.

1283
01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:23.359
We're gonna take a little break.
We'll be right back, all right.

1284
01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:27.720
A little billy Joe Shaver there played
a big part in Texas country music.

1285
01:37:28.119 --> 01:37:30.680
Welcome back to your guardline. Good
to have you with us. I'm gonna

1286
01:37:30.800 --> 01:37:33.159
head right to the phones here.
We're going to head out to Montgomery and

1287
01:37:33.399 --> 01:37:38.399
talk to carry in Hello, carry
in good morning, Skip. I am

1288
01:37:38.520 --> 01:37:43.439
calling because I could use some advice
on my yard. It's only two years

1289
01:37:43.439 --> 01:37:49.399
old, and so we planted it
right before that real dry weather the drought,

1290
01:37:49.479 --> 01:37:51.600
I guess, okay, and so
for two years in a row,

1291
01:37:51.800 --> 01:37:55.880
I ended up with take a root
rot, pulled a bunch of the grass

1292
01:37:55.920 --> 01:37:59.479
out, or best it treated with
fun So I'm doing everything, but there's

1293
01:37:59.560 --> 01:38:02.439
areas it just still look like I
need to do something to help move them

1294
01:38:02.439 --> 01:38:06.199
along, to help with recovery.
So when you look at them, is

1295
01:38:06.279 --> 01:38:11.640
it that the grass is then is
it or the areas? Is the grass

1296
01:38:11.800 --> 01:38:15.600
yellow in some of those areas or
what are you? Yeah? Yellow and

1297
01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:20.159
then just not thriving. Okay,
well, uh, it could be a

1298
01:38:20.279 --> 01:38:26.239
number of things. If you have
take all root rot, which sounds like

1299
01:38:27.159 --> 01:38:33.920
you do still, then anything you
do to help the grass thrive is helpful.

1300
01:38:34.279 --> 01:38:36.760
You know. It's one thing to
spray the grass with the fund side

1301
01:38:36.760 --> 01:38:42.159
to kill the take all. That
can be done, but it's not as

1302
01:38:42.520 --> 01:38:47.520
effective as we would like it to
be. Just it's important. By the

1303
01:38:47.560 --> 01:38:51.079
way, if you go online to
gardening with Skip dot com. My schedule

1304
01:38:51.199 --> 01:38:54.680
is online. I don't know,
have you seen that by any chance.

1305
01:38:54.840 --> 01:38:58.279
Yeah, yeah, I've done that. I've used the fund and I'll treat

1306
01:38:58.279 --> 01:39:00.960
it again. Okay, well,
because I have the fungicides and the timing

1307
01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:04.439
all on there all right, So
what else is in your control is if

1308
01:39:04.479 --> 01:39:11.359
it's a clasoild's kind of compacted air
rating core aerating pulling the cores out,

1309
01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:17.439
compost top dressing over the top of
it, providing adequate watering and a healthy

1310
01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:24.079
Saint Augustine lawn can operate on not
that much water really, but when it

1311
01:39:24.199 --> 01:39:28.520
has take all root rot, now
it has less roots, So how is

1312
01:39:28.560 --> 01:39:32.119
it going to take up water?
So it's important to water in regular doses

1313
01:39:33.840 --> 01:39:39.840
somewhat frequently. Instead of that like
once a week or so, you're probably

1314
01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:44.039
are going to need to water a
couple times a week in small classes to

1315
01:39:44.199 --> 01:39:47.239
help that plant not dry out because
it doesn't have the root system that it

1316
01:39:47.359 --> 01:39:50.920
needs. And in the process,
of course, some fertilizer is helpful.

1317
01:39:51.319 --> 01:39:55.840
I would say this would be a
good time to bring in something that is

1318
01:39:55.880 --> 01:39:59.800
a hose end sprayer, you know, Medina supergrow plus hooks up to your

1319
01:39:59.840 --> 01:40:03.000
home. I would try spraying that
on the area because it's got iron in

1320
01:40:03.119 --> 01:40:06.960
it, which that's why your grass
is yellow. Of course, the nitrogen

1321
01:40:08.079 --> 01:40:10.600
and then a lot of other good
things, and you're kind of a follier

1322
01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:14.560
feeding it when you do that.
And I would try that on it.

1323
01:40:15.600 --> 01:40:19.000
And then again when we get toward
the fall season, that's when we start

1324
01:40:19.079 --> 01:40:25.840
treating for takeoll for the most effective
time to spray for it. Okay.

1325
01:40:26.439 --> 01:40:30.520
And that when you said to do
use the compost top soil. Can I

1326
01:40:30.600 --> 01:40:33.159
do that now or do I need
to wait? You can do that now.

1327
01:40:33.319 --> 01:40:38.520
It's a compost top dressing. Oh
sorry, top dressing. If you

1328
01:40:38.600 --> 01:40:43.960
can find a leaf mold compost,
you're not that far away from Nature's Way,

1329
01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:47.159
which is over on Interstate forty five
at south of Conra. There they

1330
01:40:47.239 --> 01:40:50.640
have a leaf mold compost. They
can deliver a bunch of it, or

1331
01:40:50.680 --> 01:40:53.920
you can run over there and get
it if you got a truck or trailer.

1332
01:40:54.640 --> 01:40:58.199
But that would be something that I
think would be good to do after

1333
01:40:58.319 --> 01:41:01.840
you do the core aeration, okay, okay, and then obviously helpful to

1334
01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:06.680
keep treating the weeds because it's thinning. Put another pre emergent down. Yeah,

1335
01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:11.760
you know, hold off on the
pre emergent. Here's the trade off

1336
01:41:12.600 --> 01:41:15.319
the pre emergence. If you don't, if you're not careful with how you

1337
01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:18.239
apply them, they can affect the
ability of that turf to form roots.

1338
01:41:18.319 --> 01:41:24.239
It's called root clubbing, and the
same way that it prevents a weed seed

1339
01:41:24.319 --> 01:41:30.319
from germinating successfully, it prevents the
grass runner from dropping a root down in

1340
01:41:30.359 --> 01:41:32.680
the soil effectively. And I see
people over use those all the time.

1341
01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:36.439
They're affective products. They can work
well. But right now, we got

1342
01:41:36.520 --> 01:41:42.600
a patient that's very sick, and
so I don't want to add any other

1343
01:41:42.840 --> 01:41:45.760
challenge to what that grass is going
through. If you had a really good,

1344
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:47.960
healthy loan, I wouldn't worry about
this, but I would hold off

1345
01:41:48.199 --> 01:41:51.039
on the pre emergent right now.
You may end up with some weeds,

1346
01:41:51.199 --> 01:41:56.960
but we need to get that grass
healthy and then we can deal with weeds

1347
01:41:57.000 --> 01:42:00.600
and other things. Okay with the
placement. Would that help at all?

1348
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:08.039
These are my uh yeah, longer
term though. Right now I'm concerned about

1349
01:42:08.079 --> 01:42:12.359
getting some healthy roots in the ground. Uh and uh, maybe kind of

1350
01:42:13.000 --> 01:42:17.399
circumventing the root system with that folier
applications of the supergril plus I was talking

1351
01:42:17.439 --> 01:42:20.560
about, Kay, you know,
it's kind of like we're it's like a

1352
01:42:20.640 --> 01:42:25.199
patient in the hospital. You know, if they can't eat, then they

1353
01:42:25.279 --> 01:42:29.079
get the IV right to keep them
going right. And we're looking kind of

1354
01:42:29.119 --> 01:42:32.720
at an IV approach right now for
your lawn. Uh and once roots are

1355
01:42:32.800 --> 01:42:39.119
down, then lots of good fertilizers
to use for that. Okay, okay,

1356
01:42:39.319 --> 01:42:41.560
understood, Thank you so much.
I appreciate your help. All right,

1357
01:42:41.600 --> 01:42:44.239
Carrion, Thanks, I appreciate your
call. We're going to go now

1358
01:42:44.319 --> 01:42:47.760
to Alan and Tom Ball. Hey, Allen, Yes, Hey, how

1359
01:42:47.800 --> 01:42:51.079
are you. I'm good, I'm
good. How can we help? Yeah?

1360
01:42:51.079 --> 01:42:56.399
I had two questions. I have
a garden, a decent sized garden,

1361
01:42:56.479 --> 01:43:00.399
but it's kind of overrun with nut
sledge and I've been it than a

1362
01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:02.279
sprain some of the things on it. And I was wondering if there's some

1363
01:43:03.479 --> 01:43:08.680
solution you might have to help me
overcome that. Is this a vegetable garden?

1364
01:43:09.760 --> 01:43:16.039
Yes, So the options are not
real great, but here's what they

1365
01:43:16.079 --> 01:43:21.119
are. One of them is hand
digging. Every time you get a chance

1366
01:43:21.239 --> 01:43:25.920
to work the soil, you kind
of learn what those little dark, wiry

1367
01:43:26.439 --> 01:43:30.960
rhizomes look like and the little nuts, which are also very dark, and

1368
01:43:30.079 --> 01:43:32.560
you just pull that out or if
you get out there and you see,

1369
01:43:32.640 --> 01:43:36.079
I have a bed of okra that
planted kind of laid, it's coming up,

1370
01:43:36.159 --> 01:43:39.800
and it's got a nutsedge plant,
about three of them in the whole

1371
01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:43.800
bed, and so I'm going to
head out there and just get down there

1372
01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:46.159
and get those out of there rather
than try the chemical treatments on those.

1373
01:43:46.920 --> 01:43:51.279
But there are some products at work. Round up does not work that well

1374
01:43:51.520 --> 01:43:56.840
on nut seeds, and so it's
not something that you would use unfortunately.

1375
01:43:57.359 --> 01:43:59.640
I mean, you can use it
in a vegetable garden, but it's not

1376
01:43:59.720 --> 01:44:03.640
going to be as effected the things
that are made for nutsedge, like sedge

1377
01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:10.560
hammer and sedge ender. There's there's
image is another one. Most of those

1378
01:44:10.600 --> 01:44:15.520
I don't believe have a label for
use in the vegetable garden. So uh,

1379
01:44:15.039 --> 01:44:18.079
that kind of leaves us without option. Some people will put that on

1380
01:44:18.199 --> 01:44:23.840
a sponge applicator and they will go
in and just wipe it right on the

1381
01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:28.039
nutsedge plant. I use the low
g I use the little grabber tools.

1382
01:44:28.039 --> 01:44:30.479
You get a jar off the shelf
with U and instead of the little suction

1383
01:44:30.600 --> 01:44:33.560
cups or whatever's on the end of
it, I put a couple of sponges

1384
01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:36.600
on there with a plate behind them, and I just keep it hanging in

1385
01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:41.000
the garage because I can squirt whatever
I need to put on a plant,

1386
01:44:41.680 --> 01:44:44.840
a weed to kill. I've squirt
it on the sponge and then I just

1387
01:44:45.119 --> 01:44:47.279
you don't even have to bend over
it. You just you just squeeze the

1388
01:44:47.319 --> 01:44:50.960
grip. It grabs both sides of
the plant and you pull up. It

1389
01:44:51.119 --> 01:44:56.279
wipes it only on the nut sedge, so that you can't get less chemical

1390
01:44:56.560 --> 01:44:59.479
than that. Okay, yeah,
so I saw that. You know,

1391
01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:03.039
it said not for vegetable garden the
image, and so if you contain it

1392
01:45:03.159 --> 01:45:06.039
to the blade of the nut sledge, then it should be okay. Well,

1393
01:45:06.279 --> 01:45:10.399
Allan, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna be able to say yes or

1394
01:45:10.479 --> 01:45:15.600
no on that it When when a
label says this is how you apply it,

1395
01:45:15.760 --> 01:45:19.439
I'm not going to say do something
that's not on the label. That

1396
01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:24.840
is kind of that's up to you, that's on you and whatnot. And

1397
01:45:24.920 --> 01:45:29.000
I just, yeah, I don't
want to do an outside that's recommendation.

1398
01:45:29.880 --> 01:45:34.039
But I was just talking about ways
to avoid putting a lot of chemical into

1399
01:45:35.640 --> 01:45:40.319
the soil or around your plants,
and things like that. Yeah. Otherwise,

1400
01:45:40.439 --> 01:45:42.399
just kind of hand pull it up
and try to get as much of

1401
01:45:42.479 --> 01:45:45.520
the nuts and everything as I can. Always follow. I've got a long

1402
01:45:45.960 --> 01:45:50.760
fork weater that I put down in
there, and so because if you pull

1403
01:45:50.800 --> 01:45:54.119
on it, it'll break off,
and the nut's still there. And that

1404
01:45:54.279 --> 01:45:57.960
nut has about seven buds on it. So when you pull the head off

1405
01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:00.880
a nutsedge growth, it just it's
another one right out. That doesn't phase

1406
01:46:00.960 --> 01:46:04.920
it at all. So that's why
I say get the nuts out. Okay.

1407
01:46:05.239 --> 01:46:11.119
Then my other question was weed.
Alan, I'm gonna have to I

1408
01:46:11.399 --> 01:46:14.760
have to stop you there. I'm
run past a break here. I'll put

1409
01:46:14.760 --> 01:46:17.279
you on hold. We'll come back
to you right after the break and Stephanie

1410
01:46:17.359 --> 01:46:21.920
Leake City, you are up after
Allan all Right's welcome back to the garden

1411
01:46:23.000 --> 01:46:25.560
Line. Good to good to have
you with us today. We're gonna head

1412
01:46:25.600 --> 01:46:29.720
right back out to the phone phones
and talk to Alan Allen. I think

1413
01:46:29.760 --> 01:46:32.920
you had some dove weed, is
that right? Yeah? Yeah, that's

1414
01:46:33.039 --> 01:46:36.199
just kind of taking over in various
spots in my yard. And I've been

1415
01:46:36.760 --> 01:46:40.399
right now, I've been hand picking
it out, but it just kind of

1416
01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:44.720
gets ahead of me. Okay.
Uh a couple of things you can do.

1417
01:46:44.840 --> 01:46:48.279
There's a cinnamon based weed killer.
And if you go to you know,

1418
01:46:48.399 --> 01:46:51.640
a good garden center Europe and the
Tamboul area, So you got some

1419
01:46:51.720 --> 01:46:56.760
great choices. You got the arborgate
and you've got plants for all seasons both

1420
01:46:56.840 --> 01:46:59.560
close to you, and they're going
to carry that. Just say I want

1421
01:46:59.600 --> 01:47:03.399
a center based you sprinkle it on
the doveweed if it hadn't rained, just

1422
01:47:03.479 --> 01:47:06.359
kind of turn on the water enough
to wet the surface of the weed so

1423
01:47:06.479 --> 01:47:12.079
that stuff sticks and then you sprinkle
it on and I mean it just shrivels

1424
01:47:12.119 --> 01:47:15.119
it and turns it black real quick. Now that comes in a small container,

1425
01:47:15.439 --> 01:47:18.600
and so treating if you got a
big area of doveweed, that's gonna

1426
01:47:18.600 --> 01:47:23.560
get a little expensive and tedious to
do that, but that's that's an option.

1427
01:47:23.760 --> 01:47:28.800
That's a natural option. You can
use. The herbicide Celsius also will

1428
01:47:28.840 --> 01:47:32.560
work on doveweed. I'm told that
at least that's on their label. So

1429
01:47:33.159 --> 01:47:40.600
Celsius herbicide like the temperature, okay, and that's probably something I can spray

1430
01:47:40.640 --> 01:47:45.720
on the yard or okay, yeah
you would you would apply it for weed

1431
01:47:45.880 --> 01:47:49.600
control. I do it early in
the morning. It's not as damaging to

1432
01:47:49.800 --> 01:47:54.840
your Saint Augustine as a lot of
the broad leaf weed control products are.

1433
01:47:54.920 --> 01:47:59.239
When the temperatures above the mid eighties
celsius. You can get up in the

1434
01:47:59.359 --> 01:48:01.479
early load nineties and it's okay.
But I still would do it early in

1435
01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:05.760
the morning. That's just the best
way to go about it. Okay,

1436
01:48:06.439 --> 01:48:11.000
Okay, Yeah, Hey, thank
you very much. You've got good luck

1437
01:48:11.239 --> 01:48:15.399
with that. Sure like that call
very much. Uh. The Nelson Plant

1438
01:48:15.479 --> 01:48:19.119
Food has so many different great products. They got the color Star line.

1439
01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:27.000
Uh, it's just it's so it's
so effective if you've got flower beds and

1440
01:48:27.079 --> 01:48:30.359
you want to see them pop with
color. Color Stars and excellent, excellent

1441
01:48:30.399 --> 01:48:34.439
option for that. If you've got
tropicals, they have a nutri Star Plumeria

1442
01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:40.880
that covers all kinds of tropical types
of plants. They've got the rose food,

1443
01:48:41.039 --> 01:48:44.479
which is also very very effective.
They have a boog and Villa food,

1444
01:48:44.520 --> 01:48:45.960
which I would say, just think
of vines. Use a boog and

1445
01:48:46.039 --> 01:48:49.800
Villa food on anything that's like a
vine, the Great Myrtle food on anything

1446
01:48:49.920 --> 01:48:56.479
that's woody ornamental, especially a blooming, a blooming woody ornamental. Nelson Plant

1447
01:48:56.520 --> 01:48:59.920
Food Also, if you haven't done
your Slow and Easy for summer, that's

1448
01:49:00.079 --> 01:49:02.079
the one that's going to last you
all the way up until fall. Application

1449
01:49:02.720 --> 01:49:08.319
Slow and Easy excellent product, as
are all of them from Nelson Plant Food

1450
01:49:08.359 --> 01:49:11.840
and easy to find too. Want
to head out and now to League City

1451
01:49:11.960 --> 01:49:16.119
and talk to Stephanie. Hello Stephanie, Why yes, I have a question.

1452
01:49:16.279 --> 01:49:20.680
You've got a tree in my backyard
when I was out there yesterday and

1453
01:49:20.800 --> 01:49:26.359
I noticed that the bark is pealing
on it. It's not all the way

1454
01:49:26.439 --> 01:49:29.760
up the tree, but it's a
good ways up the tree. Is that

1455
01:49:29.880 --> 01:49:34.840
a watering issue? It's peeling?
Are we talking about like a splitting of

1456
01:49:34.960 --> 01:49:39.439
the bark? Are we talking about
it curling up like coming up away from

1457
01:49:39.479 --> 01:49:42.199
the tree? Curly nut? Curly
nut? Yeah? Do you know what

1458
01:49:42.319 --> 01:49:45.119
kind of tree it is? I
have no idea. I know you're going

1459
01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:48.720
to ask you that. The fact
that it's curling up makes me think that's

1460
01:49:48.760 --> 01:49:54.680
a natural exfoliation of that tree.
Crag mercer and it's kind of a reddish

1461
01:49:54.800 --> 01:50:00.640
bar. Does this tree flower?
No, it's or flowered. Okay,

1462
01:50:01.000 --> 01:50:04.119
well, we can do a couple
of things if you would like. I

1463
01:50:04.199 --> 01:50:09.039
can put you on hold and get
my producer to give you an email to

1464
01:50:09.159 --> 01:50:12.640
send me pictures of the whole tree, a close up of the leaves and

1465
01:50:12.720 --> 01:50:15.800
a close up of what you're seeing, and that'll get you the most accurate

1466
01:50:15.880 --> 01:50:21.159
answer. Right now, I'm leaning
toward thinking this is a natural exfoliation of

1467
01:50:21.359 --> 01:50:28.720
the tree, but my hands are
tired terms of being accurate with that.

1468
01:50:29.560 --> 01:50:33.079
The rest of the bark up the
tree is just a gray colored, uh

1469
01:50:34.199 --> 01:50:39.840
colored bark. But yeah, I'll
take some pictures. I think maybe that'll

1470
01:50:39.920 --> 01:50:42.359
help. Yeah, let's do that, the whole tree, show me the

1471
01:50:42.479 --> 01:50:45.880
leaves up close so that I can
identify it for sure, and then show

1472
01:50:45.920 --> 01:50:48.039
me that bark situation that you see. All Right, I'm gonna put you

1473
01:50:48.079 --> 01:50:53.079
on hold and Chris will pick up
and give you that email. Thank thanks

1474
01:50:53.119 --> 01:50:57.479
Stephanie for the call. Appreciate that
very much. I had Bill Stingle on

1475
01:50:57.680 --> 01:51:00.800
yesterday. We're talking about mosquito dunks. That's it. That's his product.

1476
01:51:00.159 --> 01:51:04.439
The Summit Solutions is the name of
the company. But mosquito dunks are that

1477
01:51:04.640 --> 01:51:10.479
disease of mosquitos that you put out
there in water and it dissolves slowly.

1478
01:51:10.520 --> 01:51:14.079
It takes about a month for a
dunk to fully dissolved. But as it

1479
01:51:14.199 --> 01:51:18.920
does, it's releasing a bacteria into
the water that is like BT. You

1480
01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:23.840
know BT. We use it for
caterpillars, well, caterpillar. BT will

1481
01:51:23.880 --> 01:51:28.479
not kill mosquitos and mosquito. BT
will not kill caterpillar, just a different

1482
01:51:28.560 --> 01:51:31.520
strain. The mosquito one was discovered
actually in Israel years ago. That's why

1483
01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:39.319
it's BT Israeliensis. There's your nerdy
alert for the day. But mosquito dunks,

1484
01:51:39.359 --> 01:51:43.720
you can crack them up. You
can toss them into any little small

1485
01:51:43.800 --> 01:51:46.600
area where water stands and keeps it
good. I know a guy that he

1486
01:51:46.760 --> 01:51:50.560
has a rain barrow by the house
and he doesn't have it adequately covered so

1487
01:51:50.680 --> 01:51:54.760
they didn't get bugs and mosquito larva
in it. But he just throws a

1488
01:51:54.840 --> 01:51:58.479
dunk in there unlets it float in
there, and that's how he handles them.

1489
01:51:58.880 --> 01:52:01.880
Works really, really well. You
know with mosquitos now, getting ahead

1490
01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:08.520
of them is important. You got
to keep them from having water to grow

1491
01:52:08.680 --> 01:52:12.680
up in. A mosquita lays an
egg and if it is even a capful

1492
01:52:12.920 --> 01:52:16.960
I said that right, a capful
of water a mosquita can the egg can

1493
01:52:17.039 --> 01:52:21.359
hatch the larvae can live and it
can turn into adult. So that's what

1494
01:52:21.479 --> 01:52:27.079
we're up against. That's why check
your gutters for drainage, check the catch

1495
01:52:27.159 --> 01:52:31.960
basins under your plants to make sure
there's not standing water. Check the bird

1496
01:52:32.039 --> 01:52:36.680
bath that you have. Just switch
that water out every few about once a

1497
01:52:36.760 --> 01:52:40.359
week ought to be pretty much enough
usually, but you may have to go

1498
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:43.039
a little more than that. But
anyway, and then when you got a

1499
01:52:43.079 --> 01:52:45.680
bunch of water, put a dunk
in there and take care of them that

1500
01:52:45.760 --> 01:52:51.239
way. You will find that in
time, by you being very careful and

1501
01:52:51.399 --> 01:52:56.359
not letting there be standing water anywhere
around your property. And then when you

1502
01:52:56.479 --> 01:52:59.439
do have water, putting the dunks
in them, you can control at least

1503
01:52:59.479 --> 01:53:02.720
the mesquite that are coming from your
property. Now some fly in from elsewhere.

1504
01:53:02.960 --> 01:53:05.760
Well, then we're just gonna have
to go to other measures like a

1505
01:53:05.840 --> 01:53:10.640
backyard foger, so that you know, right before you go out and sit

1506
01:53:10.720 --> 01:53:14.840
on the patio you can get a
little bit of a break from the mosquitoes

1507
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:16.640
for a little while. With that. I know what kind of a mess

1508
01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:20.000
they are. You know, they
hide in the foliage of your shrubs during

1509
01:53:20.079 --> 01:53:24.359
the day. They like to do
that and then they come out when the

1510
01:53:24.439 --> 01:53:29.439
temperatures are a little more moderate.
So sometimes people will even spray the foliage

1511
01:53:29.439 --> 01:53:32.960
of their shrub in order to get
a product on their sol in the squita

1512
01:53:33.079 --> 01:53:38.960
lands, it's taking care of it
all right. Well, we're putting another

1513
01:53:39.039 --> 01:53:43.600
hour in the books, one more
hour ago on guarden Line today. So

1514
01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:45.840
you got some calls you want to
call about now it would be a good

1515
01:53:45.880 --> 01:53:51.279
time to do it. Seven one
three two one two KTRH Remember next Saturday.

1516
01:53:51.439 --> 01:53:58.840
My final appearance of the spring season. Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Langham

1517
01:53:58.880 --> 01:54:05.520
Creek Ace Hardware. It's out there
in the Copperfield area of northwest Houston,

1518
01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:11.399
so it's south of Cypress. Just
go down Barker Cypress Road where it comes

1519
01:54:11.479 --> 01:54:17.119
into FM two excuse me five twenty
nine FM five twenty nine Barker Cypress Suscial

1520
01:54:17.159 --> 01:54:20.800
call Spincher. That's right what we're
talking about. And I hope you'll come

1521
01:54:20.840 --> 01:54:30.119
out. I'll be there from eleven
thirty to one thirty night Saturday. Welcome

1522
01:54:30.279 --> 01:54:42.880
to kt r H Garden Line with
Skin Richt. It's crazy. Just watch

1523
01:54:43.000 --> 01:55:13.079
him as so many bird Thanks to
see block crazy ways s side. Welcome

1524
01:55:13.119 --> 01:55:15.960
back, to garden Line. Good
to have you along with us today on

1525
01:55:16.199 --> 01:55:20.239
a great day, beautiful day outside
this afternoon would be a great time to

1526
01:55:20.279 --> 01:55:25.159
get out there and get a little
gardening done, maybe some garden shopping.

1527
01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:29.439
Hey, have you been to Enchanted
Forest? That's outside of Richmond. In

1528
01:55:29.520 --> 01:55:31.800
fact, if you're in Richmond and
you had toward sugar Land, it's off

1529
01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:36.560
to the right Enchanted Forest FM twenty
seven fifty nine. That's the road twenty

1530
01:55:36.600 --> 01:55:42.239
seven fifty nine. Enchanted Forest is
a destination nursery. It's the kind of

1531
01:55:42.279 --> 01:55:45.560
place you go to and you just
want to hang out a while because it's

1532
01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:48.479
so much fun. I've been talking
about pollinators earlier and butterflies earlier, and

1533
01:55:49.000 --> 01:55:53.119
one thing I always think about when
I think of the Jennet Forest is they

1534
01:55:53.239 --> 01:55:58.560
have got the best selection of both
the larval food source plants and the blooming

1535
01:55:58.680 --> 01:56:02.640
plants that I've in a long time. They even the funny thing here,

1536
01:56:03.119 --> 01:56:06.000
they even if you buy a plant
it's got a little caterpillar on it,

1537
01:56:06.079 --> 01:56:09.600
you can take it home. So
that's kind of like your sour dough starter

1538
01:56:09.720 --> 01:56:12.840
to get go into it. That's
your your starter. You're going to raise

1539
01:56:12.880 --> 01:56:16.079
that caterpillar at your house into a
butterfly, and so it's kind of gives

1540
01:56:16.119 --> 01:56:18.359
you a head start. I guess
that's one way to look at it.

1541
01:56:18.960 --> 01:56:24.079
They have an excellent selection of every
kind of plant you might need. It

1542
01:56:24.199 --> 01:56:26.880
is still a great time to plant
herbs, and oh my gosh, they

1543
01:56:26.920 --> 01:56:30.960
have an excellent herb selection. Whether
you create an herb gardener, put herbs

1544
01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:34.760
in a container. Herbs are really
versatile. They've got that beautiful color plant

1545
01:56:34.920 --> 01:56:38.840
summer color. You know, I
said, we have three months of hot

1546
01:56:38.920 --> 01:56:42.920
weather coming up here, and why
not plant something right now, get it

1547
01:56:43.079 --> 01:56:45.560
established, get it going so that
you have beauty all through the rest of

1548
01:56:45.640 --> 01:56:50.560
this summer season. Heat tolerant.
It laughs at our Houston summer. That

1549
01:56:50.840 --> 01:56:54.840
is the kind of plant we need, because I don't laugh at our Houston

1550
01:56:54.920 --> 01:56:58.600
summer, but our plants do.
Our plants can, at least if they're

1551
01:56:58.640 --> 01:57:01.359
that tough. And chenn Us out
in Richmond again, Uh, they're on

1552
01:57:01.560 --> 01:57:06.640
FM twenty seven fifty nine out in
the Richmond area. You can go find

1553
01:57:06.680 --> 01:57:10.279
them online, you can give them
a call, you can however you want

1554
01:57:10.319 --> 01:57:15.800
to go about it. Just go
and check them out. Enchanted forest,

1555
01:57:15.560 --> 01:57:20.159
beautiful, beautiful, place our phone
number if you'd like to give us call.

1556
01:57:20.680 --> 01:57:24.479
Now be a good time. Kind
of got open open lines here,

1557
01:57:25.000 --> 01:57:30.000
uh seven one three, two one
two fifty eight seventy four. So you've

1558
01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:32.399
got a question and you don't want
to wait till next weekend, this'll be

1559
01:57:32.840 --> 01:57:38.760
a good time to ask it.
Ace Hardware stores are everywhere. You hear

1560
01:57:38.840 --> 01:57:42.760
me talk about forty Ace harder stores
around the greater Houston area here. And

1561
01:57:42.880 --> 01:57:45.039
it's easy when you go to ACE
to find anything you need. Right now,

1562
01:57:45.680 --> 01:57:51.079
it's barbecue season. Oh my gosh, go to the barbeque section and

1563
01:57:51.279 --> 01:57:56.359
just look at everything they have.
It's amazing. Uh, it's a good

1564
01:57:56.399 --> 01:57:59.199
time to be fertilizing the long stuff. You haven't done that this summer.

1565
01:57:59.279 --> 01:58:01.640
They've got that. You have fire
ants, they've got the products to control

1566
01:58:01.720 --> 01:58:05.439
them, or mosquitos, whether the
mosquito dunks I was talking about, or

1567
01:58:05.479 --> 01:58:10.000
a fogger, or however you want
to go about it. They are loaded

1568
01:58:10.119 --> 01:58:14.039
up with everything you need. That's
why we say ACE is the place.

1569
01:58:14.319 --> 01:58:18.319
Ace is the place for a wonderful
summer, and I would say summer outdoor

1570
01:58:18.399 --> 01:58:23.439
living. They have some nice strings
of lights, those little ambiance lights you

1571
01:58:23.479 --> 01:58:26.600
string around you seem like in a
beer garden or something, a little string

1572
01:58:26.720 --> 01:58:30.359
of glowing lights around, Well,
why not for your patio. Wouldn't that

1573
01:58:30.399 --> 01:58:35.279
be a really cool outdoor thing.
Ace is a place. Acehardware dot Com

1574
01:58:35.439 --> 01:58:39.880
is a website. Look at the
store locator, find the store near you,

1575
01:58:40.039 --> 01:58:42.680
and when you get in there,
you're gonna find everything you hear me

1576
01:58:42.760 --> 01:58:46.600
talk about on garden Line, Like
Nitrofoss bug out Max. Now that's an

1577
01:58:46.640 --> 01:58:50.159
insecticide from Nitrofoss. You put it. It's a granular, You put it

1578
01:58:50.239 --> 01:58:55.560
down on your lawn and water it
in and just just to dissolve. Get

1579
01:58:55.640 --> 01:58:58.720
that chemical off the granules and into
the lawn. It's gonna last a long

1580
01:58:58.760 --> 01:59:00.359
time. In fact, they last
all summer. It's very persistent, so

1581
01:59:00.479 --> 01:59:06.279
it keeps going. So later if
sodweb worms show up or chinchbugs show up,

1582
01:59:06.560 --> 01:59:11.439
you've already got a product in place
to manage them. And ACE Hardware

1583
01:59:11.520 --> 01:59:15.600
stores, i mean all over the
place are going to carry products like Nitroposs

1584
01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:20.079
bug out Max. For example,
the Tascacita Ace and the Kingwood As have

1585
01:59:20.199 --> 01:59:27.199
it. The Kdace Hardware has got
it. The ACE Hardware down in Oh

1586
01:59:27.279 --> 01:59:32.840
gosh, my brain just went blank. Sorry, say it again. Plantation

1587
01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:38.239
ACE are right down in the Richmond
Rosenberg direction. They've got it as well,

1588
01:59:38.640 --> 01:59:41.800
so nitro foss bug got Max get
ahead of them. If you want

1589
01:59:41.840 --> 01:59:45.279
to do that. You can find
what you need at ACE Hardware. Go

1590
01:59:45.439 --> 01:59:47.960
now back to the phones and we
are going to go to Spring and talk

1591
01:59:48.000 --> 01:59:54.479
to Bill. Hello. Bill,
heyde Morris. You have got a couple

1592
01:59:54.600 --> 02:00:00.199
of live oaks about twelve and seventeen
inch calipers, and they've got roots on

1593
02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:01.800
the surface of the ground. I'll
call them layer roots. I don't know

1594
02:00:01.840 --> 02:00:08.079
what they are, but they are
large roots. And what do I do

1595
02:00:08.239 --> 02:00:11.119
about them? Can I cut them
at or cover them with dirt? What

1596
02:00:11.279 --> 02:00:15.800
do I need to do? And
what causes it? Yeah? You know

1597
02:00:15.880 --> 02:00:18.840
the roots are really important to the
plant, not only for bringing up water

1598
02:00:19.000 --> 02:00:24.680
nutrients, but for anchoring the plant, make it more storm tolerant if you

1599
02:00:24.760 --> 02:00:28.119
will. I hate to cut roots. They say you can take a root

1600
02:00:28.159 --> 02:00:33.720
out a year. That's a real
rough estimate. And if you can avoid

1601
02:00:33.800 --> 02:00:38.079
cutting them, I would do that. You can bring some soil in as

1602
02:00:38.119 --> 02:00:41.079
long as you don't do too much. Don't do like three or four inches

1603
02:00:41.119 --> 02:00:45.279
of soil, maybe an inch or
so and sprinkle it around there and then

1604
02:00:45.359 --> 02:00:47.199
do it again, you know,
several months from now, do another inch

1605
02:00:47.319 --> 02:00:51.680
or so and gradually bring the soil
level up to the top of those roots.

1606
02:00:51.800 --> 02:00:58.039
That would be one option right there. If you wanted to turn that

1607
02:00:58.199 --> 02:01:01.000
area into like a mom to bed, that would be another good option.

1608
02:01:01.560 --> 02:01:04.680
Then the roots being on top,
it's not a problem at all because you

1609
02:01:04.720 --> 02:01:09.119
have beautiful mulch all around them.
You can even plant some things that like

1610
02:01:09.239 --> 02:01:15.079
that much shade around it too,
So that's another option. What causes it,

1611
02:01:15.039 --> 02:01:19.720
you know, people say they use
the phrase come to the surface,

1612
02:01:20.439 --> 02:01:26.880
like, my roots are coming to
the surface. Well, their roots do

1613
02:01:27.039 --> 02:01:30.920
not migrate upward. What happens is
they get bigger in diameter. So when

1614
02:01:31.000 --> 02:01:34.840
that route that you're seeing now was
the size of spaghetti, and it was

1615
02:01:35.000 --> 02:01:39.880
let's say it was two or three
inches below the soil surface. As that

1616
02:01:39.960 --> 02:01:44.079
spaghetti becomes golf ball size, you
know, softball size and so on,

1617
02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:47.720
well, it's pushing in all directions
and there's no resistance above it. So

1618
02:01:47.880 --> 02:01:53.600
as it's getting bigger, it's pushing
upward and just the soil falls away.

1619
02:01:53.760 --> 02:01:59.279
And also erosion will expose roots as
the water moves across that area. So

1620
02:01:59.439 --> 02:02:03.560
that nation of the route just getting
bigger, and the fact that erosion can

1621
02:02:03.800 --> 02:02:09.279
take the swell away or the two
main reasons we see for that. So

1622
02:02:09.439 --> 02:02:13.119
the best solution is to be to
cover them up. Let's get that cover

1623
02:02:13.239 --> 02:02:15.000
them at one time. Yeah,
if you're going to use the maltch,

1624
02:02:15.319 --> 02:02:18.039
you could use about three inches of
mults out there, and I think that

1625
02:02:18.119 --> 02:02:24.439
would be fine. You you know, after you see a couple of seasons,

1626
02:02:24.560 --> 02:02:27.159
like we get into winter or something, you could add some more molts

1627
02:02:27.199 --> 02:02:33.000
again. Another to just keep bringing
that level up higher. Wonderful. Thank

1628
02:02:33.039 --> 02:02:35.800
you so much. I appreciate you. Yeah, Bill, And the reason

1629
02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:40.760
that I said on the on the
soil just an inch is roots are very

1630
02:02:41.399 --> 02:02:45.319
needy for oxygen and they grow at
a level where they get good oxygen.

1631
02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:48.880
So when we bury them significantly deeper, that's the problem that we run into.

1632
02:02:49.800 --> 02:02:53.359
I just want to tag that on. Just keep that in mind.

1633
02:02:53.560 --> 02:02:58.279
These things are so big, they're
about four inches in diameter. Yeah,

1634
02:02:58.880 --> 02:03:02.199
well they're going to get bigger and
so that would be the time to rethink,

1635
02:03:02.279 --> 02:03:05.199
replan that area of the landscape.
Thanks thanks for the call, sir.

1636
02:03:05.279 --> 02:03:09.760
I appreciate that a lot. I'm
gonna have to run to break here.

1637
02:03:09.920 --> 02:03:12.520
Tom in Kingwood, you will be
the very first up when we come

1638
02:03:12.560 --> 02:03:15.119
back from break. You know,
it's not every day that you get to

1639
02:03:15.199 --> 02:03:18.640
listen to music where the lyrics or
should be do be doo bee doo wop

1640
02:03:18.720 --> 02:03:24.199
wop. That was before my time. Yes, there was such a thing

1641
02:03:24.239 --> 02:03:30.000
as before my time. Oh gosh. Wild Birds Unlimited is the place where

1642
02:03:30.079 --> 02:03:33.039
you can get anything that you need
to have success. You know, with

1643
02:03:33.239 --> 02:03:36.840
birds in your backyard. They the
folks that know what they're talking about.

1644
02:03:36.840 --> 02:03:41.520
For example, now is nesting season. I was talking to somebody at Wildbirds

1645
02:03:41.560 --> 02:03:44.760
and they were telling me, yes, we're still in nesting season. And

1646
02:03:45.319 --> 02:03:47.680
this I didn't know this, but
baby cardinals. You know, cardinals have

1647
02:03:48.119 --> 02:03:51.359
kind of an orange beak, but
when they're young, when they're babies,

1648
02:03:51.760 --> 02:03:56.159
they have black beaks. Isn't that
interesting? They turn orange as they grow.

1649
02:03:56.399 --> 02:04:00.039
Okay, fun fact there you go
with the price of admission. We

1650
02:04:00.079 --> 02:04:02.680
have the nesting super blend. There. That nesting super blend has got protein

1651
02:04:02.760 --> 02:04:08.880
and calcium. It's very important when
birds are raising a group of young for

1652
02:04:09.000 --> 02:04:15.279
example, sunflower chips, peanuts,
dried meal worms, bark, butter bits,

1653
02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:18.239
safflower tree nuts. That sounds like
a snack for me, except for

1654
02:04:18.279 --> 02:04:24.079
the dried mealworm part, although I
would be willing to try one. But

1655
02:04:24.239 --> 02:04:27.920
the birds really thrive on that and
when they molt. This nesting super blend

1656
02:04:28.039 --> 02:04:30.479
is important because most birds are going
to mot once a year, sometimes two

1657
02:04:30.560 --> 02:04:33.439
or three times. But when they
shed those old feathers, they kind of

1658
02:04:33.520 --> 02:04:36.479
hang around a while because they're not
really good. It's just flying anywhere they

1659
02:04:36.560 --> 02:04:40.159
want to go, so they tend
to kind of take cover, fly a

1660
02:04:40.199 --> 02:04:44.000
little bit less, and having a
nice reliable food sources good. You need

1661
02:04:44.039 --> 02:04:47.279
to grab one of their seed cylinders. Though the seed cylinders are tightly packed

1662
02:04:47.279 --> 02:04:51.479
sellar. It looks like a big
candle made of seeds. Actually it's easy.

1663
02:04:51.600 --> 02:04:56.520
It lasts a long time because it
takes a while for the birds to

1664
02:04:56.600 --> 02:04:59.319
get those seeds out of there.
So maybe you're going to go on a

1665
02:04:59.399 --> 02:05:01.439
vacation or trip out of town,
set up a seed cylinder. You don't

1666
02:05:01.479 --> 02:05:03.800
have to worry the birds. You're
gonna have plenty the whole time you're gone.

1667
02:05:04.479 --> 02:05:08.760
Another reason I like those, though, is because because the birds have

1668
02:05:08.840 --> 02:05:11.520
to sit down and not just grab
a seed and fly away. They kind

1669
02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:13.760
of have to pick them out of
there. You get to see the birds

1670
02:05:13.760 --> 02:05:16.359
for a little bit longer, So
a little bit longer enjoyment. All from

1671
02:05:16.359 --> 02:05:20.880
wild Birds Unlimited. Hey the website, find the one near you WBU dot

1672
02:05:21.000 --> 02:05:27.479
com forward slash Houston WU dot com
Forward slash Houston. We're gonna go now

1673
02:05:27.600 --> 02:05:30.439
to Kingwood and talk to Tom.
Hello Tom, and thanks for waiting.

1674
02:05:30.760 --> 02:05:33.920
Yes, third, good morning.
I'm going to Actually got two questions I

1675
02:05:34.079 --> 02:05:39.199
missed when I tuned in. I
missed the pill or whatever you put in

1676
02:05:39.399 --> 02:05:45.239
water for mosquito. Yeah, okay, it's called mosquito dunks. Mosquito dunks

1677
02:05:45.279 --> 02:05:49.720
by Summit Solutions. They also make
a granular form. I think it's called

1678
02:05:49.760 --> 02:05:55.000
mosquito bits. But it looks like
if you remember the cereal grape nuts.

1679
02:05:55.079 --> 02:06:00.359
That's kind of what it reminds me
of. Little charts like that, either

1680
02:06:00.439 --> 02:06:03.760
the dunks, which are like little
mini doughnuts that float on water, or

1681
02:06:03.840 --> 02:06:08.159
the bits. The bits are kind
of nice because if you just need a

1682
02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:11.399
little bit here and there, you
can break a dunk apart and do that.

1683
02:06:12.000 --> 02:06:14.439
But if you just need a little
bit, or maybe you want to

1684
02:06:14.479 --> 02:06:16.640
scatter them through a very large wet
area. Well, with the bits,

1685
02:06:16.680 --> 02:06:20.319
you can get that instant coverage in
a bigger area than a dunk would give

1686
02:06:20.359 --> 02:06:24.840
you. Either way, you're going
to control your mosquito larva. They will

1687
02:06:24.880 --> 02:06:27.880
not be able to reproduce there in
that water. Okay, where can you

1688
02:06:27.920 --> 02:06:30.399
buy that ACE hardware? Ace Hardware's
huh, you're out there. You've got

1689
02:06:30.479 --> 02:06:33.239
K and m Ace hardware there in
Kingwood. If you want to run over

1690
02:06:33.680 --> 02:06:36.960
to Porters, there's j and Our's
ACE Hardware. Another good ACE hardwristore Up

1691
02:06:38.000 --> 02:06:41.760
and Porter. Those are both really
close to you. Okay, great,

1692
02:06:41.840 --> 02:06:46.239
And my other question is I've got
a web in my tree and I know

1693
02:06:46.359 --> 02:06:50.159
you've been. It looks like everybody
in Kingwood has one. Yeah, but

1694
02:06:51.000 --> 02:06:55.640
I sprayed at once. Do you
have to spray it again? No?

1695
02:06:55.960 --> 02:07:00.800
Those caterpillars, they have a life
cycle, a little tiny white man lazy

1696
02:07:00.880 --> 02:07:03.159
eggs. They hatch out, they
feed and get bigger and bigger and bigger.

1697
02:07:03.199 --> 02:07:08.720
Once they hit about an an inch
or so long, then they're ready

1698
02:07:09.039 --> 02:07:14.239
to form a pupa and create another
moth like a butterfly would do. So

1699
02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:18.319
at this point in time, chances
are you don't have a lot of active

1700
02:07:18.359 --> 02:07:20.880
feeding ones, but if you get
up close and look, you can tell.

1701
02:07:21.800 --> 02:07:26.920
So it may be a little late
to control this first generation. But

1702
02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:30.119
if I'm wrong about that and you've
got young ones, then you need a

1703
02:07:30.159 --> 02:07:33.479
spray that gets on the foliage inside
the web where they're feeding. Some people

1704
02:07:33.640 --> 02:07:39.520
break the web up with a long
stick, strong stream of water, but

1705
02:07:39.640 --> 02:07:43.399
you got to get that on the
foliage so they eat it. And there's

1706
02:07:43.479 --> 02:07:47.439
some very effective products. BT works
pretty good on them. The spinosid works

1707
02:07:47.479 --> 02:07:50.920
pretty good on them, and then
a wide variety of synthetic products that can

1708
02:07:51.000 --> 02:07:57.039
be sprayed and used for the same
thing. Okay, thank you all right,

1709
02:07:57.560 --> 02:08:03.039
Tom, good luck with that.
Appreciate your call. Oh webworms.

1710
02:08:03.199 --> 02:08:13.159
So just a reminder, webworms are
called fall webworms because their main worst generation

1711
02:08:13.319 --> 02:08:18.159
of the year is in the fall. We get an early spring gen or

1712
02:08:18.239 --> 02:08:20.000
not an early spring, we get
a spring generation. In early summer,

1713
02:08:20.279 --> 02:08:24.680
we may get another generation, and
then that third one in the fall.

1714
02:08:24.119 --> 02:08:28.399
In our area and our latitude north
south here in the KTRH listening area,

1715
02:08:28.920 --> 02:08:33.479
we have about three generations of webworms
a year, and then that can vary.

1716
02:08:33.680 --> 02:08:37.760
But so what's going to happen is
now all those webworms that we're everwhere.

1717
02:08:39.119 --> 02:08:43.039
There's a lot of moths that can
lay eggs, and we have another

1718
02:08:43.319 --> 02:08:46.960
and then again in the fall it's
the worst one. So just be watching

1719
02:08:46.079 --> 02:08:50.880
for them now that you know they're
out and about. Unless they were just

1720
02:08:50.159 --> 02:08:54.560
devastated by wasps and all the other
beneficial insects and things that are out there,

1721
02:08:56.359 --> 02:08:58.279
they're going to be back, and
so be ready to go. When

1722
02:08:58.359 --> 02:09:01.520
you first see the first sign of
webbing, that's the time to get out

1723
02:09:01.560 --> 02:09:05.560
and start spraying that foliage with something. It could be organic or synthetic.

1724
02:09:05.720 --> 02:09:11.039
Both of them will kill ball weborm. Caterpillars start spraying that so that when

1725
02:09:11.560 --> 02:09:16.560
they start eating that, you get
it to them. And those two organics

1726
02:09:16.600 --> 02:09:20.760
I mentioned BT and spinosa. The
younger the caterpillar, the better they work.

1727
02:09:20.119 --> 02:09:24.640
If you let that caterpillar reach almost
the age to make a cocoon,

1728
02:09:26.159 --> 02:09:30.920
then it's not gonna be as effective
at all. So the earlier on is

1729
02:09:31.119 --> 02:09:35.520
very important. And also another reason
it's important is if you wait until half

1730
02:09:35.560 --> 02:09:37.600
the leaves on a tree are gone, and I saw shrubs and trees that

1731
02:09:37.680 --> 02:09:41.680
had no leaves this year. If
you wait until then, well the damage

1732
02:09:41.720 --> 02:09:46.479
has been done. I mean,
why kill a caterpillar? There's nothing else

1733
02:09:46.600 --> 02:09:50.079
up there for them to eat?
So early, early, early. They

1734
02:09:50.159 --> 02:09:56.159
say that the best pest, no, the best fertilizer is the footprints of

1735
02:09:56.199 --> 02:09:58.359
the gardener. Have you ever heard
that? What does that mean? That

1736
02:09:58.479 --> 02:10:01.720
means you're out there taking carry your
plants on a regular basis, You're watching

1737
02:10:01.800 --> 02:10:07.119
them and it just makes them grow. Right to have that kind of care,

1738
02:10:07.479 --> 02:10:09.880
Well, i would say the best
pest control is also the footprints of

1739
02:10:09.920 --> 02:10:15.159
the gardener. When you go out
in your garden. If you wait until

1740
02:10:15.560 --> 02:10:20.319
the webworms have thirty percent of the
canopy of a tree, that's late to

1741
02:10:20.399 --> 02:10:24.399
get a start and to really do
the tree the good that you could be

1742
02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:28.159
doing it by preventing the loss of
all that foliage. Trees are resilient.

1743
02:10:28.239 --> 02:10:33.359
Webworms typically do not kill trees.
They to folio them. The trees refoliate.

1744
02:10:33.840 --> 02:10:37.000
But after what we went through,
to have another one or two of

1745
02:10:37.079 --> 02:10:39.319
those, and I'm not predicting that's
going to happen, I'm saying it could

1746
02:10:39.359 --> 02:10:45.119
happen, and to defoliate again and
again that is not good for the trees

1747
02:10:45.159 --> 02:10:48.840
at all. So they're resilient.
They can bounce back but hey, let's

1748
02:10:48.880 --> 02:10:52.399
not make them over and over again. Hopefully that makes a little bit of

1749
02:10:52.479 --> 02:11:01.880
sense. Micro Life fertilizers come in
many, many forms. I was talking

1750
02:11:01.960 --> 02:11:07.399
to someone earlier about the orange label, the Microlife with the orange label.

1751
02:11:07.439 --> 02:11:11.520
It's a liquid and I've used that
on my houseplants for a very long time.

1752
02:11:11.039 --> 02:11:16.159
It's not just made for houseplants.
It works on any kind of plant

1753
02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:18.279
you want to put it on.
But it works really well. I think

1754
02:11:18.319 --> 02:11:24.279
it's called Biomatrix. That's the name. Biomatrix, a seven to one three

1755
02:11:24.359 --> 02:11:28.239
fertilizer. But Microlife also has Ocean
Harvest, which is a fish based fertil

1756
02:11:28.439 --> 02:11:33.239
They have super Seaweed, which is
the green label. Ocean Harvest blue makes

1757
02:11:33.279 --> 02:11:39.880
sense water blue, Ocean Harvest green
label, super Seaweed Seaweed's green green label.

1758
02:11:39.960 --> 02:11:41.399
Isn't that easy? Makes it easy
to do. They have a lot

1759
02:11:41.439 --> 02:11:46.359
of other products. You can get
the humants plus both in the purple bags

1760
02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:48.840
to put on your lawn, which
I'd recommend you do to help especially if

1761
02:11:48.880 --> 02:11:52.520
you have a clay soil, to
help build some soil structure over time.

1762
02:11:54.159 --> 02:11:56.960
And then they also have it in
a liquid form, the humans plus and

1763
02:11:58.079 --> 02:12:01.800
that's purple as well. Just a
few things for Microlife. You can go

1764
02:12:01.800 --> 02:12:05.760
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find
out about all these products and where to

1765
02:12:05.840 --> 02:12:09.720
get them. But I can tell
you this, I see Microlife pretty much

1766
02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:13.760
every garden center. I go into
every Ace hardware staurant. I go into

1767
02:12:15.279 --> 02:12:20.079
Southwest Fertilizer, Bob carries it down
there. And then the feed stores.

1768
02:12:20.600 --> 02:12:24.319
We love our feed stores here on
garden Line and Microlife I see it in

1769
02:12:24.439 --> 02:12:28.279
them as well. So it's not
hard at all to find. Let's head

1770
02:12:28.319 --> 02:12:31.119
out now to Missouri City and we're
going to talk to Josh. Hello,

1771
02:12:31.279 --> 02:12:37.000
Josh, Hey, it's Missouri State. I'm the guy up near Houston,

1772
02:12:37.039 --> 02:12:41.399
Missouri. Oh you're near Houston,
Missouri. That is yep. I called

1773
02:12:41.439 --> 02:12:46.960
you a while back about Greenbrier and
it's been very effective what you told me.

1774
02:12:46.079 --> 02:12:48.359
Thank you? Well, I you
know, what do they say,

1775
02:12:48.359 --> 02:12:54.319
even a blindhog finds an acre and
ever now and then, well, what's

1776
02:12:54.359 --> 02:12:58.479
about a squashbug problem up here?
Now? I've spent probably twenty hours just

1777
02:12:58.520 --> 02:13:03.560
in the last weak or so pulling
leaves with squash bug eggs off and burning

1778
02:13:03.640 --> 02:13:07.960
them. What else can I do? This is getting ridiculous. I think

1779
02:13:09.000 --> 02:13:11.439
you're talking about the vine borer,
right, squash vine No, No,

1780
02:13:11.640 --> 02:13:16.399
they're actual squash bugs. They're not
the squash vine borers. They're the little

1781
02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:22.079
little the little squash beetles, little
gray black things that are grayish brown.

1782
02:13:22.319 --> 02:13:24.439
Yeah, okay, yeah, Well
you know here, here's a fun fact

1783
02:13:26.079 --> 02:13:31.039
that is the only insect that I
know of where the name of the insect

1784
02:13:31.119 --> 02:13:35.520
and the recommended control method are the
same. Squash bug two bricks boom,

1785
02:13:35.760 --> 02:13:41.399
You got it. I'm not joking
around about your dilemma up there. Uh,

1786
02:13:41.640 --> 02:13:46.560
those hemipdra piercing sucking insects like stink
bugs, leaf footed bugs, and

1787
02:13:46.600 --> 02:13:50.960
squash bugs. A lot of the
lower talk simple products we have don't work

1788
02:13:52.039 --> 02:13:56.279
that well against them. You're going
to have to shift over to either.

1789
02:13:58.079 --> 02:14:01.720
You might have some help with pyate, which is an organic product, but

1790
02:14:03.239 --> 02:14:07.800
a lot of times it's not that
effective on them. Stepping up to the

1791
02:14:07.880 --> 02:14:13.920
next level would be synthetic parrethroids,
which will kill them. But I had

1792
02:14:13.960 --> 02:14:16.319
a squash patch once then had a
bunch of them in it, and basically

1793
02:14:18.159 --> 02:14:20.079
I just would water the mulch and
they'd come crawling up out of the mulch

1794
02:14:20.560 --> 02:14:24.359
and then do a lot a lot
of hands smashing. If you've got a

1795
02:14:24.680 --> 02:14:28.520
sizeable squash patch, that's probably not
practical. But no, I've probably got

1796
02:14:28.520 --> 02:14:33.199
one hundred and fifty plants and they're
on almost everything. Is that allowed in

1797
02:14:33.239 --> 02:14:37.399
Missouri? Can you have that many? Well? I went a little overboard

1798
02:14:37.479 --> 02:14:43.319
this year and put in about a
quarter acre of guard vegetables. Josh,

1799
02:14:43.560 --> 02:14:46.039
hey, I have to run for
the news break. I'm gonna put you

1800
02:14:46.079 --> 02:14:46.800
on hold. If you want to
hang around and talk, we can do

1801
02:14:46.920 --> 02:14:50.560
that. Otherwise. I hope that
helped, and thanks for the call.

1802
02:14:50.840 --> 02:14:54.640
We'll be right, We'll be right
back. All right, little Megan trainer

1803
02:14:54.720 --> 02:15:01.439
this morning, Oh popping song there
really moving along. I let's say here,

1804
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Well, first, let me give
you the phone number seven one three

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two one two U ktr H if
you'd like to give me a call.

1806
02:15:07.840 --> 02:15:11.800
Uh, this is our last half
hour of guardenline this weekend, and if

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02:15:11.840 --> 02:15:15.600
you've got some questions now, it
would be a good time. Seven one

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02:15:15.680 --> 02:15:20.279
three two one two ktr H.
Makes it easy. Uh. Back at

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02:15:20.840 --> 02:15:26.239
my place, we're doing a number
of different things in the landscape and I

1810
02:15:26.359 --> 02:15:30.920
love getting out and moving things around
and it just reminded me that for a

1811
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lot of people, they look at
a landscape as a permanent thing, and

1812
02:15:35.920 --> 02:15:41.960
while it could be, in general, landscapes are constantly in evolution. Uh,

1813
02:15:43.199 --> 02:15:48.880
maybe you planted a shrub that you're
having trouble now keeping below the level

1814
02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:54.279
of the window, or from scrapping, scrapping on the eaves of the house.

1815
02:15:54.760 --> 02:15:58.840
So whatever, Maybe it's a plant
that develops disease issues, or maybe

1816
02:16:00.319 --> 02:16:03.880
just end up wanting a new one
to go there, something different. You

1817
02:16:03.960 --> 02:16:07.920
know, when I was growing up, the shrubs that we had, we

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02:16:07.960 --> 02:16:11.800
didn't have as many dwarf options,
and in many cases we didn't have as

1819
02:16:11.920 --> 02:16:18.800
much colorful foliage options like you start
to see right now. And there's a

1820
02:16:18.840 --> 02:16:22.039
lot of good ones out there.
It doesn't matter what kind of shrub it

1821
02:16:22.159 --> 02:16:24.680
is. There's always breeders that are
working and improving them. So maybe that

1822
02:16:24.760 --> 02:16:28.560
shrub needs to be pulled out.
And I know you think, but it's

1823
02:16:28.600 --> 02:16:33.239
been there for twenty years. Well
do you like it? Do you like

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02:16:33.280 --> 02:16:35.239
it where it is? Would you
like something different there? There's nothing wrong

1825
02:16:35.319 --> 02:16:39.399
with that. It's just like,
think about the inside of your house.

1826
02:16:39.799 --> 02:16:43.040
Do you ever just go, you
know what this place needs painting, or

1827
02:16:43.479 --> 02:16:48.200
let's rearrange this furniture, or you
see what I'm saying. That's our landscapes

1828
02:16:48.280 --> 02:16:52.879
too, and enjoy yourself out there. I mean this is to have a

1829
02:16:52.000 --> 02:16:58.239
nice new look. I'm working right
now on a stone patio and behind my

1830
02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:03.879
house we got a little satio area. But we're putting some flat stone hardscape

1831
02:17:03.959 --> 02:17:07.520
in there, not cementing it in
our soul moves around a lot and anything

1832
02:17:07.600 --> 02:17:11.399
you put in as seamount is going
to crack. But just going to have

1833
02:17:11.520 --> 02:17:15.440
some decomposed granite in between the stones. But it would be a real nice

1834
02:17:15.479 --> 02:17:18.760
outdoor sitting area. It's underneath a
big old cypress tree, a real beautiful

1835
02:17:18.799 --> 02:17:22.399
area. I think. Really looking
forward to getting it out there. So

1836
02:17:22.520 --> 02:17:24.959
that's a new thing. We decided
this is what we want to do because

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02:17:26.040 --> 02:17:28.760
we love to have people come over
and enjoy, you know, the evenings

1838
02:17:28.840 --> 02:17:35.479
outside in the in the landscaping garden. What would you like to do different

1839
02:17:35.760 --> 02:17:39.360
or what do you think may need
some upgrading. Don't be afraid to do

1840
02:17:39.479 --> 02:17:43.079
that. It is okay to do
that. There's nothing wrong with taking a

1841
02:17:43.159 --> 02:17:48.079
perfectly healthy plant and replacing it.
If that makes you happy, that's what

1842
02:17:48.280 --> 02:17:54.360
you want to have the goal that
you want. So there's like glossy Abelia

1843
02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:56.920
as an example, the old glossy
Abelias. There's one type and it got

1844
02:17:58.000 --> 02:18:03.639
big. Now we have many types
kaleidoscope and some with white in the foliage

1845
02:18:03.680 --> 02:18:07.239
as well, and there's just a
lot of options. So keep your eyes

1846
02:18:07.319 --> 02:18:11.360
open and don't be afraid to enjoy
yourself and be creative. We're going to

1847
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go now to Montrose area and talk
to Teresa. Hello, Teresa, Yes,

1848
02:18:16.159 --> 02:18:22.760
hello, how can I help?
So? I've got a mature shape

1849
02:18:22.879 --> 02:18:26.719
sago that is actually planted in the
ground. It's really big. It's lasted

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02:18:26.799 --> 02:18:31.760
through the freeze or several of the
friezes, right, and it is now

1851
02:18:31.840 --> 02:18:37.920
starting to yellow, not in spot, but all the whole palm frond.

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02:18:37.040 --> 02:18:41.040
So I don't know what to do
for that. Interesting just to check.

1853
02:18:41.559 --> 02:18:46.200
Have you done any kind of weed
control anywhere around that plant? I have

1854
02:18:46.360 --> 02:18:52.280
not, no, right, I
don't know that it's a root problem.

1855
02:18:52.440 --> 02:18:56.360
Something's wrong in the roots, and
I don't know exactly what that would be.

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02:18:56.479 --> 02:19:00.399
Sego's are pretty tolerant of a range
of soul moisture conditions. They like

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02:19:00.479 --> 02:19:05.200
it moist, but it could be
a root rot that's going on in there.

1858
02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:09.319
To be honest, I would have
to go research what root rot would

1859
02:19:09.319 --> 02:19:13.120
attack segos if any do. I'm
not run across a root rot problem on

1860
02:19:13.239 --> 02:19:18.639
segs before. But something is going
wrong in the plumbing system from the root

1861
02:19:18.719 --> 02:19:22.120
tips all the way up to the
top and for it to turn yellow.

1862
02:19:22.639 --> 02:19:28.559
That's not a lack of nitrogen.
It's not a lack of iron. If

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02:19:28.600 --> 02:19:33.239
a leaf was green and turned yellow, that's not a lack of iron.

1864
02:19:33.319 --> 02:19:35.799
If it's a new leaf developing yellow, it could be. But what you're

1865
02:19:35.879 --> 02:19:41.280
describing there, I just keep it
keeps leading me down to the roots to

1866
02:19:41.360 --> 02:19:46.040
wonder what's going on down there?
Gotcha? I mean, we've had so

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02:19:46.120 --> 02:19:48.520
much rain or lots of rain and
the new rain, lots of rain and

1868
02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:52.840
the new rain, so I didn't
know if that was something that was going

1869
02:19:52.920 --> 02:19:54.879
on. Was a pretty tolerant of
that. You see so many around the

1870
02:19:54.959 --> 02:20:00.159
Houston area that just looked fine,
aside from the freezing that we've had so

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02:20:00.319 --> 02:20:05.079
bad recently recent years. Let me
just ask one other thing. When you

1872
02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:09.319
look at those yellow fronds, if
you look under the underside of them,

1873
02:20:09.520 --> 02:20:18.680
is there a white material underneath or
are so we're going to eliminate psychad scale,

1874
02:20:18.719 --> 02:20:22.559
which can also cause a yellow in
the leaves. Okay, well,

1875
02:20:24.799 --> 02:20:30.360
I'm not sure what to tell you
other than just provide normal care. If

1876
02:20:30.680 --> 02:20:33.600
it is a root rot, then
you could lose the whole plant. But

1877
02:20:33.799 --> 02:20:39.920
a lot of times segos, if
for whatever reason the top collapses from freeze

1878
02:20:39.959 --> 02:20:43.000
or whatever, they will often send
little puffs up, little babies up around

1879
02:20:43.040 --> 02:20:48.000
the sides from the base of the
trunk. So you maybe have to cut

1880
02:20:48.079 --> 02:20:52.959
the top out, but hopefully the
plant would continue going if you're interested in

1881
02:20:52.079 --> 02:20:58.040
keeping it right. I do see
new growth in the center areas, and

1882
02:20:58.120 --> 02:21:03.920
I've pushed on the trunk and it's
not squishy, so I didn't know if

1883
02:21:03.959 --> 02:21:07.479
that made a difference. And it's
on an incline, so I'm surprised if

1884
02:21:07.520 --> 02:21:11.520
it would be, you know,
staying in water, so I have to

1885
02:21:11.879 --> 02:21:16.200
research it. Yeah, you said
in the center areas, so it's I

1886
02:21:16.399 --> 02:21:22.079
was picturing that every frond on the
entire sego was yellow, but you have

1887
02:21:22.239 --> 02:21:28.680
green. You the little baby ones
that are coming out of the center,

1888
02:21:28.040 --> 02:21:33.280
the little teeny tiny, you know, little three inch guys, they are

1889
02:21:33.360 --> 02:21:37.280
green. Are you talking about Okay? I just want to make sure I'm

1890
02:21:37.360 --> 02:21:39.879
understanding this right. You're talking about
new friends coming out of the center,

1891
02:21:41.000 --> 02:21:43.920
the baby French. Are we talking
about a baby, the new baby,

1892
02:21:43.440 --> 02:21:48.239
the new baby Froz. Those old
ones did that. But if they're coming

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02:21:48.319 --> 02:21:54.040
out green, you ought to be
okay. This yellowing is not how it's

1894
02:21:54.120 --> 02:21:56.559
been. You've had good green in
the past, and this sounds like it

1895
02:21:56.719 --> 02:22:01.680
happened somewhat suddenly. Uh just it
hadn't been that way a long long time.

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02:22:01.840 --> 02:22:05.399
So uh I think I would just
continue to carry your giving it and

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02:22:05.479 --> 02:22:09.159
be ready to cut those o ones
off as you get new foliage up there

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02:22:09.239 --> 02:22:13.840
to capture the sunlight. All right, gotcha? Okay, thanks, thank

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you, good luck with that.
I appreciate that. We're going to take

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02:22:16.600 --> 02:22:20.079
a little break. If you would
like to call and get on for our

1901
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last segment, here's your chance.
Seven one three two one two kt R

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eight seven one three two and two
kat R H. Welcome back to Guardline.

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Good to have you with us here. We are launching out in the

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last segment of the day. I'm
going to head straight out here to the

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phones. By the way, if
you like call, do you have a

1906
02:22:39.239 --> 02:22:43.079
little bit of room If you want
to not delay too long. We're going

1907
02:22:43.159 --> 02:22:46.440
to go to Alvin and talk to
Dennis. Hello, Dennis, Oh,

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02:22:46.600 --> 02:22:50.600
good morning. How are you doing. I got a question quick and easy

1909
02:22:50.680 --> 02:22:56.239
to answer. It concerns tomato plants
growing in the autumn season of the year,

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02:22:56.360 --> 02:23:00.559
or this time anyway. Recently purchased
a couple of tomato plants from all

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02:23:00.719 --> 02:23:05.760
localized will say to say, home
depot an, you know, but I

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02:23:05.360 --> 02:23:09.520
have them in the ground and they
are growing. They actually are growing pretty

1913
02:23:09.559 --> 02:23:13.200
good, but I'm not getting blossoms
on it like I think I should.

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02:23:13.280 --> 02:23:16.000
And of course they kind of looking
unhealthy, you know, I mean just

1915
02:23:16.040 --> 02:23:20.040
looking at them, they just they're
kind of like, so, what what

1916
02:23:20.520 --> 02:23:24.399
could I be doing that would perhaps
enhance their growth? Okay? Well,

1917
02:23:24.479 --> 02:23:28.639
adequate so moisture. A new plant
has a limited root system, and so

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02:23:30.319 --> 02:23:33.000
it's going to need some time to
have the type of root system that can

1919
02:23:33.040 --> 02:23:39.680
be resilient. That's that's large and
extensive, if you will, And so

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02:23:39.799 --> 02:23:43.040
that that would be one thing.
Probably the most important thing is keeping it

1921
02:23:43.159 --> 02:23:48.440
adequately hydrated. Fertilizer is always a
good idea, and with tomatoes, we

1922
02:23:48.520 --> 02:23:54.200
have a number of excellent products that
will work well they got good nitrogen levels

1923
02:23:54.280 --> 02:23:58.600
to keep stimulating new growth. Now, it's not a bad time to get

1924
02:23:58.719 --> 02:24:05.000
a tomato in for a fall fall
harvest. Are slicer tomatoes, they don't

1925
02:24:05.079 --> 02:24:09.040
like to set when the weather starts
to heat up, and so it's going

1926
02:24:09.079 --> 02:24:13.000
to be way into the fall before
they're really setting. Again. We need

1927
02:24:13.040 --> 02:24:16.079
to get a break in the in
the heat. Those little cherry tomatoes and

1928
02:24:16.159 --> 02:24:20.280
grapes, those set better in the
heat, and so you you may get

1929
02:24:20.360 --> 02:24:24.159
some fruit off that before we even
get to fall. Okay, well,

1930
02:24:24.440 --> 02:24:28.959
you recommend like products like Miracle Grow, would that be a good choice or

1931
02:24:30.120 --> 02:24:33.360
just that's not one. No,
that's not one that I that I would

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02:24:33.399 --> 02:24:37.760
recommend. There. I say this
a lot, but I be honest with

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02:24:37.840 --> 02:24:41.520
you. I use blond fertilizer in
my gardens a lot. And Okay,

1934
02:24:43.840 --> 02:24:48.000
Nelson's has a really good quality plant
food for tomatoes. In fact, they

1935
02:24:48.040 --> 02:24:52.280
have an organic plant food for tomatoes, and so you could go with something

1936
02:24:52.440 --> 02:24:54.959
like that. It comes in a
big old clear jar with the screw top,

1937
02:24:56.319 --> 02:25:01.040
and you could do that. But
when you're getting the nutrients out there,

1938
02:25:01.120 --> 02:25:05.680
with a pretty good amount of nitrogen, especially, that's going to stimulate

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02:25:05.799 --> 02:25:09.840
the growth and they're going to do
fine for you. Great. So you

1940
02:25:09.959 --> 02:25:13.360
advice. You can go hunting for
vegetable fertilizer, or you can just make

1941
02:25:13.399 --> 02:25:18.079
it easier in yourself and use what
you got, which most people have land

1942
02:25:18.079 --> 02:25:22.440
fertilizer because they have a lot fertilizer. Yeah, good advice. Thank you

1943
02:25:22.600 --> 02:25:24.440
very much for your advice, and
I'm going to try that all right now,

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02:25:24.719 --> 02:25:26.879
Dennis. I don't know how much
you listen to Gardenline, but we

1945
02:25:26.959 --> 02:25:31.639
do have a rule here that my
advice is free, but I do expect

1946
02:25:31.719 --> 02:25:33.879
to be paid in tomatoes. So
just bring half of your fall crop and

1947
02:25:35.000 --> 02:25:37.360
leave it at the station and we'll
call it even. Okay, I could

1948
02:25:37.440 --> 02:25:41.040
do something like that, Yes,
sir, you could. That was very

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02:25:41.159 --> 02:25:48.239
careful. I know, I understand, I understand. Sure, thanks a

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02:25:48.319 --> 02:25:50.159
lot. We're having fun here.
Thanks, thank you. You have a

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02:25:50.200 --> 02:25:54.360
good time, that is for sure. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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Nutrients. You know, we we
think nutrients as making plants grow, but

1953
02:26:03.479 --> 02:26:09.639
nutrients help plants grow. Like if
you put nitrogen on the soil, it's

1954
02:26:09.719 --> 02:26:13.399
not like it makes that plant grow
faster. It's if the plant gets adequate

1955
02:26:13.520 --> 02:26:18.719
nitrogen, it can and will grow
faster. So think about it that way.

1956
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That's why I like the bank account
analogy for nutrients and soil. Your

1957
02:26:24.399 --> 02:26:28.559
soil is a bank account. And
whether we look at it as a bank

1958
02:26:28.639 --> 02:26:33.719
account or as as a storeroom if
you will, when you need something,

1959
02:26:33.760 --> 02:26:37.959
you go to the storeroom and you
get it out of the storeroom to use

1960
02:26:37.000 --> 02:26:41.440
it, okay, or a bank
account you make a withdrawal. Well,

1961
02:26:41.479 --> 02:26:46.159
if our bank account has all of
the twenty plus nutrients that plants might be

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02:26:46.639 --> 02:26:50.200
or will be needing in it,
then you're going to that plant's not going

1963
02:26:50.280 --> 02:26:52.559
to go hungry. It's going to
be able to continue to do the things

1964
02:26:52.639 --> 02:26:56.559
it does take up the nutrients it
has. And so that's that's important to

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02:26:56.719 --> 02:27:01.840
build that bank account. So while
yes, when you put nitrogen on your

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02:27:01.920 --> 02:27:07.319
lawn, it makes a long grow
faster, but that's why it's because you're

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02:27:07.479 --> 02:27:11.079
you're making a readily available form,
and nitrogen is a very volatile nutrient.

1968
02:27:13.360 --> 02:27:15.680
Nerd alert here, I'm nerding out
a little bit, but I think it's

1969
02:27:15.680 --> 02:27:20.719
important to understand this. Nitrogen can
volatilize as a gas and go away.

1970
02:27:20.280 --> 02:27:24.440
It can wash away, it can
it can literally just be carried away very

1971
02:27:24.559 --> 02:27:30.000
easily with a good rain, uh, you know, down into the soil

1972
02:27:30.680 --> 02:27:33.760
and it changes forms a lot in
the soil. There's there's several different forms

1973
02:27:33.879 --> 02:27:37.959
nitrogen takes in the soil as microbes
do their work on it. So it's

1974
02:27:39.040 --> 02:27:43.639
not unusual to have a temporary nitrogen
deficiency. And we can fix that by

1975
02:27:45.120 --> 02:27:50.000
in small amounts continuing to provide some
nitrogen now a lot of the other nutrients.

1976
02:27:50.079 --> 02:27:52.719
It's more the bank account where you
just build it up and if you

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02:27:52.000 --> 02:27:54.360
if you got it now, you're
going to have it next spring. It's

1978
02:27:54.399 --> 02:28:00.920
still there, you know, but
with nitrogen especially and to a degree of

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02:28:01.079 --> 02:28:03.040
potassium, is that way as well. Let's go to West Houston. Now

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02:28:03.079 --> 02:28:09.280
we're going to talk to Steve.
Hello, Steve, Hello, Skip,

1981
02:28:09.399 --> 02:28:13.120
is that you? This is me
good Well, I just want to say

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02:28:13.159 --> 02:28:18.520
I know it's in the show,
but I think you are the greatest choice

1983
02:28:18.600 --> 02:28:22.319
of the successor to Randy. I've
heard you on his show and other places

1984
02:28:22.399 --> 02:28:26.959
before, and I go back,
I can remember Bill Zach and Ben Old

1985
02:28:28.079 --> 02:28:35.159
Dag Bob Bob flagg Is, John
Burrow still with us. I have I

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02:28:35.319 --> 02:28:41.159
do not know the answer to that
one. I don't Yeah, I hope

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02:28:41.239 --> 02:28:43.719
not. I hope. I mean, I hope so, I hope he

1988
02:28:43.879 --> 02:28:48.399
is doing well. What was the
name of that weed you've talked about with

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02:28:48.559 --> 02:28:54.719
it, It's a strange name with
the mimosa like leaves chamber bitter, chamber

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02:28:54.840 --> 02:28:58.799
bitter, and that's it. And
when you look at the little mimosa lee

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02:29:00.360 --> 02:29:03.280
underneath that leaf petial, you know
how a compound leave, well, even

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02:29:03.360 --> 02:29:07.840
like like a pecan leaf, it's
it's a compound leaf with a little stem

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02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:11.239
that holds leaflets as you go down
the stem. Well, on mosta weed,

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02:29:11.280 --> 02:29:15.840
it's a little tiny weed. Uh. It has a little seed bloom

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02:29:16.479 --> 02:29:22.120
blooms and seed underneath there. It's
really strange the way it blooms. It

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02:29:22.360 --> 02:29:24.680
is. And I've got I've got
it beaten down pretty good, but it'll

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02:29:24.799 --> 02:29:31.000
come back up. My main question
is I've got a bed with some hybrid

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02:29:31.079 --> 02:29:35.959
teas and it's been a long term
bed used for that. It was looking

1999
02:29:35.040 --> 02:29:41.600
pretty scraggly. I put down some
rose soil and some compost and then topped

2000
02:29:41.680 --> 02:29:46.719
it with munch and I've used in
the past. I never want to use

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02:29:46.799 --> 02:29:50.959
that, uh, you know,
that weed cloth, because it just tears

2002
02:29:50.000 --> 02:29:54.879
and it's a mess. I've got
weeds. I mean they're they're they're growing

2003
02:29:54.959 --> 02:29:58.959
every Okay, I mean it's just
I've weeded three days ago and that's full

2004
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again. Okay, Well, Steve, I just want to let you know

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I've got about about a minute here
before they start playing the music for the

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end of the show. If it's
if it's annual weed, mult keeps the

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seeds from being able to sprout and
establish always keeping a good thing. Mult.

2008
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If it's a perennial weed like nut
said, or like bermuda grass,

2009
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you're gonna have to go down and
do something to kill that weed, uh,

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in order to have it translocate down
in the weed and truly killed the

2011
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weed. Because go ahead, I'm
thinking about time. One last question.

2012
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I do have some low n eyed
weed beater, but I was hisitant to

2013
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use that in that bed. And
I also have some barricade. Okay.

2014
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Barricade is a barricade is a pre
emergent that prevents the seeds from coming up

2015
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the weed beater. You better check
the label on that to see if you

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can even use it in that bed. Thank you, Thank you so much

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for your time. I'll check that
out all right. Well, thanks for

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coming, Steve. I appreciate you. That's a nice way as far as

2019
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I'm concerned in the show. And
take care all right, don't forget next

2020
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Saturday. What's next Saturday. I'm
going to be at Langham Creek Ace Hardware

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and Langham Creek Ace Hardware is over
where five twenty nine also called Spencer Road

2022
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and Barker Cypress come together in northwest
Houston, just south of Ferry Center,

2023
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south of Cypress and whatnot. I'll
be there from eleven thirty to one thirty.

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We're going to be giving away some
products, the reps from Microlife,

2025
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from micropost Boat. I'm going to
be there providing a free product, and

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I'll be there to answer your garden
the questions and last time I'll be doing

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it until this fall. I call
this Disney Latin. I have a better

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chance of not killing something if I
get the plants from Rbardie. I very

2029
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rarely have anything die that I buy
here, as opposed to blows or home

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Depot. You know, half the
stuff I buy ends up dying. And

2031
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you're going to find varieties of plants, trees, shrubs that you're just not

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going to find that those other garden
centers and ever,