WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.720 Katie r H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:10.359 services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Escape 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:32.520 Rictor. It's just watch him as so many crazy well good Sunday morning. 4 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:37.280 Welcome to Garden Line. We're glad to have you with us today. Absolutely, 5 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.280 what are we going to talk about? Let's talk about something related to 6 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.280 plants. How about that. That's what we're here for. We want to 7 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:48.159 help you have a beautiful garden and a bountiful garden as well as a beautiful, 8 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.399 gorgeous landscape, one that you enjoy. So how do we do that? 9 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:55.200 Well, we give you advice, we give you tips to have success. 10 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.159 We point you in the right direction of any kind of products that can 11 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:03.480 help with that, but especially focusing on practices that are important to have success. 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:07.920 You know, it's really not rocket science. It's just a matter of 13 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:11.879 doing the right kinds of things at the right time. And I know that 14 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.760 sounds like, well, how do you know? Well that you learn over 15 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:18.120 time and anytime you want, you can call us here, send me a 16 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:23.439 picture via an email. We can diagnose something and figure out what's going on. 17 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.480 By the way, we had a great time out at RCW Nursery yesterday. 18 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.959 Thanks the folks out there for David and Kathleen hosting us out there, 19 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.079 and just you guys wore me out. I kind of hit the bed last 20 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:40.319 night and I was about brain dead. I think I'd answered enough questions for 21 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.959 the day to last for the week, bring in samples of weeds and things 22 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.000 and pictures of things. It was good. I love doing that. That's 23 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:49.840 what it's all about. Gives us a chance to rub shoulders, look eye 24 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:56.599 to eye and resolve some of the issues that you have. Also gave away 25 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:01.120 a lot of good stuff out there too. RCWS. You know they've got 26 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:06.079 a credible sale on right now. I mean when I was out there, 27 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:10.400 I couldn't believe a pull a video on Facebook. Just the color the place 28 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:15.360 just looked awesome. I mean, if you didn't see yoga, look at 29 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.400 it. But it is just tons of roses still. I mean, they 30 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.759 still have a lot of roses available. They specialize in trying to have about 31 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.879 as wide a variety as anybody could possibly have when it comes to roses. 32 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.879 When it comes to trees and things, of course, they grow their own 33 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.879 up in Plantersville area. And the tree farm, and so they've got the 34 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.520 kind of trees that grow here, the kind that you would want to plant. 35 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:39.960 By the way, it's still okay to get a tree planted if you 36 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:44.240 hurry up and get that done. Just give it as much time as you 37 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.039 can for summer. So go ahead and get it done. Now's a good 38 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.840 time if you're thinking about it and going, well, I may do it 39 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.680 next year. Well, every year you wait is a year behind that you 40 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.080 are on getting that thing up where you can hang a hammock in it, 41 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.479 or where it's big enough to bloom. If it's a blooming tree, they 42 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.120 have beautiful boom and Billie is too some standards that kind of like they have 43 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:07.680 a single trunk or a braided trunk and and just beautiful billows of blooms up 44 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:12.560 on top. I was, I was super super impressed. I mean, 45 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.400 the place looks good. You know that that's just normal for them, but 46 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:22.199 uh, it was. It was a showplace for sure. Absolutely. If 47 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:23.960 you'd like to give us a call this morning, my phone number here on 48 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:29.199 the garden line is seven one three two one two k t r H seven 49 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.879 one three two one two kt r H. By the way, RCW for 50 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:38.080 those who don't know, is the nursery that is where Beltway eight and Tomball 51 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:43.840 Parkway Highway to forty nine come together right there. Easy to get to get 52 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.039 in and out of UH. And again, like I said, the stock 53 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:50.560 is great. I picked up some Lantannas myself while I was there. We're 54 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:53.520 redoing a front flower bed and I just needed a row of those. I 55 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.120 got some of the semi dwarf types. There's a number of new series of 56 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:01.360 Lantana's, by the way, that are just outstanding, several different series by 57 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:06.159 different breeders. But you know, the old Lantanna's got about waist high or 58 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:12.080 bigger, and those are fine. Those are good. There's a native lantanas 59 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.240 here in Texas, there's some, and then there's also lots of different bread 60 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.959 Lantanna's, but now they keep working with them. And there's some that only 61 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:24.399 get like a foot high. They're very small, very compact for lantana. 62 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:28.199 There's others that get you know, maybe two feet high eighteen inches two feet 63 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.279 high or two or three feet high, and you kind of get to pick 64 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:34.959 what you want. The colors are outstanding, they're just beautiful. Lantanna's a 65 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.600 great plant for the heat that we have to deal with here. I love 66 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:45.079 them, I just love them. Anyway. That's what's going on in my 67 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.639 house next this week, getting out there and get those things planted. Also 68 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:55.839 working on redoing an herb bed, and that has not the process hasn't started 69 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.319 yet, just the planning part of it. But I let some child dives 70 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.639 go to seed. I love chi flowers that are great for beneficials and stuff, 71 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:05.800 but I'll let them go to seed. And I know better than this. 72 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:13.040 And my herb bed became a chichia pet. It looked like wheat grass, 73 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.759 you know, just everywhere everywhere, little sprouts of chives coming up. 74 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:20.319 It was like grass through the whole bit. And so we tried sifting through 75 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.959 that and getting all the little bulbs out, and you know, that's an 76 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:28.879 ongoing process. But we're going to redo the soil in there, screen it 77 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:33.319 a little finer, and then replant with some new herbs that we're wanting to 78 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.360 try out to If you haven't grown herbs before, you ought to. Herbs 79 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.279 are wonderful. You can grow herbs for whatever purposes you want. I mean, 80 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:45.160 there are medicinal herbs which I know essentially nothing about I try to stay 81 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.800 out of that kind of field. But when it comes to culinaries, and 82 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:53.240 then just the beauty the herbs we use for cooking, and the herbs that 83 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:57.399 I think are just they deserve a place because they're beautiful. When Mexican met 84 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:01.680 marigold blooms in the late summer and fall, those yellow blossoms are beautiful. 85 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:08.120 When pineapple saved, which is a type of salvia, puts those red tubular 86 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.560 flowers out, the hummingbirds lineup. They love it. Plus you get the 87 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.600 wonderful pineapple scented foliage on the plant. And there's just a lot of great 88 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:20.480 ways you can use herbs. Oregano awesome groundcover, marjoram, same thing. 89 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:27.120 The time spilling over the side of a container looks really nice. Time is 90 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.560 another great one. Rosemary is one of the most drought tolerant plants you can 91 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:34.199 plant. Years ago, we had a drought. Oh, I guess this 92 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:40.399 would have been probably over ten years ago now, and the master gardeners up 93 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:44.759 in north central Texas, I can't remember if Denton County or which county, 94 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:47.519 they went around town looking at what was living and what was not, and 95 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:51.319 they were just taking Italia plants, and rosemary is one of the top plants 96 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:56.639 for surviving during that excessive drought that they had up there. It's a good 97 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.240 one. The only way the only problem with rosemary is you bring it down 98 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.360 here to Houston and put it in a black clay soil in a low spot 99 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.160 where it sits in a swamp. It will not be happy with that. 100 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:10.680 But just give a good drainage and it's an excellent plant, excellent plant to 101 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:15.120 have. Well, it's time to be getting our lawns in order for summer. 102 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:23.160 And nitrofoss is superturf the silver bag nineteen four ten Superturf by nitrofos. 103 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:28.240 Fifty percent of that nineteen percent nitrogen is slow released to gradually feed over time. 104 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:30.160 It's got iron about four percent iron in it, by the way, 105 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:34.560 which helps with green up. When you see yellow areas in your lawn for 106 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:40.600 one reason or another, they're usually connected to iron deficiency, and so superturf 107 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:43.720 helps fix that too, gradually feeding over time, which is how we want 108 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.040 to fertilize when it comes to the summer. You're going to find nitro fross 109 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.399 products in a lot of different places. I pretty much find them everywhere I 110 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:55.120 go, but a Fisher's Hardware down in a Baytown area has got them Lake 111 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.959 Hardware, and Angleton has got nitrofoss products. You go up to Tombold D 112 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.959 and D feed store day carry nitrofoss as well. Let's take a little break 113 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.800 here and I will be back of a number if you'd like to give me 114 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:11.759 a call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome 115 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.000 back to garden Line. We are glad you're with us today. We're going 116 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.639 to talk about some things related to gardening. Excuse me, that always happens 117 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.879 to me first thing in the morning. I don't know why, but when 118 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:26.759 when I see a microphone, I start dealing with that first thing. We 119 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.920 are glad you're here today, and I want to talk a little bit about 120 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.519 as we get going here. First thing, vegetables. We don't talk about 121 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:37.960 them a lot here on Garden Line, not as much as perhaps i'd like 122 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:43.879 to. Your vegetable garden is an opportunity to not only enjoy growing things, 123 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.200 but to produce healthy food for your family. You know, I always like 124 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.440 to say that when you grow stuff in your garden, it's fifteen hundred miles 125 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:56.279 fresher. That's pretty true. A lot of the time. What do you 126 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.960 like to eat? What do you like to grow? Tomatoes are the queen 127 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.840 the garden. I mean, that is the number one vegetable. Everybody loves 128 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:11.639 it. Behind tomatoes. I think probably we're looking at cucumbers. Maybe peppers 129 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:16.279 would be back in there too as in terms of popularity. But there's a 130 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.440 lot of different kinds of vegetables you can grow, and just by following some 131 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.039 of the guidelines on when to plant and what to plant and how to have 132 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.000 good soil, you can do that. If you don't have a garden, 133 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:30.080 you can get one. You can put a box on the ground. You 134 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.240 can buy a box like you know lego. I've talked about vego beds in 135 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.519 the past to put together and put things in them. A lot of people, 136 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:41.159 i mean people even stack up their cinder blocks to make a box for 137 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.120 gardening. It doesn't the plants don't care what they're in. Whatever holes the 138 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.519 volume of soil they need makes that makes them happy. They're going to be 139 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:54.480 okay with that. It's for us that we want attractive or easy to get 140 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.679 two beds or beds that don't take up much space. Cinder blocks. Each 141 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.480 block takes up eight inches. With so two blocks, one on each side 142 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.840 of the bed, there's sixteen inches of whatever space you had that's gone just 143 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:07.759 for the sides of the bed. That's kind of the negative on one of 144 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.879 the negatives on those, but whatever you want to do. Also, containers, 145 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.679 You can garden in containers. It is not difficult at all. Just 146 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:22.679 make sure your containers hold as much soil as possible. So if you're going 147 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.600 to grow a tomato, can you grow a tomato in a five gallon bucket? 148 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.879 Yes, the holes in the bottom. You can grow tomato, but 149 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.759 be ready to water it twice a day to make sure it never lacks for 150 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.960 moisture, doesn't go into moisture stress. I prefer to put tomatoes in at 151 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.440 least ten gallons of soil and a good quality soil mix. When you have 152 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:45.399 a good quality soil mix, it's going to hold water, but it's going 153 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:50.480 to drain well, and that is important if you want success. Here's the 154 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.919 thing. People grow tomatoes in containers that are too small, and they look 155 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.519 out, oh it's wilting, and they water and it bounces back and they 156 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.039 go, no harm, no foul. Well, actually, yes, there 157 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.519 is, because what would have set may then abort, but maybe one will 158 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.840 set the next day or two or three and so on. But you don't 159 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.799 know it. But you're losing productivity, or you're losing the development of the 160 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.279 fruit into a good sized, tasty fruit, or you're getting blossom and drot 161 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.879 because of that intermittent too wet, too dry kind of condition. And so 162 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.759 you just want a good sized container. So there's a large volume of soil 163 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:30.679 because ever drop of water in every molecule of nutrient has to come out of 164 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.480 that one container, and a plant grown in the garden would have had much 165 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:39.200 more root zone area to draw from. So if you do that a container 166 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.559 that's a good size, it drains well with a quality mix, and you 167 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:48.759 fertilize it, you're going to have success. It's not hard. Sun o 168 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.360 add sunlight six hours of sunlight or more. Now. Jungle Land is a 169 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.360 niche frost product that is designed for outdoor gardening, and they also have a 170 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:01.840 version for indoor gardening too with the water saving crystals. The outdoor one is 171 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.879 called jungle l in flour and vegetable planting soil, and it does the magic 172 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:13.440 trick of draining away excess water very well, but also holding onto water for 173 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.200 the plants to be able to use. So you want moist soil, you 174 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.360 want soil has plenty of water, but you do not want water logged. 175 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.039 That's why we have drainage holes in a quality mix like jungle In. You 176 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.279 can buy jungle In in a lot of places. You know, nitropos products, 177 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.399 they're widely, widely available. If you go down to Clute Lake Jackson 178 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.399 Lake Hardware and Clute Well, they've got it there. If you go to 179 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:39.000 Gym's Hardware up in Montgomery for those of you listening in Montgomery or maybe over 180 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:45.840 a task Asida, the task as to Ace Hardware store also has nitroposs products 181 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.960 like the jungle In. But if you get a good container, get a 182 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.879 good quality soill like that, you can have success. I've got two pepper 183 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:58.279 plants to uh jalapanias that are in it looks like little whiskey barrels, but 184 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.399 they're plastic and they're probably hold about a fourth as much as a whiskey barrel 185 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.960 holes a half whiskey barrel holes, and they're growing in there. And a 186 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.360 couple of times I've let it get away from me I'm busy, I'm doing 187 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.279 other things. I'm out of town, and I come back and they're kind 188 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.440 of wilting. I know better. I know that should have been a little 189 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.679 bigger container, but it's what I had on hand at the time, so 190 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.679 we went with it. I just need to watch. Another thing you can 191 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:28.200 do when you are struggling to keep a plant adequately hydrated is if you put 192 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.279 that plant where the hottest part of the day it gets a little bit of 193 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.039 shade. You know, you're still getting plenty of hours of sun, but 194 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.080 it's not like eight or ten hours. Yeah, I mean, it's not 195 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.440 just like all day that thing is getting hammered with sun. That helps a 196 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:46.440 little bit on you keeping up with the soul moisture, and a lot of 197 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.519 plants appreciate that. By the way, is the weather heats up, you 198 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:56.440 want to move your some of the plants that are a little bit wimpy when 199 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:01.759 it comes to hot summer sun into that partial shade. I have some geraniums. 200 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:07.120 I love geraniums, some beautiful, beautiful new geraniums on the market, 201 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.879 and in the springtime they're great. Just put them out there in the sun, 202 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:13.080 full sun and everything. They're happy. When it gets hot, mine 203 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.320 move over to where they get some afternoon shade. I give them as much 204 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.960 sun as I can in the morning and then afternoon shade, and that helps 205 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.240 them get through the hot summer. We're just a little on the hot side 206 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.080 for them to be real happy down here year round. But that's an easy 207 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.480 plant to grow if you don't overwater it. There's another good example. I 208 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:37.639 was visiting with the folks at the Bee Supply the other day and they were 209 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:41.480 telling me about a couple of cool things that are going on. First of 210 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:43.720 all, they have a b rental program. Do you know you could rent 211 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.039 a bee, Well, not ab but a bunch of bees. So if 212 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.519 you live within fifty miles of Dayton, Texas, which is where the Bee 213 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:56.320 Supply is, and you've got five to twenty acres, you can contact them. 214 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:00.919 Go to their website, thebsupply dot Com. Go there. That's where 215 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.240 you order your bees. By the way, we're drawn near to the toward 216 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.840 the end of the time, where you get all your orders in and get 217 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:09.399 your bees in. So if you want to order bees, get that done. 218 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.399 But you go there the website and check out the bee rental program. 219 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:18.519 If you need an AG exemption on your property. Bees are a legit way 220 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:24.600 that that can be achieved. And what the rental program is is that they 221 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.360 come out, they set them up, and they do the work for you 222 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.799 on tending the hive. And so that's a good deal. You just need 223 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.399 to read more about it on the website and talk to the folks at the 224 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.840 Bee Supply. Another thing, and I talked about this for the first time 225 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.120 yesterday, is there are a lot of different kinds of bees other than honey 226 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:45.399 bees. We have many native bees and one type is a leaf cutter bee. 227 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.720 And you may have seen the little bee homes where it's like a box 228 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.559 and it has all these looks like straws in it, all stacked up like 229 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.799 a pile of pencil or apollo straws. Rather well, the leaf cutter bee 230 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:02.879 is an excellent pollinator bee. They're super aggressive or anything like that. They 231 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:07.399 mostly work during the daytime and they get their nest set up, they raise 232 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.840 their young in those little straws. And you can actually purchase leaf cutter bees 233 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.279 at thebe Supply. I think that is so cool. It's another pollinator that 234 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.240 you can use in your gardens and it is a very good one. It's 235 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.840 one of the one of the native bee pollinators that we have around the area. 236 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.159 They can tell you how to do it again thebesupply dot Com. You 237 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:32.759 want to add to your pollination in the garden, have more success, more 238 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:37.080 productivity, and so on. Why not contact the bee supline get some of 239 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.879 those leaf cutter bee boxes. Plus, it's a cool conversation piece, you 240 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:44.480 know, walk around and show people what's going on. It's a whole different 241 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:48.480 kind of bee than the regular honeybee that you may be familiar with. Our 242 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.200 phone number if you would like to give us a call seven one three two 243 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:59.120 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven 244 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:03.559 four. How do your beds look out in the garden or do you have 245 00:17:03.640 --> 00:17:07.519 good color in them? This is a season to get the color planted in 246 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:12.160 your beds. And when you're doing a bed change, you want to fertilize 247 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.839 the soil, mix it into the bed and then plant your plants. Every 248 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.359 time I do a bed change, in addition to pulling any little weeds that 249 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:23.960 have popped up in there, work in a good supply of nutrients for the 250 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.799 next Think of it as a crop a crop of flowers that you're about to 251 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:33.640 grow and watered in real good after planting, and you're back off hitting the 252 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.559 ground running again, ready to go for summer. It's time to plant heat 253 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.799 loving plants. I know it's not hot hot out there, certainly not today, 254 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:47.039 but we're about to get warm and so some of the things that are 255 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.720 a little wimpier that aren't going to make it past spring, you still plant 256 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.640 them, but you're the amount of months or weeks that you're going to get 257 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.839 a beauty out of them is more limited at this point in the season. 258 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:02.839 But things that can take heat. I mentioned Lantana before. Salvias another great 259 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:06.640 plant for taking a lot of heat. If you're looking for annual em bedding 260 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:10.279 plants, Colius. It never gets too hot for Colius. They are Colius 261 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:14.440 now for the sun and for the shade. Angelonia is one of my favorite 262 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.720 summer color plants because it's just dependable. They call it summer snap dragon. 263 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.240 Not real crazy about that name, but it's sort of is like a snap 264 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.759 dragon, and that it has a spike of flowers on it comes in beautiful 265 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.039 colors as well. That's an excellent one. I mean, I could go 266 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.599 on and on and on. All the heat loving plants, personalane, and 267 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.799 many many others. But get those beds done, get the soul worked up. 268 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.559 Add some composts to it. Always a good idea to add an entrer 269 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.480 to a compost every time you rework a bed, and that just gets it 270 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.880 better and better. Now you don't do all that work yourself. Call Piercecapes, 271 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:52.359 you know. Piers Capes is the company I've talked about for years now 272 00:18:52.519 --> 00:19:00.599 that is just absolutely unbelievable work when it comes to designing a landscape, designing 273 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:04.160 a bed, creating an outdoor area, hardescapes, drainage problems, irrigation all 274 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:08.000 that. They also to a quarterly maintenance of beds. You can harre them 275 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:11.160 come out every quarter. They trim, they weed, they fertilize, they 276 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.000 check the irrigation. They do seasonal color changes in the bed. You know, 277 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.240 hey, it's time for trading out the pansies for something they can take 278 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:22.559 the summer heat. They do that sort of thing, and they mulch over 279 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:26.640 the beds really really well. And I think it's nice having the peace of 280 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:30.920 mind knowing that they're keeping your beds looking really really good. It's like you're 281 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.119 not coming home one day going, oh my gosh, that thing's gotten weedy. 282 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:37.920 I got to get around to taking care of it. Let them do 283 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.480 it for you, pierscapes dot com. Here's the phone number two eight one 284 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:48.680 three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero. 285 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.240 Go to that pierscapes dot com and look at the other kinds of work 286 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.920 they can do. You will see some really inspiring things there. As a 287 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.039 result, they do excellent, excellent work. Do you know that you could 288 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.599 rent bees? I was just talking about renting bees. No, I did 289 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.880 not want the bee supply. Well, if you have five to twenty acres 290 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.240 and or within fifty miles a dayton up here, they'll come out to your 291 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.960 property, put bees on it, and they come and take care of the 292 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.240 bees for you. It's like you're this big bee farmer and they're coming in 293 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:22.240 and doing the work and they turn me hives and you get to watch and 294 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.880 you know, be part of that. These so critical to plants, to 295 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:30.119 food to us. It is. I think Honey's involved in this deal too. 296 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.279 That's the most important part. Oh cool, I think that's cool. 297 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.000 All right, we're gonna turn it over Nikki here's the phone number if you 298 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.799 won't get me a call, seven one three two one two k t RH. 299 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:45.480 Welcome back to the garden Line. Good to have you with us today. 300 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:48.680 Hey, what do you want to talk about? Gardening wise? If 301 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.000 you have a question or just could use some advice, I will even allow 302 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.039 you to bragger in your garden a little bit, but not for long, 303 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:56.839 but we'll all a little bit of that if you'd like to give us call 304 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.960 seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, 305 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:06.200 gardeners are proud of the things they grow and do in the garden, and 306 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:08.160 because it's an accomplishment, you know, it's kind of cool to think about 307 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:11.720 the fact that you can go out there in the dirt, and I know, 308 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.920 don't lecture me about difference between dirt and soil. You can go out 309 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:18.720 there in the dirt and you can put something in the ground and you can 310 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.119 end up getting flowers and vegetables and herbs out of it. You can go 311 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:26.079 out there in the dirt, you can plant some grass and mow it right 312 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.799 and fertilize the water right, and you can end up with a beautiful outdoor 313 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:36.119 carpet that affects the actually affects the temperatures around your house because that reflective heat. 314 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:38.400 You know, people that think of rock landscape, what you see out 315 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:42.480 in Arizona, Phoenix or someplace. You see these rock landscapes, Well, 316 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.200 yeah, you don't have the water them, but oh my gosh, the 317 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:52.039 reflective heat, the effect of that, we don't need that lawn is like 318 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:57.119 an air conditioning unit. Literally, they can tell you how many BTUs of 319 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:03.079 cooling turf grass and plants in general, but turf grasp me in a plant 320 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.640 provide. That's true with trees as well. It's not just the shade that 321 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.759 you get from a tree which helps cut down on the temperatures down lower, 322 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:18.279 but when plants are transpiring water, then that moisture that they're sending out that 323 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.680 actually has a cooling and effect that that's what happens when moisture essentially evaporates away 324 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:26.599 from a surface. I see what we're going to do. Let's head out 325 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.359 to Parland and we're gonna talk to Don. Hello, Don good, I'm 326 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.880 good, sir, how are you today? I'm doing good. I want 327 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:41.680 to ask you about my lilyes that I have and they don't but it already 328 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:45.640 the flyers and they'll fall off the stem. Well, they re all bud 329 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:52.240 again this year? And also if they're not, should I go ahead and 330 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.039 cut the stem back where they butt it at? You know, I would 331 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:59.920 wait and see. There's different kinds of lilies. There's different variations of little 332 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.400 the you know, the what we call lily. There's even things that aren't 333 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.799 lili's that we call lily. So I would just wait and see on these, 334 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:10.039 give them a little more time. You may get in some more either 335 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:14.119 side sprouting or shoots that come up and do blooming, depending on which kind 336 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:19.240 you have. But are they are they still blooming some or are they completely 337 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:23.680 done? No, they're still bloomy some. Okay, Yeah, I would 338 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.920 give them. I would give them a little more time. You may get 339 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.359 they get some more out of it. I wouldn't give up just quite yet. 340 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:36.799 Okay, Yeah, not cut the stems that the flowers is on dead, 341 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:40.000 not just yet. Let's wait and see. Let's see how they do. 342 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:45.359 How long have you had these lilies done? Oh? Maybe two three 343 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:49.160 weeks? Oh okay, pretty short time. Yeah. Another thing you could 344 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.880 do is send me a picture of the flowers so I could see specifically the 345 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:57.519 lily you're dealing with, and I could comment on that if you would like 346 00:23:57.559 --> 00:24:03.559 to go that route. I have the type of and actually pronounced its a 347 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:11.119 is a t I c oh asiatic lily. Okay, yeah, what color 348 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:15.680 is it? It kind of an orange color or pink pinkish, well, 349 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:19.519 the pink and some of pink, well actually some of white, and then 350 00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:30.359 the other plant is kind of reddish red. Okay. Asiatic lilies in general 351 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:36.400 are not going to rebloom. You shouldn't see more blooms coming on those. 352 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:45.880 Uh there. Yeah, I would say some people can get them to rebloom 353 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:49.960 with, you know, providing them with some care and just depending on the 354 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:55.279 climate you're growing in and the and the health and condition of that plant. 355 00:24:55.359 --> 00:25:00.839 But yeah, as far as generally, I find that they're kind of a 356 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:04.759 one shot and the future blooming is not that great on most of the asiatic 357 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:07.799 lilies. Now, there are exceptions to it. And again, like I 358 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.720 said, there's there's so many different kinds of lilies. There's the easter lily, 359 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:17.480 there's the foremost in lily, there's a tiger lily, and those are 360 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:23.119 all different kinds of lilies that have different like the formotion lily doesn't rebloom. 361 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:27.839 Okay, I know better than to pick them next time. Well, but 362 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:33.599 but just wait and see maybe that maybe they'll they'll turn around and do good 363 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:41.400 for you. Okay, well and brown now, so yeah, it was 364 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:44.880 some of those some of those kind of factors in there. It's it's just 365 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:48.960 you know, some people will tell I've talked to people that said they cut 366 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:53.119 the blooms off real carefully when they're done, and keep the foliage intact and 367 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.359 fertilize them and stuff like that. They can try to get them to re 368 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:00.039 sprout and do a little bit. But I again, it's going to come 369 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:06.519 down to specifically the one that the specific one that you have. All Right, 370 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:08.359 appreciate it all, thank you, thank you very much, John, 371 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:15.720 I appreciate that. Yeah, it's oh gosh, lilies are so beautiful, 372 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.720 tiger lilies and some of the others. If they are stunning when they bloom. 373 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:22.440 I mean, even if they bloom once, it's it's worth it because 374 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.680 they're so beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Hey, if you haven't fertilized your lawn, 375 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:32.400 sweet green from nitroposs is a great option for a natural fertilizer to put 376 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:36.920 out there. It's a molasses based microbes get a hold of the molasses in 377 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:41.160 the process the production of it and to create the Sweet Green on eleven percent 378 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.960 nitrogen, which is high for an organic fertilizer. When you put it on 379 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:52.640 the soil, microbes, especially bacteria beneficial bacteria love molasses type product on the 380 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.720 soil, that carbohydrate and they do really well. It smells wonderful first of 381 00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.400 all, and when you put it out you're going to get a release as 382 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:04.920 the microbs go back to work on it and release that nitrogen out of the 383 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:10.160 fertilizer and you will see good results in your lawn green up really nicely. 384 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:15.000 Sweet Green is available in a lot of different places. Being a nitrovoss product. 385 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.680 You can find it at the Arbigate Arbrogate in Tombaal It carries nitrofoss products. 386 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:26.160 Kingwood Ash Hardware is another nitrofoss product retailer where you can find many of 387 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:29.880 their things. And those are just two good examples of places. Shades of 388 00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:32.200 Texas, by the way, another one out on Genoa, Red Bluff. 389 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:37.200 They carry nitrofoss products out there as well. Let's go to San Leone right 390 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:42.200 now and talk to Ted. They ted Ou there, we've got a viney 391 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:48.359 weed growing through the Saint Augustine. The only picture I found is maybe close 392 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:53.839 enough, kind of look like a spotted spurge. Okay, in the yard 393 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:59.359 behind this, they didn't mow and it would grow vertical. But then when 394 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:04.559 they mowed, this thing grows horizontal and it's a it's a very viiny looking 395 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.440 and uh ted. To give you a specific idea, I'll have to see 396 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.200 it, and we can do that with this. You're sending me a picture. 397 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:18.839 I can take it well. And this picture I showed they finally referred 398 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:23.000 to it as a broad leaf. So I'm wondering if the weed beater ultra 399 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:27.039 might handle it. The weed beaters will would all handle that pretty well, 400 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.559 they should would. I would use the spray so you can get it on 401 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.839 the foliage and use it so it holds onto the foliage. Okay, you 402 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:38.759 put it, you said, you said, yeah, at a fact, 403 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:42.799 and to make sure it sticks to the foliage. Okay, Well that's pretty 404 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:47.640 sticky as it is, isn't it the night it is? It is? 405 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.839 But they are made to do that. But depending on the weed, some 406 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:57.759 weeds are just very resistant to to waters that it balls up. I canna 407 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:03.440 leaves, you know, you spread and they're not they don't look slick so 408 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:08.359 much. But boy there so it just so. So if you don't want 409 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.680 to do a photo, I can tell you if you go out and break 410 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.039 the stem of the weed, if it's a spurge, milk, white milk 411 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.839 will come. Read that. Okay, I'm doubting that's what you have though. 412 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:22.519 Okay, yeah, it kind of looks like it though. But a 413 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:26.960 funny thing. I was going to call you yesterday to see if it was 414 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:32.720 too hot to use the wheed. Well, it's a lot cooler today, 415 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.880 It's yeah, it's not. And for I don't know how long it's going 416 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.599 to stay the temperate, not today's temperature, like the temperature it was yesterday. 417 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:42.920 But on days like that, do it early in the morning so that 418 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:45.799 by the time it really heats up, it's dried. And you know, 419 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.240 I wouldn't worry about that. There are other weed beaters. There's weed better 420 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:56.079 complete. There's a weed beater for southern lawns and and but the ultra is 421 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.759 more effective, but it's also one that can do more damage if you Yeah, 422 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.599 well I use it. I just spot treat with a pump up sprayer 423 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.160 because I use it. Okay, okay, I wish, I wish I 424 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:11.839 could tell you what weed it was, but it several weeds. Figure out 425 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:14.160 a description. When you said it can come up high, but it can 426 00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:18.200 also go sideways when you mow it. That sounds like the fall aster that 427 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:25.119 that happens like what it sounds like what fall aster? Or it's also called 428 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:30.400 black land aster or slender aster. Okay, okay, all right, good 429 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.440 luck, ted, hike you my bye. Appreciate it. Take care our 430 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.279 phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be 431 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:42.920 right back. Welcome back to garden Line. We're talking gardening today. What 432 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.839 are the things that are of interest to you? I know one thing that 433 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:51.200 is of interest to you is having quality plants. 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There a whole racks of plants that were just shriveled. 443 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:32.759 I mean they were basically dead or they soon would be when you got 444 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:36.640 them home. And that's not what you need to take home, right You 445 00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:38.759 need plants that are healthy, plants that look good. And that's why we 446 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:44.000 like to promote our independent garden centers. We call them the mom and pops, 447 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:47.240 if you will. And Plants for All Seasons is that kind of place. 448 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:51.160 It's been around a long time since what nineteen seventy three. Plants for 449 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:59.480 All Seasons has existed and thrived because they offer quality products and they have knowledgeable 450 00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.240 staff that know how to help you have success. 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His family 458 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:30.720 owned operation by the Flowerties has been going strong for a good long time and 459 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.720 that is one of the reasons why if you want to turn your brown thumgreen, 460 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:37.720 that that's a good way to do it because they have the knowledge to 461 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.720 do just that. Plants for All Seasons dot com. That's the website, 462 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:46.079 Plants for All Seasons dot com or give them a call two eight one three 463 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:52.640 seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six one six four six 464 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:58.079 and they are stocked up on color right now. Saw some beautiful color in 465 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:02.759 there the other day, really really nice. Another one of the secrets to 466 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:08.640 success is Ciena Mulch. If you live down south of Houston, you need 467 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:13.680 to first do what what is the first step on garden line to success with 468 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.240 plants. Take care of the brown stuff, get the soil right, brown 469 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:23.880 stuff before green stuff. Cienamol specializes in everything to make that plant happy by 470 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:29.160 making its roots happy. That would be composts, that would be bed mixes, 471 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:35.119 things like vegetable herb type mixes. You know, things for your rose 472 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:39.680 mixes, things like a what's a leaf mold compost? A fine greened leaf 473 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:45.119 mold compost, things like every fertilizer I talk about on garden line. When 474 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:49.319 you go to Sienna and bring that home and put it in your ground, 475 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:53.799 make your beds, create that nutrient content that is so important in the bank 476 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:58.039 account of the soil. Then when you go buy a plant and bring it 477 00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:01.279 home, it is so much much more likely to have success. And that 478 00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:05.680 is step one. And Cienamult is step one for all of you that live 479 00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:10.000 down way south of the Houston area. They deliver within about twenty miles. 480 00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:15.360 So if you are in Siena Plantation or Cola, Iowa Colony, Pomona Lake, 481 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:20.239 Olympia, Meridian First Colony, roadcher and Manville Riverstone, do I need 482 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:22.800 to go on? I will pair Land sun Creek Estates near the brasis Men 483 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:27.119 State Park, Sweetwater, Quail Valley. All right, I'll stop there. 484 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.960 Oh at one more Riverstone. All those communities are in the backyard of Ciena 485 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:36.880 Maltz. That's your local multch place. Also Multchz. Do you need native 486 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.440 hardwood molts, double ground malts, two inch screen malts? Do you need 487 00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:44.960 rocks? Are you creating a river bed a dry river bed, which is 488 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.360 a real great way to improve your drainage, just channel it away like that? 489 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.599 Or are you creating a pati and you need some flagstone, some flat 490 00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.400 stone. They've got it all at Ciena Mulch Again, just go to the 491 00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:02.280 website Ciena Multch dot com, Sienna Maltz dot com. They'll get you set 492 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.320 up. They're closed on Sunday today, but they'll be back open again Monday 493 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:13.800 through Saturday. I love going down there too. It's just always I'm always 494 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:17.039 surprised at some of the blends and just the quality of a lot of the 495 00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:24.079 products that they carry. That's nice. If you haven't fertilized your lawn yet 496 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:29.280 this spring, a great option would be some of the turf Star products from 497 00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:32.519 Nelson's. You know Nelson has a long line of turf Star products that do 498 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.039 very well for your turf too. I want to kind of focus on today. 499 00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:40.519 One is Bruce's Brew. Bruce's Brew is we think of it like as 500 00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:45.719 a fast release fertilizer, and it is. It provides most of it's nitrogen 501 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:50.039 in a form that's going to release pretty quickly, so you get an immediate 502 00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:52.840 result. You get that boost, that quick boost from it. But it 503 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.119 also has some of the fertilizer in forms that are slower available, so it's 504 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:00.760 not just a fast release. It's a fast release with a little bit of 505 00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:07.079 gradual release going forward from there. Now the slow and easy from Nelson's that 506 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.679 is the completely slow release fertilizer, or almost all of it. It's got 507 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.119 a you'll get a little bit of release initially, but for a very long 508 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:21.239 time, for three or four months, you're going to get slow and easy 509 00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:25.679 release of nitrogen into your soil. Grass needs to be fed gradually. When 510 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:30.559 you overdo the nitrogen at any one point in time, you get a lot 511 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:34.159 of top growth at the expinded root growth. And what does that mean when 512 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:36.880 you have drought? Well, that's not good, right. What does that 513 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:39.719 mean when you have grubs chew and a few of the roots that are there. 514 00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:44.320 Not good? So we want to gradually feed it over time to develop 515 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.679 a good deep root system. It makes the plant more drought tolerant, just 516 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:52.280 physically just makes sense to do that. You're not going to burn your plants 517 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.639 with it. With that slow, gradual release, it's going to feed microbes 518 00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:59.960 in the soil, and the slow and easy even the components of it helped 519 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:01.920 acidify the soil. This is not a you know, you're going to turn 520 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:07.159 a pH of eight into a pH of five overnight, but graduate over time 521 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.360 as you use it. It's it's pushing downward, which is helpful. Diseases 522 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:15.760 like take all root rot, for example, love a high pH environment around 523 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:21.880 the runners of your Saint Augustine grass and other other species that attacks slow and 524 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:29.119 easy by Nelson's is a great choice for that. I'm kind of amazed at 525 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:34.199 all the technologies now that we have to create products that you can just kind 526 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:37.480 of custom design them to do what you want. And the microbes get in 527 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.639 there, they get involved, they break some of that stuff down, They 528 00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:45.840 some things, you know, certain kinds of compound. I'm kind of wandering 529 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:49.480 here, but I find this of interest. Maybe you will. Certain kinds 530 00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:54.239 of nitrogen forms when they hit water, they become available. Water releases them 531 00:37:54.440 --> 00:38:00.079 out of the granules. Other kind water if it's says really wet, it 532 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:07.400 actually stops release of the nutrient to a large degree. There's others that my 533 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.079 microbes get in. The microbes break it down over time. There's a lot 534 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:17.239 of different ways that those fertilizer particles can work, and a well designed fertilizer 535 00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:22.920 can utilize that to provide the exact kind of release that you're looking for. 536 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.199 And I think that's that's pretty pretty interesting stuff. You're listening to garden Line. 537 00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.760 We're gonn take a little break here in a bit our phone number seven 538 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.719 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like to call 539 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.400 Josh and get on the board when we come back from the top of the 540 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:39.920 hour break, you can be the first up. Those of you downe in 541 00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:45.840 Richmond, you know about Enchanted Gardens and Jenny Gardens has you know, it's 542 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:51.039 been there for a long time, but it's a place that people know about. 543 00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.480 And I don't mean en Richmond, I mean around the state. People 544 00:38:53.559 --> 00:39:00.159 drive from a long distance to go to in Chenny Gardens because other towns don't 545 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.559 have the garden centers we have. They just don't. And I've said this 546 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:06.960 before, North, south, east West, wherever you live in Houston, 547 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.480 you've got some awesome independent garden centers and Chenni Gardens. Richmond is that kind 548 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.280 of showplace. It's the kind of place people drive from because they don't have 549 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.719 one in their town. And I mean driving from Austin. I've lived in 550 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:23.960 Austin area. Some good garden centers over there, but nothing like over here 551 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:30.239 in the Houston area. And people drive to Chenne Gardens just for the plants 552 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:35.360 and for the experience of going out there. They have a whole lot of 553 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:37.719 little gadget tree for your faery garden. Have you ever seen a ferry garden 554 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.760 before. It's like think of a miniature garden, but it's outside. It's 555 00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:45.639 not like it can be in a pot or a container, but you can 556 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:47.679 even do it around the base of a tree, little figurines and you put 557 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:52.119 in some moss and stuff and it just looks like, you know, a 558 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:57.119 little faerry family has moved in around the base of the tree or in a 559 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.079 large container. In Chened Gardens can get you set up and some really fun 560 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:04.119 cool ferry guarding. In fact, I think that's something that you got to 561 00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:07.119 get the kids involved with. They're gonna have some fun with factor. Hey, 562 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.599 by the way, in chended Gardens Richmond dot com in Chennigardens Richmond dot 563 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:15.280 com. Go check them out. They're open today. Why you're there, 564 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.519 you can pick up those products that I've been talking about. You hear me 565 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:23.880 talk about fertilizers. They got them, they got it. Well, here 566 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:25.920 we go. We're about to put an hour in the books. Hey, 567 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:29.320 just a reminder, and I'll mention this again. I'm going to be at 568 00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:35.440 Southwest Fertilizer next Saturday at eleven am, eleven not eleven thirty. Eleven am 569 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:39.960 to one pm, Southwest Fertilizer, and I'm going to be giving away what 570 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:45.840 they call skip bucks. What is that, Well, it's money, paper 571 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:49.400 money that you can use to buy product when you're there. So it's like 572 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:52.159 giving here some money, go buy you some stuff. And you know they 573 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:55.119 have everything at Southwest Fertilizers. They're going to give away a Toro blower, 574 00:40:55.519 --> 00:41:00.239 a touro string tremor, We're going to give away some and other products. 575 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.519 It's gonna be a good time. I'll tell you more about that later. 576 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.440 Katie R. H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 577 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:14.639 or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r h Garden line with 578 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:31.440 Skip Rict. It's so crazy gas. Just watch him as many good things 579 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:43.679 to set czy in gas. Not a sound good morning on what's gonna be 580 00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.039 a great day, by the way, I mean a very great day. 581 00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:49.400 It is cloudy out there now, and it's gonna be cloudy for a little 582 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.400 while, but those clouds are going to push away and we are going to 583 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.000 get some sunshine peeking through, and it just gonna get better and better. 584 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.880 And the temperature is so good. Be a great afternoon to be out in 585 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:02.280 about, pick up some supplies and plants, or get out there in the 586 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:06.360 garden, do a little work if it's not too soggy wet. You know, 587 00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:09.639 it's always best to work soil when it is moderately moist. You know, 588 00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:13.880 when a clay soil is dry, dry, dry, it is like 589 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:17.119 concrete. You need a jackhammer to get through it. When it is soggy 590 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:22.960 wet, it is like a stick of warm butter. You try to, 591 00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.599 you know, stick a shovel or a spade and fork or a rototiler in 592 00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:29.840 it, and it's just goo. It's just a mess, and it destroys 593 00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:32.840 the structure of a clay. To work it. When it's wet, let 594 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:38.079 me talk about structure in just a minute here. But when it's moist that's 595 00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:43.320 when it's friable. That's when it breaks apart very easily. And even if 596 00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:45.480 you have a really difficult clay, if you can catch it at that right 597 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:51.119 moisture level, that's a great time to do the amendments to improve it. 598 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:55.280 Things like expanded shale. If you can put about I know this is a 599 00:42:55.280 --> 00:43:00.599 lot, but if you can put about three inches of expanded shale down into 600 00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:07.079 a heavy clay, you can dramatically improve its internal drainage and oxygen levels and 601 00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.920 everything for many, many, many years. Expanded shale is a type of 602 00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.320 a clay that or well, it's shale, but it's been expanded by putting 603 00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:20.000 it into a super hot oven and causing it to swell up and get all 604 00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:23.159 these little poreholes in little pits and pockets and things kind of like lava rock, 605 00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:28.880 sort of on a microscopic level, and it really improves the clay. 606 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:32.840 It's a good time when a clay is moist wet, not dry, to 607 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:37.039 put in organic matter like compost or bed mixes, to mix them with it 608 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:40.960 and take advantage of those moments when you can get in there and do that, 609 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:46.159 because you're always going to be wanting to have a quality soil. And 610 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:50.519 if you get it ready when you can, then whenever you want a plant, 611 00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:52.840 you just go at it and you can get it done. Makes it 612 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:57.280 really really easible easy. I talked about structure and stuff. I'm gonna mention 613 00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:00.320 I'm going to talk a little bit about texture and structure of soil little bit 614 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:02.239 later. It's a little bit nerdy, but I think it will help to 615 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:07.960 understand it a little bit better. Well, speaking of soil in a container, 616 00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:13.119 a quality potting mix like jungle Land will do what your roots need to 617 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:16.199 provide everything they need in terms of nutrients and water. And here's how it 618 00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:21.719 works. A quality product like jungle Land is going to hold on to nutrients 619 00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:25.039 pretty well. It's going to hold onto moisture well also so that you're not 620 00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:29.119 water in it three times a day trying to keep it going. But it 621 00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.639 will drain away the excess when there's too much water. Gravity just takes it 622 00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:37.039 right down through the jungle land and out the whole, and you don't have 623 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.239 to worry about soggy, wet conditions. It CAUs root rots. Jungle Land 624 00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:44.880 is available in a number of places. Like a nitroposs product, It's going 625 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:49.119 to be pretty widely available through the region. Ktieace Hardware is going to have 626 00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.400 it. You can go out to Memorial Drive and Ace Hardware City. You're 627 00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.639 going to find it there. You can go down to Stanton's Shopping Center which 628 00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:00.079 is down in Alvin and they're going to have it. Also, the the 629 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:05.599 land product. One one other quick quick thing. Well let me come back 630 00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:07.639 to let me come back to that in just a minute. Let's go out 631 00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.559 to League City and we're gonna talk to Jeff if I can figure out how 632 00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:15.159 to push the right button. There we go. Hey Jeff, Hey, 633 00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:16.599 what's going on. How are you doing this morning? I'm doing good. 634 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:22.880 It's a great day. Yeah, man, hey, yeah, So I 635 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.239 had this company to come out and cut my grass. I don't know, 636 00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:32.360 several maybe a year ago even uh and and and the weeds have I guess 637 00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:37.920 there are a law more must have brought in Bermuda. I've had Saint Augustine 638 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:43.440 and then uh just weeds and I mean it's just oh man. Then I 639 00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:46.840 had chinch bugs hit. I'm trying to let that grass kind of grow in 640 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:52.480 there and put some weed and feet on about two months ago. But I 641 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:58.599 still have a real serious weed problem. I was reading something about atrazine. 642 00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:04.239 They wouldn't harm, but I need something to tackle these weeds with. Yeah, 643 00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:08.599 don't do the exerzine now. So you've got a couple of options, 644 00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:13.280 and it part of it depends on what weeds you have. Things like bermuda. 645 00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:15.639 You're not going to kill them in your Saint Augustine. They just coexist. 646 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:22.280 That's a problem with that particular week. If if these were weeds that 647 00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:25.280 were more annual weeds, not really perennials, I would say you have two 648 00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:29.920 options. One is you can spray them and kill them. Or number two, 649 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.400 you could just work on fertilizing, mowing, and watering properly and build 650 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:39.039 density through this whole growing season in your lawn. And then next year, 651 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:44.000 with a denser lawn, you're gonna have fewer weed problems and you just keep 652 00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:49.239 focusing on good lawn care and grow yourself out of it. So there's the 653 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:53.719 options spray now or take time and just grow yourself out of the problem by 654 00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:57.679 building a denser lawn. There are a few weeds that can coexist in a 655 00:46:57.719 --> 00:47:01.880 dense lawn, but the majority of them ant and so so spray. You 656 00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:06.519 said, spray, now, what what do you mean, like a contact 657 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:12.639 spray? Well, no, but you're you're spraying a broad leaf post emergent 658 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:20.239 weed killer like Furtilan has one called weed free zone, bon Eye has weed 659 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:23.440 beater. There are several forms of weed beater like the Ultra. Uh. 660 00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:28.199 With cool temperatures like this, this will be a great day to get out 661 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:32.400 and do the spray. And because some of the better products for killing weeds 662 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.119 when the temperatures get up in the upper eighties and above can damage your Saint 663 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:40.760 Augustine. So do it now. In fact, this afternoon be a good 664 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:46.599 time to do it. Uh and uh Okay, so emerge like bone Eye 665 00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:52.800 weed beater, Ultra or there are other weed beaters from Bonnite or Fertilan weed 666 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.679 free zone or two that will kill broad leaf weed. Now, Jeff, 667 00:47:55.719 --> 00:48:01.360 if you haven't been online to gardening with Skip, go on there and I've 668 00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:06.719 got my two schedules, the lawn care schedule and then secondly I've got the 669 00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:10.440 lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. If you go to the second one 670 00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:16.719 and you go down to weeds. There's weeds prevention and weeds kill existing. 671 00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:21.719 You want to kill existing. And if you follow the bottom of the chart 672 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.800 on all the things on my charts, there's the organic and synthetic options, 673 00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.840 but you'll find you'll find these products listed down there. Just remember, when 674 00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:36.320 we get into the upper eighties, it's you still can do it, but 675 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:38.559 you need to do it early in the day when the temperature is probably in 676 00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:45.119 the in the upper seventies maybe or lower mid seventies early on, and they 677 00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:49.760 won't damage the turf. Okay, sounds like a plan. I appreciate it, 678 00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:52.119 all right, You have a good one, sir, all right, 679 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:57.280 you as well. Weeds are an issue, I know that. And people 680 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:01.599 vary in their tolerance to weeds. They just and that's understandable. You know. 681 00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:07.199 Some people it has to be perfect and so anyweed has to die. 682 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:10.199 Other people it's like, hey, weed, your green grass is green. 683 00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:14.840 I'll mow it all and take my glasses off and it'll look just as pretty 684 00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:17.039 as it ever did. I don't know where you are on that spectrum, 685 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:22.000 but it's okay. Wherever you are, go for it. But I want 686 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:23.639 to take a little break here and when we come back, Marty, you 687 00:49:23.679 --> 00:49:27.920 will be the first up if you'd like to have a skull seven one three 688 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:31.719 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Gardenline. Good have 689 00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:36.079 you with us this morning? Hey? If you I was yesterday, I 690 00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:39.360 was out at an RCW nursery and talking to Mike Fodge, who is I 691 00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:45.960 rep from azemite that serves the whole Texas area really maybe more uh, And 692 00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:49.920 we were just discussing the product and people were asking questions about using it. 693 00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:53.599 They donated a few bags it gave away for them yesterday. Congratulations. I'd 694 00:49:53.639 --> 00:50:00.320 by the one that if you haven't put micro nutrient supp clement onto the lawn, 695 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.280 you might want to consider asimite. It is an excellent product that's mined 696 00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:09.639 up in Utah and it provides those trace minerals. What does trace mean? 697 00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:15.400 Well, the three numbers in a fertilizer bag are the elephant in the room, 698 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.440 Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Urfan needs lots of those. Then 699 00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:24.000 there's things that are more secondary, like calcium for example, or magnesium that 700 00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:29.119 are essential and it needs a lot of that, but not as much. 701 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:32.360 And then there are things that are trace like manganese or zinc or iron or 702 00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:37.400 all the little trace minerals. Well, the trace minerals are also essential, 703 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.159 but they're needed in tiny amounts. A forty four pound bag of asimite will 704 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:45.039 cover about six ten thousand square feet seth going a long long way, But 705 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:47.800 you don't need a lot of it, and so you can do a soil 706 00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:51.960 test to see what kind of nutrient youee you made. Just need to put 707 00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:58.679 it on occasionally and do the replenishing. People that return their clippings typically are 708 00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:04.880 recycling things like that. People that bag their clippings are hauling away some of 709 00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:08.559 the nutrient that is important for grass to survive, so supplementation is even more 710 00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:13.760 important in those situations. You can go to azimite Texas dot com and learn 711 00:51:13.800 --> 00:51:17.199 more about it. Don't put azimite in the same hopper as your fertilizer at 712 00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:21.639 the same time because the particle size is different. But you can do them 713 00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:24.519 both on the same day by fertilizing and then putting out asimite, or you 714 00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:28.639 can wait put out azimite at a different time when you aren't fertilizing. It 715 00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:32.360 doesn't matter. Timing is not important on the asamite. It's just important that 716 00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:37.920 your soil bank account has everything that the grass needs to grow and to thrive. 717 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:42.559 I want to head out to Marty now in Fairfield. Hello Marty, 718 00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.960 good morning, Skip. I have a question. I have two different roses, 719 00:51:46.719 --> 00:51:53.800 and I got to identify my problem as thrips and then on the other 720 00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:59.760 one it has a little bit of thrip, but more importantly it has a 721 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:06.800 bungle on the on the leaves see and I've had manko zeb and I wondered 722 00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:10.159 will that take care of both of those things? Not thrips? But it 723 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:19.400 is a good fungicide. Okay, now what would yeah for the throups if 724 00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.719 you don't overuse it. Spinosaid is pretty good for throups. It's an organic 725 00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:29.400 product that will kill throups. The problem with spinosid is people like it because 726 00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.559 it's effective and it's organic, so they just overuse it every time they turn 727 00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:37.159 around their spring and spinosid spinosa spinosid, and then we start to see resistant 728 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:44.440 thrips that to this organic product spinosa. So using it occasionally that is fine, 729 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:52.800 but I would alternate spinosid with other kinds of products just to avoid losing 730 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:57.000 a good product mean losing it, meaning it doesn't work anymore. It's not 731 00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:00.840 the products heavy. Yeah, have you ever heard to Captain Jack's. Yeah, 732 00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:06.719 Captain are you talking about the dead bug Brew? I don't know. 733 00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:15.159 One of my guardians buddies recommended Captain Jacks and right, I don't. I 734 00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:21.360 never really, I've never even seen it. Well, Captain Jack, there's 735 00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:25.360 a dead bug brew that has spinocid. That's the Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew. 736 00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:29.880 So yes, that would be one. Uh. There's also a Captain 737 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:35.079 Jacks that has soap in it with the spinocid. So you know, it 738 00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:38.719 just depends. They're bon eyed products. Bone Eyde makes Jacks line. But 739 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:44.119 yeah, the Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew is a spinocid product, and you 740 00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:49.840 know that would go ahead and that would help the thrips kill him. Yes, 741 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.400 huh. It is effective against thropes. But like I said, just 742 00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:59.199 just don't don't only use that all year. Switch out to a different kind 743 00:53:59.239 --> 00:54:02.760 of and say decide occasionally, you know. And so as far as the 744 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:07.239 diseases are concerned, you know, there are a lot of products out there. 745 00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:13.000 There's fungenil, which is a pretty good leaf spot type of fungicide. 746 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:15.079 That's how I think of it, so you can use it on your roses 747 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:19.119 for black rot and things like that, fungenail. There's copper based sprays that 748 00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:23.199 work pretty well for both powdery mildew and black spot on your roses. So 749 00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:28.719 you got a lot of good options. Just the mancaz ebb would be a 750 00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:32.039 good one. Again, don't just for the next two years spray nothing but 751 00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:36.920 manca'z ebb. Well, I don't use it very often, but I have 752 00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:39.679 it, and I didn't want to go out and spend more money on news 753 00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:43.639 products, so well I understand. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. 754 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:45.800 Okay, Well, thank you very much, have a good one. All 755 00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:49.639 right, Barty, good luck, thank you, thank you. Bye. 756 00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:54.719 You live up Montgomery and you haven't been to A and A Plants and Produce. 757 00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:58.960 I do not know how you have avoided that, because I mean it's 758 00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:01.199 right there on the east side town. Every time you drive by you see 759 00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:06.679 it. Just wonderful to wander through there. They've had a wonderful selection of 760 00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:09.239 plants, of course at the garden center, and they have great supply of 761 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:13.280 products. And when you go to A and A you hear me talk about 762 00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:16.000 a fertilizer soil. It's there. For example, they got Nature's Way leap 763 00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:21.599 Mo compost, They've got airloom soils, they have fertilizers like Microlife, like 764 00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:24.519 Nelson's plant Food, including all of the turf store line that I've been talking 765 00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:30.280 about. They've got nitrofoss products as well, so it's easy to go in 766 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.599 there and get what you need. They do work up in the Lake Conroe 767 00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:37.719 area if you need to hire their landscape crew to come out and do some 768 00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:39.880 work. Talk to the folks at A and A about that as well. 769 00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:44.920 Very active in the community, always doing stuff with kids there at ANA. 770 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:49.760 If you've got kiddos, contact them and find out when's the next activity coming 771 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:52.880 up, what's going on because they do a lot of fun stuff with kids 772 00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:58.079 and supporting schools and things. Just a great part of the greater Montgomery area 773 00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:00.760 community. So all of you up in there in the Lake Conroe area, 774 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:06.199 this is your hometown garden center and you really need to check it out. 775 00:56:06.039 --> 00:56:08.440 O pig what Let's go out to Humble, Texas and talk to SHAWNA. 776 00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:13.880 Hello, shawna Arnist, you thank you so much for tanking my call. 777 00:56:14.519 --> 00:56:17.519 It's got to get any advice on the type of soil that I can use 778 00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:25.400 for a plotted ut, for for a what please, a pot? Oh 779 00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:30.239 oh yeah? Uh. You know, there's a lot of good mixes out 780 00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:35.039 there. A sega is going to be around a while, so it's not 781 00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:38.880 like your plant and pansies in a flower pot. So I would probably go 782 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:44.760 with something that's a little more on the chunky side. There are some good 783 00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:50.320 blends. I know people that use rose mix and and all kinds of applications. 784 00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:53.840 Not just a rose bed that would be a good option. Any any 785 00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:59.039 kind of a good bed type mix would be fine to use because you're going 786 00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:02.679 to need a good sized hot for that, saygo yes, yeah, excellent. 787 00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:07.440 And any storage recommends to the Humble area. In the Humble area, 788 00:57:08.159 --> 00:57:13.119 I would go probably, Well, you've got Kingwood Garden Center. You've got 789 00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:17.719 Warren Southern Gardens up in Kingwood. If you get down into the Humble area 790 00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:22.119 and you're you know, looking for like let's say an ace an ace store, 791 00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:25.679 you can head out over toward a task Asita direction. Just down the 792 00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:31.039 street on timber Forest Drive there is an task Asda ace hardware. Those usually 793 00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:35.960 carry a good blend of of the products as well, so you might you 794 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:38.800 know, call first just to be sure. But task Asia Ace Hardware would 795 00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:44.119 be another good one close by. Excellent, Thank you so much, all 796 00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:50.440 right, you take care, all righty well, let's see here. Yesterday 797 00:57:50.639 --> 00:57:55.320 also when I was out at RCW Nursery, we were visiting with the three 798 00:57:55.360 --> 00:58:04.719 sixty tree stabilizer creator Kurt Kurt has created really just an ingenious product. Three 799 00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:08.920 sixty Tree Stabilizer is a plastic bar, super reinforced, very strong. It's 800 00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:13.559 got rubber straps on each end. You can get it fitted with a T 801 00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:15.760 post attachment if you want, or you can buy the one that's just for 802 00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:21.679 putting around a regular round post. It grabs a post and it grabs a 803 00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:24.920 tree and it holds them very very well. Now, forget the wires, 804 00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:30.360 buying wire steaks in the ground to trip over, you know, cutting pieces 805 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:31.960 of garden hose to go around the tree, you know, cut into the 806 00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:37.000 limbs. Don't mess with that. Just put one tea post in the ground, 807 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:43.159 Put one tree stabilizer on the T post attached to the tree loosely so 808 00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:45.039 the tree can move a little bit. That's important. You don't want to 809 00:58:45.079 --> 00:58:50.599 make it perfectly stationary. Just a slight amount of movement and it works well 810 00:58:50.679 --> 00:58:52.400 if you got a little more of a windy area and you want to use 811 00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:57.519 two stabilizers one or south, one east west, so no matter where the 812 00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:01.079 wind row goes, it's got that tree stable. You can do that too, 813 00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:06.719 tree stabilizers or widely. But of course RCW has them. Buchanans Plants 814 00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:09.360 has them, arbor Gate Plants for all seasons, Southwest Fertilizer where I'm going 815 00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:15.239 to be next Saturday as tree stabilizers. Jorges Hidden Gardens down in alvin carries 816 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:20.599 the tree stabilizer as well. Makes it really easy, really easy to do 817 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:22.400 that. By the way, have you if you're down in the Alvian area 818 00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:27.000 anywhere around that area and you haven't been to Hoges Hidden Gardens, you need 819 00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:30.960 it. You need to go. Or has a wide variety of things. 820 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.920 You know you're gonna seasonally, you're gonna find things like vegetables there and whatnot. 821 00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:38.079 They they're always carrying, you know, citrus trees. They've got roses 822 00:59:38.119 --> 00:59:44.159 in stock. Typically last few times I've checked, they had blueberries and thornless 823 00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.440 blackberries on hand. If you need some color in your beds. I was 824 00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:51.800 bragging on lantana while ago they got those. They got Mexican heather, which 825 00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:53.719 is another great plant. By the way. By the way, Mexican heather 826 00:59:53.840 --> 01:00:00.760 too should be mentioned more on bee lists. Honey bees love Mexican and heather. 827 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:02.880 Hoe carries a lot of fruit trees and so on. Of course he 828 01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:07.760 has that tree stabilizer. They're on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of 829 01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:15.440 Highway six, so seventeen seven twenty one Elizabeth Street and alban It's called Jorges 830 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:20.880 Hidden Gardens. They are open on weekends, so today from eight am to 831 01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:24.440 four pm. Back on Fridays eight am to four, Saturdays eight to four 832 01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:30.199 and Sundays eight to four Friday, Saturday Sunday. Jorges Hiddingguards had a bunch 833 01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:34.719 of beautiful Peggy Martin roses that they brought through this year that were really really 834 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:38.719 attractive. I love I love those things. Let's see, We're gonna go 835 01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:44.440 now to Cypress and talk to Sandy. Hello Sandy, good morning Skip. 836 01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:51.119 I have a question do you birds like blueberries? Because I have so many 837 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:57.360 flowers and blueberries, and then the next day I go and they're vne they 838 01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:00.840 do they do like blueberries? Yeah, you got to put a bird netting 839 01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:07.519 over it probably if you're gonna if you're having that problem. And then strawberries 840 01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:12.920 as well. Oh yeah, yeah, they will also eat strawberries. You 841 01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:15.000 know, it's weird. I have a strawberry patchie here and I haven't had 842 01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:17.840 any bird damage, but usually I do. So I don't know what's going 843 01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:22.000 on right now. Maybe they just haven't discovered them. And then my black 844 01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:30.320 beauty eggplants keep giving me flowers, but then the flowers fall off in that 845 01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:36.920 Yeah, flowers don't produce anything. I need it because it didn't pollinate. 846 01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:39.159 Well, yes, but I need to look into that more as to why 847 01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:45.639 that is. We have that question come up seasonally, and I've never worried 848 01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:47.880 about eggplant pollinating, but I do know that happens. I don't know if 849 01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:52.519 it's a lack of bees or something, or if it is a temperature related 850 01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:57.440 thing, but that does happen. There's nothing I know of that you can 851 01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:00.119 do to fix it other than just wait. And they tend to settle in 852 01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:05.800 and start setting a little bit better. Sandy, I'm ten seconds away from 853 01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:07.960 a break. If you want to hold, we can keep talking her. 854 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:09.079 If we're done, I'm going to go ahead and put your on hold either 855 01:02:09.079 --> 01:02:14.400 way. Okay, okay, oh all right, very good. We'll be 856 01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:19.199 right back phone number seven one three two one two kat r h. Wellcome 857 01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:22.519 back to guarden line. Good have you with us today? We are visiting 858 01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:27.400 with Sandy and Cyprus. Sandy, Where do we go from here? I 859 01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:35.760 have one more question my slicer tomatoes. They're getting big, but they're still 860 01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:38.559 green. Can I pick them and put them on my counter and let them 861 01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:43.719 turn right? Or how does that work? Yes? Uh, it's hard 862 01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:47.920 to fully describe the difference as a tomato matures, but here's what happens. 863 01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:52.440 You start off with the tomato that has very quirky material inside. It's not 864 01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.840 it's not like jelly. Uh. And when you slice through a tomato like 865 01:02:57.880 --> 01:03:00.480 that, if you did, you would cut right through the seas too, 866 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:05.679 with a sharp knife. Then as it hits a mature stage, the cells 867 01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:09.159 inside those open spaces where the seeds are become more jelly like, and if 868 01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:13.119 you slice through, the seeds are harder and they just sort of push to 869 01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:17.480 the side. That's the line between it'll ripen inside and it won't. So 870 01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:22.239 it size is definitely a factor, But you can have small tomatoes that just 871 01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:27.000 aren't going to get any bigger that mature. So you can't just go by 872 01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:30.960 size. But if you pick one that's hit the mature stage but it's still 873 01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:32.880 green, you pick it and put it inside or wherever you put it, 874 01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:37.320 it's going to ripen and just fine and actually turn out to be pretty good. 875 01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:40.280 Oh okay, all right, well, thank you so much. Skip 876 01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:44.559 had a great day, all right, Sandy, thank you for call for 877 01:03:44.599 --> 01:03:47.119 the call. I appreciate that very much. Have you guys been to the 878 01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:52.840 rosen for him? I'm telling you this is one another one of our awesome 879 01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:54.840 destinations. But this is a great little trip. And by the way, 880 01:03:54.880 --> 01:03:58.199 it's not that far. It's up there in Independence, Texas, north of 881 01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:00.400 Brenham. You get there about an hour to where in the area you're listening 882 01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:04.079 living in. You know, it's bluebonnet season still up there, so it's 883 01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:09.000 a beautiful drive. It's just a wonderful outing. When you go to the 884 01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:12.800 antique rosing Porium, it's like you enter another place in time. I mean, 885 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:19.320 it's like a botanical garden set back in the historical Texas past. Maybe 886 01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:21.920 that's a good way to put it. I just love going out there. 887 01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:28.599 Fun fun to go walk around see things. They've got the demonstration gardens they 888 01:04:28.599 --> 01:04:31.719 call them the display gardens. Out there the nursery is loaded with all kinds 889 01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:34.480 of things. I mean, if you want to go out and look at 890 01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:38.159 all the things they carry. You know they are roses, but they are 891 01:04:38.199 --> 01:04:41.239 so much more than roses. They've got native trees, they have fruit trees, 892 01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:45.159 they got house plants and herbs and perennials. Lots of beautiful plants out 893 01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:48.920 there. If you are part of a garden club, maybe a master gardener 894 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:53.599 group, a junior master gardener, group of kiddos, Native Plants Society, 895 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:57.119 Herbs Society, or just a bunch of friends hanging out looking for a place 896 01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:00.480 something to do, don't go out there alone. Take your friends with you. 897 01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:02.559 In fact, if you will get a hold of them, you can 898 01:05:02.599 --> 01:05:10.440 email them at events at we Areroses dot com, events at Wearroses dot com 899 01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:12.800 and say, hey, I've got a group I want to come out and 900 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.719 do a tour. I'd like to do a lunch and learn with you guys. 901 01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:18.239 I'd like to do a gardencraft for workshop or something during the week or 902 01:05:18.280 --> 01:05:23.280 on Sunday during the spring season. They can set that up and do it 903 01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:26.880 with you. You can give them a call at ninety seven nine eight, 904 01:05:26.920 --> 01:05:30.519 three, six fifty five forty eight, or go to the website and boy, 905 01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:38.400 you're going to love the website. It is inspirational. Antique Roseemporium dot 906 01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:42.480 com. They grow their roses and two gallon container. It's a nice robust 907 01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:45.760 amount of soil there for a good strong rose. Ever roses that price twenty 908 01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:51.800 nine to ninety five at Antigrosenporium and listen. They are nationally known for growing 909 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:58.320 wonderful quality, wide variety of antique roses. I hope you make a plan 910 01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.159 on going out there. That's a great outing. We call that what do 911 01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:04.559 you call it, horticultural tourism. There's a word for it, horticultural tourism. 912 01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:08.679 It's a great place for that. I love doing every time I go 913 01:06:08.679 --> 01:06:12.119 to a big city somewhere in the country, I find a good garden center 914 01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:15.800 or a pick your own patch or something and just go out and see and 915 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.760 learn. Botanical garden there's another good place to do. I hope you do 916 01:06:18.840 --> 01:06:25.199 some of that. It's pretty fun. The folks at Landscaper's Pride they have 917 01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:29.559 a wide variety. In fact, twenty seven different products are available in bags. 918 01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:31.079 Of course, they'll sell you bulk too. By the way, they 919 01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:35.960 are always local, top quality resources. When you're talking about landscapers Pride, 920 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:39.559 they've been in business. That's two thousand and two, so now what over 921 01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:44.800 twenty two years of experienced going on there. Landscaper's Pride has the kind of 922 01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:48.039 products to have plants success. Remember, the brown stuff is what makes success. 923 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:53.320 With the green stuff. They have a rose mix marketed as rose Soil. 924 01:06:53.880 --> 01:06:58.199 It has in fact is good for woody ornamentals or any especially plants that 925 01:06:58.360 --> 01:07:01.239 like a little bit less hyghe. It's a little more acidic direction. It's 926 01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:06.039 got fresh and composted pine bark and sphagnum and slow release fertilizer. Their gardener 927 01:07:06.119 --> 01:07:11.480 Magic Soil contains humus. It contains the pine and composted rice halls. Isn't 928 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:15.159 that interesting? Little chicken pellet fertilizer too, takes it up to three months 929 01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:19.559 of nutrient release in there for it. The pot Dirt is their organic certified 930 01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:25.039 soil for those color beds where you really want things to pop and take off 931 01:07:25.119 --> 01:07:30.320 growing. It's got worm castings and sand and vermiculi and other things that's just 932 01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:33.239 an example of the twenty seven different products at Landscaper's Pride. Go to the 933 01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:38.199 website Landscaperspride dot com. That's how you find out where to get it. 934 01:07:38.199 --> 01:07:43.119 It's widely, widely available, a very high quality product for a very reasonable 935 01:07:43.159 --> 01:07:49.239 price with Landscaper's Pride. When when you're taking care of your lawns and your 936 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:55.400 gardens, you always want to make sure the nutrient content is up there. 937 01:07:55.920 --> 01:08:00.599 Think of fertilizing not as feeding the lawn that day, like as if you 938 01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:04.280 were taking a spoon and feeding your plants each day. Think of fertilizing as 939 01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:10.199 a bank account. And in that bank account are all the nutrients that a 940 01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:14.480 plant needs. And so if the plant today the roots out there and it 941 01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:16.199 goes, man, I've got to have some zinc and there's no zinc. 942 01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:23.479 It's up a creek. It's in trouble. But if it has adequate of 943 01:08:23.640 --> 01:08:28.039 all the nutrients, in adequate supply and in the right ratio too. By 944 01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:31.079 the way, we need some nutrients more than others, then your plant's going 945 01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:35.039 to thrive. And that's how Microlife fertilizer is designed. It's an organic fertilizer, 946 01:08:35.399 --> 01:08:39.800 so it came from a plant, right, So if it was once 947 01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:43.920 a living thing, it has all the nutrients, including the micros and things 948 01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:47.239 like that that required to grow that plant, and now they're in an organic 949 01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:53.399 fertilizer form. Microbes get a hold of micro life and they break it down 950 01:08:53.439 --> 01:08:56.399 and they release the nutrients to your plants. So, whether you're using the 951 01:08:56.399 --> 01:09:00.000 green bag to fertilizer lawn the six two four, whether you using I was 952 01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:05.640 a Rcwstree we're talking about with one of the folks that stopped in the acidifying 953 01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:09.600 the pink bag of microlife fertilizer. They were going to grow some things that 954 01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:12.640 needed more acidic soil, and I said, this is the one you need 955 01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:16.439 to get. The purple bag is humans plus, it's concentrated compost in a 956 01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:20.880 bag. This and many many other microlife products. You can find out more 957 01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:26.640 by going to Microlifefertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com. There you can find 958 01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:30.399 out where to buy it and all the different products and learn a lot more 959 01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:33.199 about it. Let's head out now, let's see here. I'll tell you 960 01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:36.359 what, Jim, I'm going to have to hang on. I am hitting 961 01:09:36.399 --> 01:09:39.840 a hard break and I always hate to have to cut somebody off for they 962 01:09:39.880 --> 01:09:42.479 even get through asking the question. So, Jim, I'm going to put 963 01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:47.560 you first up right when we come back. That would be helpful. If 964 01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:49.560 you haven't been at the Arburgate in a while, you need to go. 965 01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:55.159 Arborgate is a show place. It always is, it always has been. 966 01:09:56.199 --> 01:09:58.760 Any kind of time of the year, you're going to find fruit, trees 967 01:09:58.800 --> 01:10:02.479 and flowers and plants and shrubs and trees and or the gift shops are unbelievable 968 01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:06.720 out there, the gardens to wander through or outstanding. And the best and 969 01:10:06.760 --> 01:10:12.319 newest thing out there is the Trishel Road access parking lot. You just turned 970 01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:15.560 on Trisher Road, go around behind Arburgate. You got an all weather parking 971 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:19.119 lot. Almost I'm gonna post a picture our video of that then I did. 972 01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:23.600 I'll get it out on Facebook here. You need to see that, 973 01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:27.359 and you need to go. You need to go to Arburgate because no matter 974 01:10:27.359 --> 01:10:30.600 what you want, you're gonna find it, and you're going to have staff 975 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:33.800 that knows what they're talking on telling these people know what they're talking about, 976 01:10:34.159 --> 01:10:39.239 they won't steer you wrong. And that is so important when you're buying plants 977 01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:44.520 and products to get stuff that works, that works for the plant or against 978 01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:46.399 the past or whatever you're dealing with. You need to be pointed in the 979 01:10:46.479 --> 01:10:53.319 right direction. And Arbigate always does that. Knowledgeable with quality products. You're 980 01:10:53.319 --> 01:10:55.920 not going to be better than that. All right, we're gonna take a 981 01:10:55.920 --> 01:11:00.680 little break here our phone number seven one three two one two ktr GIM you'll 982 01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:03.640 be first up. Welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us today? 983 01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:08.800 Listen? If you have trees, you need to take care of them 984 01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:12.760 for a number of reasons. Number one, they shade your house, They 985 01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:16.359 shade your patio, They provide you a break from the sun. They add 986 01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:20.399 a lot hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to the value of your house. 987 01:11:20.920 --> 01:11:24.600 They make the house more sellable. You know, if you picture a 988 01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:26.760 house, you're going to buy a house, and you drive up there and 989 01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:29.720 there's not a tree in site, versus you drive up and there's a big, 990 01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:31.600 beautiful tree there, right, aren't you going to be more attracted to 991 01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:38.079 that house? Those houses move up to move quickly on the market. In 992 01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:42.119 order to have a successful tree, you need to plant a variety a species 993 01:11:42.159 --> 01:11:44.920 that wants to be here in the site you have. You know, maybe 994 01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:47.199 you got a soggy, wet soil and you need a species that can take 995 01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:53.319 that kind of condition. Do you want flowers, do you just want shade? 996 01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:56.039 Do you need it to be evergreen or do you prefer deciduous and so 997 01:11:56.119 --> 01:12:00.840 on. All of that's important, But very important is somebody that knows what 998 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.119 they're talking about take care of the tree. And that's why I like to 999 01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:09.239 talk about Martin spoon Moore an affordable tree service. Martin's been doing this for 1000 01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:13.399 a long time. He's he is very skilled at he's very knowledgeable at it. 1001 01:12:13.479 --> 01:12:15.399 He knows how to take care of a tree. And you got a 1002 01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:19.560 lot of people that I call him the two jerks on a chainsaw tree service. 1003 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:23.680 They own a chainsaw, they own a pickup, and therefore they're a 1004 01:12:23.720 --> 01:12:29.720 tree person. Know they are not absolutely not. You need somebody that knows 1005 01:12:29.720 --> 01:12:33.399 how to pruit tree properly. If deep root feeding or something like deepruit watering 1006 01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:36.640 during a rescue drought, for example, we're doing that last year. If 1007 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:40.760 that's needed. You need somebody knows what they're doing. If you're going to 1008 01:12:40.840 --> 01:12:45.119 do anything around an established tree, like put in a driveway or a sidewalk 1009 01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:48.479 or dig a trench for a utility or something. Call Martin first, have 1010 01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:51.239 him come out. Martin charges one hundred and fifty bucks to come out for 1011 01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:55.800 a consultation. Now, I will tell you what's needed or not needed, 1012 01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:59.560 to be honest with you about it. But if you decide to go ahead 1013 01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:01.199 and okay, I'm going to hire you to do that, whether it's pruning 1014 01:13:01.239 --> 01:13:05.399 or feeding or whatever, that one fifty goes on to the price of the 1015 01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:09.520 service you're hiring him for, so you don't lose it. So it's worth 1016 01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:11.960 having him come out, and you know he's not going to drive all over 1017 01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:15.159 town for everybody. It's just got a question and they're curious. Can't afford 1018 01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:17.640 to do that. So the one fifty is, hey, are you serious? 1019 01:13:17.840 --> 01:13:23.920 But I'm telling you you're you're hiring knowledge that pays off many times over 1020 01:13:24.239 --> 01:13:28.800 in terms of the value in the success you're going to have with those plants. 1021 01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:31.560 That's about as simple as I can put it. A f F Tree 1022 01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:39.159 service dot com, A f F Tree service dot Com. Martin Spoon Moore 1023 01:13:39.479 --> 01:13:44.119 seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three sixty nine 1024 01:13:44.239 --> 01:13:46.199 nine twenty six sixty three. Hey, this is a business. Martin and 1025 01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:49.119 his wife Joe or the owners. They answer their own phones. If you 1026 01:13:49.119 --> 01:13:51.840 don't talk to Martin or Joe when you call, hang up, you've called 1027 01:13:51.880 --> 01:13:58.199 the wrong place. Affordable Tree aff Tree Service dot Com seven one three six 1028 01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:02.880 nine nine twenty six sixty three. Let's go now out to Bracewood Place. 1029 01:14:02.920 --> 01:14:06.920 We're going to talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey skip, thanks 1030 01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:12.640 for taking my call. Yes, sir, I've got a problem with some 1031 01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:16.159 trees. Three years ago, I had a professional landscape put in a couple 1032 01:14:16.199 --> 01:14:27.239 of Eagleston Hollies for privacy screen and the one the first one, so one 1033 01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:33.800 of the two died. It got an insect problem and I wasn't able to 1034 01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:39.479 catch it quick enough and it didn't make it. The other one is still 1035 01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.680 okay. The other one made it though. Once I found out what the 1036 01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:49.159 insect was, I got the proper spray at Southwest Fertilizer. Anyway, put 1037 01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:54.640 in another one and it lasted. It grew for a while and it died 1038 01:14:55.840 --> 01:15:00.039 and it had actually gotten the same insect infestation. Do you know what insect? 1039 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:04.439 That was? No idea, but it was one where you it would 1040 01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:09.479 make spots on the leaves and you could rub the spots off. That's all 1041 01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:14.159 I know, okay, And that's the guy told me that that was insect 1042 01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:17.960 It wasn't fung asign Okay, it wasn't fungus. And anyway, so I 1043 01:15:17.960 --> 01:15:23.520 put another one in, and that one that that actually got the infestation. 1044 01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:28.359 I treated it and it survived and then it went for a while and grew, 1045 01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:32.199 and then it just suddenly died. So uh and there one didn't seem 1046 01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:34.880 me much roots left when I pulled out. Anyway, I stuck another one 1047 01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:40.800 and I and so I did this myself. So what ends up being the 1048 01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:44.600 bottom line? Then on this I hear your plantinum and they're dying. So, 1049 01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:45.760 yes, where do we go from? What do I need to do? 1050 01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:47.880 What do I do? What do I need to do with this soil? 1051 01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:51.640 I've got an old yopon, I've got an old, mature yopon. 1052 01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:56.520 Holly. I could transplant over there, and I know that they're really hearty, 1053 01:15:57.039 --> 01:16:00.640 But is there something wrong with this certain location? Remember six feet over 1054 01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:04.680 there's another one that's doing just great. Yeah, yeah, Well, okay, 1055 01:16:05.399 --> 01:16:10.800 Holly's love to be in a forest soil, which means there's lots of 1056 01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:15.239 organic matter, a very rich foresty type of soil. They like a raised 1057 01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:19.279 area if at drainage is at all a question, because they do not want 1058 01:16:19.319 --> 01:16:25.000 to sit on a swamp when it rains too much. At the same time, 1059 01:16:25.239 --> 01:16:29.199 the first three years of a holly's life you need to pretty much handwater 1060 01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:33.680 it because it's important to keep it moist. They are not resilient when they're 1061 01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:38.600 new. After they get established, after about three years of growing, it's 1062 01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:41.479 not so touch and go. But with a holly, we lose a lot 1063 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:44.840 of hollies early on because they can't wilt and show you they need water. 1064 01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:47.680 They just are stressed and they look okay, and then all of a sudden, 1065 01:16:47.720 --> 01:16:51.880 the leaves are turning brown, and because it's heading downhill, it's hard 1066 01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:56.760 to stop it. So quality soil mix, a good bed mix, something 1067 01:16:56.880 --> 01:17:00.319 like a rose soil blend would be an excellent one. Creating a raised for 1068 01:17:00.399 --> 01:17:02.960 drainage, and then the handwatering. If you've got an automatic system, that 1069 01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:08.199 can be okay. But what I find is things can block those sprinklers from 1070 01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:12.399 getting good even coverage all over that root zone, and that is what's very 1071 01:17:12.479 --> 01:17:16.039 important. That's why I say hand watering the first three years can be more 1072 01:17:16.119 --> 01:17:21.279 specific skip about watering and like is it every day every other day? It's 1073 01:17:21.359 --> 01:17:28.640 totally dependent the accurate answer. And this seems oversimplified, but it's just the 1074 01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:31.520 truth. Moist soil. You got to keep the soil moist. So if 1075 01:17:31.560 --> 01:17:34.640 it's one hundred degrees outside in full sun, you're going to water a lot 1076 01:17:34.680 --> 01:17:38.840 more. If you've got a sandy soil the water runs right through, you're 1077 01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:42.399 going to water more often. If you've got a clay soil that holds the 1078 01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:45.560 water pretty well, you're not going to water as often, but getting the 1079 01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:50.560 whole zone equally wet. Not a dry spot over there, but a nice 1080 01:17:50.600 --> 01:17:56.600 soaking. Just you know what I do when I'm not sure is I'll take 1081 01:17:56.640 --> 01:18:00.199 a trial dig down about four five inches and feel the and you can tell 1082 01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:03.920 is it sop and wet? Is it a little too? Drives it nice 1083 01:18:03.920 --> 01:18:08.319 and moist? You want to maintain that moisture. And just remember that that 1084 01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:11.680 holly plant, which is quite large when you buy it, it has a 1085 01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:15.520 very small, confined cylinder of roots that came out of the pod, so 1086 01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:18.800 early on it's got to have water there because there aren't roots out in the 1087 01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:23.960 soil to pick it up, and so you gradually wean it out. But 1088 01:18:24.800 --> 01:18:27.279 there's not a schedule. If I told you once a day, if I 1089 01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:29.960 told you twice a week, if I told you, you know it. 1090 01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:32.840 And for how long you water. It's just water enough and often enough to 1091 01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:36.920 keep the soul moist. Okay, So do you think I need to like 1092 01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:42.680 treat the bottom of this hole with because I intend to do another one. 1093 01:18:42.680 --> 01:18:45.680 I need to do it. I need this priv syscuat. Yeah, do 1094 01:18:45.720 --> 01:18:48.479 you need to do I need to treat the bottom of this hole with bleach 1095 01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:50.239 or something? No, no, no, no, no, no, 1096 01:18:50.279 --> 01:18:55.079 nothing, nothing like that. You make a good bed mix and you dig 1097 01:18:55.079 --> 01:18:57.800 a hole and your plant and put the soil back in that you dug out. 1098 01:18:58.359 --> 01:19:01.199 That's very important, all right. And if I raise it, say 1099 01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.279 say, if I raise it with like wood sides, you know, trigger 1100 01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:09.199 wood sides, if I do twelve inches up, would that even help? 1101 01:19:09.319 --> 01:19:12.560 Yeah? That's very helpful for drainage? Sure is? Okay, Hey, 1102 01:19:12.640 --> 01:19:14.920 Jim, I got to run, but good luck with that. I hope 1103 01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:16.920 this someone turns out. Just watch for those insects so you can jump in 1104 01:19:16.960 --> 01:19:20.720 early if you see them again. All right, they're nasty. Thank you 1105 01:19:20.760 --> 01:19:25.079 all right, thank you very much. I appreciate that. If you're looking 1106 01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:30.319 at fertilizing your lawn a turf Star by Nelson's. There's two versions of Turfstar, 1107 01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:34.960 two types of Turfstar fertilizer that Nelson makes several of them. Bruces Brew. 1108 01:19:35.199 --> 01:19:40.279 That's a faster release, but it has some slow release. Not all 1109 01:19:40.319 --> 01:19:43.960 the nutrient gets released all at once. Bruces Brew is a quick way to 1110 01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:47.640 get in there, get those nutrients out and get a boost to the plants. 1111 01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:53.720 Slow and Easy is the name tells it. Slow and easy gradually over 1112 01:19:53.840 --> 01:19:56.800 three or four months, is releasing the fertilizer. In fact, if you 1113 01:19:56.880 --> 01:20:00.479 do slow and Easy now, you may not fertilize again until you're your fall 1114 01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:03.479 fertilization. I mean, it really really goes out there a long long way, 1115 01:20:03.720 --> 01:20:08.680 especially if you're returning your clippings to the lawn. Both of them work 1116 01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:12.920 very well with that nice. I like the slow and Easy's nice gradual because 1117 01:20:13.000 --> 01:20:16.199 it just creates a stronger, more resilient plan. In general, Kaye A. 1118 01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:19.960 Nelson products, You're all quality. I always have good reports on those 1119 01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:24.640 people. I tell you what we're gonna take a little break. It's time 1120 01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:27.800 for the news, right Bob in Walker County. We're going to come to 1121 01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.920 you very first when we come back. Thanks for hanging on with us, 1122 01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:39.000 don't forget to Let's see on Saturday the twenty seventh. Next Saturday, I'll 1123 01:20:39.000 --> 01:20:44.439 be at Southwest Fertilizer at eleven am, not eleven thirty. Eleven am to 1124 01:20:44.600 --> 01:20:47.960 one pm. I'm going to be given away, Bob at Southwest gonna be 1125 01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:51.640 given away a Toro blower, a Toro string tremor. I'll draw for those. 1126 01:20:53.920 --> 01:20:57.640 I'll be giving away some Medinos products and other products. And I'll be 1127 01:20:57.680 --> 01:21:00.039 giving away skip bucks. What's a skip buck? I hand you a piece 1128 01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:02.920 of paper, you go buy stuff, and it's like giving you money to 1129 01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:06.560 go buy stuff. Well, pretty cool stuff. Southwest Fertilizer, bess Utt 1130 01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:13.199 and Runwick Next Saturday. Kat RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 1131 01:21:13.199 --> 01:21:18.119 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden 1132 01:21:18.159 --> 01:21:35.239 Line with Scamp Richard. It's so crazy, Trim just watch him as Welcome 1133 01:21:35.319 --> 01:21:39.560 back to guarden Line. Good to have you with us on a Sunday that 1134 01:21:39.680 --> 01:21:42.479 is going to turn out to be a beautiful day. It is cloudy outside, 1135 01:21:42.600 --> 01:21:45.359 Do not fear. We will have those clouds moving out, sunlight coming 1136 01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:49.920 in, nice fresh temperatures come in kind of nice outside today. Love it 1137 01:21:50.039 --> 01:21:54.319 good day to be out and about. And I hope you'll plan this afternoon 1138 01:21:54.960 --> 01:21:57.840 some activity with your gardener, maybe going out and doing a little bit of 1139 01:21:57.840 --> 01:22:00.319 shopping for some of the things that you just can't live without, whether it's 1140 01:22:00.439 --> 01:22:05.119 vegetables or flowers or herbs or that all important getting the soil ready. I 1141 01:22:05.199 --> 01:22:09.760 want to run real quick out to Galveston and talk to Bill. Hello. 1142 01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:14.840 Bill, Hi, got a question for you. I've got an avocado tree 1143 01:22:14.880 --> 01:22:16.640 that has a lot of green leaves on it, but keeps losing leaves. 1144 01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:20.399 And I don't know if it's like my magnolia that's always lucious leaves, or 1145 01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:26.279 whether that's all I need to be worried about. Probably not. Avocado doesn't 1146 01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:30.840 drop all the time, but some leaf drop is not a big concern on 1147 01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:33.239 them, especially if it's the older leaves further down. The branch of the 1148 01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:39.000 new growth should still have leaves on it, though, Okay, and that's 1149 01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:41.079 all I need to know. Thank you, all right, You're good. 1150 01:22:41.239 --> 01:22:45.680 Take care appreciate that very much. Let's head out to Walker County down and 1151 01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:48.680 talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, Hey, good morning, appreciate your 1152 01:22:48.720 --> 01:22:55.039 show. Thank you. Hey. I have a whole bed full of knockout 1153 01:22:55.119 --> 01:22:58.880 roses and they used to be really great, but the last couple of years 1154 01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:03.279 they've been sort of yeah so so, and I am I treat them, 1155 01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:11.640 treat them with uh systemic insecticides. As matter of fact, I fertilized with 1156 01:23:11.720 --> 01:23:17.119 a combo nitroposs for fertilizer systemic. But I got to looking at them this 1157 01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:20.880 year when I was trimming them, and a number of leaves don't look bad, 1158 01:23:21.560 --> 01:23:29.279 but the maintains the stalks are just covered with sort of a number of 1159 01:23:29.319 --> 01:23:32.239 spots. I'm wondering if it's black spot or something. It sure looks like 1160 01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:36.760 a fungus. And my question is what's the best thing to treat that with. 1161 01:23:39.079 --> 01:23:42.439 That's very strange, Bob. Knockout is about his disease resistant of a 1162 01:23:42.520 --> 01:23:48.199 rose as you're gonna get. So I am very uninclined to jump toward a 1163 01:23:48.199 --> 01:23:53.920 fungal spray. You know that I've got a good looking picture of it that 1164 01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:56.840 I can send you. That would be that that would be best if you 1165 01:23:56.880 --> 01:24:00.199 could send me even more than one picture, maybe the bushes as a whole, 1166 01:24:00.279 --> 01:24:02.720 and then a couple up close and good sharp focus. I will put 1167 01:24:02.760 --> 01:24:06.479 you on hold and Josh will pick up and give you an email and if 1168 01:24:06.479 --> 01:24:10.119 you'll send it to me, if I can get a good look at it 1169 01:24:10.159 --> 01:24:12.760 for the end of the show, I'll say it on the air. You 1170 01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:16.239 know, I'll diagnose it on the air, but if not, we'll find 1171 01:24:16.239 --> 01:24:20.119 a way to get you an answer on that. But yeah, a fungus 1172 01:24:20.199 --> 01:24:25.119 on knockout. I definitely need to see this one. Yeah, okay, 1173 01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:30.159 all right, thank you you bet. I appreciate that a lot. One 1174 01:24:30.199 --> 01:24:35.000 of the most effective things you can do for a long to bring it back, 1175 01:24:35.079 --> 01:24:41.560 to make it look good is to do a deep aerration, a core 1176 01:24:41.720 --> 01:24:45.000 aeration with a compost top dressing. What does a core aeration mean. It 1177 01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:49.399 means that instead of just squeezing a hole into the soil by pushing something into 1178 01:24:49.439 --> 01:24:54.800 the soil, a core errator goes in and it pops a plug out of 1179 01:24:54.840 --> 01:24:58.560 the soil. It takes attle a little round plug out of the soil and 1180 01:24:58.680 --> 01:25:01.479 drops it on the surface. I like to say, when you've core aerated 1181 01:25:01.600 --> 01:25:04.960 you walk around, it looks like someone had a very small dog convention on 1182 01:25:05.000 --> 01:25:11.079 your yard because there's always a little well. You figure it out anyway, 1183 01:25:11.439 --> 01:25:16.119 The core aerator opens that soil up and gets oxygen down in the root system, 1184 01:25:16.119 --> 01:25:20.159 which on a heavy clay, especially when it's compacted, is very important. 1185 01:25:20.199 --> 01:25:25.800 Then the compost top dressing goes on the top and it finds its way 1186 01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:29.000 down in the holes, as does fertilizer, as does water, as does 1187 01:25:29.039 --> 01:25:32.680 oxygen, and it just stimulates the root system. And especially when you've got 1188 01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:36.960 a long that was hammered like last year's lawns were hammered with the drought and 1189 01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:42.479 the heat. If you've got issues with compaction, if you've got issues with 1190 01:25:42.720 --> 01:25:45.680 you know, bear soil and weeds and just problems, getting that back in 1191 01:25:45.720 --> 01:25:53.199 shape is really important. And BnB turf Pros is our go to provider of 1192 01:25:53.279 --> 01:25:59.079 cororating and compost top dressing down south of the Houston area. So if you 1193 01:25:59.199 --> 01:26:01.079 live let's let me just give you some cities. If you live over in 1194 01:26:01.079 --> 01:26:05.359 Missouri City or sugar Land, that's southwest. If you live down in Siena 1195 01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:11.680 Arcola, Fresno, an Iowa colony, for example, or Manville down south 1196 01:26:11.800 --> 01:26:14.560 or if you even as far east. I believe they go as far east 1197 01:26:14.560 --> 01:26:17.279 as pear Land as well. Now, when I was talking to the folks 1198 01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:20.079 at BnB turf Pros as we're bringing them on, I always want to know 1199 01:26:20.119 --> 01:26:25.800 about service and their attitudes and how they look at things. And I'm telling 1200 01:26:25.800 --> 01:26:30.720 you this company, BMB turf Pros, their number one goal is customer satisfaction. 1201 01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:38.119 Their number one aim is to achieve high quality work, quality products. 1202 01:26:38.479 --> 01:26:42.000 That is what they do. They don't put stuff down that I don't recommend 1203 01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:44.760 and trust on garden line on your So they're going to go to a place 1204 01:26:44.840 --> 01:26:48.039 like Sanamulch and they're going to get a top quality leave more compost top dressing 1205 01:26:48.319 --> 01:26:53.640 to put down on your lawn because that is top quality stuff at Ciena Malt 1206 01:26:53.800 --> 01:26:57.880 they will you know, they'll they'll schedule you out, they'll come to the 1207 01:26:57.960 --> 01:27:00.800 yard. They can't go too far, like I said, because you know, 1208 01:27:00.840 --> 01:27:03.199 you're carrying a big, heavy machinery that really does a job better than 1209 01:27:03.359 --> 01:27:09.319 anything you can rent locally. Uh, And they do it right. Bbturfpros 1210 01:27:09.399 --> 01:27:14.439 dot com. This is a website Bbturfpros dot com, not BnB, but 1211 01:27:14.760 --> 01:27:20.039 BB turf pros dot com seven to one three two three four fifty five ninety 1212 01:27:20.039 --> 01:27:25.079 eight seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. You go check 1213 01:27:25.079 --> 01:27:28.640 them out. They're very highly rated online because they go above they make a 1214 01:27:28.680 --> 01:27:32.600 personal connection with the clients and their goal is for you to be satisfied, 1215 01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:36.399 and that's what they achieve because that's how they go about it. And so 1216 01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:43.239 I love to recommend places that provide that kind of of customer service. Bnbturf 1217 01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:45.600 pros dot com for all of you down south and little of the southwest of 1218 01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:50.880 the Houston area, that's your go to for aeration and compost, top dressing 1219 01:27:50.920 --> 01:27:56.319 both. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1220 01:27:56.359 --> 01:28:00.560 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. When was the 1221 01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:02.840 last time you went over to Buchannons. You know Buchanans and the Height. 1222 01:28:02.880 --> 01:28:06.239 They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights. I hope you've been there. If 1223 01:28:06.279 --> 01:28:10.439 you haven't, well, it's time to crawl out from under a rock and 1224 01:28:10.479 --> 01:28:15.319 go see it. This is a wonderful little hideaway there. You're driving down 1225 01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:17.239 eleven Street and all of a sudden you look over there, whoa there it 1226 01:28:17.279 --> 01:28:20.720 is. They specialize in native plants. I mean, you're not going to 1227 01:28:20.760 --> 01:28:27.000 find a better selection of natives. They absolutely are always well stocked in that. 1228 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:29.319 They'll even tell you a native. If you say I want something that 1229 01:28:29.399 --> 01:28:31.159 was native right here in the Houston area, they can do that as well. 1230 01:28:31.319 --> 01:28:35.079 They had a nice little gift shop, good books available in the gift 1231 01:28:35.079 --> 01:28:40.000 shop, good quality gift items available. You know, Mother's Day's coming up. 1232 01:28:40.079 --> 01:28:44.560 You don't want to forget that, right, Very very easy to shop 1233 01:28:44.600 --> 01:28:48.159 for mom at Buchanan's Plants. I like to go online and look at all 1234 01:28:48.199 --> 01:28:53.079 their educational material online too. That alone is worth the price of admission, 1235 01:28:53.159 --> 01:28:58.560 as is signing up for their newsletter. Their newsletter is outstanding. Just sign 1236 01:28:58.680 --> 01:29:00.880 up for it and check it out. You see what I'm talking about. 1237 01:29:00.119 --> 01:29:05.640 Buchanans Plants dot Com on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Go check them out. 1238 01:29:05.680 --> 01:29:08.880 If you haven't been there in a while, go back. There's always 1239 01:29:08.920 --> 01:29:14.640 something going on there. Houseplant selection is stunning, just absolutely stunning. Hey, 1240 01:29:14.680 --> 01:29:17.520 I've talked myself into another break. Time flies when you're having fun. 1241 01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:21.399 Well, here we are seven to one three two one two k t RH 1242 01:29:21.520 --> 01:29:26.000 I'll be right back. Welcome back to guardenline. Hey, good to have 1243 01:29:26.079 --> 01:29:29.279 you with us. Would you like to ask a question today? Well, 1244 01:29:29.760 --> 01:29:32.439 here's how you do it. You dolls seven one three two one two k 1245 01:29:32.680 --> 01:29:38.600 t r H seven one three two one two k t RH and we'll discuss 1246 01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:43.279 whatever is of interest to you. That is for sure. Our goal is 1247 01:29:43.359 --> 01:29:45.720 to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape, and so how 1248 01:29:45.760 --> 01:29:50.319 can we do that starts with simple principles. I was talking earlier about the 1249 01:29:50.399 --> 01:29:53.920 structure of the soil, I said, I had mentioned that a little bit 1250 01:29:54.000 --> 01:30:00.800 later. Structure is the way the particles group together. Texture the size of 1251 01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:04.840 the particles. So when I say texture, I'm talking about sand, silt, 1252 01:30:05.239 --> 01:30:11.199 and clay. Clay's the tiniest particle size. Silt is just a little 1253 01:30:11.199 --> 01:30:15.319 bit bigger than that, and sand can be well. Essentially, sand is 1254 01:30:15.359 --> 01:30:19.720 big, old, chunky particle sizes of soil. But structure is the way 1255 01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:24.520 it groups together. So you could have a clay that is just like modeling 1256 01:30:24.520 --> 01:30:27.199 clay. You ever played with that before? You know? You make a 1257 01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:30.039 little bowl with your thumbs and fingers and you put water in it and just 1258 01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:33.560 sits there all day. Right, it holds water because it has no structure 1259 01:30:33.600 --> 01:30:39.119 into the clay particles. It is just a massive solid mass of clay that 1260 01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:44.520 doesn't allow water through, it doesn't allow oxygen down through. That's just ideas 1261 01:30:45.359 --> 01:30:48.960 when you take a clay and you add organic matter or other things that help 1262 01:30:49.479 --> 01:30:55.680 humus is a good example that help create a structure now instead of being a 1263 01:30:55.800 --> 01:31:00.479 mass. It's imagine if you look that under a micro scope, seeing a 1264 01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:05.840 bowl of popped popcorn. So you have all these clumps of soil particles clumped 1265 01:31:05.920 --> 01:31:11.920 together with airspace in between them. That is structure in the clay. So 1266 01:31:11.960 --> 01:31:15.880 we gripe about our black clay soils and poor drainage and whatnot. But you 1267 01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:21.000 can build structure to your clay with organic matter by not working the soil when 1268 01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:26.840 it's wet, working it when it's wet. Just to continue my popcorn analogy, 1269 01:31:27.199 --> 01:31:30.479 imagine now spraying that bowl of popcorn with water and just smashing down with 1270 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:33.640 your hands. I mean you turn it back into just a flattened goo. 1271 01:31:33.800 --> 01:31:38.439 Right, you've destroyed the structure. You haven't changed a texture, you destroyed 1272 01:31:38.439 --> 01:31:42.239 the structure of it. And so clay soil is not bad. You know, 1273 01:31:42.399 --> 01:31:45.600 sand is not bad or good. I mean they each have their pros 1274 01:31:45.640 --> 01:31:48.079 and cons, but the most important thing is that we build structure and plant 1275 01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:51.840 roots do that. When you go into a forest, that soil is nice 1276 01:31:51.880 --> 01:31:58.960 and friable because the roots of plants, the organic matter from the plants dropped 1277 01:31:59.000 --> 01:32:01.680 on the soil surface, earthworms moving through it, and on and on build 1278 01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:05.800 structure. When you go to a meadow, the grassroots that live and die 1279 01:32:05.880 --> 01:32:12.199 within a year typically are constantly loosening up that soil, opening it up and 1280 01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:15.199 adding structure as they decompose into the soil. You can do that. You 1281 01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:21.600 can cheat and take a shortcut by buying a quality bed mix like a roast 1282 01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:27.239 soil, like a vegetable and herb soil. You know, whatever you're going 1283 01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:30.479 after, you can buy a bed mix of that and you instantly get that. 1284 01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:33.119 Or you can take the soil you have and just keep adding compost to 1285 01:32:33.159 --> 01:32:36.479 it. If you got garden beds, don't walk on them. Never walk 1286 01:32:36.560 --> 01:32:41.399 on your garden beds if you can possibly avoid it. What does walking do? 1287 01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:46.399 It smashes down the structure and it reduces the amount of oxygen and air 1288 01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:50.239 and water infiltration. Now that's a lot of information on it, but just 1289 01:32:50.399 --> 01:32:55.279 understanding that principle kind of helps you understand. Okay, I got a heavy 1290 01:32:55.279 --> 01:32:57.840 clay, what can I do? Well, you know now what to do. 1291 01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:00.880 I've got to loosen it up, doing a little bit of loosening of 1292 01:33:00.920 --> 01:33:04.560 the soil, whether you use a spading fork or whatever, Putting some organic 1293 01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:09.840 matter in it, Putting some expanded shale in it, which holds its structure 1294 01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:13.880 for a long time, keeping that clay more open. All of those things 1295 01:33:13.920 --> 01:33:16.960 help with the And if you have the other extreme. We don't have as 1296 01:33:16.960 --> 01:33:20.560 many sandy soils in this area, but we do have many quite a few. 1297 01:33:21.680 --> 01:33:26.520 Just mix organic matter in it instead of water just running right through and 1298 01:33:26.600 --> 01:33:30.079 nutrients just washing right through. With a lot accomposite organic matter, that sandy 1299 01:33:30.119 --> 01:33:36.039 soil becomes richer, it holds moisture longer, it holds nutrients longer. So 1300 01:33:36.960 --> 01:33:41.880 just a few tips there on soil, but that I think that's really an 1301 01:33:41.960 --> 01:33:49.760 important thing to keep in mind. I was talking earlier about finding the kinds 1302 01:33:49.760 --> 01:33:54.760 of products you need and making sure you get stuff that's going to do the 1303 01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:58.960 job you want it to do. And ACE hardware, that's what they specialize 1304 01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:01.479 in. ACE is the place, is their motto, And it's a place 1305 01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:04.199 for whatever. I mean. You know, it's a hardware store. It's 1306 01:34:04.199 --> 01:34:10.680 a place for plumbing, it's a place for electrical it's a place for small 1307 01:34:10.680 --> 01:34:15.479 appliance for in the kitchens, and I mean just a thousand different products. 1308 01:34:15.840 --> 01:34:18.359 But ACE is a place for your yard. It's a place for your soil 1309 01:34:18.479 --> 01:34:21.720 mixes that I talk about. It's a place forever fertilizer I talk about on 1310 01:34:21.800 --> 01:34:26.479 garden line. It's a place to get fire in control. The bait. 1311 01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:30.680 Start with the bait, and then two weeks after you've baited, if you 1312 01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:33.079 got some mounds, then you can hit them with an individual mound treatment. 1313 01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:36.960 Those are two kinds of products. A bait is a food that's scattered far 1314 01:34:38.039 --> 01:34:42.159 and wide in a very low rate that the fire ants take, they bring 1315 01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:44.760 back, they eat, they feed to the queen. Everybody dies. Who 1316 01:34:44.840 --> 01:34:49.319 ray. We love that. The individual mound treatment you drench over the mound, 1317 01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:54.039 into the mound, and it just physically kills the fire It poisons and 1318 01:34:54.119 --> 01:34:57.720 kills the fire ant right there. But don't do the mound treatments. Only 1319 01:34:57.840 --> 01:35:00.239 that's played whackam all. You'll never catch up with the start with the bait. 1320 01:35:00.439 --> 01:35:03.600 That's the way, and ACE Hardware has that. Do you have mosquito 1321 01:35:03.680 --> 01:35:06.279 problems? Well, you know, dump out all the water that you got 1322 01:35:06.359 --> 01:35:10.720 sitting around the house. And I mean I mean the outdoor of the house, 1323 01:35:10.800 --> 01:35:15.880 the saggy gutters, the little uh dog bowls it's sitting water for too 1324 01:35:15.920 --> 01:35:19.199 long, or the bird bath that sits in water for too long, or 1325 01:35:19.760 --> 01:35:25.640 uh just wherever you have water standing you gotta dump that out, or maybe 1326 01:35:25.680 --> 01:35:28.720 you want to put some mosquito dunks in it. Well. ACE carries that 1327 01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:32.199 they carry that they carry foggers for the mosquitos and other things. ACE is 1328 01:35:32.239 --> 01:35:34.600 the place. What do you want? I was in an ACE just the 1329 01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:39.119 other day. I was walking through looking at those little luck I call them 1330 01:35:39.119 --> 01:35:42.720 beer lights, little strings of lights. You hang outdoors for the early evening 1331 01:35:42.720 --> 01:35:45.079 ambiance. You know, summer's coming. You know. I can almost sit 1332 01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:47.399 out in the middle of the sunny day from the outside. But boy, 1333 01:35:47.439 --> 01:35:50.119 in the evening when the sun goes down, you get a little break from 1334 01:35:50.119 --> 01:35:55.319 the sun, having those lights and enjoying your patio area. Maybe you got 1335 01:35:55.319 --> 01:35:59.520 your barbecue pitted Ace. Boy, do they ever have quality brands? Trigger 1336 01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:03.279 Big Egg Weber all of that and lots of accessories to go with it. 1337 01:36:03.640 --> 01:36:06.800 ACE is a place, So where's Ace. Well, go to ACE Hardware 1338 01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:11.479 dot com and you're gonna find If you put in a store locator for the 1339 01:36:11.479 --> 01:36:15.079 greater Houston area, you're gonna find forty ACE hardware stores. Easy, easy 1340 01:36:15.119 --> 01:36:19.760 to find. Let's see. I think we're going to go back to the 1341 01:36:19.760 --> 01:36:25.000 phones now. I'm going to go to who's been waiting long? Stephen and 1342 01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:29.520 Cyprus. Hello, Stephen, body Skip. Hey, I just got a 1343 01:36:29.600 --> 01:36:32.640 question about the stickers that are in the backyard. The dogs keep running around 1344 01:36:32.640 --> 01:36:35.000 out there. I'm concerned about them. You know. Well, first of 1345 01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:38.760 all, too fall, they not heard themselves, and plus they bring him 1346 01:36:38.760 --> 01:36:42.399 in the house. What's pet friendly besides pulling it out of the ground. 1347 01:36:42.720 --> 01:36:45.720 Is this a grass or a broad leaf weed? That's the sticker, because 1348 01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:49.520 we have stickers of different kinds of weeds. It's the broad leave okay, 1349 01:36:50.520 --> 01:36:56.399 uh. That would be a post emergent broadleaf we control product, and there 1350 01:36:56.399 --> 01:36:58.840 are a number of them in the market. If you go to my schedule 1351 01:36:59.079 --> 01:37:03.720 on Garden with Skip dot com, I list by name some of the products 1352 01:37:03.720 --> 01:37:09.560 that you can use, both organic and synthetic on weed control. If the 1353 01:37:09.680 --> 01:37:13.520 stickers are already on the plants, you probably don't want to hear this, 1354 01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:15.640 but to get out there and pull those plants up, get some gloves on 1355 01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:18.640 your hand, pull them up, gets all the stickers out. If you 1356 01:37:18.680 --> 01:37:21.439 spray them and kill them, you still have dried stickers and dogs are still 1357 01:37:21.439 --> 01:37:28.960 bringing them in. So that's that's why I say pulling. But next spring, 1358 01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:33.119 putting out a pre emergent to prevent them from coming up would be a 1359 01:37:33.159 --> 01:37:38.199 good step. And that is also on my schedule at gardening with Skip dot 1360 01:37:38.239 --> 01:37:40.880 com. It tells you what products do you use in window apply them? 1361 01:37:41.600 --> 01:37:45.600 Okay, we I'll definitely do that. I appreciate you. I just I 1362 01:37:45.640 --> 01:37:47.039 was just concerned because they chew on the grass a lot, and I was 1363 01:37:47.039 --> 01:37:51.439 worried about anything I've sprayed down on there. But like those work. Yeah, 1364 01:37:51.560 --> 01:37:55.720 yeah, And well you've got grassy stickers and you've got broad leaf stickers, 1365 01:37:55.760 --> 01:37:59.840 and so you may have a little both in there, Dannie, almost 1366 01:37:59.880 --> 01:38:06.439 like you do. You're an overachiever, Stephen. I appreciate right, take 1367 01:38:06.479 --> 01:38:12.399 care of Thank you, bye bye. Appreciate that. Hey, Spring Creek 1368 01:38:12.439 --> 01:38:15.359 Feed Center is your hometown. Feed center. We love our feed centers here 1369 01:38:15.399 --> 01:38:19.640 on Garden Line. You can go to Spring Creek Feed if you're up in 1370 01:38:19.680 --> 01:38:24.960 the Magnolia area. It's just right in your backyard FM twenty nine seventy eight, 1371 01:38:25.000 --> 01:38:29.279 just minutes away from Grand Parkway Highway to forty nine. The fertilizers I 1372 01:38:29.319 --> 01:38:32.239 talk about are there. The products to control pests and weeds and diseases are 1373 01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:35.680 there. And best of all, I think friendly, courteous staff to help 1374 01:38:35.680 --> 01:38:38.880 you. They've expended their garden area. By the way, I got some 1375 01:38:38.920 --> 01:38:42.119 plants outside they've been bringing in and all kinds of these. It's always a 1376 01:38:42.119 --> 01:38:45.640 good time to go to Spring Creek Feed. If you are FFA or four 1377 01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:49.800 h or military or senior citizen. Their discounts available for you. Would you 1378 01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:54.840 like something special ordered, they specialize in that at Spring Creek Feed. They 1379 01:38:54.840 --> 01:38:58.239 can absolutely do that and they even have a delivery service. So whether you're 1380 01:38:58.279 --> 01:39:02.359 looking for garden supplies or quality brands of pet food, Spring Creek Feed on 1381 01:39:02.680 --> 01:39:08.239 FM twenty nine seventy eight up in Magnolia has got you covered, that's for 1382 01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:11.600 sure. Let's go to Dayton and talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin, 1383 01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:15.680 good morning. They tak him a call, Sir, got a couple of 1384 01:39:15.720 --> 01:39:21.079 questions. I'll go about two and a half acre lawn, and it's mixed 1385 01:39:21.119 --> 01:39:27.680 between Zoija, Saint Augustine, Bermuda, just kind of getting into the lawnchair 1386 01:39:28.359 --> 01:39:30.560 and during the winter time, I really hate the brown lawn. I was 1387 01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:35.760 thinking about seeding with rye grass, but I also want to kind of follow 1388 01:39:35.800 --> 01:39:41.479 your schedule and get out some pre emergent weed and feed stuff like that. 1389 01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:45.319 And I was kind of kind of wondering how the rye grass will affect the 1390 01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:47.920 lawn long term. I mean, is that an option or Okay, am 1391 01:39:47.960 --> 01:39:50.720 I just kind of throwing money away. Yeah, So you're going to do 1392 01:39:50.760 --> 01:39:56.960 the rye grass seeding probably October. So it isn't a good combo with the 1393 01:39:57.399 --> 01:40:00.840 Whedon feed because the Whedon feed keeps a rye grass from coming up. It's 1394 01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:05.119 a seed and that's what the pre emergent products, whether they're weed and feed 1395 01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:12.079 pre emergence or whether you're just putting them down like barricade pre emergent, you 1396 01:40:12.239 --> 01:40:16.079 gotta you got to have a stand of rye grass before you put that product 1397 01:40:16.079 --> 01:40:20.560 down. Uh. And and so it's not a good trying to combine those 1398 01:40:20.600 --> 01:40:26.199 two, I would forego the weed pre emergent weed control if you're going to 1399 01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:30.159 try to overseed with the rye grass. That the positive of righte grass is 1400 01:40:30.279 --> 01:40:32.039 you mow the lawn. You got a green lawn on winter. The negative 1401 01:40:32.159 --> 01:40:36.039 is it's a weed. You are literally planting weeds in your lawn. So 1402 01:40:36.079 --> 01:40:41.439 they compete for water, they compete for nutrients, and they compete for sunlight. 1403 01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:45.119 And in the spring, rye grass is happy as a clam. It 1404 01:40:45.199 --> 01:40:47.560 is growing like crazy and going, going, going, and you're Saint Augustine's 1405 01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:51.199 trying to wake up, trying to get some sunlight, and so it can 1406 01:40:51.319 --> 01:40:56.720 stress. And that's true Bermuda grass too. A lot of times bermuda sports 1407 01:40:56.760 --> 01:41:00.439 areas and things are overseeded with rye grass, and it's a stress to the 1408 01:41:00.479 --> 01:41:04.439 bermuda too, because it's a competitor. Of course, when the sun heats 1409 01:41:04.520 --> 01:41:09.119 up, the rye grass will melt away and you're back to your warm, 1410 01:41:09.119 --> 01:41:14.479 seasoned turf grass. So if I did choose to do that and plant the 1411 01:41:14.560 --> 01:41:17.680 rye grass, you know, obviously plant you know late September, first part 1412 01:41:17.760 --> 01:41:23.359 October. I guess if I wanted to go ahead and treat with three emergent 1413 01:41:23.560 --> 01:41:29.199 later probably January February. Ish, I guess will be okay because that's yes, 1414 01:41:29.279 --> 01:41:32.399 and go to gardening of skip dot com get my schedule. It'll tell 1415 01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:36.439 you exactly when to apply and what to apply, and it's going to be 1416 01:41:36.520 --> 01:41:41.199 February for your area that you're going to want to get the pre emergent down. 1417 01:41:41.279 --> 01:41:43.880 But if you already have rye grass growing, you can put the pre 1418 01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:46.520 emergent on it and it'll be okay, just not before you seed the rye 1419 01:41:46.520 --> 01:41:49.840 grass. Hey, I am up against a five seconds away from break. 1420 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:53.640 So thank you so much Kevin for the call. When we get back, 1421 01:41:53.720 --> 01:41:56.239 Ronnie, you will be our first up. Now it's time for Nicky in 1422 01:41:56.319 --> 01:42:00.960 the news. Welcome back to garden Line. We'll get back garden Line. 1423 01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:04.760 Looking forward to your calls our phone number seven one three two one two five 1424 01:42:05.000 --> 01:42:11.279 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh. 1425 01:42:11.399 --> 01:42:15.520 If you're looking for a quality mix of soil, I'm talking about something 1426 01:42:15.640 --> 01:42:18.159 where you know when you put those plants in, they're going to be laughing 1427 01:42:18.199 --> 01:42:23.680 and singing and happy because the roots have everything they want. Soil is a 1428 01:42:23.720 --> 01:42:29.840 secret to success. Soil is a secret to success. Heirloom soils makes quality 1429 01:42:29.880 --> 01:42:31.920 soil. Do you need a veggie and herb mix? You can buy it 1430 01:42:32.039 --> 01:42:36.039 and buy the bag all over the place. Airloom soils are widely available. 1431 01:42:36.479 --> 01:42:41.560 You can go get it bulk up in the porter location. You can have 1432 01:42:41.640 --> 01:42:44.399 them deliver it. You can have them bring and dump it on your side 1433 01:42:44.520 --> 01:42:47.840 on your driveway, or you can basically have them deliver what's called a supersac, 1434 01:42:48.039 --> 01:42:51.439 a big, old, giant, one cubic yard sack of soil to 1435 01:42:51.479 --> 01:42:56.840 your place. They've got the berry and fruit, the fruit berry and citrus 1436 01:42:57.279 --> 01:43:00.239 type mix they have that. They have the roast, They've got the leaf 1437 01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:03.640 mold compost. What do you need Heirloom soil has it? Do you need 1438 01:43:03.640 --> 01:43:09.359 something for cacti and succulents, something gritty that drains super super well. They've 1439 01:43:09.399 --> 01:43:15.119 got that heirloom Soilsoftexas dot Com. I was telling somebody just yesterday out RCW 1440 01:43:15.239 --> 01:43:17.279 Nursery talking to people about things. I said, go to Airlom Sols of 1441 01:43:17.319 --> 01:43:24.079 Texas and look at the website for the mulch calculator, the soil calculator. 1442 01:43:25.359 --> 01:43:29.039 Do you want to put leaf moll compost over your yard a third of an 1443 01:43:29.039 --> 01:43:33.159 inch deep, over two thousand and five hundred square feet or whatever. It'll 1444 01:43:33.159 --> 01:43:36.039 tell you exactly how many QB cards you need to do that. That's the 1445 01:43:36.119 --> 01:43:40.359 kind of deal it is. It makes it really really easy. At Airloomsource 1446 01:43:40.399 --> 01:43:43.520 of Texas dot Com, I'm want to go out to Laporte. Now we're 1447 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:47.600 going to talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie, Hello, quick question. 1448 01:43:47.680 --> 01:43:51.840 Thank you for taking my call. But I was curious. I've got two 1449 01:43:51.880 --> 01:43:58.479 palm trees or queen palms, and they're a little bit over a year old. 1450 01:44:00.119 --> 01:44:04.359 In this past winter when we had the freeze, I actually covered them 1451 01:44:04.399 --> 01:44:10.680 with some bags that we had got from off Amazon. But when I took 1452 01:44:10.680 --> 01:44:15.319 the bags off, which was right after the next day, once the temperature 1453 01:44:15.359 --> 01:44:19.800 came back up, I took them off, and the the limb started turning, 1454 01:44:19.960 --> 01:44:27.399 you know, brown, and so I've left him on there and they 1455 01:44:28.000 --> 01:44:31.479 there looks like there's some green coming out at the you know, the top 1456 01:44:31.560 --> 01:44:34.079 of it right there where they're actors. They're not really that tall, They're 1457 01:44:34.079 --> 01:44:40.920 only about six and a half seven foot tall, and but I was just 1458 01:44:40.960 --> 01:44:45.199 curious, should I cut the ones that are brown more or less dead off. 1459 01:44:45.800 --> 01:44:48.359 Yes, if there's a little if there's a little green on them, 1460 01:44:48.399 --> 01:44:55.039 I would leave them because that is photosynthesizing, making carbohydrates for the plants strength. 1461 01:44:55.479 --> 01:44:58.600 It looks ugly because it's half dead, but if it's got green on 1462 01:44:58.640 --> 01:45:00.159 it, leave it for now. Just give as much time as you can, 1463 01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:03.439 because when you take all the green off a palm tree, it's like 1464 01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:06.600 scalping your grass all the way to the ground. I mean, it's a 1465 01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:11.880 real shocker for it to try to come back out. But whatever's brown is 1466 01:45:11.920 --> 01:45:14.279 brown, is not doing your plan any good. So you can cut that 1467 01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:16.760 off. The fronds can die. The key is you want that bud at 1468 01:45:16.800 --> 01:45:20.239 the top of the trunk to be alive. If it dies, If it 1469 01:45:20.359 --> 01:45:25.239 dies, that queen palm's dead. But if the bud's alive putting out new 1470 01:45:25.239 --> 01:45:30.960 growth, you're good, it'll be fine. Right, Okay, Well that's 1471 01:45:30.000 --> 01:45:32.840 that's what I'll do then, and I'll just let you see what happens. 1472 01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:36.840 Yeah, yeah, sounds good. Well, good luck with that. Those 1473 01:45:36.840 --> 01:45:41.800 are beautiful palm trees. Yes, okay, appreciate it, all right, 1474 01:45:41.880 --> 01:45:45.600 Ronnie, thank you, thank you very much. I appreciate that I was 1475 01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:49.600 talking this it was yesterday I went by one of the Wildbirds stores done with 1476 01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:53.800 Rich idiot or in the Memorial store. And you know, by the way, 1477 01:45:53.800 --> 01:45:56.880 you know, Wilbirds has six stores in the Greater Houston area, So 1478 01:45:57.000 --> 01:46:00.119 it doesn't matter where you live, there's gonna be a wild Bird's near you. 1479 01:46:00.119 --> 01:46:01.720 There's one in Cyprus, there's one in Memorial, there's one in bel 1480 01:46:01.800 --> 01:46:05.640 Air, there's one in pair Landing in Kingwood. There's one in clear Lake 1481 01:46:06.039 --> 01:46:11.319 also. So anyway, I was talking to him and he was describing how 1482 01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:14.680 this works with this cofront coming in. We have a lot of birds that 1483 01:46:14.720 --> 01:46:17.720 are going they're in their migratory pattern, they're heading north, and this would 1484 01:46:17.760 --> 01:46:25.039 be things like a Baltimore oriole for example. He named several different birds that 1485 01:46:25.079 --> 01:46:28.039 fit into this category, some type of a warbler. I can't remember the 1486 01:46:28.119 --> 01:46:30.800 name. I'm not a bird experts. I'm now proving live on the air. 1487 01:46:31.039 --> 01:46:35.239 But anyway, there are several different kinds of birds that are flying like 1488 01:46:35.279 --> 01:46:40.520 that, and when a colfrint hits like this, they just sort of stop 1489 01:46:40.560 --> 01:46:42.760 and go, Okay, we're not going to fight this one, and they 1490 01:46:42.840 --> 01:46:46.640 drop down and come down to our landscapes here. And if you'll put out. 1491 01:46:46.760 --> 01:46:50.119 If you'll take like an orange and you'll cut it in half, you 1492 01:46:50.119 --> 01:46:53.680 know, like you just set it up with a stem end up and you 1493 01:46:53.720 --> 01:46:57.359 slice the horizontally through it cut in half like that. So there's all these 1494 01:46:57.439 --> 01:47:00.159 open sections that the birds can get to. And you put those out there, 1495 01:47:00.199 --> 01:47:03.119 yeah, I mean, you can poke them onto a nail or something 1496 01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:08.800 to stick them on the side or something or whatever. Baltimore orioles love those 1497 01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:11.880 and they'll come to them. And normally you wouldn't see a Baltimore oriole here 1498 01:47:12.000 --> 01:47:15.279 right now. They're heading north. They're not messing around with Houston right now. 1499 01:47:15.680 --> 01:47:17.800 But when they drop down from that coal front, you may have some 1500 01:47:17.800 --> 01:47:20.239 show up in your area. And if you do, I'd like to hear 1501 01:47:20.239 --> 01:47:23.439 about that. I mean, it'd be really cool to hear. Let me 1502 01:47:23.479 --> 01:47:27.479 know if that works out. Other birds that we don't normally see. And 1503 01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:30.640 I mentioned to warbler, a certain type of warbler. You're going to get 1504 01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:33.920 to see those from the coal front. So keep your eyes open when you're 1505 01:47:33.960 --> 01:47:38.720 out there. By the way, when you get a chance, go buy 1506 01:47:38.720 --> 01:47:43.880 a wall birds. They are stocked up for Mother's Day. And I'm telling 1507 01:47:43.920 --> 01:47:47.560 you, I know mothers and mother in laws can be difficult to buy for 1508 01:47:47.920 --> 01:47:50.439 you because what do you get them? They got everything, and then they 1509 01:47:50.439 --> 01:47:55.199 say things like it's okay, son, I'm just fine, I don't need 1510 01:47:55.239 --> 01:47:57.399 any Well, you know that's not the case. You got to get them 1511 01:47:57.439 --> 01:48:02.359 something nice. Mother's Day gifts wildbirds a high perch hummingbird feeder. I've got 1512 01:48:02.399 --> 01:48:06.239 one awesome, awesome feeders. They are a really cool book, The Joy 1513 01:48:06.279 --> 01:48:10.840 of Bird Feeding. It's actually written by the guy who founded the president and 1514 01:48:10.960 --> 01:48:15.079 founder of Wildbirds Unlimited across America, and it is a beautiful book with lots 1515 01:48:15.079 --> 01:48:20.159 of color pictures of how to bring in birds to the backyard by feeding. 1516 01:48:20.640 --> 01:48:23.720 What do you feed them? What do they look like? All that? 1517 01:48:24.279 --> 01:48:28.520 Do you want one of their Eco Tough Classic feeders. That is a feeder 1518 01:48:29.079 --> 01:48:31.960 made out of recycled plastic milk jugs and it is beautiful. When you look 1519 01:48:32.000 --> 01:48:34.399 at it, you say, well, that looks like smida wood. Nope, 1520 01:48:34.439 --> 01:48:40.479 it is a recycled material feeder that is quality. I've got the Eliminator 1521 01:48:40.520 --> 01:48:44.239 squirrel proof feeder. I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. The 1522 01:48:44.279 --> 01:48:46.039 little birds hop on it, they're fine. A squirrel gets on it and 1523 01:48:46.279 --> 01:48:50.000 they wait too much, and it is hard to thwart a squirrel. This 1524 01:48:50.039 --> 01:48:55.279 one has thwarted them successfully at my house. The eliminator. It's the Cadillac 1525 01:48:55.359 --> 01:48:59.920 in my opinion, there's the flying bistro cylinder. You see what I'm saying. 1526 01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:02.680 There. They even have jewelry, you know, for things like birds, 1527 01:49:02.720 --> 01:49:08.000 birds, seed and feeders and houses. And on Mother's Day. Don't 1528 01:49:08.039 --> 01:49:11.159 go through Mother's Day or mother in law's Day. We're gonna go ahead and 1529 01:49:11.159 --> 01:49:14.119 throw them in here too. By the way, I bought myself my mother 1530 01:49:14.279 --> 01:49:18.520 in law a little pole to hang a feeder outside her window where she's stand 1531 01:49:18.680 --> 01:49:23.479 and it is. It's really cool. She look out the window and their 1532 01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:25.399 birds right there. So I got her little pole. So, yes, 1533 01:49:25.439 --> 01:49:28.079 I am a good son in law. I know she's not listening to this, 1534 01:49:28.239 --> 01:49:30.760 but if you see her, tell her she has a good son and 1535 01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:34.279 we'll give her that for Mother's Day as well well. Anyway, you get 1536 01:49:34.319 --> 01:49:39.600 the idea why Birds is a great place. It's fun, it's educational. 1537 01:49:39.680 --> 01:49:43.119 You go in there and you ask them anything you want and they will explain 1538 01:49:43.319 --> 01:49:46.479 exactly to you exactly what you need to know to have success with that. 1539 01:49:46.640 --> 01:49:51.000 What a great hobby. All right, enough about me jammering about birds. 1540 01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:55.039 We're gonna go to Gardend oak Oaks and we're gonna talk to Frank. Frank, 1541 01:49:55.079 --> 01:49:57.920 I got about forty five seconds here. We'll see if we can get 1542 01:49:57.920 --> 01:50:00.960 into it and hold you until after break if we need to. Okay, 1543 01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:06.239 Skiff, I've got a crape myrtle that the last couple of years has had 1544 01:50:06.279 --> 01:50:11.399 some moss like growth on it, just little clumps, not you know, 1545 01:50:11.520 --> 01:50:15.800 not not real big sick hanging Spanish moss, but just small clumps, you 1546 01:50:15.840 --> 01:50:18.800 know, on the on the limbs. And yes, so I just just 1547 01:50:18.800 --> 01:50:23.279 want to know. Is that bad for the No, No, it's a 1548 01:50:23.319 --> 01:50:28.079 sign. It's a sign that crape isn't real vigorous. It's a The material 1549 01:50:28.199 --> 01:50:31.279 is called lichens l I c h e N. It's what raindery. By 1550 01:50:31.279 --> 01:50:36.920 the way, fun fact, lichen grows on plants as they get then the 1551 01:50:36.960 --> 01:50:42.079 canopy thins out the sunlight's coming through, we tend to see more lichens on 1552 01:50:42.119 --> 01:50:45.239 them. But you'll see lichens on rocks, on fence posts. Uh. 1553 01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:49.920 Lichens are not parasites, so they're just along for the ride. They're more 1554 01:50:49.960 --> 01:50:55.119 a sign that that crape isn't as vigorous as we would like it to be. 1555 01:50:55.800 --> 01:51:00.239 So I would focus on the fertilizing and watering and whatnot. Maybe a 1556 01:51:00.279 --> 01:51:03.640 little rejuvenated pruning here and there to get the crape into a little bit better 1557 01:51:03.720 --> 01:51:09.399 vigor but overall, don't worry about what you're seeing on there. Okay, 1558 01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:13.359 what kind of fertilizer would you recommend? You know, there are fertilizers for 1559 01:51:13.439 --> 01:51:16.079 trees and shrubs. Nitroposs makes one for trees and shrubs. You can do 1560 01:51:16.159 --> 01:51:20.039 that at my house. I just use lawn fertilizer on them. You buy 1561 01:51:20.119 --> 01:51:24.640 you a go quality lawn fertilizer, and then go up to that trunk on 1562 01:51:24.680 --> 01:51:28.840 the plant, and for every inch of trunk diameter across the tree, if 1563 01:51:28.880 --> 01:51:31.079 you have like three trunks, then total them up, give it one or 1564 01:51:31.079 --> 01:51:35.640 two cups of lawn fertilizer. If it's an organic fertilizer, double or triple 1565 01:51:35.680 --> 01:51:42.960 that, but one or two cups of fertilizer for every inch of trunk diameter. 1566 01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:45.680 All right, okay, great, yes, sir, thank you very 1567 01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:47.000 much. All Right, we're going to go to a break here, Teresa, 1568 01:51:47.079 --> 01:51:50.520 you will be first right when we come back. Welcome back, to 1569 01:51:50.600 --> 01:51:53.800 guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, if you 1570 01:51:53.880 --> 01:51:59.680 live down in the Sugarland area or the Richmond Rosenberg area in Jani Forest, 1571 01:52:00.079 --> 01:52:02.760 write that down enchanted Forest Infection. I'll just give you the website. How 1572 01:52:02.760 --> 01:52:05.560 about we just go straight to that. We can do that as well. 1573 01:52:05.800 --> 01:52:11.319 By the way, Chinted Forest is an enchanting garden center. You will find 1574 01:52:11.520 --> 01:52:15.600 everything you're looking for there. Their selection is unbelievable. I was out there 1575 01:52:15.640 --> 01:52:19.920 not too long ago. Always impressed, very knowledgeable staff. Hey, if 1576 01:52:19.920 --> 01:52:24.039 you're looking for plants for butterflies, they not only have the plants, you 1577 01:52:24.039 --> 01:52:27.039 get to take home a caterpillar. Yep, that's right, they got caterpillars. 1578 01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:29.960 You can bring it home. You got your what's that the equivalent of 1579 01:52:29.960 --> 01:52:34.159 a sourdough starter for a butterfly garden. You're just ready to go right there 1580 01:52:34.199 --> 01:52:39.520 with Enchanted Forest. It's Enchanted Forest Richmond dot com. Here's one thing when 1581 01:52:39.560 --> 01:52:43.239 you're out there, I want you to ask to see that yesterday, today 1582 01:52:43.279 --> 01:52:45.079 and tomorrow is that's the name of a shrub. It's not an abbot and 1583 01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:51.000 costello skit yesterday, today, and tomorrow At the same time, these blooms 1584 01:52:51.079 --> 01:52:55.720 change as a color show. You're gonna have a purple bloom on there, 1585 01:52:55.760 --> 01:52:58.439 You're gonna have a white bloom, You're gonna have a violet bloom all at 1586 01:52:58.479 --> 01:53:00.000 the same time. A three to six shrub. You put it in a 1587 01:53:00.039 --> 01:53:03.720 little bright, bright, shady area. That's where it's happiest. It is 1588 01:53:03.800 --> 01:53:06.279 awesome. It's an old time plant. People used to have them all the 1589 01:53:06.279 --> 01:53:11.000 time. Now it's kind of not as top of the line terms of everybody's 1590 01:53:11.039 --> 01:53:14.439 got it on the billboard. But it is a great plant, and they've 1591 01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:18.800 got them an enchanted forest out there in Richmond FM twenty seven fifty nine. 1592 01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:25.439 FM twenty seven fifty nine, just north of Richmond toward Sugarland direction. Let's 1593 01:53:25.479 --> 01:53:29.800 go talk to Teresa out here in the woodlands. Hey Teresa, Hey, 1594 01:53:29.960 --> 01:53:33.079 Skip, how are you? I'm good? Thank you? Okay, so 1595 01:53:33.239 --> 01:53:38.199 real quick, too quick questions. My yard's been recovering the last two years. 1596 01:53:38.199 --> 01:53:40.439 I talked to you last year about it. I had to resaw it 1597 01:53:40.359 --> 01:53:42.960 it. Blah blah blah. I always used micro life, okay, and 1598 01:53:42.960 --> 01:53:46.880 this year I got convinced to use Bruce's brew. The yard's looking much better, 1599 01:53:47.119 --> 01:53:49.760 all that kind of thing. But should I did it a month ago, 1600 01:53:50.000 --> 01:53:55.560 the Bruces Brew. Do I need to do anything else up until June 1601 01:53:55.720 --> 01:53:58.239 or just kind of leave it set. If you did it a month ago, 1602 01:53:58.239 --> 01:54:00.680 I'd give it a little bit more time. Let's see. Probably let's 1603 01:54:00.720 --> 01:54:04.479 say go sometime into May, and you could do the Bruces Brew again. 1604 01:54:05.319 --> 01:54:10.279 But just remember that it is a fast release, but it also has a 1605 01:54:10.319 --> 01:54:14.079 slow release component, so it's going to spread itself out a little bit. 1606 01:54:14.119 --> 01:54:16.039 You could even wait until June to do it again, and it would be 1607 01:54:16.119 --> 01:54:19.039 fine. Okay. Yeah, In fact, I'm going to change my mind 1608 01:54:19.079 --> 01:54:24.119 on the May. I would wait and do it in June, especially if 1609 01:54:24.119 --> 01:54:28.119 you're going to return those clippings. Okay, yeah, I do that because 1610 01:54:28.159 --> 01:54:30.520 I was told do Bruce's Brew this year and then go back to micro Life 1611 01:54:30.640 --> 01:54:33.439 just to kind of give it that recharge from the last two years. You 1612 01:54:33.439 --> 01:54:39.319 know, all that. That's fine, but they're both quality fertilizers and so 1613 01:54:39.680 --> 01:54:42.760 it's not like you need to switch back and forth and stuff like that. 1614 01:54:43.600 --> 01:54:46.880 Do it however you want. There's no problem switching. But they're both quality 1615 01:54:46.960 --> 01:54:51.319 fertilizers, so you don't have to switch on stuff like that. Okay. 1616 01:54:51.600 --> 01:54:55.560 The other thing is real quick. You've mentioned about fire out control and you 1617 01:54:55.680 --> 01:55:00.039 talk about combine the I guess the andro was extinguished. And I tried to 1618 01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:02.199 look for extinguished yesterday at a couple of aces and I couldn't find it. 1619 01:55:03.319 --> 01:55:10.359 Okay, well, that's fine. So I think if I was talking about 1620 01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:15.319 combining, I was talking about a leaf a concoction for leaf cutter ant control. 1621 01:55:15.840 --> 01:55:18.880 You do not need to combine them. For fireance. You can use 1622 01:55:18.920 --> 01:55:23.800 extinguish, you can use the organic one called come and get it. You 1623 01:55:23.800 --> 01:55:28.159 can use amdro and then there's some more that aren't jumping them ahead at this 1624 01:55:28.279 --> 01:55:30.520 very moment. But there's a lot of quality baits out there for fire ants. 1625 01:55:31.640 --> 01:55:35.359 So don't worry if you can't find extinguished. Okay, all right, 1626 01:55:35.399 --> 01:55:39.079 well listen, I appreciate it, and have a great weekend. All right, 1627 01:55:39.119 --> 01:55:42.119 you too, Thank you very much. I appreciate that very much. 1628 01:55:42.840 --> 01:55:45.600 You're talking about all these different fertilizers. You know, Nitrofoss has got their 1629 01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:51.239 silver bag that is called super Turf because it gives you a super turf. 1630 01:55:51.479 --> 01:55:55.800 It's got half the nitrogen and a slow release forms. Let's compeede for three 1631 01:55:55.880 --> 01:55:59.800 or four months going out there. It's got iron to promote that good green 1632 01:56:00.359 --> 01:56:03.119 and it does gradually feed over time. And it's easy to find super turfs 1633 01:56:03.199 --> 01:56:08.000 everywhere. You know, night Foss products are easy to find because they're essentially 1634 01:56:08.119 --> 01:56:11.039 ubiquitous. You go to Ace Hardware store, you're going to find them. 1635 01:56:11.600 --> 01:56:15.359 You go out to garden centers, the speed stores we talk about here, 1636 01:56:15.520 --> 01:56:17.119 and you're gonna find them at Southwest Fertilizer too, which, by the way, 1637 01:56:17.119 --> 01:56:21.279 I'm going to be at Southwest Fertilizer this coming Saturday from eleven am to 1638 01:56:21.399 --> 01:56:27.199 one pm. I will be there and I will be giving away a number 1639 01:56:27.239 --> 01:56:30.520 of different kinds of products at Southwest. You know, Southwest is a place 1640 01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:32.840 that I like to say, if you don't if they don't have it, 1641 01:56:32.880 --> 01:56:38.159 you don't need it because they have everything, absolutely everything you could possibly want. 1642 01:56:38.239 --> 01:56:41.479 They're on the corner of bus Nutt and Runwick. I hope you'll come 1643 01:56:41.520 --> 01:56:44.760 out next Saturday, so really easy to get to bus Nutt and Renwick right 1644 01:56:44.760 --> 01:56:46.359 out there. Come by. I'm going to be given away a number of 1645 01:56:46.359 --> 01:56:53.199 different things. Bob's putting up a toro blower and touro string tremor. We're 1646 01:56:53.199 --> 01:56:56.960 going to be giving you skip Bucks, which means here's a piece of paper 1647 01:56:56.960 --> 01:57:00.319 that I'm calling money, and Bob calls it money, and so you go 1648 01:57:00.359 --> 01:57:02.880 get the products you need that day, and you can use those bucks toward 1649 01:57:02.920 --> 01:57:06.560 buying those products. I'll also be given away. I just got through talking 1650 01:57:06.600 --> 01:57:12.199 to the folks at Medina. So it has to grow super grow plus. 1651 01:57:12.239 --> 01:57:18.840 That is a new hose end sprayer lawn fertilizer sixteen zero two sixteen zero two 1652 01:57:19.479 --> 01:57:25.039 lolo phosphorus, which is good because most lawns do not need much of any 1653 01:57:25.079 --> 01:57:29.600 phosphorus at all. Now you spray this on your lawn. It's got a 1654 01:57:29.840 --> 01:57:33.079 keylated form of iron in it, it's got seaweed extract in it. It's 1655 01:57:33.119 --> 01:57:38.640 just all around. It's good. About a fifth of the nitrogen in it 1656 01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:42.159 is slow release form, so it's just a win when you spray it on 1657 01:57:42.199 --> 01:57:45.720 your gardens. I've seen people use it on vegetables. Saw some pictures of 1658 01:57:45.720 --> 01:57:48.880 people using it on vegetables and the results they got. Primarily, we put 1659 01:57:48.880 --> 01:57:51.960 it out there for the lawnch hook it up to the hose in one quart 1660 01:57:53.039 --> 01:57:57.399 is going to cover about four thousand square feet and it will be giving samples 1661 01:57:57.399 --> 01:58:00.399 of that away or actually product of that away. That's Southwest Fertilizer because Bob 1662 01:58:00.439 --> 01:58:04.720 carries that out there. It's a new product by Medina, an excellent product, 1663 01:58:05.439 --> 01:58:11.079 and it's it is just you're gonna have success. You're gonna see the 1664 01:58:11.119 --> 01:58:14.159 results because not only do you get a quick green up, but you also 1665 01:58:14.279 --> 01:58:17.119 get that a little bit of slow release in it to extend that out a 1666 01:58:17.159 --> 01:58:19.640 little bit further for you. So once you hook it up to the hose, 1667 01:58:19.640 --> 01:58:21.920 if you run out of yard, just hit the flower beds, hit 1668 01:58:21.960 --> 01:58:27.000 the shrubs, hit whatever you want with it. It's gonna make it. 1669 01:58:27.000 --> 01:58:30.920 It's gonna make it grow. That's one thing that I like about Medina products 1670 01:58:31.039 --> 01:58:34.880 is they are affected, they do work, and they're just handy. It's 1671 01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:38.479 just handy to use. You know, it can't get much easier. And 1672 01:58:38.520 --> 01:58:42.479 hooking it up to your garden hose and going at it with that, that 1673 01:58:42.680 --> 01:58:47.199 is for sure. If you've been out to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery, 1674 01:58:47.239 --> 01:58:51.079 that's out there in Katie, Texas. If you go to Katie, you 1675 01:58:51.439 --> 01:58:56.039 turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just a hop skipping or jump 1676 01:58:56.079 --> 01:58:59.000 up the road on the right, just real close by there. Now they 1677 01:58:59.039 --> 01:59:03.279 are specializing unbelievable. They can make fountains, they come to your house, 1678 01:59:03.319 --> 01:59:05.880 they can teach you how to do it. They can do it for you. 1679 01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:10.159 I mean, do you want a big disappearing fountain. They invented those. 1680 01:59:10.159 --> 01:59:13.479 They know how to do that. But they're also an excellent nursery. 1681 01:59:13.640 --> 01:59:16.359 A wide variety of plants there. Now when you go, take people with 1682 01:59:16.399 --> 01:59:21.479 you, because this is another destination garden center. You're going to go there, 1683 01:59:21.520 --> 01:59:25.479 and if you've never thought about having a backyard pond, I'm just warning 1684 01:59:25.520 --> 01:59:28.479 you. You're going to walk through and go, oh my gosh, I 1685 01:59:28.600 --> 01:59:30.159 have got to have one of these in the backyard, or at least one 1686 01:59:30.199 --> 01:59:38.399 of those fountains that disappears, so very very cool. Nelson Watergarden Gardens with 1687 01:59:38.560 --> 01:59:44.039 an s dot com Nelsonwatergardens dot com. But go check out the plants too. 1688 01:59:44.159 --> 01:59:46.199 I mean you'll be surprised. A wide variety of fruit trees right now, 1689 01:59:46.520 --> 01:59:50.760 citrus, peaches, pears, pumps, all kinds of things at Nelson 1690 01:59:50.840 --> 01:59:56.560 Watergardens dot com. But you gotta go see the water features, the koi, 1691 01:59:56.720 --> 02:00:01.800 the shabunkan fish, the aquatic plants and things. It is a destination 1692 02:00:02.000 --> 02:00:06.720 an inspirational one. All right, there, we're putting that hour in the 1693 02:00:06.720 --> 02:00:12.680 books. I'll talking about all these places and stuff. I just want to 1694 02:00:12.760 --> 02:00:15.560 jump up from the microphone, get my car and go back out and see 1695 02:00:15.600 --> 02:00:19.079 them. I love visiting these places. I'm telling you. Hear me say 1696 02:00:19.119 --> 02:00:28.359 this all the time. But Houston has so many awesome destination garden centers. 1697 02:00:28.880 --> 02:00:32.239 North south east West? What do you what are you into? Are you 1698 02:00:32.279 --> 02:00:36.000 into water gardens? Are you into tropicals? Are you into fruit? Are 1699 02:00:36.000 --> 02:00:41.319 you into herbs? Are you into we just have we are? We are 1700 02:00:41.520 --> 02:00:45.199 rich with garden centers, I said, north south east West. I'm up 1701 02:00:45.239 --> 02:00:48.079 through centraland I can't forget about Buchanans down the lights too. I mean it, 1702 02:00:48.319 --> 02:00:53.079 it's just great. It's a great place to live. This afternoon would 1703 02:00:53.079 --> 02:00:56.279 be a great time to get out too. That sun's going to come out. 1704 02:00:56.840 --> 02:00:59.680 Hope to get out and enjoy it. We'll be right back to put 1705 02:00:59.680 --> 02:01:05.640 our last hour on the air. Katie r h. Garden Line does not 1706 02:01:05.760 --> 02:01:12.319 necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 1707 02:01:12.520 --> 02:01:24.880 kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor It's crazy gas a trim just watch 1708 02:01:25.000 --> 02:01:44.319 him as well. As so many paties. Septaser not a sunda. Thank 1709 02:01:44.399 --> 02:01:46.600 you, welcome back to guarden Line. Good to have you with us today. 1710 02:01:46.880 --> 02:01:50.680 Glad you're listening in. If you've not done your lawn fertilizing yet, 1711 02:01:51.199 --> 02:01:57.159 why not consider an application of microlife fertilizer. The green bag, the six 1712 02:01:57.279 --> 02:02:00.880 two four and microlife he makes PLA plus that is the purple bag. It's 1713 02:02:00.920 --> 02:02:05.199 a zero zero four. You're not putting the hum mats plus on just for 1714 02:02:05.279 --> 02:02:10.680 nutrients. You're putting the hum mates on because it's concentrated compost in a bag. 1715 02:02:11.479 --> 02:02:15.720 Humans plus. That's the final decomposition stage of organic matter as it goes 1716 02:02:15.760 --> 02:02:19.439 from let's say a pot of leaves and grass clippings to compost to humus. 1717 02:02:19.680 --> 02:02:24.560 That's how it moves the humans plus. The purple bag is going to help 1718 02:02:24.680 --> 02:02:28.439 with your soil. When you put humus material, when you've been any kind 1719 02:02:28.439 --> 02:02:30.960 of a compost, but especially a fully decomposed like humus, you're going to 1720 02:02:31.000 --> 02:02:35.800 improve the soil structure itself. And you're also adding some potassium, which is 1721 02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:40.880 very important for drought tolerance in the grass. That is very helpful for that 1722 02:02:41.000 --> 02:02:44.199 as well. And then the green bag, of course is a standard lown 1723 02:02:44.199 --> 02:02:47.520 fertilizer by Microlife. When you buy a microlife fertilizer, you're not just getting 1724 02:02:47.560 --> 02:02:50.720 the three numbers on the bag. You're getting everything that was in the living 1725 02:02:50.800 --> 02:02:55.239 materials that you were used to make the microlife. So, for example, 1726 02:02:56.319 --> 02:03:00.239 the trace minerals and secondary minerals and things the numbers of which never appear on 1727 02:03:00.279 --> 02:03:04.560 the bag, You're going to have those in your macrolife fertilizer. Microbes get 1728 02:03:04.560 --> 02:03:09.399 a hold of it. Micro Life is a good name because if they are 1729 02:03:09.479 --> 02:03:15.159 living forms in the soil that essentially make plants thrive, That's how nature works, 1730 02:03:15.560 --> 02:03:19.399 That's how microlife fertilizer works. You can go to microlifefertilizer dot com and 1731 02:03:19.520 --> 02:03:23.880 learn more about it and the many products they have, and also where you 1732 02:03:23.920 --> 02:03:28.119 can find it here in the Greater Houston area. I want to head out 1733 02:03:28.159 --> 02:03:31.960 now to Brian, Texas and talk to Barbara. Hello, Barbara, Hi, 1734 02:03:32.119 --> 02:03:39.520 good morning. I want to pull up my poppies. They were really 1735 02:03:39.760 --> 02:03:45.279 pretty, the tinkling with the blue centers, yes, but the pods are 1736 02:03:45.359 --> 02:03:49.920 still kind of green and I want to save the seeds. How long do 1737 02:03:49.960 --> 02:03:53.800 I have to leave them for it? And pull them up what kind of 1738 02:03:53.800 --> 02:03:59.119 poppy did you have? Was it like the bread poppy? No, they 1739 02:03:59.159 --> 02:04:06.039 are pink. They're a large pink with a light blue center. Ooh, 1740 02:04:06.159 --> 02:04:16.720 that sounds beautiful. I will go ahead. No, I got them. 1741 02:04:17.079 --> 02:04:21.000 Oh, I can't remember a garden center that had them, and they didn't 1742 02:04:21.039 --> 02:04:26.479 have the seed, and they asked me to send them an envelope, and 1743 02:04:26.520 --> 02:04:29.199 then they sent me the seeds later on, so I don't know the name 1744 02:04:29.279 --> 02:04:31.119 of them. Okay, Well, on the poppy pod at the top, 1745 02:04:31.239 --> 02:04:34.319 it's going to pull back a little bit where the seeds can fall out when 1746 02:04:34.319 --> 02:04:39.079 it turns over, So look at it, and if it's not sealed up, 1747 02:04:39.119 --> 02:04:41.920 if it's pulling back, you can go ahead and cut those pods off 1748 02:04:42.640 --> 02:04:45.239 and then just sprinkle the seeds out, you know, where they can air 1749 02:04:45.319 --> 02:04:48.840 dry a little bit longer, just in case, especially because you guys had 1750 02:04:48.880 --> 02:04:54.600 a whole bunch of rain last night and whatnot. So go ahead and let 1751 02:04:54.640 --> 02:04:59.760 them dry well and then you can harvest them. I suspect if they're still 1752 02:04:59.760 --> 02:05:02.159 green pods, it's not quite time to pick them yet. I doubt they've 1753 02:05:02.199 --> 02:05:06.239 pulled back, so okay, if you can't afford to leave them that's better. 1754 02:05:08.359 --> 02:05:12.600 You say they pulled back, they open. Yeah, the pod sort 1755 02:05:12.600 --> 02:05:15.000 of opens up, you know, because the podg is like a capsule. 1756 02:05:15.039 --> 02:05:19.239 Depending on the specific kind of poppy, they're different shapes. But they they 1757 02:05:19.279 --> 02:05:23.640 actually as they dry, they shrink back, and that's how the seeds came 1758 02:05:23.640 --> 02:05:28.359 out of the poppy. It's not like a bean type plant where the suture 1759 02:05:28.399 --> 02:05:31.039 pops open and it casts the seeds out. This is that's how the poppy 1760 02:05:31.079 --> 02:05:36.880 podgs work. Okay. My other question was Manda videos. I don't know 1761 02:05:36.880 --> 02:05:43.000 if I'm pronounced right good enough? Can they do? They? Can they 1762 02:05:43.319 --> 02:05:45.880 do? Okay? Bloom and everything? Okay? In the shade or do 1763 02:05:45.960 --> 02:05:47.880 they need more sun? They need more sun. If you can give them 1764 02:05:47.920 --> 02:05:51.159 about six hours, it would be best. As you move them into more 1765 02:05:51.199 --> 02:05:56.000 and more shade, you get less and less balloons. Okay, they are 1766 02:05:56.039 --> 02:06:00.159 beautiful. They are absolutely beautiful. Oh okay, thank you very much. 1767 02:06:00.199 --> 02:06:03.800 Thank you for the call, Barbara. Good to talk to you. Bye 1768 02:06:03.880 --> 02:06:08.680 bye bye. All right. Yeah, absolutely, poppies are really cool. 1769 02:06:08.840 --> 02:06:13.000 Hey, those of you in the Kingwood area, you know you've got Warren 1770 02:06:13.079 --> 02:06:16.319 Southern Gardens. You know you got Kingwood Garden Center out there and those places 1771 02:06:16.359 --> 02:06:21.159 are always there's always something going on, there's always new products coming in. 1772 02:06:21.359 --> 02:06:25.039 I know, I've been a while since I've been. I need to get 1773 02:06:25.079 --> 02:06:27.680 back out there. It's been a while since I Actually I love to go 1774 02:06:27.800 --> 02:06:31.159 out by the way, because when you go out it's inspirational. You go 1775 02:06:31.239 --> 02:06:34.760 out and you see things that you hadn't seen before. Maybe it's a new 1776 02:06:34.800 --> 02:06:40.239 plant they got in. They just have some outstanding hibiscus in there. They 1777 02:06:40.279 --> 02:06:44.720 have got incredible selection of tropicals too, by the way, Plumeria, the 1778 02:06:44.720 --> 02:06:47.079 Hawaiian lay flower. Do you like those? They've got those out there. 1779 02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:51.960 Someone had called earlier about some lilies. They have lilies out there, for 1780 02:06:53.000 --> 02:06:57.840 sure. Whenever you go out to Warren's in Kingwoock Garden Center, you're going 1781 02:06:57.880 --> 02:07:01.000 to find color. You're going to find knowledgeable staff that can guide you and 1782 02:07:01.079 --> 02:07:04.880 the right way, and you're even going to find some really cool combos that 1783 02:07:04.920 --> 02:07:11.479 are already put together, where you have a container that's mixed, planted and 1784 02:07:11.880 --> 02:07:15.640 absolutely gorgeous. You can do this for the summer. You can do them 1785 02:07:15.680 --> 02:07:17.600 for the shade, you can do for the sun, all kinds of thing. 1786 02:07:17.880 --> 02:07:24.199 Good selection of Angelonia's so many colors Angelonia will take you through the heat 1787 02:07:24.359 --> 02:07:27.840 like very few things can. While you're out there, ask them to show 1788 02:07:27.880 --> 02:07:32.399 you the Salza dancer hibiscus. That is the most colorful foliage plan I've ever 1789 02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:36.279 seen in my life. It is gorgeous. I'm challenged. I know there 1790 02:07:36.359 --> 02:07:40.039 is such a thing as white, pink, and red and orange, and 1791 02:07:40.039 --> 02:07:44.039 when you start combining those, I run out of the right word to describe 1792 02:07:44.039 --> 02:07:46.319 it. But I'm just going to say these are very pink with burgundy and 1793 02:07:46.479 --> 02:07:50.000 a little bit of yellow and green on them too. They're gorgeous. They 1794 02:07:50.159 --> 02:07:54.600 bloom, But even if they didn't bloom, it is a showstopper. It's 1795 02:07:54.600 --> 02:07:58.119 actually gonna pink flamingo out there in your yard. You can't not see it. 1796 02:07:58.199 --> 02:08:01.520 Salsa dancer hibiscus that weren't garden center. I hope you enjoy it. 1797 02:08:01.600 --> 02:08:05.359 Those of you who are out there, you're fortunate to have it. Take 1798 02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:07.479 advantage of it. Stephnoon and go by and see them. I'm going to 1799 02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:13.159 go now to Ben in Conrad. Hello, Ben, Hey, good morning, 1800 02:08:13.199 --> 02:08:16.560 Skip, good morning. I've got a forty thousand square foot property. 1801 02:08:18.239 --> 02:08:22.680 Thirty thousand is Saint Augustine and a good portion of weeds. Okay, that's 1802 02:08:22.720 --> 02:08:26.279 a lot of square footage. That's three quarters of an acre of Saint Augustine. 1803 02:08:28.520 --> 02:08:31.920 Yes, there's quite a bit. So if I do if I go 1804 02:08:31.000 --> 02:08:35.600 with the supertture, that's four bags two hundred bucks, and if I go 1805 02:08:35.720 --> 02:08:43.199 with the four that's fifteen bags and seven hundred and fifty dollars. What are 1806 02:08:43.239 --> 02:08:46.359 my options? How do I decide? You know, back when sixty four 1807 02:08:46.479 --> 02:08:48.520 was twenty bucks a bag, it was a no brainer. You know. 1808 02:08:48.960 --> 02:08:52.640 You know with fertilizers, you can you can choose the options you want. 1809 02:08:52.720 --> 02:08:56.319 You can choose it organic, you can choose a synthetic. You can go 1810 02:08:56.359 --> 02:08:58.319 about the way you want to go about it. I would say number one. 1811 02:09:00.039 --> 02:09:01.840 And you're looking at a lot of lawn and a lot of fertilizing. 1812 02:09:03.479 --> 02:09:07.880 Definitely want to return those grass clippings. That is your first fertilizing option on 1813 02:09:07.960 --> 02:09:11.720 that. If you mow all season and return the clippings, no matter which 1814 02:09:11.720 --> 02:09:16.920 fertilizer you choose, you will put out more nutrients with your lawn mower than 1815 02:09:16.960 --> 02:09:22.960 your fertilizer spreader by returning. Yeah, and then you know, choose do 1816 02:09:22.079 --> 02:09:26.319 as you choose on it? I have there are things that I like about 1817 02:09:26.359 --> 02:09:30.640 each of the fertilizers. There's benefits of each of the fertilizers. I mean, 1818 02:09:30.680 --> 02:09:33.000 we could, you know, nail down and go through or what is 1819 02:09:33.039 --> 02:09:37.640 it not nail down, drill down and talk about this or that or the 1820 02:09:37.680 --> 02:09:41.800 other. They're high quality. I like using the slow releases because you get 1821 02:09:41.800 --> 02:09:46.199 a gradual feed and they're organic is naturally slow release. But the synthetics also 1822 02:09:46.359 --> 02:09:50.560 can be even more slow release because of the way they're designed out there in 1823 02:09:50.119 --> 02:09:56.600 the landscape or in the garden, the lawn. So is there what's the 1824 02:09:56.600 --> 02:10:03.119 difference between the super turf and some of the other similar formulations. Is there 1825 02:10:03.119 --> 02:10:07.800 anything specific about the marcro life that's different from well some generic right, microlife 1826 02:10:07.840 --> 02:10:13.239 is an organic material. It is a fertilizer that is organic, and so 1827 02:10:13.479 --> 02:10:18.479 microbes break that down and release the nitrogen and the phosphorus and the potassium and 1828 02:10:18.520 --> 02:10:22.760 all the trace minerals that are in microlife because it is an organic in the 1829 02:10:22.840 --> 02:10:26.600 super turf. In the super turf, Yeah, hey, you know what, 1830 02:10:26.680 --> 02:10:28.720 Ben, I can see. We're going to talk about this a little 1831 02:10:28.720 --> 02:10:30.720 bit and I'm going to run to a break. Let me put you on 1832 02:10:30.760 --> 02:10:31.840 hold and I'll come right back to you and we'll be able to have a 1833 02:10:31.840 --> 02:10:35.199 little more time for this. All right, okay, sure, thank you, 1834 02:10:35.760 --> 02:10:39.079 we'll be right back. Welcome to Gardenline. Good have you with us. 1835 02:10:39.119 --> 02:10:41.720 We're going to go back to Ben in Conroe. Ben, we're discussing 1836 02:10:41.760 --> 02:10:46.039 fertilizers. You're kind of drilling down into the slow release and some of that. 1837 02:10:46.479 --> 02:10:50.319 Just let me, let me summarize it. Let me summarize it a 1838 02:10:50.319 --> 02:10:52.479 little bit, and then if you have a follow up, we'll go with 1839 02:10:52.520 --> 02:10:56.880 that. Uh. The organic fertilizers, like a microlife for example, is 1840 02:10:56.239 --> 02:11:01.640 a compound that's got everything that was in the plant or whatever the organ it 1841 02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:05.960 came from, that is in that fertilizer, which means all the trace mentals 1842 02:11:05.960 --> 02:11:09.159 and everything else. Now it is going to decompose microbial lease. So as 1843 02:11:09.199 --> 02:11:11.600 the weather warms up it moves a little bit faster, it is going to 1844 02:11:11.680 --> 02:11:16.920 have a form of nitrogen that will release out into the soil environment for the 1845 02:11:18.000 --> 02:11:20.319 roots to pick up. When you go to a slow release, we're talking 1846 02:11:20.359 --> 02:11:28.399 about things like the nitrofoss silver bag that is Superturf nineteen four ten or Nelson's 1847 02:11:28.560 --> 02:11:31.920 Slow and Easy. Those are two slow release fertilizers. Now, the way 1848 02:11:31.960 --> 02:11:39.239 they're designed is with different forms of nitrogen that are not all night water soluble, 1849 02:11:39.600 --> 02:11:43.119 so you get a rain to wash them in, and normally a salt 1850 02:11:43.159 --> 02:11:46.239 based fertilizer, for example, would dissolve and go right into the ground. 1851 02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:50.319 Well, this is going to hold on and not solubilized, and it'll be 1852 02:11:50.359 --> 02:11:56.600 released over time based on either temperature some are not temperature affected much, or 1853 02:11:56.800 --> 02:12:01.439 microbial activity or other things, and some of these can extend out is like 1854 02:12:01.800 --> 02:12:05.479 four or five months from now, there's still releasing nutrients out there because the 1855 02:12:05.560 --> 02:12:09.840 chemistry of the molecules that are in them are designed to do that, so 1856 02:12:09.920 --> 02:12:15.319 you get a much longer gradual release. So while we use the term slow 1857 02:12:15.399 --> 02:12:18.079 release, we can mean a lot of different things with it when we say 1858 02:12:18.079 --> 02:12:22.520 that term. They're not all slow releases are the same mechanism and the same 1859 02:12:22.640 --> 02:12:26.960 rate of release. So I don't want to complicate it. I'm just saying 1860 02:12:26.399 --> 02:12:30.159 you're not going to go wrong with any of these fertilizers on your lawn. 1861 02:12:30.159 --> 02:12:33.039 You're going to get the performance. They all have a good ratio of nutrients 1862 02:12:33.199 --> 02:12:37.479 like grass needs, and you're going to have success with them. Okay, 1863 02:12:39.840 --> 02:12:45.520 let me ask you about compost leaf mold versus the fungal. What's better for 1864 02:12:45.680 --> 02:12:48.760 the yard or is there a lot of difference between the two. Well, 1865 02:12:48.800 --> 02:12:52.439 for the yard, you know, compost is decomposed organic matter, and whether 1866 02:12:52.479 --> 02:12:56.199 it comes from leaves or manure or ground up tree trunks, I mean it 1867 02:12:56.359 --> 02:13:01.840 ultimately ends up in a composted state. Eight. The key with the lawn 1868 02:13:01.039 --> 02:13:05.239 is you want a very finely screened compost, so the particle size is small. 1869 02:13:05.279 --> 02:13:07.920 You don't want pieces of wood the lawnmowar's knocking all over the place, 1870 02:13:07.920 --> 02:13:11.520 for example. You want it to fall down in the aeration holes or move 1871 02:13:11.600 --> 02:13:16.479 down between the grass leaves, around the runners themselves, at the plant, 1872 02:13:16.800 --> 02:13:22.039 at the soil surface. So leaf mold is the top quality for doing that 1873 02:13:22.119 --> 02:13:28.000 kind of thing. But you can use other screen types of compost if you 1874 02:13:28.520 --> 02:13:33.399 need to. And that's compost is gonna be good for soil and for plants 1875 02:13:33.720 --> 02:13:39.039 period. Well, it's just trying to weigh the fungal friday versus well the 1876 02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:43.840 fine Yeah, I think it gets done about sixty some sixty bucks a yard. 1877 02:13:43.119 --> 02:13:48.239 Yeah. Yeah, Nature's way is kind of long been a leader and 1878 02:13:48.319 --> 02:13:52.319 all of that and I would call out there and talk to John Ferguson and 1879 02:13:52.800 --> 02:13:58.319 ask him about particle size on the fungal products that they have. The fungal 1880 02:13:58.439 --> 02:14:03.159 compost just basically means, you know, but forest systems are typically fungally dominated, 1881 02:14:03.279 --> 02:14:07.800 Meadow systems are typically bacterially dominated. So when you get a lot of 1882 02:14:07.840 --> 02:14:13.319 things like wood product or leaf tree leaf products, those things are forest materials. 1883 02:14:15.239 --> 02:14:18.760 Fungi are going to be the primary decomposers for those. But ask him 1884 02:14:18.760 --> 02:14:20.520 about the particle size, because that's going to be the key. Yes, 1885 02:14:20.560 --> 02:14:24.920 it's a great fungal Friday at Nature's Way Resources. As a super temper, 1886 02:14:24.960 --> 02:14:28.000 they're probably going to lean towards the more expensive one. You know well that 1887 02:14:28.119 --> 02:14:31.920 they're honest. John, I'll be honest with you or I if you talk 1888 02:14:31.000 --> 02:14:35.119 to him and just say, look, I'm going to do some top dressing. 1889 02:14:35.159 --> 02:14:39.079 Here is the particle size on your fungal product the bag or the book. 1890 02:14:39.199 --> 02:14:43.720 Is it small enough to work well for that purpose? And they'll tell 1891 02:14:43.760 --> 02:14:45.960 you if it is or not. I mean, you can have a conversation. 1892 02:14:46.159 --> 02:14:48.159 They're not you know that, they're not the kind of people there. 1893 02:14:48.239 --> 02:14:54.359 It's in Augustine and I'm mowing about three three and a half inches, typically 1894 02:14:54.720 --> 02:14:58.439 keeping it a little bit higher. So yeah, the particle size wouldn't really 1895 02:14:58.479 --> 02:15:03.079 matter that to me. Every now and then i'll hit a piece. But 1896 02:15:03.079 --> 02:15:05.359 but you also you also wanted to break down pretty quickly. You wanted to 1897 02:15:05.359 --> 02:15:09.279 get down there and get good coverage over the soil surface and whatnot. And 1898 02:15:09.439 --> 02:15:13.840 uh, I would I would talk to John and ask him these questions and 1899 02:15:13.880 --> 02:15:16.640 say, so, tell me about what what is the You know he's going 1900 02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:20.920 to understand because he made it. He may just signed it. And you 1901 02:15:20.039 --> 02:15:26.439 know, he understands soil. He understands decomposition of organic matter better best as 1902 02:15:26.439 --> 02:15:30.319 well as anybody I know. Uh, here are his numbers, Yeah, 1903 02:15:30.359 --> 02:15:35.199 his numbers. Let me write this as nine three six three two one sixty 1904 02:15:35.319 --> 02:15:39.159 nine ninety nine three six three two one six nine nine zero. And when 1905 02:15:39.199 --> 02:15:43.840 you do that, you can grill him and he'll be happy to talk to 1906 02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:46.000 you. He loves talking about that kind of thing. And so he'll know 1907 02:15:48.159 --> 02:15:50.920 him about some of this before next time I see him. I'm gonna ask 1908 02:15:50.960 --> 02:15:52.920 him your question too, because I don't know on that fungal product, just 1909 02:15:52.920 --> 02:15:58.560 how fine the ground products they have on the fungal Friday. So that'll be 1910 02:15:58.600 --> 02:16:01.840 good to know. Thanks, be right, thank you, all right. 1911 02:16:01.840 --> 02:16:05.920 Good luck with that big lawn. You need to rent it out for parties 1912 02:16:05.960 --> 02:16:09.479 and stuff. Uh, it makes you look a little better, all right, 1913 02:16:09.520 --> 02:16:13.439 we'll work with that. We'll work on that. Thanks. That's funny, 1914 02:16:13.920 --> 02:16:16.079 all right, man. You're listening to garden Line our phone number seven 1915 02:16:16.239 --> 02:16:22.479 one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two 1916 02:16:24.039 --> 02:16:28.479 k t r H. You know there's forty Ace Hardware stores. I bet 1917 02:16:28.560 --> 02:16:31.639 you didn't know that. If you listen to guarden Line more than five minutes, 1918 02:16:31.680 --> 02:16:35.639 you knew that because I talk about them all the time. Forty Ace 1919 02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:37.399 Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. Go to a play at the Beaumont, 1920 02:16:37.840 --> 02:16:41.399 there's an ACE near you. You go to Ace Hardware dot com and 1921 02:16:41.920 --> 02:16:46.520 you look for the store locator. It may say like, hey, can 1922 02:16:46.559 --> 02:16:50.239 we use your location? Just say yes, and then the map will show 1923 02:16:50.280 --> 02:16:52.959 you. I mean you can do. You could do the store locator if 1924 02:16:52.000 --> 02:16:56.399 you've got a cousin in Austin or Dallas and say, hey, where's the 1925 02:16:56.440 --> 02:16:58.559 Ace ardors over here, they'll tell you. But our Houston group, the 1926 02:16:58.639 --> 02:17:01.920 local group that's the one where I was talking about forty stores here in the 1927 02:17:03.000 --> 02:17:07.799 area. They carry whatever you need. They've got all of the firet control 1928 02:17:07.840 --> 02:17:11.879 products you need. If it's a bait, get it first. The baits 1929 02:17:11.920 --> 02:17:15.719 are best. And if you miss something. Two weeks after you've baited, 1930 02:17:16.120 --> 02:17:20.000 if there's still some mounds that are left, then do a mound treatment on 1931 02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:22.239 those. You just drench those over summer dusks you put on top of the 1932 02:17:22.280 --> 02:17:26.600 mound. Some are granules that then drenching on. I mean, there's a 1933 02:17:26.600 --> 02:17:28.639 lot of ways they go about it. But Ace Harder's got all that stuff. 1934 02:17:28.680 --> 02:17:31.680 They've got all the fertilizers that they talk about here. I mean we've 1935 02:17:31.719 --> 02:17:35.959 been talking about, you know, all these different fertilizers just a minute ago 1936 02:17:35.000 --> 02:17:37.680 in the air. They've got all those. They've also got sweet green, 1937 02:17:37.760 --> 02:17:43.760 which is another nitroposs product. Sweet green is eleven percent nitrogen. It is 1938 02:17:43.879 --> 02:17:48.840 a natural product. It's based on molasses that microbes have essentially gone to work 1939 02:17:48.879 --> 02:17:52.120 on and turned it into a fertilizer. When you put sweet green on your 1940 02:17:52.200 --> 02:17:58.760 lawn, it is stimulating to especially the beneficial bacteria, but microbe microbial activity 1941 02:17:58.840 --> 02:18:01.719 in general is going to be stimulated by this smells wonderful, and yes, 1942 02:18:01.840 --> 02:18:07.280 you get it at ACE Hardware store. So if you're looking for any kind 1943 02:18:07.319 --> 02:18:11.200 of a fertilizer I talk about on Guardline, it's gonna be at Ace Hardware. 1944 02:18:11.680 --> 02:18:13.600 Also, while you're in there, go ahead and get ready for mosquito 1945 02:18:13.680 --> 02:18:20.159 season. Mosquito dunks to throw into water areas so that that microbe is released 1946 02:18:20.200 --> 02:18:24.760 that kills mosquitos, doesn't hurt birds, doesn't hurt people, doesn't hurt dogs 1947 02:18:24.799 --> 02:18:28.760 and cats. It's specifically for that. If you need a fogger, if 1948 02:18:28.799 --> 02:18:33.159 you need any kind of mosquito control, they've got it at ACE Hardware stores. 1949 02:18:33.159 --> 02:18:37.399 Again, Ace Hardware dot Com and find the store locator and you're in 1950 02:18:37.520 --> 02:18:43.479 business. We are going to go now to pair Land and talk to Kay. 1951 02:18:43.600 --> 02:18:46.159 Hello. Okay, Hi, good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking 1952 02:18:46.239 --> 02:18:50.440 my call. I have a couple of questions. I have one. I've 1953 02:18:50.440 --> 02:18:54.399 spoken with you before about this monster ivy that I have, Okay, and 1954 02:18:54.920 --> 02:19:03.239 I'm getting ready to repot it because the stems, the runners, whatever branches 1955 02:19:03.399 --> 02:19:05.760 are dying off. They're bear There's so many of them that are bare. 1956 02:19:07.280 --> 02:19:11.159 Will any of those come back if I put them in water? Make you 1957 02:19:11.280 --> 02:19:15.239 know, just cut sections and put them in water. Will they regrow at 1958 02:19:15.280 --> 02:19:18.840 all? Yeah, if they're alive, they will root. You can root 1959 02:19:18.840 --> 02:19:22.120 them in water, but you can also root them by just putting covering them 1960 02:19:22.239 --> 02:19:24.719 up with just a little bit of soil and keeping it moist, and they 1961 02:19:24.719 --> 02:19:28.879 will form roots along those nodes in the stem the runner. Okay, well, 1962 02:19:28.920 --> 02:19:33.920 I was going to cut off those lives, you know, the leafing 1963 02:19:33.440 --> 02:19:39.799 portions, and re pot them into three or four big pots and try to 1964 02:19:39.879 --> 02:19:43.799 save some of them because it was so gorgeous anyway. And I also would 1965 02:19:43.920 --> 02:19:50.079 like to ask you on booin Villa and mandavilla. They do so well climbing 1966 02:19:50.799 --> 02:19:54.520 or in hanging pots, would they do on a flat bed as well? 1967 02:19:58.319 --> 02:20:01.000 Boom and Villa is going to be more of a mouth did plant. It 1968 02:20:01.120 --> 02:20:05.040 has kind of a shrubby growth habit and so it's not a vine that just 1969 02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:09.040 lays flat. To some degree. It does, but not not like your 1970 02:20:09.079 --> 02:20:15.719 ivys for examples, not crawl and not really. It wants to make more 1971 02:20:15.799 --> 02:20:18.120 of a mound. You see those in tropical even go down to Mexico and 1972 02:20:18.200 --> 02:20:22.319 see the booga and belleos and they're just big, old, giant mounded bushes. 1973 02:20:22.680 --> 02:20:26.319 Down there. The mendavilla is a vine. I've never seen it grown 1974 02:20:26.520 --> 02:20:31.840 along the ground that I don't see why it wouldn't do that. As long 1975 02:20:31.920 --> 02:20:35.399 as there's nothing for it to grab onto and go up. I guess it 1976 02:20:35.440 --> 02:20:37.840 could do that. Well, I could encourage it to, you know, 1977 02:20:39.040 --> 02:20:43.840 kind of just watch the runners and just you could you just want to watch, 1978 02:20:43.360 --> 02:20:46.200 you know, being down there on the ground and so splashing up on 1979 02:20:46.319 --> 02:20:50.799 it and things. I just having not seen it done, I'm kind of 1980 02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:54.559 wondering if that's fully okay. But I do know that it's a it's a 1981 02:20:54.639 --> 02:20:58.479 vine, and it's gonna it's gonna sprawl outward, So you probably could get 1982 02:20:58.520 --> 02:21:03.559 it to work like that. Most people like to okay it, see because 1983 02:21:03.600 --> 02:21:05.760 I love both of them, and I just think they're just so beautiful. 1984 02:21:05.840 --> 02:21:11.760 But I don't have that much of you know, hanging trees that I can 1985 02:21:11.360 --> 02:21:16.840 you know, hang pots on, or I guess I could maybe devise a 1986 02:21:16.520 --> 02:21:20.920 trelliss some sort. Yeah, you should let them crawl. Well, if 1987 02:21:20.159 --> 02:21:22.680 if you got nothing to do this afternoon, or even if you do, 1988 02:21:22.840 --> 02:21:26.719 I got a better idea, go to Moss Nursery over there in Seabrook. 1989 02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:31.840 Oh yeah, they are loaded with those things out there. Yes, okay, 1990 02:21:33.040 --> 02:21:35.799 great, I thank you so very much, and have a beautiful day. 1991 02:21:35.079 --> 02:21:37.559 All right, thank you you as well. We're going to take a 1992 02:21:37.559 --> 02:21:41.479 little break here. It is time for Nikki and the news, so I'm 1993 02:21:41.479 --> 02:21:45.719 going to take a little quick break Thomas and a Testcasita. I want to 1994 02:21:45.719 --> 02:21:48.680 give you plenty of time with your questions, so I'm going to hold you 1995 02:21:48.840 --> 02:21:52.440 until after we come back from break. I just want to remind you guys, 1996 02:21:52.520 --> 02:21:56.719 I'm going to be a Southwest Fertilizer this next Saturday at eleven am till 1997 02:21:56.799 --> 02:22:01.239 one pm on corner Bisnett and Renwick. We're going to be answering gardening questions. 1998 02:22:01.319 --> 02:22:03.319 We'll be given away a lot of stuff, and I hope you will 1999 02:22:03.360 --> 02:22:05.959 go right now. Just put that on your calendar and come out and see 2000 02:22:07.040 --> 02:22:09.040 me. If you've not been to Southwest, here's your excuse to come. 2001 02:22:09.159 --> 02:22:13.760 You can see what I'm talking about, all right. I hope I'm not 2002 02:22:13.920 --> 02:22:18.600 crazy. Hope that doesn't make me crazy. You're listening to the guard Line. 2003 02:22:18.639 --> 02:22:22.000 I'm your host, Skip Richter and our phone number. You want to 2004 02:22:22.000 --> 02:22:24.159 write this down. 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I want that one over there too, and that one, 2022 02:23:35.840 --> 02:23:37.879 well, you pick them out, they tag them, they bring them, 2023 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:41.600 they plant them. If they plant it, they give you one year warranty 2024 02:23:43.120 --> 02:23:45.920 and they tell you how to take care of it. They've got some unique 2025 02:23:46.000 --> 02:23:50.600 ways. That Patrick was just showing something on video. They have a real 2026 02:23:50.680 --> 02:23:54.719 active social media presence on how they determined that a tree is not saying too 2027 02:23:54.799 --> 02:23:58.760 wet. You just have to go find out from them how they go about 2028 02:23:58.799 --> 02:24:03.680 that, and then they guarantee it for a year after the installation. Is 2029 02:24:03.680 --> 02:24:07.120 a result. If you happen to be a military, if you happen to 2030 02:24:07.159 --> 02:24:11.680 be a first responder, ten percent discount for you. You're not gonna go 2031 02:24:11.719 --> 02:24:18.239 wrong with Vernon. Here's the website v er da nt Tree Farm Vernant treefarm 2032 02:24:18.280 --> 02:24:22.840 dot com. Go there and check it out. They have a wonderful little 2033 02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:26.879 website where you can click on a particular kind of species of tree and they'll 2034 02:24:26.879 --> 02:24:28.760 tell you all about it and you can learn a lot and make that good 2035 02:24:28.799 --> 02:24:31.520 decision, because remember, when you buy a tree, that is a that 2036 02:24:31.680 --> 02:24:35.760 is a long term purchase decision, and so you want to get it right. 2037 02:24:35.959 --> 02:24:39.879 Don't just buy something that happens to be for sale somewhere. Figure out 2038 02:24:39.920 --> 02:24:43.440 what tree you want and then go find it, and Vernon's probably going to 2039 02:24:43.479 --> 02:24:48.520 have what you're looking for. Let's go now out to a task Asida and 2040 02:24:48.799 --> 02:24:52.719 we're going to talk to Thomas. Hello, Thomas, good morning, great 2041 02:24:52.760 --> 02:24:56.520 show today, Thank you sir. We're going to talk plant nutrition for a 2042 02:24:56.600 --> 02:25:01.200 second. I'm a big proponent of organic. For my I use sweet green 2043 02:25:01.319 --> 02:25:03.280 and the acid might and have been really happy with it. Okay, good. 2044 02:25:03.319 --> 02:25:09.520 I have friends that use triple thirteen. It drives me nuts. One 2045 02:25:09.559 --> 02:25:13.040 of the negatives on that. Okay, here's the negative. To use triple 2046 02:25:13.120 --> 02:25:15.680 thirteen once or twice or three times, it's not going to be the end 2047 02:25:15.680 --> 02:25:18.040 of the world. But when you use it over and over again through the 2048 02:25:18.200 --> 02:25:22.159 years. It used to be triple thirteen and ten twenty ten were the fertilizers, 2049 02:25:22.280 --> 02:25:28.879 and both of those have more phosphorous percentage wise than plants take up. 2050 02:25:30.040 --> 02:25:33.600 If you take most plant materials out there, you're going to find they're going 2051 02:25:33.639 --> 02:25:35.879 to have a lot of nitrogen, a low amount of phosphorus, and a 2052 02:25:37.000 --> 02:25:41.000 medium amount of potassium. The third number, and that's why we say for 2053 02:25:41.079 --> 02:25:45.120 fertilizers and lawns especially, we do the three one two ratio. So when 2054 02:25:45.159 --> 02:25:48.120 you triple thirteen it and triple thirteen it, two things are happening. One, 2055 02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:54.520 you're putting out more phosphorus percentage wise in a ratio way. Then the 2056 02:25:54.600 --> 02:25:58.520 plant is using if you see what I'm saying now, if you happen to 2057 02:25:58.600 --> 02:26:03.479 have a phosphorus soil, well that may actually be helpful, but a lot 2058 02:26:03.559 --> 02:26:07.799 of people for lawns, especially where you're returning clippings and you're fertilizing it year 2059 02:26:07.840 --> 02:26:11.040 after year, that phosphorus builds up. That's the second thing. If you 2060 02:26:11.440 --> 02:26:16.040 put the let's just say you put triple thirteen on the surface of the ground 2061 02:26:16.159 --> 02:26:20.799 and you water it in, the nitrogen washes right through. It's very soluble. 2062 02:26:20.920 --> 02:26:24.879 It just goes everywhere. It volatilizes off as a gas. Nitrogen is 2063 02:26:26.000 --> 02:26:30.639 always going somewhere. Potassium moves down pretty well too, not as much as 2064 02:26:30.760 --> 02:26:33.600 nitrogen, but pretty well, and then phosphorus ties up to the surface. 2065 02:26:33.719 --> 02:26:39.079 It's as if your soil was made of magnets and the phosphorus is iron filings. 2066 02:26:39.680 --> 02:26:43.319 You drop that on a pile of magnets and the filings don't go down 2067 02:26:43.360 --> 02:26:46.760 to the bottom. They tie up right at the surface. That's what phosphorus 2068 02:26:46.840 --> 02:26:50.719 does. So year after year after year, not only are you putting on 2069 02:26:50.799 --> 02:26:54.959 more than you need, but you're building it up. And so now you're 2070 02:26:54.000 --> 02:27:01.159 seeing iron chlorosis because phosphorus can make iron unavailable, and so it starts to 2071 02:27:01.319 --> 02:27:05.600 create other problems by doing that. And that's why I'm taking some time to 2072 02:27:05.680 --> 02:27:09.959 explain this, but because this is not understood by folks, and it needs 2073 02:27:09.040 --> 02:27:13.760 to be. There's a reason I say eight three one two four one two 2074 02:27:13.840 --> 02:27:16.520 ratio for your lawn, because we're trying to put the fertilizer out there and 2075 02:27:16.600 --> 02:27:20.879 the ratio that's going to end up in the plant tissue as best we can. 2076 02:27:22.200 --> 02:27:26.799 Okay, excellent. One more. I've got a neighbor. His yat 2077 02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:31.040 is ninety percent weeks. I've been fighting it for years, but last summer 2078 02:27:31.079 --> 02:27:35.840 when it was hot, it really got bad. And I've been pulling weeds 2079 02:27:35.959 --> 02:27:39.040 like crazy this year, and I've got so many beer spots, okay, 2080 02:27:41.000 --> 02:27:46.200 and you know weeds go to beer spots. I'm having trouble and I need 2081 02:27:46.280 --> 02:27:48.520 to get that grass to grow without putting a ton of salt in there. 2082 02:27:48.680 --> 02:27:52.959 Okay, how can I do that, I need to go quickly. Actually, 2083 02:27:52.200 --> 02:27:56.559 is this Saint Augustine. It's set Augustine, and it's healthy. The 2084 02:27:56.680 --> 02:28:01.680 yat is healthy. Nitrogen is your friend, So en make Saint Augustine grow 2085 02:28:01.040 --> 02:28:05.680 faster and be greener. That's important. So I would do. You could 2086 02:28:05.680 --> 02:28:09.600 do a slow release, and that's going to feed over time. I might 2087 02:28:09.719 --> 02:28:13.520 even do some small applications of a faster release, something like Bruce's Brew, 2088 02:28:13.639 --> 02:28:18.120 for example, is going to get you a quicker response than the slow releases 2089 02:28:18.239 --> 02:28:22.799 might. And I would do that in small amounts over time and just push 2090 02:28:22.879 --> 02:28:26.879 it along. Another good option would be to get some of the Medina product. 2091 02:28:26.879 --> 02:28:28.159 And I was talking about it just a minute ago. It's the hose 2092 02:28:28.280 --> 02:28:33.319 end applicator. I don't know if you were listening when I was talking about 2093 02:28:33.360 --> 02:28:35.840 that thing. I was. I'd actually used that the Well, this is 2094 02:28:35.920 --> 02:28:39.959 brand new. Now, this is not the super Grow for lawns. This 2095 02:28:39.079 --> 02:28:46.319 is Supergrow plus. It's a sixteen zero two so it has no phosphorus. 2096 02:28:46.879 --> 02:28:50.040 It's got sixteen percent nitrogen. You hook it up to a hose end. 2097 02:28:50.399 --> 02:28:54.479 About a fifth of that sixteen percent is in a slow release form, but 2098 02:28:54.639 --> 02:28:58.760 the rest is immediate release, and it's got seaweed extracts, and it's got 2099 02:28:58.799 --> 02:29:03.399 a keylated form of iron to keep it greener and healthy. And I might 2100 02:29:03.559 --> 02:29:07.920 do that particular product by Medina, which is then a hose in sprayer. 2101 02:29:09.879 --> 02:29:11.719 Okay, thank you so much. I love your show. Yeah you got 2102 02:29:13.520 --> 02:29:16.040 the bottle itself is a hose in sprayer. I should say, Okay, 2103 02:29:16.120 --> 02:29:18.040 okay, thanks Thomas, You've got thanks a lot. I appreciate that. 2104 02:29:20.239 --> 02:29:22.120 Let's see here, we got about a minute. We're going to go out 2105 02:29:22.159 --> 02:29:24.680 to Donna and Seabrook. Donna, can we do this in a minute? 2106 02:29:24.680 --> 02:29:28.239 If not, I'll hold you over past break. Yes we can. I 2107 02:29:28.399 --> 02:29:33.319 had a new deck built you shaped around a crate myrtle. Well, the 2108 02:29:33.440 --> 02:29:39.040 contractor leveled the ground and of course they cut the roots. I went online 2109 02:29:39.159 --> 02:29:41.959 to look at a sucker stopper that you mentioned a few weeks ago. Yes, 2110 02:29:43.200 --> 02:29:48.600 Boneye does one, but all the reviews say the spray clogs after it's 2111 02:29:48.840 --> 02:29:54.000 used. What if I spend fifty dollars on a bottle of this stuff and 2112 02:29:54.120 --> 02:30:01.079 the spray clogs. What if I flush it with a detergent after I've used 2113 02:30:01.079 --> 02:30:03.559 it once? Will that clear out the sprayer. It might. I don't 2114 02:30:03.600 --> 02:30:07.920 know why that sprayer is clogging. I don't know what is in it now. 2115 02:30:07.920 --> 02:30:11.479 And again I'm not here to tell you by this or that brand of 2116 02:30:11.840 --> 02:30:16.000 a sucker stopper, but I know Monterey also has a sucker stopper that's in 2117 02:30:16.120 --> 02:30:20.920 a ready to use paint bottle. And you don't need much of this. 2118 02:30:22.319 --> 02:30:24.399 You know, this is a hormone, so you're barely putting it on. 2119 02:30:26.879 --> 02:30:28.959 That's the rate you need, so you're not drenching or anything like that. 2120 02:30:30.600 --> 02:30:33.799 It's a it's an ingredient called NAA, which is one of the plant growth 2121 02:30:33.959 --> 02:30:39.879 regulating hormones that occurs in nature. But sucker stopper, you just spray it 2122 02:30:39.159 --> 02:30:43.920 on, whether it's a sprout coming out at bottom of your crape, myrtles 2123 02:30:45.040 --> 02:30:48.760 or whatever you're trying to stop a sucker on. It will do that by 2124 02:30:48.920 --> 02:30:52.200 just telling the plant with plant type compounds, hey, don't grow, don't 2125 02:30:52.239 --> 02:30:58.559 stop stop elongating and growing here. Well, that also work on the gazillion 2126 02:30:58.639 --> 02:31:03.520 eight, so that I have sprouting in my yards opposed to using round up 2127 02:31:03.600 --> 02:31:07.440 on them. Oh well, I you know you can't use it round up 2128 02:31:07.440 --> 02:31:11.159 in the yard because it kills the yard unless you'd wipe it on something growing 2129 02:31:11.239 --> 02:31:16.079 up above. Uh. Oh boy, that's uh. I don't I don't 2130 02:31:16.159 --> 02:31:20.440 know. I think that would not be That stuff's not cheap, and I 2131 02:31:20.520 --> 02:31:22.440 don't think that would be a good sure. No, hang on, just 2132 02:31:22.559 --> 02:31:26.159 man, let me go to Bright and we'll continue this when we come back. 2133 02:31:26.440 --> 02:31:30.159 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 2134 02:31:30.879 --> 02:31:33.159 Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. Looking 2135 02:31:33.200 --> 02:31:37.840 forward to talking about what you want. This is our last segment of the 2136 02:31:37.959 --> 02:31:41.360 day, so here we go. Well, last call warning, uh, 2137 02:31:41.399 --> 02:31:43.280 if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two fifty 2138 02:31:43.319 --> 02:31:48.559 eight seventy four. We're going to go to Donna in Seabrook again and we're 2139 02:31:48.600 --> 02:31:52.360 talking about sucker stopper Donna, and we're just saying that that stuff's expensive, 2140 02:31:52.479 --> 02:31:54.280 so go and sprain it on every little laker and coming up in the yard 2141 02:31:54.319 --> 02:31:58.840 and probably not be very practical. I think a wiper type of applicator and 2142 02:32:00.120 --> 02:32:05.719 putting something that will kill a woody plant, a brush or shrub or plant 2143 02:32:05.840 --> 02:32:07.680 like that. I think that's probably the best. The only thing you need 2144 02:32:07.719 --> 02:32:13.200 to watch for is if those are truly acorns, that's fine. If they 2145 02:32:13.280 --> 02:32:18.639 happen to be suckers off the roots coming up, then whatever you put on 2146 02:32:18.760 --> 02:32:22.360 to kill them is going to go down into the tree system itself. Probably 2147 02:32:22.399 --> 02:32:24.719 not kill the whole tree just from treating a few of those, but it 2148 02:32:24.760 --> 02:32:31.399 wouldn't do it any good, that's for sure. Do we have donna there? 2149 02:32:33.239 --> 02:32:35.600 Yes? From here? Oh? Okay, well I have. My 2150 02:32:35.760 --> 02:32:41.040 backyard is not Saint Augustine. It's a wildscape. Okay. So I have 2151 02:32:41.280 --> 02:32:46.680 a gazillion acorns that have fallen, then, I mean I'm just really tired 2152 02:32:46.680 --> 02:32:50.200 of pulling them up. Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, in that 2153 02:32:50.360 --> 02:32:58.280 case, I would get a product that contains trichlope here tri clo p y 2154 02:32:58.840 --> 02:33:03.799 r. And when you fry it, it may be called brush be gone 2155 02:33:05.000 --> 02:33:09.879 or it may be called poison ivy killer or something like that. But trichlop 2156 02:33:09.000 --> 02:33:13.200 heres the ingredient and it kills brushy woody stuff. Now, you don't want 2157 02:33:13.200 --> 02:33:16.239 to spray it Saint Augustine lawn, even though it's not brushy root. It's 2158 02:33:16.280 --> 02:33:22.000 very damaging to Augustine too. But I don't drench these things with it. 2159 02:33:22.280 --> 02:33:26.000 Just put a little spreader sticker in it so that it sticks to the leaves 2160 02:33:26.040 --> 02:33:31.159 because live oak leaves are lost, glossy, and you want your water droplets. 2161 02:33:31.600 --> 02:33:35.079 You're just putting out a little bit of droplets to barely wet the leaves. 2162 02:33:35.120 --> 02:33:39.040 You're not drenching them. You can cause other issues with that. But 2163 02:33:39.280 --> 02:33:43.280 just just lightly sprayed on the leaves with a spread er sticker and it'll go 2164 02:33:43.399 --> 02:33:46.319 down and it'll kill that, it'll kill hackberry. So we don't know what 2165 02:33:46.479 --> 02:33:50.399 to do about this clogging spray. Yeah, I don't. I don't know 2166 02:33:50.520 --> 02:33:54.239 what's doing that. I would probably take the top out of it and you 2167 02:33:54.319 --> 02:33:58.520 know, heat up some water pretty warm, not boiling hot, and just 2168 02:33:58.600 --> 02:34:03.440 soak spray top in it. See if it'll loosen up a little bit. 2169 02:34:03.479 --> 02:34:05.840 If you can get it working again, that might work. I don't know, 2170 02:34:05.239 --> 02:34:07.959 yeah, because it amazed me the number of people. I mean, 2171 02:34:09.040 --> 02:34:13.719 I read the reviews and there were many many complaints about the sprayer clogging up 2172 02:34:13.840 --> 02:34:16.520 after it was used. And for that much money, you don't want to 2173 02:34:16.559 --> 02:34:22.719 clog sprayer. No, no you don't. But I thank you very much 2174 02:34:22.799 --> 02:34:26.200 for your information and enjoy your program, all right, thank you very much. 2175 02:34:26.239 --> 02:34:31.399 I appreciate the cost Ae bye you take care don Yeah. Interesting, 2176 02:34:31.719 --> 02:34:35.840 that's interesting if I had not run across that complaint about that particular brand a 2177 02:34:35.879 --> 02:34:41.520 particular product before. But anyway, doesn't surprise me. Things happen, that's 2178 02:34:41.600 --> 02:34:46.319 for sure. Do you live in Seabrook? Do you live south east of 2179 02:34:46.440 --> 02:34:50.639 Houston? Do you live anywhere where you can hear my voice and want to 2180 02:34:50.680 --> 02:34:56.719 go see a place that's cool? Moss Nursery in Seabrook. That is a 2181 02:34:56.760 --> 02:34:58.559 place you need to go by there. I can describe it all day to 2182 02:34:58.639 --> 02:35:01.639 the cow come Home, but when you go by, you'll see what I'm 2183 02:35:01.680 --> 02:35:07.959 talking about. Imagine wandering through eight acres where at every turn there are plants 2184 02:35:09.319 --> 02:35:13.079 that are just everywhere. They get so many trucks in at Moss unloading all 2185 02:35:13.120 --> 02:35:16.760 the time. I mean it's on the ground, it's on shelves, it's 2186 02:35:16.760 --> 02:35:20.799 hanging from the trees, and their hou'se. That greenhouse is just amazing. 2187 02:35:22.000 --> 02:35:26.760 Succulents, cacti, other kinds of houseplants and things. They are loaded up 2188 02:35:26.840 --> 02:35:31.440 with it. Do you want color Colius? To the cows come home? 2189 02:35:31.159 --> 02:35:35.600 Pentus? Have you ever grown pentus before? Egyptian starflower? Oh my gosh, 2190 02:35:35.760 --> 02:35:39.120 the butterflies will line up down the block to get to your pentas. 2191 02:35:39.280 --> 02:35:43.959 Beautiful typically in pink, lavender, white, red shades. That's kind of 2192 02:35:45.040 --> 02:35:48.040 that range is pentus. Lots and lots of salvias are loaded up with that. 2193 02:35:48.479 --> 02:35:54.079 They've got everything you can imagine. Lots of beautiful angelonias and they're cacti 2194 02:35:54.200 --> 02:36:00.479 blooming. It's amazing every kind. I promise you this. You go to 2195 02:36:00.600 --> 02:36:05.440 Seabrook and you go look at Moss Nursery and if you're into succulents, half 2196 02:36:05.520 --> 02:36:07.520 the things they have you not even know what they are. They're just amazing, 2197 02:36:07.920 --> 02:36:13.360 beautiful, beautiful elephant ears, tropical plants like that, just stunning. 2198 02:36:15.040 --> 02:36:18.799 Do you like bananas? Five to six different brides been as you can grow 2199 02:36:18.840 --> 02:36:22.239 at home. How about a shady area where you need a good greenery in 2200 02:36:22.319 --> 02:36:26.000 there? Ligularia. That ligularia is like a lily pad, growing out of 2201 02:36:26.040 --> 02:36:30.319 the soil, comes up with a big round leaf like a lily pad. 2202 02:36:30.760 --> 02:36:35.639 Beautiful, does well in super shape gingers and philodendrons. Listen. Moss is 2203 02:36:35.719 --> 02:36:39.840 not just another garden center. Moss has been in the family. Seventy years 2204 02:36:39.959 --> 02:36:46.040 is how long that nursery has been around. It's family operated eight acres. 2205 02:36:46.520 --> 02:36:48.239 You wander, you enjoy. Who knows you turn a corner, you're going 2206 02:36:48.280 --> 02:36:52.120 to see some ethnic mask that Jim brought in from who knows where. I 2207 02:36:52.159 --> 02:36:56.000 mean, he's always bringing all kinds of crazy stuff in. You know. 2208 02:36:56.159 --> 02:37:03.760 Beautiful obviously racks a better name for rock than rocks geology. I can't even 2209 02:37:03.799 --> 02:37:07.440 say it. All kinds of like big beautiful giant rocks that have come in 2210 02:37:07.520 --> 02:37:13.520 and brought in water features and containers and a little waterfall coming out of the 2211 02:37:13.600 --> 02:37:16.639 wall, and think just you just wander. I mean, I can sit 2212 02:37:16.680 --> 02:37:20.399 here and talk all day about it, but they have got all kinds of 2213 02:37:20.479 --> 02:37:24.399 things. Allow some time and also leave room in your car because you're going 2214 02:37:24.479 --> 02:37:28.680 to see things you just can't live without when you go there. The people 2215 02:37:28.760 --> 02:37:33.719 that help you, they're gardeners. That's who they hire there. They hire 2216 02:37:33.760 --> 02:37:37.440 gardeners. I've been there before, talk to a couple of different master gardeners 2217 02:37:37.479 --> 02:37:41.760 that work there. Other people that they love gardening. They knowledgeable, they've 2218 02:37:41.799 --> 02:37:45.040 been gardening. They didn't read it in the book, they absolutely do it 2219 02:37:45.120 --> 02:37:48.200 every day of their life. And now they go to Moss and they work 2220 02:37:48.479 --> 02:37:52.680 and you've got some friendly folks that know what they're talking about. That is 2221 02:37:52.840 --> 02:37:56.520 one of what did I give you about ten twelve of the many reasons you 2222 02:37:56.600 --> 02:38:01.760 want to go to Moss Nursery down there in Seabrook. Hey, the website 2223 02:38:01.079 --> 02:38:07.000 Moss Nursery dot com, m Aas Nursery dot com. Go check it out. 2224 02:38:07.600 --> 02:38:09.840 In fact, that'd be a great thing to do today. You know, 2225 02:38:09.920 --> 02:38:13.360 the sun is going to come out and we're gonna have a really good 2226 02:38:13.440 --> 02:38:16.559 day here. Good day to go to Moss Nursery. You're listening to Gardenline. 2227 02:38:16.799 --> 02:38:20.479 If let's see, we've got just a couple of minutes left, I 2228 02:38:20.600 --> 02:38:24.120 believe, Josh, is that right? Just about to put this one in 2229 02:38:24.239 --> 02:38:26.760 the books here, I want to talk about a couple of oop got a 2230 02:38:26.760 --> 02:38:28.879 little phone call coming in, so I'm gonna go ahead and take that one. 2231 02:38:30.280 --> 02:38:33.840 We're gonna head straight out to David and Alvin. David, how are 2232 02:38:33.879 --> 02:38:39.319 we today and how can we help? I'm driving, I'm in Alvin, 2233 02:38:39.399 --> 02:38:43.639 Texas, but live in Conroe. Actually have a very shaded front yard. 2234 02:38:45.879 --> 02:38:48.280 The trees shaded in the morning, the two story house shades it in the 2235 02:38:48.360 --> 02:38:56.200 afternoon. Okay, I'm looking at solutions and one of the solutions is artificial 2236 02:38:56.559 --> 02:39:03.559 turf. It's very realistic looking these days. And I've spend so much money 2237 02:39:03.639 --> 02:39:09.559 on water, fertilized pesticides. The guys that come in trim and mow. 2238 02:39:09.879 --> 02:39:16.120 All right, the economics is really pretty good, okay, from what I 2239 02:39:16.200 --> 02:39:18.440 can say. I just wondered if you'd ever had a call like this, 2240 02:39:18.719 --> 02:39:22.760 and well, you're, first of all, you're breaking my horticultural heart. 2241 02:39:22.920 --> 02:39:26.520 But I'll go ahead and talk to you about it. I'll talk to you 2242 02:39:26.520 --> 02:39:30.079 about it. I know people that have used it and like it. Got 2243 02:39:30.120 --> 02:39:33.399 a friend here who does that with his yard. I give him a hard 2244 02:39:33.440 --> 02:39:37.440 time about it whenever I can. But yes, it will accomplish that as 2245 02:39:37.559 --> 02:39:41.920 turf is gone. The artificial turf has gone through the years, they keep 2246 02:39:41.959 --> 02:39:45.000 improving on it in different ways. You need somebody who knows what they're talking 2247 02:39:45.040 --> 02:39:46.280 about, how to get the drain to try before they put it down. 2248 02:39:46.879 --> 02:39:50.319 I am not at all an expert on that because I'm into living plants and 2249 02:39:50.399 --> 02:39:54.239 things and living turf. But for an area, yes, you can do 2250 02:39:54.319 --> 02:39:56.280 that. You just need to get your blower out because you're going to be 2251 02:39:56.280 --> 02:39:58.520 blowing leaves off of it all the time. Too, since you're not much 2252 02:39:58.639 --> 02:40:03.959 over it. So yes, it's uh. I'll pay to have it well 2253 02:40:03.000 --> 02:40:07.840 in every two weeks, and I keep a car in the front under the 2254 02:40:07.920 --> 02:40:13.520 Port of Cichet and it's covered with dust every two weeks, dust everywhere the 2255 02:40:13.639 --> 02:40:18.040 seal. Hey David, it'll solve it'll solve several problems. Yeah, thanks 2256 02:40:18.079 --> 02:40:20.600 for the call. I appreciate that very much. I just want to remind 2257 02:40:20.639 --> 02:40:26.520 you, guys, if you're interested in Bonesye the BONESI folks, The International 2258 02:40:26.600 --> 02:40:31.360 Boneseie Society Bonesye on the Bayou is going to be at the Marriotte Houston West 2259 02:40:31.440 --> 02:40:35.680 Chase Hotel on bra Park Drive February twenty six and twenty sevens here's a phone 2260 02:40:35.760 --> 02:40:41.680 number eight three two four eight three sixty thirty six. Eight three two four 2261 02:40:41.719 --> 02:40:45.920 eight three sixty thirty six. Talk to King Casino. He can tell you 2262 02:40:45.959 --> 02:40:50.200 more about it. Next Saturday, I'm going to be at Southwest Fertilizer. 2263 02:40:50.280 --> 02:40:52.159 Come out and see me. We're going to be giving stuff away and answering 2264 02:40:52.200 --> 02:40:54.479 your gardening question starting at eleven am.