WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.799 Katie r H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or 2 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:10.160 services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:27.760 Escape Rictor It's crazy what a trim Just watch him as so many ties. 4 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:41.159 The sept Crazy Gas Club not a sign. Welcome to garden Line. Good 5 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:46.119 Sunday morning. Congratulations on being up at this hour of the morning. I 6 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.799 appreciate you being here to listen to garden Line. If you look at the 7 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.039 window and your neighbor's lights are off, you want to go bang on the 8 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.880 door because they're missing guard Line. You need to tell them that and they 9 00:00:54.920 --> 00:01:00.479 will be so appreciative if you do. Maybe not today, though maybe not 10 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.759 today. Well, I just want to talk about a few things before we 11 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.280 get going here. First of all, I should give you our phone number 12 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:10.400 if you'd like to call in seven one three two one two five eight seven 13 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:15.680 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. That'll get you 14 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.280 right in here on the phone with me and we can discuss whatever is of 15 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:23.719 interest to you. Well, first of all, I want to start off 16 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:27.239 and think the folks out at enchanted for us any and the whole crew out 17 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:32.159 there for having me out there yesterday. I had a great time. Got 18 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.799 to talk to a lot of gardeners, A lot of you brought in samples 19 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.239 of this, that and the other to look at, and we even wandered 20 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.359 around the nursery a little bit with a few few of you and picked out 21 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:48.480 some plants if we were trying to fill in some spots on areas where it 22 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:51.200 was a little bit of a challenge. I always like that, you know, 23 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.920 I I'll caricature the question, but I get these questions and it's like, 24 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.040 Okay, I need a plant that is green year round, that blooms 25 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:05.319 year round, that doesn't get any diseases, doesn't get any insects, that 26 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.000 grows quickly to the size I want, and then doesn't grow anymore. You 27 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:12.199 get the idea what I'm talking about. Oh, and it grows in absolutely 28 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:17.719 zero light. And so you know, as I'm listening to these qualifications of 29 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.599 what they want, I'm kind of going, Okay, eliminate that group, 30 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.240 eliminate that, And I'm left with, Well, there are silk plants and 31 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:28.319 there are plastic plants, and both of those do well. Silk plants, 32 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:32.680 however, do get dust mites and I'm told might be attacked by silkworms. 33 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:38.199 Just wondering. I'm just saying, seriously, though, good time out there 34 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.240 at the encented forest in Gendi Forest. For those of you who haven't been 35 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.120 there, it's outside of Richmond as you're going north Church sugar Lands off to 36 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:52.039 the right. It's on FM twenty seven fifty nine. And they always have 37 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:55.879 beautiful things. I was admiring some of the hibiscus that they had yesterday. 38 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.840 The vine, a lot of the vine that the native coral honeysuckle vine is 39 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:06.280 just beautiful. Of course, they got plenty of that out there. And 40 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.479 oh my gosh, if you were into butterfly gardening, they are ready to 41 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:13.919 go. They even give you a caterpillar to go home with you. We 42 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.520 had some little samples there of milkweed that had monarch caterpillars already on it, 43 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:22.360 so we take them home. The kids get to watch that whole process go 44 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:29.479 through the crystalist to the adult stage. We saw some go fridillary caterpillars on 45 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:32.919 passion vine and other things. But if you want to create a butterfly garden 46 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:38.280 out there, they have not just the plants, but if you want you 47 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:43.080 can go home with a caterpillar. I find that to be very very very 48 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.759 interesting. You know, at Enchanted Forest, you're always going to find plenty 49 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:52.080 of what you're looking for in a wide variety, and the plants are an 50 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:55.719 outstanding shape. I was admiring some of the salvias that they had, and 51 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.840 oh my gosh, they have so many varieties out there, and just standing 52 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:06.240 there the butterflies and the bees and even a hummingbird coming by. Those folks 53 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.639 know where the enchanted Forest is and they hang out there because they got the 54 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.319 good stuff. Anyway, thank you, thank you for having me out. 55 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.439 It's a good time out there. If you're looking for a natural fertilizer to 56 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:24.240 put out in your lawn, you ought to consider sweet Green. Sweet Green 57 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:29.079 is by Nitrofoss and it is a fertilizer that's made. It starts off as 58 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:34.800 a molasses base through microbial activity, it's turned into an eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer, 59 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:40.120 which is pretty amazing. It really is amazing. That is one of 60 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:44.279 the higher rates or higher levels of nitrogen you're going to find in organic products. 61 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.000 Sweet green is available widespread. You're going to find it at places like 62 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.759 Bearings Hardware, both on Bissinet and in West Timer. You're going to find 63 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:58.279 it out in Richmond Rosenberg at the Plantation Ace Hardware out there on three point 64 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.879 fifty nine. You're also going to find it at Hiden and Feed on Stuben 65 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:05.680 Airline, kind of up north part of Houston. It is, it is 66 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:09.639 a very effective product. It smells great too, by the way. Bringing 67 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:14.079 it home, you'll enjoy enjoy the fragrance of it. But it's easy to 68 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.360 spread, easy to put out there, and it really stimulates microbial activity because 69 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:24.199 microbes, especially bacteria, they love sugars, carbohydrates, simple sugars, and 70 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:30.839 this is one of the things that is very, very stimulating to their activity. 71 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:34.920 Get you that green lawn. Our phone number is seven one three two 72 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:40.279 two fifty eight seventy four if you'd like to give us a call. If 73 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:45.720 you are planning on doing some yard work later today or getting out and doing 74 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.000 shopping whatever, it's going to be a good day for it, Absolutely good 75 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:53.959 day for it. I would highly recommend that the first thing you do when 76 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.600 you're trying to revamp any area or create a bed in any area of your 77 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.560 yard is to take care of getting the soil right. That is so very 78 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.199 important. I see shoppers all the time. They go to a store, 79 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.360 they grab a flat of plants, and they head home and walk around trying 80 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.759 to figure out where am I going to put these things? And that that 81 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.720 is not a good way to have success. Start with the soil. Ciena 82 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.199 Maultch down south of Houston. That's an example of a place that has awesome 83 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:26.879 so in fact, they're now carrying the airloom soils leaf molt compost. So 84 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.680 if you want to do some top dressing you're a do it yourselfer, well 85 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.560 you can do it there. Leave mole compost has many many uses. But 86 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.399 at Siena you're going to find everything. You're going to find a vegetable and 87 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:41.600 nerb mix, You're going to find all the blends that you need to have 88 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.360 success with your plants. They also have all the fertilizer I talk about here 89 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:47.319 on guardline. So how do you get to Ciena Maltch. Well, first 90 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.879 of all, let me just give you a website. Why don't we start 91 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:55.360 there. That's a good way to begin. Cienamultch dot com. They're located 92 00:06:55.560 --> 00:07:00.319 on FM five point twenty one just north of Roast Sharing FM five north of 93 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.160 Roach Scherner. They're closed today, closed on Sunday, but Monday through Friday 94 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.959 seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two. It's easy to swing 95 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:13.040 by there and grab what you need. And when you do start with a 96 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.680 quality product from Siena Mulch, your soil is going to be so inviting that 97 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:19.839 the roots will thrive. And when the roots thrive, the plants thrive. 98 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:25.000 That's how that works. We're going to head now out to Katie and we're 99 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:29.399 going to talk to Hank. Hello, Hank, Hi, good morning morning. 100 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.079 I had a question about the fertilizer. I think it's ncor Falls maybe 101 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:38.639 bruces Brew. That's a Nelson product. Uh huh yeah, mate, Okay, 102 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:43.480 Nelson, I apologize. Do you know anything about it? Yeah. 103 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.160 It's a good immediate release fertilizer. Anytime you want to put something down, 104 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.199 whether you're doing early greenup or whether you're just wanting a quick boost, it 105 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.519 is designed for that. Hey, Hank, can can I get you to 106 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:57.079 hang on? We're hitting a break here, but I do want to keep 107 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:00.720 talking with you about this. We'll be right, ok, you bet, 108 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.160 and just hang on a second. Our phone number seven one three two one 109 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:09.480 two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Guardline. We are glad to 110 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.000 have you back. I was talking about enchanted for us while ago, and 111 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:18.839 I forgot to mention this morning eleven am today, Uh, Clay is going 112 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.439 to get Dan excuse me, is going to get out there and give a 113 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.720 little spring time talk. That's right, little springtime talk. We're gonna be. 114 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.439 Uh he's going to be just discussing all kinds of things to be doing 115 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.559 right now in the spring, and just whatever your questions are and concerns, 116 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.919 come on out and he'll help solve them for you. They're gonna have cousins 117 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.639 main Lobster truck out there too, and that's but again that starts at eleven 118 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.480 o'clock, so you can get there put it in your order for lobster. 119 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:48.759 It takes them about thirty minutes to make a wonderful dish and then you're ready 120 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.000 to go enjoy a good meal and a nice stroller on a wonderful place. 121 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.960 I'm going to go back to Katie and we were talking with Hank about bruces 122 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.639 Brew. So, Hank, do you have some additional questions about it or 123 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.840 how do you use it or anything? I think I'm pretty good on it. 124 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:13.039 But I've used it, and I think that really worked well as far 125 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:18.200 as greening up and making a rich color. But on a time release, 126 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.200 truly, I'm more apt to save it, says, you know, set 127 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.639 and set a square foot, cut it and have and do it more often. 128 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.840 Well, you could do that. I mean, you can use something 129 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:35.200 like Bruce's brew and just apply it in small doses. But a lot of 130 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.399 people don't want to do that because you're having to fertilized three times instead of 131 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.600 once, for example. But anyway, you do have that option to go 132 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:50.360 either way. The slow and easy is Nelson's gradual release version. Is there 133 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:56.360 anything you would put with bruceus Brew, say every other one that just keep 134 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.639 your yard as happy as it could be? Now, bruceus Brew pretty well 135 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.000 covers it. You should be good to go. It's got a three one 136 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:09.080 two ratio of nutrients and they my experience has been it works very well, 137 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:16.559 makes a very beautiful green lawn. I put the micro like humates on my 138 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:22.240 yard once a year. Yeah, that often enough. Well, the humates 139 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.519 has got a little potassium in it the third number, but you're putting it 140 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:31.799 down to provide the humous addition to the soil to improve soil structure and for 141 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:37.000 the other benefits that humus involves. So although it has a little potassium in 142 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.720 it, don't think of it so much as fertilizing as a building building soil 143 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.159 and improving the root zone of the plant. Yes, sir, I understand 144 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:50.399 that, But I was going to ask how often should I do it? 145 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.000 There's not a black and white answer on that one. Some people do it 146 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:58.440 a couple times a year, some people do it once a year. You 147 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.840 can do as much as you want, you know it just it's a matter 148 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:07.039 of with any kind of organic system, we're gradually building the soil over time, 149 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.240 and so each addition, each growing season, as you return the clippings, 150 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.720 as you do occasional aerrations, those are all part of a long term 151 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:22.879 soil improvement that gives long term results for your lawn benefit. One more question. 152 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:24.879 I'll let you go and thank you for everything we do. You prefer 153 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:31.480 bruces grew over microlife six two. Those are two different creatures. They both 154 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:37.879 have the same ratio of nutrients. One is synthetic, it's going to dissolve 155 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:43.720 and release very quickly. Microlife will also release fairly quickly. But microbes break 156 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:50.440 those particles down and release the nutrients out of them, and so it's is 157 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.759 your preference organic or synthetic. That's kind of one of the differences because the 158 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:56.679 ratio is very similar. Now in the microlife, you're going to have a 159 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.679 lot of other nutrients because it's coming from plant materials. So you know, 160 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.720 a plant that took up boron or zinc or manganese, you're going to have 161 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:11.000 those nutrients present in the in the fertilizer itself too. But I you know, 162 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:16.200 either way, you're not going to go wrong. Thank you, all 163 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.639 right, thank you. I appreciate that very much. If you're looking to 164 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.720 purchase a tree, you need to give the folks at Verdant Tree Farm McAll 165 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.399 now. Verdant has three locations. There's the one out on the West side 166 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:33.440 on Barker Cypress down in Pearland, there's one on Broadway Street and up in 167 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.360 the Heights where Yell and I ten come together as another Verdant Tree Farm. 168 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:43.000 The website you need to go there, it is very informative. Verdanttreefarm dot 169 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:48.240 com Verdant Treefarm dot Com. There you can scroll through a lot of the 170 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.679 different trees they carry and have good information on each of those trees. So 171 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:54.720 if you're thinking about this or that palm tree, you want to know the 172 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:58.720 differences. It'll tell you on there. Or you can just call them up 173 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.080 or drop in, take up, take a picture of your yard and say 174 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.679 what do you think would work here? You tag your trees, they bring 175 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.519 them, they plant them, and that equal success. You know, the 176 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.240 best time to plant the trees forty years ago. Second best time is today, 177 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.519 so go ahead and take advantage of that. They offer a one year 178 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:20.279 warranty with the installation of the tree. That means they plant the tree. 179 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:26.519 So they absolutely have the stock you need, quality stock. They absolutely know 180 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:31.200 what they're doing when it comes to planting. And if you're looking to hang 181 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.960 a hammock soon they have trees all the way up to seven hundred gallons. 182 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.799 That is a big tree. And so yeah, you can even get a 183 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:41.559 good head start that way with the Verdant Tree Farm. I'm going to go 184 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:45.720 out to Spring now we're going to talk to Chris. Hello, Chris, 185 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.399 Hey, go on skip. How you doing. I'm good, I'm good. 186 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.639 How are you very well? Just getting off work and I have a 187 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.679 question about a blueberry smoothie rosa sharing And last year I had a lot of 188 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:03.639 bloom I guess call it bloom lock. They just wouldn't open up fully or 189 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.840 wouldn't open up at all, And same thing this year. There nothing's opening 190 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.320 up for me. So I'm just wondering if you had a product, not 191 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.799 just a chemical, because I think I called maybe last year maybe and had 192 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:20.799 a chemical, but I couldn't find anything to help this plan out. And 193 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.000 those blooms start opening up, I'm not sure what's doing that, or the 194 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:31.759 petals brown on the outside as the bloom would try to open. It could 195 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:35.240 be thrips that are in the blooms that are affecting them. I don't think. 196 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.360 I'm not certain of that at all, but that's one possibility. And 197 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.279 if it were thrips, sprays of spinocid can be helpful for that. It's 198 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:48.759 hard to get the spinocid into where the thrips are, or get any spray 199 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.559 into where the thrill. If you don't mind, why don't you take some 200 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:58.879 pictures of it when the sun comes up and send them to me here on 201 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.080 garden line. Let me take a look at them, and I'll pursue it 202 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.759 a little bit further, nothing is ringing a bell right off hand as to 203 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:09.840 what that that might be. Yeah, that's a beautiful plan. Yeah, 204 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:13.879 I'd love to see it in full action. But again nothing, just a 205 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:16.559 lot of blooms and they just keep kind of just going on. They don't 206 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:18.440 open up. All right, Well, I'm gonna put you on hold and 207 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:24.039 uh just get an email from Josh and let me see some pictures, especially 208 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.159 close up to the blooms. That would be very helpful. All right, 209 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:33.960 take care. Yeah, that that is very unusual rose of Sharon not opening 210 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.879 up. I'm gonna have to hunt that one down. See see what else 211 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:43.240 can cause that I know on roses on rose bushes, sometimes we get pedal 212 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:48.000 blights and as that pedal is trying to as a bloom is trying to open 213 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:52.120 up, the pedal blight kills the pedal. So instead of a soft supple 214 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.039 tissue that will open up, is that rose on furls. Uh, you 215 00:15:56.159 --> 00:16:00.639 now have a little hard, dried pedal strap. Essentially it's going around the 216 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:06.679 bloom and it just can't unfurl. And that that is a fungal problem. 217 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:11.720 He and the rows of Sharon didn't indicate any browning or anything of the buds 218 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.559 and pedals. So I don't know. We'll see, see. I we 219 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.039 can figure that one out. Rows of Sharon is an old Southern favorite, 220 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:22.879 really really really popular. Hank was talking about microlife, fertilizer and the humans 221 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.399 plus. Humage plus is are purple bag for those of you who aren't familiar 222 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:32.000 with it, and it is basically it amounts to concentrated compost in a bag. 223 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:34.039 So I mean, the way I like to describe it is, you've 224 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.200 got a pilo leaves, you decompose them. You got compost, You have 225 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.679 compost, you let it decompose all the way you have humus. Humus is 226 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.960 that final state a very good place for microbes to thrive. It's a very 227 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:52.639 good thing for soil structure building, for developing a good quality soil and putting 228 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:57.919 that as a supplement out there to your lawn can have benefits long term. 229 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.880 So just with lawns, we want instant gratification. I understand that, but 230 00:17:03.920 --> 00:17:07.200 a lot of things we do in addition to Hey, you throw fertilizer out, 231 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.839 the lung gets green. I get that. That's that's fine, But 232 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.240 long term, what are you doing to build to build the soil to build 233 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.880 the root system to improve on things. That's why you hear me talk about 234 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:23.759 correoration and compost, top dressing and things like that. Microlife has a wide 235 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.799 variety of products. They also have the standard green bag that's the six two 236 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:36.440 four and it's an excellent fertilizer. It will it will easily turn your lawn 237 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:41.000 into a really healthy, dense lawn. It's I wouldn't call it fully slow 238 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.119 release, but it's not an immediate release either. It's kind of in between 239 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.559 there, and that's how it is with organic type products and microbile. They 240 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.279 break down the nutrients that are in them. The six two four, if 241 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.759 you will, gets released into the soil for the plant roots to benefit and 242 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.519 grass benefits as a result. Microlife Fertilizer dot COM's website there you can learn 243 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.759 about all their other products. I could sit here all day just talking about 244 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:08.440 all the different products for micro Life Fertilizers. They pretty much have everything that 245 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:14.519 you would need for your organic gardening, landscaping and lawn care in one place, 246 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.720 and they're widely available to Our phone number is seven one three two one 247 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:25.160 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 248 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:26.720 You can give me a call. We can talk about the things that 249 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:33.279 are of most interest to you. I Uh, I'm going to be at 250 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.799 RCW Nurseries next Saturday. I'll tell you more about that as we go through 251 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:41.119 the morning, but I'd just like you to get that on your calendar and 252 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:45.319 come by and see me. RCW. That's the nursery where belt WAG eight 253 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.960 and FM or Highway two forty nine, Tomball Parkway come together, really easy 254 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:52.799 to get to. Uh. They've got a lot of cool stuff out there. 255 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.240 I'll be there answering questions. We'll be doing the standard thing, meeting, 256 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:02.799 talking with people, helping diagnose, help identify issues, pointing you toward 257 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:06.359 the plant that I think is going to give you the most success in what 258 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:11.000 you're looking to try to accomplish. When was the last time you were in 259 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:14.119 an ACE hardware store. I was the one the other day looking at their 260 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:17.359 barbecue pits. Oh my gosh, they got the big green egg, they 261 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:21.720 got the trigger. I'm slobbery and somebody's having a mop up on Aisle five 262 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:25.039 because I'm just drooling thinking about this barbecue. Well, you know, ACE 263 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:26.960 is a place to get all your fertilizers. It's a place to get all 264 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:32.480 your fire ant control, it's a place to get your mosquito control and repellent 265 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:34.880 type products. ACE is easy to find. There are forty of them. 266 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:40.720 Go to Acehardware dot Com find the store locator. It'll give you the stores. 267 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:42.480 And I do mean that plural near you. There's forty of them in 268 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.839 the Greater Houston area. It's easy to find an ACE and you know when 269 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.799 you walk in there, if I've talked about it on guarden Line, they're 270 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.240 going to have it at Ace Hardware. It's as simple as that. It's 271 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.039 a one stop shop, makes it really easy, really convenient, and you 272 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:59.160 know you're going to get quality product and you're gonna get quality service too, 273 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:03.000 which is really important. Well, I'm gonna turn the microphone over to Nikki 274 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.119 for the news. We'll be right back if you'd like to call seven one 275 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:11.599 three two one two kt r H. Welcome back to Garden Mine. Good 276 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:12.960 to have you with us today. Hey, if you're out in Kingwood, 277 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:18.079 you got Warren's seven Garden. You got Kingwood Garden Center out there, and 278 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:23.680 I'm telling you Warrens is just continuing to offer some really great deals out there. 279 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:29.920 Their most sale is still going on and four for fifteen dollars through the 280 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.319 month of April. Here they've got a great stock of the kalladium bulbs and 281 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.640 the plants, the low kaladium plants. If you've got a shady area you 282 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.440 want color and you want it instantly, there you go. Kalladiums. Boogainvillias. 283 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.480 Another sale there two you can buy two and get ten percent by two 284 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:49.920 at the regular price, get ten percent off and that's going to last through 285 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:55.880 the twenty first of the month. Lots of tropical color, oh my gosh, 286 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.480 in you know Houston with our hot, warm, sultry climate. Place 287 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.599 a place it's like hibiscus, oleander passion. Find men to Villa x or. 288 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.359 They all love that kind of weather and they'll really put on a show 289 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.440 for you, a gaudy show if you will. Lots of gallon sized color. 290 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.799 Also listen to this they've got if you're looking for slow release for your 291 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.759 lawn. The super Turf from Nitrofoss and Slow and Easy from Nelson are both 292 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:25.599 in stock there at Warrence and Kingwood Garden Center. Just another reason to swing 293 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:29.599 by there. We're going to go out now to Alvin Texas and talk to 294 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:33.839 Danny. Hello Danny, Good morning, Stiff, and good morning Nikki. 295 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:37.279 I'm like you just for a few minutes. Talk about the two clovers from 296 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:44.000 the forties we had that we welcome so much, the three pedal with John 297 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:52.519 dear Green to make the shape pedals. Is that Irish clover? I don't 298 00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:56.400 know based on that description, it's not enough for me to tell you specifically 299 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:59.960 which clover that is. Okay, well, it was a real common one 300 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:03.480 that we had all my life, that same five years. But here just 301 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.279 recently we've had this one that's a plague. That's uh, that's either sandburs, 302 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:12.839 Chinese sandburds or Kakka birs that has the three three little petals that they're 303 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:18.039 not John near Green. They're just a green with the wine bottle shaped pedals, 304 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.519 three of them that are such a nuisance, such a nuisance. But 305 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:26.680 on them when you talk about when you talk about a bird, you talk 306 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:32.359 about little flat spirally bird that's not real real strong points like a grass bird 307 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.920 would be, but a little bit a little bit softer pointed. Well, 308 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:40.359 mainly they're they're they're going on in the clovers in the grass. It's down 309 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:44.839 low. It mainly was growing horizontally, but here, just in just this 310 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.039 last year, it's growing vertically and it gets into the chain link fence and 311 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:52.200 it gets into the chain link gates. We came open the gate. Okay, 312 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:57.640 Yeah, So we have a number of plants that somewhat fit similar descriptions. 313 00:22:57.640 --> 00:23:03.359 There's various clovers and there's also something called medic but it doesn't matter which 314 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:06.920 it is. You can control them with the broad leaf weed control products. 315 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.359 It'd be best to put it on your calendar in future years to start that 316 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:15.240 a little earlier, before the clover hits the stage of growth. It's easier 317 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:22.319 and you prevent seed production. But anything that is designed for post emergent broad 318 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:29.599 leaf weed control will knock those clovers out. So a product like it's not 319 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:32.559 it's not that I'm want to get rid of the clover, it's the sandburs 320 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:34.480 that are in. The sand burs are just the grass taking over. Okay, 321 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.799 sanbur. And I want to know what the name of that is, 322 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:42.519 the proper name. Is it cocker burs, sandburs or Chinese sandburs? Well, 323 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:48.640 and how do they multiply? Are the little seeds coming out or is 324 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.720 it the burrs. That is there seeds in there, or is there burrs 325 00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:56.240 that fly in the air or whatever their seeds. There are seeds inside the 326 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:02.519 sand burr. The sandburr seed with a little pokey points on it to stick 327 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:07.000 in the foot they had. That's the seed structure that holds the seed of 328 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:11.680 the of the sandbur Now, the once they're in your grass, it's hard 329 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:17.039 to kill them without killing the grass because they're a grass plant. But using 330 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:22.039 a product like barricade by nitrophoss, for example, getting that done by the 331 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:27.400 end of February will help prevent It will give you about sixty or maybe more 332 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:33.160 days, sixty to ninety days of protection and then you'd have to repeat it 333 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.119 again to carry on through summer. For the grass burr, the sand burr, 334 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:44.799 but skip I'm trying to compare it to brushia orango. Bush orangos a 335 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:49.200 nuisance. But bushia orango only last one year. But these sandburs, if 336 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:55.000 we call them that, they just grow on like grass does. But they're 337 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:57.960 not grass or weeds. Is that right? Yes, If it's the if 338 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.000 it's what I'm thinking about. The The only other thing I know to do, 339 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.039 Danny on this one is for you to just pull them up, set 340 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:06.839 them on a dark surface, take a good clock picture of them, and 341 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:10.440 then then I know we're talking about the same plant. But samber is a 342 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:14.319 grass plant. It's a weed. People call it grassbur two around here. 343 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:18.640 It's an annual comes up in the spring and then it just creates those seeds 344 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:26.799 that that sentence you a lot more problems I'm looking at to eradicate them, 345 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.880 just to try to dig them up. If what the ground they're in sandy, 346 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:36.279 sandy black sandy soil, you know, tok so black, and they 347 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:41.720 only seem to be spreading where it's higher and drier. Yeah, Also they 348 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:47.559 grow in dramways where there's limbstone or sandstone. Yeah, Danny, the samber 349 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:52.000 does love poor sandy soils. That is very characteristic of it. So even 350 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.119 just fertilizing kind of gives your other plants a little advantage over them. But 351 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.839 yeah, if you want to do the pulling them up when the soil is 352 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:03.480 more, that's a good idea in the sense that it removes all those seats. 353 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:06.160 Hey, I need to run onto another call, but I appreciate your 354 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.720 calling. Good luck getting ahead of the Okay, thank you, bet. 355 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:15.359 Yeah, they can be a problem. I was out at Chenney Forest. 356 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.920 I was talking about being out there yesterday and someone was coming by. We're 357 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:23.599 giving away some Medina products and they were asking me about the Medina has to 358 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:29.359 grow twelve four to eight liquid lawn food plus and now they have Medina has 359 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:30.720 several products that you can hook up to the end of a hose. This 360 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:34.160 is one of them. It's a little little bottle. You know, got 361 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:37.160 the content that you're wanting to put out. You hook it to the hose 362 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.880 and you essentially just go over your lawn spray in the lawn with water water 363 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:48.920 mixed with this product the little applicator. It blends the product as the water 364 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.319 flows through the end of the of the bottle, and it makes a real 365 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:57.039 nice application. You can do that about once every quarter through the growing season. 366 00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:00.440 Like in other words, you do it in the spring, you do 367 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:02.759 it again in early summer. You can do a bit a late summer. 368 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:04.680 You can do it again in the fall if you want to early fall. 369 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:11.400 And the has to grow twelve four eight. By the way, congratulations to 370 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.480 the lucky winner of that. It really does a quick green. I tried 371 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:17.799 it one year on my lawn just to see how it works. I always 372 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:19.839 like to do that with the products I talked about, and it works very 373 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:23.880 well, very very well. So if you got a really crummy lawn, 374 00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:27.519 or if you're removing the grass clippings, you need to do it every month, 375 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:30.279 just every month, get out there and give it a boost of that. 376 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:36.000 This would be in lieu of your standard fertilization. The has to Grow 377 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:41.200 by Medina twelve four eight liquid lown food plus it's an affective product. We're 378 00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:45.400 going to go out now to Cyprus and talk to Melanie. Hello, Melanie, 379 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:52.039 Hi, Skip. I just used some has to Grow yesterday on a 380 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:56.440 newly sawed yard. Well, just I only had a small part. Is 381 00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:59.920 that okay to use on there? Oh? Yes, uh huh absolutely? 382 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.359 And what about potted plants? Can you use it in your potted plants too? 383 00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:08.440 Are we talking now about the long food twelve four eight has to grow 384 00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:15.279 or past to grow? Yeah, regular astro grow they have. They have 385 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.240 several products that have I think it's regular has to grow. I didn't say 386 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.680 lawn on it, So the regular has to grow. Yes, you can 387 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:30.799 use that anywhere anytime for anything. I mean you're adding basically, you're you're 388 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:37.119 improving the microbial content, you're improving the soil. It's a it's a general 389 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.599 purpose. There are two has to grows. One has twelve four eight and 390 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:45.519 it typically used for lawns, and then there's six twelve six has to grow 391 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.680 that that one contained. That's the one. I always say use it when 392 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:56.279 you're transplanting plants because it's phosphorus. I was doing. Yeah, hihosphor's very 393 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.960 good. And one more question, I use that. We made that. 394 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.039 That stuff is beautiful. It worked great. I get it about the end 395 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:07.880 of February. But now should I put something else on? I've got sweet 396 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:12.720 Green and I've got hummates plus both. You're just loaded up there. I'm 397 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.680 loaded up. I'm gonna use I'm going to use something. But should I 398 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.240 use something now or just wait? Well, the weed Nator is a slow 399 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:23.079 release fertilizer in addition to having the weed control in it, and so it's 400 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:27.039 going to give you if you put it out at the proper rate, it's 401 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.799 going to give me. It's going to feed that lawn for several months. 402 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:34.960 So you don't need to come back with something else right now. Now humates 403 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.480 you can use that. That's not something that's going to make the lawn just 404 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:42.680 take off growing. It's not a it's not a nitrogen fertilizer, so you 405 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:47.079 could use that on any other slow release. I'd wait and do that a 406 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:49.839 little further into the summer. All right, Melane, I'm gonna have you 407 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:52.640 onto a break, but thank you for the call. Appreciate that. All 408 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.519 right, love you take care of seven one three two one two k t 409 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.559 r H is the number. We'll be right back. Welcome back to garden 410 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.640 Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, we are here 411 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.400 to talk about gardening. What do you want to talk about? I tell 412 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:10.599 you one thing I want to talk about is your trees. If you take 413 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:15.160 good care of your trees, they will make your property more and more valuable. 414 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.400 They will make your outdoor settings more and more enjoyable, providing shade, 415 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:23.039 providing ballooms, whatever kind of tree you have. Trust your trees to Affordable 416 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:26.960 Tree Service. Martin Spoon Moore has been doing this for over thirty years now. 417 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.880 He knows what he's talking about. He knows what he's doing. By 418 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:33.440 the way, when you call, tell him you are a guarden Line listener 419 00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.000 and that'll get you to the front of the line because he stays very, 420 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.079 very busy, So don't expect, you know, call today and he's there 421 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:44.440 tomorrow. I mean, it might happen. But when you do things right 422 00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:48.119 and you have a reputation like he does, you stay busy, you stay 423 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:51.920 booked up. So give him a call, have him come in, Have 424 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:53.720 him look at your trees. Do you need any pruning? Do you need 425 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:59.039 some feeding of the trees to support them? You want to make sure they're 426 00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:03.440 ready for the storm. Do you want to do anything around the tree? 427 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:08.839 Definitely call him before you take action like a trench or a sidewalk or something 428 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:12.519 like that. He knows how to guide you and to do the best to 429 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:18.240 protect the tree. Afftree Service dot com. That's his website. Afftree Service 430 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:23.119 dot Com. The phone number seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty 431 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:27.079 three. Martin and his wife Joe. They answer their own phone. So 432 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.799 if you don't talk to Martin or Joe, hang up. You call the 433 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:37.640 wrong place. Martin or Joe seven one three six twenty six sixty three. 434 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:42.000 Affordable Tree Service. We're going to go now out to Jersey Village and talk 435 00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:47.400 with Ed. Hello, Ed, good morning. Skip sent you in some 436 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:52.079 photos yesterday. I had discussed with you yesterday about some rosebush issues I have. 437 00:31:52.640 --> 00:32:00.119 Yes, I saw those very unusual. They don't they don't fit in 438 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:07.720 any specific cause. My first thought on them was that maybe you got some 439 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:13.039 broad leaf herbicide drift onto them, something like that happened. It looks a 440 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.599 little like that. Also, there are some things that look a little bit 441 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:22.680 like a virus, but the pattern of it isn't quite right. If it's 442 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:24.759 a virus, you just keep watching them. If it's a virus, the 443 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:29.440 new growth is not going to be coming out normal. All the new growth 444 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:34.480 that's where viruses show up most, and it will not be coming out normal. 445 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:38.640 The third possibility is some type of a piercing sucking insect that's working in 446 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:43.839 the leaves and as they're trying to develop, it's causing a deformation of the 447 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:47.119 leaf. But not all the symptoms and the photos you sent me fit that 448 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.640 either. So it's somewhere in those yeah, free And I don't have anything 449 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:57.279 on my other bushes that are you know, close by, So I don't 450 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.839 think it's some kind of varmit. Okay, Well, like it would be 451 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:04.920 a little insect like a piercing sucking plant hopper type of insect doing that. 452 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:08.599 I think I would just watch them and if the growth, the growth, 453 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:14.119 if this problem gets worse, especially with new growth, then I'd say it's 454 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:17.519 the virus and I'd get the rose out of there, because an insect can 455 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.000 transmit that to other healthy roses. Yeah. Well, I've noticed some of 456 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:27.640 the real pretty new purple growth that you know you first get on your rose 457 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:31.200 bush. It's it's it's into that. Yeah, I can see it. 458 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:37.079 It's in the new I think I worry about a virus just because it spreads, 459 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.039 and so why don't you get that rose and get it out of the 460 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:44.640 area where any other roses are. It's in a container, I can see, 461 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.799 so yes, move it, move it away, find it, find 462 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.359 the equivalent of your on site rose hospital and move it over there. Let's 463 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:58.680 watch, let's wash that patient. Because I'm leaning toward you're going to need 464 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.400 to get rid of it, but I don't want to that just yet based 465 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:07.680 on yeah, only well it's I trimmed it back real hard year before last. 466 00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.679 It had a little bit of it again last year, okay, and 467 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.679 uh you know this is my third year. Yeah, with that and uh 468 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:20.159 yeah, the nursery couldn't tell me what it was, and now you've put 469 00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:24.760 your eyes on it, so I'm I'm having to agree with you. Okay. 470 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:29.599 Well, I'm leaning towards virus now, and just to be safe, 471 00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:31.519 we're going to put it somewhere else where. It's not so easy for a 472 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:37.519 bug to fly from that rosebuster or any Secondly, if you do any pruning, 473 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:43.400 make that the last one you prune or oh yes, pun uh spray 474 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.800 your pruners with al and you know, scrub them off. But I would 475 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:51.119 just make it the last one you prune and then still clean your prunters with 476 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.440 lyesol M. Well, thank you, skip all right, good luck with 477 00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:59.199 it, and keep me posted. I'd like to know if it develops now, 478 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:04.119 I'd get it moved away. I was already contemplating that, so we'll 479 00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:07.599 do it. Yeah, all right, And I don't think the consent is 480 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.960 going to touch this one. I think you yeah, I think it has 481 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.320 it. I'll tell you that. Okay, very good, Thanks ed sire. 482 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:21.199 Take yeah, you bet you take care. Speaking of roses Anti rosen 483 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.079 Porium up there in Independence, Texas, do you know where that is? 484 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:29.920 It's north of Brenham between Brenham and Brian College Station. Uh, it is 485 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:34.480 a wonderland. When you go to the Anti rosen Porium, it's just like 486 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:38.840 you've entered another place in time. And of course they are loaded with all 487 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:43.920 kinds of antique roses. People from all over the country order roses from Anti 488 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:46.679 Crows and Poorium because they know that not only do they have a selection, 489 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:51.079 but they got quality stock. They grow them in three gallon containers, so 490 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:53.840 you get a little bit better, more robust rose bush. To start with. 491 00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:59.639 Uh, they are going to be having some educational things going on on 492 00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:04.519 t about the something they call tinker Garden. It's a kids in the Garden 493 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:08.760 program Tinkergarden, and it's going to be from kids age two to eight years 494 00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:14.519 old. It's six weeks long. The curriculum starts April nineteenth and twentieth at 495 00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:17.599 one pm and it goes all the way through mid May. Now you just 496 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:22.119 have to call them. You can call them at ninety seven nine eight three, 497 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.239 six fifty five forty eight, or you can go to the website Antique 498 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.760 Roseemporium dot com. Also in the twentieth there's a beekeeping one oh one class 499 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:36.079 at ten am. They're going to have a specialist there, president of the 500 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:40.159 Texas Central Texas Beekeepers, and they're going to be this person, Carl's going 501 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:45.400 to be telling you all about on observation Hive. You'll get to see it's 502 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.960 really really cool antiq Roseen. But also while you're out there, I mean 503 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:52.519 make sure you go out with an empty car pickup because you're going to want 504 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.480 to bring home a lot of the cool plants. They have roses, but 505 00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:00.599 they have so so much more. Let's go out out of Huntsville and we're 506 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:06.119 going to talk to Charles. Hello, Charles, good morning. I've got 507 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:09.440 the only fertilizer I've got available is twelve twelve twelve, and I've got an 508 00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:14.800 apple tree at a pear tree, and I need to fertilize it. We're 509 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:16.519 expecting to rain about the next two days. All right, you want to 510 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:23.400 take your thumb and measure how many thumbwds wide are those tree trunks. So 511 00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:28.559 let's just say one was as big as a Coca Cola can. That's about 512 00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:32.960 three thumbwds across, about three inches across. You would get three to six 513 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.719 cups of that fertilizer. Now you've got it, So I'm saying use it. 514 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.559 But after this I want you to switch to more of a lawn type 515 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:45.480 fertilizer on your fruit trees. But it doesn't hurt to do this once or 516 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:49.599 you know, twice or anything. You just don't want to ongo constantly put 517 00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:52.239 that high level of phosphorus in it. That's the only thing. All right, 518 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:57.239 gotch That was good? Thank you. One to two cups per thumb 519 00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.840 with across the trunk. All right, good luck with those all I ask 520 00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:04.280 on guardline. Our advice is free, but we do ask you to bring 521 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.599 half the fruit and leave it here at the station and we'll call it even. 522 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:10.519 All right, Well, actually I take the fruit and feed it to 523 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:15.599 the deer. Oh my gosh, you're breaking my heart. Thanks for the 524 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:19.320 call, Charles. I appreciate that very much. Hey, you've heard me 525 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:25.000 talk about superturf this morning. Superturf is night is nineteen four ten fertilizer. 526 00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:30.840 It's got ninety percent nitrogen, four percent phosphorus, low number, ten percent 527 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:35.800 potassium. It's got fifty percent of the nitrogen is slow release, four percent 528 00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:39.960 of iron content in the fertilizer for good greenup. This is going to feed 529 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:47.920 your lawn for two or three months. Nitrofoss's silver bag Superturf fertilizer super super 530 00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:52.639 widely available. You're going to find it at pretty much every ace hardware store 531 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.119 you could think of, and it places like Southwest Fertilizer down in south West 532 00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:01.400 Houston. It's easy to find nitropossprout ducks all over because they're so widely available. 533 00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:04.679 We're going to take a little break. It's the top of the hour. 534 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:07.480 Put one hour in the books. Here for the news and if you 535 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.400 would like to give us a call, Josh you gets you on the boards 536 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:15.679 if you dial seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven 537 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:20.119 one three two one two k t r H. I want to remind you 538 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:24.960 next Saturday, April twentieth, after this show, from eleven thirty to one 539 00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.639 thirty, I'll be at RCW Nursery. I'm going to be giving away four 540 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:34.199 bags for forty pound forty four pound bags of a'sm I'm going to be giving 541 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:40.159 away four three sixty tree stabilizers because RCW carries those four tree stabilizers. If 542 00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:43.760 you've got a young tree or don't planning the young tree, you need one 543 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:46.880 of these that they're very very effective, but that's at RCW Nursery. Of 544 00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:51.280 course I'll be answering your questions. If you got a plant problem, put 545 00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:53.559 in a ziplock bags, zip it up. Don't want to be carrying stuff 546 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:57.239 around the nursery. Bring it in. Let me take a look at it 547 00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.519 in the bag. Bring me pictures of things are kite that don't look right 548 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:04.719 around the landscape. We'll try to solve those for you as well. Well. 549 00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:09.480 We'll be right back. Katie r H. Garden Line does not necessarily 550 00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:15.519 endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie 551 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:28.480 r H. Garden Line with Escape Richard. It's crazy Trim. Just watch 552 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:40.880 him as so many gooties, the super brazy. Welcome back to the guard 553 00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:45.880 Line. Good to have you back. We're talking gardening today, isn't that 554 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:51.239 a surprise? What do you want to talk about? We'll talk about lawns 555 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:54.320 and trees and shrubs and tomatoes. And I've yet to get a call about 556 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.719 Cole Robbie. So if you've got a question about Cole Robbie, why don't 557 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:02.960 you make it the first I've ever gotten about Core Robbie. I always joke 558 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.599 about three T's trees sharp and tomatoes. That's the thing that makes the phone 559 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.760 ring. At the Agro Life Extension office and also at garden Line, people 560 00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:16.639 always when it's vegetables, Tomatoes is the number one question that we get. 561 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:21.840 We get some squash, we get some cucumbers. We had other things occasionally 562 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:28.000 Okra, which gets me excited. Love Okra. I am the defender of 563 00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:31.840 Okra. I guess you could say I'm on a soapbox about Okra. You 564 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:36.679 could say that too, wonderful plant. Just if you want to know more 565 00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:38.320 about it, just call. We'll spend an hour on the phone talking about 566 00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:44.159 Okra. That's how excited about Okra. Am Why would I be excited about 567 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:46.840 it? Well, it's a wonderful plant, and it thinks this place we 568 00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:52.079 live down here is heaven. I'm telling you, Hot sull Tree. It 569 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.920 just Okra just laughs and goes, what are you talking about? This is 570 00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.960 heaven. This is God's country down here. I love this place. That's 571 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:02.559 another reason I like it. You know our gardens, well, I'm kind 572 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:09.119 of on a little bit of a box there. Our gardens they typically here 573 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:16.880 in Texas are spring and fall and winter gardens. That's primarily it. When 574 00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:20.760 we get to summer. They're crops that will grow through summer, but they're 575 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.440 fewer than they are in the spring of the fall, and even even really 576 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:28.119 in the cool season. But there are crops that can handle it. Oka 577 00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:32.400 can absolutely take summer. There's no reason your summer garden should dwindle away. 578 00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:37.000 You get you a good drip irrigation system so you're not out there in the 579 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.000 blazing sun all the time. Get things established, build good soil, build 580 00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:45.320 good so I'm gonna say that one more time. Build good soil. That's 581 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.840 a number one step. Get your drip irrigation system so you water efficiently. 582 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.400 Get your timer on the end of your hose. You can set those things. 583 00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:58.880 I want you to water three days a week for one hour a day 584 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:00.320 or whatever. Well, how you want to set it, and it does 585 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.480 it all for you. And then get you the crops for summer, like 586 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:10.679 okra, like sweet potatoes, they love summer heat. There's a crop called 587 00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:15.440 molakia. It's a green very popular, especially in parts of the Mideast and 588 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:21.679 other areas, and it also is musulaginous like okra, but it's a very 589 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:27.800 very willing to grow here in our climate. Malibar is sometimes called Malabar spinach. 590 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:31.360 When when you see the word spinach, it's used on about eight different 591 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:36.800 vegetables and only one of them is spinach. Malabar is not spinach, but 592 00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:38.360 they call it that because it's a green and we don't know what to call 593 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:43.960 it, so let's call it malabar spinach. There's one called Egyptian spinach that's 594 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.599 more of a silosia type plant. It's not a spinach, but it takes 595 00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:50.239 the summer heat well too. And there are many others. There many other 596 00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:54.000 things that can grow through the summer heat. So don't let the upcoming summer 597 00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:58.639 season be a reason for you to not have things going on in the vegetable 598 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:02.039 garden. We have a lot of things that just blaze right through long after 599 00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:07.320 tomatoes want to quit setting, and cucumbers and squash aren't doing as well. 600 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:13.360 Go ahead and turn your summer garden into a bountiful place with a little forethought, 601 00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:15.840 a little bit of wisdom like that. While Ago I was talking about 602 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:21.199 the three sixty tree stabilizers, I'm giving four of them away next Saturday at 603 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:27.320 RCW Nursery. Well, what is the tree stabilizer? It is a very 604 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:32.119 strong arm, a stiff plastic arm that grabs the tree and grabs the steak. 605 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:36.480 And so instead of having these gar wires to trip over and you're having 606 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:38.760 to buy wire and you're having to cut up garden hoses to go around the 607 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:43.239 tree so the wire doesn't cut in and then you trip over them. No, 608 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:45.800 this you put in like a teapost. Just hammer in a teapost not 609 00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:50.199 too far from the tree, pretty close actually, and the three sixty tree 610 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.880 stabilizer grabs it, strap it a little bit, loose over on the tree 611 00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:57.519 so the tree can move just a little bit, and leave it on until 612 00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.239 your tree is well rooted. If you only use two of them, one 613 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:02.719 from a right angle, one from a left angle, if you will, 614 00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.800 maybe north south east west is probably a better way to put it. Then 615 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:12.280 that just gives you absolute three sixty. Anyway the wind blows, you've got 616 00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.880 a tree that is being held in place without too much excess movement. Now 617 00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:20.760 you can find it at our cw you can find it be Cannon, you 618 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:24.039 can find it at Arborgate Plants for all seasons. Southwest Fertilizer carries them, 619 00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:28.800 and Hora s Hidden Gardens down in Alvin Jorge has them. Down there to 620 00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:32.280 three sixty tree stabilizer. Listen, these things last. This is an investment 621 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:37.159 that you your neighbor, you know, your your kids and cousins say, 622 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.079 hey, we're planting a tree. You go ah, let me get my 623 00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:42.519 tree stabilizer. Here. I'm done with it. My tree is in good 624 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.119 shape, and you just loan it to them to go. I mean, 625 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:51.159 it's a product that is well made, and it's so fast and easy compared 626 00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:53.920 to wires and steaks and all that kind of business. Let's go out to 627 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:58.760 Northwest Chiefs and we're going to talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, good 628 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:04.639 morning. Skip. Every year I have problems with yellow leaves on my tomato 629 00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:08.000 plants. I sent you an email with pictures and then I'll sent you another 630 00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:15.480 email yesterday with real close up pictures after I cut them off. Yeah, 631 00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:20.760 I saw them. I saw those. It is every year, right. 632 00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:25.679 It is somewhat natural that older tomato leaves tend to pick up issues and start 633 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.800 to turn yellow or have leaf spots and things like that. Okay, that's 634 00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:34.719 kind of normal. Looking at your totatoes. Overall, you've got a lot 635 00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:37.400 of healthy leaves, and I would not worry about this I saw a little 636 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.840 bit of early blight on these leaves. Is that me? That's a fungal 637 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.639 disease. But listen, it's ubiquitous, it's going to be here. You 638 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.719 can fund aside them all the time to try to avoid it. I just 639 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.639 let it. I let it go, prune off the old leaves that have 640 00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:58.639 it, and just keep that tomato plant fertilized and healthy. Most years that's 641 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:00.840 just fine. Occasionally you need to get in there with the funger side and 642 00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:05.360 spray to shut it down. But I tend to be kind of slow to 643 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:09.559 grab the spray Wand just because I I'd rather spend my saturdays doing something else 644 00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:15.079 other than mixing up stinky, stinky water. You know that that would be 645 00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:20.719 make me feel good, thank you well good that was free, So that 646 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:22.239 that's what I would do. But pick all those older nies off and get 647 00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:27.159 them out of there, because those brown spots have got spoils that are going 648 00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:31.079 to read. In fact, if corking water the ground rather than the plant, 649 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:36.199 that helps. Every time you wet the foliage, you increase foliage diseases. 650 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.760 Now they're in growboxes and there's a water reservoir in the bottom. Oh 651 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:45.000 that's right, that's right. Yeah, yeah, did you make those grow 652 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:49.119 boxes? My husband did well. You need to hang on to him. 653 00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:53.840 He did a great job. Those are great, great looking. So they 654 00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:59.760 are. I love them, love them. Our master gardeners used to make 655 00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:02.719 those grow boxes when I was in Austin, Texas Master Gardener Group. Wow, 656 00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:06.880 they would make those things up. And it's pretty cool. You can 657 00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:08.960 find the plans online. Folks. Just get your big old rubber made top. 658 00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:13.159 Yes you can, and yeh and it's pretty cool. But hey, 659 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.559 Paula, thank you, oh, thank you. We can we can go 660 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:20.760 worry worry about world peace and hunger and and not worry about these tomatoes for 661 00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:25.679 the rest of the pot. Thank you for I appreciate that. Uh. 662 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.760 The uh time to go to another break is hit here, and so I'm 663 00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:31.679 just going to give you a phone number and get out of the way. 664 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.400 Seven one three two one two k t r H. Welcome back to Welcome 665 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:39.760 back to the guard Line. Good to have you with us today. What 666 00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:44.119 are we going to talk about? Something related to gardening? Get us a 667 00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:47.719 call seven one three two one two k t r H. We Uh, 668 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:52.519 you know it's important uh to at this point in the season to go ahead 669 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:57.519 and switch over to a slow release fertilizer on your lawn. And the reason 670 00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.800 is it gradually releases your lawn is be taking up nutrients every day for the 671 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:05.960 next two or three months and on through the season. Really and by putting 672 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:10.960 down a turf Star Slow and Easy. That's prime example twenty two two ten. 673 00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:17.199 That's the numbers on the bag. That nitrogen is designed to gradual release 674 00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:22.960 over two or three months. Really the nutrients that are in there. Some 675 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:27.840 people say it even lasts longer for them, but it's a quality product by 676 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.039 Nelson, which is the only kind of thing they make. It also has 677 00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:34.559 sulfur in it, by the way, which helps with our high pH soils. 678 00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.519 It helps a little bit with the fact that iron becomes tied up and 679 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:42.880 makes it a little more available to the plants when you can drop that pH 680 00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.760 dust a little bit. Now, a forty pound bag of Nelson's Slow and 681 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:52.199 Easy covers five thousand square feet by promoting by feeding it gradually, it promotes 682 00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:57.559 slow even growth. It also helps develop a good root system. If you 683 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.480 just dump a whole bunch of nitrogen at once on the grass plants, they 684 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.880 grow a lot of top growth at the expensive roots, so you're watering more. 685 00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.599 It's less drought resilient, it's less able to handle a little bit of 686 00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:13.519 damage from grubs under the soil. Nelson's Turf Star Slow and Easy helps avoid 687 00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:15.559 those kind of things. They say it'll feed in some cases up to even 688 00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:19.679 six months. But I can tell you this, when you put it down, 689 00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.159 you know you're going to have a beautiful lawn for a very very long 690 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:27.519 time. I want to. By the way, too, people often ask 691 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:29.639 me where can I get this? Where can I get that? Well, 692 00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:31.760 if you're up in the in the Lake Conro area, Triple A or at 693 00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:38.039 Triple A A and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery, they have Nelson's Plant 694 00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:40.960 Food, they have this Slow and Easy turf Star. By the way, 695 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:45.360 Ana carries everything. I mean, they have nitropos, they have microlife, 696 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:49.159 they have airloom soils, they have Nature's Way leaf compost. You can hire 697 00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:52.239 Ana Plants and Produce. You can hire their landscape crew to come out there. 698 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.880 If you have one live in one of those subdivisions up by the lake, 699 00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:00.119 they'll come out there and they'll do some landscape work for you. If 700 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:01.880 you need a little bed renovated or something like that. Just call them, 701 00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:06.079 just find out about the details. They can tell you. They're on the 702 00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:08.760 east side of Montgomery on one oh five for all of the folks up there, 703 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:14.159 Montgomery, Conroe, Lake Conroe. This is your hometown garden center. 704 00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:17.000 And of course they're going to have all the plants that you're looking for, 705 00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:22.320 and now's a good time to pick them up and to plant them. I'm 706 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:25.159 going to go to Jamie now up in Spring, Texas. Hello, Jamie, 707 00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:31.320 Hi, good morning, skip morning. I had I had sent you 708 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.119 some pictures. I talked to you last week and I had sent you some 709 00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:39.719 pictures of my yard. I wasn't sure if I had thatch or I know 710 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:44.199 I have that, but you know, I'm just not sure what to do 711 00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:49.760 if I need to scrape some off and put new soil down or in grass. 712 00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:53.159 But anyway, you had said to call you this weekend. Okay, 713 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:59.519 uh, let's see was this a Would it have been Janet that it came 714 00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:07.320 through ass Not Janet. I'm not seeing your email, Jamie, could you 715 00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:16.039 fooh boy? Okay? Well when did you see Assue him? Maybe Wednesday? 716 00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:20.800 And you wrote back and said you've had a lot of emails. Oh, 717 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:27.559 yes, yes, well I uh okay, is it would it had 718 00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:30.719 come in from two eight one the aery code two eight one? Is that 719 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:34.960 possible? Okay, let me see if I there we go. I got 720 00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.920 him. Oh we got a You have a cat that likes to be in 721 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:44.559 every picture? Is that right? Yeah? He's just what a photo bomber? 722 00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:49.559 Uh? All right, yes, I did see your picture. Sorry, 723 00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:55.039 I just didn't have your Uh. The the lawn shows to me signs 724 00:52:55.239 --> 00:53:00.599 of damage from take call root rot, which kills grasp I canilling roots. 725 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:07.960 It is often associated with droughty conditions that anything that stresses and weakens the lawn 726 00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:12.679 opens the door for take all root rot to come in. It could also 727 00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:16.920 be that chinchbugs were involved, but based on what I see in the picture, 728 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:21.119 I don't think chinchbugs were the big issue. I think it was a 729 00:53:21.159 --> 00:53:24.599 matter of perhaps droughty conditions, not being able to get enough water to it, 730 00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:29.440 and then the take all root rot itself. That's what it looks like 731 00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:32.719 now. There is so much lawn damage there. It's kind of a toss 732 00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:37.480 up as to whether you resid or whether you take the sprigs that are alive, 733 00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:40.280 get them healthy and try to get it to fill back in. If 734 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:45.920 you can get them healthy, they're close enough together to fill that lawn back 735 00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:52.119 in by midsummer, but that is going to require proper watering on a regular 736 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:55.840 basis, a little bit of aeration. That's such a small area you could 737 00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:59.719 just use a spading for it to go straight down in the ground and kind 738 00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.760 of a hole open and just do it in all those places. In fact, 739 00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:07.440 make the cat do it. It seems to like to liver. Make 740 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:09.360 those holes as many as you can, put a little compost top dressing, 741 00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:16.679 leaf mold compost top dressing on that and just rake it in watered in really 742 00:54:16.719 --> 00:54:22.119 good. Also, do your spring fertilizing with a gradual slow release. I've 743 00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:25.880 been talking about different ones all morning. But do everything you can to create 744 00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:31.679 a wonderful root zone and let's try to get that growth back. Spraying for 745 00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:38.199 the take all now is generally not very effective. If you go online to 746 00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:44.719 gardening with skip dot com, that's my website, there will be a lawn 747 00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:49.719 care schedule and then another one that says lawn pest disease and weed management. 748 00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:52.559 And if you look at that one and the disease section, it's the great 749 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:58.199 or the tan part. When you get over to October, there'll be a 750 00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:01.800 treatment for take all and then a retreatment in November for take all. Those 751 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:07.159 are the two most important ones. Okay, okay, okay, we're kind 752 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:12.760 of outside the spring treatment for take all, but the fall is more important. 753 00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:15.800 But I would say, let's culturally do everything we can to get that 754 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:22.320 lawn in tip top shape. And the things I described aerration, compost top 755 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:25.239 dressing, and fertilization. I would do the fertilization first, then the aerration, 756 00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:30.400 then the compost top dressing, and what good. Okay, I've got 757 00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:35.159 the aerration coming this week, so I'll get that part. Oh wonderful. 758 00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:38.360 Okay, that's good, that's good. I can't I see some pine trees. 759 00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:43.519 I'm assuming it's it's still pretty sunny where that lawn is. Is that 760 00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:47.440 true? Yes? That gets the east morning sun. Okay, okay, 761 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:51.440 well, it would be good to get a little more sun on it, 762 00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:55.440 a little more energy. But keep the foot traffic off as best you can, 763 00:55:55.800 --> 00:55:58.960 and let's see if we can bring it back that way. All right, 764 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:05.639 Okay, so you want me to actually dig up some sprigs and replace, 765 00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:08.639 try to put some new grass and those if you if you want to 766 00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:13.119 do the fast easy, it's to reside that spot. I'm just saying, 767 00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:16.519 if you want to avoid the cost expensive residing, you have enough sprigs where 768 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:19.800 you might be able to get it to fill back in. Pretty good for 769 00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:22.679 you, So it's your choice either way. All right, Okay, great, 770 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:27.159 okay, thank you so much. All right, appreciate the call. 771 00:56:27.239 --> 00:56:31.199 Thank you. Jamis. If you are living in this area, you most 772 00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:37.199 likely have a clay soil our Houston black clay soils shrink and swell. What 773 00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:39.159 does that mean? They get wet, they get bigger, they get dry, 774 00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:43.800 they shrink up, and you see cracks everywhere. Cracks everywhere, including 775 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:46.760 in the brick outside your house, in the sheet rock inside your house, 776 00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:53.320 doors sticking, driveways and sidewalks, cracking. All of that can be fixed 777 00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:59.119 by Ty Strickland. He is the owner of Fixed my Slab Foundation Repair. 778 00:56:59.719 --> 00:57:01.920 Tie has been doing this for twenty three years. He knows how to do 779 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:06.280 it. I've sat down with him and picked his brain for an hour, 780 00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:08.719 just you know, what about this? What about that? How do you 781 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:12.719 do this? And he knows this stuff? Trust me, he really does. 782 00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:15.079 Tell him. You're a guardenline listener, you get a free estimate. 783 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:20.079 That's what he will do. Ty is committed to charging a fair price, 784 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:23.400 to showing up on time, and to fixing it right. That's the kind 785 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:28.400 of service we like to talk about here on guarden Line. You can call 786 00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:31.039 him two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine, or go to 787 00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:36.719 the website fixmislab dot com. Remember, tell him your Guardenline listener for a 788 00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:39.960 free estimate and have them come by, take a look, assess, and 789 00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:45.159 do it right. We're going to now go to Baytown and talk to Wayne. 790 00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:52.440 Hello Wayne, Hey, Wayne, you hello, Ski. Are you 791 00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:54.000 doing doing today? I'm good, sir. How can we help today? 792 00:57:55.639 --> 00:58:00.960 Question? Bought some celebrity celebrity tomato, put them in the ground maybe a 793 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:07.119 week before Easter, and just wonder how many weeks does it take before I 794 00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:12.920 maybe start seeing some blooms on these plants. Depends on the age of the 795 00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.679 plant when you bought them, how big then mature they were. You should 796 00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:21.119 see some blooms within a few weeks. If the plants are growing healthy and 797 00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:25.760 getting plenty of sunlight. Yeah, they're very healthy. I bought them out 798 00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:30.079 there at the feed store. You recommend in Mount Bellevue. Yes, huh 799 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:37.000 and very healthy and bought some of the soil and it's organic. The name 800 00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:43.840 the picture is like two big red tomatoes with a big yellow carrot on the 801 00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:45.800 side of it. All right, well, if you put an improved soil 802 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:50.039 in, you got your plants in, just make sure they don't like for 803 00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:53.800 water, and fertilize them gradually a little bit every few weeks, and you 804 00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:59.119 should be getting some tomatoes pretty soon if they're in good sunlight. Okay, 805 00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:02.360 let's go to fertilizer real quick. What should I buy or and one should 806 00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:07.199 I maybe fertilize them? I would? You know, if you bought a 807 00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:12.360 lawn fertilizer from them, you could just use that on your tomatoes. That 808 00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:15.400 would be just fine. If you want to buy just a specific vegetable fertilizer, 809 00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:20.280 you can find those from Nitrofosh, you can find those from Nelson Plant 810 00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:22.360 Food there. You know, there are a number of different ones on the 811 00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:27.280 market, But a lot of times I'll just use my lawn fertilizer on the 812 00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:30.840 tomatoes in a pinch, rather than driving all over town trying to find something 813 00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:32.719 else. You know, if you're oh, okay, what number would that 814 00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:36.800 be triple thirteen or no, no, no, no, it's it's like 815 00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:40.679 on my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com. One of those fertilizers on 816 00:59:40.719 --> 00:59:45.159 the schedule, it's going to be more like a fifteen to five to ten 817 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:51.119 or you know one of those yeah, one of those kind of ratio fertilizers. 818 00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:53.960 All right, okay, well, I appreciate the information. And should 819 00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:58.039 I fertilize them now or just waite a few weeks? No, go ahead 820 00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:00.039 and fertilize them now. Get it going, get it moving. Okay, 821 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:04.039 thank you sir. All right, good luck with that. Appreciate that. 822 01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:07.599 You know. Nitro Foss fertilizers like Superturf the nineteen four ten their slow release, 823 01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:12.079 and that is what you need to be switching to for your lawns right 824 01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.920 now. We want to gradually feed that lawn. Superturf has got fifty percent 825 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:20.519 of the nitrogen in slow release. It's got a supplemental iron in it, 826 01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:25.000 which is very important. Superturf is the silver bag. Nitroposs's silver bag makes 827 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:29.079 it really easy to pick out when you go to growers outlet up there in 828 01:00:29.079 --> 01:00:34.079 Willis or when you go out to enchanted forests down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, 829 01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:37.719 or perhaps RCW Nursery on I forty five, where I'm going to be 830 01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:39.679 next Saturday. Well, it's time for Nicky in the news. We'll be 831 01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:45.039 right back our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 832 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:47.880 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. 833 01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:51.880 We are going to talk about all kinds of things related gardening. First, 834 01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:54.880 I want to tell you about Channing Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg area. If 835 01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:58.760 anyone lives down in that area, you've probably already been. If not, 836 01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:01.239 crawl out from under the rock go check this place out. It is on 837 01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:06.719 FM three fifty nine north of Richmond, like you're heading Katie direction out of 838 01:01:06.760 --> 01:01:10.320 Richmond FM three fifty nine. It is a showplace. It is a destination 839 01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:14.960 nursery. It's as simple as that. I mean, I couldn't begin to 840 01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:19.840 describe all the things they have. Because if there is a plant that you've 841 01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:22.840 heard about that people love, whether it's bog and vieas for summer color or 842 01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:28.519 annuals or perennials, or ornamental grasses or roses, tree shrubs, herbs, 843 01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:32.880 vegetables, everything they've got it They've got it all right there at Enchanted Gardens. 844 01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:38.480 They specialize in carrying everything, including the fertilizers we have on guard Line, 845 01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:43.840 and they have a ton of landscape bling. I'm talking about the stuff 846 01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:47.800 that it just adds the whimsy, is that right, whimsy, Yeah, 847 01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:52.800 to the landscape, just fun stuff. Go check it out and see what 848 01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:59.599 I'm talking about again. Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. That's the website in Chandigardensrichmond 849 01:01:59.639 --> 01:02:02.280 dot com and they're open today, by the way, from ten am to 850 01:02:02.280 --> 01:02:05.519 four pm. It is going to be a good day to get out and 851 01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.159 about why not drive over there and check them out. When you're there, 852 01:02:08.199 --> 01:02:12.119 you're going to find all the fertilizers I talk about here on Guardline. You're 853 01:02:12.119 --> 01:02:15.800 going to find the soils that we talk about here on Guardenline, and that 854 01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:20.440 is important, you know. So perhaps you're interested in Microlife, you want 855 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:23.000 to get some of the Microlife fertilized, the humates plus that I've been talking 856 01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:27.679 about, the green bag, the six to four that I've been talking about, 857 01:02:27.719 --> 01:02:30.360 they've got it there. You know. Microlife has a lot of quality 858 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:35.599 products that are widely available. You can you can go on their website Microlifefertilizer 859 01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:38.039 dot com and you can learn about each one. They have products that are 860 01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:43.000 fish and Molson type products. They've got seaweed type products. They have a 861 01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:46.239 wide, wide variety. Do you have azaleas or camellias or blueberries and you 862 01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:52.440 want an acidic type plant food, that would be the pink bag from Microlife. 863 01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:57.199 And so when you start off with quality fertilizer like that and you buy 864 01:02:57.320 --> 01:03:00.360 quality plants like you're going to find out there in Chiney Guard, You're just 865 01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:04.880 you're on your way to success. You are on your way to success. 866 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.679 And without hesitation, I can tell you I've used the micro Life products a 867 01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:12.800 number of times in my landscapes, and I always have been pleased with the 868 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.480 results. I want to go out now to Cyprus, Texas, and we're 869 01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:22.920 going to talk to Sandy. Hello Sandy, Good morning, skip Happy Sunday. 870 01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:28.559 I have a question my blueberries. My blueberry plant. It's the nick 871 01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:36.039 container. It's a big, big plant. But the last free some of 872 01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:43.480 it died. So I have branches that look dead, but then they've got 873 01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:50.280 branches that branched off that are green. Should I click the dead looking ones 874 01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:54.920 to save the Yes, whole plant. Yeah, just take the dead out. 875 01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:58.119 If it's dead, it's dead, so you might as well get it 876 01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:00.639 out of there. Any little twiggy growth, you know, the little tweagy 877 01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:04.320 stuff inside that's not going to be productive, go ahead and take it out. 878 01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:12.280 I would start doing more regular watering and fertilizing unless you already are doing 879 01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:16.599 that. A boost a fertilizer like that Microlife pink bag for example. That 880 01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:23.159 is a natural slow release fertilizer, and all that organic material is very beneficial. 881 01:04:23.199 --> 01:04:28.599 Blueberries really like that. Water it regularly with a good quality water. 882 01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:32.559 One of the things we do that blueberries don't like is we use waters that 883 01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:38.639 have high salt content or high sodium content or other issues by carbonates and other 884 01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:41.960 compound they don't like. So as much as you can do like rain water 885 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:47.039 from a rain barrel, the happier that blueberry will be. And also do 886 01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:54.280 birds like blueberries because I get lots of Okay, so I just made something 887 01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:59.280 around it because I get them all the time, and then I can't dig 888 01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:02.679 them because yep, that's that's your birds. Yeah, you gotta have some 889 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:08.519 sort of netting over it, you know, depending on the set up around 890 01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:10.719 the house. I mean, you can just throw a netting on it. 891 01:05:11.159 --> 01:05:14.440 They may land on it and try to peck through the netting with the berries 892 01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:17.280 that it's sitting on. Some people put a little PVC hoop, a big 893 01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:23.199 long PVC that's arched into a hoop, and that way the netting sits over 894 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:25.920 the bush. On that PVC hoop. You have to do kind of like 895 01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:29.440 a north south hoop and an east west hoop, so it holds it all 896 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:32.639 up. But a lot of different ways to go about it. Just yeah, 897 01:05:32.679 --> 01:05:38.360 you gotta you gotta screen those guys out. Okay, thank you so 898 01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:45.159 very much. All right. You take quality soils. You know, let's 899 01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:48.199 say you're gonna plant blueberries, you need a quality soil mix. They have 900 01:05:48.239 --> 01:05:55.440 a fruit and veged fruit mix. Specifically at the heirloom Soils they have a 901 01:05:55.519 --> 01:05:58.239 veggie and herb mix. By the way, the fruit is called fruit berry 902 01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:00.719 and centrus mix. There's a vege herb mixed at Airloom Soils, which, 903 01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.639 by the way, one hundred and nineteen dollars of qbicyard in bulk. If 904 01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:09.039 you go out there, you can pick it up on your trailer. You 905 01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:12.519 can have them deliver it and dump it in the driveway. You can have 906 01:06:12.599 --> 01:06:15.400 them bring a supersack out. Just think of one of those grocery sacks from 907 01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:20.199 the grocery store that's cloth and it holds a qbicyard. Yeah, that would 908 01:06:20.199 --> 01:06:23.800 be a big grocery store sack. You've got a lot of groceries in that. 909 01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:27.280 Well. They're going to have that at Airloom Soils. Just go to 910 01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:31.280 Airloomsoilsoftexas dot com. By the way, on that website you'll find an outstanding 911 01:06:31.719 --> 01:06:36.320 soil calculator that will help you determine exactly how much you need. That is 912 01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:40.880 important. That is important. Now I've just mentioned a few of their products. 913 01:06:40.920 --> 01:06:45.320 They have many other quality products, and you need to go to Airloomsoilsoftexas 914 01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:49.039 dot com and learn more about them. They're available by bulk, of course, 915 01:06:49.280 --> 01:06:54.760 but they're also available in bags in many, many, many locations all 916 01:06:54.800 --> 01:07:00.000 around the Greater Houston area. And beyond that is important. That first step, 917 01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:02.000 the soil, the soil, the soil. That's where it all begins. 918 01:07:02.119 --> 01:07:05.679 I keep talking about it. I was in my garden the other day. 919 01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:10.079 I think I mentioned this yesterday, and I had not had a mosquito 920 01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:14.400 problem this year until I got out there and started pulling out some plants and 921 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:18.119 some debris and stuff, and I'm telling you, those guys were swarming me. 922 01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:23.280 That reminds me time to get the mosquito dunks and put those out. 923 01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:27.039 Where do you have standing water? Do you have a sagging roof gutter? 924 01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:30.440 Do you have a dog bowl, a water bowl that's just been sitting out 925 01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:33.000 there, or a bird bath that has stagnant water in it. Well, 926 01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:38.679 mosquitos, it doesn't take them long. They can raise They can go through 927 01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:41.920 the whole life cycle in just a couple of weeks right there. In a 928 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.119 small small amount of water, and I mean small, like a thimble full 929 01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:47.559 of water, a mosquito could grow up in literally, So what do you 930 01:07:47.599 --> 01:07:53.280 do? You put mosquito dunks in larger bodies of water and it releases a 931 01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:58.079 disease of mosquitos. Isn't that cool? And it doesn't hurt anything, doesn't 932 01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:00.360 hurt birds, doesn't hurt the family, cat out of the water. I 933 01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:05.280 mean, it is absolutely organic safe to use mosquito dunks. You can find 934 01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:09.639 them a lot of places. Almost every independent nursery we talk about, and 935 01:08:09.719 --> 01:08:14.199 feed store we talk about, and certainly the ace hardware stores we talk about 936 01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:18.199 are going to carry those mosquito dunks. You can break them up if you 937 01:08:18.279 --> 01:08:26.079 just need little pieces. There's also a mosquito bits that Summit Responsible Solutions also 938 01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:30.039 makes a bag of mosquito bits, and I guess think of them like grape 939 01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:31.920 nuts, remember that cereal. That's kind of what they remind me of. 940 01:08:32.399 --> 01:08:35.960 And you can just scatter a few of those here and there. The instructions 941 01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:40.119 are on the bag as to how much to use. When you put a 942 01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:44.079 doughnut or a dunk out there and it's floating in the water, it's going 943 01:08:44.159 --> 01:08:47.159 to give you about thirty days or more. It's going to protect about one 944 01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:51.560 hundred square feet of water surface. So and that's where the regulars are are 945 01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:56.640 up there on the surface of those water areas. So check for where the 946 01:08:56.640 --> 01:09:00.720 mosquitos are. Toss a dunk in that area, and you just pretty well 947 01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:02.960 take care of them with that them in the spray pesticides out there to kill 948 01:09:03.039 --> 01:09:10.039 the adult mosquitoes flying around. Nobody likes squitas. Don't be a skeeter breeder. 949 01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:15.319 That is a good motto. I think. Next Saturday, after the 950 01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:20.840 show eleven thirty one, two hours I'll be at Rcdew Nurseries. Rcdew Nurseries 951 01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:25.039 is the get it, got it nursery if they don't have it, and 952 01:09:25.039 --> 01:09:28.039 they probably already do have it, but if they don't have it, they 953 01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:30.279 can do their best to find it for you if it's available on the market 954 01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:34.319 and bring it in so you can know that when you go there, just 955 01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:38.039 ask them if they have it. I'll tell you things I have. They've 956 01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:41.680 got the best selection of roses you wi't see anywhere, pages and pages of 957 01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:47.199 roses. They have got an awesome selection of hibiscus and boogainbilia, and shrubs 958 01:09:47.199 --> 01:09:51.880 and trees which they grow themselves up there in Plannersville. You need annuals and 959 01:09:51.920 --> 01:09:56.840 perennials and shrubs. They've got everything like that. They're at two forty nine 960 01:09:56.880 --> 01:09:59.760 and belt wait eight you need to write that down. Next Saturday, I'll 961 01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:01.119 be there eleven thirty to one thirty, So I hope you come out and 962 01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:04.880 see me, bring me some samples and things like that, and we will 963 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:10.520 just be good to go. Be happy to diagnose, identify and recommend it, 964 01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:14.800 recommend solutions for you. Time to take a break seven one three two 965 01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:18.640 one two KTRH I'll be right back. Oh, we're just gonna western swing 966 01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:23.119 right into this next segment with a sleep at the wheel. You're listening to 967 01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:27.479 guardline. We are happy to visit with you about the things that interest you. 968 01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:30.560 What is of interest to you? I mentioned while ago I was gonna 969 01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:34.039 be at RCW Nursery this next Saturday from eleven thirty to one thirty, and 970 01:10:34.079 --> 01:10:38.960 while I'm there, I may be given away azamite. I'm actually giving away 971 01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:44.199 a lot of asamite, four forty four pound bags of azumite. While I'm 972 01:10:44.239 --> 01:10:46.760 there, I may be given away the four tree stabilizers. Two uh. 973 01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:51.800 People often ask me if they talk about as mite like fertilizer, and it 974 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:56.640 is because it has nutrients in it. But I need you to separate in 975 01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:01.039 your mind between the fertilizers that you put on your lawn to make it grow 976 01:11:01.079 --> 01:11:05.119 fast and big and green and all that and have density. That's what we 977 01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:11.159 normally think of is lawn fertilizing. Asimite has nutrients, but they're trace minerals. 978 01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:14.880 They're not the minerals that make the grass take off growing, but they're 979 01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:19.880 essential to plant growth. Plants need. We used to always say sixteen nutrient 980 01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:24.920 elements. Now we know it's up to around twenty different things that are part 981 01:11:24.920 --> 01:11:28.840 of various processes a plant has to have. So if you take something a 982 01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:32.319 plant needs a menuscule amount of, but the word need is in there. 983 01:11:32.399 --> 01:11:36.399 It's an essential trace mineral. If you took that out of the soil, 984 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:42.920 the plant couldn't grow, and so supplying that into the soil bank account is 985 01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:46.479 important so that it's there just in small amounts, but it's there so that 986 01:11:46.520 --> 01:11:48.960 your plant has it when it needs it. And that's what asmite does. 987 01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:54.079 You can take asumi, you can blend it with composts when you're putting it 988 01:11:54.119 --> 01:11:58.079 out on a garden bed, or mixing it into the soil. You can 989 01:11:58.119 --> 01:12:00.159 go about it a lot of ways. Just follow the label instructions. It 990 01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:05.119 doesn't take a lot in order to have success. I mean, when you 991 01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:10.840 overdo anything, I don't care if it's nitrogen fertilizer or trace minerals or anything. 992 01:12:11.239 --> 01:12:14.359 That's not a good thing. So do it in moderation. Follow the 993 01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:18.359 label and it will provide that bank account of all those trace minerals that are 994 01:12:18.399 --> 01:12:24.720 important for plant growth and for success. That's that is what as might does. 995 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:27.600 So show up at RCW next Saturday. Who knows, Maybe you'll win 996 01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:30.239 a bag. If not, you can pick one up there. They sure 997 01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:33.439 carry it. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight 998 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:41.479 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was 999 01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:45.520 at the house before I headed down for the radio show, at the house 1000 01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:49.399 taking care of a few things. We were redoing so much. You've heard 1001 01:12:49.479 --> 01:12:54.239 me talk about redoing my lawn. Boy was that ever a project? Eighteen 1002 01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:58.680 hundred square feet of four different kinds of turf grasses. I've got two Zoisias 1003 01:12:58.720 --> 01:13:04.000 and two Seen Augustine's, very new Saint Augustine's that we are looking at to 1004 01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:08.479 evaluate. So when I answer your gardening questions here, I'll at least be 1005 01:13:08.520 --> 01:13:12.239 able to say, yeah, it works and or it doesn't work or whatever. 1006 01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:15.840 I know it's going to work because these have been tested as part of 1007 01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:20.399 the Southern turf trials that go on between all the langre institutions across the South. 1008 01:13:20.920 --> 01:13:24.479 Uh So, when you're going to release a new Saint Augustine, like 1009 01:13:24.479 --> 01:13:30.560 A and M just released a release one called Cobalt, and so Cobalt was 1010 01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:35.319 tested in Georgia and in Mississippi and you know Louisiana and all these universities that 1011 01:13:35.399 --> 01:13:42.319 are testing the same groups of lines of turf grass to see how they do. 1012 01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:45.319 And before it gets released, it's had to prove itself. And so 1013 01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:48.520 we know they're going to be successful. I just want some hands on experience 1014 01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:50.319 with them, and that's what we're going to do. I've got him in 1015 01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:54.760 sun I've got them in a lot of shade, and I have two golden 1016 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:59.359 retrievers, So we're going to find out how weare tolerant they are because they 1017 01:13:59.399 --> 01:14:02.960 get they get the zoomies when they get to go outside and run around. 1018 01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:09.159 Anyway, that's been busy. Now next is the flower beds. I've got 1019 01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:13.880 some wonderful salvias I picked up the other day that I'm putting into flower beds. 1020 01:14:13.920 --> 01:14:16.840 I've got an old blush rose, one of my favorite antiquroses, old 1021 01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:21.159 blush that's in a bed and it's been struggling along. The bed had heavy 1022 01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:26.000 clay soil. I know better than that, but we had the rose, 1023 01:14:26.039 --> 01:14:28.720 didn't have a spot for it. We put it in there. I'm about 1024 01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:30.880 to pull it up and we're going to rework that bed. Now that I've 1025 01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:35.039 got my drainage pipes in for the bed, and here we go. We'll 1026 01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:40.760 be off to the races. Anytime you need a product that I talk about 1027 01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:44.760 on Garden Line, any fertilizer. If you have an insect issue, a 1028 01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:48.039 disease issue, if you have a problem with weeds, maybe you need a 1029 01:14:48.079 --> 01:14:54.039 pre emergent, you know, like we always talk about pre emergent herbicides to 1030 01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:59.000 prevent weeds from establishing, like barricade from nitrophiles. Maybe you need a post 1031 01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:01.079 emergent. I've got weeds, I got a spriam now and kill them. 1032 01:15:01.560 --> 01:15:08.000 Southwest Fertilizer has all of that. There's nothing you need for your garden, 1033 01:15:08.279 --> 01:15:14.199 landscape, lawn, you name it that Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have. If they 1034 01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:15.319 don't have it, you don't need it. We'll put it that way, 1035 01:15:15.680 --> 01:15:19.199 because they have it. They have everything everything you can imagine. Do you 1036 01:15:19.239 --> 01:15:23.800 need fire ink control? Do you need baits? Do you need individual mound 1037 01:15:23.800 --> 01:15:27.600 treatments? Do you want all this stuff I've been talking about synthetic? Do 1038 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:30.319 you want all this stuff I've been talking about inorganic? They've got it at 1039 01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:35.479 Southwest Fertilizer. Bob and Aaron and the team there they can identify things. 1040 01:15:35.479 --> 01:15:40.319 You bring a sample, you bring a photo in. I recommend doing that. 1041 01:15:40.399 --> 01:15:42.720 Don't you say, well, I got this weed I need to kill. 1042 01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:45.600 No, show them what it is, because they'll point you to the 1043 01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:49.560 product or products that are most effective against it. And that way you know 1044 01:15:49.600 --> 01:15:53.720 you have success. And as they say, that alone is worth the price 1045 01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:58.960 of admission. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. They're on the corner of Bissinet and 1046 01:15:59.079 --> 01:16:01.359 Renwick and Southward wes Houston. If you've never been by there, I don't 1047 01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:03.800 care where you live and you're listening to the show, you need to go 1048 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:09.079 by. You will be very impressed and the way they stock up and you're 1049 01:16:09.119 --> 01:16:13.319 a home with plenty of the things that you need to have a bountiful garden 1050 01:16:13.359 --> 01:16:16.399 and a beautiful landscape. I'm going to head out to Katie now and talk 1051 01:16:16.439 --> 01:16:23.840 to Jean. Hello, Jean, Hi, I have a question about fire 1052 01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:30.000 ants. I need to know what you recommend for treating the lawn and the 1053 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:34.640 garden with the product and also a name of a product that I can use 1054 01:16:34.680 --> 01:16:43.520 in the garden without poisoning my vegies. Okay, the only fire ant bait 1055 01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:48.560 I know of that is registered for garden vegetable gardens is come and get it 1056 01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:54.000 by FURTI loan fur to loan, can't get. It's a light blue bag. 1057 01:16:55.279 --> 01:17:00.000 It's the chemical and it is spinosid, which is an organic andsecticide attracts 1058 01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:03.079 them. They eat it, they get the spinosa. It does the job. 1059 01:17:03.560 --> 01:17:06.239 Anytime you're using a fireant bait gene, you want to make sure it's 1060 01:17:06.279 --> 01:17:11.680 fresh. I was talking somebody the other day who had tried a certain fireant 1061 01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:15.760 bait and they said it didn't work. And I know it works. So 1062 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:19.239 but if it's a soybean oil and a corn grip base, and if it 1063 01:17:19.279 --> 01:17:24.600 gets rancid, the intern can pick it up and it's not gonna A bait 1064 01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:28.800 doesn't work if they won't eat it, And so make sure it's fresh when 1065 01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:31.039 you go to put it out. Make sure the ants are out foraging. 1066 01:17:31.560 --> 01:17:35.199 And one way to do it is to get a paper, a paper, 1067 01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:40.720 a potato chip, throw free potato chips out there on the lawn and just 1068 01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:43.600 wait a while, come back fifty minutes later, and if fire ants are 1069 01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:45.960 on them, that means they're out feeding, and that's prime time for putting 1070 01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:48.720 it out. In the summer, we wait till late in the day to 1071 01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:54.239 put them out, but two weeks later, any mounds that are still around, 1072 01:17:54.359 --> 01:17:59.399 you can do an individual mound treatment on those, But always start with 1073 01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:03.720 the bait because that is the least toxic. You put very little bait out. 1074 01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:06.880 You don't dump it on the mound. You spread it evenly over your 1075 01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:11.640 whole property because anywhere there fire it. If you can talk your neighbors into 1076 01:18:11.640 --> 01:18:15.239 bating too at the same time, the results will last even longer because you 1077 01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:18.359 won't have fire names across the line that come right back into your yard. 1078 01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:23.079 So the more people that do that, the better off. It is, 1079 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:29.520 all right, all right? Now the product name for the lawn, is 1080 01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:31.800 it the same as of what I use for the garden. You can, 1081 01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:36.920 you can use come and get it. But in the lawns and stuff you 1082 01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:43.319 also have options. There's one called extinguish, there's one called amdro. Those 1083 01:18:43.359 --> 01:18:48.439 are two other examples of good fire baits that will work. Okay, Now, 1084 01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:55.439 if I put it in the lawn and my garden is raised when it 1085 01:18:55.640 --> 01:19:00.720 rains, do you think that if I use andro or the rain my wash 1086 01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:02.800 underneath the garden, no problem. If your garden is small, the answer, 1087 01:19:02.800 --> 01:19:05.039 are going to leave the garden and go out there and find it anyway? 1088 01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:09.000 Yeah, no, it won't watch all right, good luck with that 1089 01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:12.119 controling those fis. Thank you for the call. Ting Hey, you can 1090 01:19:12.119 --> 01:19:15.239 go to your ACE hardware stores out there and Katie, you've got a couple 1091 01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:17.640 of them, uh and they will have debates I'm talking about all right, 1092 01:19:18.199 --> 01:19:24.800 Thank you you bet take care. Uh I uh see, we're by time 1093 01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:29.239 to go to a break here I am. When we come back, I 1094 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:32.720 want to talk about a couple of things related to house plants and your calls 1095 01:19:32.760 --> 01:19:36.840 as well. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight 1096 01:19:36.920 --> 01:19:43.640 seven four seven one three two one two kt r H. I want to 1097 01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:46.760 remind you next Saturday, I'm going to be at where you've been listening this 1098 01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:50.560 morning. I'm gonna be at RCW Nursery eleven thirty to one thirty. I'm 1099 01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:55.399 going to be giving away four bags of as A my forty four pound bags, 1100 01:19:55.399 --> 01:20:00.199 four of them, four of the three sixty tree stabilized. You will 1101 01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:04.479 need one of these. These are the best way I've ever seen physic brand 1102 01:20:04.520 --> 01:20:10.119 new product. I throw away the wires, throw away all the steaks and 1103 01:20:10.199 --> 01:20:13.840 things to trip over and all the trouble and hassle. Get you a three 1104 01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:17.560 sixty tree stabilizer. They carry them there at RCW Nursery. I'll be answering 1105 01:20:17.600 --> 01:20:21.840 your gardening questions. I'd love to meet gardeners. Bring me pictures or samples 1106 01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:25.960 of plants in bags. Please put them in as as a blog bag. 1107 01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:28.840 Bring them on in. Let's take a look at them. We'll diagnose, 1108 01:20:28.920 --> 01:20:31.920 we'll identify. I'll take a look at pictures if you want. Here's an 1109 01:20:31.920 --> 01:20:36.239 area in my yard where I can't get such a substr pro What can I 1110 01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:40.199 do. We'll help you with that. Walk around there and find you the 1111 01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:43.960 right plants that'll fit that area. We'll be right back from break again. 1112 01:20:44.119 --> 01:20:49.399 Seven one three two one two KTRH. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 1113 01:20:49.439 --> 01:20:56.680 any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden 1114 01:20:56.720 --> 01:21:02.159 Line with Skip Rict. It's the crazy here mans it in the bass. 1115 01:21:02.159 --> 01:21:06.159 He's like gas. They be can use it? Why a shrimp? Just 1116 01:21:06.399 --> 01:21:13.720 watch him as world Golden Star. The grasses like gas and became you so 1117 01:21:14.000 --> 01:21:18.159 many con takes the sap hoops in the bad ing the bassis like Gas and 1118 01:21:18.279 --> 01:21:26.039 began you Damos clubs back Chicken, but Canada sound in the red the glassies 1119 01:21:26.079 --> 01:21:32.720 like gascind you so beam and down gets it in the grass. He's like 1120 01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:39.399 Gas they be can use your handle by first starting in and out of the 1121 01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:45.520 dreaming ing in the basses like Gas become you Ja. Everything is so clean, 1122 01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:53.520 can see and every thing here Sunday, the hand, the rim so 1123 01:21:54.399 --> 01:21:58.800 so m son, so many Welcome back to the guard Line. Good to 1124 01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:01.680 have you with us today. Was enjoying the Have you ever heard that much 1125 01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:05.600 of the song before? That is a cool song, you know that's been 1126 01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:11.920 around garden Line, that music for a very very long time. Randy brought 1127 01:22:11.920 --> 01:22:15.319 that on and it was just kind of the theme of it and I've just 1128 01:22:15.399 --> 01:22:18.600 kept it with us here because familiarity is a good thing, right, So 1129 01:22:18.640 --> 01:22:20.880 we're keeping it with us for a little while here. I don't know. 1130 01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:25.119 Maybe someday we'll come up with something new. We have to have to figure 1131 01:22:25.159 --> 01:22:29.760 that out, but not for today. Buchanans plants in the heights. When 1132 01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:32.680 you go to Buchanans, you know you were going to enter a wonderland that 1133 01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:38.159 has absolutely everything you need. It is like a little hideaway in the heights. 1134 01:22:38.199 --> 01:22:40.840 Really, you know, you're going along there on Eleventh Street, East 1135 01:22:40.880 --> 01:22:43.359 eleventh Street, and all of a sudden you look over there and boom, 1136 01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:46.479 there it is. And when you walk inside, you've entered another world, 1137 01:22:46.680 --> 01:22:50.600 a world where if you want native plants, well, there's a reason we 1138 01:22:50.640 --> 01:22:56.399 call it Buchanans native plants. They have all kinds of native options there. 1139 01:22:56.720 --> 01:23:00.279 Do you need houseplants or vegetables or anything. Do you need the fertilized I 1140 01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:02.840 talk about on guardenline, the soils we talk about on garden line. Buchanans 1141 01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:09.479 carries all that because what they do is they focus on quality products and quality 1142 01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:15.840 plants, and especially quality service, knowledgeable folks to help guide you. Very 1143 01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:19.279 valuable in a shopping experience at a garden center is to have knowledgeable folks, 1144 01:23:19.279 --> 01:23:24.680 and Buchanans has that they also have. You know, it's been we go 1145 01:23:24.720 --> 01:23:27.840 through these periods where we have rain here, and it rains and rains, 1146 01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:30.119 and we got to go, Okay, how do I fix the drainage? 1147 01:23:30.239 --> 01:23:34.359 Well, how about making lemonade out of those lemons? Get something from Buchanans, 1148 01:23:34.640 --> 01:23:39.720 like a rain lily, like an iris, like bog coneflowers or inland 1149 01:23:39.800 --> 01:23:44.039 coos or cannons. All of those plants will be very happy in a soggy 1150 01:23:44.079 --> 01:23:47.840 mess that other plants are going. I can't live there. Buchanans as plants 1151 01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:53.119 that can, so go check them out Leven streetom Heights, Buchanans Plants dot 1152 01:23:53.119 --> 01:23:57.720 Com. We're going to go now to Cyprus and talk to Martha. Hello, 1153 01:23:57.840 --> 01:24:05.760 Martha high Skip. I have been following the fertilization schedule for years, 1154 01:24:06.079 --> 01:24:13.800 but I am being nondated with dollar weed. Okay, it's just taking over 1155 01:24:14.119 --> 01:24:17.640 the gas. Looks great, but it's got a lot of dollared in it. 1156 01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:20.560 Yeah, well, there are different different approaches to it. First of 1157 01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:26.520 all, Culturally, when you have wet soil, dollar weed will proliferate. 1158 01:24:26.880 --> 01:24:30.319 So if it's in your control and in your control would be like, don't 1159 01:24:30.319 --> 01:24:33.359 water as much. Can't control the rain, but you can't control how much 1160 01:24:33.359 --> 01:24:39.439 you water. If you've got water that's being diverted to that area, that 1161 01:24:39.439 --> 01:24:44.199 could be diverted somewhere else. That would be another option. But culturally dried 1162 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:47.119 out a little bit and that helps. From a spray standpoint, we got 1163 01:24:47.119 --> 01:24:50.319 a couple of different products out there. The fact There are several that you 1164 01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:56.000 can use on dollar weed. One of them is something called Celsius. Celsius 1165 01:24:56.359 --> 01:25:00.880 is a product that is a post emergent broad leaf weed killer, and so 1166 01:25:01.119 --> 01:25:04.039 that's what you need. You've already got dollar weed up and growing. You 1167 01:25:04.039 --> 01:25:09.560 see the leaves, You spray the celsius on there and it works. Bonnie 1168 01:25:09.640 --> 01:25:13.800 has something called weed Beater Ultra. Now, the weed Beater Ultra, if 1169 01:25:13.840 --> 01:25:15.479 you're going to use it, you need to use it soon, and you 1170 01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:18.680 need to do it. I would do it in the morning. Once the 1171 01:25:18.720 --> 01:25:25.600 temperatures get up in the mid to upper eighties, I start to back away 1172 01:25:25.640 --> 01:25:29.159 from those kind of products because they're very good on weeds, but they're a 1173 01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:33.600 little hard on Saint Augustine in those warmer temperatures. So weed Beater Ultra you 1174 01:25:33.600 --> 01:25:40.279 can use in the morning for the next several weeks. Actually we can still 1175 01:25:40.359 --> 01:25:43.720 get good use out of it. Or the celsius will be another option. 1176 01:25:45.720 --> 01:25:53.680 How do you spell the celsius like the temperature celsius fahrenheit and celsius the same 1177 01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:59.960 course. Yeah, go ahead, do you you spray it on? Yeah? 1178 01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:02.720 Sign you mix it up and spray it. It comes in a those 1179 01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:10.920 I prefer no, I prefer a pump up sprayer for a weed control. 1180 01:26:11.279 --> 01:26:15.279 You could do it through a hose. You're putting out way more than you 1181 01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:19.000 need to just because hose is putting out all these big droplets, and so 1182 01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:25.960 I prefer to be able to just spray it enough to dampen the weed surfaces, 1183 01:26:26.720 --> 01:26:30.039 and that that will that will be the best way to go about it. 1184 01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:31.840 You don't need to drench the weeds with it. In fact, you 1185 01:26:31.880 --> 01:26:38.000 want to avoid when using herbicides washing them down in the soil. Well, 1186 01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:43.960 they have damage the grass, not the not the bone eyed weed beater ultra. 1187 01:26:44.199 --> 01:26:47.000 If the temperature is below let's say the mid eighties, you don't have 1188 01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:50.920 a problem. If you're using celsius, you can probably go up in the 1189 01:26:50.920 --> 01:26:56.239 lower nineties and still be okay up there in Cypress, are you like north 1190 01:26:56.239 --> 01:27:00.239 of two ninety or south of two ninety. Okay, Well you've got you've 1191 01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:04.199 got M and D supply on Luetta Road. Uh, and you've also yeah 1192 01:27:04.279 --> 01:27:08.119 set up I go, yeah, there you go. They're gonna they're gonna 1193 01:27:08.119 --> 01:27:12.439 have these products. Just just call them up or go buy okay, right, 1194 01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:15.000 Okay, it takes a lot of skip bye bye, Thanks for the 1195 01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:19.119 call. I appreciate that very much. We love feed stores here on Garden 1196 01:27:19.159 --> 01:27:24.399 Line and League City. Feed is just one of those feed stores I love 1197 01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:26.680 going into. In fact, I was in there just the other day visiting 1198 01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:30.920 with Madison. Uh and uh, you know, we I love to go 1199 01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:35.319 by and visit the folks there. But Wes was out. I don't know 1200 01:27:35.319 --> 01:27:38.640 where he was gallianting off to at that time, but I didn't get to 1201 01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:41.279 talk to him, talk to Madison. Her brother were there. Uh. 1202 01:27:41.640 --> 01:27:45.399 It's just one of those. Oh and Rushak Ruschak is a Dalmatian. You 1203 01:27:45.479 --> 01:27:48.119 got to go meet more Ruschak. Can you think of a better name than 1204 01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:51.760 than Ruschak for a Dalmatian? You know, it's kind of like a psychiatrist 1205 01:27:51.800 --> 01:27:56.880 says, look at that dog and tell me what you see That that's Ruschak. 1206 01:27:57.159 --> 01:28:00.680 They're on Highway three, a few blocks south of ninety six, near 1207 01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:04.439 in the League City area. So if you're in Santa Fe or Webster, 1208 01:28:04.600 --> 01:28:10.560 el Kamina, Reale, Clearlake, Lamark, San Leone Baycliff Dickinson, this 1209 01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:13.279 is your backyard feed store. And you go by there, you're going to 1210 01:28:13.319 --> 01:28:15.560 find all the fertilizers that I talk about on Guarden Line. Of course, 1211 01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:18.760 it's a feed short premium pet food. You got backyard chickens. They got 1212 01:28:18.800 --> 01:28:24.159 food for that too. It is the kind of place that'll take your bags 1213 01:28:24.159 --> 01:28:26.880 out for you and deliver them for you, just like the old time service 1214 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:31.119 was been around since forty years. The Thunderberg's third generation now running that feed 1215 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:35.039 store at League City Feed. Here's a phone number two eight one three three 1216 01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:40.319 two sixteen twelve. I'm going to head up to Conro now and talk to 1217 01:28:40.359 --> 01:28:43.680 Bill. Oh excuse me, I'm not going to head up to Conra and 1218 01:28:43.720 --> 01:28:45.760 talk to Bill just yet. Bill, you will be first up. I 1219 01:28:45.840 --> 01:28:48.239 spoke too quick. I got to go to a break. I get so 1220 01:28:48.319 --> 01:28:51.319 excited about this stuff. I forget the clock. We'll be right back. 1221 01:28:51.960 --> 01:28:55.840 Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Have 1222 01:28:55.880 --> 01:28:59.840 you been to Plants for all seasons lately? That's the nursery. It's on 1223 01:29:00.159 --> 01:29:03.680 Tombo Parkway Highway to forty nine. If you're going north up toward Tombull from 1224 01:29:03.680 --> 01:29:09.720 Houston, you cross exit Lutta across over Luetta and A's right there on the 1225 01:29:09.760 --> 01:29:14.359 right hand side. Been there a long long time. The Flowerdy family has 1226 01:29:14.720 --> 01:29:20.199 created a brilliant just an institution for that whole region up there. A lot 1227 01:29:20.239 --> 01:29:23.960 of people know plants for all seasons. They love it. They go there 1228 01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:27.000 because they know when they go there, they're gonna get plants they grow here. 1229 01:29:27.560 --> 01:29:30.119 They don't carry stuff that you're going to take home and kill it right 1230 01:29:30.119 --> 01:29:32.279 away because it don't belong here. You're going to get advice, and boy, 1231 01:29:32.279 --> 01:29:35.920 this is the this is the elephant in the room when it comes to 1232 01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:43.560 the importance of choosing an independent garden center, a local owned, independent garden 1233 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:45.880 center, and that is advice from people who know what they're talking about. 1234 01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:50.680 They are experts and all kinds of things. Plants. You can bring them, 1235 01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:54.640 samples, you can bring them pictures, you can just talk with them. 1236 01:29:54.840 --> 01:29:57.640 I got a shady area, I need this. They're going to direct 1237 01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:00.319 you to the things you need that will work because they if you've got a 1238 01:30:00.319 --> 01:30:02.960 brown thumb, they'll turn it green. If you've got a green thumb, 1239 01:30:03.039 --> 01:30:06.439 well, you've probably already been there because you know that when you get the 1240 01:30:06.520 --> 01:30:11.319 right soil mixes, the right fertilizers, the right plants, and you do 1241 01:30:11.399 --> 01:30:14.640 things the right way, you have success. And that's what Plants for All 1242 01:30:14.640 --> 01:30:19.279 Seasons will help you do the website Plants for All Seasons dot Com the phone 1243 01:30:19.359 --> 01:30:26.359 number two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six get your green on It 1244 01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:30.279 Plants for All Seasons dot Com. Let's go up to Conra. Now we're 1245 01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:34.079 going to talk to Bill. Hello Bill, Hi, skip Hey. Question. 1246 01:30:34.199 --> 01:30:40.399 I've got a parking strip that it looks like the contractors just covered up 1247 01:30:40.960 --> 01:30:47.720 the bermuda with Saint Augustine's sad and over time it's just all save bermuda and 1248 01:30:47.800 --> 01:30:51.520 I dug it up yesterday. But the roots are really really deep, and 1249 01:30:53.319 --> 01:30:56.880 my question is how deep do I have to pull the roots up? Or 1250 01:30:56.880 --> 01:31:00.079 should I be using some I mean, all the green is gone, a 1251 01:31:00.119 --> 01:31:01.600 lot of the roots are gone, but you're still I'm gonna have to cover 1252 01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:06.039 it with dirt. Should I use round up at this stage and try to 1253 01:31:06.119 --> 01:31:13.119 kill the last little bits off? Or I would? You know that hand 1254 01:31:13.119 --> 01:31:15.319 digging is an option, but you're always going to miss a few, and 1255 01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:18.319 so you're going to wait a while. Let it reach sprout and stick its 1256 01:31:18.359 --> 01:31:21.159 head up again. You see that green sprout, and then go down in 1257 01:31:21.199 --> 01:31:27.399 there and find that rhizome underground and dig it all out and that that's tedious. 1258 01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:30.399 You can do it that way. The alternative is to spray it with 1259 01:31:30.479 --> 01:31:33.239 something that will go through the plant, kill the whole plant and round up 1260 01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:36.840 wud do that. I prefer to say glay because round up is just one 1261 01:31:36.920 --> 01:31:43.960 brand. Sure that's the ingredient. There are grass only killers. They the 1262 01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:49.279 most common one begins with the boys name Seth se t H and you'll they'll 1263 01:31:49.560 --> 01:31:54.399 say grass be gone or something like that. On the label. You'll tell 1264 01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:59.319 you it's a grass killer. But against with Seth those work too. They're 1265 01:31:59.319 --> 01:32:03.840 not white as effective as round up or glyphissay at taking out the whole bermuda 1266 01:32:03.880 --> 01:32:08.880 plant, but they they're good. They're very good, and so that would 1267 01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:11.520 be the alternative. Some people don't want to use the glaphas say, so 1268 01:32:12.039 --> 01:32:15.399 you have a different alternative. But you got to get some grass up so 1269 01:32:15.439 --> 01:32:18.119 you can spray the green stuff. You need green stuff to spray. And 1270 01:32:18.199 --> 01:32:20.279 this is going to be a little bit of a process. If you get 1271 01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:24.159 in a hurry and you say, oh, let's go and put soil down 1272 01:32:24.840 --> 01:32:29.199 and sod, it's going to grow itself back into the problem again. Because 1273 01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:32.439 you can get it all. You don't want that. I know you don't 1274 01:32:32.439 --> 01:32:34.760 want to say. Okay, well, how long you have to wait after 1275 01:32:34.840 --> 01:32:41.119 you put down some kind of killer spray. Well, it takes I'd give 1276 01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:45.439 it about a week to move into the grass and start to really do its 1277 01:32:45.479 --> 01:32:47.520 work. By then you can do whatever you're going to do, and the 1278 01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:51.039 grass is already going downhill. As far as the plants you want to put 1279 01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:56.680 in, you can spray soil, kill the weeds on it, wait about 1280 01:32:56.680 --> 01:32:59.600 a week, just kind of rot it till it in a couple days later, 1281 01:32:59.640 --> 01:33:01.319 put the seeds in the ground or transplants, and it won't hurt them. 1282 01:33:01.399 --> 01:33:05.239 It it ties up with the soil and it basically think of it this 1283 01:33:05.319 --> 01:33:12.159 way. All these products we're talking about for killing grass, they they kill 1284 01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:17.479 green grass plant parts. Okay, so they don't make the soil toxic to 1285 01:33:17.560 --> 01:33:23.399 grass. So so yeah, you well, I'm going to put Saint Augustine's 1286 01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:26.800 sod on top of you know where it is because I want the grass. 1287 01:33:26.840 --> 01:33:30.159 Look, yeah, there were So give it a give it a week to 1288 01:33:30.279 --> 01:33:32.760 give it a week to work, lightly rototie the area, and then lay 1289 01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:36.319 your side down. A couple of days later, you'll be fine, okay, 1290 01:33:36.720 --> 01:33:41.239 all right, thank you, thank you. Good luck Bill, good 1291 01:33:41.359 --> 01:33:45.199 luck. Uh. Compost stop dressing is one of the most important things that 1292 01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:49.000 we can do if you really want to take an area that won't go grass 1293 01:33:49.039 --> 01:33:53.680 and help it grow grass. Now, if it's because of shade, well 1294 01:33:54.159 --> 01:33:58.479 no, you need sunlight. But if it's because of compaction, which happens 1295 01:33:58.640 --> 01:34:02.520 our clay soils are tight there. We call them heavy soils and foot traffic 1296 01:34:02.560 --> 01:34:08.199 and things, they compact and compost top dressing with aeration first to air eate. 1297 01:34:08.279 --> 01:34:11.680 Then you put the compost top dressing down over the top and it falls 1298 01:34:11.680 --> 01:34:15.680 in the holes and it opens up that soil. It gets oxygen down in 1299 01:34:15.720 --> 01:34:20.279 the soil so the roots can thrive, and it just improves it over time. 1300 01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:25.880 You can do it again and again over the years as needed. In 1301 01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:30.239 general, with a heavy compaction, you may have to repeat it periodically, 1302 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:35.960 but oftentimes yeah, you don't. But that initial application is very very effective. 1303 01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:41.920 Green Pro does that. Green Pro is up there. Actually they're in 1304 01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:45.600 the Magnolia area, but they serve about forty five mile radius for Magnolia. 1305 01:34:45.840 --> 01:34:50.600 So if you're done in you know, down to about roughly I ten and 1306 01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:56.479 over to about Interstate forty five just to draw rough lines. That's about the 1307 01:34:56.520 --> 01:35:00.359 area that they serve. They charge depending on how far are you wait for 1308 01:35:00.439 --> 01:35:04.720 travel because they're bringing in a lot of heavy equipment and a lot of bulky 1309 01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:11.800 quality, finely screened compost to do that, so about forty five miles from 1310 01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:14.600 Magnolia. They're who you need to contact. So here's how you do it. 1311 01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:18.319 You call them two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three two 1312 01:35:18.359 --> 01:35:24.239 eight one three five one forty seven thirty three, or go to the website 1313 01:35:24.640 --> 01:35:30.199 greenpro dot net greenpro dot net. If you've got a lawn that looks like 1314 01:35:30.359 --> 01:35:32.319 heck, and you're and a boy, I get these pictures from you guys 1315 01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:35.680 all the time here on guarden Line, and the lawn is just like there's 1316 01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:42.319 a few sprig gegrass here there in Yonder and that's just really struggling. How 1317 01:35:42.319 --> 01:35:45.039 do I bring it back? Well, that's one of the steps in it 1318 01:35:45.159 --> 01:35:47.960 that, along with proper watering, fertilizing, and then of course mowing, 1319 01:35:48.920 --> 01:35:55.119 is the secret to success with a turf grass lawn. I was talking with 1320 01:35:55.439 --> 01:35:59.239 Jason at Pure Scapes the other day and we were just talking about, you 1321 01:35:59.239 --> 01:36:03.319 know, the spring we're having in the industry and things like that, and 1322 01:36:03.399 --> 01:36:09.479 they're staying busy. And you know, a good reputable landscaper is going to 1323 01:36:09.560 --> 01:36:12.840 be busy. They're going to be booking weeks, if not months in advance. 1324 01:36:12.920 --> 01:36:15.439 Depending on the size of job you need to get done. Puer scapes 1325 01:36:15.880 --> 01:36:19.520 can do pretty much anything that you need. Do you need a patio, 1326 01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:24.399 a stone patio. Do you want a stone walkways? Do you need construction 1327 01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:29.560 of landscape beds? How about landscape lighting? Landscape lighting pathways? How about 1328 01:36:29.560 --> 01:36:33.239 hard scapes of other types, porous heartscapes or concrete heartscapes. Do you need 1329 01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:39.319 drainage improved? Most people do around here. Do you need your irrigation checked 1330 01:36:39.359 --> 01:36:44.520 on or adjusted or redone or fixed? They do all of that stuff. 1331 01:36:44.720 --> 01:36:46.800 But the thing they do that I think you really need to know about is 1332 01:36:46.920 --> 01:36:51.520 quarterly bed maintenance. You can hire them to come out once a quarter and 1333 01:36:51.560 --> 01:36:57.159 they trim, they weed, they fertilize, They check out the irrigation system, 1334 01:36:57.199 --> 01:37:00.960 see if it's still working right. They aerate, they do seasonal color, 1335 01:37:01.399 --> 01:37:04.680 They do mulching in the bed. They do all of that kind of 1336 01:37:04.720 --> 01:37:10.279 stuff and just keep your beds looking good. So that way through the year, 1337 01:37:10.319 --> 01:37:13.239 all twelve months of the year. You've got some of somebody coming out 1338 01:37:13.279 --> 01:37:16.479 quarterly. They need a new color change, now, well arrange it. 1339 01:37:16.520 --> 01:37:19.680 Do you want two color changes a year, three or four? They can 1340 01:37:19.720 --> 01:37:24.239 do all of that at Pierce Scapes. So how do you get a hold 1341 01:37:24.279 --> 01:37:28.640 of them. Well, you can go online, go to the website Piercescapes 1342 01:37:28.760 --> 01:37:30.600 dot com. You're going to see some awesome pictures there by the way of 1343 01:37:30.640 --> 01:37:34.159 the work they can do our give them a call. Two eight one three 1344 01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:41.359 seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero. 1345 01:37:42.000 --> 01:37:45.880 I said, I wanted to talk about houseplants, and I do. We 1346 01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:50.239 are in the process at our house of kind of renovating some of the houseplants. 1347 01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:53.560 We had one. It was a string. It stayed a little too 1348 01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:57.119 wet. I was part of the cause of that. I didn't realize. 1349 01:37:57.159 --> 01:38:00.439 My wife and I both were watering the thing, and it was in a 1350 01:38:00.439 --> 01:38:03.720 little too much soil for the size of the plant. And so when you 1351 01:38:03.800 --> 01:38:09.319 get a little plant in a big pot full of soil, it's hard not 1352 01:38:09.439 --> 01:38:14.159 to overwater because there aren't roots out there and all that soil. Yet pulling 1353 01:38:14.239 --> 01:38:16.760 water out of it, so it just sits there and stays soggy. And 1354 01:38:16.800 --> 01:38:19.600 so that's just kind of a thing you might want to watch out for. 1355 01:38:19.960 --> 01:38:26.079 But we're doing some trimming. I got several plants that just got apathos excuse 1356 01:38:26.119 --> 01:38:29.760 me, a not apothos. Philodendron looks kind of like apothos. It got 1357 01:38:29.800 --> 01:38:32.640 real long and stringy. I mean it had like ten foot strings on it, 1358 01:38:33.319 --> 01:38:36.119 and I want to keep it as just a mound of beautiful foliage. 1359 01:38:36.119 --> 01:38:40.880 So I'm doing some trimming and cleaning up on it. Always with houseplants, 1360 01:38:40.960 --> 01:38:44.399 one of the most important things is getting them in the right lighting. You 1361 01:38:44.520 --> 01:38:48.199 need success. Now, there's two things you can say about lighting. There's 1362 01:38:48.239 --> 01:38:51.760 how much light does it take to keep it alive, and there's how much 1363 01:38:51.840 --> 01:38:56.079 light does it take for it to thrive. Those are two different things. 1364 01:38:56.199 --> 01:39:00.000 More light to thrive than to keep it alive. We have low lighthouse plants 1365 01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:03.680 to do well, but they don't thrive in that condition. You get them 1366 01:39:03.680 --> 01:39:08.359 in a little brighter light and they thrive. Sometimes I'll move plants by the 1367 01:39:08.359 --> 01:39:12.840 window, or put them under an artificial light, or put them even outside 1368 01:39:13.000 --> 01:39:16.119 on a bright porch that's covered so they don't get direct sun to kind of 1369 01:39:16.159 --> 01:39:20.319 rejuvenate them and get them going and then bring them inside for the decorating. 1370 01:39:20.600 --> 01:39:24.319 But it's easy to have a room full of house plants. And when you 1371 01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:29.840 put house plants in the house, it just makes it feel more at home. 1372 01:39:30.039 --> 01:39:33.840 It just softens less sterile. I guess the setting. It just makes 1373 01:39:33.880 --> 01:39:38.239 it inviting. We're made to be around plants, you know that. We 1374 01:39:38.399 --> 01:39:40.680 know at the Kingwood. Now we're going to talk to Bill. Hello. 1375 01:39:40.720 --> 01:39:48.399 Bill. My question are involve Augustine and take off patch. Okay, I've 1376 01:39:48.760 --> 01:39:55.960 had a problem in the past with it, and I thought I had reasonable 1377 01:39:56.000 --> 01:40:02.079 control. But I see yellowing of the the leaves in areas. Yes, 1378 01:40:03.439 --> 01:40:09.600 collect the areas, and I presume that's take all patch. It could be 1379 01:40:10.199 --> 01:40:13.560 it could either be that or it could just be an iron deficiency. So 1380 01:40:13.680 --> 01:40:17.479 you can try putting an iron supplement on it and see if that clears up. 1381 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:21.960 If it does, then it wasn't take all pack. Yeah. Yeah, 1382 01:40:25.439 --> 01:40:29.479 well I'm assuming I have been assuming that it take all pack. Okay, 1383 01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:32.600 And hey Bill, I got it about have about thirty seconds to break, 1384 01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:35.159 so let's see if we can do this. If not, I'll hold 1385 01:40:35.159 --> 01:40:41.680 you to the console. And Mike will Yes, I have put on in 1386 01:40:41.720 --> 01:40:46.119 two week periods, but is there anything I'm afraid that's preventive? Is there 1387 01:40:46.159 --> 01:40:50.279 something I can put on to kill it? There's not a good curative for 1388 01:40:50.359 --> 01:40:54.600 it. You can hold it in place with sprays, but there's not a 1389 01:40:54.640 --> 01:40:59.600 good curative. If you can find something that has a zoxystrobin in it, 1390 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:03.119 have to go online to garden Gardening with Skip dot com. That's my website. 1391 01:41:03.159 --> 01:41:05.319 Hey, I'm gonna have to stop here. Let me come back and 1392 01:41:05.319 --> 01:41:09.520 finish entering that for you. Bill, thanks for that call. Time for 1393 01:41:09.600 --> 01:41:13.199 Nicky in the news. Well, we are welcome back to your garden line. 1394 01:41:13.279 --> 01:41:15.239 Good to have you with us today. We're going to go right back 1395 01:41:15.239 --> 01:41:17.520 to Bill. We were visiting the Bill up in Kingwood. Bill, we 1396 01:41:17.560 --> 01:41:20.800 were talking about dealing with the take all root rot, and on my schedule 1397 01:41:21.359 --> 01:41:27.760 at Gardening with Skip dot com you will see that in October and November are 1398 01:41:27.880 --> 01:41:32.119 two very important treatments if you're dealing with take all root rot. That is 1399 01:41:32.359 --> 01:41:35.479 a key time to get in and get ahead of it. And we do 1400 01:41:35.560 --> 01:41:42.399 two treatments separated. If you can find a zoxystrobin products, that's a little 1401 01:41:42.439 --> 01:41:46.800 bit better. There is a per called Heritage that is very hard to find. 1402 01:41:47.239 --> 01:41:50.640 It is exoxistrob and if you find it, get it. That's it. 1403 01:41:51.520 --> 01:41:58.520 Scott's makes one called disease X. Disease X by Scott's is also a 1404 01:41:58.600 --> 01:42:02.840 zoxystroban, but I would switch to that product. There are some other options, 1405 01:42:02.880 --> 01:42:06.840 but I think that just in one shot deal that that's probably as good 1406 01:42:06.880 --> 01:42:15.720 you're going to do in terms of the U application rate. A lot of 1407 01:42:15.720 --> 01:42:19.920 times on the bags they'll they'll say, uh, you know, preventative. 1408 01:42:20.039 --> 01:42:25.399 I mean, they won't take credit for curing, right along the lines of 1409 01:42:25.399 --> 01:42:30.479 what you've just said. But is there Well, I know there's a HANSWERD 1410 01:42:30.479 --> 01:42:42.399 to the micro content in the soil, but increasing the dosage beyond what's done 1411 01:42:42.720 --> 01:42:45.119 on the bag, you can't answer that, can you. Well, I 1412 01:42:45.159 --> 01:42:49.359 would never say don't follow the label in this particular case. I would not 1413 01:42:49.520 --> 01:42:54.199 do that for other reasons. For example, some of these products have a 1414 01:42:54.239 --> 01:42:58.159 little bit of a growth regulator effect on your grass. Some of the PUNO 1415 01:42:58.159 --> 01:43:02.279 sides do, and by excessive use them. It's almost this isn't a good 1416 01:43:02.319 --> 01:43:06.439 analogy, but it sort of makes sense. It's almost like a chemotherapy thing 1417 01:43:06.560 --> 01:43:11.760 where you're fighting a problem, but you're also taking a toll on the patient, 1418 01:43:11.960 --> 01:43:15.239 and so yeah, I would not I would not go above the label 1419 01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:18.319 on these products for fungicides for your loan. Yeah. No, no, 1420 01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:23.800 I mean obviously the patient. It's giving it a toll taken on them by 1421 01:43:23.840 --> 01:43:28.439 that they're already struggling, Yeah, without you giving them Yeah all right. 1422 01:43:29.399 --> 01:43:33.760 No, No, I had seen that reference in a relative to northern grasses 1423 01:43:34.359 --> 01:43:39.039 as a cross in the York. Okay, No, I've tried to heard 1424 01:43:39.079 --> 01:43:44.359 each and before, but I will get back to it and just any previous 1425 01:43:44.399 --> 01:43:47.680 years. Yeah, just get to my label or get to my schedule on 1426 01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:50.920 gardening with Skip dot Com. Thanks a lot for the call, Bill, 1427 01:43:51.000 --> 01:43:56.159 I appreciate that you know Landscaper's Pride. I keep talking about the importance of 1428 01:43:56.239 --> 01:44:00.000 soil, the importance of soil. Landscaper's Pride has twenty seven different bag and 1429 01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:03.920 they also sell by bulk too. Landscaper's Pride is always local. It's the 1430 01:44:03.960 --> 01:44:08.279 top quality resource. They've been in business since two thousand and two, so 1431 01:44:08.439 --> 01:44:13.319 over twenty years of experience now, so they know exactly what they're doing. 1432 01:44:13.760 --> 01:44:16.560 They have a rosemex for example, very effective for any of the woody ornamental 1433 01:44:16.560 --> 01:44:20.920 plants or any things that are a little preferring maybe of a little bit lower 1434 01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:26.079 pH soil. It's got fresh and composted pine, box pagnum and slow release 1435 01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:30.680 fertilizer. Gardner's Magic just another example, contains humus green pine, composted dry 1436 01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:35.880 cels and a chicken pellet fertilizer that lasts up to three months. Other quality 1437 01:44:35.920 --> 01:44:40.720 examples from Landscaper's Pride. To look for a pot dirt which is actually an 1438 01:44:40.840 --> 01:44:45.960 organic certified soil blend and premium pinting soil as well. You're not going to 1439 01:44:45.000 --> 01:44:50.479 go wrong with Landscaper's Pride. Go to the website Landscaperspride dot com and find 1440 01:44:50.479 --> 01:44:55.800 out where to get it because it is widely available. Let's head after Brenham 1441 01:44:55.800 --> 01:45:01.319 now and talk to Leonard. Hello, Lenyard, good morning morning. I've 1442 01:45:01.319 --> 01:45:10.159 got about thirty Japanese boxwoods, you know as a hedge, and one by 1443 01:45:10.319 --> 01:45:14.159 one they're just sort of dying off on me, and i mean really dying. 1444 01:45:14.319 --> 01:45:18.199 They just look brown inside the green. The ones who was sighted at 1445 01:45:18.239 --> 01:45:24.319 the moment look really good. But I'm afraid that it's going to catch is 1446 01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:27.840 some kind of disease or something. Yeah, it could be. Is your 1447 01:45:27.840 --> 01:45:32.520 soil sandy or clay or what. Oh, it's up close to the house, 1448 01:45:32.520 --> 01:45:36.000 and I think when they built the house twenty years ago that they probably 1449 01:45:36.039 --> 01:45:43.000 put some sand in there. But it's predominantly white gumbo around here. And 1450 01:45:43.720 --> 01:45:48.319 a number of things can affect boxwoods. Nematodes can attack the roots that they 1451 01:45:48.560 --> 01:45:56.880 generally are worse than a sandy soil, the blights of the upper growth. 1452 01:45:57.479 --> 01:46:01.399 There are diseases. There's one called boxwood blight that's very serious, very difficult 1453 01:46:01.479 --> 01:46:09.880 to deal with. There are some root root fungi that plug the plumbing of 1454 01:46:09.920 --> 01:46:13.479 the plant. And when you have a boxwood that's half dead, you know 1455 01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:15.399 you're going to lose it. You pull it up, take your knife and 1456 01:46:15.479 --> 01:46:20.479 slice down through the stem. Slice through the stem, and instead of being 1457 01:46:20.560 --> 01:46:26.239 a fresh, creamy color underneath there like you would expect, it'll be brown 1458 01:46:26.279 --> 01:46:30.560 streak, almost like a cigarette butt stain, you know, that old black, 1459 01:46:30.640 --> 01:46:33.800 brown gray thing. It'll look like that. That is a sign of 1460 01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:38.840 one of the vascular wilts that can occur. So it could be a lot 1461 01:46:38.880 --> 01:46:42.039 of things if you have a row of them. So you got some value 1462 01:46:42.119 --> 01:46:46.199 here. I would dig one up that is still alive but on its way 1463 01:46:46.239 --> 01:46:49.159 out, and I would take it up to you can drive it up to 1464 01:46:49.840 --> 01:46:55.239 the path lab up at A and M. It's on the West campus. 1465 01:46:55.840 --> 01:46:59.319 Or you can ship it and have them go ahead and analyze it. Get 1466 01:46:59.399 --> 01:47:02.039 some soil, shake the excess soil off the roots, but get it all 1467 01:47:02.079 --> 01:47:08.119 boxed up in a big old trash bag and take it in there and let 1468 01:47:08.159 --> 01:47:11.960 them figure out which of these it is, because then they can prescribe which 1469 01:47:11.960 --> 01:47:15.880 of the fungicides if that's what's needed, you would use and you could then 1470 01:47:15.920 --> 01:47:18.279 try to save the rest of yours to go out and just start trying this 1471 01:47:18.399 --> 01:47:21.800 and that product willie nilly, you're is probably not a good way to go. 1472 01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:29.319 So fertilizer of any can it won't give it well, fertilizer. Fertilizer 1473 01:47:29.359 --> 01:47:32.880 will give it a boost, but what you're describing, fertilizer's not going to 1474 01:47:32.960 --> 01:47:39.119 fix. Yeah, yeah, that diet it is. And you need to 1475 01:47:39.159 --> 01:47:43.520 know which of the organisms is involved so that we can try to shut that 1476 01:47:43.640 --> 01:47:46.520 down as soon as possible before you lose a lot. Okay, are they 1477 01:47:46.600 --> 01:47:50.359 dying? Are they dying in like a row like you know, it hits 1478 01:47:50.359 --> 01:47:53.720 this one and then the next one, then the next one. Yeah. 1479 01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:58.239 Well yes, if they're close together, it seems like it'll it'll get in 1480 01:47:58.319 --> 01:48:03.159 a row and three of them ago and uh well, uh, let's let's 1481 01:48:03.159 --> 01:48:05.680 get ahead of it because you need you need to get a good drink. 1482 01:48:05.800 --> 01:48:09.920 If that's the case, there's probably gonna end up being a fungicide drench you 1483 01:48:10.079 --> 01:48:15.000 put on the all the all around the root system. But let's let's start 1484 01:48:15.000 --> 01:48:18.560 with a good diagnosis. You can go online. The website is Plant Clinic 1485 01:48:19.640 --> 01:48:26.239 dot t a m U dot e d U, Texas and m Education Plant 1486 01:48:26.239 --> 01:48:29.960 Clinic dot TAMU dot e d U. There's a form there you can fill 1487 01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:32.520 out, or you can just drive them up there and and get the form 1488 01:48:32.560 --> 01:48:36.760 filled out there. All right, very good, thank you. Do you 1489 01:48:36.800 --> 01:48:42.039 have time for one and more? Real quick, real quick. I've got 1490 01:48:42.039 --> 01:48:46.039 two nice raised beds. I've grown tomatoes every year, and I've spent a 1491 01:48:46.079 --> 01:48:49.760 lot of time with my mulch and everything else, and they look about a 1492 01:48:49.840 --> 01:48:53.560 foot and a half right now. They look pretty good, but some of 1493 01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:58.319 them are sort of yellowish in the lee's onmosis because they're kind of new. 1494 01:48:59.079 --> 01:49:02.000 Uh if I can put some iron or something in that the help. Is 1495 01:49:02.039 --> 01:49:04.880 it the older leaves at the bottom of the plant first, or is it 1496 01:49:04.920 --> 01:49:10.159 the new leaves at the top of the plant turning yellow? I think probably 1497 01:49:10.279 --> 01:49:13.720 you're right at the bottom. Or it's got some holes in them. Some 1498 01:49:13.920 --> 01:49:15.920 of them's got actually got of holes, and it don't look like bugs. 1499 01:49:16.000 --> 01:49:18.399 Yeah, well, it could be a beatle or a caterpillar, but we're 1500 01:49:18.399 --> 01:49:23.159 not worried about those. I would get a good quality fertilizer. You'd like 1501 01:49:23.199 --> 01:49:27.399 a lawn fertilizer that has a high nitrogen content, and sprinkle that on there 1502 01:49:27.439 --> 01:49:31.880 and watered in and see if it brings it back. If it's just generally 1503 01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:38.199 yellowing, it sounds to me like nitrogen. And it could be occasionally getting 1504 01:49:38.199 --> 01:49:41.159 too dry, but with the weather we've had, I don't think it's the 1505 01:49:41.279 --> 01:49:45.880 latter. Yeah, I keep it not too water, but yeah, but 1506 01:49:46.199 --> 01:49:49.880 water. And I thank you very much. In big help. You bet 1507 01:49:49.960 --> 01:49:54.920 a couple of tablespoons a lawn fertilizer or sprinkled around and watered in. We'll 1508 01:49:54.960 --> 01:49:58.159 see on each plant, Yeah, on each butt. That'll tell you whether 1509 01:49:58.319 --> 01:50:00.640 it's a nitrogen problem or not. Thank you. You appreciate your call. 1510 01:50:01.279 --> 01:50:05.920 Wow, we're already at another break. It seems like we're By the time 1511 01:50:05.960 --> 01:50:09.600 I get rollin, I have to hit the brakes again. Well, here 1512 01:50:09.640 --> 01:50:13.239 we go seven one three, two, one two fifty eight seventy four. 1513 01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:15.840 Welcome back to Gardenline. Good to have you with us today. Hey, 1514 01:50:15.920 --> 01:50:20.720 are you gonna pot up some plants? Maybe for indoors like houseplants, maybe 1515 01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:27.840 for outdoors. Jungle Land distributed by nitroposs is a quality soil mix. It's 1516 01:50:27.880 --> 01:50:32.359 got Canadian blonde pete mixed with four different sources of aged organic matter and the 1517 01:50:32.439 --> 01:50:36.520 microrise of fungi that help the roots to thrive. You know those fungi that 1518 01:50:36.720 --> 01:50:42.279 essentially make the root system more efficient. Jungle Land indoor plants has the water 1519 01:50:42.319 --> 01:50:46.399 saving crystals in it. Jungle Land flour and vegetable planting soil will do good 1520 01:50:46.520 --> 01:50:50.560 for anything you want to put in outside. Where do you get jungle land, 1521 01:50:50.560 --> 01:50:55.279 Well, katie Is Hardware has it out there on Pinoak in Katie Ace 1522 01:50:55.319 --> 01:50:59.640 Hardware City on Memorial Drive down the Memorial area, and one more place, 1523 01:50:59.640 --> 01:51:02.800 how about Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin. All places you're going to be able 1524 01:51:02.840 --> 01:51:09.600 to get jungle land I'm going to head out now to Dickinson and talk to 1525 01:51:09.680 --> 01:51:16.600 Janice. Hello, Jennis, all there, I have a very nice bird 1526 01:51:16.600 --> 01:51:23.520 of paradise. The foliage is lovely, but it won't bloom. And also 1527 01:51:23.640 --> 01:51:32.279 the same problem with aga panther. I've used the color star and not doing 1528 01:51:32.319 --> 01:51:36.199 the job well. They need you know, they do well in a really 1529 01:51:36.239 --> 01:51:41.920 really bright shade, but they need enough sunlight and it gets a little too 1530 01:51:41.960 --> 01:51:45.199 shady. They just don't have the energy to bloom. It gets plenty of 1531 01:51:45.319 --> 01:51:50.720 sun It's a very puzzling situation. Is the bird of paradise? How long 1532 01:51:50.720 --> 01:51:55.199 has it been in? More than a year? Oh? Yeah, I 1533 01:51:55.239 --> 01:52:00.199 think I planted it last year in a nice big pot. Yeah. They 1534 01:52:00.239 --> 01:52:03.359 normally do bloom pretty well. Uh. I don't know what to tay you 1535 01:52:03.359 --> 01:52:06.680 if if you're giving it adequate moisture. It doesn't need to be in a 1536 01:52:06.760 --> 01:52:10.960 swamp, for sure, it needs good drainage. But if you're giving it 1537 01:52:11.000 --> 01:52:14.479 a good, good, adequate moisture to keep drought stress out. If you're 1538 01:52:14.479 --> 01:52:17.479 fertilizing it with a quality product like that, you should be getting blooms. 1539 01:52:17.640 --> 01:52:21.800 Add sunlight, and I don't know what to tell you about that plant. 1540 01:52:21.880 --> 01:52:26.960 Not blooming if you're doing those things for it. Now, the agapanthus those, 1541 01:52:27.239 --> 01:52:30.199 you know, we do need a little brighter light for those. They 1542 01:52:30.359 --> 01:52:34.399 I see them in tall high shade, you know where it's real bright shade. 1543 01:52:35.119 --> 01:52:41.560 But they they also need that good nutrition. And if you're if you're 1544 01:52:41.680 --> 01:52:45.680 which which of the products are you using? Did you say color Star? 1545 01:52:46.520 --> 01:52:50.640 Yeah? For blooming, for blooming plant, that's a good one. That 1546 01:52:50.800 --> 01:52:54.479 is a good one. Well, I tell you you're doing everything right. 1547 01:52:54.600 --> 01:52:58.079 I don't know what's wrong with those plants that they just wouldn't bloom through it. 1548 01:52:58.199 --> 01:53:01.520 Sometimes they can both be person could be like that. Well, I 1549 01:53:01.520 --> 01:53:06.000 guess that's the problem in their persnicity. Well, uh, now the color 1550 01:53:06.039 --> 01:53:10.720 Star, I mean, excuse me. The bird of Paradise. I found 1551 01:53:10.800 --> 01:53:14.079 that it does pretty well when it gets a little root bound too, so 1552 01:53:14.199 --> 01:53:15.800 that may I don't know if that would would help or not, but I 1553 01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:20.760 think that that would be one thing that I would try. If you it's 1554 01:53:20.800 --> 01:53:26.239 in a nice big pot, so there's not much chance of it being root 1555 01:53:26.319 --> 01:53:30.680 bound. It could happen. I'll keep seeing it. Maybe, Yeah, 1556 01:53:30.079 --> 01:53:33.439 found Realdun's a good thing for that. We don't get to say that much 1557 01:53:33.479 --> 01:53:38.479 about about plants. Uh, yeah, but that you know, color Star, 1558 01:53:38.720 --> 01:53:42.560 that's a that's an excellent, excellent fertilizer. You should be Yeah. 1559 01:53:42.960 --> 01:53:45.640 It's got blood meal and bone meal, all kinds of good stuff in it 1560 01:53:45.640 --> 01:53:51.079 should make them boom, but it does. And how long how long have 1561 01:53:51.119 --> 01:53:56.000 you been using that color Star? About a year? About a year? 1562 01:53:56.039 --> 01:54:00.199 Okay? Well, I bought it because I wanted the bird a pair at 1563 01:54:00.279 --> 01:54:03.760 us to bloom. All my neighbors have them. They're blooming beautifully. And 1564 01:54:03.800 --> 01:54:11.920 mine's just a like a lush tropical foliage plants. There's not such a thing 1565 01:54:11.960 --> 01:54:14.760 as a male female, is it. No? Man, No, there's 1566 01:54:15.279 --> 01:54:18.520 okay, Well, I don't know. It's just a real puzzle. I 1567 01:54:18.520 --> 01:54:21.920 guess it'll boom sooner or later. Yeah, And I just don't tell you 1568 01:54:23.000 --> 01:54:26.800 other than be patient. It's a it's a you got a good it's a 1569 01:54:26.800 --> 01:54:29.840 good plant. You've got it in good care from what you're telling me. 1570 01:54:30.399 --> 01:54:32.960 Uh, And that that's a good fertilizer. So I think you're doing everything 1571 01:54:33.039 --> 01:54:36.239 right. All right, all right, Well, I thank you for your 1572 01:54:36.279 --> 01:54:40.079 time, you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate your call. 1573 01:54:40.560 --> 01:54:44.760 Uh have you been to the Arburgate latey and checked out the new parking lot 1574 01:54:44.840 --> 01:54:47.239 and back. Oh my gosh, it is so cool any of you like 1575 01:54:47.319 --> 01:54:50.279 me who've been out there and maybe tried to park out on the road and 1576 01:54:50.319 --> 01:54:53.640 things, because you know, everybody wants to go to Arbrogate. I mean 1577 01:54:54.000 --> 01:54:57.680 people love that place and for good reason. Well, now you just turned 1578 01:54:57.720 --> 01:55:00.600 down Trishl Road, which is think of it as a little loop that goes 1579 01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:05.000 around behind Arburgate. So coming from the east or the west on twenty nine 1580 01:55:05.039 --> 01:55:09.680 to twenty turned on Trichel you come up to the back of Arburgate. Just 1581 01:55:09.720 --> 01:55:13.800 pull right in there. You got a really nice all weather pathway and they 1582 01:55:13.800 --> 01:55:15.760 have such a good selection right now. I mean, I don't care what 1583 01:55:15.920 --> 01:55:19.359 it is. You want fruit trees. You know, Arburgate carries fruit trees 1584 01:55:19.560 --> 01:55:24.439 year round and they have a lot of good information by the way online on 1585 01:55:24.479 --> 01:55:30.720 their social media on caring for fruit trees. Beverly and Angela Chandler collaborating on 1586 01:55:30.800 --> 01:55:34.560 some really good educational content. While you're there, pick up the one two 1587 01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:41.840 three completely easy system. It's an organic soil food. It's a food four 1588 01:55:41.840 --> 01:55:45.800 four to three plus calcium fertilizer. Anything with the roots. It will do 1589 01:55:45.920 --> 01:55:51.479 well. Organic soil complete it is a soil and it contains the expanded shale, 1590 01:55:51.479 --> 01:55:56.840 which is important in clay soils, and the organic compost complete also contains 1591 01:55:56.840 --> 01:56:00.439 that expanded sheal. Those three products one two three together there's your brown stuff 1592 01:56:00.760 --> 01:56:04.119 and your plants are going to thrive in it. And you get that simply 1593 01:56:04.159 --> 01:56:10.039 as that is arbigate. If you've been thinking about doing some bee keeping, 1594 01:56:10.520 --> 01:56:14.720 you need to call the folks in Dayton at the Bee Supply b Supply out 1595 01:56:14.760 --> 01:56:18.720 in Dayton. They have a number of options for educational programming, like a 1596 01:56:18.760 --> 01:56:25.399 beginning bee keeping class for example Strong Foundation. Those classes start at nine thirty 1597 01:56:25.399 --> 01:56:28.039 in the morning, they go to a three thirty. You even get hands 1598 01:56:28.079 --> 01:56:32.680 on experience doing hive inspections in the process. They have a honey extracting class 1599 01:56:32.680 --> 01:56:39.600 coming out. Here's the website dbsupply dot com. When you're there, if 1600 01:56:39.600 --> 01:56:43.119 you got property, let's say five to twenty acres and you're within forty or 1601 01:56:43.159 --> 01:56:47.640 fifty miles of Dayton, they will do something called a b rental program where 1602 01:56:47.640 --> 01:56:51.039 they bring the bees out they set them up on your property. There is 1603 01:56:51.119 --> 01:56:57.000 an ag tax benefit from having bees on the properly and they take care of 1604 01:56:57.039 --> 01:57:00.840 them for you. So it's a win win deal. Need to check it 1605 01:57:00.920 --> 01:57:03.119 out. Need to check that out at the bee supply. We're going to 1606 01:57:03.199 --> 01:57:09.319 go now out to Conroe and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, good 1607 01:57:09.319 --> 01:57:15.840 morning morning. I've got excuse me. I've got a couple of pear trees 1608 01:57:15.960 --> 01:57:23.399 that I planted from seed. Uh, from a tree that was on my 1609 01:57:23.520 --> 01:57:29.319 uncle's property in Michigan. He claimed it was a Russet pair. And I've 1610 01:57:29.359 --> 01:57:32.079 done an Internet search and can't find anything at all on it. But the 1611 01:57:32.159 --> 01:57:39.560 tree have been in the ground seven or eight years. They're thriving. The 1612 01:57:39.680 --> 01:57:45.960 first five six years they didn't bloom at all. The last couple of years 1613 01:57:45.520 --> 01:57:50.760 they're blooming a little bit well set, little little bitty fruit, and then 1614 01:57:50.800 --> 01:57:57.840 they'll fall off. Those things. Marble size, marble size fruit. That's 1615 01:57:57.880 --> 01:58:00.760 a rootstock you've got. It's a rootstock. It's not a regular pair. 1616 01:58:01.640 --> 01:58:06.399 It's it's like the Bradford pair. That's an ornamental pair. It's that same 1617 01:58:06.520 --> 01:58:12.880 kind of pair. And so unfortunately the graft must have died on those. 1618 01:58:12.960 --> 01:58:16.079 You need to get another one. Yeah, Well, the way I the 1619 01:58:16.079 --> 01:58:20.840 way I got the seed, of course, it was an old tree that 1620 01:58:21.399 --> 01:58:26.960 all had the best case in pears I ever tasted. Yeah, yeah, 1621 01:58:27.000 --> 01:58:29.640 it was. It was on this last leg. I got one of the 1622 01:58:29.720 --> 01:58:33.199 last couple of pairs off of that tree, brought them home and planted those 1623 01:58:33.239 --> 01:58:36.439 seas. All righty well, I don't know what else to tell you, 1624 01:58:36.560 --> 01:58:41.960 but I'm a bear of bad news today on that Larry. But I'd find 1625 01:58:42.039 --> 01:58:45.319 you another good quality pair and get back in business as soon as you can 1626 01:58:45.399 --> 01:58:49.479 with it. And thank you, Thank you a lot. I appreciate the 1627 01:58:49.479 --> 01:58:53.359 information. Yes, sir, I appreciate your call. If you live up 1628 01:58:53.359 --> 01:58:56.439 in Tomball, you're looking for your hometown feed store. That's D and D 1629 01:58:56.560 --> 01:59:00.520 Feed, D and DE Feed. They always are getting in deliveries of baby 1630 01:59:00.600 --> 01:59:04.199 checks out there. And when I say baby checks, I mean all kinds 1631 01:59:04.239 --> 01:59:08.880 of different variety. They are on twenty nine to twenty west of Tumbull, 1632 01:59:08.880 --> 01:59:12.800 about three miles west of two forty nine. The Dover family has been running 1633 01:59:12.800 --> 01:59:16.079 that place since nineteen eighty nine. They've expanded it. It just keeps getting 1634 01:59:16.119 --> 01:59:19.800 better. If I talk about a fertilizer, we talk about soil blends and 1635 01:59:19.800 --> 01:59:24.680 stuff that they've they're d and defeat. They will take care of you. 1636 01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:27.399 They will get it done right out there. Give them a call two eight 1637 01:59:27.479 --> 01:59:32.920 one three five one seventy one forty four d and defeat. We're going to 1638 01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:36.640 put another hour in the books here. I want to remind you that next 1639 01:59:36.680 --> 01:59:43.079 Saturday, I will be at RCW Nurseries, which is the nursery right there 1640 01:59:43.119 --> 01:59:47.520 where Highway two forty nine Tomboll Parkway comes into Beltway eight. Easy, easy 1641 01:59:47.560 --> 01:59:50.840 to get to, makes it really simple. I'm going to be there answering 1642 01:59:50.840 --> 01:59:56.960 your gardening questions, just visiting with you, helping you design. Maybe you 1643 01:59:57.039 --> 02:00:00.359 want to create a beautiful bed and you need some plants, suggest uestions. 1644 02:00:00.439 --> 02:00:02.239 I'll just take you around and show you some of those out there. There 1645 02:00:02.359 --> 02:00:06.359 is going to be a lot of folks coming it has there been big shund 1646 02:00:06.359 --> 02:00:10.720 egg that they're having out there. You don't want to miss this at RCW 1647 02:00:10.840 --> 02:00:15.159 Nursery. Four as ofmite bags forty four pounds each, I'm gonna be giving 1648 02:00:15.199 --> 02:00:18.920 them away, four three sixty tree stabilizers. I'll be giving them away out 1649 02:00:18.960 --> 02:00:23.720 there at r c W Nursery. Why are you out there? Check out 1650 02:00:23.720 --> 02:00:28.720 the roses um the believable selection of roses and many many other kinds of plants 1651 02:00:28.760 --> 02:00:32.000 as well. We're gonna take a break and I'll be right back. Kt 1652 02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:36.239 r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 1653 02:00:36.279 --> 02:00:43.520 on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rickard. 1654 02:00:43.560 --> 02:01:00.079 It's so crazy, Trim. Just watch him as the world so many things. 1655 02:01:08.319 --> 02:01:15.279 They're not a sor. Welcome back to the Garden Line. Good to 1656 02:01:15.279 --> 02:01:16.319 have you with us today. It's gonna be a nice day. Have a 1657 02:01:16.319 --> 02:01:18.760 little clouds out there, but don't worry about those. They're not going to 1658 02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:23.079 do anything but block a little bit of the sun for a while. It's 1659 02:01:23.119 --> 02:01:26.560 a day to get outside this afternoon. I hope you will visit one of 1660 02:01:26.600 --> 02:01:31.399 our awesome local garden centers, our mom and Palm Pop independence however you want 1661 02:01:31.439 --> 02:01:35.720 to put it. Uh, those independent garden centers are the lifeblood of the 1662 02:01:35.720 --> 02:01:42.520 industry and they're how we get good information and good plants and good advice because 1663 02:01:42.279 --> 02:01:47.680 these are folks that are knowledgeable, These are folks that have experience with gardening. 1664 02:01:48.119 --> 02:01:51.119 These are folks that grow the kinds of things and sell the kinds of 1665 02:01:51.159 --> 02:01:56.239 things that you need to have success. And you just can't beat that that 1666 02:01:56.680 --> 02:02:00.439 is the most cost efficient way in the world is is to get good quality 1667 02:02:00.439 --> 02:02:06.600 products with good quality advice and service after the sale. That very very important, 1668 02:02:08.279 --> 02:02:13.119 very important. If you haven't been out to Neilson Water Garden and Nursery, 1669 02:02:13.159 --> 02:02:15.479 you ought to go out there. I know a lot of you have 1670 02:02:15.560 --> 02:02:17.880 been. Nelson Water Garden's been around a long time. Listen, they're national 1671 02:02:18.000 --> 02:02:24.880 leader when it comes to water gardening. They even created, invented the disappearing 1672 02:02:24.920 --> 02:02:29.079 fountain that comes out of like a large container like picture this large upright urn, 1673 02:02:29.600 --> 02:02:33.119 glazed pottery, gorgeous, beautiful water coming out of the top and down 1674 02:02:33.159 --> 02:02:38.600 the sides. It goes into a bed of rocks underneath and it recirculates back 1675 02:02:38.640 --> 02:02:44.399 through. It just adds It adds movement, It adds a sound of water. 1676 02:02:44.840 --> 02:02:47.880 It adds a place that attracts birds too, by the way, in 1677 02:02:48.000 --> 02:02:51.600 your garden and in your landscape. And it's just stunning. And you got 1678 02:02:51.600 --> 02:02:56.560 to go see them yourself. Go out there, take some friends, because 1679 02:02:56.600 --> 02:03:01.439 this isn't just a regular garden center. It is a destination place when you 1680 02:03:01.479 --> 02:03:04.520 walk in the back. First time I walked in there, I looked around 1681 02:03:04.720 --> 02:03:09.680 and I was just stunned. It's like my first thought was, yes, 1682 02:03:09.840 --> 02:03:14.199 one of everything. I've got to have one of everything, beautiful, all 1683 02:03:14.279 --> 02:03:17.159 kinds of designs, whatever attracts you, whatever's interest to you. They've got 1684 02:03:17.199 --> 02:03:20.680 those designs. Then Nelson folks can come to your place and they can design 1685 02:03:20.800 --> 02:03:26.119 and build a pond for your yard. They can build a waterfall, a 1686 02:03:26.159 --> 02:03:31.119 little nice water feature for yard. They can set up one of those large 1687 02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:36.600 pottery material placed pottery that have water coming around like I described. They can 1688 02:03:36.640 --> 02:03:40.119 set that up, or they can help you do it yourself if you want 1689 02:03:40.159 --> 02:03:43.640 to go about it that way. Do you need a fish pond with stunning 1690 02:03:43.720 --> 02:03:48.079 koi or beautifully sparkling goldfish, aquatic plants to go in your water. They 1691 02:03:48.079 --> 02:03:51.880 have that. But they're also a nursery, a garden center, so when 1692 02:03:51.920 --> 02:03:55.399 you go out there, you're gonna find a lot of different kinds of plants 1693 02:03:55.439 --> 02:04:02.159 available. Nelsonwatergardens dot com. You need to know Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Go 1694 02:04:02.359 --> 02:04:06.479 check it out, but most importantly get out there and see it, because 1695 02:04:06.560 --> 02:04:13.199 I cannot do it service describing it on the air. It is inspirational, 1696 02:04:13.439 --> 02:04:15.920 absolutely inspirational. Let's go to pairline. We're going to talk to Mark. 1697 02:04:16.520 --> 02:04:23.680 Hello, Mark, Hi, I am a country property in Brenham. Then 1698 02:04:24.800 --> 02:04:30.600 I want to do to kill till fill thing to side the backyard, okay, 1699 02:04:30.960 --> 02:04:34.880 And the problem is is the backyard is pretty close to the wellhead, 1700 02:04:35.079 --> 02:04:39.960 like maybe twenty or thirty feet. I don't know what kind of a herbicide 1701 02:04:40.000 --> 02:04:43.159 to use. I've got every weed that you can you can think of. 1702 02:04:43.199 --> 02:04:47.880 I'm more or less a weed form. Well, you're going to use a 1703 02:04:47.920 --> 02:04:54.760 post emergent broad leaf or are all broadleaf and grass weed killer? There are 1704 02:04:54.880 --> 02:04:58.279 things that just kill broad leafs, are things that just kill grass, and 1705 02:04:58.319 --> 02:05:02.399 then there's glacis which kills But when you use any of those, you're going 1706 02:05:02.439 --> 02:05:06.239 to follow the label real carefully and you're barely gonna wet the weeds. You 1707 02:05:06.319 --> 02:05:10.640 do not need to drench them. Wash it done into the soil. It 1708 02:05:10.680 --> 02:05:13.680 doesn't work on the roots, it works on the leaves. So if you 1709 02:05:13.680 --> 02:05:16.119 get out there only in the morning when the wind's not blowing, and you 1710 02:05:16.239 --> 02:05:20.159 use a little coarse spray, not high pressure that creates a fog that just 1711 02:05:20.239 --> 02:05:25.760 drifts across the landscape, but just pump it up a few times, get 1712 02:05:25.520 --> 02:05:29.800 a little spray coming out and just barely we the foliage. You're gonna be 1713 02:05:29.840 --> 02:05:32.239 okay, it's gonna be. It's gonna sit there for a while. It'll 1714 02:05:32.319 --> 02:05:35.680 dry up, but it will have moved in and it'll kill everything you spray 1715 02:05:35.680 --> 02:05:40.960 it on. And then you can do whatever you're gonna do, rototilling, 1716 02:05:41.119 --> 02:05:44.720 filling, anything you want to do to get the ground ready for sod. 1717 02:05:45.159 --> 02:05:47.880 And I'd say give it a week to do its work, and after that 1718 02:05:48.000 --> 02:05:53.079 you can start mowing the weed back. And by the way, don't mow 1719 02:05:53.119 --> 02:05:56.840 before you spray. You want lots of leaves to catch that spray, right, 1720 02:05:58.279 --> 02:06:01.760 Okay. So I did see some warnings about glyco eight that you shouldn't 1721 02:06:01.960 --> 02:06:09.079 use it within fifty feet or something like that water will don't I don't know. 1722 02:06:09.159 --> 02:06:15.000 Well, if you use it right, I wouldn't be worried about those 1723 02:06:15.079 --> 02:06:18.119 kinds of things, okay, So that light spraying it just on the leaves 1724 02:06:18.159 --> 02:06:21.640 would be yeah, and it would be okay, right, it doesn't it's 1725 02:06:21.760 --> 02:06:26.479 not gonna you know, go down in. It ties up in the soil, 1726 02:06:26.800 --> 02:06:31.159 eventually breaks down in the soil itself. But I wouldn't be concerned about 1727 02:06:31.159 --> 02:06:34.760 that. There is a form of life a say called radio used in ponds 1728 02:06:34.800 --> 02:06:39.199 to kill pond weeds. So it's sprayed right on the water that one. 1729 02:06:39.399 --> 02:06:44.279 It's the formulations different. There's some things in regular round up type stuff that 1730 02:06:44.359 --> 02:06:47.359 you wouldn't want to spray in your water because it's not designed for that. 1731 02:06:47.479 --> 02:06:53.199 But you know, hey, it's your call. I'm not telling you have 1732 02:06:53.239 --> 02:06:57.479 to use something you can use broadly. If we control products, you can 1733 02:06:57.600 --> 02:07:01.439 use grass only products. They're all chemical. Every chemical has a potential to 1734 02:07:01.479 --> 02:07:06.000 cause damage. You've got to use it right to avoid causing those problems. 1735 02:07:06.359 --> 02:07:12.560 Right. And I was thinking about resting zoysia because it gets hot out there. 1736 02:07:12.960 --> 02:07:15.800 Man. I have a sprinkling system to keep it watered well, but 1737 02:07:15.520 --> 02:07:19.800 I didn't know. What do you think about zoysia grass? Good grassias are 1738 02:07:19.840 --> 02:07:24.880 good ones. I would choose a broader, a wider leaf type of zoysia. 1739 02:07:24.960 --> 02:07:28.239 It's still going to be about a third as wide as a Saint Augustine 1740 02:07:28.319 --> 02:07:34.039 leaf, almost almost as narrow as bermuda grass. But those are called Zoisia 1741 02:07:34.119 --> 02:07:38.680 japonica. And there's a lot of brands. There are a lot of brands, 1742 02:07:38.760 --> 02:07:44.439 a lot of cultivars out there of it el Toro, Jammer or examples. 1743 02:07:44.560 --> 02:07:48.079 The one that I think the most of is Palisades. Every time I've 1744 02:07:48.119 --> 02:07:51.079 seen Palisades, have been very impressed with it. Now that that doesn't mean 1745 02:07:51.119 --> 02:07:55.079 it's the only zoisia that will grow and look good, not at all. 1746 02:07:55.880 --> 02:07:59.000 But that's if you can find it. Go with Palisades. If not, 1747 02:07:59.840 --> 02:08:03.239 you've got you know, you've got some other options. Everyone has its pros 1748 02:08:03.279 --> 02:08:07.520 and cons, right, kind of like people, kind of like people like 1749 02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:11.560 you and me, Mark, We got our pros and cons. That's right, 1750 02:08:13.319 --> 02:08:16.520 all right, Well, I appreciate the information, all right, give 1751 02:08:16.560 --> 02:08:18.840 it a shot. Good luck, Okay, thanks you hope you have a 1752 02:08:18.199 --> 02:08:22.199 beautiful long come out of this. By the way, when you get that, 1753 02:08:22.520 --> 02:08:26.640 you get that lawn. In Nelson's slow and Easy twenty two to two 1754 02:08:26.680 --> 02:08:31.840 ten, that's the fertilizer needs to be going down right now. It will 1755 02:08:31.880 --> 02:08:35.640 carry you into summer. It lasts a very long time. I mean, 1756 02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:37.680 I say two or three months. I think you can even go you know, 1757 02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:41.199 up to as much as six months, depending on conditions and whatnot. 1758 02:08:41.239 --> 02:08:46.840 But the nitrogen is in a slow and easy form. So even though don't 1759 02:08:46.880 --> 02:08:50.079 let that big number twenty two scare you, that's a lot of nitrogen, 1760 02:08:50.159 --> 02:08:52.920 but it's going to gradually be released over a long time, which is how 1761 02:08:54.000 --> 02:08:58.479 grass takes up nitrogen and other nutrients. So a forty pound bag will cover 1762 02:08:58.640 --> 02:09:03.439 five thousand square feet. By promoting slow growth, you have a good balance. 1763 02:09:03.439 --> 02:09:07.560 You have good top growth, and you have good root growth. When 1764 02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:11.000 you dump a bunch of nitrogen on at one time, you get top growth 1765 02:09:11.000 --> 02:09:13.279 at the expense of root growth, new some slow and easy avoids at and 1766 02:09:13.319 --> 02:09:16.760 make some more drought resistant lawn as a result. We're going to take a 1767 02:09:16.760 --> 02:09:20.960 little break here. We will be right back. Welcome back to the garden 1768 02:09:20.960 --> 02:09:24.279 line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, if you are 1769 02:09:24.359 --> 02:09:28.039 interested in attracting birds to your landscape, and you really should be. Birds 1770 02:09:28.159 --> 02:09:33.159 add not only their songs, which my favorite part of the morning is waking 1771 02:09:33.239 --> 02:09:37.159 up and hearing the birds are loud mouths first thing in the morning. I 1772 02:09:37.760 --> 02:09:39.439 don't know if you notice that or not, at least mine at my house. 1773 02:09:39.520 --> 02:09:43.359 Are I love that love to hear their songs. I love just to 1774 02:09:43.439 --> 02:09:48.520 watch the beauty, I mean, very attractive, their antics, watching them 1775 02:09:48.720 --> 02:09:50.880 win. Have a little bird bath, you know, taking a bath and 1776 02:09:50.960 --> 02:09:54.880 the bird bath. Well, why birds Unlimited is your shop and stop for 1777 02:09:54.079 --> 02:09:58.680 anything birds. They have very high quality material. We're talking about bird feeders, 1778 02:10:00.359 --> 02:10:03.920 bird houses, and bird seed. You can buy cheap bird seed and 1779 02:10:03.960 --> 02:10:09.880 it's not inexpensive. It's cheap. It's full of little red bebes and a 1780 02:10:09.880 --> 02:10:13.239 lot of it just gonna get kicked on the ground. So maybe you paid 1781 02:10:13.279 --> 02:10:16.279 less for the bag, but you paid more for the seed the bird got 1782 02:10:16.319 --> 02:10:18.920 to eat, and then you have this mess on the ground. Wawbirds has 1783 02:10:20.000 --> 02:10:24.000 blends for every season and for every type or group of birds that you're wanting 1784 02:10:24.079 --> 02:10:30.199 to feed. Wide variety of quality products. And they have holeless products, 1785 02:10:30.199 --> 02:10:33.720 so like there's not even sunflower seed holes that the birds are broken open to 1786 02:10:33.760 --> 02:10:37.439 get the seed inside. They already break the holes open and put the seed 1787 02:10:37.479 --> 02:10:41.199 instead of the whole land seed into the mix. That's what I'm talking about. 1788 02:10:41.600 --> 02:10:46.560 Do you want to attract specific kinds of birds with housing with food, 1789 02:10:46.840 --> 02:10:50.680 They can tell you how to do that. Very knowledgeable, very knowledgeable staff 1790 02:10:50.960 --> 02:10:54.079 that will take you through the seasons. If you're dealing with squirrels getting in 1791 02:10:54.119 --> 02:10:58.279 the bird feeder, they got solutions to that as well. Wabird's unlimited. 1792 02:10:58.319 --> 02:11:07.359 Here's the website in Houston, WBU dot com forward slash Houston WBU dot Com 1793 02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:13.279 Forward slash Houston. Everything from hummingbirds to the little tiny chickadees and tip mice 1794 02:11:13.319 --> 02:11:18.479 and other kinds of birds that are out everything you can imagine. Warbirds Unlimited 1795 02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:22.800 is the place to learn and to bring the things home that bring them to 1796 02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:28.479 your yard. We're going to head out now to Mike in the Woodlands. 1797 02:11:28.479 --> 02:11:31.840 Hello, Mike, Hey are you I'm well sir. How can we help 1798 02:11:31.880 --> 02:11:39.159 today? Yeah? I heard the previous call about saw it out from the 1799 02:11:39.159 --> 02:11:41.880 gentleman that was on the review just a second ago. I had just had 1800 02:11:41.920 --> 02:11:46.800 my backyard resawted with Saint Augustine about six to seven weeks ago. Okay, 1801 02:11:46.239 --> 02:11:50.359 uh, and it's taking. Will had a sprinkle system put it in as 1802 02:11:50.359 --> 02:11:54.640 Will. It's taking. Well, it's growing. It's looks really really good. 1803 02:11:54.760 --> 02:11:58.760 But my question is it seems to be bumpy when I'm walking around the 1804 02:11:58.800 --> 02:12:03.880 backyard where the seams for the different squares of sod were. Yes. Uh, 1805 02:12:03.159 --> 02:12:05.640 my kids like to play soccer in the backyard, so I was wondering 1806 02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:11.079 what's the best method to kind of level it out? Yeah, you know, 1807 02:12:11.159 --> 02:12:13.880 walking around it's kind of like you can almost almost feel like might twist 1808 02:12:13.880 --> 02:12:16.640 and ankle in different spots. Okay, should I try to? You know, 1809 02:12:16.640 --> 02:12:20.720 what's what's the best methods is to level it out? Uh? And 1810 02:12:20.800 --> 02:12:24.600 should I do? Should I do that before the first cut? I guess 1811 02:12:24.640 --> 02:12:26.680 that's my question. It doesn't matter when you do it, but the sooner 1812 02:12:26.760 --> 02:12:30.840 the better. They should have laid the sod better than that. But if 1813 02:12:30.880 --> 02:12:33.520 the if the if you do have the big gaps, I would get a 1814 02:12:33.560 --> 02:12:37.239 little bit of a kind of a sandy loam top soil material and just kind 1815 02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:41.600 of pour it in between those areas as best you can, you know, 1816 02:12:41.680 --> 02:12:45.199 kind of work it down in there as the sod grows over it. It's 1817 02:12:45.199 --> 02:12:48.399 going to fix a lot of that anyway over time. But starting off by 1818 02:12:48.479 --> 02:12:52.840 filling in the actual gaps sounds like you got some pretty good ones in there. 1819 02:12:52.359 --> 02:12:54.640 I would go ahead and just get that done. You're gonna be able 1820 02:12:54.640 --> 02:12:58.159 to see it. It's gonna take a little while for the sod to grow 1821 02:12:58.199 --> 02:13:01.760 back over it, but before long it'll look just beautiful. Okay. And 1822 02:13:01.800 --> 02:13:05.640 I guess that with time, the grass cuttings and things like that will feel 1823 02:13:05.680 --> 02:13:07.800 in the small little bumps and areas. Yeah, they well they do, 1824 02:13:09.000 --> 02:13:13.359 and the sod runners and everything and just the soil kind of settling in and 1825 02:13:13.960 --> 02:13:18.119 coming together a little bit better. But for the big gaps, I'd go 1826 02:13:18.119 --> 02:13:20.880 ahead and put that top soil in the air in those areas to fill them 1827 02:13:20.920 --> 02:13:24.600 in. And the sooner you do that, the better off, because then 1828 02:13:24.600 --> 02:13:28.279 the grass can go right over through that. Okay, So you would use 1829 02:13:28.359 --> 02:13:30.479 to just more like a top soil, right, more like a top soil. 1830 02:13:30.560 --> 02:13:33.680 Yeah, if you use a compost or bed mixed type product, it's 1831 02:13:33.720 --> 02:13:37.720 going to decompose a way and you'll be back to having a gap again. 1832 02:13:37.840 --> 02:13:41.279 The top soil is you know, it's stable, it's gonna it's just gonna 1833 02:13:41.319 --> 02:13:46.720 be there. Okay, so you're playing, all right, take care, 1834 02:13:46.760 --> 02:13:50.399 Thank you so much. All right, take care. Good to have that 1835 02:13:50.439 --> 02:13:56.039 call. Uh. Jungle Land is a nitro foss product distributed by Nitropos and 1836 02:13:56.199 --> 02:14:01.520 it is designed for success and containers. So the Jungle Flower and Vegetable is 1837 02:14:01.520 --> 02:14:05.880 an outdoor mix. It should say flower and vegetable and herb, and then 1838 02:14:05.960 --> 02:14:09.399 have an asterisk that says and everything else because it's good for all kinds of 1839 02:14:09.439 --> 02:14:13.880 things outdoors in a container with a good quality fertilizer in the blend. You 1840 02:14:13.960 --> 02:14:18.039 are gonna just add a little quality night Fosh fertilizer to it and you're going 1841 02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:24.000 to end up having bountiful flowers and vegetables as well. It drains well, 1842 02:14:24.039 --> 02:14:28.840 it holds water well. At the same time, it just creates that perfect 1843 02:14:28.880 --> 02:14:31.319 environment for the roots. Even got microse of fungi in there. Indoors, 1844 02:14:31.359 --> 02:14:35.479 there's a water saving potting soil that has the crystals in it, and that 1845 02:14:35.520 --> 02:14:39.640 way, when you forget the water, the crystals have held onto the water. 1846 02:14:39.079 --> 02:14:43.159 A little bit after the soil is going dry, they still have some 1847 02:14:43.199 --> 02:14:46.920 water in it and the roots can still get access while they're waiting on you 1848 02:14:46.960 --> 02:14:50.560 to get around or remembering to water them again. So where do you get 1849 02:14:50.600 --> 02:14:52.600 jungle land. Well, Shades of Texas in the Woodlands has jungle d and 1850 02:14:52.640 --> 02:14:58.319 shanded gardens done in Richmond Rosenberg they carry Nitrofosh products like jungle land. You 1851 02:14:58.319 --> 02:15:03.079 can get them in bo both of those places. I am going to go 1852 02:15:03.199 --> 02:15:07.119 now out to League City and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, Hello, 1853 02:15:07.199 --> 02:15:11.479 how you doing. Yes, I have a question about I saw this 1854 02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:13.079 plan at one of the box stores. I just wonder if it does okay? 1855 02:15:13.119 --> 02:15:18.880 Here in Houston, it's called sweet broom with a yellow flower. It 1856 02:15:18.920 --> 02:15:22.880 does. Okay, it's a good spring bloomer. Sometimes people have trouble keeping 1857 02:15:22.960 --> 02:15:28.479 them year to year to year, and I don't know, you know, 1858 02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:31.199 I've never asked questions like how much sun is it getting? Or you remember 1859 02:15:31.239 --> 02:15:35.239 to water it and whatnot like that, But it's here, is a stunning 1860 02:15:35.279 --> 02:15:39.680 little plant in the springtime. Okay, great, thanks. I was just 1861 02:15:39.760 --> 02:15:41.760 curious about that because I've never I'm in the industry, but I haven't seen 1862 02:15:41.760 --> 02:15:46.319 that in any of the other commercial nurseries. Yeah, it does tend. 1863 02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:50.279 It does tend to come in seasonally. Here. You really see it in 1864 02:15:50.319 --> 02:15:54.119 spring. You know, when some has a blue bonnet, it sells, 1865 02:15:54.880 --> 02:15:58.000 and so it is a spring bloomer. I get it. Yeah, it's 1866 02:15:58.000 --> 02:16:00.399 hard to sell a plant that doesn't have blooms on it, even though it's 1867 02:16:00.439 --> 02:16:03.039 the most it may be the most wonderful plant in the world, but if 1868 02:16:03.079 --> 02:16:07.319 it doesn't have blooms on it, people don't won't take it home. Okay, 1869 02:16:07.960 --> 02:16:09.399 Hi guy, that answers my question. Thank you very much, Thank 1870 02:16:09.439 --> 02:16:13.439 you very much. I appreciate calling it. Yeah, that is a little 1871 02:16:13.479 --> 02:16:16.640 bit of a soap box of mine. If you want to have success with 1872 02:16:16.800 --> 02:16:24.399 plants, don't be fooled by giant blooms and the plants are planting. I 1873 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:28.279 watched people yesterday out at a chant of forest. They were going through plants 1874 02:16:28.359 --> 02:16:30.520 and they were look. I could tell what they're doing. They're finding the 1875 02:16:30.520 --> 02:16:33.680 ones with the most blooms on them. And I get that. I understand 1876 02:16:33.719 --> 02:16:37.719 that, But listen, blooms are like babies. The plant who's got to 1877 02:16:37.719 --> 02:16:41.120 make carbohydrates to go into those blooms to firt make the bloom in the first 1878 02:16:41.120 --> 02:16:43.760 place, but then to go in and produce the seed that often comes after 1879 02:16:43.840 --> 02:16:50.120 the bloom, And so it's more of a draw from the plant to create 1880 02:16:50.200 --> 02:16:54.319 and support blooms. You find the plant right next to it that is a 1881 02:16:54.360 --> 02:16:58.120 good, healthy, green, robust plant, and get it in the ground 1882 02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:01.840 and let the sunlight hit all those extra leaves and get going. It will 1883 02:17:01.920 --> 02:17:05.479 end up blooming better probably in the long run in many cases. Now that's 1884 02:17:05.520 --> 02:17:09.639 not a black and white issue. But don't just find the big Sometimes the 1885 02:17:09.680 --> 02:17:13.360 plant is so small and the blooms are so big that it's kind of like, 1886 02:17:13.719 --> 02:17:16.559 my gosh, how does that plant even support all those blooms, and 1887 02:17:16.600 --> 02:17:18.680 now you're going to take it out and put that little confined root system in 1888 02:17:18.719 --> 02:17:22.319 the ground and try to get it established. Make it easier on yourself. 1889 02:17:22.639 --> 02:17:26.959 Don't insist that it has the big bloom. Look at the variety name. 1890 02:17:26.280 --> 02:17:30.079 Maybe there's a small bloom on it. You know the color you're getting, 1891 02:17:30.479 --> 02:17:33.319 And go out and plant it and take care of it, treat it right, 1892 02:17:33.879 --> 02:17:37.959 and you have really good success with it. Have you been out to 1893 02:17:37.000 --> 02:17:41.559 Moss Nursery and Seabrook Those of you down in that part of the country know 1894 02:17:41.000 --> 02:17:46.000 about Moss Nursery. It has been around a very long time. Do you 1895 02:17:46.040 --> 02:17:48.399 know that that place is not just another garden center. I mean, it 1896 02:17:48.440 --> 02:17:52.559 is a it is a it's a destination, but it's like going to the 1897 02:17:52.680 --> 02:18:00.559 museum too. Jim brings in these all kinds of exotic things from traveling all 1898 02:18:00.559 --> 02:18:03.799 over creation, you know, like masks and a lot of those kind of 1899 02:18:03.840 --> 02:18:07.559 ethnic masks and things that you see. Every time you turn a corner you 1900 02:18:07.600 --> 02:18:11.120 may see some rock sculpture thing that's got water squirting out of I mean, 1901 02:18:11.280 --> 02:18:15.319 you just never know. At Moss Nursery, I tell you what you do 1902 02:18:15.440 --> 02:18:18.920 know though, we're about to enter summer and they are loaded with tropicals. 1903 02:18:20.639 --> 02:18:26.239 Did you know there are ten to twelve different kinds of elephant ears, that's 1904 02:18:26.239 --> 02:18:31.000 how many they have at Moss Nursery. They have gallons sizes. They've got 1905 02:18:31.040 --> 02:18:35.200 twenty five gallon sizes. Five to six different varieties of bananas. You know 1906 02:18:35.239 --> 02:18:37.760 there's some small bananas. You can cover them up. You can actually grow 1907 02:18:37.760 --> 02:18:41.280 bananas here in the Greater Houston area. Bird of Paradise, that orange and 1908 02:18:41.319 --> 02:18:45.239 blue one that we're talking about earlier, they've got those. The legularia, 1909 02:18:45.319 --> 02:18:48.559 that's the one. It looks like an above ground lily pad. It's got 1910 02:18:48.600 --> 02:18:54.440 the round leaves on stems that stick up above the ground. And ligularia. 1911 02:18:54.600 --> 02:18:56.760 If you've got a shady area and you want something that can put up with 1912 02:18:56.840 --> 02:19:01.840 a lot of shade, ligularia and do it. Gingers one of my favorite 1913 02:19:03.200 --> 02:19:07.040 favorite print. I need to go on and on about gingers someday. Gingers. 1914 02:19:07.040 --> 02:19:09.239 They've got them. Philogendrins, they've got them. Do you need houseplants? 1915 02:19:09.280 --> 02:19:13.079 Do you need cacti and succulents. You're not going to see a selection 1916 02:19:13.239 --> 02:19:16.479 like that. Go check out the house plant house. You can be very 1917 02:19:16.600 --> 02:19:22.920 very impressed at Moss Nursery. Hey, Moss Nursery, eight acres of wandering 1918 02:19:22.120 --> 02:19:26.239 and wonderfulness. If I can just coin a word. They're on Toddville Road 1919 02:19:26.360 --> 02:19:33.200 in Seabrook. Moss Nursery dot com. That's the website, Moss Nursery dot 1920 02:19:33.200 --> 02:19:37.719 com. Just go by fact. That's a good idea for this afternoon. 1921 02:19:39.040 --> 02:19:41.000 Let's head out to Seabrook and we're going to talk to Joe. Hey, 1922 02:19:41.079 --> 02:19:45.479 Joe, I was just bragging about your nursery out there. Hey Joe, 1923 02:19:45.520 --> 02:19:48.840 that's a different Joe. I've only got to know about eight potted roses here 1924 02:19:48.879 --> 02:19:52.239 that pulled out of the ground, got no problem, pulled them out of 1925 02:19:52.280 --> 02:19:54.520 the ground back in the fall, and just to relocate them, but we 1926 02:19:54.559 --> 02:19:56.799 haven't assigned exactly where we're going to put them at. So I got them 1927 02:19:56.799 --> 02:20:03.040 in the thirty thirty galling spots and they're they're doing real well with foliage wise, 1928 02:20:03.079 --> 02:20:07.200 but I'm not getting any kind of booms from them, any recommendations or 1929 02:20:07.399 --> 02:20:11.600 well, let's say, if the time, probably if they're growing good foliage 1930 02:20:11.600 --> 02:20:13.000 wise, that means you're good and healthy. That means you have water and 1931 02:20:13.120 --> 02:20:18.520 nutrients. That's important roses need a lot of sun six hours minimum. So 1932 02:20:18.559 --> 02:20:22.799 if you can put those pots where they get lots of sun, then you're 1933 02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:24.639 doing everything you can do and it's up to the plant to take it from 1934 02:20:24.639 --> 02:20:28.520 there. Okay, all right. I just thought it was kind of strange 1935 02:20:28.520 --> 02:20:31.680 that none of them, all eight of them are healthy, but just no 1936 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:35.719 blooms. Yeah, they will, they will have them, all right. 1937 02:20:35.799 --> 02:20:37.600 I guess we'll get them back in the ground as soon as we can. 1938 02:20:37.799 --> 02:20:39.680 All right. It's a beautiful thing. Thank you, Thank you. Appreciate 1939 02:20:39.680 --> 02:20:43.719 it. I appreciate it. Bye bye. All right. Well let's see 1940 02:20:43.719 --> 02:20:46.520 here. What do we want to talk about now? I want to tell 1941 02:20:46.520 --> 02:20:52.040 you about sweet Green. Sweet Green is a product from Nitrofoss and this is 1942 02:20:52.079 --> 02:20:56.120 a cool product. It starts with molasses and then microbes get a hold of 1943 02:20:56.159 --> 02:21:00.680 it and turn it into fertilizer. That's the fast version. But it smells 1944 02:21:00.799 --> 02:21:03.639 wonderful, you know, I'm molasses smells. You put it back of sweet 1945 02:21:03.639 --> 02:21:05.559 Green in the car and you just want to drive around on a hot day 1946 02:21:05.600 --> 02:21:09.920 for another couple of loops around town before you go home, because it smells. 1947 02:21:09.040 --> 02:21:15.000 It's a dark good outside it is. It's really good and it stimulates 1948 02:21:15.040 --> 02:21:18.840 my chrobial activity because they love. That's why you put molasses into organic gardening 1949 02:21:18.840 --> 02:21:22.879 systems and things, because the microbial activity benefit. Where are you going to 1950 02:21:22.920 --> 02:21:26.159 buy it? Well, Sweet Green is a nitrophos product, so you're going 1951 02:21:26.200 --> 02:21:30.159 to find it at places like Shades of Texas in the Woodlands. You're going 1952 02:21:30.200 --> 02:21:31.520 to find it at Kingwood, at the Ace Hardware Store. You're going to 1953 02:21:31.559 --> 02:21:35.280 find it at the Arbor Gate in Shades of Texas down on Genoa Red Bluff 1954 02:21:35.639 --> 02:21:41.520 in southeast Houston. And so that's about all I can say about Sweet Green. 1955 02:21:41.760 --> 02:21:43.760 I think Nikki is here and she probably has a little bit of news. 1956 02:21:43.920 --> 02:21:50.120 Molasses cookies. Your plants love molasses cookies. I bet you've never heard 1957 02:21:50.159 --> 02:21:52.760 of gardening show where they tell you go buy fertilizer and drive around on a 1958 02:21:52.760 --> 02:21:56.440 hot day and smell and I love it. But that's that's the way it 1959 02:21:56.440 --> 02:22:05.120 does, is sleep. It's a there there. I got to tell you 1960 02:22:05.159 --> 02:22:11.040 a little bit behind the scenes garden line information here. My producer Josh was 1961 02:22:11.239 --> 02:22:16.479 just kind of give me half of a hard time about some of my getting 1962 02:22:16.520 --> 02:22:20.000 lost in what reads I have and haven't done for the day. And so 1963 02:22:20.520 --> 02:22:22.879 I'm like Toby Keith, I'm as good once as I ever was. But 1964 02:22:24.079 --> 02:22:26.360 anyway, all right, we'll let it go at that. Yeah, that's 1965 02:22:26.399 --> 02:22:30.920 how the sausage gets made behind the scenes. Hey, listen, you're listening 1966 02:22:30.959 --> 02:22:33.520 to garden Line, and we're glad you are, and we would love to 1967 02:22:33.520 --> 02:22:37.600 have you call if you got a question for gardening seven one three two one 1968 02:22:37.639 --> 02:22:43.159 two fifty eight seventy four, seven three, two and two five eight seven 1969 02:22:43.680 --> 02:22:50.319 four. I would describe doing the Gardening Line radio show as herding cats while 1970 02:22:50.399 --> 02:22:56.280 juggling state knives on roller skates on an icy pond. How about that? 1971 02:22:56.399 --> 02:23:01.079 Is that enough degrees of difficulty to you? I know it sounds easy, 1972 02:23:01.159 --> 02:23:05.559 but sometimes it doesn't sound easy because your host is trying to do all the 1973 02:23:05.600 --> 02:23:09.920 above. It all right, well, at least at least I'm having fun 1974 02:23:09.000 --> 02:23:13.879 to hope you are too. Listen, we were we were talking earlier about 1975 02:23:15.479 --> 02:23:18.559 A's Hardware stores and the fact that whatever you need, they're going to have 1976 02:23:18.639 --> 02:23:24.639 it. ACE is the place. That's that's their motto, The ACE is 1977 02:23:24.680 --> 02:23:28.280 the place. ACE is the place for getting your fertilizer. If you hear 1978 02:23:28.319 --> 02:23:31.040 me talk about fertilizer and soil here on guardline, ACE has got it. 1979 02:23:31.280 --> 02:23:35.079 If I tell somebody, well, you need to go get this insecticide or 1980 02:23:35.079 --> 02:23:39.600 fungicide or herbicide, ACE has got it. It's time to treat for fire 1981 02:23:39.680 --> 02:23:43.159 ants. This is the big season they start boiling up to the surface and 1982 02:23:43.479 --> 02:23:46.440 boy, that'll take that'll take the fun of a party real quick. To 1983 02:23:46.680 --> 02:23:52.239 fire ants in the art well. ACE will get you the proper baits to 1984 02:23:52.360 --> 02:23:56.680 have success. If you need to do individual mound treatments for the ones that 1985 02:23:56.840 --> 02:24:01.200 escape, ACE has that product as well. Do you mosquito Do you want 1986 02:24:01.239 --> 02:24:05.799 some of those mosquito dunks, the little messita granule materials. They've got those 1987 02:24:05.879 --> 02:24:11.000 things mosquito bils they call. They've got those things there. And if you 1988 02:24:11.040 --> 02:24:13.639 need to get a fogger to fog in the backyard, they've got that kind 1989 02:24:13.639 --> 02:24:18.079 of stuff at Ace Hardware. Because ACE is a place that makes it simple. 1990 02:24:18.440 --> 02:24:20.840 And what else makes it simple is that they're forty of them, forty 1991 02:24:20.840 --> 02:24:26.239 stores in the Greater Houston area. Go to Ace Hardware dot com and find 1992 02:24:26.280 --> 02:24:30.920 the store locator and you get a big map with lots of red dots on 1993 02:24:31.000 --> 02:24:33.360 it. Pick the one you want to go to. There's going to be 1994 02:24:33.440 --> 02:24:35.760 one near you. Let's go out to North Jersey Village right now and we're 1995 02:24:35.760 --> 02:24:41.920 going to talk to Candy. Hello, Candy, are you there? Do 1996 02:24:41.959 --> 02:24:45.639 we have a candy are you looking for? Yes, sir, I'm sorry, 1997 02:24:46.280 --> 02:24:50.959 I had my phone on speaker. Okay, I have powdery mildew on 1998 02:24:50.000 --> 02:24:56.280 my deal. Second year, Fresh deal, different, different deal. Can 1999 02:24:56.319 --> 02:25:01.159 you help me? Well, Well, pottery mildew likes very very humid conditions. 2000 02:25:01.200 --> 02:25:05.239 It doesn't like wet, but it likes high high humidity and mild temperatures. 2001 02:25:05.280 --> 02:25:09.559 And that's kind of what we're having right now. You can you can 2002 02:25:09.600 --> 02:25:15.000 spray with nim oil. Nim oil, but you want to be very careful. 2003 02:25:15.040 --> 02:25:18.600 Tested on a little spot. Knem oil will kill powdery mildew. And 2004 02:25:18.639 --> 02:25:22.280 it is a natural organic product. We're not talking about the name that just 2005 02:25:22.399 --> 02:25:26.399 has aser erect in it. We're talking about the oil itself. Mix it 2006 02:25:26.440 --> 02:25:31.200 according to the label and spray it on. It will probably turn the color 2007 02:25:31.319 --> 02:25:35.760 a little bit. Of things that tend to be a little on the kind 2008 02:25:35.760 --> 02:25:39.799 of silvery side tend to get kind of a muddy, muddy green color when 2009 02:25:39.079 --> 02:25:43.000 you get any kind of an oil on them. But just check it out. 2010 02:25:43.280 --> 02:25:46.159 But as far as shutting the powdery mildew down, that'll do it. 2011 02:25:46.600 --> 02:25:50.879 Anything you can do to improve air circulation if that's within your power around those 2012 02:25:50.920 --> 02:25:54.280 deal plants helps, But the knem oil is probably the best. Otherwise you're 2013 02:25:54.399 --> 02:25:58.760 using a fungicide and you're about to eat that that deal, and so I'd 2014 02:25:58.840 --> 02:26:03.079 rather they're not send you to a powdery mildew fund your side. Okay, 2015 02:26:03.079 --> 02:26:05.600 so the knee oil is safe. NEMO is safe. Yeah, it's safe. 2016 02:26:05.680 --> 02:26:09.959 Yeah, it's safe. You're in a pot. It's it's stuffed together, 2017 02:26:11.040 --> 02:26:13.840 and there a bunch of plants are stuffed in a pot. I just 2018 02:26:13.959 --> 02:26:16.799 transplanted them from a pot that I that I got and maybe I should separate 2019 02:26:16.840 --> 02:26:20.479 them. Well, and it may they may that that would help. Air 2020 02:26:20.520 --> 02:26:26.360 movement helps, but it doesn't. Mildew likes high humidity. Powdery most most 2021 02:26:26.479 --> 02:26:33.000 diseases like wet leaf surfaces. Mildew just likes high humidity. That's that's what 2022 02:26:33.040 --> 02:26:35.200 it likes in mild temperature. Okay, So you may your deal may keep 2023 02:26:35.239 --> 02:26:39.200 growing and kind of the new growth not have that issue on it, but 2024 02:26:39.399 --> 02:26:43.520 I would if you want to shut it down, I would try neem oil. 2025 02:26:43.479 --> 02:26:46.520 I will try that, thank you, and be ready for it to 2026 02:26:46.600 --> 02:26:50.000 change the color a little bit. That's fine, okay, I appreciate it, 2027 02:26:50.079 --> 02:26:52.639 all right. You take care, Jenny, appreciate that you too. 2028 02:26:54.879 --> 02:26:58.799 Years ago, a fellow named doctor Larry Barnes, who at that time ran 2029 02:26:58.879 --> 02:27:01.639 the State Plant Clinic Texas A and M. He did a study using nme 2030 02:27:01.799 --> 02:27:09.639 oil on daisies gerber daisies, I believe it was, and they get powdery 2031 02:27:09.680 --> 02:27:13.239 mildew really bad too. And he found that nem oil was as effective as 2032 02:27:13.239 --> 02:27:18.319 some of the other chemical fungicide like beaylaton for example, it's really good on 2033 02:27:18.360 --> 02:27:22.280 powdery mildew. But nem oil was an organic alternative that was very very effective 2034 02:27:22.760 --> 02:27:26.399 because powdery mildew sits on top of the leaf. It's a surface. That's 2035 02:27:26.440 --> 02:27:31.559 why we see the white. That's the nicelia, the fungal strands that are 2036 02:27:31.600 --> 02:27:35.000 on the surface, and so when you coat them with oil, it kills 2037 02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:37.479 them. You know, it doesn't have to soak in. It doesn't have 2038 02:27:37.520 --> 02:27:41.120 to have a chemical poison if you will, that kills the powdery mildew in 2039 02:27:41.159 --> 02:27:43.879 that way. No, it's just a physical thing, but it works pretty 2040 02:27:43.879 --> 02:27:48.920 good. In fact, it works very good on that well, you're listening 2041 02:27:48.959 --> 02:27:52.040 to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five 2042 02:27:52.159 --> 02:27:58.239 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We 2043 02:27:58.319 --> 02:28:05.360 are now in the season where we transition into slow release fertilizers. Now you 2044 02:28:05.520 --> 02:28:07.879 still use a fast release fertilize. There's nothing wrong with using any of the 2045 02:28:07.920 --> 02:28:11.680 fast release fertilizers. Now you just want to go moderate with it. And 2046 02:28:11.719 --> 02:28:16.040 you may want to even take your applications and spread them out a little bit 2047 02:28:16.440 --> 02:28:20.799 so they cover more time. That way, you don't have all of what 2048 02:28:20.959 --> 02:28:24.559 should be for three months applied at one time and dissolves a way, and 2049 02:28:24.600 --> 02:28:26.799 now it's all in solution at one time. It's better to go a little 2050 02:28:26.840 --> 02:28:35.920 slower or get your quality product like Nitrofoss Superturf Superterf fertilizer by Nitrofoss is designed 2051 02:28:35.319 --> 02:28:43.360 to gradually release that nitrogen into the soil over several months, several months, 2052 02:28:43.399 --> 02:28:48.440 and that is that's really a quality, a quality way to go about it. 2053 02:28:48.479 --> 02:28:52.799 Because here's why grass takes up nutrients every day, every day. So 2054 02:28:54.200 --> 02:29:00.799 the analogy I like to use trying to explain slower lease fertilizers is imagine you 2055 02:29:00.840 --> 02:29:05.399 are a dairy farmer and you have all these cows and you figure out that 2056 02:29:05.479 --> 02:29:09.920 each year the cows need how many bales of hay per cow and how much 2057 02:29:09.920 --> 02:29:13.399 feed per cow? And you walk out in what is it, April, 2058 02:29:13.719 --> 02:29:18.079 and you dump it all on the ground and say, see you next year. 2059 02:29:18.040 --> 02:29:20.319 How well is that going to go? Well? I mean they're gonna 2060 02:29:20.479 --> 02:29:24.600 they're gonna feast right now, probably too much, but then they're gonna start 2061 02:29:24.600 --> 02:29:28.360 to get hungry several months from now, right when there's nothing else left to 2062 02:29:28.360 --> 02:29:33.280 eat. And that's why we like to fertilize gradually over time. If you 2063 02:29:33.360 --> 02:29:37.639 use an immediate release, just break it up, put several applications on. 2064 02:29:37.680 --> 02:29:41.040 It's a lot more work, more hassle. But why not just get a 2065 02:29:41.079 --> 02:29:46.840 quality product like Nitrofoss the silver bag super Turf. Super Turf is easy to 2066 02:29:46.840 --> 02:29:50.079 find. You know, Nitrofoss products, they are They're everywhere. I mean 2067 02:29:50.479 --> 02:29:54.760 it's very easy to find them because pretty much every ace hardware store is going 2068 02:29:54.840 --> 02:29:58.360 to have Nitrofoss products. You're going to find them at D and D feed 2069 02:29:58.559 --> 02:30:03.799 up in Tomball they carry Nitrofoss, including the Super Turf. Lake Hardware done 2070 02:30:03.799 --> 02:30:07.120 in Angleton and Fisher's Hardware and Baytown. They also are places where you can 2071 02:30:07.120 --> 02:30:11.760 get all of these quality nitrofoss products. I'm going to take a little break 2072 02:30:11.799 --> 02:30:15.440 here. Greg. When we come back, you will be our first up. 2073 02:30:16.479 --> 02:30:18.840 Welcome back to Garden Line on a beautiful Sunday. It's going to be 2074 02:30:18.840 --> 02:30:22.040 a nice one out there. Hope you this afternoon you have an opportunity to 2075 02:30:22.040 --> 02:30:26.559 get out visit some of our garden centers, pick up some of the supplies, 2076 02:30:26.600 --> 02:30:30.600 maybe a feed store. We got a lot of other great places around 2077 02:30:30.639 --> 02:30:33.399 the Greater Houstonario where you can pick up everything from plants to the products you 2078 02:30:33.479 --> 02:30:37.399 need to have success, and that's what we want you to have being out 2079 02:30:37.440 --> 02:30:41.440 on a good day like this this afternoon, I think I am actually going 2080 02:30:41.520 --> 02:30:45.920 to do a little bit of planting on some things. That is a happy 2081 02:30:45.959 --> 02:30:50.399 place for me to get out and rest, relax and just enjoy being working 2082 02:30:50.440 --> 02:30:54.799 in the soil and planting some plants and doing some things like that. That's 2083 02:30:54.799 --> 02:30:56.959 what I consider a good day. I'm going to head over to a task 2084 02:30:58.040 --> 02:31:01.879 aseda now and talk to Greg. Hell, oh, Greg, Hey, 2085 02:31:01.879 --> 02:31:03.120 how's it going, sir? I'm well, sir. How can we help 2086 02:31:03.159 --> 02:31:09.440 today. Well, yeah, we have a magnolia tree that's probably about twenty 2087 02:31:09.479 --> 02:31:15.559 foot tall, and there's others in our neighborhood that we've noticed. The other 2088 02:31:15.600 --> 02:31:18.879 ones are just completely toast, dried out, dead, and ours is about 2089 02:31:18.920 --> 02:31:24.760 fifty to fifty. We need some help to save ours. Okay, when 2090 02:31:26.000 --> 02:31:30.959 magnolias die out like that, it usually is because of the heat and drought. 2091 02:31:31.040 --> 02:31:35.200 We went through our a severe cold snap that caused splits in the bark 2092 02:31:35.280 --> 02:31:39.520 and things like that. Last summer we lost a lot of magnolias, either 2093 02:31:39.559 --> 02:31:43.639 in whole or in part like you're describing, and there's no bringing dead back 2094 02:31:43.680 --> 02:31:48.840 to life. So the challenge is to take a look at that plant you 2095 02:31:48.920 --> 02:31:50.520 know you're going to prone all the dead out, and then say, do 2096 02:31:50.600 --> 02:31:54.200 I still like that plant? Because you know, magnolias have a beautiful shape 2097 02:31:54.319 --> 02:32:00.159 normally, the one it gets verely disfigured by entire branches turning birn on, 2098 02:32:00.760 --> 02:32:03.479 you may end up with a pretty weird, bones eye looking magnolia out there 2099 02:32:03.479 --> 02:32:07.319 in the front yard and you may decide that's not acceptable. I'm gonna put 2100 02:32:07.360 --> 02:32:11.319 a new one in. But that's the call. That's the call that you'll 2101 02:32:11.360 --> 02:32:16.239 have to make Oh well, okay, and what's good health? Well, 2102 02:32:16.280 --> 02:32:18.280 what's the good health advice? We can do for hours if we decide to 2103 02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:22.159 keep it. Yeah, there are any type of I would fertilizer. Yeah, 2104 02:32:22.159 --> 02:32:24.200 I would get a lawn fertilizer that is very good for magnols, just 2105 02:32:24.200 --> 02:32:28.639 fine for magnolias, and just spread it around it. I mean, you 2106 02:32:28.680 --> 02:32:33.280 can do a regular fertilizer if you, you know, if you were I 2107 02:32:33.440 --> 02:32:37.239 want to go with an organic one. Microlife has a the pink bag is 2108 02:32:37.280 --> 02:32:41.120 for acid loving plants, and magnolias do like a little bit more on the 2109 02:32:41.159 --> 02:32:45.600 acidic side. Uh you can you repeat the name again? Micro Life. 2110 02:32:45.719 --> 02:32:50.639 Micro Life is an organic crow Life. It's in a pink bag. Other 2111 02:32:50.760 --> 02:32:56.319 brands of fertilizers will also make ones for acidic loving plants. But I just 2112 02:32:56.639 --> 02:33:01.639 use a regular fertilizer on them and find that it does well because all you're 2113 02:33:01.680 --> 02:33:05.159 really trying to do is put some nitrogen in there to support good growth, 2114 02:33:05.239 --> 02:33:09.680 and their root system is picking up pretty much all the other things that needs 2115 02:33:09.680 --> 02:33:13.399 from the soil. Okay, wonderful. Yeah, So the real small quick 2116 02:33:13.440 --> 02:33:16.760 question, Sure, is it too late to weed and feed are much still 2117 02:33:16.799 --> 02:33:20.600 okay, I've still got a good timing. You know, if I'm given 2118 02:33:20.639 --> 02:33:26.319 the choice, I prefer to do those separately. There's a time to put 2119 02:33:26.360 --> 02:33:30.600 down the fertilizer, and you we have many quality fertilizers, and then there's 2120 02:33:30.639 --> 02:33:33.559 a time to address weed issues, whether it's a pre emergent or a post 2121 02:33:33.559 --> 02:33:37.680 emergent. And so when you combine them in one product, those can be 2122 02:33:37.760 --> 02:33:43.120 very good products with good weed and good feed controlling them. But it doesn't 2123 02:33:43.120 --> 02:33:46.000 mean it always fits the situation that you have in your yard. And so 2124 02:33:46.120 --> 02:33:50.239 that's why I like to go, hey, here's when you're fertilize, and 2125 02:33:50.479 --> 02:33:54.879 when you go to my schedule on gardening with Skip dot com, that free 2126 02:33:54.879 --> 02:33:58.639 schedule shows you when to fertilize, and then it also shows you when to 2127 02:33:58.680 --> 02:34:03.639 do weed control, whether it's a pre emergent to prevent weeds or a post 2128 02:34:03.639 --> 02:34:07.719 emergent to kill existing weeds. And so you may call the show and say, 2129 02:34:07.799 --> 02:34:11.520 well, I've got some I don't know, some little amaranth type weed 2130 02:34:11.559 --> 02:34:15.399 in there. Those are easy to kill. Or you may call and say, 2131 02:34:15.399 --> 02:34:18.239 now I got dollar weed and I got Virginia button weed, and those 2132 02:34:18.280 --> 02:34:22.079 are more difficult, So I'm going to recommend a different weed control for that. 2133 02:34:22.479 --> 02:34:24.760 Then you might have it in some products. So I'm not saying don't 2134 02:34:24.879 --> 02:34:30.000 use the combos. I'm just saying I think the best way is to go 2135 02:34:30.159 --> 02:34:35.200 prescription on the fertilizer and prescription on the on the weed control to address exactly 2136 02:34:35.239 --> 02:34:39.520 what you're looking at in your yard. Wonderful. Thank you for the advisor. 2137 02:34:39.680 --> 02:34:43.920 I hope that didn't complicate it. Go online to my schedules on at 2138 02:34:43.000 --> 02:34:46.200 gardening with skip dot com and it lays it all out for you there, 2139 02:34:46.319 --> 02:34:50.799 really easy to give you, yeah, what to apply and when to apply 2140 02:34:50.879 --> 02:34:54.879 it. And if you listen to guardline you can hear where to get it 2141 02:34:54.959 --> 02:34:58.840 all day long. Yes, sir, have a great day. Thank you. 2142 02:34:58.879 --> 02:35:01.280 All right, Greg, take care of they're in a task Asida, 2143 02:35:03.559 --> 02:35:09.000 you bet. You know. I when I moved to Houston, gosh, 2144 02:35:09.040 --> 02:35:13.840 what was it twelve years ago? I don't know, probably twelve years ago, 2145 02:35:13.840 --> 02:35:16.920 I guess roughly. I'm not good at that time thing, but anyway, 2146 02:35:18.440 --> 02:35:20.959 Uh, it really threw me that there was an a task asita because 2147 02:35:20.959 --> 02:35:26.719 I grew up in Adiscosa County, south of San Antonio. Adiscosa and every 2148 02:35:26.719 --> 02:35:28.440 time i'd see a task asita, it would just throw me. It's like, 2149 02:35:28.559 --> 02:35:33.440 Okay, that's not the right word there, but it is. When 2150 02:35:33.200 --> 02:35:37.200 you're in the Houston area. I've got some listeners. I talked to some 2151 02:35:37.280 --> 02:35:41.280 listeners every now and then here from Adiscosa County that grew up over there. 2152 02:35:43.200 --> 02:35:45.319 Well, you've been listening to the garden line. We're going to go for 2153 02:35:45.319 --> 02:35:48.079 a little bit longer here, but it's been a good day. I've enjoyed 2154 02:35:48.200 --> 02:35:52.840 visiting with you and talking about the different things. Uh, if you would 2155 02:35:52.840 --> 02:35:54.920 still like to give us a call, we got some time. We can 2156 02:35:54.920 --> 02:35:58.239 still take some calls here. It's seven one three two one two fifty eight 2157 02:35:58.399 --> 02:36:01.280 seventy four. You may need to let it ring a little bit. Josh 2158 02:36:01.280 --> 02:36:05.520 gets busy with one thing or another, but he'll get to the get the 2159 02:36:05.520 --> 02:36:07.639 phone and get you set up and get your online so we can talk. 2160 02:36:09.239 --> 02:36:11.959 I do want to remind you that if you're going to do lawn fertilizing, 2161 02:36:13.200 --> 02:36:16.719 it's time to begin. It's time to start that stuff, so get out 2162 02:36:16.719 --> 02:36:20.000 there. My preference at this point is a slow release fertilizer, one that 2163 02:36:20.079 --> 02:36:26.239 gradually releases over time. That would be the ideal. Remember that, and 2164 02:36:26.319 --> 02:36:31.040 this is counterintuitive, but the single most important thing you do for lawn density 2165 02:36:31.559 --> 02:36:35.120 is mow regularly. Now that isn't the only thing. I'm not saying you 2166 02:36:35.399 --> 02:36:37.879 don't do anything but mow your lawn and it's going to be pretty. No, 2167 02:36:39.000 --> 02:36:43.319 that's not true. But mowing, mowing mo The more often you mow, 2168 02:36:43.399 --> 02:36:46.239 the denser the lawn will be. It's the same way with a hedge 2169 02:36:46.280 --> 02:36:50.639 you're trimming on your landscape. If you trim a hedge once a year, 2170 02:36:50.120 --> 02:36:54.920 it's not going to have the density as if you trim it periodically through the 2171 02:36:54.000 --> 02:36:58.719 year. Every time you cut it, what was one shoot becomes two or 2172 02:36:58.719 --> 02:37:01.600 three shoots, and it's and then you do it again and again. So 2173 02:37:01.799 --> 02:37:07.079 the same is true with your lawn. The second thing that's very important is 2174 02:37:07.120 --> 02:37:11.840 to water adequately. When we don't have water. Most Stonians that I've observed 2175 02:37:13.079 --> 02:37:18.959 overwater their lawn or they misswater. What is the difference. Overwatering means applying 2176 02:37:18.040 --> 02:37:22.719 more than it needs. If you look at my lawn care schedule online at 2177 02:37:22.719 --> 02:37:26.399 gardeningwiskip dot com. As you go across the page, I show you each 2178 02:37:26.520 --> 02:37:31.159 month of the year on average, historically which means it won't be the same 2179 02:37:31.239 --> 02:37:33.719 this year, because ye two years are the same. But on average, 2180 02:37:35.120 --> 02:37:37.559 how much water do we use in April, And if you look at how 2181 02:37:37.639 --> 02:37:41.120 much water a lawn uses in April, it's about three quarters of an inch 2182 02:37:41.200 --> 02:37:46.319 a week on average. Now, if you have rain, that's taken care 2183 02:37:46.360 --> 02:37:50.479 of it, and so you don't have the water. But applying the right 2184 02:37:50.479 --> 02:37:56.280 amount of water what is miswatering. Miswatering is putting a little squirt out frequently. 2185 02:37:58.280 --> 02:38:03.040 Proper watering is a good so looking infrequently. So if you're going to 2186 02:38:03.120 --> 02:38:05.879 put an inch of water on, which is what we do during the summertime, 2187 02:38:05.959 --> 02:38:11.239 that's what it needs in the absence of rainfall, then apply an inch 2188 02:38:11.360 --> 02:38:13.440 to soak into the soil. You may have to turn on the sprink for 2189 02:38:13.440 --> 02:38:16.120 for a while, have it go off for forty five minutes, come back 2190 02:38:16.159 --> 02:38:20.159 on again so you don't have runoff. But get that whole inch down in 2191 02:38:20.200 --> 02:38:26.000 the ground. Let's use an extreme example of what I'm talking about. Let's 2192 02:38:26.040 --> 02:38:31.840 say that you were to apply a quarter inch four times during the week. 2193 02:38:33.120 --> 02:38:35.399 That quarter inch would hardly even wet the soil at all. It would get 2194 02:38:35.440 --> 02:38:37.920 on the grass, it would get on the thatch. It would promote disease 2195 02:38:37.920 --> 02:38:41.559 because you're keeping it wet all the time, but you wouldn't have very much 2196 02:38:41.559 --> 02:38:45.680 in the soil bank account. But when you put an inch on, it 2197 02:38:45.719 --> 02:38:48.399 does wet the grass and the thatch. And then where does all the rest 2198 02:38:48.399 --> 02:38:52.600 of that go. It goes on down into the soil. That's proper watering. 2199 02:38:52.760 --> 02:38:54.559 I'm going to go to Cheryl here and a test as to Oh, 2200 02:38:54.559 --> 02:38:58.120 we have a teske asta epidemic going on, Cheryl, how can we help? 2201 02:39:00.399 --> 02:39:05.000 Hi? Skip, I heard you talking to another lady this morning about 2202 02:39:05.159 --> 02:39:09.079 dollar weed using celsius and I have selsius, but I never used it in 2203 02:39:09.079 --> 02:39:13.920 a flower beds. I have this dollar weed growing in the grow low growing 2204 02:39:15.000 --> 02:39:18.360 evergreen in my flower beds, and I'm wondering if I can from that. 2205 02:39:20.239 --> 02:39:22.239 Well, it's not label for that, and I don't know the results, 2206 02:39:22.280 --> 02:39:26.760 and I cannot tell you that's okay to use it for that because it's outside 2207 02:39:26.760 --> 02:39:31.040 the label. You may read the label again carefully. Maybe I missed it, 2208 02:39:31.079 --> 02:39:35.879 but I don't think it's labeled for ornamental beds. All what you could 2209 02:39:35.920 --> 02:39:41.440 do is you could wipe a product onto the dollar weed using a sponge applicator 2210 02:39:41.680 --> 02:39:46.959 that they make a thing called a wick applicator and wipe it onto the dollar 2211 02:39:46.959 --> 02:39:50.399 weed. So you're not spraying it to get on the desirable plants because you 2212 02:39:50.399 --> 02:39:52.040 don't want to kill those, but you just kind of wipe it onto the 2213 02:39:52.079 --> 02:39:56.760 dollar weed and it moves into the the But I use selfius on that. 2214 02:39:58.239 --> 02:40:01.040 We better do use something else. I would probably for that. For dollar 2215 02:40:01.040 --> 02:40:07.399 weed, I'd probably use something like a glyphysate herbicide because you're not spraying it 2216 02:40:07.479 --> 02:40:09.239 all over the soil and the plants. You're just wiping down. But you 2217 02:40:09.280 --> 02:40:13.000 got to find a wiper applicator. They're not easy to find. But that 2218 02:40:13.040 --> 02:40:18.159 would be one application that you could do for the dollar weed. And it 2219 02:40:18.200 --> 02:40:24.200 depends on what plants are growing in that bed as to whether other things might 2220 02:40:24.280 --> 02:40:28.600 be applicable or not. You know, certain plants are susceptible to certain products, 2221 02:40:28.639 --> 02:40:33.680 and so I can't just paint with a roal brock brush. All right, 2222 02:40:33.920 --> 02:40:37.639 Okay, thank you appreciate. It's a call, and that is it. 2223 02:40:37.799 --> 02:40:41.639 Dollar weed is a challenge in the bed. But remember dollar weed, 2224 02:40:41.159 --> 02:40:45.920 it thrives where it's too wet, So just drying things out a little bit 2225 02:40:46.079 --> 02:40:48.719 helps a lot. Well. I was talking about turf. I said, 2226 02:40:48.799 --> 02:40:50.760 you got to mow regularly. That is so important for entsity. You gotta 2227 02:40:50.840 --> 02:40:54.879 water properly, that is very important. And finally you got to fertilize. 2228 02:40:56.680 --> 02:40:58.319 I have had launs that ad in for lizh for two or three years. 2229 02:41:00.040 --> 02:41:05.600 Look chartroosee green and they weren't dense. When you want density and beauty and 2230 02:41:05.760 --> 02:41:11.399 health, to choke out the weed seeds, fertilize. Follow my schedule gardening 2231 02:41:11.559 --> 02:41:15.120 with skip dot com. Get the skate. It's free for crying out loud, 2232 02:41:15.159 --> 02:41:18.159 print it out, take it with you when you go shopping. Hey, 2233 02:41:18.600 --> 02:41:22.120 we're done. We'll see you next Saturday, six am. Hope you bake it