WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.240
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

2
00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:14.039
this program. Welcome to ktr H
Garden Line with Skip Rictord, Smell Crazy,

3
00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:39.439
just watching. Well, good morning, it's gonna be a good day.

4
00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:41.960
You are listening to garden Line,
and it's gonna be a good day

5
00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.000
for gardening. Every day is a
good day for gardening, but this is

6
00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.880
gonna be a good day for gardening. I know some I was just thinking

7
00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:54.640
about gardeners in the area, which
include myself, what we're going through right

8
00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.719
now. You know, it's hot, it's dry. It depends on where

9
00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.520
you live. Maybe you gotta squirt
a rein here and there, but in

10
00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.280
general, this is just a time
where you go outside in the middle of

11
00:01:03.319 --> 00:01:07.239
the day and kind of make a
U turn head back inside to the air

12
00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.879
conditioning. I understand what that's like
because I'd gardened in this area for years,

13
00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:15.120
and you know, when it comes
to our plants and the struggles and

14
00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:21.640
trying to water enough to keep up
with things. When the it's not raining

15
00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:25.680
and it's so blazing hot, I
can get a little tired and discouraging.

16
00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.400
Well, we're going to give you
some encouragement today. There are there are

17
00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:33.079
a lot of things that we can
be doing right now that make a difference,

18
00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.519
and we'll make a difference later.
So if you're if you're outside right

19
00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:38.640
now, you're about to hang yourself
with your garden hose or fall on your

20
00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:45.000
hoary hoary knife and put an end
to all this, take a step back,

21
00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.840
take it easy. We've got some
things that we can do. And

22
00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.120
you know, I promise you.
Fall is coming. I know it doesn't

23
00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:56.200
feel like it right now, but
it's coming. When it comes to rainfall.

24
00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.040
Rainfall is coming. I don't know
when, but it's come. It's

25
00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.280
just the cycle. I know.
We have years that are worse than others,

26
00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:07.079
droughts that are worse than other,
summers that are hotter than others,

27
00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:12.639
and all that. But the bottom
line is we have a earth that goes

28
00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.560
around the sun, and as a
result, we get to have seasons.

29
00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:21.039
I know, I jokingly say something
done in Houston area sometimes winter is like

30
00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.240
two and a half days long,
and those two and a half days aren't

31
00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:30.039
necessarily consecutive either, But we have
seasons. We get to enjoy different things.

32
00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:35.680
So this blazing, blasting, infernal
Gahenna that we are walking through,

33
00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.919
right that's a lot of adjectives that
we are going through right now. It's

34
00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:44.199
going to break and so let's take
heart the plant you got alive right now,

35
00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.120
Keep them alive, take care of
them. Give your long enough water

36
00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.360
to keep it alive, at least
keep it going. It is fall is

37
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.400
coming. It's going to get here. For your trees. Let's minimize the

38
00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.280
stress on those trees. Not by
water in them every day. No no,

39
00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.960
no, not by laying a little
hose somewhere alongside the tree, but

40
00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:05.280
by giving it a good deep soaking. And when you want to give trees

41
00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.680
a good deek soaking, I mean, if you've listened to garden Line Long,

42
00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:12.080
you know that I'm going to brag
on the tree hugger sprinklers. I've

43
00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.000
got down three of myself. They're
nice. If you put a little new

44
00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.439
tree out, turn the sprinkle on
just a little bit, and it waters

45
00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.840
that root ball in the area just
beyond it, you've got a trade spinning

46
00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:24.840
ground for a year. It needs
a lot of water in the summer.

47
00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:29.120
I mean, let me put it
this way. It needs regular watering in

48
00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:34.080
the summer because its root system is
still confined. It takes years for root

49
00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.960
systems to fully reach out and establish
in the soil. If we can get

50
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.639
them past the first summer, that's
the big one. But even after that

51
00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:44.000
we're taking care of them. And
tree hugger does that. You can get

52
00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.120
the big tree hugger, put it
around your tree, turn it on,

53
00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.120
crank it up, and if you've
got a tree it's got a twenty five

54
00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:53.240
feet wide canopy, you can water
that area easily underneath there with a good

55
00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.680
tree hugger sprinkler because it's reaching out
twelve feet in all directions. There's no

56
00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:00.000
problem with a tree hugger being able
to do that. And I would encourage

57
00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:03.520
you to take care of your trees
again. Rescue watering, A good soaking

58
00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.960
for an established tree, not a
new one. For an established tree,

59
00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:12.039
a good soaking about ever ten to
fourteen days is all they need. And

60
00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:14.560
a good soaking it is going to
take about an inch of water. If

61
00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:18.120
you don't know if you've soaked the
soil, well, take a long handled

62
00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:23.439
screwdriver, one of those long screwdrivers, push it in the ground and it's

63
00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.879
going to go through wet soil kind
of like a knife through butter. And

64
00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.360
then when it hits dry soil,
it'll be like there's a sidewalk somewhere down

65
00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.879
below the surface. I mean,
it'll hit hard and you won't go past

66
00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:38.399
that. That tells you whether you've
watered well or not. You would like

67
00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.759
to be able to water that soil
about eight to ten inches deep at least

68
00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.839
for a good for a tree deeper
than that is okay, But again there's

69
00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.560
the balance between hey, how much
water do we want to purchase and you

70
00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:55.040
know, but again think in terms
of rescue water. That's what we're trying

71
00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:58.279
to do for our trees. And
tree Hugger they're easy to find there.

72
00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:00.920
They're everywhere. I mean you can
go on into TreeHugger dot com to find

73
00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.319
out more about I see them.
And hardware, ace, hardwaressum and feed

74
00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:10.720
stores and garden centers and all kinds
of places. Another thing we deal with,

75
00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.319
you know, at this time of
year, are the cycle of pests.

76
00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:16.879
If you ever, you probably never
thought about it this way, But

77
00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:23.680
there are seasons where termites are more
of an active creature in terms of their

78
00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.439
flights and things. There. There
are seasons where we tend to see the

79
00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.959
rodents and raccoons or whatever else.
Rodents going up in the attic, and

80
00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:35.439
squirrels in the attic, and raccoons
their seasons well pretty much all year where

81
00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:40.199
cockroaches are a deal. McGrath Pest
Control is on top of all that.

82
00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.800
You know, Scott's dad started it
over forty eight years ago and Scott still

83
00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:46.439
runs it in the old fashioned way. What does that mean? Well,

84
00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.759
they give you a time and they
show up last Let's see, what was

85
00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:56.399
it, Thursday, Thursday or Friday? Anyway, I was sitting at the

86
00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:01.319
house all afternoon waiting for some service
person who was supposed to show up sometime

87
00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.920
within a five hour time span.
What a ridiculous waste of time for a

88
00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:12.279
customer. Not McGraph highly rated company. They show up when they say they're

89
00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.399
going to, They give you a
time. They serve the whole Houston area,

90
00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.399
modern technologies and techniques with old fashioned
customer service. You can go to

91
00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.879
McGraph Pest Control dot com online to
find out more, or just give him

92
00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:28.560
a call to eight one four six
nine eighty two forty two eight one four

93
00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:34.040
six nine two four zero and you'll
see why I brag on mcgrah best Control.

94
00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:41.360
With this blazing heat that I was
talking about we do rescue our plants

95
00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.800
to get them into fall. And
there's a couple of reasons that that is

96
00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:46.959
important. Now this isn't true with
every plant, but with a lot of

97
00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:53.480
plants, when you stress them with
drought and excessive heat, they get weak

98
00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:59.079
and diseases have an opportunity to move
in. With Saint Augustine grass at your

99
00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:03.680
lawn, take all root rot is
a stress induced disease. It's there.

100
00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:11.879
It's not killing your grass until you
misapply a weed control product that weakens your

101
00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.000
lawn, or you have drought,
or there's shade, or there's compaction.

102
00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:19.959
All those weakened lawns and when that
happens, take all moves in. With

103
00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:25.279
your oak trees. There's a disease
called hypoxilin canker. It is already there,

104
00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:29.759
but it's not killing your oak tree. But you get drought, you

105
00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.600
do soil compaction, You add a
bunch of soil over the root system,

106
00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.639
or take soil away, or trench
and cut root. Anything that stresses that

107
00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:42.199
tree opens the door to hypoxilan,
and when it moves in, it finishes

108
00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:46.079
the tree off. But the cause
wasn't the hypoxilan. The cause hypoxilan was

109
00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.079
the ultimate killer. The cause was
stressed. So we try to keep our

110
00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:55.000
plants out of stress. And that
means more than just keeping them alive.

111
00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:59.600
It means making sure that they have
adequate moisture, not excessive amounts. We're

112
00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:03.120
not trying to get him to grow
actively all through this tough season. We're

113
00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.240
wanting to keep them healthy and alive. And that's really important. And it

114
00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:11.480
also reminds us of the importance of
planting plants that are good and tough.

115
00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:13.000
And I'll talk about that more and
a little bit here. We're about to

116
00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.000
take a break. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

117
00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:20.160
eight seven four. Give Josh a
call and he will get you on the

118
00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:39.200
boards for when we come back.
Good morning, Good Saturday morning. You

119
00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.639
are listening to Garden Line and we're
listening to Jimmy Buffett. Boy, that

120
00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.399
was I did not know until I
got to the station this morning that Jimmy

121
00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.840
Buffett had passed away. A lot
of years of listening to that fellow.

122
00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.039
Some of you may relate to that
too. You know. I was talking

123
00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:00.360
about the brutal summer before we went
to break, and the fact that we're

124
00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:05.159
trying to keep our plants not just
alive, although alive would be a nice

125
00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.679
good start, but out of major
stress, because major stress can lead to

126
00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:13.639
other problems down the line, and
we'd like to avoid that. I realize

127
00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:20.320
our situation where you can't water there
are restrictions by various water supplies Stage one,

128
00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.200
stage two. I don't nobody's in
stage three to my knowledge right now

129
00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.080
around this region of the listening area
region of Texas. There may be somebody,

130
00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:33.320
but you have to work with all
that. But at the same time,

131
00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.559
just remember that this is going to
be over with and you want you

132
00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.799
don't want your plants and a problem
when we come out of it. Another

133
00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.720
thing that you may want to consider
is the plants that you plan. Now.

134
00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.679
Houston is not Opasso, so there's
no need for us to panic and

135
00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.320
think that every yard needs to be
full of agavii and yucca. Those are

136
00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.440
great plants, by the way,
But I'm just saying, you know,

137
00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.639
we have a wide variety of things
we can plan over here, but choosing

138
00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.919
things that are tough, that resilient
are good. And a good example of

139
00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:07.480
that is the Texas Sage. It's
also called Sneezo. If any of you

140
00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:16.960
remember, see excuse me the sage
and bloom smells like perfume deep in the

141
00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.000
heart at Texas, that's what they're
talking about in Texas. Say, there's

142
00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.120
one called Desperado that is pretty cool. It's got kind of a silvery leaf.

143
00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.639
Texas sages can be anywhere from green
to silvery. But they bloom typically

144
00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.519
following a rainfall or right you know, about the time of a rainfall.

145
00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:37.919
They call them a barometer type of
plant because they'll just turn into a ton

146
00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:41.320
of blooms. And some people box
them up, like as if they were

147
00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.440
some sort of a boxwood hedge.
And I think that looks unnatural. And

148
00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.960
it does affect the bloom cycle because
blooms occur on the new growth. New

149
00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:52.440
shoots come and here comes the blooms. Is that's why it's a summer blooming

150
00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:58.039
plant, not a spring blooming plant
only. So Texas age a goodnight.

151
00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.919
I saw they have them out at
Chanted Gardens if you're out in the Richmond

152
00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.240
area. By the way, it's
always a good time to go buy enchanted

153
00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:09.879
gardens out in Richmond. They've got
the Desperado stage out there, along with

154
00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:16.879
only eight hundred billion other wonderful planets. You can't live without, but you

155
00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:22.399
should give them a tryout. You
can go online to Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot

156
00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:28.080
com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They've been around a good while in

157
00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:33.559
that community and have built a nursery
that truly is a destination. I love

158
00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.480
to go out there now. They're
open Monday through Saturday eight to five thirty

159
00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.480
and Sunday from ten to four butt
on Labor Day. They will be closed

160
00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.240
this Labor Day, So don't run
out there on Monday. Go ahead and

161
00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.960
get that done today. Today be
a great day to get out there and

162
00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.279
do it. In fact, look
next door. If your neighbors lights aren't

163
00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.840
on, they're probably not listening to
Garden Line. And that is a that

164
00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.759
ought to be a horticultural crime in
the Greater Houston area. And I listened

165
00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.000
to garden Light. Knock on the
door, invite them to go with you

166
00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:07.200
out to in Chended Gardens and help
you haul all the good stuff home.

167
00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.960
Yeah, I love to go out
there. By the way, they're on

168
00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:16.919
FM three fifty nine. They're on
the Katie Fulsher side of a Richmond Chended

169
00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.600
Gardens. Yeah, so picking plants
that are resilient, you know, a

170
00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.360
plant that's resilient. That first time
I saw some dad on it, I

171
00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.759
was shocked. And that is rosemary. I don't know, I know Rosemary

172
00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.480
is you know, I think a
Mediterranean type of climate over there and living

173
00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.360
on a rocky hillside, which means
it ought to be able to do without

174
00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.360
rainfall for periods of time. But
it's real resilient. They did a study

175
00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.240
up in north central Texas. It
was way up I think Denton County man

176
00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.919
been where they looked after the brutal
summer of twenty eleven, which is kind

177
00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:56.039
of like the droughter record for us. And they looked through landscapes after it

178
00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.639
was over, what's alive, what
looks good? And rose mary was near

179
00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.440
the top of the list. It
is a very tough plant. Now you

180
00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.240
put it in a container and don't
water it, and it has no root

181
00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.159
system volume to work with there it's
yes, it's it's gonna croak. I

182
00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:15.200
mean it's not in a goave a
govey. You can dig them up,

183
00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:18.000
throw them in the back of a
pickup driver on Houston in the middle of

184
00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.759
summer for two weeks, pull it
out, throw it in the ground and

185
00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.919
it takes off growing I mean,
that's amazing. But rosemary is a good

186
00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.960
tough plant. Let it get established
in your ground and make sure it has

187
00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.399
good drainage. Must have good drainage. It is not it does not want

188
00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:39.399
to sit in a wet, soggy
winter soil condition. That does not tolerate

189
00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.919
that. Don't over water it.
That's true. A lot of these tough

190
00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:48.840
plants. They're tough because they have
the roots system to be resilient. That

191
00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.000
is one of the key aspects of
a plant that is tough. Or they

192
00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.639
have the ability to hold water in
their leaves and stems and things like that.

193
00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:00.759
Anyway, you get the idea,
find some good tough plants, Adam

194
00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.879
Deer Landscape. Fall is the best
planning season of the year, and we

195
00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.960
are on the doorstep of fall.
Now. You can plant every day,

196
00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.720
three hundred and sixty five days a
year here in the Houston area. You

197
00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.279
can. It's tougher to plant it
sometimes because you're trying to help that confined

198
00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.279
root system get established and the watering
is touching go and how you go about

199
00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:24.279
it, so you make it a
bigger challenge at sometimes of the year,

200
00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.000
like summer, but it can be
done anytime of the year. But if

201
00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:33.759
you want foolproof, that's fall.
You wait until it's cooled off. The

202
00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:37.759
plants have kind of stopped growth.
They're settling in. Deciduous plants are about

203
00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.960
ready to drop leaves and all that. And you put a plant in the

204
00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:45.559
ground then and the demands are almost
zero. So you watered in really well

205
00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.240
and then occasionally just check on it
and do a little watering. It has

206
00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:54.240
all the way the rest of fall, through winter and into spring before the

207
00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.399
weather starts to heat up, and
roots established during that time. So I

208
00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:03.399
wish I could take spring fever and
put it in a bottle and release it

209
00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:09.240
into the water supplies in the fall, because that's when we really ought to

210
00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.240
have spring fever. I guess we
could call it fall fever then, right,

211
00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:16.879
Fall's important, don't don't you forget
that. We're gonna go out now

212
00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.720
to Cyprus and we're going to talk
to Sandy. And by the way,

213
00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.960
our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

214
00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:30.480
hello Sandy, Hi there, good
morning, Skip, Thanks for taking

215
00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:37.399
my call. I have a question. My vegetables, my lapinos, my

216
00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.919
bell peppers, my opra, they're
still growing, but they're not. They're

217
00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:48.279
like miniature. They're like mini Is
that normal? They're not getting long?

218
00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.639
Did it is? It is for
the peppers. Now your ochra pods are

219
00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:58.799
not getting as long as they normally
do, right, They're they're getting hard

220
00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:04.480
and stiff. Okay, so everything
the peppers are struggling with the heat,

221
00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:10.080
and certainly drought can do it too, but the heat and the drought is

222
00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:11.639
just tough on them. I've got
a lot of peppers that are just not

223
00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:17.440
setting much right now. That's normal, but they will set up a storm

224
00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:19.799
when we get a little bit of
a cooling here. Hopefully later this month,

225
00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.600
you should start to get set and
you should be eating peppers almost to

226
00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:29.919
Christmas if you pick them before the
first freeze. As far as the okra,

227
00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.360
yes, it's also this is a
water stressed response, not not as

228
00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.679
much of a heat stress, but
more of a water stress. And one

229
00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.919
thing to remember about okra pods is
people talk about will pick them when they're

230
00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:47.039
four inches long or three inches long
or whatever the number they say is.

231
00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.600
But the length is not the real
determiner of when you pick okra. It's

232
00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.159
the number of days past bloom.
Like for example, if you get about

233
00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:02.440
three days four days past bloom that
that pod and good conditions, it's going

234
00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:06.039
to be long. If you reach
that time in these conditions, it's going

235
00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.759
to be shorter. And so if
you wait for it to get bigger,

236
00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:12.119
you're going to end up with a
little pod that's woody. Did you see

237
00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:15.799
what I'm saying. Yes, yeah, So I know you're not going to

238
00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:21.240
tag blooms and count days, but
just keep that in mind that it's not

239
00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:27.000
necessarily the length if the plan is
a little stress okay, And also I

240
00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:33.279
can ask you one more question.
Sure, there's no way to prune my

241
00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:38.920
blueberries because there's just it's just it's
getting to be like a miniature dish and

242
00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:45.880
I can't see my pot to fertilize
it. And that then it's the branches

243
00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:51.680
are just getting thicker and stiffer and
longer and bigger. Well, the best

244
00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.400
time to prune blueberries in the winter. But if you need to trim away

245
00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:59.319
some small twiggy debris and stuff down
low so you can get the pot,

246
00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.000
now, go ahead and do that. Just don't do don't do a full

247
00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:07.160
fledged pruning right now. Do enough
to get to the pot and then make

248
00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:11.119
your pruning time in the winter.
Okay, okay, well, thank you,

249
00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:15.599
thank you so much. All right, thank you, thank you too.

250
00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.359
You have a wonderful day. In
fact, I hope all those folks

251
00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:23.400
out there listening, I have a
wonderful day. You have got a day

252
00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.359
where you can get out this morning, get a little bit of stuff done

253
00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.559
in the yard before it gets too
terribly hot, and just enjoy it.

254
00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.359
And then when it gets hot,
head out to a garden center where you

255
00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.240
enjoy walking around seeing plants. You
know, every time I go to a

256
00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:41.759
garden center, I learn something.
I learn about new plants that are out.

257
00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:47.119
I visit with folks that work at
the garden centers. The only ones

258
00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:51.079
I go to are the ones that
are mom and pop that really know what

259
00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.920
they're talking about. I just don't
go to the garden centers. I don't.

260
00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:03.440
Sometimes I'll wander down outside the hammers
and lumber and everything like that,

261
00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.519
and just to go see what's green
on the other end that they're currently killing.

262
00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:11.200
But I go to quality garden centers
and I talk to the staff,

263
00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:15.119
and I always learned something. There's
no no person on earth that there's not

264
00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.680
something that you can learn from them. I mean, even if it's don't

265
00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:25.440
try this at home, and there's
there's there's always something to learn. When

266
00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.640
it comes to horticulture, you never
finish, which I think is one of

267
00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:32.839
the best parts of gardening because we
it's a it is always a new day.

268
00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.440
It's always stimulating. You're looking out
there right now at a brown lawn

269
00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:41.240
and maybe a dead tree in the
yard and just thinking, oh my gosh,

270
00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:44.359
just wait. We get a new
start in the fall, we have

271
00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:48.680
another we have good things we can
do in the wintertime and in the spring,

272
00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.880
and it's just it's just a good
hobby because it's always something new.

273
00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.640
Gives you kind of hope. Definitely
definitely does. That gives you some really

274
00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:00.880
good hope to be able to look
out and enjoy do that sort of thing.

275
00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:07.359
Hey, if you live up in
the Navasota area or out in Carlos

276
00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.839
or out in bed Eyes or out
in Rhnes Prairie or Shiro, you have

277
00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.960
a hometown feed store and that is
Grimes County Feed. I've bragged on them

278
00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.680
for a while now. But for
those folks living in the division subdivisions like

279
00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:23.480
Kingwood excuse me, Murewood or king
Oaks, I get the mix those up.

280
00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.279
That's your hometown feed store. They
carry the products we talk about.

281
00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:30.119
They have ten percent off all bird
seed and stock, tempercent off a tree

282
00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:34.680
hugger sprinkler, tempersent off Nelson Medina, Night Fuss Microlife. It's a good

283
00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:38.559
time to go by and pick that
stuff up. It's available there now and

284
00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.720
their customer appreciation has been going on
for a good while now. The Roy

285
00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:49.720
family has been really creating a beautiful, wonderful, fun feed store to go

286
00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:53.799
buy and visit. Give them a
call to eight one eight one four twenty

287
00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:56.839
four ninety four. You know what
I'm saying that now I'm wondering if that

288
00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.480
those sales are still going on.
I need to check with them. I

289
00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:03.480
may have misspoken on that, but
anyway, they still have all those things

290
00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.519
in stock and it's well worth bind. Get your tree hugger sprinkler now.

291
00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.279
The soils out there tend to drain
really really well and it gets dry fast.

292
00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:18.200
Keep those trees alive with a tree
hugger sprinkler from Grimes County feet and

293
00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:33.640
the wind whisps really well. Good
morning on a good Saturday morning for gardening.

294
00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:36.720
You are listening to garden Line and
Our phone number if you would like

295
00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:41.240
to give us a call is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

296
00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:47.759
four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. I hope you'll

297
00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:49.400
just write that down and have it
handy, so who knows. You may

298
00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:53.480
be cruising along through the show and
suddenly think of, oh, I need

299
00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:56.839
to ask this question. Will there
you got the phone number. Also listen

300
00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:00.680
with a pen and paper near I, because you know no I may give

301
00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:06.359
out a phone number or a website
or other kinds of information that you would

302
00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:11.279
want to jot down. By the
way, Also, if you miss a

303
00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.519
show, or if you heard something
in a show and then you gotta can't

304
00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:17.920
remember, you gotta go back and
see what it was it was said,

305
00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.359
you can go to the podcast.
We have a podcast for garden Line.

306
00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:25.839
You can go on your podcast app, whether it's iHeart Media app or some

307
00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:30.359
other podcast provider, look for garden
Line and check out some of the past

308
00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:36.839
shows and tell your friends about that
too if they if they're interested in being

309
00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:40.400
able to listen to gardening stuff,
even if it's not from this region,

310
00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:44.480
we have a lot of folks outside
the region that listen. They can also

311
00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:48.119
listen by podcasts too, just another
way to be able to listen in on

312
00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:56.519
garden line information. When I think
about, especially down south of the Houston

313
00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.759
area, when I think about,
where's a place you go where you can

314
00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:02.839
get a hold of all that we're
different products I'm talking about. I mean

315
00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:07.039
the fertilizers that we talk about here, the soils that we talk about here.

316
00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:11.200
That is going to be Cnamulch.
It's it's it's really simple. This

317
00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:17.079
is a no brainer north of Rocher
and they're near the nearerwhere Highway six and

318
00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:21.440
two eighty eight. It's on FM
five twenty one, five twenty one.

319
00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:25.759
You can just go online to CNA
mulch dot com. They are open Monday

320
00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:27.680
through Friday. They're open on Saturday
to today, by the way, from

321
00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:32.720
seven thirty to two pm, So
don't delay. After the show would be

322
00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:34.279
the time to get by there.
And why would you go by their,

323
00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:38.359
Well, we're coming up on fall
fertilizing season and they've got the products there

324
00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:41.799
to do it. It is always
a good time to add compost to your

325
00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.480
soil. It's always a good time
to build a new garden bed with a

326
00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:52.079
quality bed mix. It's always a
good time to mulch your plants, to

327
00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:57.000
cover that soil, to minimize weeds, to moderate soil temperature, to avoid

328
00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:03.359
the erosion from rain. It's always
a good time and Sienna Mulch always has

329
00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.279
that on hand for you, so
you can do it whatever time you want.

330
00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:11.039
While you're out there, check out
all the stone that they have,

331
00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.559
pallets and pallets of stone, gravel, sand, everything else you can imagine.

332
00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.920
Within twenty miles of their area,
they will they will deliver for a

333
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:23.279
small charge. So wherever you live
out in that area Meridian first Colony pair

334
00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:27.680
Land, if you live in Arcola, Sandy Point, Pomona, Sun Creek

335
00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:33.519
Estates, Sienna Maltch is your hometown
soil supplier, and you are really fortunate

336
00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:37.759
out there to have that kind of
a quality place. I love going there.

337
00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:38.920
In fact, I'm gonna go out
there this fall. I've got an

338
00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:41.640
appearance out there. I'll tell you
more about that as we get closer to

339
00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:49.240
it. Speaking of appearances, I'm
going to be on Saturday, September ninth,

340
00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:56.039
That would be next Saturday at the
Plantation Ace Hardware store now the Plantation

341
00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:00.640
Ace Hardware stores out there in Richmond. I'll be there from a eleven thirty

342
00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:04.960
till one thirty, and they they're
going to have a great, great event

343
00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.920
out there for us to be part
of, to meet you if you've got

344
00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:11.640
samples you want to bring in to
look at, if you want, if

345
00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:18.279
you have pictures you want to bring
in for diagnosis or for perhaps identification of

346
00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:21.599
plants. We'll be there for all
of that. Nitrofus is going to be

347
00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:25.440
given away free bags of fertilizer and
quite a few of them through the course

348
00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.160
of the two hours that I'll be
there, So that would be another great

349
00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.440
reason to stop in out there.
While you're there, you're going to get

350
00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:37.119
a chance to see the store that
Mickey and Jill have put together out there

351
00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:40.920
for Plantation Ace Hardware, and it
is a it is a wonderful Ace Hardware,

352
00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:45.279
which is what we expect of ACE. Right These locally owned Ace Hardware's

353
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.119
just throughout the Houston area are unbelievable. Well, you need to go see

354
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:52.880
Plantation Ace and we will be there
next Saturday, nine, nine September nine,

355
00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:57.359
from eleven thirty to one thirty.
I'll be answering gardening questions and all

356
00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:00.880
kinds of things. And I hope
to see you, all of you that

357
00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:04.559
live out there in the Richmond area, anywhere around the Richmond and sugar Land.

358
00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:08.960
Even Katie, come on down,
let's meet and let's talk plants.

359
00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:17.559
Next Saturday after this show. So
in Texas Gardener Magazine, which is the

360
00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:22.119
only statewide magazine for gardening in Texas, and in fact it's one of the

361
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.559
few statewide magazines for gardening around the
country. They're not a lot of them.

362
00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:29.279
But I'll tell you this, Texas
Gardeners alive and well. And I

363
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:33.960
write articles form every issue. But
the last one I wrote was on orna

364
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:38.000
metabals or metabals, which you may
have already figured out is a combination of

365
00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:42.519
ornamental and edible. You know,
we have gardens where we put our edible

366
00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:47.920
plants, and we have landscapes where
we keep our ornamental plants. But what

367
00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:52.720
about letting them escape and join the
other side of the fence over there,

368
00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.720
right? So things like a bay
tree bay tree is a beautiful evergreen shrub,

369
00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:02.319
really cool fennel. Gosh, the
glossy purples bronze foliage on a funnel

370
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:10.319
is unbelievable. We've got ornamentals.
We had edibles like Mexican met marigold like

371
00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:15.880
the pineapple sage. That would be
another good one. Uh. Those particular

372
00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:21.279
plants will bloom in the fall,
So not only do you have herbs for

373
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:26.240
cooking, but you have beautiful fall
blooming plants. Types of charred like rhubarb

374
00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:32.480
charred with bright red stems are just
gorgeous. The silvery color of a cardoon

375
00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:37.079
or what's the artichoke would be another
example of that. They're awesome. There

376
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.759
are a lot of great ornamental edible
plants out there that you can use,

377
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:45.640
and I would suggest maybe you do
a little online research. Go to Texas

378
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.160
Gardener and read my article. First
of all, Uh, you can you

379
00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.960
can find Texas Gardener online. You
can you can find the magazines and garden

380
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:57.000
centers. You know, I was
just just talking about enchanted gardens out there.

381
00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:02.880
I know the enchanteds in the out
of other garden centers will carry Texas

382
00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:04.400
Gardener magazine. You can just pick
one up there and see what I'm talking

383
00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:11.119
about. If you are interested in
improving your landscape. Again, fall,

384
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.599
you don't get a better time for
planting than fall. But now's the time

385
00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:21.960
to plan it, to draw it
out, to get it designed, and

386
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.559
get it ready to go for fall
and who do you call for that,

387
00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:30.400
Well, that's Peerscapes, Jason Garty
and his whole team. At peer Scapes,

388
00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.599
they can design professionally a landscape that
fits what you want. Take pictures

389
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:37.279
of your home, go in there, sit down, sit down with Bob

390
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:42.519
or candas designers, and just let
them brainstorm with you on what you want,

391
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:45.799
come up with a design, and
then come out and get it installed.

392
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:48.680
If your irrigation needs fixing. By
the way, they are very good

393
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.160
at maintaining, taking care of irrigation
issues that you might have. They know

394
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:57.200
how to fix drainage issues that you
might have. They do anything you need

395
00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:00.759
done pretty much in the landscape.
You can call them at two eight one

396
00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:06.079
three seven zero fifty sixty two eight
one three seven h fifty sixty R.

397
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:08.000
I always like to just go to
the websites because you can see a lot

398
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:14.759
of visual there as well. That's
peerscapes dot com. Peerscapes dot com.

399
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.839
Don't let this fall sneak up on
you. Go ahead and give him a

400
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:22.039
call. Get ready to turn your
place into not only a beautiful place to

401
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:27.240
gather with friends and family outdoors,
but a visually beautiful place just driving by

402
00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.440
and looking at it from the street
out there. You want something that is

403
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:36.400
a beautiful place, and they know
how to turn whatever you're starting with into

404
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:42.200
beautiful, that is for sure.
I am going to be talking a little

405
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:47.720
bit later more about my lawncare schedule
that is now out on the web.

406
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.200
But for those of you who who
have looked at it in the past and

407
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.160
last couple of weeks since I put
it up, we keep updating it and

408
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.839
there's a new updated version out there, but you have to go to Skip

409
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.680
now excuse me, gardening with Skip
dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com,

410
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.799
and I would suggest rather than downloading
the schedule or you can do that,

411
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.880
but always go to the website.
That's where the newest version, any

412
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:14.000
enhancements we make to it will be
right up there. Hey, we're gonna

413
00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:18.039
take a break a phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

414
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:34.680
four. Well, good Saturday morning
on a great day for gardening. You

415
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:38.640
are listening to garden Line and we're
here to talk to you about whatever is

416
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:41.720
of interest to you. You can
give us a call if you like.

417
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:47.799
Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one,

418
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:52.799
two fifty eight seventy four if you
live up in the Montgomery area,

419
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.920
the Lake Conro area. I was
up there for their home and Garden show

420
00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:03.839
that they had out at Margaritaville this
past weekend. And I tell you when

421
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.079
every time I go up to that
area, I have to swing by Ana

422
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.119
plants and produce because it is just
fun to see what's going on. I'm

423
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.240
always set back by the amount of
color that they have upfront. You know,

424
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.279
you can go during pretty rough times
of the year when you look around

425
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.000
your yard and neighborhood and there's not
much color. You show up at Ana

426
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:23.640
and you find out, Oh,
these are all the things I could be

427
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:29.519
growing right now that would make the
place beautiful. Plumbago. I love the

428
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.759
blue plumbago that they have. That
is a tough plant. I learned that

429
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.359
one year we had a drought when
I was at the Extension office in Austin,

430
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.720
Texas, and our office it was
a drought, but it was also

431
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.559
the waterline broke and we were without
water for almost a whole month. In

432
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:52.519
the landscape, and that sucker just
went right through I'm talking about plumbago and

433
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.279
went right through the It looked horrible, but a lot of plants died.

434
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.079
A lot of other plants looked horrible, but Plumbago stuck with it and and

435
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:01.880
we put a little water on it. Later it bounced right back. It's

436
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:06.160
a tough plant. Boog and v
is another example of a good summer blooming

437
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.480
plant. But those are just examples. I mean, they've got everything you

438
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:12.960
can imagine, you know, Ana
Plants and Produce Again, they're on the

439
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:15.960
east side of Montgomery, right there
on Highway one oh five. They have

440
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:20.880
got all kinds of different plants.
They've got all the kinds of things you

441
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.920
want to use to decorate your patio. You know, three acres to wander

442
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:28.720
through. You just need to walk
by or drive up, walk through and

443
00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:32.799
see what I'm talking about at Ana
Plants and Produce in Montgomery on the east

444
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:40.440
side, right on one oh five. This is the hot, dry time

445
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:46.400
where we sometimes struggle along with ideas
for the landscape. And I would highly

446
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:50.039
recommend, in fact, this morning
would be a good time to do this,

447
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.079
when you get enough daylight out there
where you can get outside, grab

448
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.960
your cup of coffee or tea or
whatever, and just take a stroll through

449
00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:00.720
the landscape and look over your lands. Go stay it out of the street

450
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:04.240
and look at it. Walk through, walk through the gardens and have a

451
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.720
little piece of paper with you,
a little pad or something, and write

452
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.559
down. Make note of the plants
that are not doing so well. And

453
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:15.200
it may be that there's a plant
that is struggling that just needs to be

454
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:20.559
moved. Maybe it's in just too
much sun and if you moved it into

455
00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:22.519
a little more shade it would do
better, or vice versa. There are

456
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:28.440
plants that are in shade but they
want more light and they're alive. The

457
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.160
plant looks pretty good, but it's
not blooming like it could because it needs

458
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:35.920
more light. Look at your lawn
in the areas. Is there a spot

459
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.359
that you're just not able to get
water too very well? Well, maybe

460
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:45.000
that should be converted to a drought
tolerant type of groundcover, or a mulched

461
00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:50.759
area that has shrubs in it,
or some other thing. Do that assessment,

462
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.240
and now it's a good time to
do it. Now take a box

463
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.839
of kleenex, because you know,
you look around. If you're places like

464
00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:59.599
I've got a few plants that it's
like, oh my gosh, you know

465
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:04.680
that's that's that's so sad. Well. Seriously, though, get out there

466
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.599
look at it, because then you
are ready when fall comes to make those

467
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.440
landscape changes, and you'll already have
your shopping less ready to go. In

468
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.199
fact, you could you not to
wait to fall. I mean you could

469
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:20.559
do shopping today. But my point
is just take a look at your landscape

470
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:25.000
and this summer. You know they
say make lemons out of lemonade. Well,

471
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:30.480
this summer has been brutal and it
is taken a toll on a lot

472
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:35.159
of plants. We'll make lemonade out
of that by letting the summer tell you

473
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.760
how you need to change your landscape, because this isn't gonna be the last

474
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.840
time we have a hot, dry
summer. It's just not. And you

475
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:46.039
know, there's there's the aesthetic of
landscaping, where what would look pretty?

476
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:50.719
How do I redesign that? I
was just talking about having Peerscapes work with

477
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:54.280
you to do that. But there's
also the how are things doing here?

478
00:34:54.599 --> 00:35:00.440
Maybe there was a tree that was
cut down and that totally changed the environment

479
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:06.159
in that particular area that was once
shady and now it's not. Whatever the

480
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:12.519
reason, do an assessment now,
because it's not gonna for warm season.

481
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:14.960
It's not going to look any worse
than it does right now. I mean,

482
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.280
this is kind of the time when
it's the end of the brutal summer

483
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:22.639
and it's like our plants have been
in a punching match and it's been a

484
00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:28.119
long one and they are they're beat
up and worn out, and this is

485
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:32.039
a time those that look good now, those are gold star plants, and

486
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.679
you need to hang on to those, maybe get some more of them to

487
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:37.519
put in other places. But there's
a lot of things you can do,

488
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.320
and now's the time to make that
assessment. I know, I'm I'm beating

489
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.000
that horse to death, but it
just take advantage of it. This isn't

490
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.000
you know, it's hot, people
don't want to go outside and those kinds

491
00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:52.960
of things. But boy, you
can learn a lot right now and start

492
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.800
those plans. Remember, gardeners or
eternal optimists, we have hope. We

493
00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:00.840
always know that next year's tomato patch
is going to be are more bountiful,

494
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.119
more tasty than this year's stam in
a patch. Right that's how we feel.

495
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:07.000
Well, use a little bit of
that optimism and put it. Apply

496
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.360
it to your landscape, to your
vegetable garden, your flowers, your herbs

497
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.480
bed, you know whatever, trees
even maybe there's an area that needs a

498
00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:17.639
good shade tree and we need to
get that thing going. All right,

499
00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.360
Well, you know what I mean. If you live in north central Houston,

500
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:28.920
your hometown feed store is Quality Feed
and Garden Company. Now, some

501
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.440
of you probably have been going there
for over a decade, like I have.

502
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:36.079
And you know what we're talking about
here. Well, Quality Feed's been

503
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.519
around since nineteen twenty eight. Kenn
and Chris have owned it for the last

504
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:43.519
thirty two years now. The old
location I used to go to now they've

505
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:47.000
moved to a new location. They've
been there for a while. It's eighteen

506
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:52.800
thirteen Luzon Street, so it's inside
the Loop, just north of downtown.

507
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:54.840
Why do you go to Quality Feed? Well, Number one, it's one

508
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:58.400
of the coolest old time feed stores
you ever seen. I mean they got

509
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:01.559
an antique seed rack in there from
nineteen twenty eight stocked with heirloom seeds.

510
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:06.920
That's just cool and fun. I
mean that is retro fund that I always

511
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.159
have to go check it out every
time I go buy there. Ever fertilizer

512
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:14.199
I talk about, and then some
you're gonna find at Quality Feed and Garden

513
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.639
Center. You're going to find the
mulches, You're going to find the potting

514
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:21.559
soils. In fact, Ken makes
his own calls it Kin's Potting Soil.

515
00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:23.800
That is a really quality blend that
he has there. But the other ones

516
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:27.679
we talk about, you're going to
find him there as well. If you

517
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:31.679
have backyard chickens, they've got all
the supplies you need and you know feed,

518
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:37.039
feeders, waterers, bedding, everything
for your backyard chickens. They even

519
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.639
have their own house special called Granny's
Laying Mix. And if you need chickens,

520
00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:45.880
about ever two weeks they get a
shipment of chicks in at Quality Feed,

521
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:51.119
more shipments than any place in the
whole listening area I've seen quality feed

522
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:57.119
coo dot com Quality feed coo dot
com. They are at eighteen thirteen Luzon,

523
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.360
near their intersection of equipment and a
lesion, But you need to go

524
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:05.159
by say hi to Ken and Chris
and just see what I'm talking about.

525
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:07.559
They're open today from nine to four. Tomorrow they will be open from eleven

526
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:12.639
thirty to four and then through the
week nine am to six pm, so

527
00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:15.440
when you get off of work you
still have time to swing through there.

528
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:22.079
And grab what you need quality feed
and garden company. Well, we're running

529
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:27.519
near the end of our time here. I don't know. Segments always seem

530
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.840
like they go fast to me.
Maybe it's because I'm having fun. I

531
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:34.719
hope you're having fun too. By
the way, we're gonna come back from

532
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.960
break and in a bit here.
Our phone number, by the way is

533
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:42.480
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Give Josh a call.

534
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.119
He will get you up there on
the boards. Viggie out and willis

535
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.239
just because I don't have enough time
to really take your call right now.

536
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:52.800
You will be first when I come
back from the break. Now, I

537
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.239
want to talk a little bit about
as we end this segment, the garden

538
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.960
law or excuse me, the lawn
care schedule that I have online if you

539
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:07.480
go to Gardening with Skip dot com
Gardening with Skip dot com. About all

540
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.239
that's up on the site right now. It's a brand new website. Is

541
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:15.920
the lawn fair schedule. We've updated
it. We will continue to improve on

542
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.480
this and other schedules I'll be putting
up as time goes on, so I

543
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.280
always check back. You can download
a copy to print out and stick on

544
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:27.800
the refrigerator if you want, but
always go check to see if you've got

545
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.440
the latest, and the website will
always have the latest. This one tells

546
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:37.280
you the fertilizers and when to apply
them throughout the year January December. It

547
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:43.079
tells you about air raiding and compost
top dressing. It tells you about proper

548
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:45.960
mowing and how to do that.
It tells you about proper watering and the

549
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:51.119
typical water use. It is a
very helpful resource and I hope that you

550
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:58.039
will check it out on Gardening with
Skip dot Com. KTRH Garden Line does

551
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:04.239
not necessarily endorse any of the products
services advertised on this program. Welcome to

552
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:16.079
KTRH Garden Life with Skip Rictor It's
smell the Crazy trim. Just watch him

553
00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:30.400
as a wood, so many good
things. Well, good morning, starting

554
00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:34.760
to glow in the sky out there
a little bit towards the east. We

555
00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:37.599
are about to start a really good
day to get outside and do stuff.

556
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.440
In fact, now be the time
to suit up, grab a cup of

557
00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:43.880
coffee, whatever you need, and
head out in the garden. I talked

558
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:46.920
about walking through and taking an assessment
of things. That's certainly something I want

559
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:51.840
to do today. Maybe a little
spot watering, some other issues you will

560
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.559
take care of out there, getting
ready because fall is on the way.

561
00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:00.760
We're gonna head out now to Willis
and talk to Vicky this morning. Good

562
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.039
morning, Vicky, Hey, good
morning. Kind of a twofold question.

563
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.559
We have a timber management plan going
on on our property. So we have

564
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:15.039
about ten or twelve acres mostly woods, but we're seeing a lot of suffering

565
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:19.320
as all over the area, of
course, of oaks and hickories and sycamore.

566
00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:22.519
The ones closest to our home we
can we've watered fairly well. I

567
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:27.679
think those are going to be salatable. Curious is what we would look at

568
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:32.599
with the other ones. And then
also our local are plants that we have

569
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:40.679
hybiscus and azaleas and so forth.
When can we start fertilizing those for the

570
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.480
fall, or what we should do
even with our grass or say in Augustine.

571
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.719
Okay, how do we deal with
this? Going back to the trees,

572
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.440
I didn't quite follow what your question
was for me. Well, some

573
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:58.400
of the trees we're going to lose
for sure with the drought because we can't

574
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:04.840
water everything. Some are watering nearest
our home, and that's I'm not quite

575
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:08.039
sure how much sweety to water them. We're on well water, we certainly

576
00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:12.000
want to, don't want to danger
that right, not sure about our water

577
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:15.360
levels. We get conflicting opinions on
all of the above. Got you all

578
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:20.079
right? Well? With tree watering, it depends on the edge of the

579
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.039
tree. If it's a brand new
transplant, you're watering it every other day,

580
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:25.360
just to put a little water in
that root ball where all the roots

581
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:30.039
are still confined to. As it
gets older and older, you water less

582
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:31.400
and less often. Once the tree
has been in the ground for a year,

583
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:36.239
you're probably giving it a at this
point, giving it a good soaking

584
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:39.920
about every ten days. When it's
a little more established, like a nice,

585
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:45.280
pretty good medium to large sized tree, I would probably say ten to

586
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.280
twenty four days, excuse me,
ten ten to fourteen days would be a

587
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.599
soaking. And that would mean you
want to at least put an inch down.

588
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.039
If you can put a little more
than that, that's even better.

589
00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:00.440
And you want to if you've got
to, you know, you're kind of

590
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:01.480
trying to go well, I don't
want to waste water. I don't want

591
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:04.880
to buy a lot of water and
so, but I want to keep my

592
00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.920
tree alive. I think that's the
sweet spot over ten to fourteen days,

593
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:13.559
and focus on the area beneath the
branch spread. So picture the tree is

594
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:16.639
a giant umbrella. Where does the
water drip off that umbrella? Well,

595
00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:21.519
that would be the edge of the
branch spread, and so from there,

596
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:24.239
okay, especially a little bit in
from there toward the trunk. If you

597
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:27.960
focus on that area, you can
go beyond it. That's even better.

598
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.679
It just takes more water, but
if you can at least give it enough

599
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:35.639
to get it by, you know, that is what you're trying to do,

600
00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:40.760
and that helps avoid excess water applications. Don't little squirtings on your lawn

601
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:46.360
and stuff are not going to help
the tree much. Okay, well,

602
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:50.000
thank you very much. Okay,
I don't I know you had some other

603
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:54.599
aspects of the question, but that's
the tree part. Was that pretty much

604
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:59.719
all of these trees are older,
mature trees that were there before. We

605
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.599
love din so we don't have any
new plannings on those. But you know,

606
00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:07.079
we're just dealing with we have well
water. We don't want to use

607
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:10.880
too much because we don't know where
the water level is right. We certainly

608
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:15.599
don't want to endanger that. Yeah, so I'm trying to balance. I

609
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:19.880
don't want to run a well drive
it. Also don't want to lose tree.

610
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.320
So I'm trying to figure out,
well, what's a minimum we can

611
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.039
do and keep alive. Yeah,
that's what I would do now. I

612
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:29.880
mean, if you've got a tree
that that's kind of on the wimpy whiney

613
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.920
side, anyway, you're gonna probably
give it a little more water to keep

614
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:37.079
it happy. You get a really
deep rooted well established, like a live

615
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:44.679
oak, for example, they are
surviving out with essentially zero water out there,

616
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:49.199
and they're okay. But you just
kind of have to assess the tree

617
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:52.559
and the situation. You know,
if I'd had root damage to part of

618
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:54.639
it, maybe a trench was run
through, or maybe I don't know,

619
00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:59.599
a house was built on or driveway. I'm part of the root system,

620
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.400
then you would give it a little
more TLC because it's it's adjusting to wait

621
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:07.639
to a shock there. As far
as your other plants, it's always a

622
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:09.519
good soaking on an infrequent basis.
Of course, you're a zelie. As

623
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:13.639
you ask about fertilizing them, I'd
hold off for right now. You could

624
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:17.000
put on a light amount if it
wasn't a like an organic type product that

625
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:21.480
isn't a salt based You could put
on more if you want it now.

626
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:27.000
But when a plant is drought stressed, putting on like a boost of plant

627
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.880
food fertilizer is probably not that helpful. It's better to wait just a little

628
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:36.639
bit. Well, that's what we
thought. Maybe later in the fall.

629
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:38.280
You don't have to wait long.
Just let it, let's get it.

630
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:43.039
Let's say, let's do this,
let's get it well hydrated, and then

631
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:47.519
then a little fertilizaization is okay.
So if you do that with a sprinkler,

632
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:51.679
fine, if you do that with
waiting on rainfall, fine, But

633
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:54.719
we just don't want to push them
too much too late. A zelius are

634
00:45:54.760 --> 00:46:00.920
already setting the buds for next springs
bloom. They've been doing that in the

635
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:07.000
summer and they can continue on into
the early part of fall, and so

636
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.400
just be conscious of that fact.
Yeah, so you don't want them to

637
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:15.079
dress you bet, Thank you,
VICKI, thank you, bye bye.

638
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:21.559
Yeah, it's it's a boy.
Plant watering is It's just a constant question

639
00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:25.480
because there's only eight hundred thousand different
plants out there different situations. Some people

640
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:31.719
have clay, some people have sand. I always hate to give a water

641
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:37.119
two days a week, or water, you know, one day a week,

642
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.679
or water for thirty minutes, or
any numbers, because everything's different.

643
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:46.519
Sun versus shade, sand versus clay, those all affect how much and how

644
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:51.400
often you're gonna need to water,
And so I like to just, you

645
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.559
know, with the lawns and with
tree watering, take this long straight screw

646
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:58.800
driver, push it in the ground. If the if you've watered and it's

647
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.800
wet on top, give it thirty
minutes or so soak in and then push

648
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:05.639
that screw driver down in there,
and you'll know how deep you've wetted.

649
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:07.599
It makes it really easy to know
have I given it a good deep soaking,

650
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:12.800
because when you do that, you
don't water very often. You wait

651
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:16.199
until it dries out in water again. On the other hand, when it's

652
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:22.119
around let's say perennial plants or flowers
or vegetables, just dig down in the

653
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:24.159
soil with your hand, take a
little hand trial if you want, and

654
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.920
dig down about I don't know four
inches so and feel the soil and you

655
00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:32.719
can tell is this moist? This
is adequately moisture. You know what this

656
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.239
is, getting a little on the
dry side and water accordingly. Now,

657
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.599
that doesn't mean you're feeling the soil
three times a week to decide when to

658
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:44.679
water. It just means you know, learn your landscape, learn your plants,

659
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:49.440
learn your locations in the landscape,
and that way you can know exactly

660
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:53.079
when you need to water that plant
in your yard. That's the ultimate answer.

661
00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:58.159
All right, our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight

662
00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:00.960
seventy four. We're gonna take a
little break here and we will be right

663
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.239
back. If you'd like to give
Josh call, he will get you on

664
00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:20.440
the boards. Welcome back to garden
Line. We are here to talk about

665
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:22.960
gardening. Whatever is of interest to
you. Give us a call at seven

666
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:29.519
one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

667
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:37.480
fifty eight seventy four. Are a
Do you consider yourself a brown thumb gardener?

668
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:39.159
You want to turn your thumb green? Well, the way you turn

669
00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:45.159
a thumb green is with information and
Plants for all seasons. Has got the

670
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.239
quality staff that knows how to help
you with your plants. When you walk

671
00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:52.000
into Plants for all Seasons, you
know You're not going to buy stuff that

672
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:54.719
won't grow here. They carry stuff
that grows here. When you walk into

673
00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:58.920
Plants for All Seasons, if you've
got a question, maybe a sample of

674
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.039
photo, something you'd help with,
you know you're going to get the accurate

675
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:07.599
answer and you're gonna get pointed to
something that works on the problem that you

676
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:09.320
have. They're not going to sell
you something that doesn't work. And they

677
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:15.440
carry a wide variety of products and
incredibly wide variety of plants. I you

678
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:22.559
know, I'm very very impressed with
the selection. When perhaps you want a

679
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:27.880
beautiful container, you know, terracotta
or maybe a glaze pottery or something really

680
00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:30.480
beautiful, they've got all of that
there, and then some plants for all

681
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.000
seasons. They've been around for a
good while, you know, the Flowerty

682
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:38.280
family since nineteen seventy three. You
know, from education to selection, to

683
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:44.800
delivery to custom potting, they are
truly lawn and garden experts. Go to

684
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:49.119
Plants for All Seasons dot com,
Plants for All Seasons dot com, or

685
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:52.880
give him a call to eight one
three seven six sixteen forty six. And

686
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:57.239
just in case you don't know,
they are right there on Highway two forty

687
00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:00.119
nine, right just north of where
Louetta comes in. Easy to find,

688
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:06.280
easy to get to, and you
will go home with success because the information,

689
00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:09.480
the plants, and the products are
all there. Plants for all seasons.

690
00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:14.239
I'm gonna head out to West University
and we're gonna talk to Jonas next.

691
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:17.239
Hello Jonas, Hey, how are
you skipped answered getting my phone call?

692
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:22.199
Yes, sir, I have several
pot and high business plants and one

693
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:23.840
of them died. But I think
I know why it died. I think

694
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:28.920
that the issue was I did not
have enough soil in there. I realized

695
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:31.559
it too late, and before I
knew it. I realized that it just

696
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:37.400
was liking soil and the pot became
kind of soggy and it died. So

697
00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:39.920
I pulled the hot business out.
My question is, if I want to

698
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:45.199
transplant or put a pot another high
business there, should I remove that soil

699
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:49.719
for fear that maybe it got a
fungal infection or something like that. I

700
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:55.519
would seriously doubt that it did.
That would be very unusual unless you know,

701
00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:59.760
you just had another pot that you
mixed soil in that had a fungle

702
00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:02.280
in affection, and maybe now it's
in that pot. But in general no,

703
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:06.559
I would just reuse, freshen it
up, put some good quality mix

704
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:08.760
in there. If you have any
questions and you're not real sure, you

705
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:13.599
can always dump that soil out in
the garden in a bed and just you

706
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:17.239
know, have good use of it
elsewhere. But I don't think that's going

707
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.119
to be a concern. You just
need to make sure and and have a

708
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:25.199
good quality soil that drains well but
yet also holds moisture. In this summer,

709
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:30.920
I've I've had a time of it
keeping my hibiscus adequately watered, you

710
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:32.519
know, and if you if the
pot size is a little on the small

711
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:37.960
side, that makes it even harder. Right now, I've noticed that all

712
00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:43.760
my hibiscus have more verdant colored leaves, greener than others. Are there a

713
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:47.719
different species of lease? Well,
there's the tropical hibiscus that cannot take a

714
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:52.719
freeze, and then there's a perennial
hibiscus that dies to the ground in winter

715
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:57.880
and comes right back. The perennial
type has the big, old dinner plate

716
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.440
sized blooms on it. The other
one has smaller blooms, but the colors

717
00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:07.880
are much much farther ranging. And
you know, just all kinds of colors,

718
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.920
and the tropical tropicals tend to have
dark green lays with shininess to them,

719
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.880
and the perennial dozen't. So it's
as far as the difference in color.

720
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.440
I would I would get you a
good quality hibiscus food and put it

721
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:24.199
down in order to provide a little
nitrogen to get a little bit of a

722
00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:28.719
boost to them. If they're lacking
the green color, that that may be

723
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:32.800
something that would help. Right.
So I have a couple that actually froze.

724
00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:36.840
I covered them in the free selace
winter, but they actually just froze,

725
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:38.880
but they came back. They came
back and they're beautiful. Now,

726
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.800
okay, big trunks and all that. I'm want to bring them inside this

727
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:45.920
winter. I don't want them to
freeze again. Yeah, good idea,

728
00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:52.199
good idea. And sometimes some leaves
turn yellow while others not. Yeah,

729
00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:57.920
I guess I could be also related
to maybe just minerals it in my need

730
00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:00.880
or what. Yeah, if it's
the brand new ends of the shoots that

731
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:06.719
the leaves are just not getting green
color, then that would be a deficiency

732
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:09.320
of a micronutrient like iron for examples, the more typical one you see.

733
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:14.320
But I suspect what you're describing as
the older leaves that are turning yellow.

734
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.159
And you know, leaves, even
though the plant has leaves on it all

735
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.519
the time, those leaves don't live
forever. And especially if you go through

736
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:23.800
a dry period and then you water
it again, a lot of you will

737
00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:28.159
see yellowing and drop of some of
the oldest leaves on the shoot as you

738
00:53:28.199 --> 00:53:31.599
go from the tip back down.
It's the oldest leaves that turn yellow with

739
00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:37.760
a with a sole moisture stress like
that. Okay, I even add coffee

740
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:42.280
grounds to the soil. That's fine, and I've heard that it's good for

741
00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:45.159
them that agree with it. Yes, in moderation. I mean, if

742
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:47.639
you just picture a pot, I
wouldn't put more than a boat I don't

743
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:52.800
know, maybe half inch at the
most up on the top, just a

744
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:57.039
little dusting of it, and that
would be just fine. Salt as well

745
00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:00.119
because of the magnesium, well,
if magnesium is knee but you know,

746
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:05.719
it's kind of hard to know for
sure if magnesium is deficient in the hibiscus.

747
00:54:05.719 --> 00:54:07.000
And I'm not at the run to
the next call here, but if

748
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:14.159
magnesium is deficient, the older leaves
will have green veins with a less green

749
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.280
rest of the leaf, and it
almost sometimes it almost looks like a little

750
00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:22.639
green Christmas tree in the middle of
the leaf. But that type of sometimes

751
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.320
yeah, thank you, hey,
I appreciate the call Jonas, thank you

752
00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:32.239
very much out there. If you
haven't done your lawn fertilization in I don't

753
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:37.360
know the last two or three months, I would consider a application of Microlife.

754
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.840
In fact, two things. The
six two four is the green bag,

755
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.800
that's the one we use through the
year for everything pretty much. I

756
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:47.960
use it in vegetable gardens too.
Even though we think of it as a

757
00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:53.079
lawn fertilizer, it's just a good
quality organic fertilizer. Then combine that with

758
00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:59.000
a purple bag that's humates plus humates
plus is concentrated compost in a bag.

759
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:01.840
Now you can find Microlife products all
over town. They're easy to find.

760
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:08.519
You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot
com Microlife Fertilizer dot com. During this

761
00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:14.679
stress time, you're not gonna have
to worry about burning with the Microlife fertilizers.

762
00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:17.800
But what I would also do,
I would seriously consider getting the Ocean

763
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:22.519
Harvest that's the blue label liquid.
It's a fish based fertilizer follow the label,

764
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.920
but water. You can water plants
in with that, but you can

765
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:30.559
also use it as a folier feed
and that done. I would do that

766
00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:35.199
on a weekly basis. Actually,
folier feeds don't last long. They get

767
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:37.719
in quick. It's a fast way
to circumvent the roots and get nutrients and

768
00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:43.000
other beneficial things that you're going to
find in that blue label Ocean Harvest.

769
00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:45.639
Get them to the plant, but
you're going to need to do that about

770
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:51.760
weekly in order to keep keep them
supplied with the things that they need because

771
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:54.639
we're trying to get them out of
this stress. Summer has been brutal on

772
00:55:54.679 --> 00:56:00.519
our plants, and I find that
that Microlife blue label Ocean Hard it's a

773
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:04.719
very good product for dealing with just
that kind of stresses. Because fall is

774
00:56:04.760 --> 00:56:07.239
coming, so let's get them,
let's take care of them. Let's get

775
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:13.599
them to that point so that we
can have success in an ongoing way,

776
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:16.159
not just keeping plants alive, but
keeping them healthy. Let's head out to

777
00:56:16.199 --> 00:56:21.199
West Houston now, and we're going
to talk to Andy. Hello, Andy,

778
00:56:21.519 --> 00:56:24.119
how are you today? Well,
I'm well, what's up? Well,

779
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:29.440
I've been told I've got some nice
boxwood hedges, and some of them

780
00:56:29.480 --> 00:56:34.320
I've been told they have box would
blight. The leaves are turning brown,

781
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.519
and pretty soon the whole thing is
dead as almost as if it gets no

782
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:43.760
water. I understand this a fungus. And what's your suggestion to do with

783
00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:49.920
it? Did that diagnosis come from
like a plant pathologist or a professional horticulturist

784
00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:54.400
or is it just somebody that trasional
horticulture is named andy through the internet?

785
00:56:55.400 --> 00:57:05.440
Okay, okay, all right,
Well the Internet is a good place for

786
00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:10.320
good information and a great place for
bad information. It's it's you know,

787
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:13.679
it's kind of like when you if
you if you say, well, I've

788
00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:16.039
got a stomach ache and you google
it, doctor, Google will make you

789
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:22.119
think you're dying of stomach cancer as
well as some rare tropical disease. You

790
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:24.840
know. So, but it starts
off with little leaves like it's just some

791
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:29.000
of them start to turn brownd in
just grows and grows and grows. The

792
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:30.960
prison though, and it did,
it did as a door nailed it.

793
00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:35.280
Okay, Well, I mean it
could be a blight for blight you for

794
00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:37.920
that kind of thing, you would
need to send a samp up to the

795
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:42.400
plant clinic and have them do a
professional diagnosis of it where they cultured out

796
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:45.599
in the pet tradition, they do
that for small charge, and it would

797
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:47.679
be good to know because if you
got it, that's that's an issue and

798
00:57:47.719 --> 00:57:53.159
it's not an easy one to deal
with. Unwatering underwatering would do that.

799
00:57:53.400 --> 00:58:00.639
Underwatering nematodes. Box woods are susceptible
to nematodes. Nematodes can do. Oxwoods

800
00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:06.440
are subject to cold injury and last
December when it got so cold, it

801
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:12.079
caused some splitting of bark and as
the it's a little late now to start

802
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:15.000
seeing it, but if you've been
seeing it through the summer, that's a

803
00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:21.320
possibility. Follow a brown leaf section
down the stem and to where it connects

804
00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:24.679
with a good green, healthy shoot
and if you see splits in the bark,

805
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:29.599
that could be an old cold injury
that now the plant is just not

806
00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:32.519
able to keep up trying to get
water through that. Once you know that

807
00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:37.480
dead area and get enough to the
leaves to supply it, so that's also

808
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:42.760
a possibility. Okay, alrighty,
okay. I appreciate the information. Have

809
00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:45.679
a great day, you bet you
take care. Check those out and see

810
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:50.320
what you find when you take a
look at them. If you want a

811
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:52.480
quality sail mix, you're not going
to do better than airloom soils. I

812
00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:57.360
mean, airloom soils has a wide
variety of products. I mean, do

813
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:00.920
you need something for fruits and berries
and citric? Do you want something for

814
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:05.280
vegetables and herbs, maybe cactus and
succulent. Do you want a quality potting

815
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:07.800
soil? They got something called the
Works that is outstanding as a potting soil.

816
00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:15.440
They've got various components like a leafmoil
compost or expanded shale or a mix

817
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:20.400
of those two. Wide variety of
products from airloom soils. Airloom soils are

818
00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:24.880
available in many, many garden centers. You're going to find them in everything

819
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:30.559
from hardware stores, feed stores,
garden centers. Airloom Soils carries it.

820
00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:34.239
They have the quality products that you
need. By the way, if you

821
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:37.599
want to buy bulk, you can
go pick it up there at their porter

822
00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:42.280
location, or you can have them
deliver a supersack to your yard. A

823
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.039
supersack think of it as a big
old you know those grocery sacks we carry

824
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:49.760
that are so you don't have to
throw away paper and plastic imagine one of

825
00:59:49.800 --> 00:59:52.239
those full of soil that holds a
whole yard a Q picky hard three by

826
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:58.840
three by three of soil mix.
They will deliver it to your driveway.

827
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:01.719
It's neat, it's clean, it's
easy. Give them a call. By

828
01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:07.239
the way, Airloom Sauce is open
Monday through Saturday from seven am to five

829
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:10.280
pm, so check it out.
They deliver all over town. Well,

830
01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:15.599
it's time for the Nick News Network
to give us the latest. I'm talking

831
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:19.840
about the fire. The fire,
okay, Well, I know that we

832
01:00:19.960 --> 01:00:23.320
can trust the information that comes from
the Nick News Network, so I'm on

833
01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:45.519
the edge of messy detail. Let's
do this. Well. Good morning,

834
01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.360
beautiful day for gardening out there.
The sun is coming up. I see

835
01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:53.440
it shining cross street tops. Good
day to get outside and get some gardening

836
01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:58.079
done. Good day. Also to
give us a call garden Line. Let's

837
01:00:58.079 --> 01:01:01.199
talk about what you're interested in our
phone number seven one three two one two

838
01:01:01.679 --> 01:01:06.639
fifty eight seventy four. Hey,
for those of you living out in Mont

839
01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:12.360
Bellevue area or Baytown area, your
hometown feed store is Texas feed Stop.

840
01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:15.719
Texas feed Stop is on North Highway
one forty six and Mont Bellevue. If

841
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:19.760
you're on I ten, just go
north on one forty six just a few

842
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:22.480
minutes and they're right there on the
right hand side. At Texas Feed Stop,

843
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:27.920
you're going to get great customer service
and you're going to get great product

844
01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:31.559
selection. Brian and Hope Rhodes made
sure of that. When you show up

845
01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:35.639
there, they're gonna treat you like
family. They carry the bags out for

846
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:38.559
you to the card when they hire
teenagers from the Mott Bellevue community, they're

847
01:01:38.599 --> 01:01:43.239
part of the community there. Texas
Feed Stop is and it's just the good

848
01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:45.519
old days where you walk in and
you get treated like family. Now,

849
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:49.840
if you need any of the fertilizers
I'm talking about here, if you need

850
01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.480
other products I talk about, you
know, the soil types of products,

851
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:58.159
or mosquito docks for example, you're
gonna get all that Texas Feed Stop.

852
01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:00.760
Hey, it's hunting season. They're
loaded up on supplies for that as well.

853
01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:06.400
It's just a win win to stop
in at Texas Feed Stop. Make

854
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:10.159
sure that's part of your week,
whether you need feed for pets or feed

855
01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:15.159
for your livestock, or occasionally they
have plants in there as well. As

856
01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:17.280
you come in to pick them out. But trust me, when you walk

857
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:22.440
in you maybe you've got a disease
or an insect pastor problem. They've got

858
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.719
a wide variety of selection of those
types of things as well. Again on

859
01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:30.599
Highway one forty six, just a
few minutes north of ten out there in

860
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:36.159
Mountain Bellevue. Let's now head to
let's see, we're gonna go to Parker

861
01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:40.920
in South Houston. Hello Parker,
good morning, skip morning. Hey,

862
01:02:42.280 --> 01:02:47.639
I bought I recently purchased the home
in uh See, Southeast Arkansas, Okay,

863
01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:52.639
a couple of hours north of Texarcana. I got the most beautiful yard

864
01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:59.920
you've ever seen, full of weeds. So I am needing some information or

865
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:05.880
some contact information. Where should I
begin this process? The Dallas area or

866
01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:08.639
can you help me there? Well, the Arkansas has their own extension service

867
01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:14.079
up there, and I suspect you
have a county extension office in your county

868
01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:19.360
that's through the University of Arkansas.
They will have a lot of good information

869
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:22.119
on managing the weeds of Arkansas.
Now, I mean, if you want

870
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:24.000
to call me send me a picture
of weed. I probably know what it

871
01:03:24.119 --> 01:03:28.920
is and can tell you what to
do. But just know that locally up

872
01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:30.559
there, you've got that information,
just like we do in all of two

873
01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:36.239
hundred and fifty four counties here in
Texas. With the Texas I have got

874
01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:43.320
a variety of weeds maybe I don't
know, twenty twenty different kinds and bermuda

875
01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:50.880
and sant Augustine is trying to take
hold, but it was neglected for a

876
01:03:50.960 --> 01:03:54.480
long period of time. So so
your options up there. First of all,

877
01:03:54.519 --> 01:03:59.920
we're up that far north, you're
going to be entering the pre emmer

878
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:04.719
urgent cool season weed prevention system or
time of the year. You're going to

879
01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:11.880
be entering that this month. In
fact, you know, again I don't.

880
01:04:11.960 --> 01:04:15.199
I don't live that far north,
but I would say maybe maybe even

881
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:20.000
early to mid September, you would
be putting a pre emergent down. But

882
01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:23.920
don't quote me on the exact time
that far north. I don't. We

883
01:04:23.960 --> 01:04:27.280
don't do it till we don't really
do it till in a month of October

884
01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:30.880
here down in this over here.
Yeah, but the followed I followed this

885
01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:35.000
station for since I was growing up, and h back, I guess it

886
01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:41.960
was Jun Burrows and Bill Zach yes
back in the day. And then my

887
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:45.559
father always had it on the station
in the Covar because it was the AM

888
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:47.760
station we could get so all right, man, Skip, thank you very

889
01:04:47.840 --> 01:04:51.599
much, and I will pursue the
county sits in the offices here. Yeah,

890
01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:55.719
And just to give you one one
little quick final thing, don't forget

891
01:04:55.760 --> 01:04:58.639
the pre emergent for all the cool
season ways that are coming. Then in

892
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:00.880
the spring you're going to do that
for warm season weeds. And in the

893
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:04.840
meantime there are things you can do
to kill existing weeds. But that gets

894
01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:08.880
down to a lot of specifics.
But feel free to call us back if

895
01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:12.519
you have any trouble finding help up
there. Yea, our temperatures deal up

896
01:05:12.519 --> 01:05:15.679
about round one hundred grees. It's
you know it is here, so it's

897
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:18.800
a yeah, sticky situations. Thank
you very much, Skip, Yes,

898
01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:24.119
sir, thank you for the call. I appreciate that I was mentioning while

899
01:05:24.119 --> 01:05:28.199
ago talking about the Texas feed stop
out there that they carry mosquito dunks,

900
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:30.320
and they do. And I know
right now you're thinking, was not raining.

901
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:34.039
Why do I worry about mosquitos?
Well, it's gonna rain, and

902
01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:38.599
you better have some mosquito dunks or
one of their other products. They've got

903
01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:43.679
a granular product as well, same
compounds, same purpose. The mosquito dunk

904
01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:45.519
is a little donut. It floats
on water, and it lasts about a

905
01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:53.280
month, and it releases a disease
of mosquitoes only. So if you know,

906
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:56.000
like honeybees, go get a drink
out of the water, they won't

907
01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:58.679
be affected. If you've got fish
in the water, or you're pets,

908
01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:01.280
you're drinking out of it, wildlife
of any kind, birds, it's not

909
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:04.599
going to affect any them. It's
just the disease of mosquitoes, which is

910
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:09.280
a beautiful thing. Now, a
dunk will cover about one hundred square feet

911
01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:13.039
of water last about thirty days.
If you've got a large area and you

912
01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:15.400
just want to scatter a bunch of
granules, they have a granular product as

913
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:18.280
well, and that gets you really
quick results. Right now, it's not

914
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:23.440
gonna last as long, but maybe
you look out there and there's mosquito regulars

915
01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:26.559
all over the place, Throw the
granules out there and let's knock those things

916
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:32.239
out. Mosquito dunks is the most
environmentally sound way of managing mosquitoes that we

917
01:06:32.360 --> 01:06:36.800
have here in our area. Let's
go out now to Humble and we're gonna

918
01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:43.559
talk to Lily. Hello, Lily, good morning, Good morning. I

919
01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:49.760
have all different kind of flowering plants. They're gonna be a fried paradise.

920
01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:56.159
I just Guardinia's hw business. Do
I need to feed them all different kinds

921
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.199
of food? Well, they're one
that I can buy. Yeah, you

922
01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:08.519
said, Hibiscus Guardinia. Tell me
the others that you have. Abiscus Guardinia,

923
01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:15.000
Pride of Barbados, Gosh, Rangon
Greeper. I have Rangoon Greeper,

924
01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:18.679
lots of lots of the buying,
but they have no flowers. Okay,

925
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:24.400
what I would do is I would
get Nelson's makes a product called color Star

926
01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:30.480
that's very very effective for that kind
of thing. Color Star products just kind

927
01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:35.519
of cover pretty much all your blooming
options. With the acid loving plants.

928
01:07:36.199 --> 01:07:44.880
I would probably get a second product
to just be able to focus on something

929
01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:48.679
that's going to help keep that acidity
down. And Nelson's makes one called Azalea,

930
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:53.000
but it's it's not just for azaleas. I mean it's for azaleas,

931
01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:56.679
it's for Guardina's. H you use
it for blueberries if you want it,

932
01:07:57.039 --> 01:08:00.599
but it's a it's an acid loving
plant food. I would probably do those

933
01:08:00.760 --> 01:08:04.599
two, but color Star would be
the one you could use just anywhere.

934
01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:10.119
It wouldn't hurt to put it on
on your Guardina's. It's just with guardina's.

935
01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:13.519
Sometimes our pH gets a little high, and we always want to continue

936
01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:17.039
to use things that keep that pH
down. How would I know if their

937
01:08:17.079 --> 01:08:21.680
acid loving? Well, Guardina's are. I didn't hear another acid loving in

938
01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:29.560
your list. But basically, acid
loving is to summarize ninety nine percent of

939
01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:32.199
the acid loving things you're going to
grow here. That's going to be azaleas

940
01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:38.840
and camellias and guardinya's. You could
also use it a little bit with the

941
01:08:38.920 --> 01:08:45.880
hydrangeas, but primarily azalia, guardina
camelia and roses. Roses would be again,

942
01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:49.399
you could use the color star for
roses. You know they you were

943
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:54.199
asking. Your initial question was do
I need to buy eight hundred different fertilizers

944
01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:57.399
and you don't, but there is
a rose fertilizer. But I would I

945
01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:00.319
would use I'd use a color star
on the roses, or I would just

946
01:09:00.680 --> 01:09:04.960
you know, use a quality even
I use lawn feed sometimes on my roses,

947
01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:08.840
but hey, I gotta I gotta
go to a break lelite. But

948
01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:11.840
I hope that helps and good luck
with those plants. I hope you have

949
01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:14.680
a beautiful If you get a bunch
of beautiful bloom semi picture, I'd love

950
01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:18.680
to see that. You take care
our phone number seven one three two one

951
01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:23.000
two fifty eight seventy four. Just
hang on, we'll be right back,

952
01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:34.600
Ruth. You will be first up
anyway you want you want. Well,

953
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:40.520
good morning, you're listening to garden
Line and we're here to talk about gardening.

954
01:09:40.680 --> 01:09:43.920
What are you interested in? Hey, if you're interested in some beautiful

955
01:09:43.960 --> 01:09:46.680
plants, you need to know about
RCW Nurseries. Now, a lot of

956
01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:49.560
you've been there. I know you're
familiar with it, but some folks aren't.

957
01:09:50.079 --> 01:09:55.359
R CW Nurseries. By the way, the website RCW Nurseries dot com.

958
01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:59.359
RCW Nurseries dot com easy to find. They're on Tomball Parkway, which

959
01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:01.840
Highway two twenty nine, right where
it comes into Beltway eight. Now,

960
01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:06.359
RCW, you know they I think
when I think of roses, I think

961
01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:12.279
RCW because they have a huge,
unbelievable selection of roses. They have an

962
01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:15.560
unbelievable selection of trees because they grown
themselves out on their own farm. This

963
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:21.960
weekend Labor Day, Labor Day sale
twenty percent off select trees. That would

964
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:27.159
include Saturday, Today, Sunday,
and then Monday, all three They are

965
01:10:27.199 --> 01:10:30.079
open Monday through Saturday seven to four
on Sundays from nine to four, but

966
01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:35.560
take advantage of that Labor Day sale. I mean that is a significant savings

967
01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:40.439
on the select trees that they have. They're in stock. While you're there,

968
01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:42.399
check out all the other plants that
they have. You know, r

969
01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:46.000
CW is always going to have beautiful
color. They is gonna have a wide

970
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:50.840
range of cool plants as well as
They've got a lot of really cool landscape

971
01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:55.279
bling. You know, if you
want to decorate for fall, you know

972
01:10:55.439 --> 01:11:00.640
the old like a metal pumpkin,
and you know, just different kind of

973
01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:03.159
figurines and they do you know,
how we decorate our yards. RCW has

974
01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:08.720
an unbelievable selection of some really really
cool stuff as well. I hope you'll

975
01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:12.520
hope you'll go check them out.
Easy to get too, easy to find

976
01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:17.439
r CW Nurseries, RCW nursery dot
com. Let's head out now to Cyprus

977
01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:23.479
and we are going to talk to
Ruth. Hello, Ruth, I have

978
01:11:23.680 --> 01:11:28.840
two questions. I'm not much of
a gardener, but I just love plants.

979
01:11:29.319 --> 01:11:31.800
I have this one plant in my
house, a Christmas cactus. When

980
01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:39.800
I bought it, i'd say,
from the store about three months ago or

981
01:11:39.880 --> 01:11:45.039
six months ago, and had beautiful
pink blossoms on it. They fell off

982
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:51.880
all the foliage screen and perky,
and but I have no blossoms. Okay,

983
01:11:53.359 --> 01:11:56.399
Now is that plant near where you
are? Right now where I can

984
01:11:56.479 --> 01:11:59.800
ask you a question? You can
look at it? Yeah, okay,

985
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:02.880
when you look at the little sections
coming up, the little pads are like

986
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:09.199
you little cactus pad kind of things
on the edges or their points or their

987
01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:14.960
little like points sticking up around the
flat edges of that or are they rounded

988
01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:18.600
not a not a like a little
thorn point. They're points, They're points,

989
01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:25.880
They're points. Yeah. Well,
that's interesting that it was blooming six

990
01:12:25.960 --> 01:12:29.960
months ago. Because there's a there's
a Christmas cactus, there's a Thanksgiving cactus,

991
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:33.720
and there's an Easter cactus. Well
all this is kind of like the

992
01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:41.199
limbs are all separate, you know. There, it's just I tell you

993
01:12:41.279 --> 01:12:44.079
what, Yeah, I tell you
what, Ruth. I don't want to

994
01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:47.159
mislead you by assuming here, So
I'm going to put you on hold and

995
01:12:47.319 --> 01:12:51.720
have Josh pick up ther he he'll
talk to you and give you an email

996
01:12:53.079 --> 01:12:57.680
where you can send me a picture
close up of what those little green segments

997
01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:00.680
look like. I want to take
a look at them because something is not

998
01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:05.560
added up. It only blooms those
cactus. All three of those only bloom

999
01:13:05.640 --> 01:13:10.159
at a certain time of the year. And that's why they have the names

1000
01:13:10.279 --> 01:13:13.560
Christmas, Thanksgiving, an Easter,
and I want to make sure we're talking

1001
01:13:13.560 --> 01:13:16.399
about the right one. But the
bottom line is they need really good light,

1002
01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:20.479
not direct sun, but very bright
light. They need to be watered

1003
01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:26.199
pretty often. When the word cactus, may think you don't have to water

1004
01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:30.159
them, but no, you need
to not keep them soggy. You don't

1005
01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:32.840
want to rot, but you need
to water them regularly and then fertilize them

1006
01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:38.399
with a light fertilization when you water, and you will get unbelievable growth and

1007
01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:41.920
it will be beautiful when we come
to the next bloom cycle. But I

1008
01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:45.000
need to know which one you got
to advise past that. Okay, one

1009
01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:48.079
other question, All right, another
question I have. It's my four o'clocks

1010
01:13:48.119 --> 01:13:53.239
are on the north part of my
house for I've had them for twenty years.

1011
01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:58.840
They're beautiful. I went out yesterday
and they're the lapidated. They're black.

1012
01:13:58.920 --> 01:14:01.039
They need water. But I don't
know if they're going to come back

1013
01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:04.039
or not. They still have leaves
on them. They will come back.

1014
01:14:04.239 --> 01:14:09.159
They have an underground think of a
sweet potato. That's not an accurate description,

1015
01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:13.600
but they've got an underground storage structure
and they will bounce back from that.

1016
01:14:13.920 --> 01:14:16.960
Just make sure they don't go ahead. Do you think I need to

1017
01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:21.760
add soil? I hadn't had soiled
and years to them. I don't think

1018
01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:25.640
you need to add soil unless you
can see the tuber sticking up out of

1019
01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:29.840
the ground. Oh okay, yeah, they just water. A good soaking

1020
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:33.159
on an infrequent basis will get them
by. But I don't I don't think

1021
01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:36.359
you killed them. I believe they're
okay, okay, all right, well

1022
01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:39.439
I will put you on hold,
hang on and Josh, we'll pick it

1023
01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:42.479
up and give you all right.
You take care. You know, if

1024
01:14:42.520 --> 01:14:45.800
you want a quality garden bed,
there's really only one name that I would

1025
01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:51.119
suggest, and that's Vego. V
Ego Vego garden beds. It's funny it's

1026
01:14:51.119 --> 01:14:55.600
called Vego because it reminds me of
Lego, you know, with legos,

1027
01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:59.239
you just popping together. Make whatever
shape you want. Same thing with lego.

1028
01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:02.159
They common panels. They're really easy
to assemble. But you can make

1029
01:15:02.199 --> 01:15:05.079
a long, skinny bed. You
can make a round bed, C shape

1030
01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:10.119
bed, L shape bed. I
mean you can create. Go online here,

1031
01:15:10.239 --> 01:15:13.920
here's what you need to do.
Go online to vegogarden dot com v

1032
01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:17.399
ego garden dot com. Look at
the pictures. You'll see what I'm talking

1033
01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:23.439
about. Gorgeous beds and you can
grow anything in a Vego bed with a

1034
01:15:23.520 --> 01:15:27.680
quality bed mix. They're maide in
Houston. There are lots of impostors out

1035
01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:32.520
there. Don't go with those.
Vegogarden dot com. They're available at many

1036
01:15:32.760 --> 01:15:38.319
of our local mom and pop garden
centers as well. Vego Garden. When

1037
01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:42.439
you try it out, you agree
with me and everybody else who strive them

1038
01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:47.920
that this is the way to garden
really cool stuff. Uh you know I

1039
01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:55.279
talk about I talk about the folks
out at Nature's Way a lot because they

1040
01:15:56.039 --> 01:16:00.600
it's kind of like I guess John
Fergus is kind of the grandfather of quality

1041
01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:03.520
soil mixes here in the Houston area. John, I'm if you're listening,

1042
01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:08.800
I'm sorry, No age comment there
just you've been doing this a long time

1043
01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:12.560
and you've been doing it right,
and now ian in the business. This

1044
01:16:12.920 --> 01:16:18.960
combination of folks has put together super
quality materials and you can buy leafmol compos

1045
01:16:19.159 --> 01:16:23.720
rose soil, you can buy mulches
to go on top of the soil.

1046
01:16:24.319 --> 01:16:28.880
They have the mineralizer for adding those
extra trace minerals and just lots of good

1047
01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:30.640
products out there. This fall,
I'm going to be out there by the

1048
01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:34.039
way, and you need to write
this down. September thirtieth, they are

1049
01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:39.960
putting on an incredible shindig a hoop
law what's another country name for that,

1050
01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:44.520
the Fall Garden Festival. I'm going
to be out there doing question and answer

1051
01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:47.600
with folks. They're gonna have Latin
food, live music, local vendors,

1052
01:16:47.640 --> 01:16:51.560
adult beverages that kids will have a
scavenger hunt. There's fun for little gardeners.

1053
01:16:51.880 --> 01:16:56.279
They have demonstrations at nine am.
We're talking about a party here,

1054
01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:59.399
right. There's lots and lots more. I'll talk about more as I get

1055
01:16:59.479 --> 01:17:02.800
closer to it, but just ride
down September thirtieth, put a big circle

1056
01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:08.760
on that calendar date. I'm going
to be out at Nature's Way to do

1057
01:17:08.920 --> 01:17:11.840
all these things that I just mentioned, and it will be a blast.

1058
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:15.119
We are going to have one heck
of a good time out there. In

1059
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.119
the meantime, go by nature's way, or order some soil for them to

1060
01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:20.760
deliver. They've got it by the
bag, they got it by the bulk,

1061
01:17:21.159 --> 01:17:25.800
and again with them, they take
their time and it's always a quality

1062
01:17:26.079 --> 01:17:30.680
mix out there. Really really easy, not difficult at all, not difficult

1063
01:17:30.720 --> 01:17:34.640
at all. I mentioned I was
gonna be a Plantation Ace next Saturday.

1064
01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:39.279
And you know with Ace Hardware,
you can go online to Ace hardware dot

1065
01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:44.399
Com. There's thirty nine stores in
this Greater Houston area, thirty nine stores.

1066
01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:46.760
They carry all the products. We
know. If I mentioned a fertilizer,

1067
01:17:46.840 --> 01:17:50.000
it's there. If I mentioned a
soil, it's there. Ace Hardware

1068
01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:54.720
stores are easy to find. And
I can't wait on nine nine Saturday.

1069
01:17:55.199 --> 01:18:00.319
Next Saturday, the ninth of September, eleven thirty am to one thirty pm.

1070
01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:05.960
Plantation Ace that's out in the Richmond
area. Come see me again.

1071
01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:10.039
We're gonna have a good time.
They got a lot going on at Plantation

1072
01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:13.399
Ace. I'll talk about it again
tomorrow, talk it again next week,

1073
01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:16.359
but just get that on your calendar, because i'd really love to see you

1074
01:18:16.800 --> 01:18:21.199
this coming Saturday. Well, you're
listening to garden Line and we're gonna take

1075
01:18:21.199 --> 01:18:25.600
a little break here. We will
be back and when we come back,

1076
01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:29.479
we'll answer your gardening questions. If
you'd like to give Josh your college seven

1077
01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:32.920
one three, two, one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

1078
01:18:32.960 --> 01:18:38.279
and two fifty eight seventy four,
he'll get you on the board and we

1079
01:18:38.439 --> 01:18:42.800
will visit about what you're interested in
when we come back. In the meantime,

1080
01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:45.039
just want to remind you again,
for those of you who don't know,

1081
01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:48.359
I've got my lawn care schedule up
online and you can download it.

1082
01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:54.880
It is at Gardening with Skip dot
com. Gardening with Skip dot Com.

1083
01:18:55.279 --> 01:18:59.880
Check it out. I think you'll
find it to be very helpful. Katie.

1084
01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:02.520
Our H garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services

1085
01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:12.720
advertised on this program. Welcome to
KDRH garden Line with Skip. Ricord's Crazy

1086
01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:28.239
Just watch him as a wooden Well, good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning.

1087
01:19:29.119 --> 01:19:31.039
Always a good day for gardening around
here. I mean it could be

1088
01:19:31.760 --> 01:19:36.600
pouring down rain, hail falling outside
all kinds of things going on, too

1089
01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:40.920
freezing cold to even walk out the
door. Well, it's still a good

1090
01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:43.359
day for gardening. We have indoor
gardening. You know, we could be

1091
01:19:43.880 --> 01:19:46.119
starting transplants for fall right now.
Yes, that's right, you can.

1092
01:19:46.479 --> 01:19:49.439
You can get those started and plant
them out things that like the cool weather.

1093
01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:51.960
That'd be a good thing to do, taking care of your houseplants,

1094
01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:56.680
getting them spruced up. I mean, nothing can keep a gardener from gardening,

1095
01:19:57.159 --> 01:20:00.600
that's just the way it is.
Nor keep a gardener from learning.

1096
01:20:00.680 --> 01:20:02.479
And that's what we're hoping to do
a little love today. Hey, if

1097
01:20:02.479 --> 01:20:06.079
you're doing some transplanting, and I
hope you are, because it's time to

1098
01:20:06.159 --> 01:20:11.279
be getting ready for the fall season. Has to grow six twelve six by

1099
01:20:11.319 --> 01:20:14.680
Medina is a product you need to
know about now. Has to grow six

1100
01:20:14.760 --> 01:20:17.760
twelve six. I mixed mine in
a little watering can and just drench it

1101
01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:21.119
over a new transplant. When I
put it in the ground, it's got

1102
01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:27.800
the six twelve six fertilizer and it's
got plenty of phosphorus to help support the

1103
01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:30.319
roots, support bloom production and other
things. Make sure you got enough of

1104
01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:33.920
that in there. It's got humates
with humic acid. It's got medina soil

1105
01:20:33.960 --> 01:20:39.079
activator, it's got seaweed extracts,
just a lot of good stuff. What

1106
01:20:39.199 --> 01:20:42.920
are your transplants in with this?
I don't care if it is a marigold

1107
01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:45.399
or if it is a rosebush.
Water him in with medina. Has to

1108
01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:50.199
grow six twelve six, About a
week later, water them in again with

1109
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:54.239
it, and then about a week
later, water em in again. Three

1110
01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:58.760
good doses. You want those plants
to hit the ground running. You want

1111
01:20:58.840 --> 01:21:02.199
them to success, to get a
good root system established so that they take

1112
01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:06.279
off and do what you planted them
to do, which in most cases is

1113
01:21:06.399 --> 01:21:11.960
bloom. But maybe with vegetables it's
to produce fruit, produce leaves and other

1114
01:21:12.039 --> 01:21:15.800
things we can eat. Medina has
to grow six twelve six is a way

1115
01:21:15.920 --> 01:21:19.279
that we can accomplish just that.
I am now going to head out to

1116
01:21:19.479 --> 01:21:24.199
pair Land and we are going to
talk to Sam if I can figure out

1117
01:21:24.239 --> 01:21:28.199
how to push the right button here. Hey Sam, good morning, Good

1118
01:21:28.279 --> 01:21:34.479
morning. I have some fear of
trees that haven't bared fruits since the both

1119
01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:39.439
the freezes, But my neighbor across
the street, his pair of trees are

1120
01:21:39.880 --> 01:21:43.520
got tons of fruit on them.
What am I doing wrong or do I

1121
01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:45.560
need to do or something that they
used to produce for you, Sam,

1122
01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:50.119
you have one of them, then
the other one I had just planted and

1123
01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:55.359
they got a few buds the first
year, and I took the buds off.

1124
01:21:55.880 --> 01:21:59.000
I was always told to take the
buds off the first year. And

1125
01:22:00.319 --> 01:22:05.079
we got the first freeze, and
then the next year we got another freeze,

1126
01:22:05.439 --> 01:22:09.359
or the year after that. Okay, and uh, well I haven't

1127
01:22:09.399 --> 01:22:12.479
got any fruit on any of my
trees. Yeah. The one tree used

1128
01:22:12.520 --> 01:22:16.960
to bear like crazy. Yeah,
Okay, are they all blooming? No,

1129
01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:21.239
they didn't bloom. Okay, all
right, Well that that's good to

1130
01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:29.399
know. Some kind of stress has
occurred on those trees. And I can't

1131
01:22:29.399 --> 01:22:31.359
tell you for sure what it is
because I'm not there and haven't been been

1132
01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:35.000
around them the last couple of years. But uh, it could be a

1133
01:22:35.079 --> 01:22:40.000
drought stress. It could be a
cold kind of thing. December freeze came

1134
01:22:40.079 --> 01:22:43.399
kind of early on plants. But
I don't think that's it. I think

1135
01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:49.600
it's probably some root related stress.
So saggy, poorly drained soil can cause

1136
01:22:49.680 --> 01:22:54.920
it. Drought conditions can cause it. So both ends of the soil moisture

1137
01:22:55.000 --> 01:23:00.319
spectrum can cause it. It's going
to be something like that because ears,

1138
01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:05.000
I'm assuming they're getting a lot of
sun, like full sun pretty much.

1139
01:23:05.359 --> 01:23:10.800
Okay, so if they don't get
adequate sunlight, they won't set blooms.

1140
01:23:11.039 --> 01:23:15.840
If they go through certain kinds of
stresses, they're not going to set blooms

1141
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:20.439
well either, And so it's going
to be something along those lines. Sam,

1142
01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:26.119
So what do they need to put
some kind of ferbializer down or let

1143
01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:28.399
me something or yeah, let me
ask you this, what do you what

1144
01:23:28.479 --> 01:23:31.399
does the growth look like? Are
you getting vigor like over the course of

1145
01:23:31.439 --> 01:23:35.199
a year, are you getting shoots
that are maybe eighteen inches or more long?

1146
01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:43.520
It really haven't noticed that. But
it's got plenty of leaves, both

1147
01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:46.199
plants, both trees, the new
tree and the old tree. But the

1148
01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:49.920
old tree used to bear like crazy. But there's a quick bear and after

1149
01:23:50.039 --> 01:23:57.079
the first freeze. Yeah, well
it's not like the freeze made the tree

1150
01:23:57.119 --> 01:23:59.960
where it will never bear again,
that's for sure, So don't worry about

1151
01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:05.279
that. But something along the line
has prevented the establishment of buds because if

1152
01:24:05.319 --> 01:24:11.479
you're not getting blooms, then the
previous late summer and early fall, when

1153
01:24:11.640 --> 01:24:15.920
that tree would have been creating bloom
buds in the branches for the next spring.

1154
01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:21.319
It didn't happen, and so something
And that's why why I look toward

1155
01:24:21.960 --> 01:24:28.239
drought stresses and other things. Sometimes
pairs will get drought stressed and they just'll

1156
01:24:28.359 --> 01:24:30.439
almost go into a late summer dormancy
and then you get a little bit of

1157
01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:33.479
fall and they actually come out and
try to bloom. And so you use

1158
01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:41.880
your bloom crop up in that untimely
fall bloom which followed the stress. If

1159
01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:45.680
you saw that, that could be
part of it too. But something along

1160
01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:49.319
the lines in that mid to late
summer on into early fall is going on

1161
01:24:49.520 --> 01:24:53.840
with them. So do you fertilize
if you've got good vigor? No,

1162
01:24:54.119 --> 01:24:57.800
If you don't have good vigor,
yes, just be careful because pairs can

1163
01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:01.760
be a little bit rampant in their
growth and that runs into other problems.

1164
01:25:02.840 --> 01:25:08.119
Okay, well, what I did. I got some of those uh fertilizer

1165
01:25:08.760 --> 01:25:15.279
stakes for fruit plants at Hold Depot, and I'll put two of them in

1166
01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:20.079
each plant. But that didn't seem
to help any Can I put more mortilizer

1167
01:25:20.159 --> 01:25:25.439
nail or or different kind? Now
different kind for sure? The little sticks

1168
01:25:25.479 --> 01:25:29.239
are. It's a novelty. I
mean, it is fertilizer around them.

1169
01:25:29.279 --> 01:25:31.600
But that's not the best way You're
done. In Parland. You've got a

1170
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:34.920
couple of good Ace hardware stores down
there. Walk into one of the Ace

1171
01:25:35.039 --> 01:25:39.680
hardware stores in Pariland and just tell
them, you know, look, I

1172
01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:45.680
need a good quality fertilizer for fertilizing
fruit trees. They're gonna have a variety

1173
01:25:45.680 --> 01:25:49.119
of those at the very least.
Just get you a good lawn fertilizer and

1174
01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:54.000
go up to your pear tree,
stick out your thumb, and for every

1175
01:25:54.359 --> 01:25:58.960
thumb width going across the trunk,
give it one to two cups of that

1176
01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:01.760
fertilizer. So like, if let's
just say the trunk was the size of

1177
01:26:01.800 --> 01:26:04.760
a coke can, just to make
it simple, that's about three inches or

1178
01:26:04.840 --> 01:26:10.039
three thumb widths apart. So it
would get three to six cups of fertilizer

1179
01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:13.720
spread all around evenly around that plan, not just dumped at the base.

1180
01:26:14.680 --> 01:26:18.840
Okay, should I get one high
in nitrogen or just an even balance,

1181
01:26:19.319 --> 01:26:24.279
an even balance in general, But
right now I would go light on it

1182
01:26:24.359 --> 01:26:27.880
because it's too late to set fruit. It's too late to do anything to

1183
01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:30.680
make it set fruit for next year, and you don't want to push a

1184
01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:33.720
lot of late season growth that fertilizer
time of the year, should I put

1185
01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:36.760
it down? The primary time is
going to be in the spring. You

1186
01:26:36.840 --> 01:26:41.399
can fertilize a little in the summer
if you need to, but remember pears

1187
01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:46.319
ten toward being overly vigorous, so
generally we don't fertilize them as heavily as

1188
01:26:46.399 --> 01:26:51.119
most of our other fruit trees.
Okay, all right, well I'll do

1189
01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:54.720
what you say. Either that or
I have a little bottle of parallel.

1190
01:26:54.760 --> 01:26:57.600
I want little pears on the tree. Oh, I know that that that

1191
01:26:57.960 --> 01:27:00.880
doesn't make sense. Hey, Sam, thank you for that call. We're

1192
01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:03.079
gonna take a break here seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four

1193
01:27:03.239 --> 01:27:17.520
Robert in spring. You will be
first up when we come back. There's

1194
01:27:17.560 --> 01:27:19.840
some jazz. Hey, you're listening
to garden Line. We are here to

1195
01:27:19.920 --> 01:27:25.479
talk gardening this week. But I
want to tell you about something else before

1196
01:27:25.560 --> 01:27:30.760
we get back into calls, and
that is Generact Generator from Quality Home Products

1197
01:27:30.840 --> 01:27:34.520
of Texas. Now Quality Home Products
of Texas. You can give him a

1198
01:27:34.640 --> 01:27:41.920
call at seven one three Quality that
makes it easy seven one three Quality or

1199
01:27:42.119 --> 01:27:46.079
go to Quality tx dot com.
Why do we talk about Quality Home Products

1200
01:27:46.159 --> 01:27:51.640
Well, because seven times they've won
the Better Business Bureau's Pinnacle Award, the

1201
01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:59.279
most prestigious Customer Service Award. The
Better Business Bureau offers seventy seven thousand satisfied

1202
01:27:59.359 --> 01:28:02.359
customers. That's what we're talking about
now. With a generac generator from Quality

1203
01:28:02.399 --> 01:28:06.880
Home Products, life continues as normal
during a power outage. You can back

1204
01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:11.239
up your whole home with the generator. You can just back up the most

1205
01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:15.199
essential items. But they come on
even if you're away. Let's say that

1206
01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:18.199
your own way on a trip and
the power goes out and now you're freezer

1207
01:28:18.359 --> 01:28:21.520
and you're refrigerator. Have you ever
walked back in on one of those I

1208
01:28:21.640 --> 01:28:27.399
have? It is a stinky,
very expensive mess that you just created.

1209
01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:32.760
With a quality generator from Quality Home
Product Generator, you're not going to have

1210
01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:35.920
that problem. They come on automatically, they sit outside just like your you

1211
01:28:35.960 --> 01:28:40.680
know, your central air conditioning unit. They run on natural gas or liquid

1212
01:28:40.760 --> 01:28:45.159
propane, and it's just really easy
twenty four seven three sixty five customer service.

1213
01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:49.439
But listen to this part. A
free ten year warranty that saves over

1214
01:28:49.560 --> 01:28:56.239
a thousand dollars through October eighth,
So don't delay Quality Home Products of Texas.

1215
01:28:56.399 --> 01:29:00.640
Talk to them about their generac generators
and see how they set you up

1216
01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:06.199
to do well to have success.
Quality tex dot com Quality tx dot com

1217
01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:12.520
for more information. We're gonna head
out now to talk to Robert in Spring.

1218
01:29:12.680 --> 01:29:21.600
Hello. Robert had a few quick
questions, one of them being I

1219
01:29:21.920 --> 01:29:30.119
use the synthetic metropols fertilizer, okay, and I've been watering pretty decently with

1220
01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:36.039
this heat, but I noticed that
mcgrasstille is not really really green, So

1221
01:29:36.439 --> 01:29:44.319
wondering could I put sweet green in? Being that it's organic, mix organic

1222
01:29:44.520 --> 01:29:48.279
and synthetic together, there's no problem
to help out. Yeah, there's no

1223
01:29:48.399 --> 01:29:54.520
problem mixing them. The product you're
using probably as a slow release, and

1224
01:29:54.680 --> 01:29:59.920
so you're not gonna you're gonna get
immediate nutrient provided, but it's gonna grab

1225
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:03.079
dually take the nutrients and that product
and feed over time, which is excellent

1226
01:30:03.159 --> 01:30:06.880
way to go about feeding the lawn. Now, the sweet green will be

1227
01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:11.119
more of an immediate but I would
I would not overdo that. Now,

1228
01:30:11.279 --> 01:30:14.039
you could do it now if you
feel like you need a little bit more,

1229
01:30:14.159 --> 01:30:18.159
but just don't overdo it. But
remember that our fall fertilization time is

1230
01:30:18.239 --> 01:30:25.359
coming up in October, when we
focus less on nitrogen and more on getting

1231
01:30:25.439 --> 01:30:30.520
good potassium out there in the lawns
for over winter quality and ability to take

1232
01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:35.560
cold and so uh, you know
here we are already in September. I

1233
01:30:35.920 --> 01:30:42.000
just wouldn't do a whole lot right
now because when you do your next fertilization,

1234
01:30:42.119 --> 01:30:45.800
it's going to have some nitrogen and
it's going to have some good potassium

1235
01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:47.920
in it as well. So go
light with the sweet green if you want

1236
01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:51.039
to add a little bit more,
And I think that will will help out

1237
01:30:51.039 --> 01:30:55.960
a lot. When when you push
a lawn with too much nitrogen at one

1238
01:30:56.079 --> 01:31:00.239
time, and we're about to enter
that rainy cool season where we get large

1239
01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:03.079
patch which used to be called brown
patch, that just makes it worse.

1240
01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:06.840
So you want to go light on
it. If you haven't had an annual

1241
01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:12.800
brown patch problem, then is probably
not a big deal. But we just

1242
01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:17.439
want to be careful with the overdoing
a good thing. Okay, Well,

1243
01:31:18.079 --> 01:31:21.840
I guess that kind of lead leads
think to my next question was brown patch,

1244
01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:25.840
and I forget the new name that
you call it. Yeah, large

1245
01:31:25.880 --> 01:31:31.800
patch, large patch. Yes,
So the last the last two years,

1246
01:31:32.560 --> 01:31:39.520
the yard was looking awesome, and
then yeah, October November we started getting

1247
01:31:39.600 --> 01:31:45.680
the brown brown circles. And my
question on that was what can I do

1248
01:31:45.960 --> 01:31:50.199
to prevent that? Okay, all
right, let me let me answer that,

1249
01:31:50.279 --> 01:31:54.239
Robert, I'm gonna have to move
to another call then. But here's

1250
01:31:54.279 --> 01:31:58.239
the deal with large patch or brown
patch. You number one, you don't

1251
01:31:58.279 --> 01:32:02.800
want to predispose it to the problem. So excess water, excess fertilizer both

1252
01:32:03.239 --> 01:32:09.319
make it worse. Mowing too short
makes brown patch or large patch worse.

1253
01:32:09.439 --> 01:32:13.880
Having a taller mowing height that's helpful. So those three things or where you

1254
01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:18.319
start. If you've got the problem
every fall, then you're better to put

1255
01:32:18.359 --> 01:32:24.760
a preventative fungicide down then to wait
until the big circles appear, because you

1256
01:32:24.800 --> 01:32:29.800
can't make the brown green with a
fungicide. You can just stop further progression.

1257
01:32:30.319 --> 01:32:32.000
So if you kind of feel like, here it comes, I've get

1258
01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:34.840
it all the time, I'm going
to get it again, then go ahead

1259
01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:42.199
of the of the problem by putting
an application of For example, Nitrofuss makes

1260
01:32:42.239 --> 01:32:47.880
a PCNB PCNB product that will control
brown patch very well or large patch very

1261
01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:51.640
well, and you would get that
down ahead of time to prevent it.

1262
01:32:54.920 --> 01:32:59.359
Okay, all right, so i'd
probably put that down in like early October.

1263
01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:04.479
They're on, we have to work, okay, And just real quick,

1264
01:33:05.760 --> 01:33:12.279
other item was it's a Saint Augustine
yard and had a little bit of

1265
01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:17.560
bermuda here and there, but in
fact the December, the bermuda has spread

1266
01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:23.399
quite a bit more and I don't
know if the heat that's causing that.

1267
01:33:23.720 --> 01:33:28.760
And then okay, so bottom line, and I am going to have to

1268
01:33:28.800 --> 01:33:31.680
break this after this question, but
the bottom line on that is whenever it's

1269
01:33:31.760 --> 01:33:35.359
droughty, hot, dry, droughty, the bermuda gets the upper hand.

1270
01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:40.560
Whenever it's shady, the Saint Augustine
gets the upper hand. Setting a higher

1271
01:33:40.600 --> 01:33:45.359
mowing height gives the Saint Augustine an
advantage. There's not a product that kills

1272
01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:50.359
bermuda without killing Saint Augustine. So
culturally you just kind of have to do

1273
01:33:50.520 --> 01:33:55.039
the things I just got through saying
there to try to give the Saint Augustine

1274
01:33:55.119 --> 01:33:59.239
the edge. But the alternative is
to go in if you've got little spots

1275
01:33:59.279 --> 01:34:01.439
of bermuda, and just spray them
and kill them and kill the Saint Augustine.

1276
01:34:01.600 --> 01:34:05.239
Two. Try to keep it off, but kill the bermuda and then

1277
01:34:05.399 --> 01:34:10.840
either replug or let the Saint Augustine
crawl back in. And if I appreciate

1278
01:34:10.920 --> 01:34:14.319
those calls. There's not a great
answer to that last one, but hopefully

1279
01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:16.920
that'll be a little helpful. If
you're up in Tomball, you have a

1280
01:34:16.960 --> 01:34:21.359
hometown feed store, and that's called
dnd Feed. You're up in Tamball on

1281
01:34:21.479 --> 01:34:27.560
Highway two forty nine, go west
on twenty nine twenty about three miles from

1282
01:34:27.600 --> 01:34:31.000
two forty nine twenty nine twenty three
miles west. D and D Feed.

1283
01:34:31.279 --> 01:34:35.119
The Over family opened it up in
nineteen eighty nine and they just keep growing

1284
01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:40.079
and going. In fact, this
summer they expanded a nice little expansion.

1285
01:34:40.479 --> 01:34:45.079
Lots of new products, high quality
dog food, Origin Diamond, Victor Star

1286
01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:47.760
Pro, livestock food of course,
food for other pets too, by the

1287
01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:50.920
way. And then the products you
need to take care of your horses,

1288
01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:55.560
they've got it at D and D
Feed. If I recommend a fertilizer on

1289
01:34:55.680 --> 01:34:59.399
guard line, they've got it at
D and D Feed. They carry a

1290
01:34:59.520 --> 01:35:03.399
wide variety of products to support your
lawn and garden efforts at D and D

1291
01:35:03.560 --> 01:35:09.760
feed again twenty nine twenty about three
miles west of two forty nine and Tom

1292
01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:15.439
Ball, let's head out. Now
we're gonna talk to Gary and Bear Creek.

1293
01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:18.439
Hello Gary, good morning, Skip. I enjoy her, so thank

1294
01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:23.239
you real quickly. Years ago,
I harvested some chili pekin plants out near

1295
01:35:23.279 --> 01:35:27.920
Fredericksburg, and I've picked some wild
peppers and took them home, dried them

1296
01:35:27.960 --> 01:35:30.560
and planted them. And as a
result, I have wild pepper plants around

1297
01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:34.800
my yard every year. Yeah quick, Yeah, the mockingbirds eat the beer

1298
01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:41.159
anginau and then they spread them around. Yeah. But this year I have

1299
01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:45.119
some beautiful plants you're three feet around, and but they won't flower. It's

1300
01:35:45.159 --> 01:35:47.840
not like the forming flowers and fallen
off. But I just can't get any

1301
01:35:47.920 --> 01:35:51.760
flowers to form. Do you have
it a suggestion for that? They can

1302
01:35:51.840 --> 01:35:57.720
get a virus. You should see
some little bit of a not natural looking

1303
01:35:57.880 --> 01:36:02.680
leaf form and that would be a
virus that could do that. Also,

1304
01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:08.279
you know, as time goes by, areas can get shadier and shadier if

1305
01:36:08.319 --> 01:36:12.159
it's near a tree, So a
lack of light can also cause a lack

1306
01:36:12.239 --> 01:36:15.399
of protection on your chili pekins.
Those would be two possibilities. Yeah,

1307
01:36:16.239 --> 01:36:19.720
well, I know their plants are
absolutely beautiful and they get plenty of light.

1308
01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:24.359
I just was wondering if they're played
out, or if I could,

1309
01:36:24.520 --> 01:36:28.840
you know, put some kind of
amendment to get them to because I've had

1310
01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:31.119
them before where the bloom, but
bloom calls off. And this year I'm

1311
01:36:31.159 --> 01:36:35.640
just saying, and my fear is
is that I won't get any and then

1312
01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:39.520
the birds won't and then I'll have
a season where I don't have any more.

1313
01:36:39.520 --> 01:36:43.640
They've been going on fifteen years.
Yeah, well, they don't play

1314
01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:45.800
out. The plants don't play out. I mean, you could always put

1315
01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:48.199
a new plan in and see if
it performs better. But for a bloom

1316
01:36:48.239 --> 01:36:51.920
to form on a chili pekin,
you need good sunlight, adequate nutrition,

1317
01:36:53.079 --> 01:36:56.399
and good soil moisture. And if
it has those three and it's not blooming,

1318
01:36:56.920 --> 01:37:00.359
I'm not sure what would be causing
that. Yeah. Well, they're

1319
01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:02.520
fun to have around and it's fun
to see the mocking birds pick they are

1320
01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:08.680
where. Yeah, there's plenty spicy. I make of vinegar sauces. Oh,

1321
01:37:09.199 --> 01:37:13.119
they are plenty spicy. That is
true, they will set you on

1322
01:37:13.279 --> 01:37:16.720
fire. Well, I sure enjoy
your show, and I love the science

1323
01:37:16.800 --> 01:37:23.199
parts that you bring into the show. Oh goodist. Well, I try

1324
01:37:23.239 --> 01:37:26.399
to bring some in, but not
so much that people's eyes roll back in

1325
01:37:26.439 --> 01:37:31.119
their heads and they they fall over. So I know that there's a balance

1326
01:37:31.199 --> 01:37:34.479
there. But thank you. I
appreciate the kind words. Gary. You

1327
01:37:34.680 --> 01:37:40.079
take care. Hey do you live
out in Kingwood? Well, I brag

1328
01:37:40.159 --> 01:37:44.159
on Warrens in Kingwood garden centers all
the time because I mean one town too.

1329
01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:48.159
Awesome. Awesome garden centers they are. It's just a fun place to

1330
01:37:48.279 --> 01:37:50.840
go. They're both of them are
fun places to go. By the way,

1331
01:37:50.840 --> 01:37:55.279
I noticed that at Warrens they they
have a bunch of fall bedding plants.

1332
01:37:55.279 --> 01:37:57.520
I suspect that Kingwood as well.
I need to run over there and

1333
01:37:57.640 --> 01:38:01.560
check that. But the fall bedding
plants are starting to arrive, and you

1334
01:38:01.640 --> 01:38:04.560
know you may still plant some of
those warm season plants. You know,

1335
01:38:04.760 --> 01:38:10.199
Selosha looks good boy, they have
some beautiful Slosha out there. Collius can

1336
01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:14.399
still keep going in the garden.
Now's a good time to still plant marigolds.

1337
01:38:14.479 --> 01:38:16.159
Believe it or not, you get
marigolds in it's not going to freeze

1338
01:38:16.199 --> 01:38:20.199
for a long time here. I
hope I'm not proven wrong by erratic weather.

1339
01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:26.960
But marigolds will carry into fall and
just glow in the beautiful cool days

1340
01:38:27.000 --> 01:38:30.439
of fall without spider mites bugging them. All of that. You know,

1341
01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:33.079
Moren's Garden Centers got it all.
So you need some dianthus, and he

1342
01:38:33.199 --> 01:38:38.680
needs oppetunias. Check them out new
supplies and warrants and over at Kingwood too,

1343
01:38:39.039 --> 01:38:44.880
and always check out the beautiful gift
shops that they have. They're just

1344
01:38:45.119 --> 01:38:47.920
really nice. Remember on September twenty
first, they're going to have their Garden

1345
01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:53.600
to Glass Mixology class. Oh that
kind of rolls right off your tongue.

1346
01:38:54.039 --> 01:38:59.319
It's herb infused fall into Prosecco events. So they're going to talk about creating

1347
01:38:59.319 --> 01:39:05.439
an exquisite cocktails with prosecco using herbs
straight out of your garden, a gardtending

1348
01:39:05.560 --> 01:39:10.359
class as they like to put it. Now. That's at Kingwood Garden Center,

1349
01:39:10.720 --> 01:39:14.520
Kingwood Garden Center dot com. Go
buy there, give him a call

1350
01:39:14.800 --> 01:39:19.680
and sign up for that September twenty
first at six p m. That sounds

1351
01:39:19.760 --> 01:39:23.920
fun. Oh my goodness, yeah
boy, you got my running around the

1352
01:39:24.039 --> 01:39:28.039
yard picking stuff and shoving it in
a bottle of something to Yeah. Indeed,

1353
01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:32.159
pretty cool wine tasting, yeah,
wine and herb and prosecco tasting.

1354
01:39:32.279 --> 01:39:35.159
There you go, it's prosecco.
Yeah, prosecco. Yeah, very special

1355
01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:39.199
stuff. How are your houseplants doing? Okay? They are, I mean

1356
01:39:39.439 --> 01:39:43.079
everything transplanted. Yes, And I
sit and I talked to them every chance.

1357
01:39:43.159 --> 01:39:45.119
I guess that is very important.
And when we say talk to your

1358
01:39:45.119 --> 01:39:48.159
plants, it's not just encouraging them. If they're not acting right, you

1359
01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:50.520
just tell them, hey, you
know, show them a picture of a

1360
01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:54.359
plan out at the curb side and
say you either straighten up or you're going

1361
01:39:54.439 --> 01:39:56.680
to be out there on your own. I mean you wouldn't do it,

1362
01:39:56.760 --> 01:39:59.800
but at least no that you convince
them it's time. Well, I cannot

1363
01:39:59.800 --> 01:40:01.680
get the ivy to straightened up.
It just keeps going down. Well,

1364
01:40:01.720 --> 01:40:17.439
you just need to play good cop, bad cop. Well, good morning.

1365
01:40:17.600 --> 01:40:21.079
You are listening to garden Line,
and we are here to talk about

1366
01:40:21.239 --> 01:40:29.079
whatever interests you when it comes to
gardening. Now fall is the time to

1367
01:40:29.239 --> 01:40:32.399
get trees and shrubs planted. Woody
ornamentals. We call them tree shrubs and

1368
01:40:32.439 --> 01:40:35.279
woody vines. Now, you can
plant a tree or shrub any month of

1369
01:40:35.319 --> 01:40:38.560
the year if you know how to
plant, you know how to take care

1370
01:40:38.600 --> 01:40:41.680
of it. But fall is the
best time that there is for it,

1371
01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:45.079
and it we are like on the
doorstep of fall. So it is time

1372
01:40:45.159 --> 01:40:49.640
to be getting those products purchased and
getting ready to get them planted so you

1373
01:40:49.720 --> 01:40:54.600
can have success. Now. Verdant
Tree Farm. The folks at Verdant Tree

1374
01:40:54.640 --> 01:40:59.399
Farm, they know how to grow
trees and they grow all sizes, even

1375
01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:03.000
up to like seven hundred gallons,
not even larger. I believe, great

1376
01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:08.000
selection. It's easy to find a
Verdant Tree Farm near you because there's one

1377
01:41:08.039 --> 01:41:10.960
out on the West side at barker
Cypress. There's one done in Parland on

1378
01:41:11.000 --> 01:41:14.880
Broadway Street. And now if you
are at E ten where Yale Street comes

1379
01:41:14.920 --> 01:41:17.199
together there and the Heights, there's
a Verdant Tree Farm there as well.

1380
01:41:18.079 --> 01:41:24.479
They really are the king when it
comes to providing palm trees. They absolutely

1381
01:41:24.560 --> 01:41:29.319
their selection of palms is just unmatched. But they have a wide variety of

1382
01:41:29.399 --> 01:41:32.079
other very good, high quality trees. Here. You can bring a picture

1383
01:41:32.079 --> 01:41:34.319
of your house and go down and
sit on, sit on with them.

1384
01:41:34.359 --> 01:41:36.319
And say, look, I got
this area, I want some good shade.

1385
01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:39.760
What would you recommend? They'll tell
you what they have are there that

1386
01:41:39.880 --> 01:41:43.279
will work well. You walk out, you pick your tree, they tag

1387
01:41:43.359 --> 01:41:46.840
it, they bring it, they
plan it right free in office Design Consults

1388
01:41:47.199 --> 01:41:54.760
Consultation, and they do offer a
one year warranty included with the installation on

1389
01:41:55.079 --> 01:41:58.000
your tree. If you're a military, if you're a first responder, this

1390
01:41:58.119 --> 01:42:02.399
is a ten percent discount additionally for
you as well. Verdant treefarm dot com,

1391
01:42:02.600 --> 01:42:06.399
Verdict treefarm dot com. Go by, check out what I'm talking about,

1392
01:42:06.520 --> 01:42:13.800
and don't miss this opportunity to start
creating a beautiful, shady flowering,

1393
01:42:14.039 --> 01:42:17.520
whatever kind of addition you want to
your landscape. The best time to plan

1394
01:42:17.600 --> 01:42:21.000
a tree was fifty years ago.
Second best time is today, So don't

1395
01:42:21.239 --> 01:42:24.640
delay. We want to get a
hammock in that thing as soon as we

1396
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:27.960
can. Right, let's that out
to League City and we're gonna talk to

1397
01:42:28.079 --> 01:42:33.560
John. Good morning John. How
can we help today? Yeah, I'm

1398
01:42:33.640 --> 01:42:38.680
calling about what a previous color was
talking about with large patch. Yes,

1399
01:42:39.640 --> 01:42:42.760
I you know, our yards healthy
in the summer and then every fall I

1400
01:42:42.880 --> 01:42:45.119
fight it and uh, what I
was trying to do is the last three

1401
01:42:45.199 --> 01:42:49.399
years, I've aerated and put down
leaf mode compost, yes, twice a

1402
01:42:49.520 --> 01:42:53.840
year, and I'm still getting it. I think the reason I'm getting it

1403
01:42:53.960 --> 01:42:57.640
maybe because I get nervous right before
the fall and I start putting down the

1404
01:42:57.680 --> 01:43:01.199
fungus side. So I'm probably counter
acting this leaf mold compost and killing the

1405
01:43:01.239 --> 01:43:03.920
good bacteria. So I wanted to
get your thoughts. Is it better to

1406
01:43:03.920 --> 01:43:08.880
put down the fungus side or just
keep throwing down leaf mold compost. Well,

1407
01:43:11.159 --> 01:43:15.439
I would do the leaf mold compost
now. If when it's a problem,

1408
01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:18.800
as I was saying earlier, overwatering, over fertilizing, and mowing short

1409
01:43:19.079 --> 01:43:25.680
all predisposed toward take all patch or
I'm sorry, large patch brown also called

1410
01:43:25.720 --> 01:43:29.199
brown patch gosh I we should say
both of those ever time, But anyway,

1411
01:43:29.239 --> 01:43:35.079
the names changed towards those that disease
becoming an issue. But in addition

1412
01:43:35.159 --> 01:43:38.399
to that, you can't control the
weather. You know, if you get

1413
01:43:38.399 --> 01:43:41.479
a gully washer rain with a hurricane
coming through here, you're going to see

1414
01:43:41.520 --> 01:43:45.680
large patch when the weather cools off
a little bit. The thing that you

1415
01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:48.520
can do is the preventative types of
sprays. Now, the leaf mold compost

1416
01:43:48.920 --> 01:43:53.800
will not eradicate large patch, but
it can help. It can help because

1417
01:43:54.439 --> 01:43:57.760
large patch is a fungus, it's
a disease, and when you put more

1418
01:43:58.000 --> 01:44:03.640
competing fungal organisms into that situation,
it actually does benefit. But a lot

1419
01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:09.960
of people just because it's such a
problem, they resort to a preventative fungicide

1420
01:44:10.079 --> 01:44:13.640
application. And you can certainly do
that. You're still going to have the

1421
01:44:13.720 --> 01:44:16.840
leakmo compost there and it's still going
to decompose, and it's still going to

1422
01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:20.359
give you the nutrients and the you
know a little bit of a blocking of

1423
01:44:20.520 --> 01:44:24.720
light from around the soil. So
maybe helps a tiny bit with the weed

1424
01:44:24.840 --> 01:44:29.800
control or weed sprouting as well.
But don't you know, you're not going

1425
01:44:29.840 --> 01:44:32.439
to ruin that. It just it's
the tradeoff that we have to do.

1426
01:44:32.720 --> 01:44:38.199
If you choose to do a fungicide
spray, do that before you do the

1427
01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:43.560
leaf mold on top. But because
otherwise your spray ends up getting on the

1428
01:44:43.680 --> 01:44:47.399
compost and not on the thatch and
the base of the grass leaves and so

1429
01:44:47.600 --> 01:44:54.159
on. Okay, so you would
do you would recommend both or just compost.

1430
01:44:54.359 --> 01:44:56.960
If it were my yard, I
would probably try to do the leafmo

1431
01:44:57.079 --> 01:45:02.239
compost and the cultural protections that I'm
men no overwater and overfertilizing, no moing

1432
01:45:02.319 --> 01:45:06.560
low. I would do that,
and if I'm not getting satisfactory results,

1433
01:45:06.720 --> 01:45:13.359
then I would resort to a preventative
done probably really early in October too,

1434
01:45:13.760 --> 01:45:16.359
so that when the disease conditions are
right and it's about to take off,

1435
01:45:16.479 --> 01:45:20.960
there's a fungicide there shutting it down. I generally don't do that every year

1436
01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:25.000
in my yard because I don't have
a problem with it just through all the

1437
01:45:25.119 --> 01:45:28.960
cultural things of the year. But
I do understand that they're yards where it's

1438
01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:31.640
just an annual issue and you've got
to get ahead of it. Not a

1439
01:45:31.680 --> 01:45:35.239
black and white thing. But those
are your two options, and you can

1440
01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:39.960
go whichever way you want to go. All right, thank you, all

1441
01:45:40.079 --> 01:45:43.640
right, thank you? Yeah.
Out there in League City, you're fortunate

1442
01:45:43.760 --> 01:45:46.359
you've got in that area, those
of you listening out there, and what

1443
01:45:46.560 --> 01:45:51.239
Dickinson, Lamarck and Webster in League
City and clear Lake City, El Camino

1444
01:45:51.279 --> 01:45:57.000
Reale, you've got a hometown feed
store called League City feet west and Madison

1445
01:45:57.079 --> 01:46:02.000
Funderberg. You know they took over
their dad. Actually well actually a third

1446
01:46:02.079 --> 01:46:06.000
generation now that are running the show. The grandfather built that over forty years

1447
01:46:06.039 --> 01:46:11.720
ago. But League City Feed carries
our fertilizers that we talk about on there.

1448
01:46:11.760 --> 01:46:15.279
They've got a great selection of pest
control, weed controlled, disease control

1449
01:46:15.359 --> 01:46:18.640
products, premium pet foods, of
course surfeed storey. They got all the

1450
01:46:18.760 --> 01:46:23.640
livestock feeds. If you're in the
backyard chickens, they have everything you need,

1451
01:46:23.760 --> 01:46:27.720
feeds, feeders, waters. But
for the folks down south there,

1452
01:46:27.840 --> 01:46:31.920
we're talking about Highway three, a
few blocks south of Highway ninety six,

1453
01:46:32.640 --> 01:46:38.239
League City Feed, they are going
to have the products you need. And

1454
01:46:38.359 --> 01:46:41.840
they're open Monday through Saturday nine to
six, closed on Sunday, so it's

1455
01:46:41.880 --> 01:46:45.680
easy to get by there even after
work. Give McCall to eight one three

1456
01:46:45.800 --> 01:46:49.600
three two sixteen twelve and they can
tell you more about what's going on there

1457
01:46:49.760 --> 01:46:56.680
at League City Feed. You're listening
to Garden Line our phone number seven one

1458
01:46:56.840 --> 01:47:00.800
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1459
01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:06.079
eight seventy four. I was sitting
outside enjoying one morning this past week,

1460
01:47:06.439 --> 01:47:11.960
enjoying the sound of birds, and
that's one of my favorite things in the

1461
01:47:12.039 --> 01:47:15.239
garden. You know, gardens aren't
just plants to look at. Gardens are

1462
01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:19.359
smells, Gardens are sounds. Gardens
are movement, you know, the way

1463
01:47:19.439 --> 01:47:24.840
grass is swaying the breeze, the
way a butterfly or a hummingbird or something.

1464
01:47:25.039 --> 01:47:27.119
I mean, it's just a lot
of cool stuff. By the way,

1465
01:47:27.199 --> 01:47:30.640
now is hummingbirds season? I mean
they are here and they need food

1466
01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:34.359
for that long trek across the Gulf
of Mexico as part of their migration.

1467
01:47:34.840 --> 01:47:40.479
Wilbirds Unlimited can get you set up
on that now. Write this down w

1468
01:47:40.840 --> 01:47:45.880
BU dot com, WBU dot com, forward slash Houston. You can find

1469
01:47:45.960 --> 01:47:48.880
the wall birds near you, and
that's not hard. There's seven of them

1470
01:47:49.199 --> 01:47:55.399
clear Lake, West, Houston,
Cypress bear Land pair Land bel Air adding

1471
01:47:55.560 --> 01:47:59.560
up in Kingwood or over in Katie
There. They're wilbirds in all those places

1472
01:48:00.079 --> 01:48:03.119
and they have super quality products.
Do you need a hummingbird feeder? Ask

1473
01:48:03.199 --> 01:48:08.000
them to show you their high perch
hummingbird feeder. I've got one. It

1474
01:48:08.199 --> 01:48:12.039
is outstanding, works really really well. Do you need a birdhouse? Do

1475
01:48:12.119 --> 01:48:16.079
you need a quality blend? Their
food blends don't have waste, not full

1476
01:48:16.119 --> 01:48:18.840
of all the little red beebies that
birds kick out because they don't want to

1477
01:48:18.840 --> 01:48:21.600
eat them. They make they make
the doves go sit on the ground and

1478
01:48:21.680 --> 01:48:25.359
eat them, or they just sprout
up and make a weed in your yard.

1479
01:48:25.760 --> 01:48:30.640
Nope, not with wild birds.
Quality feed that all every bit of

1480
01:48:30.720 --> 01:48:34.720
that feed sack the birds want to
eat. And that's what you would expect

1481
01:48:34.880 --> 01:48:39.520
from a quality place like wild Birds
Unlimited. We're going to take a break

1482
01:48:39.600 --> 01:48:54.840
our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

1483
01:48:55.079 --> 01:48:59.680
good morning. You were listening to
Guardline and we are enjoying visiting about

1484
01:48:59.760 --> 01:49:02.319
all all kinds of things. Gardening. You know, gardening is just a

1485
01:49:02.479 --> 01:49:08.880
fun it's it's a fun hobby and
we want you to have success. So

1486
01:49:09.039 --> 01:49:13.000
how do we help you have success? We give you good information. What

1487
01:49:13.119 --> 01:49:15.199
are the plants you plant? How
do you prepare the soil? What works

1488
01:49:15.279 --> 01:49:18.439
well here? How do you take
care of things? How do you diagnose

1489
01:49:18.479 --> 01:49:21.720
the problem and make sure you get
the right product to deal with it if

1490
01:49:21.760 --> 01:49:26.039
a product is required for dealing with
it. That's what it's all about,

1491
01:49:26.560 --> 01:49:30.880
keeping it simple and making it easy, and that's what Arburgate has done.

1492
01:49:30.920 --> 01:49:35.319
As a matter of fact, they've
got a one two three completely easy system.

1493
01:49:35.560 --> 01:49:39.840
And what does that mean one two
three, Well, it's a food

1494
01:49:40.199 --> 01:49:45.159
to feed anything with roots. It's
organic four three plus calcium fertilizer that is

1495
01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:48.720
also chock full of microbes as well, which is always a good thing for

1496
01:49:48.920 --> 01:49:53.239
roots and for the soil. It's
a soil second of all, for any

1497
01:49:53.319 --> 01:49:59.359
application quality soil. It's got some. It also has some a an expanded

1498
01:49:59.399 --> 01:50:01.680
shale I could think of the name
of it. Expanded shale is like think

1499
01:50:01.720 --> 01:50:05.119
of it as a kitty litter that's
been fired to a temperature so hot that

1500
01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:11.560
it expands and causes these little pitted
granules, Like remember the days when we

1501
01:50:11.640 --> 01:50:15.680
have barbecue pitts and there was the
lava rock on them. They still have

1502
01:50:15.840 --> 01:50:19.359
those. That's kind of like a
taking a close view, if you will,

1503
01:50:19.680 --> 01:50:25.359
at an expanded shale particle. It's
lightweight, it holds moisture, it

1504
01:50:25.520 --> 01:50:29.720
holds nutrients, and it keeps your
clay open. That's very important and that's

1505
01:50:29.760 --> 01:50:33.279
why they put it in Part three, which is a complete compost. Organic

1506
01:50:33.359 --> 01:50:39.640
compost is made from two different kinds
of quality compost, again of course chock

1507
01:50:39.720 --> 01:50:44.039
full of microbes, and it also
has the expanded shale in it. Expanded

1508
01:50:44.119 --> 01:50:47.000
shale lasts a long time. Compost
is wonderful. It is rocket fuel for

1509
01:50:47.079 --> 01:50:53.399
soil. It's a miracle worker for
soil. But expanded shale will continue lasting

1510
01:50:53.520 --> 01:50:58.640
even after compost decomposes, and it
just year by year. Continue to use

1511
01:50:58.720 --> 01:51:02.039
these quality products. Make yourself better
and better and better. And everyone thinks

1512
01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:06.279
your thumb is getting greener and greener
and greener. But it's the secret products

1513
01:51:06.319 --> 01:51:10.439
of the one two three completely easy
system, not so much of a secret

1514
01:51:10.520 --> 01:51:13.960
anymore. Available bit at Arburgate.
You can go to arburgate dot com for

1515
01:51:14.039 --> 01:51:16.680
those of you who don't know Arburgates
out there and Tomball just head out twenty

1516
01:51:16.760 --> 01:51:21.840
nine twenty west of Tomball and you
will get right to Arburgate and you can

1517
01:51:21.920 --> 01:51:27.720
find these products. Got them on
hand. Let's head out to Pasadena now

1518
01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:30.079
and we're going to talk to Randy. Hello, Randy, good morning,

1519
01:51:30.800 --> 01:51:36.159
and wow, thank you. Well
you segued right into my question. I've

1520
01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:44.920
got about a twenty two twenty three
year old lawn established construction debris and excess

1521
01:51:45.199 --> 01:51:48.800
or you know as they always put
in there. I've been following the fertilizer

1522
01:51:48.880 --> 01:51:53.600
schedule for about three years. And
the lawn's pretty good. But I've been

1523
01:51:53.640 --> 01:51:59.520
reading about the application of the compost
and let's see if I could get some

1524
01:51:59.640 --> 01:52:04.800
ins with that. Just you know, the frequency and how much to put

1525
01:52:04.960 --> 01:52:10.760
on so I can start enriching the
soil. It's it's it's doing well,

1526
01:52:10.880 --> 01:52:14.319
but I think you can do better. I think you were Uh we're talking

1527
01:52:14.319 --> 01:52:17.279
about the leaf mold compost. Is
that correct? Yes, I've read more

1528
01:52:17.319 --> 01:52:20.600
on Randy's website. You know,
he was a huge proponent of that,

1529
01:52:20.760 --> 01:52:24.840
and I hear you mentioned that quite
a bit as well. Then yes,

1530
01:52:25.680 --> 01:52:29.840
it didn't doesn't really give any instruction
on what's the best time, how thick

1531
01:52:29.880 --> 01:52:32.680
do you put it right, how
many yards per square foot or what have

1532
01:52:32.840 --> 01:52:36.239
you. Okay, well, you
know with with a leaf mold compost.

1533
01:52:36.880 --> 01:52:41.239
Uh, we're well, let me
back up one step. When you have

1534
01:52:41.319 --> 01:52:45.600
a lawn, when I talk about
preparing soil and I talk about mixing compost

1535
01:52:45.720 --> 01:52:47.600
into the soil, well, you
can't mix compost into a lawn. I

1536
01:52:47.640 --> 01:52:51.039
mean you can't rote a towel your
lawn. And so what we do is

1537
01:52:51.119 --> 01:52:55.920
we do a core aeration, which
is a machine that goes in and it

1538
01:52:56.039 --> 01:53:00.439
pops plugs of soil out and it
looks like a like they had a small

1539
01:53:00.520 --> 01:53:02.239
dog convention on your lawn, if
you know what I mean. There's all

1540
01:53:02.279 --> 01:53:06.720
these little little things that look like
dog droppings everywhere. That's good. You

1541
01:53:06.800 --> 01:53:11.279
want. You don't want an narrator
that pushes the soil apart to create a

1542
01:53:11.319 --> 01:53:15.000
hole. You want one that pops
the soil out, that gets it up

1543
01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:18.039
on the surface. And then you
follow that with a leafmo compost top dressing,

1544
01:53:18.520 --> 01:53:24.880
and that allows your turf to be
able to get good oxygen down in

1545
01:53:24.920 --> 01:53:29.000
the roots system and the compost goes
down in those holes as it decomposes.

1546
01:53:29.479 --> 01:53:31.479
And so when you do that over
a period of time, you really help

1547
01:53:31.560 --> 01:53:36.600
with compaction and you also help with
soil eration and other things. So that

1548
01:53:36.920 --> 01:53:41.479
that's the combo thing. Now you
can just arrate, you can just top

1549
01:53:41.560 --> 01:53:44.720
dress with compost. You don't have
to do both. But if your lawn

1550
01:53:44.880 --> 01:53:48.359
is struggling, and you mentioned,
you know, it sounded like the soil

1551
01:53:48.479 --> 01:53:53.439
quality and all the stuff that they
did in construction certainly didn't help it much,

1552
01:53:53.880 --> 01:53:59.039
you might want to consider having those
both done. And you so understand

1553
01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:04.840
saying I'll have it a rat on
a standard aeration. What would I about

1554
01:54:04.880 --> 01:54:09.479
a half on the inch? What's
the proper application? I don't want to

1555
01:54:09.560 --> 01:54:14.359
under or overdo it. Uh,
you have some range there. It doesn't

1556
01:54:14.399 --> 01:54:17.199
have to be just a certain half
an inch would be a nice application to

1557
01:54:17.319 --> 01:54:20.199
go on it. In fact that
a lot of times they'll go a little

1558
01:54:20.279 --> 01:54:24.960
lighter than that, maybe a third
of an inch or something. But either

1559
01:54:25.000 --> 01:54:29.119
way, it just make sure they've
got a well screened or that you purchase

1560
01:54:29.359 --> 01:54:32.960
a well screened leaf mold compost.
And you can purchase that locally and have

1561
01:54:33.079 --> 01:54:35.840
it delivered to you, and you
can do it as do it yourself,

1562
01:54:35.920 --> 01:54:38.880
or you can run a machine,
or you can hire somebody to do it.

1563
01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:42.159
There's there's a lot of options out
there. Okay, well good.

1564
01:54:42.239 --> 01:54:48.039
I was really concerned with the time
and the you know, the time of

1565
01:54:48.079 --> 01:54:51.479
the year to apply and have much
to actually put on. So what's the

1566
01:54:51.960 --> 01:54:56.199
what's the recommended time of year?
Or is any time? Okay, you

1567
01:54:56.239 --> 01:54:59.640
know, it's really okay to do
it anytime. I like in the spring

1568
01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:03.720
to let the lawn get going and
kind of pretty well established before I start

1569
01:55:03.800 --> 01:55:08.960
in with that kind of thing.
Uh, if you if you want to

1570
01:55:09.439 --> 01:55:13.079
do it later in the season you
can. By the time we get into

1571
01:55:13.359 --> 01:55:16.119
let's say mid to late fall,
the grass roots are not growing as much

1572
01:55:16.239 --> 01:55:21.000
and I generally will not do that
the aeration at that time. It's not

1573
01:55:21.159 --> 01:55:25.279
that you couldn't you could do it
any month of the year, but that

1574
01:55:25.560 --> 01:55:28.239
that's the easy way to do it. Hey, And if you need a

1575
01:55:28.319 --> 01:55:30.079
place it does it green. The
folks at Greenpro do that. You can.

1576
01:55:30.279 --> 01:55:33.079
You can go online and green pro
textas dot com or give him a

1577
01:55:33.119 --> 01:55:39.000
call to it. I'm all right, you're the guy. You're the you're

1578
01:55:39.039 --> 01:55:42.079
the weekend warrior. All right,
man, Oh yeah, we'll go for

1579
01:55:42.239 --> 01:55:45.720
it. Appreciate it. Hey,
thanks for the call. I appreciate that.

1580
01:55:45.880 --> 01:55:48.039
I have a great day, yes, sir, and you as well.

1581
01:55:48.399 --> 01:55:53.800
Yeah, you know you can.
You can make a lawn feel or

1582
01:55:53.960 --> 01:56:00.239
you can make a lawn just really
happy by creating that natural uh and arm

1583
01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:02.960
that happens in a grassland. You
know, as grass grows, the roots

1584
01:56:03.000 --> 01:56:09.319
grow and die, the grass blades
fall on the surface and they decompose,

1585
01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:13.600
and the grass it just gets better
and better over time. And we speed

1586
01:56:13.680 --> 01:56:16.479
that process up when we correerate,
when we top dress with compost, and

1587
01:56:16.720 --> 01:56:21.800
especially when we take good care of
our lawn and return the grass clippings.

1588
01:56:24.119 --> 01:56:29.960
No, or I'm going to overstate
this, but it's true. No organic

1589
01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:32.239
matter should leave your property. Now. The exception would be, Okay,

1590
01:56:32.239 --> 01:56:35.479
I got severely diseased plants, and
I don't want to put that back down

1591
01:56:35.560 --> 01:56:39.800
around those plants and so on.
Okay, I get that, but seriously,

1592
01:56:39.960 --> 01:56:42.680
if you even tree limbs, if
you have way to chip them up,

1593
01:56:43.079 --> 01:56:45.439
do so and put it in as
a mulch. Now I'll grant you.

1594
01:56:45.560 --> 01:56:47.840
Even at my house, I don't
have a big chipper, and so

1595
01:56:48.039 --> 01:56:53.239
I do have to get rid of
stuff like that some But organic matter is

1596
01:56:53.319 --> 01:56:58.520
stuff you grew with your nutrients and
your soil. Return it to the soil,

1597
01:56:58.680 --> 01:57:00.720
Let it decompose, Let it feed
the swill. Let it become a

1598
01:57:00.840 --> 01:57:10.840
compost full of biological activity that stimulates
root systems. Return, recycle your grass,

1599
01:57:11.840 --> 01:57:15.680
return, recycle your tree leaves.
Don't let organic matter leave your soil.

1600
01:57:15.800 --> 01:57:20.600
Otherwise you're just renting fertilizer and speaking
a fertilizer. Folks at Nelson Plant

1601
01:57:20.680 --> 01:57:25.199
Food they have a wide variety of
products. You know, Nelson's has the

1602
01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:28.720
color Star line. I was bragging
on that earlier. It's great for anything

1603
01:57:28.800 --> 01:57:31.920
you're growing for color. They've got
the Nutrastar line, a number of different

1604
01:57:31.960 --> 01:57:36.760
specific fertilizers for different kinds of plants, and then the turf Star line.

1605
01:57:36.880 --> 01:57:40.800
That's the one we talk about a
lot because we're always taking care of our

1606
01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:44.640
lawns. There's a slow and easy
that we do during the summertime that is

1607
01:57:44.720 --> 01:57:48.279
a gradual release over time. There's
a Bruce's Brew It's an eighteen four nine.

1608
01:57:48.760 --> 01:57:51.880
It's an immediate release, and would
you could do it now in a

1609
01:57:53.159 --> 01:57:57.239
small amount. Just remember that cool
season is coming and we're gonna be putting

1610
01:57:57.279 --> 01:58:00.880
the Nelson's carbo load when that comes
on. That's one that's got plenty of

1611
01:58:01.119 --> 01:58:08.359
the last of the three numbers.
Potassium can't go wrong. Any of those

1612
01:58:08.439 --> 01:58:12.920
products from Nelson Plant Food and Nelson
Plant Foods easy to find all over the

1613
01:58:13.039 --> 01:58:17.399
Greater Houston area. Well, we're
about to put another hour in the books.

1614
01:58:17.439 --> 01:58:20.680
We've got one left this morning.
If you've been thinking about give us

1615
01:58:20.720 --> 01:58:24.520
a call. Hey, be brave, step out there. I promise I'll

1616
01:58:24.520 --> 01:58:28.520
be kind. We will have a
good time. If you have questions,

1617
01:58:28.880 --> 01:58:34.720
don't forget Next Saturday, September ninth, Plantation, Ace Hardware and Richmond.

1618
01:58:35.039 --> 01:58:41.199
I'll be there from eleven thirty to
one thirty. I'll let's see to go

1619
01:58:41.319 --> 01:58:44.680
to an Mma, Lazarth Poem and
the Statue of Liberty. Bring me you're

1620
01:58:44.760 --> 01:58:46.960
tired, you're weary, you're worn
out, plants, you're diseased, you're

1621
01:58:47.079 --> 01:58:51.479
infested. We'll diagnose them. If
you got pictures of your yard. You

1622
01:58:51.560 --> 01:58:54.840
want to talk about what to do
here, we'll talk about that. I

1623
01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:57.720
can't wait to see if we're gonna
have a good time out at Plantation,

1624
01:58:57.840 --> 01:59:00.600
Ace Hardware. I'm gonna talk about
a little bit more to Charleton. You

1625
01:59:00.680 --> 01:59:06.560
what all is going to be going
on out there. KTRH Garden Line does

1626
01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:13.439
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

1627
01:59:13.600 --> 01:59:31.319
to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Ricord's
just watching as well. Good morning on

1628
01:59:31.520 --> 01:59:35.319
a beautiful morning to get out there
and garden. Also a beautiful morning to

1629
01:59:35.399 --> 01:59:39.640
get out there and check out some
garden centers. Go visit our feed stores,

1630
01:59:39.680 --> 01:59:44.159
Go visit our home mom and pop
garden centers, Go visit our Ace

1631
01:59:44.279 --> 01:59:48.680
hardware stores around there is you know, there are so many great places here

1632
01:59:48.760 --> 01:59:51.680
in the Greater Houston area. If
you are a gardener, for you to

1633
01:59:51.720 --> 01:59:56.039
get your supplies, your plants,
your advice, it's all out there.

1634
01:59:56.520 --> 01:59:59.880
I was I was visiting, you
know before we took a break there with

1635
02:00:00.119 --> 02:00:05.000
Randy out in Pasadena on leaf mold
compost and aerating and top dressing, and

1636
02:00:05.079 --> 02:00:10.399
I mentioned garden Greenpro. You know, the folks at Greenpro, they absolutely

1637
02:00:10.920 --> 02:00:16.439
know how to take care of a
lawn with quality compost. Quality leaf mold

1638
02:00:16.520 --> 02:00:20.880
composts to be specific, that's the
one that really just performs the best when

1639
02:00:20.920 --> 02:00:27.199
you're doing a top dressing. They
also know how to do a proper aeration

1640
02:00:27.359 --> 02:00:30.359
of your lawn with a deep time
errator. They have the equipment they can

1641
02:00:30.439 --> 02:00:33.800
do that. Now. They have
a special going on right now, special

1642
02:00:33.920 --> 02:00:40.359
for garden lined listeners. If you
will sign up for aeration and top dressing

1643
02:00:41.039 --> 02:00:45.439
by the fifteenth of September, they're
going to give you ten percent off of

1644
02:00:45.560 --> 02:00:47.239
that. So you're thinking about doing
it, you wanted to do it,

1645
02:00:47.279 --> 02:00:50.840
You're probably going to plan on doing
it anyway, now's the time to do

1646
02:00:50.960 --> 02:00:54.520
it. You don't have to have
it done by the fifteenth, but you

1647
02:00:54.560 --> 02:00:58.000
have to be book it. You
have to book it by then so you

1648
02:00:58.159 --> 02:01:01.520
can receive that ten percent discount,
and that is a significant break. So

1649
02:01:01.800 --> 02:01:04.960
go ahead, you know, give
them a call. Let's let's get that

1650
02:01:05.119 --> 02:01:09.680
done on your yard. If you
are going to do any kind of a

1651
02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:15.640
pre emergent herbicide, you are gonna
want to do that after you do the

1652
02:01:15.920 --> 02:01:19.079
core aeration because that just brings new
soil up to the surface, and pre

1653
02:01:19.199 --> 02:01:24.439
emergence sort of create a force field
over the surface of the soil for weeds

1654
02:01:24.479 --> 02:01:28.920
that are trying to break through and
establish they stop that, well, you

1655
02:01:29.039 --> 02:01:31.479
just need to give Green Pro a
call. Give them a call at eight

1656
02:01:31.840 --> 02:01:39.479
three two three five one zero zero
three two eight three two three five one

1657
02:01:40.039 --> 02:01:44.920
zero zero three two and do you
mention that you would like the ten percent

1658
02:01:45.039 --> 02:01:48.119
off discount. But you got to
do that by the fifteenth of September.

1659
02:01:48.239 --> 02:01:51.520
We're not too far away, so
don't delay. I'm making this decision.

1660
02:01:53.159 --> 02:01:59.439
Aeration and cob post stop dressing.
What a good combination for taking care of

1661
02:01:59.520 --> 02:02:03.319
your lawn. You are listening to
Guardenline. Our phone number is seven one

1662
02:02:03.439 --> 02:02:09.159
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four seven one three two one two five

1663
02:02:09.439 --> 02:02:14.880
eight seven four And if you're out
there doing your lawn fertilizing and you're thinking

1664
02:02:14.960 --> 02:02:18.399
about, you know, what else
might I need to do to take care

1665
02:02:18.439 --> 02:02:21.520
of my lawn properly. Well,
one of the things is to consider a

1666
02:02:21.720 --> 02:02:29.199
micronutrient application with azamite. Now,
azamite is a mind product and it is

1667
02:02:29.319 --> 02:02:33.319
ground up as a crushed mineral.
It has a lot of trace elements in

1668
02:02:33.439 --> 02:02:38.600
it, and so I don't think
of it like a fertilizer like your nitrogen,

1669
02:02:38.640 --> 02:02:42.439
phosphorus, potassium, regular fertilizer.
I think it is an addition to

1670
02:02:42.600 --> 02:02:45.680
that. It is nutrients. But
I'll do the fertilization and then follow with

1671
02:02:45.760 --> 02:02:51.560
the azamite application to your lawn.
You can go to Azomite Texas azo m

1672
02:02:51.960 --> 02:02:58.439
TE Texas dot com and find out
more about it. It's easy to find

1673
02:02:58.520 --> 02:03:01.399
in the Houston area again, and
all the price. All the places we

1674
02:03:01.479 --> 02:03:06.239
brag on and talk about about buying
plants and supplies here they're gonna carry as

1675
02:03:06.319 --> 02:03:10.840
MTE. It's easy to find.
Let's set out to Spring Branch now and

1676
02:03:10.920 --> 02:03:15.039
we're gonna talk to HIRTA. Hello, HIRTA, well, good morning,

1677
02:03:15.720 --> 02:03:19.560
thank you for being there for us. Thank you, Yip. I have

1678
02:03:19.800 --> 02:03:26.199
a follow up question on my Zaiah
plant, the parent plant. It's a

1679
02:03:26.399 --> 02:03:33.920
clump of stams of summer happnage wide
summer quarter of an inch. But at

1680
02:03:34.000 --> 02:03:43.239
any rate, the diagnosis was root
rot. Now I have breaked away all

1681
02:03:43.359 --> 02:03:51.720
of my pine needle cover and I
put down some leak mold composts around it.

1682
02:03:54.119 --> 02:04:00.640
Now I don't want to put that
same pine needle pile. How much

1683
02:04:00.880 --> 02:04:05.000
should I cover it with pine needles? Now? Should I? Or should

1684
02:04:05.039 --> 02:04:11.199
I? Not? You? It's
it's always a good time to mulch around

1685
02:04:11.279 --> 02:04:15.359
plants. So if you don't have
a good cover of mulch, then go

1686
02:04:15.399 --> 02:04:17.239
ahead and do it. If you've
already got like four inches of mulch over

1687
02:04:17.319 --> 02:04:20.239
it or pine needles, then you
don't need to add more. That's enough.

1688
02:04:20.840 --> 02:04:25.439
Oh okay, Now, well no, I just have the least more

1689
02:04:25.720 --> 02:04:30.800
multch on there, and it's only
it's barely an inch. Okay, so

1690
02:04:30.359 --> 02:04:35.600
put put another pack of pine needles
on there. Yeah, yeah, I

1691
02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:39.600
would, I would add more.
Whatever kind of mult you're gonna choose for

1692
02:04:39.720 --> 02:04:45.000
it, go ahead and get those
get that done, because yeah, well

1693
02:04:45.119 --> 02:04:49.159
that's done already. I'm just asking
about the pine needles now, Yeah,

1694
02:04:49.520 --> 02:04:54.760
yeah, that's it. You can
add them. It's perfect. An inch

1695
02:04:54.960 --> 02:04:58.279
two inches what I would probably put
a couple of more inches on there.

1696
02:04:58.600 --> 02:05:01.239
Yeah, oh all right, all
right, thank you very much, Skip.

1697
02:05:01.439 --> 02:05:06.319
Yeah, you want to keep those
things happy. I know I'm working

1698
02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:12.159
at it. Oh this horrible heat, but we're coming out of it now,

1699
02:05:12.479 --> 02:05:15.840
and I'm very thankful for that.
Now, if I want to transplant,

1700
02:05:16.800 --> 02:05:23.079
I have some quarts that came up
from the parent plant about three feet

1701
02:05:23.159 --> 02:05:29.720
away. There may be two feet
tall or so. Lord, I'll wait

1702
02:05:29.840 --> 02:05:34.079
till fall to transplant those. This
isn't azalea again, you're talking about.

1703
02:05:34.279 --> 02:05:40.880
Yes, yes, that's the plant. If you've got little shoots that have

1704
02:05:41.079 --> 02:05:45.640
roots attached to them, you can
transplant them, but don't do that until

1705
02:05:45.640 --> 02:05:47.600
I would wait until October. I
want to get all the heat and stress

1706
02:05:47.680 --> 02:05:51.199
and stuff off these plants, all
right, Move them quickly, don't let

1707
02:05:51.279 --> 02:05:55.000
those rich dry out, Water them
and really good. Put them at the

1708
02:05:55.079 --> 02:05:59.439
same level they were growing when you
dug them up, and a new location

1709
02:05:59.680 --> 02:06:02.800
and you should be good to go. All right, Thank you very much,

1710
02:06:02.920 --> 02:06:05.920
Skip, all right, her,
thank you very much. I appreciate

1711
02:06:05.960 --> 02:06:11.319
you call. Oh my goodness,
you know I brag about Buchanan's Plants a

1712
02:06:11.399 --> 02:06:14.039
lot for those of you in the
Heights, really for those of anywhere in

1713
02:06:14.119 --> 02:06:16.760
town. It's a fun place to
go see that big trees and I don't

1714
02:06:16.800 --> 02:06:19.279
care how hot it gets today,
it's a good day to go walk around

1715
02:06:19.319 --> 02:06:26.399
in the shade out there at Buchanans
and enjoy yourself. They've got unbelievable selection

1716
02:06:26.439 --> 02:06:29.560
of plants. They're on the eleventh
Street and the Heights. You can go

1717
02:06:29.680 --> 02:06:31.920
online to Buchanans Plants dot com.
By the way, while you're there,

1718
02:06:32.000 --> 02:06:35.479
sign up for their newsletter. They've
got some events coming up. I want

1719
02:06:35.479 --> 02:06:40.880
to butt Darryl Ching, who is
an Instagram influencer and the author of the

1720
02:06:41.039 --> 02:06:47.760
New Plant Parent. He is a
very popular houseplant type person on Instagram.

1721
02:06:48.039 --> 02:06:51.920
He's going to be there on Saturday, September ninth. He's gonna talk,

1722
02:06:51.960 --> 02:06:56.720
he's gonna do a book signing.
They're gonna have houseplant giveaways, light bites,

1723
02:06:56.800 --> 02:07:00.479
beer and wine. Tickets are twenty
three dollars this weekend only, but

1724
02:07:00.640 --> 02:07:05.640
that is Saturday, September ninth,
and also on October seventh. That's way

1725
02:07:05.680 --> 02:07:09.159
out there, but you need to
put this on your calendar. From ten

1726
02:07:09.199 --> 02:07:13.000
am to three pm. Buchanans is
going to be having their hay Rides,

1727
02:07:13.079 --> 02:07:17.520
pumpkin painting, moon Bound, moon
Bounce, and on food trucks. It's

1728
02:07:17.520 --> 02:07:21.800
just another great family free event.
And while you're at Buchanans, check out

1729
02:07:21.840 --> 02:07:27.279
their new shipment of mums, snapdragons
and other plants that are available. Let's

1730
02:07:27.319 --> 02:07:30.039
go ahead and take a break.
When we come back from Blake, Glenn,

1731
02:07:30.520 --> 02:07:34.680
Eddie and Amy, you will be
the first one's up. As good

1732
02:07:34.760 --> 02:07:44.039
as I want. I got a
few years now, but there was the

1733
02:07:44.239 --> 02:07:48.920
time in my friend but I could
read, Oh boy, here we are

1734
02:07:48.960 --> 02:07:54.279
a garden line talking about all kinds
of things gardening, and we got a

1735
02:07:54.359 --> 02:07:57.600
few calls lined up here. We're
gonna get right to them. I did

1736
02:07:57.760 --> 02:08:03.439
want to tell you that if you
are looking for a foundation repair person,

1737
02:08:03.680 --> 02:08:07.640
someone who can take care of the
things that are concerning you or should be

1738
02:08:07.720 --> 02:08:11.039
concerning you right now, like cracks
in the brick when you look from the

1739
02:08:11.079 --> 02:08:13.439
outside, cracks in the sheet rock
on the inside, sticky doors, those

1740
02:08:13.479 --> 02:08:18.760
are all signs that you may have
some foundation shifting going on and you need

1741
02:08:18.840 --> 02:08:22.560
to get it taken care of promptly. Don't wait, Tie Strickland fix my

1742
02:08:22.680 --> 02:08:28.079
slab foundation repair. It's as simple
as that. You can go online fix

1743
02:08:28.279 --> 02:08:30.880
my slab dot com, or you
can give a call. It's two eight

1744
02:08:31.000 --> 02:08:35.560
one two five forty nine forty nine. They show up on time, they

1745
02:08:35.159 --> 02:08:39.319
give you a fair price, and
when they fix it, they fix it

1746
02:08:39.479 --> 02:08:41.880
right. They've been doing this for
twenty three years. They know how to

1747
02:08:41.960 --> 02:08:43.960
do this. I don't care if
it's your home foundation, if it's a

1748
02:08:45.039 --> 02:08:48.359
sidewalk, if it's a driveway,
they can do it all. Fix myslab

1749
02:08:48.760 --> 02:08:54.159
dot com two eight one two five
five forty nine forty nine. Do not

1750
02:08:54.439 --> 02:09:01.279
delay our shifting Houston soils wreck havoc
on our concrew, eat pads in our

1751
02:09:01.119 --> 02:09:07.119
on our landscape being a home and
all around. Just you've got to watch

1752
02:09:07.199 --> 02:09:09.000
out for that. And when we
get into dry weather like this where it

1753
02:09:09.039 --> 02:09:13.439
shrinks up and then we get a
rain that swells up, Katie bar the

1754
02:09:13.439 --> 02:09:16.680
door. Here we go. Unfortunately, that is the place where we live.

1755
02:09:16.079 --> 02:09:20.720
I'm gonna go now to the phones
and we're gonna talk to Glenn out

1756
02:09:20.800 --> 02:09:24.119
in full sure. Hello, Glenn, good morning. Hey. Let me

1757
02:09:24.600 --> 02:09:28.920
throw this composting technique at you and
see what you think. This is the

1758
02:09:28.960 --> 02:09:31.960
way I do it out here.
So I have basically a big bucket.

1759
02:09:31.520 --> 02:09:35.479
It's a really a container. Put
all my scraps in there, and I

1760
02:09:35.560 --> 02:09:39.119
mix it with water. I throw
in fire ash, and every once in

1761
02:09:39.159 --> 02:09:45.079
a while calmanure and just mix up
to a slop you miss. Do you

1762
02:09:45.119 --> 02:09:46.800
think I'm losing a nutrition when I
do all that, when I keep the

1763
02:09:46.880 --> 02:09:50.840
water in there, or what do
you think about that? Is there a

1764
02:09:50.920 --> 02:09:52.600
better way to do it? Yeah? The problem with the water, you

1765
02:09:52.680 --> 02:09:58.920
know, just being truly saturated water
is you exclude the oxygen and decomposition will

1766
02:10:00.079 --> 02:10:03.199
take place. But it's what we
call anaerobic, and you can get some

1767
02:10:03.279 --> 02:10:07.720
pretty nasty odors unless you've got a
little like one of those aquarium bubblers in

1768
02:10:07.840 --> 02:10:13.119
there that's putting air through the system. I would I would mix up the

1769
02:10:13.199 --> 02:10:16.479
things you're talking about, and and
but just leave them a little more air

1770
02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:20.279
rated, have them moist but not
saggy wet. Got you? Okay?

1771
02:10:20.319 --> 02:10:24.039
Now? Can let me let me
ask you one more thing to them before

1772
02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:28.640
I forgets right interrupt? The wood
ash is fine in moderation. If you

1773
02:10:28.840 --> 02:10:31.760
use too much, you really mess
things up. I don't know if you've

1774
02:10:31.800 --> 02:10:35.760
ever seen on a farm or something. They had an old burn pile and

1775
02:10:35.239 --> 02:10:39.119
they just burned and burned on that
spot. Now nothing will grow there with

1776
02:10:39.239 --> 02:10:43.720
all the excessive ash application. Okay, yeah, I'd do it randomly,

1777
02:10:43.840 --> 02:10:46.760
maybe once a year or two,
you know, just a couple of shovelfuls.

1778
02:10:46.079 --> 02:10:50.199
Okay, it's probably a sixty five
or you know, gallon container.

1779
02:10:50.239 --> 02:10:52.439
So anyway, I just thought,
oh, that's a bit doing this,

1780
02:10:54.000 --> 02:10:56.239
and I'm thinking, I wonder if
I'm helping myself or hurting myself. I

1781
02:10:56.319 --> 02:11:00.880
know, what keeps the rodents away
a little better? So yeah, okay,

1782
02:11:01.199 --> 02:11:03.880
well, ye give it a try. Just just watch for that anaerobic

1783
02:11:03.119 --> 02:11:07.520
and just don't overdo any anything too
much of a good thing, not a

1784
02:11:07.600 --> 02:11:09.119
good thing. Sure, all right, thank you sir. Hey Glenn,

1785
02:11:09.199 --> 02:11:15.319
thanks for the call. I appreciate
that very much. If you are looking

1786
02:11:15.359 --> 02:11:20.600
at plants and it is obvious that
this summer has beat the heck out of

1787
02:11:20.640 --> 02:11:24.720
it and just flat warn them out, consider doing an application of Microlife's Ocean

1788
02:11:24.800 --> 02:11:30.439
Harvest. That's a blue label bottle. It is a seaweed based product.

1789
02:11:30.800 --> 02:11:33.720
Now you can use it just directly
on the plants. I mean you mix

1790
02:11:33.760 --> 02:11:35.479
it in water and drench roots if
you want, you can also use it

1791
02:11:35.640 --> 02:11:41.840
as a follier feed. And these
plants that they need minerals that you know,

1792
02:11:41.479 --> 02:11:45.640
all the different kinds of things that
come in a seaweed product. There's

1793
02:11:46.000 --> 02:11:50.279
there's product. There are ingredients that
help stimulate plant growth that you know,

1794
02:11:50.439 --> 02:11:58.479
that provide the biochemical supplements that I'm
talking backwards here, the supplements that are

1795
02:11:58.560 --> 02:12:01.119
needed for biochemical re actions that are
going on in the plants. Those plants

1796
02:12:01.159 --> 02:12:07.960
are stressed right now, So add
the microbes, add the materials that you're

1797
02:12:07.039 --> 02:12:11.560
going to get from a quality product
like the Ocean Harvest Blue label for microlife.

1798
02:12:13.079 --> 02:12:16.520
You can also you know, we
got the humans plus that is absolutely

1799
02:12:16.640 --> 02:12:20.039
important. We want to provide those
for the soil, but we also can

1800
02:12:20.159 --> 02:12:24.720
spray a quality product like the Ocean
Harvest on the plants and help them out.

1801
02:12:24.800 --> 02:12:26.880
I mean, it's one thing.
We got to keep the plants well

1802
02:12:28.000 --> 02:12:31.640
watered. They definitely need that,
but they also need a little bit of

1803
02:12:31.720 --> 02:12:35.680
help coming out of the stress that
they're dealing with right now. And fall

1804
02:12:35.880 --> 02:12:37.920
is coming, but let's just help
them hang on for a little bit longer.

1805
02:12:39.319 --> 02:12:41.279
We're going to go out there to
Pasadena now and talk to Eddie.

1806
02:12:41.319 --> 02:12:46.560
Hello Eddie, Hey Skip, good
morning. Just had a quick question about

1807
02:12:46.640 --> 02:12:52.239
my Saint Augustine lawn. As you
know, this heat hasn't been no jokes

1808
02:12:52.279 --> 02:12:56.119
of the lawn has been kind of
stressing. But I also experience some chinch

1809
02:12:56.199 --> 02:12:58.520
bugs that did some damage while I
was out of town for work along with

1810
02:12:58.600 --> 02:13:03.640
this heat. So I managed to
suppress the tinch bugs and now I'm kind

1811
02:13:03.680 --> 02:13:07.159
of a recovery mode and half of
the front yard and looks burned. Half

1812
02:13:07.199 --> 02:13:11.159
of it looks nice and green and
lush. Yeah, but I wanted to

1813
02:13:11.199 --> 02:13:15.239
ask if I should to keep following
the schedule and put down a summer fertilizer

1814
02:13:15.319 --> 02:13:18.520
or should I do something different to
kind of help me get ready for the

1815
02:13:18.560 --> 02:13:20.920
fall. Well, you sure can. I mean, the number one thing

1816
02:13:22.039 --> 02:13:24.920
that lawn needs is moderately moist soil, so you know, a good soaking

1817
02:13:26.079 --> 02:13:30.960
followed by drawing out period that that
step one. Uh. The other thing

1818
02:13:31.199 --> 02:13:33.800
is having the nutrients that it needs
are important. Now, you know,

1819
02:13:33.960 --> 02:13:39.239
when when drought kills a grass plant, it doesn't change the fact that there

1820
02:13:39.399 --> 02:13:43.239
are or are not nutrients in the
ground. If they were there, they're

1821
02:13:43.359 --> 02:13:46.920
they're there, But if not,
they need to be added. We're we're

1822
02:13:46.960 --> 02:13:52.399
going to enter here when we get
in to the you know, beginning of

1823
02:13:52.479 --> 02:13:56.279
October time into September early October,
we're going to be looking at our fall

1824
02:13:56.399 --> 02:14:00.479
fertilization. So we're getting close to
that right now. So anything do right

1825
02:14:00.560 --> 02:14:03.079
now, I would go very light
on. Don't overdo the nitrogen because we

1826
02:14:03.119 --> 02:14:07.359
don't want to push them a lot
with nitrogen going into that false period that's

1827
02:14:07.399 --> 02:14:11.640
when the large patch and brown patch
occur. So go light. But just

1828
02:14:11.880 --> 02:14:18.000
know that the most important fertilization in
many ways for the year is that fall

1829
02:14:18.079 --> 02:14:22.840
fertilization because you send your grass into
winter stronger and after what your lawn has

1830
02:14:22.880 --> 02:14:28.199
been through this summer, having a
good quality fall fertilizer application that it can

1831
02:14:28.319 --> 02:14:33.079
take up. Think of it as
anna freeze for the plant. As that

1832
02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:37.680
nutrient comes in, as it gets
some sunlight and creates the carbohydrates. When

1833
02:14:37.720 --> 02:14:39.880
it comes out next spring, it's
going to be way stronger. And that's

1834
02:14:39.920 --> 02:14:45.560
why that's the most important fertilization.
So yes, okay, to do a

1835
02:14:45.640 --> 02:14:50.399
little now, but the big important
one is coming up and fall. Okay,

1836
02:14:50.520 --> 02:14:52.600
awesome, thanks you you bet.
I hope that helps. Thanks a

1837
02:14:52.680 --> 02:14:56.880
lot. I appreciate that very much. And you know we're talking about all

1838
02:14:56.880 --> 02:15:01.239
these products and where do you get
products? Well, Ace Hardware. That's

1839
02:15:01.279 --> 02:15:05.319
a good place. And how many
thirty nine Ace Hardware. I bet you

1840
02:15:05.399 --> 02:15:07.960
can tell me that number because you
heard me say it so many times,

1841
02:15:09.680 --> 02:15:13.520
thirty nine Ace Hardware stores throughout the
Houston area. If I talk about a

1842
02:15:13.560 --> 02:15:16.199
fertilizer on guarden line, they carry
it at Ace Hardware. If you need

1843
02:15:16.239 --> 02:15:22.439
an insecticide, of fungicide, a
herbicide for your lawn, any kind of

1844
02:15:22.520 --> 02:15:26.600
lawn care, plant care products,
they've got them at Ace Hardware there.

1845
02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:30.520
It's as simple as that. It's
the one stop shop. And they have

1846
02:15:30.840 --> 02:15:35.600
much much more in Ace Hardware.
And for those of you who never been

1847
02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:37.960
in an ice go check one out. If you don't get a chance before

1848
02:15:39.039 --> 02:15:41.439
next Saturday, come out to Plantation
Ace down there in Richmond. I'm going

1849
02:15:41.479 --> 02:15:45.880
to be there from eleven thirty to
one thirty. We'll show you the store.

1850
02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:48.359
You will see what I'm talking about
when I brag about Ace Hardware all

1851
02:15:48.399 --> 02:15:52.720
the time. It's just a great
place. You know, it's going to

1852
02:15:52.800 --> 02:15:54.520
cool off and you know, I
kind of quit grilling this summer because if

1853
02:15:54.520 --> 02:15:58.600
it's just a hot outside, well, I'm fixing the head back out and

1854
02:15:58.680 --> 02:16:01.279
start the grilling season. That's what
we do during football season, right Well.

1855
02:16:01.399 --> 02:16:07.039
Ace Hardware has every kind of quality
barbecue pit that you can't live without,

1856
02:16:07.119 --> 02:16:11.600
and all the bling that goes with
it, all the other supplies that

1857
02:16:11.720 --> 02:16:16.520
are important and having fun in an
outdoor cookout when friends come over and you

1858
02:16:16.640 --> 02:16:20.239
enjoy that sort of thing. Right, let's head out to Tomball. Now

1859
02:16:20.319 --> 02:16:24.039
we're gonna talk to Amy. Hello, Amy, good morning. I have

1860
02:16:24.199 --> 02:16:30.319
got good morning. I have a
weed in my yard that is kind of

1861
02:16:30.439 --> 02:16:35.079
a vine, kind of a thick
brown vine with green on it, and

1862
02:16:35.280 --> 02:16:37.840
I've just been trying to pull it
out, but I'm losing that battle,

1863
02:16:37.879 --> 02:16:41.319
and I'm wondering what I might use
to get rid of it. A thick

1864
02:16:41.559 --> 02:16:46.840
brown vine with green on it is
he well, I mean it has green

1865
02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:52.559
leaves on it, but it's it's
it's almost I was hoping I could send

1866
02:16:52.600 --> 02:16:56.360
you a picture, but they put
me straight through to you without that.

1867
02:16:56.680 --> 02:17:01.280
Okay, well, let's do this. We've got half an hour left here.

1868
02:17:01.360 --> 02:17:03.639
I'm going to put you on hold. Josh can give you an email,

1869
02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:05.760
send me the picture and if I
can get to it for the end

1870
02:17:05.799 --> 02:17:07.680
of the day. Well, if
not, I'll talk about it tomorrow.

1871
02:17:07.319 --> 02:17:09.520
Okay, good, thank you.
Let's look at a picture. That way

1872
02:17:09.559 --> 02:17:13.799
we won't waste time trying to figure
out what it is. I appreciate the

1873
02:17:13.920 --> 02:17:16.440
call. You're going on hold and
Josh will take care of you. Yeah,

1874
02:17:16.600 --> 02:17:22.959
it's a you know, it's a
challenge to identify weeds and plants,

1875
02:17:22.040 --> 02:17:26.120
and it's important to get them done
at the right time. We control.

1876
02:17:26.959 --> 02:17:31.799
We can simplify it or we can
make it complicated. When we really look

1877
02:17:31.879 --> 02:17:35.399
at all the detail of it,
it's complicated, but we try to simplify

1878
02:17:35.440 --> 02:17:37.680
it down. We got cool season
weeds, we got warm season weeds.

1879
02:17:39.000 --> 02:17:41.559
We got weeds that are annuals.
We got weeds that are perennials. We

1880
02:17:41.719 --> 02:17:46.840
got products that prevent weeds seeds from
getting established, and we've got products to

1881
02:17:46.920 --> 02:17:50.719
kill existing weeds. So if we
get an identity of the weed, I

1882
02:17:50.799 --> 02:17:54.360
know exactly when to tell you to
prevent it, and I know exactly how

1883
02:17:54.440 --> 02:17:58.399
and when to tell you to control
it after it's already up. But remember

1884
02:17:58.520 --> 02:18:01.719
one thing about weed control, and
I stress this and my lawn care schedule,

1885
02:18:01.879 --> 02:18:07.319
which is online at Skip Gardening with
skip dot com. You can find

1886
02:18:07.399 --> 02:18:13.440
it there. The best weed control
is proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing.

1887
02:18:13.680 --> 02:18:18.360
It's just the best weed control.
I've got another schedule coming out that's

1888
02:18:18.360 --> 02:18:22.639
on dealing with pests and diseases and
weeds, and that's what we say on

1889
02:18:22.760 --> 02:18:26.159
there. The best weed control is
a dense, healthy lawn. If not,

1890
02:18:26.440 --> 02:18:30.159
if you got a thin lawn and
sunlight's hitting the soil, you're just

1891
02:18:30.280 --> 02:18:35.479
going to be on a herbicide treadmill, just constantly fighting one weed after another.

1892
02:18:35.360 --> 02:18:39.559
We got some great purbicide products to
do that, but why not do

1893
02:18:39.719 --> 02:18:43.760
everything you can to prevent weeds first
and then pull out the herbicide when you

1894
02:18:43.000 --> 02:18:48.159
have something that the prevention just didn't
work on. We've got those kind of

1895
02:18:48.239 --> 02:18:50.280
products. It's easy, easy to
take care of. We're gonna take a

1896
02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:54.760
little break here in just a moment. I will be back for our last

1897
02:18:54.879 --> 02:18:56.760
half hour to day. If you'd
like to give us a call, our

1898
02:18:56.799 --> 02:19:03.639
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one

1899
02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:07.840
three two one two five eight seven
four, or if it makes it easier

1900
02:19:07.879 --> 02:19:11.319
for you to doll seven one three
two on two kat r H. Doesn't

1901
02:19:11.319 --> 02:19:16.479
get any easier than that. Didn't
get easier than that, doesn't It certainly

1902
02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:22.200
does not. What kind of exciting
NICKI News Network news do we have coming

1903
02:19:22.319 --> 02:19:24.200
up? Well, we're going to
talk about Jimmy Buffett. Were you a

1904
02:19:24.360 --> 02:19:28.200
Jimmy Buffett fa Oh my gosh,
I was, And apparently not everyone was.

1905
02:19:28.559 --> 02:19:31.559
Really no, I didn't. I
thought everyone loved Jimmy Duffett. I

1906
02:19:31.600 --> 02:19:37.200
found out today not everyone did.
Oh okay, well I didn't know that.

1907
02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:39.520
There's a lot of fun. But
we all know the lyrics to those

1908
02:19:39.559 --> 02:19:43.440
songs. Oh my gosh, oh
my gosh, here we go. Yes,

1909
02:19:43.559 --> 02:19:56.200
we do. Absolutely may have to
play another one of those that star

1910
02:19:56.600 --> 02:20:01.280
right little asleep at the wheel there
to carry into us our last half hour.

1911
02:20:01.680 --> 02:20:05.120
First thing I want to do for
I go to calls and everything is

1912
02:20:05.600 --> 02:20:07.920
I had a call about a weed
came in from Amy and Amy thanks for

1913
02:20:09.000 --> 02:20:13.239
the photo. That is Virginia buttonweed. Virginia buttonweed is a common weed here

1914
02:20:13.600 --> 02:20:15.799
for those of you who are wondering
what does that look like, Well,

1915
02:20:15.920 --> 02:20:18.959
it's crawls along the ground through your
Saint Augustine. You know how I always

1916
02:20:20.000 --> 02:20:22.079
say that you create a dense,
healthy lawn to choke out weed problems.

1917
02:20:22.680 --> 02:20:26.200
This is one of the weeds that
a good dense, healthy lawn just doesn't

1918
02:20:26.280 --> 02:20:31.479
choke out. Virginia buttonweed. Those
are the exception, but they're there.

1919
02:20:31.559 --> 02:20:35.760
They got a little white flowers with
four petals, like a little a little

1920
02:20:35.040 --> 02:20:39.120
white cross, tiny white cross in
the ground, or a little X in

1921
02:20:39.159 --> 02:20:43.319
the ground. Virginia buttonweed's tough to
control. It is not easy. I

1922
02:20:43.399 --> 02:20:48.120
would get a product containing are called
celsius, as in fahrenheit and celsius.

1923
02:20:48.879 --> 02:20:52.079
Celsius. You buy a little packet
of it. Look for a little packet.

1924
02:20:52.159 --> 02:20:54.399
You mix it with water, and
you use it. You use up

1925
02:20:54.479 --> 02:20:58.360
what you use when you mix it
up. You don't try to store it

1926
02:20:58.479 --> 02:21:01.840
in the bottle. It's not gonna
work. It's gonna take more than one

1927
02:21:01.879 --> 02:21:07.040
application. Virginia buttonweed is a very
tough weed to control. One shot does

1928
02:21:07.079 --> 02:21:09.719
not get it. Celsius. Use
it early in the morning for the temperatures

1929
02:21:09.760 --> 02:21:15.879
heat up. It is more let's
say, more safe to use in the

1930
02:21:16.040 --> 02:21:20.920
heat of summer than many of our
good broadly weed control products. But Celsius

1931
02:21:20.040 --> 02:21:22.079
is the one I would use for
that reason. On it, there are

1932
02:21:22.079 --> 02:21:24.799
a couple of others you can use
on it, and other seasons you might

1933
02:21:26.000 --> 02:21:31.239
use the fertile lime. Oh gosh, what's for loom called? There's wheat

1934
02:21:31.239 --> 02:21:35.959
free zone, wheat free zone or
bonid we beat or ultra just all those

1935
02:21:37.040 --> 02:21:39.399
kinds of things. When the temperatures
get up about eighty five degrees, they're

1936
02:21:39.399 --> 02:21:43.479
going to damage your Saint Augustine.
And so it's hard to find time when

1937
02:21:43.520 --> 02:21:46.920
it's not above eighty five degrees are
on here this time of the year.

1938
02:21:46.959 --> 02:21:50.040
But gift Celsius to try. I
think you'll find it works pretty well.

1939
02:21:50.600 --> 02:21:52.200
It's gonna have a lot of seeds. Get your lawn as dense as you

1940
02:21:52.319 --> 02:21:58.319
can to prevent the weed seeds of
Virginia buttonweed from coming up as bad.

1941
02:21:58.760 --> 02:22:01.040
But once it's established there in the
lawn, it just crawls along right through

1942
02:22:01.079 --> 02:22:05.280
the grass and it's pretty happy.
Hope that helps Amy and the question that

1943
02:22:05.440 --> 02:22:09.879
you had. Let's head out now
to Baytown and we're going to talk to

1944
02:22:09.959 --> 02:22:13.000
Susan. Hello, Susan, what
weren't you skip? Thanks for taking my

1945
02:22:13.159 --> 02:22:20.440
callet. I have something ferociously eating
my lantana. That's all it's bothering is

1946
02:22:20.520 --> 02:22:26.719
a lantana. What do I spray
it with and make sure it's dried out

1947
02:22:26.760 --> 02:22:31.840
before I spray it. The leaves
are being chewed away on lantana, Yes,

1948
02:22:31.600 --> 02:22:37.319
yes, away, totally eating leaves. I honestly cannot tell you a

1949
02:22:37.399 --> 02:22:39.639
pest I know of that eats lantanna. So that's curious. It's either a

1950
02:22:39.760 --> 02:22:45.479
caterpillar or a beetle or a grasshopper, one of those three. I would

1951
02:22:45.600 --> 02:22:54.680
probably use something containing spinosaid SPI n
O SAD. There's a lot of different

1952
02:22:54.760 --> 02:22:58.319
spinosaid type products out there in Baytown. You've got some good ace hardwares nearby.

1953
02:23:00.000 --> 02:23:03.559
Go into one of those. I
need an insecticide that contains spinosid.

1954
02:23:03.079 --> 02:23:07.040
You spray it on the lantanna.
It soaks into the tissue, so it's

1955
02:23:07.079 --> 02:23:11.520
not systemach moving all through the plant. But it's not just sitting on the

1956
02:23:11.600 --> 02:23:18.040
surface where rain will wash it right
off either and a leaf chewing insect choose

1957
02:23:18.120 --> 02:23:20.319
on a spinosid sprayed leaf. By
the way, spinosaid happens to be an

1958
02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:26.440
organic product. It it gets the
poison and it kills it. It works,

1959
02:23:26.639 --> 02:23:31.719
and so that I would use that. But boy, that's a that's

1960
02:23:31.760 --> 02:23:35.879
interesting because I've not run into my
lantannas being all eaten up before I know

1961
02:23:37.399 --> 02:23:41.079
they're They're usually hardy against everything.
They're tough. They're good and tough.

1962
02:23:41.120 --> 02:23:43.280
But I hope that helps, is
susan? Oh? Should I make sure

1963
02:23:43.360 --> 02:23:48.079
the plant is dried out before I
sprayed on? No, just don't.

1964
02:23:48.200 --> 02:23:50.879
Don't water, don't sprinkle water it
after you spray, you know, give

1965
02:23:50.920 --> 02:23:54.600
it, give it some time,
Wait till the next day if you need

1966
02:23:54.680 --> 02:23:56.440
to water, but give it some
time to sak into the tissues. Yeah,

1967
02:23:56.479 --> 02:24:01.879
I need to water, so yeah, well going water first and then

1968
02:24:01.959 --> 02:24:03.799
spray it. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, Yeah, all right,

1969
02:24:05.079 --> 02:24:09.319
good luck, So thank you so
much. You bet absolutely. Hey,

1970
02:24:09.639 --> 02:24:15.000
we are in the storm season,
right, I mean we're hearing about storms.

1971
02:24:15.079 --> 02:24:18.000
Florida just got one the other day. Affordable Tree Care can come out

1972
02:24:18.159 --> 02:24:22.600
and can take care of your trees
in terms of do you need some pruning,

1973
02:24:22.639 --> 02:24:24.159
do you got some weak limbs,
some dead limbs that need to come

1974
02:24:24.159 --> 02:24:28.319
out of there to get him cleaned
out it hadn't rained in a while.

1975
02:24:28.479 --> 02:24:31.680
They can also come out and do
a deep root watering. They go all

1976
02:24:31.719 --> 02:24:33.280
the way und the tree, stick
a probe in the ground. And give

1977
02:24:33.319 --> 02:24:37.799
a good thorough wedding of the soil
down deep, and that provides that rescue

1978
02:24:39.200 --> 02:24:41.959
that your trees are eating right now. You know, normally we don't have

1979
02:24:41.040 --> 02:24:46.040
to water by deep rooting every time
we water a tree, but right now

1980
02:24:46.600 --> 02:24:50.360
it's hard to get a good soaking
that goes down deep and provides that bank

1981
02:24:50.399 --> 02:24:52.559
account to keep your trees healthy.
Affordable Tree can do that as well.

1982
02:24:52.760 --> 02:24:56.559
They do anything you need for a
tree. Just call Martin Martin an Affordable

1983
02:24:56.639 --> 02:25:01.840
Tree. Either Martin or his wife
Joe will answer. They're the only ones

1984
02:25:01.879 --> 02:25:03.799
that answer the phone. They're at
Affordable Tree. So if you call and

1985
02:25:03.840 --> 02:25:07.079
it's not Martin or Joe, you
call the wrong place with Affordable in the

1986
02:25:07.200 --> 02:25:11.440
name. Affordable Tree. You can
call them at seven one three, six

1987
02:25:11.680 --> 02:25:16.239
nine nine twenty six sixty three.
They don't charge for bids. They'll come

1988
02:25:16.239 --> 02:25:20.200
out, they'll they can do consultations, they can do pest and disease control,

1989
02:25:20.319 --> 02:25:24.639
they can boy. If you're going
to build anything around a tree,

1990
02:25:24.079 --> 02:25:28.319
absolutely have Martin come out first and
do an assessment of the site and tell

1991
02:25:28.399 --> 02:25:33.719
you what needs to be done in
order to avoid serious damage to a tree.

1992
02:25:33.920 --> 02:25:37.520
If someone did root damage because of
construction or dropped a slab over a

1993
02:25:37.559 --> 02:25:41.159
big part of a tree this past
spring. That tree would be in serious

1994
02:25:41.280 --> 02:25:45.399
hurt right now, with the kind
of summer we've been having, have a

1995
02:25:45.479 --> 02:25:48.680
consultation before you do something like that
to your trees. Let's go back out

1996
02:25:48.719 --> 02:25:52.680
to pear Land now and we are
going to talk to Kay. Hello,

1997
02:25:52.840 --> 02:25:56.239
Kay, good morning, Skip,
thank you for taking my call. I

1998
02:25:56.399 --> 02:26:01.959
have question. I'll back of a
lot of and I'll spend several weeks ago

1999
02:26:03.120 --> 02:26:07.399
more into the spring. Into the
spring, I guess. I transplanted some

2000
02:26:07.600 --> 02:26:13.239
volunteer crape myrtles and they were very
small you most of I don't. They

2001
02:26:13.280 --> 02:26:18.479
were various sizes, but not really
very big, not more than like six

2002
02:26:18.600 --> 02:26:22.520
or eight inches tall. Okay.
They were doing fine and they were leafing

2003
02:26:22.639 --> 02:26:28.760
out and then they started turning brown
and the leaves dropped. Now they're all

2004
02:26:28.920 --> 02:26:35.559
just bare stems. However, they
are still flexible, and I'm thinking they're

2005
02:26:35.799 --> 02:26:39.399
maybe not totally gone. And I
keep watering them about every other day,

2006
02:26:41.319 --> 02:26:45.360
give them a good watering. Okay, so what do you think. I

2007
02:26:45.399 --> 02:26:48.360
think they're probably still alive and crapes
will drop the a lot of plant,

2008
02:26:48.360 --> 02:26:52.680
a lot of trees will drop their
leaves as a way of just last chance

2009
02:26:52.799 --> 02:26:58.319
effort at surviving and try keep that's
all moist, so the roots have something

2010
02:26:58.399 --> 02:27:01.000
to take up. Do not for
water. It's not that they need a

2011
02:27:01.079 --> 02:27:05.479
swamp. In fact, a swamp
will kill them. Give them a good

2012
02:27:05.559 --> 02:27:09.840
soaking and keep the soul moist occasionally
with a good soaking, and I think

2013
02:27:09.879 --> 02:27:13.520
they'll be okay, Okay, I
do. I water them until it runs

2014
02:27:13.559 --> 02:27:16.319
out the bottom and then, you
know, and leave him a couple of

2015
02:27:16.360 --> 02:27:20.360
days. There's one that was actually
pretty tall. It was like two feet

2016
02:27:20.440 --> 02:27:24.159
tall or so, and it was
right up next to a wall, okay,

2017
02:27:24.680 --> 02:27:26.879
at the back of a bed,
and I pulled it and I'd dug

2018
02:27:28.000 --> 02:27:31.639
around it and everything. I had
to cut off a good bit of the

2019
02:27:31.799 --> 02:27:35.719
tap root, but it too,
is still flexible. And I thought I'd

2020
02:27:35.760 --> 02:27:39.239
probably have killed it by cutting the
tap root. But well, yeah,

2021
02:27:39.399 --> 02:27:41.280
it's a you know, they got
You did it earlier in the year and

2022
02:27:41.399 --> 02:27:43.920
so they had some time to kind
of get in there before it got really

2023
02:27:45.000 --> 02:27:48.639
brutal. But you've just given them
a good soaking, is the main thing.

2024
02:27:48.799 --> 02:27:52.079
That's the main thing, because containers
dry out so fast. Hey,

2025
02:27:52.159 --> 02:27:54.920
kay, I've got a run for
okay, but I hope half a great

2026
02:27:56.000 --> 02:27:58.840
day you as well. Thank you
very much, our phone number or seven

2027
02:28:00.239 --> 02:28:03.799
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Sharon, You'll be first up

2028
02:28:03.840 --> 02:28:16.319
when we come back. It's past
all care it's five o'clock something. Well,

2029
02:28:16.360 --> 02:28:20.799
it's fifteen til ten here in Texas. But we are listening. We

2030
02:28:20.879 --> 02:28:24.680
are talking with you about all kinds
of things here on garden Line related to

2031
02:28:24.760 --> 02:28:28.479
your garden. And without any further
Ado, let's just run right back out

2032
02:28:28.520 --> 02:28:33.520
there and talk to Sharon in Westchase. Hello, Sharon, Hi, Skip,

2033
02:28:33.639 --> 02:28:37.840
Thanks real quick in this heat,
I want to ask about mowing my

2034
02:28:37.000 --> 02:28:41.200
yard. It's got about a month's
worth of growth on it now, which

2035
02:28:41.239 --> 02:28:46.520
means it's about four or five inches
high, and I've left it. I've

2036
02:28:46.520 --> 02:28:50.879
asked my yard car guy to skip
mowing on purpose in this heat. So

2037
02:28:52.319 --> 02:28:56.239
how long can I go with this
routine? And I just wait until can

2038
02:28:56.280 --> 02:28:58.079
I just let it keep growing?
It's beautiful, it's green. I'm on

2039
02:28:58.159 --> 02:29:03.879
the nitro foss fertilizer schedule, and
it's really healthy. It's the only lawn

2040
02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:11.479
on the block that's not gone yellow
because everybody else our neighborhoods so highly managured.

2041
02:29:11.559 --> 02:29:15.600
They just the yard guy just mows
of every week even though they don't

2042
02:29:15.600 --> 02:29:18.159
need. The grass isn't growing,
he just keeps mowing. Okay, So

2043
02:29:18.440 --> 02:29:22.879
Mom's the only green yard just about. And can I just continue with this

2044
02:29:24.639 --> 02:29:26.760
until it cools off? Yeah,
I mean you can have them mow it.

2045
02:29:26.879 --> 02:29:30.079
Just keep the mower high. You
know, now that you got a

2046
02:29:30.159 --> 02:29:33.239
tall lawn, you don't want to
cut it way way, way way back.

2047
02:29:33.360 --> 02:29:35.719
That's real. Always mows it high. It's the highest level on his

2048
02:29:35.879 --> 02:29:39.719
mower. Okay, so I'm the
highest, uh you know, I'm this

2049
02:29:39.879 --> 02:29:43.440
as high as I can get.
There's a direct relation between the heighth your

2050
02:29:43.520 --> 02:29:46.319
grass and the depth of the roots. That's just how it works. And

2051
02:29:46.440 --> 02:29:52.520
so as you keep it high and
it just it creates a more resilient grass

2052
02:29:52.600 --> 02:29:58.920
plant. And so some people my
mother told me that yea many years ago.

2053
02:29:58.239 --> 02:30:03.520
You know, the hide of the
blade and correlates to the depth of

2054
02:30:03.559 --> 02:30:07.799
the roots. So yeah, yeah, and I've always done that, and

2055
02:30:07.079 --> 02:30:11.079
I'm the one that has tried to
persuade my neighbors, you know. And

2056
02:30:11.280 --> 02:30:16.200
finally we have about a seven yard
mow, you know, I mean he

2057
02:30:16.319 --> 02:30:20.319
comes and he does seven yards on
our block, and everybody's gone to the

2058
02:30:20.399 --> 02:30:24.280
heights because of me. So it's
still in its heat. I mean,

2059
02:30:24.680 --> 02:30:28.120
grass is just dying, right,
it is. It is. It's a

2060
02:30:28.200 --> 02:30:33.520
tough time, but a good soaking
on an infrequent basis is important. Don't

2061
02:30:33.760 --> 02:30:37.600
wet it all the time, and
don't the main thing on mowing. You

2062
02:30:37.680 --> 02:30:43.079
know, mowing regularly creates a very
dense lawn. But if you're gonna let

2063
02:30:43.120 --> 02:30:46.159
it be high, don't. The
worst thing anyone could do is let it

2064
02:30:46.200 --> 02:30:48.719
get high and then mow it down
low. Let it get high. That's

2065
02:30:48.760 --> 02:30:52.040
what I'm asking. Now, how
long can I go with it just letting

2066
02:30:52.079 --> 02:30:56.120
it continue to grow without? Can
I go another few weeks? Well,

2067
02:30:56.239 --> 02:30:58.680
I would do some mowing, because
what happens is at some point that grass

2068
02:30:58.719 --> 02:31:03.280
blade is going to start arching over
and going back downward. You know that

2069
02:31:03.040 --> 02:31:07.200
with whatever foot? Yeah, right
now it blows in the breeze. It's

2070
02:31:07.239 --> 02:31:11.639
so pretty. Okay, well it
sounds like it sounds like you like it

2071
02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:13.440
like it is, So we're gonna
leave it down. I mean, what's

2072
02:31:13.479 --> 02:31:16.840
gonna happen in the next few weeks. I'm just trying to look ahead it's

2073
02:31:16.879 --> 02:31:20.719
somewhere here. We're gonna get some
rain and we're going to enter that cooling

2074
02:31:20.799 --> 02:31:26.440
season usually comes. Should I ask
him to go ahead and mow today?

2075
02:31:28.159 --> 02:31:31.239
Hi, mo hig, go ahead
and mow it high. It's okay,

2076
02:31:31.440 --> 02:31:35.600
mow it high. But when you
start getting rain, Sharon, you want

2077
02:31:35.719 --> 02:31:39.760
to start mowing it a little lower, a little lower, a little lowering,

2078
02:31:39.840 --> 02:31:41.319
until you get it down around the
three en Traine. I don't know

2079
02:31:41.399 --> 02:31:43.959
where you have it right now,
but well, it's the highest that his

2080
02:31:45.079 --> 02:31:48.239
mower will go. And it's it's
yeah, I don't know how high that

2081
02:31:48.440 --> 02:31:52.399
is, but it's just the highest. That's okay to guess high as it'll

2082
02:31:52.440 --> 02:31:56.440
go. That's fine, yeah,
okay. And because once we get into

2083
02:31:56.520 --> 02:31:58.399
fall it cools off and things,
it's okay to take it down a little.

2084
02:31:58.440 --> 02:32:01.639
We just don't want to get it
down like two inches high on Saint

2085
02:32:01.680 --> 02:32:05.920
Augustine. That's too low. Don't
ever go that low, okay, okay,

2086
02:32:07.040 --> 02:32:09.440
So I'll tell him the mode to
day. I hate doing this.

2087
02:32:09.680 --> 02:32:11.520
I love the look at my grass
blowing in the wind. Well, I

2088
02:32:11.600 --> 02:32:13.399
mean, if you want to let
it go, I mean, let it

2089
02:32:13.440 --> 02:32:18.200
go. Just if you're doing you
were mentioning you're fertilizing with nitrofiles and it's

2090
02:32:18.200 --> 02:32:20.479
getting you know, getting some water
out there, I guess. But yeah,

2091
02:32:20.680 --> 02:32:24.920
yeah, just you don't want to
grass. It's you know, being

2092
02:32:24.000 --> 02:32:28.479
pushed to grow and you're not mowing. So you need to keep that in

2093
02:32:28.680 --> 02:32:31.000
check. But whether they mow it
or not today, that's up to you.

2094
02:32:31.920 --> 02:32:39.440
Alrighty okay, all right, thank
you. Okay, you're listening to

2095
02:32:39.559 --> 02:32:46.120
garden line. Hey, if when
I try to when I'm thinking about like

2096
02:32:46.360 --> 02:32:50.000
here in town, where can you
go to get anything you need for your

2097
02:32:50.040 --> 02:32:54.799
garden? I mean anything that is
going to be a place called Southwest Fertilizer

2098
02:32:54.920 --> 02:32:58.799
down on the southwest side of town. They're out there. We're abissing it

2099
02:33:00.040 --> 02:33:03.680
and a Renwick come together. You
can go online Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

2100
02:33:03.760 --> 02:33:09.760
You can find them there. But
I've never seen a selection of herbicides and

2101
02:33:09.840 --> 02:33:15.879
secticides and fungicides anywhere as what Bob
has there at Southwest. Now, if

2102
02:33:15.879 --> 02:33:20.000
you're an organic gardener, they have
more organic products than I've seen in any

2103
02:33:20.040 --> 02:33:24.079
other location, single location. It's
amazing. They've got a long wall of

2104
02:33:24.239 --> 02:33:28.319
tools that you need. Do you
need multch, do you need heard all

2105
02:33:28.360 --> 02:33:31.200
the fertilizer I recommend, and then
some the products that control weeds, the

2106
02:33:31.319 --> 02:33:35.879
products that you use to build your
soil, and molts on top of the

2107
02:33:35.959 --> 02:33:39.120
ground, and all of that that's
there while you're out there. By the

2108
02:33:39.200 --> 02:33:41.920
way, if Bob, if someone
hadn't checked it out, I talked to

2109
02:33:41.959 --> 02:33:45.600
Bob about getting the soul probe.
They will loan it to you to get

2110
02:33:45.680 --> 02:33:48.600
out yet to leave it deposit so
it doesn't sprout legs and walk away,

2111
02:33:50.520 --> 02:33:54.159
but just a deposit. It didn't
charge you to use it. Do a

2112
02:33:54.200 --> 02:33:58.520
soil test on your soil that will
help you fertilize very wisely. Who knows,

2113
02:33:58.600 --> 02:34:01.879
maybe you're phosphorus is high, maybe
it's low, Maybe potassium's high,

2114
02:34:01.920 --> 02:34:05.200
maybe it's low. Find out,
do us all tests. Bob's got the

2115
02:34:05.280 --> 02:34:09.319
probe to make it where you can
do it accurately while you're out there.

2116
02:34:09.319 --> 02:34:15.040
Asked to see that kneeling benches that
they have that I think are just probably

2117
02:34:15.159 --> 02:34:16.680
one of it. If I were
to pick the top five in the last

2118
02:34:16.920 --> 02:34:20.680
five years my top five favorite garden
tools, kneeling benches one of those,

2119
02:34:20.760 --> 02:34:26.000
and Bob's got them out there.
They've been around since nineteen fifty five Southwest

2120
02:34:26.120 --> 02:34:30.760
Fertilizer dot Com. Easy to find
everything you need. It's simple, it's

2121
02:34:30.840 --> 02:34:33.920
one stop and you're done. Let's
go talk to Sheila. Now. Sheila's

2122
02:34:33.959 --> 02:34:37.200
out there on the north side of
town. Hello, Sheila, Hi,

2123
02:34:37.440 --> 02:34:41.920
how are you. I'm well,
thanks, I'll have a calling about my

2124
02:34:43.399 --> 02:34:48.280
single palms and on my patio and
I have three and it's a potty plant.

2125
02:34:50.000 --> 02:34:56.520
And I went on in a fertilize
and watered the plants and they're yellow

2126
02:34:56.639 --> 02:35:00.639
now, the leaves they've still got
a little green in them, but it's

2127
02:35:00.719 --> 02:35:03.280
more yellow. And I thought,
I say, well, why are they

2128
02:35:03.479 --> 02:35:09.360
looking like that when my other elevers
and yeah, other plants look or are

2129
02:35:09.520 --> 02:35:15.000
tolerating the heat. And so I
thought maybe ebs and so. But then

2130
02:35:15.079 --> 02:35:18.079
I don't want to kill it.
So I don't think it's a magnesium deficiency.

2131
02:35:18.559 --> 02:35:22.280
Could it? Could it be that
the pots are standing too wet,

2132
02:35:22.440 --> 02:35:24.799
maybe the drain holes are clogged up, or do you think something like that

2133
02:35:24.879 --> 02:35:30.520
could be happening, or maybe over
water You gotta check. You gotta check

2134
02:35:30.639 --> 02:35:35.120
that because plants do need water in
this heat, absolutely they do. But

2135
02:35:35.280 --> 02:35:39.360
if you if you submerge those Sego's
roots and water, meaning you don't see

2136
02:35:39.399 --> 02:35:43.600
the water because it's underground, but
in the pot. You know, think

2137
02:35:43.639 --> 02:35:48.079
of the pot is a bathtub.
If the bathtub fills up, I know

2138
02:35:48.559 --> 02:35:52.399
what I'm saying. Think of that
pot is a bathtub. If that bathtub

2139
02:35:52.559 --> 02:35:56.200
drain is plugged up, then water
level just starts coming up from the bottom

2140
02:35:56.280 --> 02:36:01.520
and you're not seeing it. It's
underground, but you end up with submerged

2141
02:36:01.639 --> 02:36:05.200
roots, and that could cause the
yellowing. That's one of the main things

2142
02:36:05.280 --> 02:36:07.920
that would cause yellowing. Go a
sago, all right, I would look

2143
02:36:09.000 --> 02:36:11.120
for that. I would look for
that. They continue, how off the

2144
02:36:11.159 --> 02:36:18.040
sha You know, it depends.
It's so varied, Sheila, because some

2145
02:36:18.280 --> 02:36:22.200
soils drain well, some soils whole
moisture well, the size of the pot

2146
02:36:22.319 --> 02:36:24.600
compared to the size of the plant. You got a little bit of pot

2147
02:36:24.680 --> 02:36:28.639
and a big plant, you got
to water it pretty often. If it's

2148
02:36:28.639 --> 02:36:31.399
a big pot, then you don't
waters as often. Take your fingers,

2149
02:36:31.479 --> 02:36:35.639
dig down, little hand trout,
get down there about oh three inches deep

2150
02:36:35.719 --> 02:36:37.879
in the pot, and feel the
soil. That'll tell the answer. On

2151
02:36:39.000 --> 02:36:41.559
the end of our hands, both
of our hands. God gave us to

2152
02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:46.760
soil moisture sensing devices and those are
called fingers. So just get down inter

2153
02:36:46.799 --> 02:36:50.200
in a soil and you will know
for your pots, your soil, your

2154
02:36:50.280 --> 02:36:54.399
plants, all that. You'll know
exactly whether you and don't fertilize anymore for

2155
02:36:54.760 --> 02:36:56.680
a couple of months. It's okay. It's okay to wait now on it

2156
02:36:56.840 --> 02:37:01.360
if you put some down. Here's
another thing I go is it's cold hard

2157
02:37:01.479 --> 02:37:03.600
here. But when we have a
bad winner, it's one of the plants

2158
02:37:03.639 --> 02:37:07.680
that can get hammered, and so
we don't want to push him into fall

2159
02:37:07.799 --> 02:37:11.520
growth. So a lot of nitrogen
going into fall makes them less cold hearty,

2160
02:37:11.879 --> 02:37:16.280
and we would rather avoid that.
So I think you'll be okay with

2161
02:37:16.399 --> 02:37:18.680
where you are. All right,
Thank you, Thank you for being a

2162
02:37:18.799 --> 02:37:24.079
garden line listener and a garden line
caller. We appreciate that. Hey,

2163
02:37:24.639 --> 02:37:28.239
we're putting another show in the books. I'm going to be back around tomorrow

2164
02:37:28.079 --> 02:37:33.280
six am to ten am. We're
going to be doing some more garden line

2165
02:37:33.319 --> 02:37:35.920
then, so feel free to give
us a call. In the meantime,

2166
02:37:35.079 --> 02:37:41.639
go online to skip now Gardening with
Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot

2167
02:37:41.719 --> 02:37:46.680
com. That's where you'll find the
current lawn care schedule, which has very

2168
02:37:46.840 --> 02:37:50.959
recently been updated already, So if
you had no copy you looked at,

2169
02:37:50.040 --> 02:37:52.239
get you a new one. Take
a look at it. We are always

2170
02:37:52.319 --> 02:37:56.920
finding ways to make it easier to
understand, to make sure we didn't leave

2171
02:37:56.920 --> 02:38:00.559
anything out, you know, to
do the little edits and things had come

2172
02:38:00.600 --> 02:38:03.799
along. After I stared at this
for about eight hundred thousand hours, I

2173
02:38:03.360 --> 02:38:07.639
began to just my eyes crossed,
and I wasn't a good at it or

2174
02:38:07.680 --> 02:38:09.840
anymore. It looks good now,
good. Check it out