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Katie r H. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

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services advertised on this program. Welcome
to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip

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Richter's So Crazy Trip. Just watch
him as Black Days the Club back.

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You're not a sad credit. So
good Saturday morning. We are glad you're

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listening. Boy, you're up early
this morning. I'm glad to hear that.

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You know. We're going to cover
a lot of stuff today, lots

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of different things related to your lawn, your garden, and we certainly invite

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you to call in if you got
some questions. Our number is seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four seven one three two one two k

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T r H. Give us a
call. Let's let's talk about the stuff

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you are interested in. I had
some questions this week that came out about

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a shrub and I don't know it's
unusual to have I get this question often,

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but not several times in one week. Uh. And the shrub is

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wax leaf lagustrium. Boy, those
things have been around since I don't know

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what, as long as I can
remember. And they get this leaf spot

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and it causes brown spots on the
leaves, and the spots are typically surrounded

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by a purplish border and then a
yellow halo outside of that. And that

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particular leaf spot is a fungal leaf
spot, caused by fungus spores that land

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on the leaf. The leafs get
wet, the spores sprout, the spots

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appear. That's kind of how that
works, and it's one of the reasons

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I've ceased to be a wax leaf. Lagustrium fan I just uh, it's

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not on every plant that has it, but it's two darn prevalent, and

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once you get it, the spores
are everywhere, and so you end up

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fighting it all the time and managing
it is difficult. You got to pick

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all those leaves off if you can. I know you don't want to pick

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your leaves off your shrub, but
just think of this. Every spot is

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a typhoid mary right there in the
middle of your shrub, ready to reinfect

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the other leaves on the shrub.
So you pick them off, pick up

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the ones off the ground, and
then you gotta spray. And this is

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one that you're going to be spraying
about ever ten to fourteen days, especially

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right after a rain. I have
a little regimen that I will send out

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to people that have this and say
we'll use this and then switch over and

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use that, because we always want
to switch between the fungicides on something like

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this to avoid developing resistance to the
disease can develop resistance to that fungicide.

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But anyway, who wants to get
out and spray that much? Once you

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get it all cleaned up, you
just kind of watch for it and at

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the first sign go ahead and spray
again. But just another reason that I'm

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not a fan of that shrub,
you know. And my goal in my

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garden, and I think for a
lot of you this probably will ring true,

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is I want to plant things that
don't get disease, that don't have

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they're not plagued by some particular insect
or something like that. And that's kind

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of the goal as we as we
plan things. But this waxafagustrum is ubiquitous.

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I don't know that it'll go by
the wayside in the sense that red

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tip fatinia did because of its intimasporium
leaf spot. But it's a pain and

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we have to deal with it.
Hopefully, if you have a wax leaf,

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you haven't seen this disease yet and
it'll stay that way for a while.

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That is what we wish for you. Hey, you're listening to Garden

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Line. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven

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four. Listen. It's time to
get your lawn fertilized. It is time.

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It is also the time when winter
weeds are sprouting. October November.

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They're pop up, little tiny seedlings. Don't even notice them, but boy,

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you'll notice them in spring. Nitrofoss
has a three step program for that.

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It's the Nitrofoss Fall Special. That's
the first one brown bag. It's

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got plenty of that third number potassium
in it, a little bit of nitrogen.

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You need a little, not a
lot, a little bit of nitrogen

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in the fall, and it'll promote
winter hardiness. That's why we have fall

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fertilizers. And it'll also ensure when
it comes out in the spring it is

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strong because all the initial spring growth
is based on the energy that that plant

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stored up in the fall, and
that's why we put a high potassium fertilizer

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on in the fall. Number two, it's got Nitrofros barricade. That's a

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pre emergent weed control so what is
a pre emergent, Well, think of

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the name barricade. You put it
down, you water it in about a

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half inch of water, and it
moves into the surface and forms a barricade

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over the surface of the soil.
So when a weed sprouts or tries to

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sprout, it sets it down right
then and you never end up seeing weed

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problem. That's pre emergent. Once
weeds are up and growing, there's things

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we use as post emergent if you're
going to kill those weeds. But a

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lot of those things, especially as
the weather heats up, are pretty stressful

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for your Saint Augustine lawn, and
so it's it's easier just to have them

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dealt with ahead of time with a
pre emergent like barricade. Third step of

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the Texas three step from nitrofuss is
eagle terf fungicide. Eagle is a systemic

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It soaks in to the plant tissues, plant tissues being your grass plant tissues.

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So when brown patch or which we
also call large patch or even take

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all root rot begins to occur,
begins to infect, that fungicide is there

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to shut it down before it gets
started. When it comes to lawn diseases.

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It is much better to stop them
before they start, or right at

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the very very beginning of when you
see them start, than it is to

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wait. Because the big brown circles, they'll be there until it greens up

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in the spring and because of the
weather warming up. So if you wait

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until you see circles everywhere, those
are your circles all the way up until

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probably March when we begin to see
that green up start to happen. It's

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real simple. You can get Nitropos's
Texas three step and Plans for all seasons

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on two forty nine out in Richmond
and Chanted Gardens where I will be later

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today after the show. You can
get it there, and Lake Hardware in

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Angleton as well. Not hard to
find that product around. If you've ever

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thought about, you know, having
a little tractor on your place, drive

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around, say little, little or
big, drive it around. Enjoy taking

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care of all the work you have, much much easier. There's a deal

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you need to know about. We
call it the Pick Click Go Orange.

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You pick the Kabota tractor you want, it's the L twenty five two.

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That's the workhorse that I would recommend
you give a good hard look at click

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on your package to go with that
tractor at tractor package dot com. Do

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you need a rotary cutter? Do
you need a post total digger? Do

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you want a front end loader or
a box blade? Select your package and

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then go orange with a great finance
plan. Lansdown, Moody and Caboda have

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extended this best deal that I've ever
seen going on. It's buy no money

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down for up to eighty four months, seven years, seven years. That

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is incredible. Now, Lansdown,
that's a Houston company. I mean,

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you know them. They've been around
since nineteen thirty six. They're not a

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big out of town corporation, you
know that's come in here to sell their

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stuff. Now their hometown, through
and through. There's nine Landsdown locations here

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on the Gulf Coast. Not hard
to find one lmtractor dot com. Go

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to lmtractor dot com. You'll see
what I'm talking about. Lansdown Moody and

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drive stop in sometime at one of
the Landsdowns. Hop up on one of

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those L twenty five O two's and
check it out. I think you will

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see what I'm talking about. It
is one sweet ride. We're going to

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take a little break here if you
like to get on the boards. Just

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give Joshua call. It's seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four,

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and we will talk to you when
we come back. Good morning.

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You are listening to garden Line.
It is still dark outside, but that

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doesn't mean we can't talk about gardening. In fact, if you look at

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your window and your neighbors lights are
off in their house, go bang on

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the door. Tell them they're missing
garden Line, and they will rise up

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and call you. But they'll be
so grateful. It may take a while,

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but they'll be grateful for you.
Listen here in Houston our soils,

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the heavy clay soils. In fact, you find this in Houston over toward

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Austin area up in Dallas. These
heavy clay soils, they move around and

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when they get wet wet, they
swell. When they get dry, this

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shrink. And anytime that happens,
you start to see the cracks in the

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bricks on the outside, cracks in
the sheet rock on the inside. And

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that's a problem. If that happens, you definitely need to call fix my

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Slab Foundation Repair. Ty Strickland has
been doing this for a long time,

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twenty three years. He knows what
he is talking about. Now tell him

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your guardenline listener. They'll give you
a free estimate, but they're committed to

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a fair price. They're committed to
being on time. They show up on

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time, and they're committed to fixing
it right. The website fixmyslab dot com,

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the phone number two eight one two
five five forty nine forty nine.

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We are gonna now head out to
Conroe and talk to Cheryl this morning.

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Good morning, Cheryl, Good morning. I was wondering are we supposed to

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I've seen some people do it and
some people don't. Do we cut crate

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myrtles back in the fall, and
if we do, do I cut all

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the little stems that stick out and
just leave the the like the trunks part.

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Yeah. That that style of crepe
myrtle pruning we call crate murder because

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it just really hacks back a beautiful
plant and creates a not very beautiful platform.

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That's one of the beauty's of crepe
myrtles, its forum in the winter

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time, even when it doesn't have
leaves and flowers. I would avoid that.

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I would avoid fall pruning and just
go ahead and do it toward the

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end of winter. You can do
it midwinter, that would be fine too.

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But when you prune, we used
to say don't take off anything bigger

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than a pencil, just to get
people out of the mindset of using a

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saw on everything sticking up above head
high It's better to think of it like

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a highway where you're going down the
highway and you got an exit ramp.

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If you want to prune right above
a side shoot, if you're going to

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try to bring the plant down lower, don't just stub it off so it

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looks like the end of a broomstick. You want to cut it just above

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a side shoot and you can bring
it down that way if you need to.

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The bottom line, though, is
you want to make sure that you

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do it at the mid to end
of winter, and that you don't just

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top it like you see everybody doing
a roundtown. Okay, got it?

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Thank you, I'm sure, I
bet you bet. Thanks for the call,

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Shore, I appreciate that very much. Yeah, crape murder. If

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you go online and do a search
for crate murder, you're probably going to

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get a lot of sites that talk
about why not to do it, and

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how you shouldn't do it, and
on and on like that. The most

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important thing when let me say this, the most important three things. When

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you're buying a crate myrtle. Number
one, how big do you want it

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to be? If it's going to
be over at the corner of your house

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and you only want it to get
up about you know, eight to twelve

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feet or something. They're varieties that
stay that small. Their varieties is only

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get three feet high, and then
their varieties get thirty five feet high.

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And if you're going to try to
keep a thirty five foot genetically potential thirty

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five foot myrtle down to ten feet, well, it's a mess. You

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don't want to do it. Number
Two one, this disease resistant that doesn't

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get powdery milder. You take one
thing out of the mix of the things

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you have to deal with. Like
I was saying early, you're about waxley

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flagustrum. Let's plant stuff that doesn't
get sick, and the crape myrtle that's

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resistant to powdery mildew. That's one
step in that direction. The other thing

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that you want is to pick the
color you like. And almost you know,

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red, reds, pinks are really
common. There's some whites to some

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beautiful white. There's even lavender colors
of crape myrtle, and you can pick

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everything you want. I have a
list of old varieties online. I say

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olvarieties because I did the list probably
ten twelve. No, it's more like

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fifteen years ago. But if you
go online and do a search for skip

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Richter crape myrtle, this will pop
up and it's a chart from three foot

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to thirty five feet all the colors. You'll see pictures of them. It'll

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tell you if it's resistant or not. That chart needs to be updated.

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I can keep up with every plant
that's out there, but anyway, it'll

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give you a start at least in
looking what you are looking for. Cheryl

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being up in a Conro area,
the Ana Plants and Produce. They they

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always have good selections of everything.
I mean, you can get your great

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myrtles there. Ana Plants and Produce. They are on the east side of

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Montgomery, right off of Highway one
toh five you're heading toward Conro. They'll

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be on the left hand side there, and so anyone up around Lake Conroe,

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any of those neighborhoods you know,
like Waterstone, De Lago, Grand

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Harbor, bent Water, Bald and
all of that they're your hometown garden center.

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They carry all the fertilizers we talk
about here on garden Line. If

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you hear me mention, hey it's
time for fall fertilizing, go go to

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Ana. They're going to have that
fertilizer that we recommend seven days a week,

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nine to five. And you know
that's a it's kind of hard to

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find them not open up at Ana
Plants and Produce. They just they do

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such great things for the community too. I'm just seeing they did a low

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class for kids on gardening. They
do those quite often as a matter of

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fact, And right now they are
decorated up for Halloween. Little places you

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can get your picture taken. There
a lot of fun up at Ana Plants

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and Produce well. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. You

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know, the lawn care schedule that
I put together is online on my website.

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The lawn pest disease and weed management
schedule that I put together is also

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online my website. Write this down
Gardening with Skip. That's me simple as

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that. Gardening with Skip dot com. You can find that lawn care schedule

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and the weed, pest and disease
management schedule, and you need to do

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that now because October is a big
month in the lawn. It's huge.

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The most important fertilization you will put
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your lawn. And the reason for
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out of the brutal summer, we
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because we're not trying to make the
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interior nutrient content in that grass so
that it can make carbohydrates very well and

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go into winter healthy as healthy as
we can make it. And that's why

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we have lower nitrogen. We have
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on that schedule. And if you
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to apply it. You'll see all
your options. Do you want something synthetic,

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do you want something's organic? All
the options are there, as well

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as a lot of other good information. Another reason October is important, it's

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when the weed seeds start to germinate
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chick weed and handbit and clover and
all those winter weeds they're going to be

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germinating this month and next month.
Fact, they can germinate in our warm

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winter. They can germinate someday in
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But this is a time if you're
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to do the pre emergent type thing
to prevent them. Now, the third

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thing that the third reason that I
think it's really important, is because this

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is when the big visual lawn disease
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now called large patch, big old
brown circles. You got to hit them

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before they appear. But I'll tell
you this, As you build a healthier

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and healthier lawn over time and it
gets stronger and stronger, you're going to

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find that a lot of disease problems
just aren't there. I have I never

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over fertilized my lawn in terms of
pushing it with too much nitrogen. I

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give it enough to keep it vigorous
and healthy, but not too much.

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I don't water a lot when it's
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down on brown patch a lot.
We have a lot less problems from that.

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the issues that we have on the
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give us a call and talk about
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number is seven one three two one
two k T. Make it real simple,

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seven one three two one two k
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up in the Magnolia area, I
want to tell you who your hometown feed

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story is up there, that whole
region up there. This is Spring Creek

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Feed Center. The Spring Creek Feed
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and Magnolia. It's real close to
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In fact, they have a wide
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about it on garden Line, they
carry it at Spring Creek Feed simple as

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that. Do you need something to
deal with a disease or an insect or

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a weed, They've got that as
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part of the community. You know
local FFA and four H youth. They

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have discounts for them, people in
military, senior citizens, there discounts for

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you. They'll even special order.
If they don't have something, just go

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talk to them. I mean they
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Feed is just it is your hometown
feed center if you live up in that

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area. Magnolia on FM twenty nine
seventy eight, So it's fun to go

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in there. They have so many
different kinds of things that you can choose

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from at Spring Creek feed Today.
As we get toward the end of the

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day, I'll be talking more about
this, but I'm going to be out

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at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond now.
I'll be there for two hours and that'll

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be from eleven thirty to one thirty. We're going to be giving away Medina

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products. Medina Rep's going to be
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telling you more about the products that
they have. We're going to be doing

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some really cool giveaways. I'm talking
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it's a great time to come out
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or if you want to drive across
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week and we had folks driving from
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up and meet and visit and bring
samples. I always like to do that.

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It's kind of your opportunity to get
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You can bring a sample you can
bring a photo you want to diagnosed,

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you want it identified. You can
even say, look, this is my

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landscape now summer did this? What
do I do? What are some ideas,

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what are some plants? We can
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It's really easy. Let's go now
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to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Hello, good morning morning. How can

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we help. We're talking about being
October November being a good time to fertilize

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it. The ninety two down and
I've got some barge brown patches going on.

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I guess it from the big as
a beet that we've had over this

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past summer. Yes, can I
put the Scott's three and one builder down?

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Will that help my yard? Or
will it burn it up? I'm

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not a fan of that one.
I'm just not. I'd have to actually

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look up to see what the third
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nutrients and it's got the weed control. I guess it's some type of the

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disease control. Oftentimes the nutrient levels
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high compared to the second and third
number, that's a spring in summer fertilizer

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fertilizer. Don't do that in the
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first number down close to the third
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would be the idea. Okay,
okay, whate do you recommend for this

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time of year? Right away?
Right now is a good time. Get

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it down, get it watered in. And here's why. As it cools

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off more and more, the plant
becomes less and less active. And you

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want it down now so those nutrients
can do some good and it can build

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the carbohydrates that it needs. All
right, Hey, Mike, I'm gonna

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be you bet Yeah, I'm gonna
have to go to a break, put

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you on hold, and if you
want to come back, we can do

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that. Right now, it is
time for the Nicky News Network, and

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oh my gosh, I want to
hear ten more times about the Astros winning

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last night. All right, you
are listening and the garden Line. We

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are here to talk about gardening,
and I guess listen to a little bit

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of Kansas since they're going to be
in town. If you'd like to give

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us a call, the number is
seven to one three two one two five

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eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Simple

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as simple as that, if you'd
happen to live in Kingwood, you are

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fortunate to have both Kingwood Garden Center
and Warren's Southern Gardens right there at your

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doorstep. That's not you don't have
to go far. I mean, you

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can probably throw a rock and hit
one of those garden centers from wherever you

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live. Out there. They always
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they've they've always a great source of
all the fertilizers we talk about here.

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They're great things like asmite, things
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compost, just some really really good
opportunities. You know. The Kingwood Garden

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Center a gift shop is amazing.
You just got to go in to see

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it. It is really cool.
They of course have all the plants and

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everything else you need, but the
gift shop alone is just worth a trip

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out there. Beautiful and out at
the Warrens. First of all, don't

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write this down. Today October twenty
first, from ten am to eleven am.

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Ten am to eleven they're going to
have a lawn fertilization class out there,

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and Michael Wagner is going to tell
you all about what you need to

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know to get that lawn fertilized in
great shape, so you might want to

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check that one out. I know
that a good supply of fall asters.

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And I was thinking about fall aster
the other day. Someone was asking me

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about the lawn weed, the slender
aster lawn weed that is starting to bloom

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in lawns. By the way,
pull them up before they go to seed.

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It was reminding me of all the
cool fall asters, which reminded me

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of the four seasons in the landscape. And in spring, eBay, spring

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fever, and seems like everything in
the world is out blooming and beautiful and

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whatnot. Then summer comes and a
lot of the whimps fry and die in

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the landscape, and we have to
put in some good tough summer flowers,

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summer color plants. But oftentimes we
forget about the fall, and in fall

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we have asters. In the herb
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which is beautiful yellow flowers. And
by the way, it didn't have to

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be in an herb garden as a
beautiful yellow flowering plant. The salvia let's

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see, the pineapple sage. I
can't even say the species name of it.

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Anyway, pineapple sage has big or
long, tubular red blooms that hummingbirds

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love. They when you see tubular
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plant. But there are a lot
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fall. They're just right now.
We've got some low growing and taller plants

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that are attracting in a lot of
the butterflies that are getting ready for their

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migration, if not started already.
And so think about fall and you plan

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your landscape, think about the four
seasons, and then think about winter.

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You know, imagine picturing your landscape
and all your evergreens are on the left

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side and everything deciduous is on the
right side. What is that going to

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look like in winter? You know, it's not balanced. So when you're

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planning these things, think about all
four seasons. And summer is a little

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more challenging than spring, and fall
is a little more challenging. But we

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have options and we should take advantage
of them as well as in the winter

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season. You can have a beautiful
landscape year round just by planning it out.

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And you know, one of the
cool things about our mom and pop

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garden centers, I was just talking
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North, South, East, West, and Central. In the Greater

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Houston area, you have got excellent
mom and pop garden centers and they have

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staff that know what they're talking about. They don't just hire someone that doesn't

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know anything and not train them like
certain big national chains will do. But

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when you've got someone like that,
you can walk up and say, what's

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a good fall what are some good
fall blooming plants, and let them talk

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to you about them and how you
would use them. And that is worth

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the price of admission right there.
I mean, that is so valuable because

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your landscape adds a lot of value
to your home and you want to take

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care of it, and you want
to take care of your lawn too.

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And you know, one of the
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remember, October is the most important
lawn month of the year. There are

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other very important lawn months, but
October is it. And then Microlife has

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a combo package that is an excellent
organic option for dealing with your lawn or

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in enhancing your lawn in the fall. First of all, is a Microlife

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brown patch that is a five to
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It does provide that potassium a little
bit of nitrogen as well for your

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lawn to help it get stronger in
the fall. It also has a lot

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of microbial content, and microbes rule
the world, and microbes protect our plants,

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and we need to do that.
That's why I add to the microlife

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brown patch five to one three,
the orange bag. That's why I add

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the violet colored bag. Then that's
microbe grow bioinoculant. Now it's not like

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a fertilizer that you're putting out for
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chock full of all kinds of good
guy microbes that when you put them out

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there, you're inoculating your soil and
your lawn. And as those splash around

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and get on the plant and diseases
begin to show up, you have another

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layer of help and protection there.
But the most important thing it does when

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you use microlife fertilizers year in and
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It's got microlife through the year on
it. Then you just build a stronger

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and stronger lawn and you're going to
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A lot of the disease issues we
deal with will be minimized or maybe

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eliminated altogether because your long grass is
as healthy as it can be, because

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your soil is as healthy as it
can be. That is exactly what they're

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all about at Microlife. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

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Give us a call. We'll talk
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I don't talk about vegetable gardening a
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should a little bit more. Uh. There are a few of you out

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there that have vegetable gardens, like
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few. Uh. Not everybody has
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know. You you may not be
able to just plow up the backyard and

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put in a big vegetable garden,
although I think that sounds like a lot

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of fun to have a vegetable garden
that size. But maybe you're gardening and

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raised beds, uh, And you
can drop any kind of a raised bed,

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quality soil mix in to a bed
and you can grow anything you want

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to grow. I mean, it
makes it so easy to do You can

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also garden in containers, so think
about it this winter. Get a container

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at least five gallons in size would
be my preference. You can grow small

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statued vegetables like lettuce and spinach,
and it's much smaller than a five gallon

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container. But I think it's beautiful
to have a larger one because that way

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you can put a combo of vegetables
in it and grow a lot of different

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things. So, for example,
I garden in wheelbarrows. Also imagine a

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wheelbarrow with holes drilled in the bottom, and you fill it full of a

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quality mix and then you plant in
that a wide variety of vegetables. And

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I've had broccoli. I've had in
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What else did happen that wheelbarrow?
Okal a lot of different things and

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it was just beautiful. And you
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is. You can go into the
garage with it when it's going to get

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bitter, bitter cold. I mean, it's a great idea something to try.

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Hey, we're gonna take a break. Our phone number seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four
are ktrh I'll be right back. Well,

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good Saturday morning, on a beautiful
Saturday morning, and it's gonna be

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a good day for gardening. It
just is. It's gonna warm up a

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little bit, a little warmer than
we might prefer it to be, but

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I'll tell you, it can be
ninety eight degrees and I feel like I'm

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in an air conditioned room compared to
what we went through this summer. Boy,

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that was that was amazing. These
warm days of they're good because they're

408
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delaying a little bit, are sprouting
of winter weeds. That's a good thing.

409
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Uh, they are making our plants
grow. You get good plant growth,

410
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you know, our cool season vegetables
like broccolian, what not, all

411
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that stuff. They don't want thirty
degree temperatures. I mean, they they

412
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grow best when a lot of the
day is spent in the seventies, and

413
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:57.680
even the low eighties is fine with
them. They do really well. So

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we're just taking a advantage of it
and hopefully doing a little catching up and

415
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having a little more time for our
lawns to pick up those nutrients and get

416
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ready to go. I was talking
about gardening while ago, vegetable gardening and

417
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how you can do it in containers, and I grow in wheelbarrows. That's

418
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a good example. Just remember though
that in a container you need top quality

419
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soil, absolutely top quality soil,
so that it drains well, but yet

420
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it also holds moisture and nutrients.
And you want a soil that has been

421
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produced in the right way, and
Nature's Way Resources does that. You know.

422
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Up at Nature's Way, they've been
producing the premium soils for a long

423
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long time. They were the inventor
of many of the great soils that we

424
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have here. And John and Ian
now are just continuing to do the same

425
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.200
exact thing. You can buy them
by the bag, and they've got some

426
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:53.400
good mixes that do well in containers. They also have bulk if you want

427
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to have maybe you want to put
in that garden bed box that you're just

428
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going to throw a bunch of quality
stuff in there so that when it comes

429
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to growing, you are well on
your way to success. The soil is

430
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the most important thing we do,
and it's the first thing we do when

431
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we want to grow anything. You
can give Nature's Way. I call it

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nine three six thirty three twenty one
sixty nine ninety nine three six three twenty

433
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one sixty nine ninety and they also
while you're out there, if you do

434
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:27.039
drive out there, they're up North
Highway forty five just south of Conro where

435
00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:30.519
fourteen eighty eight comes in. Turn
right and you get to Nature's Way.

436
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.319
You can stop in, you can
pick up bagged, you can order bulk,

437
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:37.039
you can pick up bulk. If
you've got a trailer or truck you

438
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.039
want to do that, you can
absolutely do that. But when you're there,

439
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.759
make sure and leave room in your
vehicle for some of their quality plants.

440
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.440
They've got a really nice growing nursery. Lots of good native plants too,

441
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:56.200
by the way, very very good. So let's see if you'd like

442
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:59.839
to give us a call this morning
seven one three two one two five A.

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I'm going to go to the calls
now and we're going to talk to

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Wayne and friends with Hello, Wayne, Yes, good morning, good morning.

445
00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:14.440
I have a problem with those called
bond wheat b I N d W

446
00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:21.279
E. Ed's purple flowers with the
hot shape of leaves, and it's had

447
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.359
to get rid of them. So
what's the best way to get rid of

448
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.880
them? Some people say that if
youse are roun up to touch their leafs,

449
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.359
the painted and there, and they
were poising them down to the root.

450
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:39.039
Is that true? Yeah? The
the uh in the roundup will will

451
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:43.759
kill and it'll go. It'll take
it. It's time going all the way

452
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:46.279
down in there, but it'll do
a good job of it. Bindweed has

453
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.200
some underground storage abilities and because of
that, it's it's a little bit difficult

454
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:54.240
to get rid of. Where's it
growing? What is it in your lawn?

455
00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:59.440
Is it's all round in it?
I did you know? Okay,

456
00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:06.400
it's really Yeah. So when when
it's around desirable plants, if you spray

457
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.759
round up or any glyphosate product,
you're going to kill the plants too when

458
00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:15.279
it gets on them. What I
would recommend you do is get a product

459
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:22.599
that contains Trichlo peer t R I
c l O P y R and I

460
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:25.000
would and this is gonna be some
hands and knees stuff, but you'd get

461
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:30.319
that product and get a little little
small foam paint brush, just a little

462
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.200
one of those little foam brushes,
dip it in the triclo peer and paint

463
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.559
it on the bottom of the vines
where they come out of the ground.

464
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:39.200
Because it's going to come out of
the ground that it's going to go all

465
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:43.160
directions and you don't need to sprail
that. Just paint it on the base

466
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:45.039
there along that bind weed. And
when I say paint, you know,

467
00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:49.240
just dab it on. Don't get
it on good things you like. But

468
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.799
it's easy not to with a little
paint brush like that, and you can

469
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.759
kill it. It'll go back.
Now, if it's a big, strong

470
00:33:54.880 --> 00:34:00.480
plant, it may take a second
application, but you know it'll do it

471
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:06.400
very well. Okay, can you
spell the sicize again? T T R

472
00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:14.559
I C C l O P y
R try club here. That's good for

473
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.679
any kind of a brush or tough
vine or things like that does a good

474
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:22.480
job. Okay, all right,
I really appreciate it. Good luck with

475
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:28.719
that. I appreciate your call very
much. Oh boy, Yeah, this

476
00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:32.000
morning we're having a lot of fun
talking about gardening things. Get to talk

477
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:37.400
about some of the different aspects of
gardening that I think sometimes we just don't

478
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.400
spend enough time on. You know. Ace Hardware stores are all over the

479
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.920
Greater Houston area, thirty nine of
them. So if you want to go

480
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:50.079
one place and get everything you need
for your lawn and garden, Ace Hardware

481
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.800
is it. Do you need past
control we need control disease control. Do

482
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:58.800
you need fertilizers? Every fertilizer we
recommend on guard Line is at Ace Hardware.

483
00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:01.920
You can go to Ace Hardware,
find the store locator, and you

484
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:06.360
get a little map of the stores
near you, and it just makes it

485
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:09.920
easy to find your local Ace Hardware. I'm always amazed when I go in

486
00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:15.159
at the amount and selection of products
to make your lawn and garden beautiful that

487
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.840
they carry their at Ace Hardware.
And with thirty nine stores, I mean,

488
00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:25.280
how convenient can you get. I'm
going to take a little break here

489
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:28.719
in a minute for the top of
the Hour news, but I did want

490
00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:31.159
to mention this is place I haven't
talked about a lot, but the Antique

491
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:35.480
Rose Imporium. I don't know if
you've been there before or not, but

492
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.039
it is an absolute wonderland. It's
a little bit of a drive out just

493
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:43.440
north of Brenham, but people come
from all over the state. In fact,

494
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:46.559
people come from out of state to
go to this place because they are

495
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:53.519
loaded with roses. Over two thousand
roses available out there. They have antique

496
00:35:53.559 --> 00:36:00.079
roses, they have roses that just
over time have proven themselves resistant to problem

497
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:02.719
like roses can get. They have
a great gift shop too, By the

498
00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.239
way, but do you need perennials
or annuals? Do you need native plants,

499
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.199
vegetable starts, herbs. Don't let
the name roses fool you. They

500
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:15.800
go way beyond roses and so so
very much more. Now on November third

501
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:20.679
through fifth, put it on your
calendar Fall Festival of Roses. It's going

502
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:24.599
to be a really big deal.
Lots of speakers. Go to Antique Roseemporium

503
00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:30.360
dot com. Antique Roseemporium dot com
find out a lot more about the Rose

504
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:35.000
Imporium at about this event. You
can also give them a call at ninety

505
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.960
seven nine eight three six fifty five
forty eight nine seven nine eight three six

506
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:45.760
fifty five forty eight. You just
have to go to the place and see

507
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:49.400
it. I mean it is.
It is really super cool, the buildings

508
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.199
and the display gardens and stuff they
have. I just have a good time

509
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:57.760
every time I go there, and
I fillip my memory card on my camera

510
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:05.719
with photos because there is so many
beautiful things out at Antique Rose Emporium.

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Well, you are listening to Garden
Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

512
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:12.320
and if you would like to give
Joshua call and get on the boards.

513
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.199
When we come back from break,
you'll be the first up seven one

514
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:21.079
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four or make it simple seven one three

515
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:25.920
two one two kt RH seven one
three two one two kt R eight.

516
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:30.840
Now after the show today, I'm
going to be at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond.

517
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:36.320
So if you're down in Richmond,
UH and you're heading up north KT

518
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:39.960
direction, that's Enchanted Gardens. I'll
be there for two hours. We're going

519
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:45.039
to be from eleven thirty to one
thirty answering your gardening questions, looking at

520
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:51.519
plants that need identification or diagnostics or
anything like that. If if you're bringing

521
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:53.159
a plant sample in, put it
in a little plastic bags, seal it

522
00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:58.320
up before you bring it in.
Medina is going to be out there giving

523
00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:02.400
away their products as well. And
we've got a wide range of Medina products

524
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:07.079
that are going to be given away
today, and I'll talk more about some

525
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:10.920
specifics later, but well, the
hash to Grow that I talk about all

526
00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:16.079
the time is a transplant product that
absolutely it's gonna be one of the things

527
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:21.239
we give away out at the Enchanted
Gardens today. I hope you can come

528
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:24.519
out and join us. It's going
to be a beautiful day. And they

529
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:30.280
are so loaded up with all kinds
of products and plants and everything and enchanted.

530
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:32.400
Make sure there's plenty of room in
the trunk or back of the pickup

531
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:39.199
because you're gonna need it. We'll
be right back. Kt r H Garden

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00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:45.039
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

533
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:59.400
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line
with Scared Richard. It's just watching

534
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:20.960
was taken sad Well. Good Saturday
morning. We are glad you're listening today.

535
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.280
We're going to talk about a lot
of gardening topics as we go through

536
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:27.280
the day. If you'd like to
give us a call, our phone number

537
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:31.920
is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two

538
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:37.880
one two five eight seven four and
we're going to start off this hour with

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00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:44.760
Doris and Conro. Hello Doris,
Hi, good morning, schedule. Are

540
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:52.320
you I'm well? Thank you?
I am calling. I just moved into

541
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:59.639
a new house and they the sawd
was put in in September. It just

542
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:05.039
it was perfect timing because they laid
it and then within two days we've got

543
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:09.920
a really good rain good so that
was a really good start. So I

544
00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:15.280
was wondering what it is that I
can do to give it the very best

545
00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:20.119
base so that I can have this
beautiful green grass that I want. All

546
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:22.920
right, Well, right now,
Doris, you want to get a fall

547
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:30.440
fertilizer on it. A fall fertilizer
application will help that grass get ready for

548
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:32.320
winter. It's not a lot of
nitrogen. You don't want to make the

549
00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:36.719
lawn grow fast right now. You
don't want to do that, and it

550
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:40.800
just causes disease issues at this time
of the year. But fall fertilizer and

551
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:44.840
you get it down as soon as
you can, because we want to give

552
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:47.679
it as many days as we can
before the grass just really slows down a

553
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:53.320
whole lot for winter. And then
that fertilization you're going to put on in

554
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:59.119
the next week or hopefully within the
next week, is going to make it

555
00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:04.920
come out better in the spring.
The spring growth is based on how strong

556
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:09.880
it goes into fall into winter.
Perfect. Okay, what product do you

557
00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:15.119
recommend? We have a I have
on my lawn Care Guide, which is

558
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.920
online. If you have a pin
or pencil handy, it's gardening with Skip

559
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:25.360
Dot com gardening with on there.
If you have it, you know,

560
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:30.719
do you have a preference organic or
synthetic? And it has a list of

561
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:36.159
what I consider the quality organic fertilizer
share in the Greater Houston Areio. It

562
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:40.239
tells you when to apply them.
Okay, I'm going to go. I

563
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:45.960
have another question for you. I
have in the front. I have a

564
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:52.960
five It's about a five foot square
flower bed right smack, dad, That's

565
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.639
that's my flower bed right in front
of the house. I would love to

566
00:41:55.840 --> 00:42:02.760
plant like some sort of a dwarf
tree or something. It's just a perfect

567
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:08.360
place for a small tree. But
I don't know how realistic that is well,

568
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.519
being right next to the house.
Yeah, I five foot is a

569
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.159
little small for even the smallest of
trees. There are some larger shrubs that

570
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:20.320
would do well. You can take
what would normally be a shrub and we

571
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:23.840
say limit up. You cut off
all the limbs all the way up to

572
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:28.559
a certain height and then it begins
and you sort of create a mini tree

573
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:34.280
that way. So that would be
another option. Try that. Okay.

574
00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.400
Could you just maybe recommend a couple
of things. How much would how much

575
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:44.599
sunlight? How much sunlight it's going
to be and it's going to get morning

576
00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:50.519
sun. Okay, it's not going
to get heavy afternoon sun. The Chinese

577
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:54.679
witch Hazel Laura Pedlum is the name. It has burgundy colored foliage, especially

578
00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:59.480
a little cooler weather. Now,
some of those get here huge for a

579
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:02.679
shrub. I've seen those things up, you know, fifteen twenty feet high

580
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:07.119
almost. But you can do the
trimming, and there's more compact varieties.

581
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.079
So when you go find one,
look at what it says its mature height

582
00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:15.599
that is going to be, and
then you can make a decision as to

583
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:17.320
whether that one would work. That
would probably be one. It can put

584
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.440
up with quite a bit of shade
as long as it's pretty bright, and

585
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.519
that I think I would. I
would probably try that. Just as far

586
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:31.400
as what comes to mind off the
coffere, good, perfect. We'll look

587
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.360
at that and then go to the
website. So I appreciate your recommendation.

588
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.519
Thank you. I appreciate that very
much. All Right, I have a

589
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:45.679
good day you as well. Let's
head out to Ron in Cleveland. Hello

590
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:51.599
Ron, good morning morning. Oh
that lady would love Laura pedulum mine right

591
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:54.639
now? Are really they're two years
old. They're doing real good, real,

592
00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:59.960
colorful, good good to hear.
What I got is I did a

593
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:04.360
you know, two years ago,
a kill till fill in seed on Randy's

594
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:09.400
recommendation. I've also put in a
couple drumming red maples off of Randy's recommendation

595
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:14.639
three years ago and earlier this year. I went out and I got my

596
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:16.639
two weeks ago. Rather, I'm
sorry, two weeks ago. I went

597
00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:23.840
out and got my uh Texas three
step yes night barricade foss fund to side

598
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:30.559
and I use ena or what was
it six to four by microlife. Okay,

599
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:36.360
now my trees, the leaves on
these trees are three years old.

600
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:42.760
Have they're kind of turning almost almost
like they're drying out like that. But

601
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.480
they've made it through the drought pretty
good this year. And I'm not sure

602
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:49.639
is there something I can put in
the soil mixed with the water and just

603
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:54.480
pour around those root balls. Well
you could do that. We don't want

604
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:58.920
to push it with a lot of
growth right now. Those trees are probably

605
00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:04.480
just worn out heading to dormancy at
this point in time. Okay, but

606
00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:07.880
uh, there's a Medina product called
has to Grow. It's a six twelve

607
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.880
six and I use it for everything
I transplant. But there's no reason you

608
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.920
couldn't use it later as well.
That six twelve six got a little lower

609
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.039
nitrogen level in it, good phosphors. Yeah, you might want to try

610
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.960
something like that, but I tell
you to be honest, you've put down

611
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.480
a lot of good stuff, and
so I think I would just hold.

612
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.119
I don't think it's a nutrient issue
that you're seeing. Okay. I was

613
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:34.039
thinking that they made it, they
made it through the drought, and then

614
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.280
I thought, well, maybe it's
this stuff I put down in the combination,

615
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:40.000
but I kind of I put it
down a little bit lighter. Yeah,

616
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:44.519
and I kind of kept that away
from trees except for the microlife.

617
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:46.639
Yeah, yeah, you know,
because that's stuff that's good for everything.

618
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:51.840
You bet it is, absolutely yeah, okay, And I did pick up

619
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:55.159
at ace up in Cleveland. Well
good, all right, Well, Ron

620
00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:59.440
sounds like you're doing it. You're
doing everything right. So I would just

621
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:01.280
you know, let's get them into
winter and out of winter and then talk

622
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:06.719
about fertilizing again in the spring.
Wonderful, Okay, I appreciate it,

623
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.360
Thank you, sir. I appreciate
your call very much. Yeah, that

624
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:15.480
Medina six twelve six is just an
absolutely excellent product. I use it for

625
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:19.960
transplants. And when I say transplants, I mean a broccoli transplant. You're

626
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:22.639
putting in a new perennial herb,
you're putting in a rose bush, putting

627
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:28.199
in a tree. It just perennials
everything. It is an excellent product.

628
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:32.079
I'm going to be giving away some
today when I'm at Enchanted Gardens after the

629
00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:37.079
show. But it's it's just a
really quality product and I think you'll find

630
00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.920
that it works. Well. Well, we've already had time for a break,

631
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.719
so we're going to do that and
I'll be right back the phone number

632
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:49.239
seven one three two one two KTRH. Well, good morning. You are

633
00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:52.840
listening to Gardenline and we're going to
head straight out to Columbia and talk to

634
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:59.320
Brian. Brian, good morning,
Yeah, good morning. My wife is

635
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:05.239
put our tomato plants at potting soil
a couple of times at pods, and

636
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:10.519
I think I keep telling her,
I believe it should be garden soil Dalton.

637
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.760
They just haven't done real well in
that poduct soil. Well, yeah,

638
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.679
you know, there's a lot of
different kind of potting soil is one

639
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:23.239
word that describes about eight hundred different
products and they're not all equal, that

640
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:28.719
is for sure. I would look
there. There is a really good potting

641
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.840
mix at Airloom Soils Makes, and
it's going to be at Ace Hardware stores

642
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:37.559
near you. Out there in Columbia
and the uh The they do one for

643
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:42.679
indoors and they do one for outdoors
too. It's called the Works, and

644
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.119
I would try that one. I
think that you will find that it does

645
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:50.000
it probably is going to be superior
compared to what you've been using in the

646
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:53.800
past. All Right, I appreciate
it very much. All Right, Brian,

647
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:58.239
thank you for the call. I
appreciate that very much. Hey,

648
00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:01.159
if you are done in the Richmond
air and you haven't been out to Enchanted

649
00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:07.639
Forest, you need to go the
folks and Enchanted Forest are it's They've created

650
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:13.079
an enchanting place, really. I
mean, it is just beautiful out there.

651
00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:15.719
There's always something going on at it. Enchanted forests. They stay busy,

652
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:20.960
and boy are they ever stocked up
on all kinds of fall vegetables and

653
00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:24.760
flowers and trees and shrubs. You
on a native plant, they've got those

654
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:30.239
out there. They Danny and clay. It's always a pleasure to go out

655
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:34.320
and visit with them, just watching
them in action, working with customers,

656
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:37.880
helping people, taking them around,
taking the time to explain things and help

657
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.280
them have success. Now, if
you're in Richmond and you're heading towards sugar

658
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:45.599
Land, it's off to the right. It's on FM twenty seven fifty nine

659
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.800
en Chanted Forest, and you need
to check them out for sure. We're

660
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:53.800
going to head back to the phones
now and I'm going to head to Grimes

661
00:48:53.800 --> 00:49:00.440
County and talk to Fraser. Hello, Fraser Hadi Hodi. I have a

662
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.400
live oak tree that I put in
the ground two years ago. It was

663
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:09.800
a thirty gallon. It's got a
trunk that's probably three and a half inches

664
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:15.400
diameter. It's about the tree itself's
about twenty feet tall. And it went

665
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:20.960
from live to brown to dead.
I thought a matter of minutes. It

666
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:27.079
seemed about about two months ago.
And I just noticed this week that it's

667
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.480
got spr It has sprouts coming out, live shoots coming out about three and

668
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:36.599
a half feet to four feet up
the trunk. Okay, should I just

669
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.440
save that off? And yeah,
I picked let to do it. Stay.

670
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:43.079
Yeah kind of Just if I were
you, I would leave it for

671
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.800
now, and here's why it has
very little foliage. And live oaks are

672
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:50.760
going to have foliage through the winter
that are going to capture sunlight, make

673
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:53.599
carbohydrates and strengthen the plant. I
would leave it, and then as we

674
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:58.199
get toward the underwinter, I would
pick one to become the new trunk and

675
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:01.719
cut it off just above that plant, above that shoot. And as that

676
00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:05.760
grows in time, you're going to
hardly know that it was a little side

677
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.239
shoot. I mean, the trunk
will looks straighter and straighter the older it

678
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:14.519
gets. Okay, what about the
part that at the top that kind of

679
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:19.559
looks dead, cut that back at
that point. I would if you want

680
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.719
to bend the twigs and see if
their supple still, or scrape them with

681
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:27.920
your fingernails, see if they're kind
of a creamy color, greenish creamy color

682
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:30.639
underneath and you see life in them, then just leave it and let's wait

683
00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:34.679
and see. But it's probably not
going to do a lot of growing until

684
00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.559
we get into warmer weather in the
spring. Okay, So pretty much we'll

685
00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:40.239
leave it along till the spring and
kind of go from there. That's what

686
00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:44.440
I would suggest. Yeah, I
think, so, Okay, have fun

687
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:45.920
out there. And why, hey, do you ever go to Grimes County?

688
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:50.679
Feed out there in Grimes County?
Yeah, not a great place.

689
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.360
And they carry the fertilizers. Grab
them of their fertilizers. I recommend and

690
00:50:55.440 --> 00:51:01.800
in spring put two cups per inch
of trunk diameter going across the trunk.

691
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:07.239
Two cups around that tree in a
big circle, evenly spread and watered and

692
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.280
really good. I think that'll help. All right, we'll do that,

693
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:12.960
all right, Thank you very much. Have a good day, you two.

694
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:15.440
Thank you. I appreciate that.
You know. Nitrofoss is three step

695
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:21.199
program. You've heard Collar mentioned it
just a little bit ago. It's three

696
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:23.960
things. It's a fall fertilizer,
it's a weed prevention, and it's a

697
00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:29.880
fungicide that prevents diseases of the turf. So the Nitrofoss Fall Special, that's

698
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:36.400
the fertilizer, and it is designed
for our soils, our situation here in

699
00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:39.719
the Gulf Coast, a Greater Houston
area, golf coast. It does really

700
00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:43.760
well, and it's going to make
your lawns stronger going into spring. But

701
00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:46.320
don't delay. The lawn's going to
be slowing down when we finally get some

702
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:51.440
really colder weather coming, so let's
get that fertilizer down so that it has

703
00:51:51.559 --> 00:51:54.679
as much time as possible to take
in the nutrients, make carbohydrates and get

704
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:59.519
strong for the winner and coming out
in the spring. Barricade is the pre

705
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:02.039
emergent. It controls broad leaf and
grassy weeds. But again you want to

706
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:06.000
get it down before the weed sprout, and that's going to be going on

707
00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:08.360
here in the next two or three
months, so go ahead and get it

708
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:13.199
down, watered in with a half
inch of rain. Third step Eagle turf

709
00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:17.519
fungicide. Now that particular product is
systemic. It moves into the plant and

710
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.079
it protects. So when conditions are
right for brown patch to make the big

711
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:27.320
circles, you've already got the fungicide
in place. That's very important. Now

712
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.079
where do you buy nitrophos products,
Well, you can go to Bearings Hardware

713
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:34.960
on bus net, you can go
to all Spas Hardware up It's ace up

714
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:37.880
in the woodlands, or you can
go out to Brunham to plants and things

715
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:43.639
and as well as many other places. Let's go out to Michael in sugar

716
00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:49.559
Land. Hello, Michael, good
morning. Skip one quick question before I

717
00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:52.719
really get into what I was gonna
call what was that the third product you

718
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:58.320
recommended for the three step The third
product in order I give them is the

719
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:05.320
fungicide. It's a systemic It soaks
into the tissues and very important to get

720
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:08.920
it down ahead of the disease for
best results. In the main you mentioned

721
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:16.519
what was that nitrophos nitrophoss eagle like
the bird nitrophos egle turf find your size.

722
00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:20.039
Yeah, okay, I'm on the
schedule. I've been following down.

723
00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:23.559
But I have a couple of questions. Okay, the recent dry spell that

724
00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:29.960
we had. My house is north
frontyard, north backyard, southern exposure.

725
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:34.239
My grass in the front and on
the east side is great. I mean,

726
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:37.880
everything's green, the schedules working fine. But in the back I took

727
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:40.519
a huge hit in some areas.
I mean the grass might completely brown.

728
00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:46.760
But recently, what I've started to
see is small patches of grass coming back.

729
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:52.119
Okay, unfortunately, I'm getting ready
to put down the falls stuff.

730
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:57.280
But should I should I over should
I add something to the mixture because of

731
00:53:57.280 --> 00:53:59.760
that grass is coming back, or
should I just leave it alone, let

732
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:02.280
it do what it's doing, leave
alone. Put that fall fertilizer down so

733
00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:06.960
the grass that you do have is
as strong as possible. That way,

734
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:09.039
when it warms up next spring,
it hits the ground running and we get

735
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:15.519
it refilled back in as fast as
possible. Great second question White keeps me

736
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:21.840
at the garden line starts. I
recently focused an African violet. Okay,

737
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:29.039
yes, I also bought a big
pot of nit and I got another question

738
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:30.920
about that. But what can I
put on that African violet? All right,

739
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:34.599
well, let's do African violet.
And then met real quickly because I

740
00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:38.559
want to get to some other folks
the African violet. They make African violet

741
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:42.800
foods, and when you go to
a garden center and just say I need

742
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:46.079
something that will work for African violet, it probably will say African violet on

743
00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:49.639
the name, but doesn't have to. They can put you put the right

744
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:52.960
product in hand as long as you
go to a quality nursery that knows what

745
00:54:52.000 --> 00:55:00.159
they're talking about, and you Africa
violets are best watered with a bottom watering

746
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:02.760
system. There's little trays that hole
water. They have a wick coming out

747
00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:07.079
of the plant and it wicks up
water and that prevents a lot of the

748
00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:10.960
rot diseases. That can occur on
the stem and around the leaves on the

749
00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:17.000
African violet, that's my suggestion.
Great and on the mid Should I put

750
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:21.199
it in the ground or should I
pot it? I'd pott it. Mint

751
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:23.800
will take over the world, I
mean like bermuda grass taking over your vegetable

752
00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:29.360
garden. It grows, it does
really well. It's very enthusiastic and unless

753
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:32.360
you have some sort of an underground
wall to prevent it from going out,

754
00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:37.920
it's just going to constantly invade.
Thank you guy, I appreciate you.

755
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:40.719
Have a great day. Hey,
Michael, thanks for the calls. I

756
00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:46.599
appreciate that very much. It is
tree care season. We are entering that

757
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:51.280
season and you need someone who knows
what they're doing to get out there.

758
00:55:51.400 --> 00:55:52.519
And first of all, take a
look at your trees. What do you

759
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:57.000
need? I mean, storms can
occur anytime of the year, even though

760
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.760
we think about hurricane season. Is
storm time incur any time of the year.

761
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:05.000
But do you need a professional?
Well, Martin spoon Moore from Affordable

762
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:08.519
Tree Service is who you need to
call now. Martin's phone number seven one

763
00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:14.800
three six nine nine twenty six sixty
three seven one three six nine nine twenty

764
00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:17.159
six sixty three. When you call, you're going to talk to Martin or

765
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:21.760
his wife Joe. If Martin or
Joe doesn't answer, hang up, you've

766
00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:24.079
called the wrong place. Seven one, three, six, nine nine twenty

767
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:30.559
six sixty three. You can also
go to the website Afftree Service dot com.

768
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:35.400
Afftree Service dot com. But don't
delay on this, get on his

769
00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:37.719
schedule. You know, when someone
does things right and takes care of their

770
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:42.400
customers, they stay busy, So
tell them your guardline customers. You can

771
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:45.719
get to the head of the list, but don't delay because they're filling up

772
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:47.920
out there at Affordable Tree Service and
we want you to be able to get

773
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:52.920
them to come out and take care
of your plants, your tree, in

774
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:58.400
this case, your trees. Anything
you might need consulting with on your trees,

775
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.679
definitely call them a spell if you're
going to put any trenches around or

776
00:57:01.719 --> 00:57:06.159
build anything, or lay a sidewalk
or you got to call Martin to come

777
00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:09.480
out and look at it, because
after the damage is done, our options

778
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:15.079
for helping your tree go down dramatically, so make sure and take care of

779
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:19.960
them. When you do that,
we are gonna let's see head out to

780
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:24.599
forest in the Galleria. Hello Forest, Hey, good morning. I was

781
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:31.039
in my front yard yesterday spreading my
Niker Frost's brown bag fertilizer that I bought

782
00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:37.480
from Bearing and noticed a tremendous amount
of moths, which I suspect are sod

783
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:45.039
webworms. I've put a lot of
bifintherin down this summer for kinchbugs, and

784
00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:52.000
I'm wondering should I go back to
that again with the bug blaster that you

785
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:53.880
recommend, or should I pick a
different chemical. You know, I have

786
00:57:54.039 --> 00:58:01.239
never seen sod webworms start this late
and come a big problem. We've got

787
00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:07.719
weather that is coming that it really
shuts them down. There are hundreds of

788
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:12.400
moth species out there that this could
be. If you know what side web

789
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:15.239
worms look like, and you're saying, no, this is I've had them

790
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:16.880
before, this is what they are, then you could go ahead and treat

791
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:22.400
them. But I would think it
is unlikely that that's what they are,

792
00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:27.440
and so I'm a little hesitant until
we get a good idea on those things.

793
00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:31.760
Well, if I choose to treat, should I stay with bifinthern or

794
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:36.119
should I go to a different chemical
since I used it so much for chinchebugs?

795
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:38.320
This summer by fenttheroner is very effective. If you have it on hand,

796
00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:40.199
you can go ahead and use it. There are a lot of other

797
00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:45.159
products that are insecticides labeled for launch. You can do those. I would

798
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:49.360
probably stay with the byfinther and if
I were you, Okay, all right,

799
00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:52.800
thank you sir, Yes, thank
you very much. I appreciate that.

800
00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:55.679
Hey, have you been to Arburgate
lately? Have you seen the new

801
00:58:55.719 --> 00:59:00.360
parking lot. It is so cool. You drive in either before or after

802
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:06.079
Arburgate goes around behind the nursery.
You park all weather, quick access,

803
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:09.239
so simple, so easy. They
just got a great shipment of old roses,

804
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:14.559
old garden roses. They got another
shipment of airloom bulbs in the kind

805
00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:17.960
of bulbs that naturalize it come back
year after year after year. Now you

806
00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:22.519
can buy those one shot wonders like
tulips, but that's all. You get

807
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:25.559
one shot and they're done when you
invest I like to use that term.

808
00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:32.119
When you invest in airloom bulbs from
Arburgate, you're gonna have blooming dividends year

809
00:59:32.199 --> 00:59:37.440
after year after year. While you're
there by the way pick up their food.

810
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:40.079
It's the one two three easy system. It's the soil food that feeds

811
00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:44.880
anything with roots, an organic four
four three, which is also great for

812
00:59:44.920 --> 00:59:49.079
your lawns this time of year.
Also, their organic soil complete and their

813
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:52.320
organic compost complete. All three go
together so well, and your lawn just

814
00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:57.480
gets better and better and better over
time. Our phone number seven one three

815
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:00.400
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a call. We'll get

816
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:04.360
you on the boards and you'll be
first when we come back. Right now,

817
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:09.079
here's Nikky. Well, good morning
on a beautiful Saturday. It is

818
01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:13.519
going to be gorgeous today, a
wonderful day to get out, do a

819
01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:16.719
little garden shopping, do a little
garden work. Sun is glowing in the

820
01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:21.440
eastern sky. I love it at
the start of a day. Grab you

821
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:23.960
a cup of coffee, go outside, take the radio with you if you

822
01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:29.880
remember the days where we carried radios
around the house, and enjoy some of

823
01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:35.119
this outdoor weather. Just the temperature
is wonderful too as well. Hey,

824
01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:37.599
if you'd like to give us a
call seven to one three two one two

825
01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:44.960
k t r H seven one three
two one two kt r H, please

826
01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:46.800
do so, and we'll be glad
to visit with you about the kind of

827
01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:52.719
questions that you might have if you're
looking for a quality potting soil. I

828
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.840
want to tell you about Nature's creation, and the reason is that there's a

829
01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:01.559
lot to say about it. Nature's
creation is a blend of potting soil,

830
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:07.639
a quality blend. This isn't a
peat based soil. It doesn't have biosolids

831
01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:12.360
in it. I mean we're talking
about quality. But they've added indo and

832
01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:16.679
ecto mic orhizal fungi. I know
because is the tight so. Indo micuriza

833
01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:20.320
is a little fungus. It gets
in the root and it reaches out and

834
01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:22.519
it grabs nutrients from around the soil
and brings it to the root. That

835
01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:28.079
is cool. Ecto means on the
outside, it surrounds the root, It

836
01:01:28.159 --> 01:01:32.559
protects the root. It enhances the
root growth as it's also protecting it.

837
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:37.480
Now, this blend you know from
pecan malt and pearlite, mushroom, compost,

838
01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:40.159
molasses, all kinds of native recycle, trees and shrubs, it's all

839
01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:46.239
there in Nature's creation. Organic potting
soil with micorhizal fungi. Now you can

840
01:01:46.239 --> 01:01:51.639
find it at New Roots Landscaping in
Houston, Rustic Ridge Gardens, in Willis

841
01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:57.199
Jimbo's Nursery in Santa Fe RCW up
in Tombol direction right where Tombol Parkway comes

842
01:01:57.239 --> 01:02:02.920
into Beltway eight and all Houston Garden
Centers Creation Organic Potting show with microorizol fungi.

843
01:02:04.119 --> 01:02:10.079
You should check that one out.
Yesterday, I was out in the

844
01:02:10.079 --> 01:02:15.639
garden doing some you know, little
typical here and there out in my vegetable

845
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:21.039
garden, working with some of the
final trials of the Okra crosses that I

846
01:02:21.079 --> 01:02:27.400
put in this past year, and
I just noticed the pepper plants were overloaded

847
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.079
with peppers. And that's the way
it always is, you know. You

848
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:32.119
think of peppers. Peppers are hot, summer's hot. Plant them for summer.

849
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:35.800
Well, you can plant peppers in
spring. You can get a spring

850
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:38.199
crop. They tend to trail off
in the summer. But never give up

851
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:43.480
on your pepper plants because when the
fall comes, they hang a lot of

852
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:46.760
ornaments on those trees and they're just
so beautiful. And when I say trees,

853
01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:50.400
you know what I'm talking about.
I'm in fact, I got pepper

854
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:53.280
plants that are six feet tall right
now, and oh my gosh, I

855
01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:57.400
don't know how many eat all the
peppers that are on them. But always

856
01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:00.559
remember that when you're doing a vegetable
garden. Very important. Hey, let's

857
01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:04.880
go out to wood forest and we're
going to talk to Robert this hour.

858
01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:09.760
Hey, Robert, good morning.
Morning. So I get a little confused

859
01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:16.400
by the temperature variations and growth of
grass. Yes, and some days I

860
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:20.280
think we should water, in other
days I think just leave it alone.

861
01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:30.000
So is there a time or a
better time for watering? Well that we

862
01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:32.760
have good water pressure early in the
morning. When you water early in the

863
01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:36.760
morning, then the sun comes out
and it drives it off the leaves and

864
01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:40.400
they don't sit wet. The less
frequently you can water, the better.

865
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:45.760
We're entering brown patch season, and
brown patch would love it for you to

866
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:49.480
give it lots of nitrogen and then
just keep it wet all the time.

867
01:03:50.199 --> 01:03:53.119
So, in other words, we
want to water as infrequently as possible.

868
01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:58.760
We want that leaf surfaces of the
grass to dry off as quick as possible.

869
01:03:59.400 --> 01:04:01.280
As far as when you need it. You know, you can dig

870
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:04.559
down and feel the soil, get
an idea for it. You can take

871
01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:09.400
a long handle screwdriver and push it
in the ground, especially in a clay

872
01:04:09.400 --> 01:04:13.039
soil. If it's moist it'll be
it'll push straight down in the soil.

873
01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:15.800
But if you had a hard dry
spot, it'll be like you hit a

874
01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:19.400
concrete walkway under there. There's different
ways to check it out like that.

875
01:04:19.519 --> 01:04:24.440
I would say, right now you
need about a half inch of moisture a

876
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:28.360
week, and that's about to drop
even lower than that as we get some

877
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:32.920
more coal fronts in here. Terrific. All right, what about putting what

878
01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:39.440
about putting the Microlife sixty four all
over the grass right now and then water

879
01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:42.119
it in, Well, that would
be good. I would go with the

880
01:04:42.119 --> 01:04:45.760
Microlive brown Patch six two four is
a wonderful fertilizer. It's good for everything

881
01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:50.239
that you have that you grow,
including your lawn. But dropping that nitrogen

882
01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:55.519
a little bit more and then having
that the microbial content in the brown patch

883
01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:59.559
product, I just think that's a
better way to go for fall. But

884
01:04:59.800 --> 01:05:01.280
if if you've got six to four
on hand want to use it, go

885
01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:04.719
ahead. You're not going to hurt
anything. But at this time, it's

886
01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:09.519
just yeah, you hear me talk
about fall fertilizers all the time, and

887
01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:13.719
there's a reason. All right,
thank you, sir, Yes, sir

888
01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:15.800
Robert, thank you. For the
call. I appreciate that very much.

889
01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:21.679
Hey, I have a question.
In your garage or in your toolshit or

890
01:05:21.679 --> 01:05:27.480
wherever you keep your gardening tools,
do you have a tree hugger sprinkler hanging

891
01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.840
on the wall. Well, you
should tree hugger sprinklers. It says tree,

892
01:05:30.960 --> 01:05:36.440
but I would say plant hugger sprinklers, because are you going to put

893
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:40.360
in a rosebush? Are you going
to put in some other shrub or a

894
01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:43.719
tree? Well, tree hugger that's
the way to go. You can go

895
01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:46.960
to tree huggersprinkler dot com find out
more information. But you hook them to

896
01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:50.039
a hose. You can turn them
on just a little to water a newly

897
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:55.519
planted plant. You can turn them
on a lot to go through those brutal

898
01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:59.360
summers and not have to run your
whole lawn system for the tree. You

899
01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:01.960
just water the area under the branch
bread of the tree. Tree hugger makes

900
01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:05.440
it easy. Just think of it
this way. It's just a great tool

901
01:06:05.639 --> 01:06:12.280
to always have on hand. Let's
head out to clear Lake and we're going

902
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.159
to talk to Mario. Hello Mario, Hey, good morning, and thanks

903
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:18.360
for taking my call. I have
a couple of questions. Number one,

904
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:24.559
I called in several weeks ago about
my boxwoods. They're tiny box woods.

905
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:30.960
They're not responding. I did fertilize. Is it just a slow process or

906
01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:34.639
do I need to do something else? Are they green? They're just not

907
01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:41.239
growing. They're green, but I
have brown parts of them have died,

908
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:45.320
and so I want to they don't
you know, they look kind of skippy.

909
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:49.440
I want them to look full and
rich and okay, so I don't

910
01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:53.079
know what to do about it.
All right, Well, with the days

911
01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:57.480
getting shorter and the temperatures cooling off, the all plants are going to slow

912
01:06:57.519 --> 01:07:01.360
growth, and those boxwoods are too. I would say for now, just

913
01:07:01.519 --> 01:07:06.480
hold and wait and let's see when
when spring comes if they if they do

914
01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:11.719
better, I think some warm weather
is the thing they need most, depending

915
01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:17.519
on what caused the problem nematodes,
root fungi or broken branches or freeze damage

916
01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:24.239
from last December. It was a
freeze damage. Okay, well there,

917
01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:27.159
I think they'll be fine. I
would follow the dead all the way down

918
01:07:27.159 --> 01:07:30.960
to where it joins something that ends
up having living leaves on it, and

919
01:07:31.000 --> 01:07:33.480
print it all out right now and
get that out of there, just in

920
01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:39.599
case there was a stem canker involved. You're getting that disease tissue out of

921
01:07:39.639 --> 01:07:45.480
there, Okay. The other question
I have is I had a beautiful Japanese

922
01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:51.360
blueberry in my backyard. I just
loved it, and the freeze actually killed

923
01:07:51.400 --> 01:07:57.719
it, okay, and so I
want to replace it with something that looks

924
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:00.559
like it, but it's much more
hearty. That's the second time, Okay,

925
01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:05.239
that's happy. First time during the
freeze it came back. Fine,

926
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:09.679
I got that second one. Hey, Mario, I'm going to have to

927
01:08:09.719 --> 01:08:12.119
take a break. I'm gonna put
you on hold. If you want to

928
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:14.599
hang on, we'll talk about it
after the break, or if not,

929
01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:16.760
I'll just talk about it on the
air after the break. Thank you for

930
01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:19.880
calling in. Hey, it's time
for a break. Seven one three two

931
01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:26.199
one two KTRH. That's the number
if you'd like to call them beyond Well,

932
01:08:26.279 --> 01:08:29.880
good morning. You are listening to
Gardenline, and boy, we are

933
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:32.760
talking about a wide variety of things
today. One thing I do want to

934
01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:36.920
talk about, though, is Ace
Hardware. Ace Hardware thirty nine locations in

935
01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:42.199
the Greater Houston area. Go to
Acehardware dot com find the store locator.

936
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:44.560
Check it out. You'll see what
I'm talking about, and you'll find the

937
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:47.920
ones closest to you. Have you
not purchased your fall fertilizer yet for the

938
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:53.039
lawn, Ace Hardware's got it and
a lot more. Do you need issue

939
01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:58.039
products? Maybe to control disease or
insects or weeds. Ace Hardware has it

940
01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:02.079
anything you need to make your place
beautiful, from tools to products to you

941
01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:06.239
name it. Ace Hardmer has got
it all and it's near you. That

942
01:09:06.600 --> 01:09:12.000
is convenient. You can't get any
better than excuse me, any more convenient

943
01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:16.439
than that. Let's see we are. I was just talking with Mario about

944
01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:21.399
some some shrubs and I said I
would mention some taller ones. One thing

945
01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:27.399
would be the yopon. The standard
types of yopon that get a little bit

946
01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:30.079
taller. They have evergreen foliage and
some of them have berries, some of

947
01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:34.560
them don't, depends on you know
what type you get. Yopon makes a

948
01:09:34.560 --> 01:09:38.720
pretty darn good hedge if you plan
them close enough together. Nelly R.

949
01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:42.800
Stephen Holly. There's a number of
different other hollies that do really well,

950
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:45.680
but Nellie R. Stevens is an
example of one. Uh. And you

951
01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:49.199
know, I just think when you
when you create an evergreen hedge like that.

952
01:09:49.239 --> 01:09:54.720
If you're trying to replace something that
didn't do well that you want to

953
01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:59.159
have success with, it is important
to have something that is either native or

954
01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:04.600
very very very well adapted to this
area. So another one would be the

955
01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:09.239
Japanese youth that that is a very
good tall plant. It'll grow in a

956
01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:12.359
little bit of shade and will grow
and likes a lot of sun too,

957
01:10:13.119 --> 01:10:17.000
and it will make a nice large
hedge for you. Let's go out to

958
01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:24.159
Richard in spring. Hello Richard,
good morning, Skip morning. I have

959
01:10:24.199 --> 01:10:29.960
a question. I developed torpedo grass
in my front lawn. Is there something

960
01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:34.000
on the market these days that will
help control this? I don't know anything

961
01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:39.960
that will kill torpedo grass and not
kill your lawn. But the strategy that

962
01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:45.319
I would use is I have a
little homemade weed wiper and basically those little

963
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:47.359
tools you grab a jar off a
shelf with. They've got a little pistol

964
01:10:47.399 --> 01:10:53.359
grip on one end and about three
feet long where on the other end,

965
01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:57.520
I attached two garden sponges and you
kind of have to figure it out.

966
01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:01.239
Maybe use a little a little metal
plate behind them from a hardware store,

967
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:03.840
the kind with a lot of little
holes in it for joining too, two

968
01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:09.479
by fours, and then I just
put a product that'll kill grass on it

969
01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:13.399
on there. And there's grass killers
and then there's general killers. The glycase

970
01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:18.560
products go anything. The grass killers
would be things like cephoxidem and fluazophobe.

971
01:11:18.760 --> 01:11:21.880
But when you go to a garden
center, just say show me a grass

972
01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:26.720
killer. You squirt it on the
sponge torpedo grass. As you know,

973
01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:30.399
it grows fast and it comes up
above the lawn, and let it do

974
01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:32.760
that. Hold off on mowing a
little bit, and then just reach down

975
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:36.439
squeeze it, Squeeze those sponges on
it, and pull upward and wipe it

976
01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:41.039
on the torpedo grass. And you've
got to keep doing it. You're not

977
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:44.279
going to see it all at one
time, but as you stay with it,

978
01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:45.800
you can get rid of it.
Now, if it's in areas where

979
01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:49.880
you don't have a desirable plant,
then just going in with those those kinds

980
01:11:49.880 --> 01:11:54.760
of weed killers I talked about directly
on it would be an option. But

981
01:11:54.960 --> 01:12:00.159
it is persistent. It is like
bermuda grass on steroids. Yes it is.

982
01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:05.479
It's a moose and that's that's true, all right, skiff, Thank

983
01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:09.159
you very much. Hey, thanks
thanks for the call, Richard. I

984
01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:15.600
appreciate that very much. You take
care. If you I was talking about

985
01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:19.079
fertilizing your lawn and the importance of
fall fertilization. If you have not put

986
01:12:19.119 --> 01:12:27.960
down a micronutrient application this year especially, you need to add asamite to your

987
01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:30.000
list of things to do. Now. You don't put the azmite in your

988
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:35.800
fertilizer because particle size is different and
therefore distribution doesn't do as It's not as

989
01:12:35.880 --> 01:12:41.439
even as you want. So you
fertilize and then you put asomite in a

990
01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:45.680
fertilizer hopper and you apply it in
a separate application to your lawn. Only

991
01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:49.000
takes ten pounds or ecuse me,
forty four pound bag will cover six to

992
01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:54.840
twelve thousand square feet. That's a
lot, but it covers a lot because

993
01:12:54.840 --> 01:12:57.800
you just need a little bit of
it. It's a trace mineral supplement.

994
01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:00.520
You can go to azimite Texas dot
com and find out more. I would

995
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:03.920
suggest using it wherever you have plants
growing. I do it in my vegetable

996
01:13:03.920 --> 01:13:08.760
garden as well, because I want
to make sure the produce I'm eating has

997
01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:13.720
as much of a chock full of
nutrients as we can give it. Let's

998
01:13:13.720 --> 01:13:16.960
see, We're going to head out
to the woodlands now and talk to Veronica.

999
01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:23.680
Hey, Veronica, Hi, I
have a question about my Asian jasmine

1000
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:29.399
groundcover. Large sections over the summer
just died off. So I don't know

1001
01:13:29.439 --> 01:13:31.520
why I want to replace it.
But my question is do I need to

1002
01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:39.039
treat that area first or something before
I put new plants in. No,

1003
01:13:39.039 --> 01:13:42.319
No, there's no treatment. You
mean it like a treatment that would kill

1004
01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:45.840
whatever killed their Asian jasmine? Yeah, like if it's a fungus or I

1005
01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:48.960
mean, I don't know what did
it. Yeah, have you heard about

1006
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:53.279
this A lot that over the summer
heat, a lot of Asian jasmine just

1007
01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:57.079
died off. Yeah, yeah,
because of the heat and drought and it

1008
01:13:57.199 --> 01:14:00.760
just hit a point where the plant
could not hang on. And then once

1009
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.640
the system plants, you know,
systems start to collapse, it's just you

1010
01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:09.640
lose the whole thing. That happens
to trees and Asian jasmine and a lot

1011
01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:13.800
of other plants. No, there's
nothing you can put down to control anything

1012
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:16.800
that's in the soil that would have
killed it. There are a couple of

1013
01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:20.279
root rots that could have been present, but you can't just put a treatment

1014
01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:25.159
down for them right now. I
would replug it in. If you want

1015
01:14:25.159 --> 01:14:28.039
to wait until spring when it's really
going to grow, that's fine, but

1016
01:14:28.119 --> 01:14:31.359
I would also do it right now
because it has all winter to slowly start

1017
01:14:31.479 --> 01:14:35.680
establishing roots to get a bit of
a headstart. Okay, great, thank

1018
01:14:35.720 --> 01:14:40.880
you, Yeah, thank you appreciate
the call. Well, let's see you're

1019
01:14:40.880 --> 01:14:44.439
listening to garden Line and I'm your
host, Skip Richter. We are here

1020
01:14:44.479 --> 01:14:46.520
to answer gardening questions. That's what
we do here. We want to have

1021
01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:54.239
help you have success. The thing
that discourages me the most is to hear

1022
01:14:54.319 --> 01:14:59.079
a gardener or are someone who tried
gardening say yeah, I tried it,

1023
01:14:59.079 --> 01:15:01.840
it didn't work. I just have
a brown thumb. You do not have

1024
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:06.880
a brown thumb. You have an
uninformed thumb. And that's what we're here

1025
01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:12.159
for. We're here to help you
have a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape.

1026
01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.560
That's our goal. And I tell
you if you want if you want

1027
01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:18.479
plants for a beautiful garden and bountiful
landscape, you got to check out Enchanted

1028
01:15:18.520 --> 01:15:24.800
Gardens out in Richmond. Now.
The website's easy, It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond

1029
01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:29.039
dot com. They're on FM three
point fifty nine. That is, you

1030
01:15:29.079 --> 01:15:32.119
go north toward Katie, so anyone
out in the general Katy area all the

1031
01:15:32.119 --> 01:15:35.279
way down into Richmond. I mean, this is just your backyard. And

1032
01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:40.640
the Lenderman family has been part of
that community since nineteen ninety five when they

1033
01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:45.279
opened it up. It is an
unforgettable experience to go to Enchanted Gardens.

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01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:50.279
And if you would like a little
extra encouragement, come today. I'm going

1035
01:15:50.319 --> 01:15:54.880
to be there from eleven thirty to
one thirty. Eleven thirty to one thirty.

1036
01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:58.720
I'll answer your gardening questions. I
will help you pick out plants that

1037
01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:01.600
would do well in a particular area. I'll diagnose problems on your plants.

1038
01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:04.800
It's all free, it's all there, right there. And we're also going

1039
01:16:04.880 --> 01:16:10.520
to be giving away Medina products.
As if God we just keep adding incentives

1040
01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:14.279
here Medina products, we'd be giving
away bags of their three two three.

1041
01:16:14.359 --> 01:16:17.399
We're going to be giving away that
has to grow lawn. We're going to

1042
01:16:17.479 --> 01:16:21.439
be giving away seaweed. We're going
to be giving away the regular has to

1043
01:16:21.479 --> 01:16:25.680
grow, the one I talk about
all the time for transplanting, you know,

1044
01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:28.880
mixing up in water for your transplanting. That's just one use for it.

1045
01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:30.920
We're going to be giving away fish
blend. I mean, the folks

1046
01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:35.479
at Medina have put a lot of
product into this and we are going to

1047
01:16:35.800 --> 01:16:40.760
just have a good time. So
come out register for the drawing, but

1048
01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:45.039
most importantly, get a chance to
see in Channa Gardens. Now, if

1049
01:16:45.039 --> 01:16:48.359
you went last spring or this summer
or something, it changes every day out

1050
01:16:48.399 --> 01:16:51.840
in Channa Gardens. You need to
go back again to see it. They're

1051
01:16:51.880 --> 01:16:56.800
open, by the way, Monday
through Saturday from eight to five and Sundays

1052
01:16:56.840 --> 01:17:00.039
from ten am to four pm,
and so it's to find a time to

1053
01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:02.760
be out there. They're going to
carry all the fertilizers I talk about.

1054
01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:06.039
Have you not done your lawn fertilizing
yet? Come on out there. You

1055
01:17:06.079 --> 01:17:11.520
get to choose your pick out there. They're going to have quality soil blends

1056
01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:15.840
and composts and multchz and things like
that. They've got all the blame you

1057
01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:19.279
know, fountains and wind chimes and
garden art and stuff like that, but

1058
01:17:19.800 --> 01:17:25.800
every kind of plant you can imagine. Allow yourself some time because it takes

1059
01:17:25.800 --> 01:17:28.960
a while to get around and see
all that they have. Out there at

1060
01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.439
Enchanted Gardens and Richmond. I hope
you'll hope you'll join me in the meantime,

1061
01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:39.119
if you have not been to the
website yet, Gardening with Skip dot

1062
01:17:39.119 --> 01:17:43.760
com, Gardening with Skip dot Com, that's where the lawn care schedule is,

1063
01:17:44.199 --> 01:17:48.520
That's where the lawn pest disease and
we'd management schedule is. We keep

1064
01:17:48.560 --> 01:17:54.680
adding content to it. We're planning
a major renovation to add a ton of

1065
01:17:54.720 --> 01:17:58.840
new content to the website in these
coming months. I was just meeting with

1066
01:17:58.880 --> 01:18:01.920
my web guy and talking about some
of the things we want to do on

1067
01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:06.279
there. We're gonna have some videos
going up and a lot more publications that

1068
01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:11.800
you can just print out if you
want. Lots of good information there at

1069
01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:16.039
Gardening with Skip dot Com. I
hope you will give it a lookover.

1070
01:18:16.399 --> 01:18:23.159
I think you'll be impressed and especially
be able to print out that those schedules

1071
01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:25.920
where you can just print them out
and take them in and point and say

1072
01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:29.600
I want this stuff right here,
and yeah, that's it. We'll be

1073
01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:34.000
right back. Kat r H.
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of

1074
01:18:34.039 --> 01:18:40.760
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome to kat r H.

1075
01:18:40.920 --> 01:19:01.159
Garden Line with Skip Richard. It's
so crazy just watch him as super well.

1076
01:19:01.199 --> 01:19:06.239
Good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning. Boy. I hope your plans

1077
01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:12.479
include outdoors today. I actually hope
they include gardening and taking care of the

1078
01:19:12.520 --> 01:19:15.760
lawns, you know, landscapes,
getting out and doing a little bit of

1079
01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:19.319
plant shopping while you're out there.
Plants supply shopping while you're out there.

1080
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:25.920
You know. Verdant Tree Farm.
Verdant Tree Farm has been around the Greater

1081
01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:30.359
Houston area for a while now and
they've been providing the kind of quality trees

1082
01:19:30.439 --> 01:19:35.000
that you need to have success.
You don't need someone selling stuff that doesn't

1083
01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:39.520
do well here. Verdant Tree Farm
sells stuff that does do well. Here.

1084
01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:44.800
You can go to the website Verdant
v e er da nt Verdant Treefarm

1085
01:19:44.920 --> 01:19:47.159
dot com find out more information.
It's not just trees. I mean they

1086
01:19:47.159 --> 01:19:50.960
have palm trees of course, a
leader in palm trees. When it comes

1087
01:19:50.960 --> 01:19:54.520
to large shrubs, you know,
maybe in Nelly R. Stevens, Holly,

1088
01:19:54.600 --> 01:19:57.880
Eagleson Holly, those kinds of things, Verden Tree Farm carries it all.

1089
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:00.399
You can find that they Oh,
by the way, they also have

1090
01:20:00.439 --> 01:20:05.640
a ten percent discount for military and
first responders and a one year warranty that's

1091
01:20:05.680 --> 01:20:11.640
included with the installation. And you
need to have them install it because they

1092
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:14.000
can plant it right. So here's
how you do it. You go out

1093
01:20:14.000 --> 01:20:15.840
there, you walk around, you
pick the tree you want, they tag

1094
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:19.439
it, they bring it, they
plant it. You're done and they know

1095
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:24.239
what they're doing. If you don't
know which tree you want, go talk

1096
01:20:24.279 --> 01:20:26.800
to them, take a picture of
your yard kind of from a distance,

1097
01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:28.920
say hey, what do you think
would do well? Here? Here's what

1098
01:20:28.960 --> 01:20:30.960
I want out of it. I
want ballooms or I want shade or something

1099
01:20:31.039 --> 01:20:36.680
like that. Verdanttreefarm dot com.
It's as simple as that. We are

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01:20:36.720 --> 01:20:41.880
going to now head up to the
north side and talk to Joe. Hello,

1101
01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:45.479
Joe, Hi, how you doing
through? I'm well, Thank you,

1102
01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:54.000
love your show. Thank you.
I got a question. I got

1103
01:20:54.000 --> 01:21:00.680
a beautiful yard actually, and I
had some agustine grass before, but over

1104
01:21:00.720 --> 01:21:04.640
the time I guess that I don't
know if it's called bermuda grass. Yes,

1105
01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:10.479
you'd overgrow my sant agustine. And
don't get me wrong, it's all

1106
01:21:10.520 --> 01:21:14.239
green, but if someon step on
it, he's like a pillow. Yeah,

1107
01:21:14.439 --> 01:21:17.159
and I would like my Sant Agustine
to grow back. Well, Joe,

1108
01:21:17.159 --> 01:21:27.920
there there is not a product.
Pardon Joe, I'm not able to

1109
01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:31.840
hear you anymore, so I don't
know something changed over. If I'm on

1110
01:21:31.920 --> 01:21:35.439
speaker, go ahead and take me
off speaker and just talk on the receiver.

1111
01:21:36.520 --> 01:21:42.119
So there's not a product that kills
bermuda grass that doesn't kill Saint Augustine

1112
01:21:42.199 --> 01:21:45.880
grass. Uh there. There.
If you're hiring someone to do some work,

1113
01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:49.119
there are some things they can do. There's some things they can get

1114
01:21:49.119 --> 01:21:54.279
a hold of that you can't.
They can work toward that. But that's

1115
01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:59.399
a whole different story. Uh So, the bottom line is you either live

1116
01:21:59.479 --> 01:22:01.840
with the two or you get rid
of the Saint Augustine's easier to get rid

1117
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:05.399
of Saint Augustine in a bermuta than
it is a bermuna in Saint Augustine,

1118
01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:10.720
or you just like I said,
get rid of it all and then replant

1119
01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:15.680
with Saint Augustine. If you're planning
on doing the latter, the bermuna needs

1120
01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:19.039
to be actively growing for the products
to work, because if it's in a

1121
01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:25.319
winter dormant stage, you're not going
to get effective Bermuda control with that.

1122
01:22:26.039 --> 01:22:29.199
Are you still there, Joe,
Yes, sir, I yes, sir.

1123
01:22:29.279 --> 01:22:31.439
Oh good. All right, So
that that's kind of the story on

1124
01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:39.239
it. Okay, well, okay, okay, no problem. I mean,

1125
01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:41.640
it's green. Don't get me wrong. It looks good. It's green.

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01:22:41.680 --> 01:22:44.760
It just I know, I just
love Agustine. I feel the same

1127
01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:46.880
way. And I've got some a
couple of areas in my yard where it's

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01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:50.800
there's some mixture in there, and
uh, I just went the root of

1129
01:22:50.880 --> 01:22:55.239
Okay, I'm getting rid of everything
and then I'm putting Saint Augustine back in.

1130
01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:58.520
But if you're hold on, if
large areas are that way, well

1131
01:22:58.520 --> 01:23:03.079
then that's probably definitely not acceptable,
but not a problem. I feel your

1132
01:23:03.119 --> 01:23:08.439
paying say it. Thanks, thanks
for the call. I appreciate that very

1133
01:23:08.520 --> 01:23:17.640
much. Ciena Moltz south of Houston
is a premiere multi supplier Number one.

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01:23:17.960 --> 01:23:21.960
They carry the best products available.
Do you need bags, do you need

1135
01:23:23.039 --> 01:23:27.239
bulk? Do you need it delivered? They deliver within twenty miles twenty miles

1136
01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:31.760
aware well, twenty miles of ninety
six fifteen FM five twenty one, so

1137
01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:35.119
near where Highway six and two eighty
eight come together, north of Roach Sharon

1138
01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:41.000
FM five twenty one. Just go
to Sienna Maltz dot com and you can

1139
01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:43.880
find them. Do you need rock, Oh my gosh, they have a

1140
01:23:44.079 --> 01:23:47.640
wonderful selection of rock. Maybe you
want to put out a little concrete I

1141
01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:51.800
mean a little flagstone patio, that
would be the place to go. I

1142
01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:56.279
mean, they really have a good
selection. Ever fertilizer I talk about,

1143
01:23:56.399 --> 01:24:00.439
Is there ever fertilizer? Every single
one is there. It's Moltz. It's

1144
01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:03.960
a one stop shop. Go buy
check out their product. See the quality

1145
01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.960
that I'm talking about, and I
have. I've walked the lot, I've

1146
01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:10.760
looked at the different products, picked
them up, checked them out, felt

1147
01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:13.880
them, smelled them, all that
kind of stuff, and this is good

1148
01:24:13.880 --> 01:24:16.479
stuff. Sienna Maltz dot com.
They're opened today, by the way,

1149
01:24:16.479 --> 01:24:20.640
from seven thirty to two. Closed
tomorrow, So today would be a good

1150
01:24:20.720 --> 01:24:24.920
day to get out there and check
out what I'm talking about. When I

1151
01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:29.680
brag on Sienna multch Hey, our
phone number is seven one three two one

1152
01:24:29.720 --> 01:24:36.000
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

1153
01:24:38.039 --> 01:24:42.640
I was visiting with Dean Nelson Nelson
Fertilizer the other day and just talking

1154
01:24:42.640 --> 01:24:45.560
about some of the products and things
that they have. And also, you

1155
01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:49.840
know, I don't know if you
know this, but October fourteenth, just

1156
01:24:49.880 --> 01:24:55.760
a few days back, was their
forty year anniversary. That's when they opened

1157
01:24:55.800 --> 01:24:59.880
their doors for business. And the
rest, as they say, is history.

1158
01:25:00.319 --> 01:25:05.760
Their lines of fertilizers continue to just
grow and offer you more and more

1159
01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:11.079
options. Their Color Star line,
for example, their nutri Star line,

1160
01:25:11.119 --> 01:25:15.199
their Turf Star line, and their
Organic Nature Star line are all there at

1161
01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:19.479
Nelson Plant Food. Right now,
the thing you need to focus on from

1162
01:25:19.520 --> 01:25:24.800
Nelson you need to focus on is
their carbo Load. Now, carbo Load

1163
01:25:25.039 --> 01:25:30.520
is designed exactly for the nutrients and
the ratios that we need in our landscapes,

1164
01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:33.640
in our lawns in the fall and
the fall season. And for every

1165
01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:39.359
bag they sell of carbo Load,
they're giving two dollars to Randy's memorial scholarship.

1166
01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:43.760
So it just gets better and better. I mean two dollars for every

1167
01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:47.439
bag for such a good cause.
His memorial scholarship is for someone who wants

1168
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:50.479
to be a horticulturist, a hort
student up at Texas A and M.

1169
01:25:50.960 --> 01:25:55.760
What a good cause and what I
know Randy would be very very proud to

1170
01:25:55.840 --> 01:25:59.520
know that, but don't delay on
the carbo load. It also includes a

1171
01:25:59.560 --> 01:26:01.720
pre emer which means you want to
get it down before the weed seeds all

1172
01:26:01.760 --> 01:26:05.760
start to germinate. So get that
product. Put it down now, watered

1173
01:26:05.800 --> 01:26:10.439
in about a half inch of water. Be good, and you're done and

1174
01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:13.960
you're ready to go. And it'll
last you all the way until it's time

1175
01:26:13.960 --> 01:26:16.279
to fertilize in the spring, and
your law will be stronger as a result

1176
01:26:16.359 --> 01:26:19.680
of it too. By the way, well, our phone number is seven

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01:26:19.760 --> 01:26:26.479
one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

1178
01:26:26.600 --> 01:26:30.560
fifty eight seventy four. I was
in the backyard yesterday. I saw I

1179
01:26:30.600 --> 01:26:33.520
was looking out the window and there
was this little bird sitting there, a

1180
01:26:33.720 --> 01:26:36.920
finch. I believe it's a finch, It looked like one. And it

1181
01:26:38.039 --> 01:26:42.159
was just sitting there on one of
our outdoor lawn furniture. Uh. And

1182
01:26:42.239 --> 01:26:44.520
I just put out some water for
them. And you know, it is

1183
01:26:44.520 --> 01:26:49.680
so important when you want to bring
birds to your landscape, and you should

1184
01:26:49.720 --> 01:26:55.279
want to do that. You want
to get their wild birds unlimited winter super

1185
01:26:55.319 --> 01:26:59.680
blend. It's got the fat and
the protein that will help them get through

1186
01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:03.640
this upcoming season. Now, don't
forget that some of the roofous hummingbirds will

1187
01:27:03.640 --> 01:27:09.439
make winter their home here. So
continue to leave your hummingbird feeder up and

1188
01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:13.000
get some of those visitors. If
you're lucky enough to have one. What

1189
01:27:13.119 --> 01:27:15.600
a cool thing for a winter day. We're still dry. You gotta get

1190
01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:17.680
them water. And that's what I
was doing when I was out in the

1191
01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:23.119
landscape, taking care of my birds, giving them some water because they need

1192
01:27:23.159 --> 01:27:28.439
that very important. Hey, go
to WBU dot com forward slash Houston and

1193
01:27:28.479 --> 01:27:32.279
you can find all seven of our
wild bird stores in the Greater Houston area.

1194
01:27:32.399 --> 01:27:35.039
I'm going to take a break.
We'll be back seven one three,

1195
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:40.720
two, one, two fifty eight
seventy four. Well, good morning,

1196
01:27:41.199 --> 01:27:45.640
good Saturday morning. Let me just
say good beautiful Saturday morning, because that's

1197
01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:47.680
exactly what it is out there.
I can't wait to get out of here.

1198
01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:50.279
When I get through with the show
today, I'm going to be heading

1199
01:27:50.359 --> 01:27:56.520
out two enchanted gardens out in Richmond, and I'll be there from eleven thirty

1200
01:27:56.560 --> 01:27:59.880
to one thirty. I hope you'll
come out and see me while I'm out

1201
01:27:59.880 --> 01:28:02.960
there there. Hey, if you
ever need roofwork, if you. You

1202
01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:06.439
know, storm damage or just the
roofs getting old. You're concerned about some

1203
01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:15.000
things called Brinkman Brinkman Quality Roof Services. That's what it is. Jason Brinkman

1204
01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:19.039
has created a company that has stood
the test of time. What do I

1205
01:28:19.079 --> 01:28:21.640
mean by that, Well, I
mean they've been in the Houston area for

1206
01:28:21.680 --> 01:28:26.399
fifty years. And you don't stick
around and win awards, by the way,

1207
01:28:26.479 --> 01:28:30.920
such as a Better Business Bureau Pinnacle
Award, unless you're really taking care

1208
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of your customers. Now, they
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a shingle roof, a composite shingle, if you have a metal roof or

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something I think is really cool is
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say quality, dependable, just all
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need in a business. Anytime I'm
hiring somebody do any kind of work,

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I want them to show up.
I want them to do a good job.

1220
01:29:21.880 --> 01:29:26.079
I want them to use quality materials. Well that's Brinkman. That's the

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01:29:26.159 --> 01:29:29.239
only way they know how to do
it. Let's go out to round Top

1222
01:29:29.399 --> 01:29:32.880
and we're gonna talk to Jennis.
Good morning, Jennis, Good morning,

1223
01:29:32.920 --> 01:29:38.680
Skip, Thank you very much.
How can we help? My question is

1224
01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:43.039
about I have lots of live oat
trees and post o trees on my property,

1225
01:29:43.079 --> 01:29:46.359
and every year the years when we've
had droughts, well we see bad

1226
01:29:46.399 --> 01:29:50.199
results of that a few years later. Usually what is the best thing to

1227
01:29:50.560 --> 01:29:57.079
treat those with? What BET's fertilizer? And how often the fertilizers? Now,

1228
01:29:57.439 --> 01:30:00.720
do you have a preference for what
you use for your yard in terms

1229
01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:05.399
of fertilizers types or anything like that. Okay, well, there's a wide

1230
01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:10.800
variety of them. I know that
the nitrophiles, I know Nelson's, I

1231
01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:15.439
know Microlife all produces things that are
designed for woody plants and for successful growth.

1232
01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:20.720
I'll tell you on mine. I
use lawn fertilizer myself, and it

1233
01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:25.760
just I hadn't gotten around to going
and getting one designed, you know,

1234
01:30:25.840 --> 01:30:29.560
for trees. I probably should do
that, by the way, But anyway,

1235
01:30:29.680 --> 01:30:31.960
I'll just use a lawn fertilizer.
And when you do that, if

1236
01:30:32.239 --> 01:30:35.199
the reason I ask what kind is
if you're use in an organic, you

1237
01:30:35.239 --> 01:30:40.119
need to use a little more of
it because it's a little lower concentration.

1238
01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:45.359
But for just the standard I use
is for every inch of trunk diameter,

1239
01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:50.640
give it one or two cups a
fertilizer. So is this a huge How

1240
01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:54.319
big is the trunk on this tree? What would you compare it to?

1241
01:30:55.640 --> 01:30:58.800
Oh? These are like two hundred
year old? True? Oh my gosh.

1242
01:30:58.840 --> 01:31:02.520
Okay, well I should have ass
that up front when you get an

1243
01:31:02.600 --> 01:31:08.399
older tree that what they do is
they hit a point where they kind of

1244
01:31:08.439 --> 01:31:15.199
reach about what our climate and soils
or your soils there will accommodate. You

1245
01:31:15.279 --> 01:31:18.119
may notice if you go up to
the northeast United States, you see trees

1246
01:31:18.159 --> 01:31:21.039
that are so huge. It's like, why didn't Reno get that big here?

1247
01:31:21.319 --> 01:31:25.960
Well, it's it's because we have
a different climate and soils, and

1248
01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:29.880
once the tree is hitting that mature
stage, you just don't need to push

1249
01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:32.199
it with a lot of extra fertilizer
and whatnot. It's kind of got a

1250
01:31:32.239 --> 01:31:36.720
balance between the roots and the top. And I would I would just I

1251
01:31:38.039 --> 01:31:43.800
is there a lawn around these trees? There is some of them. Some

1252
01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:46.159
of them are out in more like
pasture areas. Okay, well, you

1253
01:31:46.239 --> 01:31:50.479
know if it was in a bermuda
grass pasture or something, yes, I

1254
01:31:50.520 --> 01:31:56.399
would fertilize it because bermuda grass is
a is a nutrient and water hog stealing

1255
01:31:56.439 --> 01:32:00.319
from the tree in the lawns.
If you're fertilizing your lawns, I think

1256
01:32:00.319 --> 01:32:03.000
that's sufficient for your for your treat, especially these older and if it was

1257
01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:05.479
a young tree and we were trying
to get it to grow, be a

1258
01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:11.039
completely different story. Okay, I
do have some young ones out our planet.

1259
01:32:11.079 --> 01:32:14.880
Is that you still still lawn fertilizer? Good? You could you could

1260
01:32:15.159 --> 01:32:17.319
you could purchase a fertilizer for trees, you know, or you could just

1261
01:32:17.399 --> 01:32:21.119
use your lawn fertilizer if you've got
that, and for every inch of trunk

1262
01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:26.000
diameter, you give it one or
two cups. So just as an example,

1263
01:32:26.039 --> 01:32:28.560
if it was the size of a
soft drink can, we'll say,

1264
01:32:28.600 --> 01:32:31.079
well, that's about three inches across, so it would get three to six

1265
01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:36.960
cups a fertilizer and then and spread
it all evenly in the entire branch spread

1266
01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:42.119
of the tree. Okay, I
appreciate it very much. Skip, Thank

1267
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:44.960
you you, Bet Jennis, thank
you for the call. Appreciate that.

1268
01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:47.279
Hey speaking to the call. If
you would like to call our phone number

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seven one three two one two five
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one two fifty eight seventy four.
Uh, your tree is it's really not

1271
01:33:01.600 --> 01:33:05.560
that complicated. We are making sure. The most important thing you do for

1272
01:33:05.640 --> 01:33:12.800
success with your trees is to make
sure they have water during extended droughts.

1273
01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:15.960
You don't have to water your trees
every week. That is absolutely unnecessary.

1274
01:33:16.199 --> 01:33:19.239
But during extended droughts, yeah,
give them a little bit of water and

1275
01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:23.880
take care of them. They'll do
really well. Now. Proper pruning,

1276
01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:28.319
proper care, yes, that is
critical. Picking the right species before you

1277
01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:30.840
plant, yes, that is absolutely
critical. You want to do that,

1278
01:33:31.359 --> 01:33:35.640
but in general, water is number
one. If you're not if you're not

1279
01:33:36.039 --> 01:33:40.920
helping them during drought, it's not
going to do good. And if you've

1280
01:33:40.920 --> 01:33:43.680
got a young tree and you want
it to grow fast, let's fertilize it

1281
01:33:43.800 --> 01:33:47.119
and water it, both fertilizer and
water. I like to say it this

1282
01:33:47.159 --> 01:33:49.640
way. When you buy a tree, you want to be able to hang

1283
01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:55.199
a hammock in it as soon as
possible, So act accordingly. Hey,

1284
01:33:55.279 --> 01:34:00.319
do you know that every weekend at
RCW Nurseries they are having a libration of

1285
01:34:00.479 --> 01:34:04.439
fall and the family can come out
all their trees by the way, and

1286
01:34:04.479 --> 01:34:08.920
they grow their own trees up in
Plantersville, so they have a great selection

1287
01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:12.359
of trees that do well here,
all of them. Fifteen percent off discount

1288
01:34:12.520 --> 01:34:15.760
on all the trees. Now,
you bring a family out for this because

1289
01:34:15.800 --> 01:34:19.760
there's games and activities that have beautiful
areas of garden areas where you can just

1290
01:34:20.039 --> 01:34:25.680
walk through and enjoy and get ideas. And it is absolutely perfect for family

1291
01:34:25.680 --> 01:34:29.159
photos. They've got it all set
up and designed where you or the kids

1292
01:34:29.199 --> 01:34:31.760
or your significant other get in there, let's take some photos. They got

1293
01:34:31.760 --> 01:34:36.520
refreshments and snacks and everything. It's
all part of this autumn extravaganza. And

1294
01:34:36.560 --> 01:34:42.720
when you're at RCW you will see
the wide selection of plants that They carry

1295
01:34:42.920 --> 01:34:46.239
things that do so well here,
and there's not a better time to plant

1296
01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:50.479
than fall, whether it's perennials or
trees and shrubs, you name it,

1297
01:34:50.600 --> 01:34:56.079
perennial herbs. Even now's the time. So get out to rcw's begin check

1298
01:34:56.119 --> 01:34:59.119
them out. You'll see what I'm
talking about. And it's a lot of

1299
01:34:59.159 --> 01:35:02.000
fun too. By the way,
I always like to go visit the place

1300
01:35:02.119 --> 01:35:08.079
and their roase selection. Oh my
gosh, very very like four pages single

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01:35:08.119 --> 01:35:13.560
space of rose varieties that they can
get and carry there at the RCW.

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That is pretty cool. You know. When it comes to making sure your

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power supply at your house is always
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these generators are set up to be a

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01:36:56.279 --> 01:36:59.920
going to head out now to Fairfield
and talk to Marty. Hello, Marty,

1322
01:37:00.199 --> 01:37:03.199
h morning Skift. It's a beautiful
day to garden, isn't it?

1323
01:37:03.279 --> 01:37:10.199
Hey? Yes it is. I
am getting some new molts and a vetch

1324
01:37:10.479 --> 01:37:14.800
veggie soil on Monday. Yes,
but I have an area that has really

1325
01:37:15.359 --> 01:37:20.439
been overgrown with some beauty grass.
Okay, it does have plants in it,

1326
01:37:20.600 --> 01:37:26.680
so I can't really spray anything.
How would you suggest I get rid

1327
01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:30.399
of it? Besides get out and
dig it out? What kind of plants

1328
01:37:30.399 --> 01:37:36.479
are in there? I have a
Petty Martin, Rose, Lantana and Esperanza.

1329
01:37:38.079 --> 01:37:43.840
Okay, what I would do in
that situation as one of two things,

1330
01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:47.159
Well, I would I would use
a wiper applicator for a product to

1331
01:37:47.239 --> 01:37:54.239
kilber mutagrass. And I make my
own by using one of those grabber tools

1332
01:37:54.239 --> 01:37:57.000
that you get a jar off a
shelf with. They're about three feet long.

1333
01:37:57.880 --> 01:38:00.119
Okay, if you can figure out
a way, you or someone figure

1334
01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:04.600
out a way to put two sponges
on the grabber end. I take a

1335
01:38:05.159 --> 01:38:10.680
kitchen sponge, the standard little small
kitchen sponge. I cut it in half

1336
01:38:11.279 --> 01:38:15.279
and with bolts and a couple of
little metal plates that they use it.

1337
01:38:15.680 --> 01:38:19.560
You can buy them at hardware stores
to join two two by fours. Using

1338
01:38:19.600 --> 01:38:24.680
those, I bolt it on.
Then you can squirt whatever you want to

1339
01:38:24.760 --> 01:38:28.640
use to kill stuff on there,
and you just reach under the plant,

1340
01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:32.039
grab that leaves and just pull on
it and it wipes it all the way

1341
01:38:32.079 --> 01:38:35.000
down the runner, all the way
up the leaves, and you can go

1342
01:38:35.039 --> 01:38:39.800
through and do a lot of little
surgical care in there around the plants.

1343
01:38:39.840 --> 01:38:42.880
Now, if it's far enough away
where you can spray, you can do

1344
01:38:42.960 --> 01:38:46.199
that. Maybe get a big shield, like a piece of cardboard or something

1345
01:38:46.239 --> 01:38:51.000
so the spray doesn't drift over onto
something good. But you can do that

1346
01:38:51.039 --> 01:38:56.279
surgical removal that way. It's not
easy, but at least it's an option

1347
01:38:56.479 --> 01:38:58.840
other than digging it up, because
when you dig it up, you're going

1348
01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:03.439
to be damaging the roots of those
desirable plants you mentioned. Yeah, what

1349
01:39:03.640 --> 01:39:08.319
are you talking when you say that? Little metal things got a hinge like

1350
01:39:09.000 --> 01:39:11.840
about it? Like a mall.
No, it's it's a plate and I'm

1351
01:39:11.880 --> 01:39:14.840
just gonna guess that. And then
they come in different sizes, but maybe

1352
01:39:14.880 --> 01:39:19.319
about four inch four inches by five
inches or something like that. They have

1353
01:39:19.359 --> 01:39:25.119
little holes in them, and you
put them where two two by fours join

1354
01:39:25.359 --> 01:39:30.520
and screw into through the holes to
join those two. They're simple, simple

1355
01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:32.000
to do. You can devise anything. Use a piece of wood. The

1356
01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:35.319
only idea is you need something to
support the sponges so when you squeeze it

1357
01:39:35.359 --> 01:39:40.199
they just just don't ben back.
All right, got it? Thank you?

1358
01:39:40.439 --> 01:39:43.880
Hey, good luck, good luck
Marty I hope you have success with

1359
01:39:43.920 --> 01:39:47.760
that. I've used it quite a
bit in the past myself. Well,

1360
01:39:47.880 --> 01:39:51.319
here we are, time for another
break. Seven one three two one two

1361
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fifty eight seventy four and now the
Nicky News Network. Good morning on a

1362
01:39:59.680 --> 01:40:02.279
gol Just Saturday morning, and a
great day for gardening. You know,

1363
01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:05.760
every day's a great good day for
gardening. I don't if it's pouring rain

1364
01:40:05.840 --> 01:40:10.119
outside. Hey, you got house
plants, you got seed starting, lots

1365
01:40:10.159 --> 01:40:14.399
to do. Gardeners never run out
of work, by the way, they

1366
01:40:14.479 --> 01:40:17.840
never do. It is always something
new every time you turn around. Hey,

1367
01:40:17.880 --> 01:40:23.000
our phone number here on garden Line
is seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. Seven one
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Have you ever been out to the
bee supplying Dayton. I've talked about

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01:40:32.840 --> 01:40:36.560
it before. You've heard me many
times talk about it. I love to

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go there. I mean, it
is a wonderful supply store for everything bees.

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They have everything you need. By
the way, if you want to

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01:40:45.720 --> 01:40:49.600
get bees, the bees themselves ordered. If you're a beekeeper, now's the

1374
01:40:49.640 --> 01:40:53.800
time to do it. You can
pre order go to the website. Go

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01:40:53.880 --> 01:40:57.560
to their website and pick them up
in the spring. Spring pickup's going to

1376
01:40:57.600 --> 01:41:00.000
start about April eleventh, and I
think go through the of May. Now

1377
01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:03.039
they have a couple of strains of
bees that you can choose from, but

1378
01:41:03.439 --> 01:41:06.319
the early dates sell out quick,
so if you want to pick them up

1379
01:41:06.439 --> 01:41:11.159
toward the April eleventh end of it, of that time, you need to

1380
01:41:11.199 --> 01:41:15.600
get that done as soon as possible. Now, the classes that they offer

1381
01:41:15.800 --> 01:41:20.000
for beekeepers or for people who want
to be beekeepers, they are outstanding.

1382
01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:25.199
They have a wonderful little place there
indoors where you can do your classes.

1383
01:41:25.199 --> 01:41:29.119
They give you lots of opportunities for
hands on I mean, it is just

1384
01:41:29.239 --> 01:41:32.239
cool. If you don't even want
to think about keeping bees, but you

1385
01:41:32.279 --> 01:41:36.359
want to learn about one of the
most fascinating insects on the planet, go

1386
01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:42.159
check out their new observation hYP over
seven feet tall. It's got frames full

1387
01:41:42.159 --> 01:41:45.520
of bees. You can watch the
bees coming in and out from outdoors down

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01:41:45.560 --> 01:41:50.439
this long tube to this giant plexiglass
room if you will, where all the

1389
01:41:50.439 --> 01:41:55.479
bees are doing their stuff. Kids
will find it fascinating and so will you

1390
01:41:55.520 --> 01:41:57.560
too. And when you go out
and do a little bee tour, you

1391
01:41:57.560 --> 01:42:00.640
get'll be samples of honey, different
kinds of honey in it. It's just

1392
01:42:00.680 --> 01:42:05.039
a lot of fun. Hey,
it's easy that website thebesupply dot com,

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thebsupply dot com or call them nine
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nine. Uh. The first time
I went there, I'd never seen anything

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01:42:16.760 --> 01:42:20.239
like the b Supply before. I
mean, it is a really really cool

1396
01:42:20.279 --> 01:42:25.239
place. We're gonna head out now
to pair Land and we're gonna talk to

1397
01:42:25.359 --> 01:42:29.079
Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey, good morning. How are you today?

1398
01:42:29.199 --> 01:42:31.640
I'm well, how are you doing
doing good? Hey? I heard

1399
01:42:31.640 --> 01:42:36.439
you talking about doing a core aeration
on our lawn, especially after this long

1400
01:42:36.439 --> 01:42:41.119
summer. And I'm down here and
on the south side of Paarland, and

1401
01:42:41.319 --> 01:42:45.159
do you have a suggestion for someone
to do that in my area? Yes?

1402
01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:48.039
Uh, gosh, I just went
blank. Hang on, I'm say

1403
01:42:48.039 --> 01:42:53.960
I'm gonna say it in just a
moment. Oh heck yeah, let me

1404
01:42:53.960 --> 01:42:59.319
talk about correoration just for a moment. Cor Aeration brings oxygen into the soil,

1405
01:42:59.399 --> 01:43:04.560
and if you've got a somewhat compacted
root system due to lack of oxygen

1406
01:43:04.560 --> 01:43:10.479
in the soil because the soil is
so pounded down, it is important that

1407
01:43:10.560 --> 01:43:14.479
you do the core aeration, and
I always recommend doing a compost top dressing

1408
01:43:14.640 --> 01:43:17.039
on top of it all. And
the name I couldn't think a while ago

1409
01:43:17.159 --> 01:43:21.520
was Greenpro. The folks at Greenpro
they know what they're doing when it comes

1410
01:43:21.520 --> 01:43:26.319
to core aeration. I mean they've
been doing this for a while. They

1411
01:43:26.359 --> 01:43:30.359
are experts at it, and you're
just going to find that when Greenpro comes

1412
01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:35.520
in and they do a core aeration
for you, you have success. They

1413
01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:41.479
make it where the grass has the
best chance in the world to grow,

1414
01:43:41.840 --> 01:43:45.399
absolute best chance in the world.
Cool. Well, I'll give them a

1415
01:43:45.399 --> 01:43:47.279
call because I've done it, you
know, rented the machine and done it.

1416
01:43:47.319 --> 01:43:50.479
But it's just the ones that pokes
holes and it didn't seem to do

1417
01:43:51.039 --> 01:43:54.520
is good a job. So I
was wanting to try that and try to

1418
01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:58.960
give this yard a chance after Yeah. Yeah. The equipment they use is

1419
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:01.600
it's very expensive equipment because it does
the job right. I mean it does

1420
01:44:01.640 --> 01:44:06.560
a whole you know, it corroorates
a little bit deeper into the soil.

1421
01:44:08.000 --> 01:44:11.199
And uh. They also with the
compost top dressing. It's good. You

1422
01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:13.399
can go online, by the way, you're talking about, give them a

1423
01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:17.079
call Greenpro dot net. I would
go to Greenpro dot net or if you

1424
01:44:17.079 --> 01:44:23.840
want to give them are it's two
eight one three five one forty seven thirty

1425
01:44:23.880 --> 01:44:28.319
three yeah, forty three. Yeah. Well, I certainly appreciate it.

1426
01:44:28.399 --> 01:44:30.600
All right, thank you. I
appreciate that show. Thank you. Keep

1427
01:44:30.840 --> 01:44:33.880
good word. That's the plan,
all right, all right, you take

1428
01:44:33.920 --> 01:44:41.000
care? Yeah, boy, I
can't believe I go blank. Just the

1429
01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:47.800
opportunities that we have here in Houston
for quality care of all our plants,

1430
01:44:47.800 --> 01:44:51.800
our trees, our lawns and things
like that. That's really cool. And

1431
01:44:51.840 --> 01:44:56.039
if you if you've got a law
that's struggling during due to compaction, I

1432
01:44:56.039 --> 01:45:00.520
would I would definitely give the folks
at Greenpro a call. Uh head out

1433
01:45:00.560 --> 01:45:02.279
now to Conroad and we're going to
talk to Bill. Hello. Bill,

1434
01:45:04.159 --> 01:45:09.680
I get a real quick question.
I've got some old fertilizer. It's twelve

1435
01:45:09.880 --> 01:45:13.760
twenty four to twelve, and I
look at your schedule and I'm kind of

1436
01:45:13.760 --> 01:45:16.239
going, Okay, I guess now
is it decent time to use? It

1437
01:45:16.239 --> 01:45:20.439
doesn't sound like it's a good summer
or even spring kind of fertilizer. Yeah.

1438
01:45:20.439 --> 01:45:25.319
And the second question is how old's
too old for fertilizer? Oh?

1439
01:45:25.319 --> 01:45:28.239
In that twelve twenty four twelve,
it's fine. I don't know. I

1440
01:45:28.279 --> 01:45:31.520
mean, I guess under certain storage
conditions you're gonna you're gonna maybe get some

1441
01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:35.399
of the nitrogen volatilizing or something like
that. But I wouldn't worry about.

1442
01:45:35.399 --> 01:45:40.479
I'm a good and use what you
got. I don't normally recommend it unless

1443
01:45:40.640 --> 01:45:46.119
a soil test indicates a lack of
phosphorus in the soil. If you want

1444
01:45:46.119 --> 01:45:49.600
to do it once there's you know, you're not going to hurt anything.

1445
01:45:50.479 --> 01:45:57.439
But if you year after year go
That's why our fertilizer recommendations generally through the

1446
01:45:57.800 --> 01:46:01.039
course of the spring through summer season
or very low phosphorus, just because it

1447
01:46:01.079 --> 01:46:04.880
builds up over time. And that's
why I don't recommend it. But if

1448
01:46:04.920 --> 01:46:08.079
you want to go ahead and put
it out now, let's see twelve twenty

1449
01:46:08.119 --> 01:46:12.960
four to twelve, that would be
seven ten. I would put eight or

1450
01:46:13.079 --> 01:46:16.439
nine pounds of that down probably let
me go a little lower. Let me

1451
01:46:16.479 --> 01:46:23.199
go six to eight pounds of that
putting on your lawn right now per thousand

1452
01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:26.479
square feet per thousand Yes, sorry, all right, pretty good, all

1453
01:46:27.079 --> 01:46:31.359
thank you. You met appreciate that
call very much, very very much.

1454
01:46:31.840 --> 01:46:35.039
Yeah. You know, there's a
lot of ways to go about putting nutrients

1455
01:46:35.079 --> 01:46:39.960
on the lawn, and one of
the best ways I think that you can

1456
01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:45.079
do it it is through an organic
fertilizer such as Microlife. Microlife fertilizers are

1457
01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:51.399
chocked full of microbes and that is
really important. They also have the nutrient

1458
01:46:51.439 --> 01:46:57.239
blends and ratios that do so well
here in our soils. Of those of

1459
01:46:57.279 --> 01:47:01.399
you who've used Microlife for years attest
to me that you know, here comes

1460
01:47:01.439 --> 01:47:06.560
fall season and they're just not seeing
the brown patch just by creating a healthy

1461
01:47:06.640 --> 01:47:12.079
lawn full of microbes, full of
organic matter, building the soil better and

1462
01:47:12.119 --> 01:47:15.039
better and better, and you just
kind of put the grass in a state

1463
01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:19.520
where some of these issues just don't
really show up. They have an ultimate,

1464
01:47:19.600 --> 01:47:23.800
by the way, the Microlife Ultimate, that's a blue bag. It

1465
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:28.680
is an eight four six fertilizer.
And then they've got the Microlife Ocean Harvest

1466
01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:30.479
and you've heard me talk about that
one a lot. But that's a fish

1467
01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:34.319
based fertilizer. And when you're putting
in a plant, a new plant,

1468
01:47:34.880 --> 01:47:39.359
you can put these. Normally,
we don't add fertilizer to the planting hole

1469
01:47:39.359 --> 01:47:41.840
but you can add a little mix
it in with the soil you're filling back

1470
01:47:41.880 --> 01:47:45.680
in if you want, or just
fertilize on top. And they just really

1471
01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:49.720
help that tree, shrub rose,
bush, whatever you're doing, they just

1472
01:47:49.760 --> 01:47:55.079
help it to get established better.
And both the Microlife Ultimate which is the

1473
01:47:55.119 --> 01:48:00.279
Blue Bag eight four six, and
the molt the Microlife Ocean Harvest which is

1474
01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:04.039
also the Blue Bottle. They're available
widely across town and you can go to

1475
01:48:04.119 --> 01:48:10.000
Microlifefertilizer dot com where you can find
out where they're available and learn more about

1476
01:48:10.039 --> 01:48:14.199
them as well. Well, we're
gonna have to run take a little break

1477
01:48:14.279 --> 01:48:16.960
right here. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1478
01:48:17.119 --> 01:48:20.479
seventy four. Jess and Archie,
you will be the first up when we

1479
01:48:20.520 --> 01:48:26.720
come back on a beautiful Saturday morning. You're listening to garden Line and our

1480
01:48:26.760 --> 01:48:30.159
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four, and

1481
01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:35.319
we're going to start off this section
going out to Baytown to talk to Jess.

1482
01:48:35.439 --> 01:48:40.840
Hello Jess, Thank good morning,
scamp. I just moved in to

1483
01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:45.399
a house and the yards overgoing Virginia
button weed. I wondering what you can

1484
01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:49.760
recommend to get rid of that stuff. Let's see Saint Augustine lawn. Yes,

1485
01:48:49.800 --> 01:48:56.319
sir, okayy, sir, I
would say probably I would do Celsius.

1486
01:48:56.479 --> 01:49:01.279
That works pretty well. Virginia buttonweed
is hard to control. It's very

1487
01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:05.800
it's very difficult, difficult to control, and so I think Celsius is going

1488
01:49:05.880 --> 01:49:10.880
to do as good as anything for
you and the home market. That is,

1489
01:49:12.560 --> 01:49:15.119
you mix it up and you know, it comes in a little packet

1490
01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:19.199
where you mix it up in water
and spray it, and you're going to

1491
01:49:19.279 --> 01:49:24.920
have to redo it too. One
spray, wait until you see growth in

1492
01:49:24.960 --> 01:49:29.520
the spring, and then when you
see growth in the spring, you see

1493
01:49:29.560 --> 01:49:31.520
okay, there's button weed, go
ahead and spray it. Then you're probably

1494
01:49:31.520 --> 01:49:35.720
going to do something again about two
or three weeks later to it as well.

1495
01:49:35.760 --> 01:49:41.000
But just kind of watch how it
goes. But the other thing with

1496
01:49:41.159 --> 01:49:46.000
Virginia button weed just is do everything
you can to not overwater. The more

1497
01:49:46.079 --> 01:49:49.680
you keep the soil a little on
the wet side, the more it proliferates.

1498
01:49:49.720 --> 01:49:53.439
And we'd rather slow it down a
little bit. You can have a

1499
01:49:53.479 --> 01:49:58.800
happy turf, a happy Saint Augustine
with a lower amount of water and it

1500
01:49:58.920 --> 01:50:03.319
helps not cause the button weed to
just take over the world. Yeah,

1501
01:50:03.319 --> 01:50:09.000
because it's it's like almost a whole
turf's almost Virginia buttonweed right now. It's

1502
01:50:09.000 --> 01:50:11.000
pretty bad. They have a big
care of it a long time, so

1503
01:50:11.479 --> 01:50:15.079
I know, I know, I
hate, I hate those situations, but

1504
01:50:15.239 --> 01:50:17.439
a lot of people have that and
they have to deal with it. But

1505
01:50:17.560 --> 01:50:19.880
yeah, I would I would do
that. I would do the Celsius,

1506
01:50:19.920 --> 01:50:23.239
I think is going to be your
best bet. There's some others that will

1507
01:50:23.399 --> 01:50:28.600
knock it back a little bit.
Now. There's one called speed Zone Southern

1508
01:50:28.680 --> 01:50:32.560
that's pretty good, but I think
the Celsius do a little better. Sounds

1509
01:50:32.560 --> 01:50:35.079
great. Well, thank you for
your helping enjoy the show. Thank you

1510
01:50:35.119 --> 01:50:40.039
so much. Appreciate that. That
is. Let's see, let's go out

1511
01:50:40.079 --> 01:50:43.399
to pair Land now and we're going
to talk to Archie. Hello Archie,

1512
01:50:44.319 --> 01:50:47.880
morning Skip. I wanted to I
wanted to call in this morning and kind

1513
01:50:47.880 --> 01:50:55.800
of throw out a little information.
We're having next Saturday, October twenty eighth

1514
01:50:56.319 --> 01:51:00.720
at the bel Air Civic Center on
seven thousand and eight South Rice Avenue in

1515
01:51:00.760 --> 01:51:06.680
bel Air. We're having the South
Central District Rose Convention and the Houston Road

1516
01:51:06.760 --> 01:51:13.520
Society is sponsoring that. We're going
to have two seminars, one at ten

1517
01:51:13.680 --> 01:51:18.560
thirty growing successful Roses and containers.
Donald Berger, a master rosarian, is

1518
01:51:18.600 --> 01:51:24.800
going to present that and then at
eleven ten propagation with the pros and Rose

1519
01:51:24.840 --> 01:51:30.159
Cutting Exchange. It'll they'll be people. Yeah, it sounds like a great

1520
01:51:30.159 --> 01:51:32.720
event. And I was talking to
somebody the other day about Rose Society event

1521
01:51:32.800 --> 01:51:35.560
and said, yeah, give us
a call. Let's talk about that.

1522
01:51:36.079 --> 01:51:41.279
How do people that aren't rose growers? How do they get involved in this?

1523
01:51:41.439 --> 01:51:45.000
Maybe they have a rosebush or they
want to learn more. What does

1524
01:51:45.000 --> 01:51:49.720
it cost them and what? You
know? We'll go ahead viewing viewing starts.

1525
01:51:50.039 --> 01:51:54.960
The viewing is open to the public
and it starts at twelve thirty till

1526
01:51:55.039 --> 01:52:00.720
three pm, and they can just
come, there's no cause. But if

1527
01:52:00.720 --> 01:52:04.199
they want to go to the seminars
starting at ten thirty that morning, the

1528
01:52:04.279 --> 01:52:11.560
cost is five dollars and that's for
both seminars and the propit. That's you

1529
01:52:11.560 --> 01:52:14.680
can hardly you spend more on a
cup of coffee on the way to the

1530
01:52:14.720 --> 01:52:17.680
event than Oh. You're right,
you're right. And there's going to be

1531
01:52:18.079 --> 01:52:25.239
people from three states exhibiting their roses
Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas. There

1532
01:52:25.279 --> 01:52:29.199
may actually be some people coming to
even exhibit that's not in those three states,

1533
01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:34.279
but we know we're and you'll see
roses that you normally don't see because

1534
01:52:34.319 --> 01:52:39.439
some of these people have propagated roses
that may not even be on the market

1535
01:52:39.439 --> 01:52:43.119
anymore. That's cool. Well,
now we have to have a disclaimer,

1536
01:52:43.239 --> 01:52:46.560
Argie, and that is that roses
are addictive and sore. If you go

1537
01:52:46.640 --> 01:52:50.159
to this thing, we are not
responsible for what happens. After all,

1538
01:52:51.199 --> 01:52:56.479
after I got married in nineteen seventy
eight, I bought three roses Love,

1539
01:52:56.600 --> 01:53:00.199
Honor and Cherries that came out from
I leave. It was Week's nursery that

1540
01:53:00.319 --> 01:53:02.960
time, and from there on,
you know, you just add more and

1541
01:53:03.000 --> 01:53:08.760
more roses. Well, there will
be there will be a cutt exchange.

1542
01:53:08.840 --> 01:53:12.560
So after you've attended that class of
how to propagate them, you may come

1543
01:53:12.600 --> 01:53:15.119
away with some cuttings from roses.
Oh my gosh. All right, real

1544
01:53:15.199 --> 01:53:20.119
quick, tell us again the time
and the location for people that are interested.

1545
01:53:20.359 --> 01:53:24.600
It's going to be at the bel
Air Civic Center on seven thousand and

1546
01:53:24.600 --> 01:53:28.119
eight South Rice Boulevard, bell Air, Texas. And if they want to

1547
01:53:28.119 --> 01:53:33.880
go to our website. They can
get that information too. And the seminars

1548
01:53:33.920 --> 01:53:41.159
began at ten thirty successful Growing Roses
in Containers, Donald Berger, a master

1549
01:53:41.319 --> 01:53:45.640
rosarian and just in general times.
It starts at ten thirty the seminars,

1550
01:53:45.760 --> 01:53:49.560
right, and the next one is
the eleven ten. The five dollars gets

1551
01:53:49.520 --> 01:53:56.800
you into both and then and at
twelve thirty till three the actual you can

1552
01:53:56.800 --> 01:54:00.079
go in and see the roses that
are being exhibited and the arrangements. There

1553
01:54:00.119 --> 01:54:04.880
will be arrangements. They'll be also
a photos of people who are entering,

1554
01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:08.840
the photos of their rose gardens and
stuff. Okay, so there'll be a

1555
01:54:08.880 --> 01:54:11.359
lot to see. Sounds like it. All right. We'll say hi to

1556
01:54:11.359 --> 01:54:14.640
all the rose folks for me,
and I appreciate the call, Thank you

1557
01:54:14.720 --> 01:54:15.920
very much. I'm going to get
on here to another car, Yes,

1558
01:54:15.960 --> 01:54:19.560
sir, take care. We're going
to go now to clear Lake and talk

1559
01:54:19.600 --> 01:54:25.800
to Mario. Hello, Mario,
Hey skip, Sorry my phone checked out

1560
01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:30.079
on me and I was away from
the radio. I just need a replacement

1561
01:54:30.119 --> 01:54:33.960
for the Japanese blueberry. Okay,
that looks like it, but it's a

1562
01:54:34.000 --> 01:54:38.279
little bit more hearty, you know, because I don'm losing those. Yeah,

1563
01:54:38.399 --> 01:54:40.600
yeah, right, Well, when
you say looks like it, I

1564
01:54:40.640 --> 01:54:43.159
don't know if I can give you
looks like it, but I know that

1565
01:54:43.199 --> 01:54:46.159
some of the upright types of you
pond plant it close enough can make a

1566
01:54:46.239 --> 01:54:50.760
wall of foliage. The Anne La
R. Stevens holly is a good one.

1567
01:54:50.800 --> 01:54:55.439
If you can get that established,
well, it'll do well in doing

1568
01:54:55.479 --> 01:55:01.119
that. And then the Japanese you
ye w jepanees you has long strappy leaves.

1569
01:55:01.159 --> 01:55:05.359
It's an evergreen, and it again
forms a nice little wall if you're

1570
01:55:05.399 --> 01:55:10.640
trying to block off a view.
All right. Actually, actually I have

1571
01:55:10.720 --> 01:55:15.720
it in the center of a plant, you know, a planning Oh okay,

1572
01:55:15.720 --> 01:55:19.239
different, So you know I kind
of like that upright look that gives

1573
01:55:19.279 --> 01:55:23.960
it a little height. Yeah,
yeah, well Japanese sounds good to me.

1574
01:55:24.199 --> 01:55:26.600
Yeah, that would work, That
would do well. I mean there

1575
01:55:26.600 --> 01:55:29.239
are other things you could plant.
You just have to trum them and trum

1576
01:55:29.279 --> 01:55:30.960
them to keep them in that shape. That's that's the true, right,

1577
01:55:31.119 --> 01:55:34.399
exactly exactly. All right, Well, thank you so much for taking my

1578
01:55:34.439 --> 01:55:38.359
call twice today. I really enjoy
your show. Well, thank you.

1579
01:55:38.399 --> 01:55:42.279
I appreciate that you take care.
Good luck with it with those. Uh,

1580
01:55:42.479 --> 01:55:45.520
let's see, let's go now out
to Sandy and Cyprus. Hello,

1581
01:55:45.680 --> 01:55:51.399
Sandy, high skip, good morning
morning. I have a question. Can

1582
01:55:51.479 --> 01:55:59.199
I spray name oil directly on my
okrah that's coming that's so small, but

1583
01:55:59.279 --> 01:56:04.520
it's got a fids on it all
over? You know, Sandy, you'd

1584
01:56:04.520 --> 01:56:09.720
have to check the label. Is
it labeled for vegetables or not to be

1585
01:56:09.840 --> 01:56:14.279
sure. Here's what I do,
and I had. It's strange with okra.

1586
01:56:14.399 --> 01:56:16.880
You get aphids maybe on just a
few plants here or there, one

1587
01:56:16.920 --> 01:56:20.199
plant, and it's just not evenly. Is that how it is with yours?

1588
01:56:20.560 --> 01:56:26.720
They're not on every plant. They're
starting to get No, they're not

1589
01:56:26.800 --> 01:56:30.279
on every okra, but it's more
and more increasingly. Okay, it's well,

1590
01:56:30.840 --> 01:56:35.199
and it's even on. But my
flowers that are trying the bud,

1591
01:56:35.479 --> 01:56:40.159
Okay, they're all over those.
Okay. Well, here's here's the thing.

1592
01:56:40.880 --> 01:56:43.560
We're ochre is about done. I
mean, yes, we have a

1593
01:56:43.600 --> 01:56:47.159
few more weeks of harvesting and things. But I just take a strong blast

1594
01:56:47.159 --> 01:56:50.319
of water and blast a whole bunch
of them off and get the numbers down

1595
01:56:50.359 --> 01:56:54.720
to where they're not a big problem. That's what I do. If you

1596
01:56:54.760 --> 01:56:58.680
want to go out there with a
spray oil or insecticidal soap. Either one

1597
01:56:58.720 --> 01:57:02.960
of those would work on controlling the
aphis okay, all right, all right,

1598
01:57:02.960 --> 01:57:05.680
that's what I want to do.
No, thank you, you bet,

1599
01:57:05.760 --> 01:57:11.680
I appreciate I appreciate that call very
much. Well, you know,

1600
01:57:11.840 --> 01:57:14.600
time, I don't know. It
always seems to fly. They say time

1601
01:57:14.600 --> 01:57:20.479
flies when you're having fun. I'm
having some fun. All right, let's

1602
01:57:20.479 --> 01:57:25.840
see, we're gonna go now to
Galveston and we're gonna talk to Michael.

1603
01:57:26.079 --> 01:57:30.159
Hello, Michael, how are you
today? I'm doing fun, sir.

1604
01:57:30.479 --> 01:57:36.840
Your answer, fella, given the
name of a store in Leaks City,

1605
01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:45.239
there's no store that handles a product
you recommend. And he said League City

1606
01:57:45.439 --> 01:57:50.159
Feed, And he said, I
could get the phone number from that one.

1607
01:57:50.560 --> 01:57:55.439
Okay, you know any lace in
Texas City that would be nice too,

1608
01:57:55.520 --> 01:57:59.119
because that's just a stone throw.
Let me just let me just give

1609
01:57:59.119 --> 01:58:04.520
you League City fee. Here's the
phone number two eight one three eight who

1610
01:58:04.640 --> 01:58:12.000
O T you? Eight one three
three two three three two one six one

1611
01:58:12.079 --> 01:58:19.319
two one six one two two eight
one three three two one six one two

1612
01:58:19.560 --> 01:58:23.199
that's it. And if you haven't
been there before, it's on Highway three,

1613
01:58:23.399 --> 01:58:28.840
a few blocks south of Highway ninety
six. Okay, yeah, well

1614
01:58:29.199 --> 01:58:33.199
I on my way to tax Leak
City there you go to know, all

1615
01:58:33.319 --> 01:58:39.159
right, well, thank you,
and they'll know all about the product,

1616
01:58:39.319 --> 01:58:42.159
you bet, they all on what
I need to put out and all that.

1617
01:58:42.520 --> 01:58:45.680
Absolutely all right, Well you take
care of Michael. Thank you very

1618
01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:49.600
much for that call. I appreciate
that. Hey, guess what at eleven

1619
01:58:49.720 --> 01:58:54.640
thirty today, I'm going to be
an Enchended Gardens in Richmond. That's on

1620
01:58:54.840 --> 01:58:59.399
FM three point fifty nine up Kaiti
direction. So anyone outside west of town

1621
01:58:59.439 --> 01:59:04.039
there, come out and see me
at a Jana Garden's Richmond. Kt r

1622
01:59:04.199 --> 01:59:09.119
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

1623
01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:15.479
this program. Welcome to kt r
H Garden Line with Skip Richter. It's

1624
01:59:16.399 --> 01:59:35.319
crazy trip. Just watch him as
so many things up. Basic. Well,

1625
01:59:35.439 --> 01:59:41.319
good morning on a gorgeous Saturday.
Welcome to Garden Line. If you'd

1626
01:59:41.319 --> 01:59:45.880
like to give us a call,
write this number down seven one three two

1627
01:59:45.960 --> 01:59:49.520
one two fifty eight seventy four,
or if you like letters seven one three

1628
01:59:49.720 --> 01:59:54.439
two one two k t r H, you can get a hold of us

1629
01:59:54.439 --> 02:00:01.079
that way as well. The folks
at Nitrofoss have their Fall Texas three step

1630
02:00:01.239 --> 02:00:05.119
package ready to go. What is
the three step? I know about Texas

1631
02:00:05.199 --> 02:00:09.640
two step. Some of you grew
up doing the two step. Well,

1632
02:00:09.640 --> 02:00:14.359
the three step is a fertilizer,
a weed control, and a fungicide,

1633
02:00:14.520 --> 02:00:17.680
three different products, all packaged together, all used at about the same time.

1634
02:00:17.760 --> 02:00:21.800
Really, the fertilizer Nitrofoss falls special. You need to get that on

1635
02:00:21.960 --> 02:00:26.239
now. You need to get it
on so as many weeks as possible that

1636
02:00:26.319 --> 02:00:32.199
lawn can take up those nutrients and
get stronger going into the winter because the

1637
02:00:32.479 --> 02:00:38.800
high potassium levels and the lower nitrogen
levels are ideal for just that to happen,

1638
02:00:39.159 --> 02:00:41.760
and it comes out stronger in the
spring. Is a result. Number

1639
02:00:41.800 --> 02:00:45.039
two. The barricade, that is
the pre emergent grassy weeds and broad leaf

1640
02:00:45.039 --> 02:00:48.119
weeds are controlled. You put it
down, you water it in about a

1641
02:00:48.159 --> 02:00:53.079
half inch of water, and it
just goes to the surface and forms a

1642
02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:57.720
barricade that prevents weed seeds from ever
getting a start. And then third,

1643
02:00:58.119 --> 02:01:01.479
Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide, Well,
that soaks into the tissues of the grass

1644
02:01:02.039 --> 02:01:05.800
and when a disease comes along,
you already have been ahead of it,

1645
02:01:06.119 --> 02:01:11.319
and that disease has trouble establishing things
like brown patch, for example, or

1646
02:01:11.359 --> 02:01:15.600
take all root rot. Once our
nights are consistently down around fifty five degrees,

1647
02:01:15.000 --> 02:01:18.239
take all root rot gets really happy
at that point in time, and

1648
02:01:18.279 --> 02:01:24.119
it's looking for the opportunity to get
into your grass plants one two, three

1649
02:01:24.159 --> 02:01:29.600
Texas three step fall special barricade nitrofoss
Eagle, Now where do you get these

1650
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:33.199
warren? Southern Garden out in Kingwood
has them Ace Hardware over in Sinco Ranch

1651
02:01:33.560 --> 02:01:39.079
or the Grower's Outlet in Willis.
All of those are places where you can

1652
02:01:39.119 --> 02:01:42.760
find nitro foss. Not the only
places, though, it is widely available

1653
02:01:43.119 --> 02:01:47.760
around town. Let's head out now
to Missouri City if I can find my

1654
02:01:47.880 --> 02:01:51.119
little clicker there, and we're going
to talk to Paul. Hello, Paul,

1655
02:01:53.359 --> 02:01:58.119
Yeah, good morning. Skip two
questions. When is the best time

1656
02:01:58.319 --> 02:02:01.560
to do tree trimming, Well,
it depends on how much you need to

1657
02:02:01.560 --> 02:02:05.279
do. You can trimetry any month
of the year. We do most of

1658
02:02:05.319 --> 02:02:11.479
our pruning in mid to late winter, but a lot of folks once they

1659
02:02:11.720 --> 02:02:13.960
you know, cools off, tree
gets a little dormant. They will do

1660
02:02:13.960 --> 02:02:16.279
a little bit of pruning in the
fall as well. But you know,

1661
02:02:16.319 --> 02:02:20.000
if you need massive amounts, let's
say, a major pruning job, I'd

1662
02:02:20.039 --> 02:02:26.800
do it in midwinter. Do it
in the in the winter, yes,

1663
02:02:27.079 --> 02:02:31.760
h huh. Yeah, okay for
a lot of pruning. But again for

1664
02:02:31.800 --> 02:02:34.399
a lot of trimming. Yeah,
if you just need to remove a lem

1665
02:02:34.479 --> 02:02:38.520
here there, we can do that
a lot of times there. Yeah,

1666
02:02:38.600 --> 02:02:43.760
okay, okay. Now the other
question is regarding a pineapple plant. I

1667
02:02:43.840 --> 02:02:47.520
bought one in the midsummer. It
was a very nice little plant, put

1668
02:02:47.560 --> 02:02:54.399
it in a big pot and it
grew a little bit. But at one

1669
02:02:54.399 --> 02:02:58.640
point when it got nice and ripe, I had really no intention to harvest

1670
02:02:58.680 --> 02:03:02.760
it myself, but some cruter or
something got to it and ate it.

1671
02:03:02.800 --> 02:03:08.119
But my wife foot took the top
of it. I guess the crown put

1672
02:03:08.159 --> 02:03:13.760
it in water, and now a
root system has developed. Now can I

1673
02:03:13.800 --> 02:03:17.159
plant that? Yes? Absolutely,
you plant that. That is how a

1674
02:03:17.640 --> 02:03:23.720
homeowner level. That is how you
would propagate a pineapple is by cutting the

1675
02:03:23.760 --> 02:03:28.720
top off, getting all the juicy
pineapple e parts away from the base,

1676
02:03:29.079 --> 02:03:32.840
and just at the very base where
those little leaves go into the top rootel

1677
02:03:32.880 --> 02:03:36.720
farm and once they're formed to go
ahead and pot it up because you can

1678
02:03:38.119 --> 02:03:42.159
you can have another pineapple from that
new plant. Okay, great, So

1679
02:03:42.399 --> 02:03:48.880
what is the best mix then for
that The best just a quality potting soil.

1680
02:03:49.359 --> 02:03:54.479
They're not really picking. They just
a good quality potting soil would be

1681
02:03:54.520 --> 02:03:59.039
just fine for those Okay, okay, well, all good news, Thank

1682
02:03:59.079 --> 02:04:01.439
you so much. Well, thank
you. I appreciate, appreciate your call

1683
02:04:01.600 --> 02:04:10.680
very much. If you're on what
is it called Tomball Parkway, Tomball Parkway,

1684
02:04:11.199 --> 02:04:15.720
going north toward Tomball direction, you're
going to run across a really special

1685
02:04:15.800 --> 02:04:20.560
nursery and that is called Plants for
All Seasons. Plants for All Seasons is

1686
02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:27.159
just north of where Luetta comes into
Tomball Parkway. And I mean just go

1687
02:04:27.199 --> 02:04:30.439
there and look. You'll see what
I'm talking about. Wide selection, beautiful,

1688
02:04:30.680 --> 02:04:34.920
beautiful plants. If you want your
fall and winter landscape to look good,

1689
02:04:35.399 --> 02:04:39.439
pull in. Talk to them.
They have folks that know what they're

1690
02:04:39.479 --> 02:04:44.119
talking about. Sherry, and really
the whole family. You know, this

1691
02:04:44.199 --> 02:04:50.439
has been what a family operation since
nineteen seventy three. They absolutely are experts

1692
02:04:50.479 --> 02:04:54.039
and all kinds of things. Take
them a sample in there, Take them

1693
02:04:54.079 --> 02:04:56.239
a sample, say what is this? Take them a picture? What do

1694
02:04:56.319 --> 02:05:00.319
I do about this? Or how
about this? I need beautiful fall color

1695
02:05:00.319 --> 02:05:02.079
in the landscape. What do you
think are my best options? They can

1696
02:05:02.119 --> 02:05:06.479
do all that and more at Plants
for All Seasons. Plants for All Seasons

1697
02:05:06.560 --> 02:05:12.279
dot com is the website the number
two eight one, three, seven six,

1698
02:05:12.760 --> 02:05:19.399
sixteen forty six. Let's see,
We're going to head out to Spring

1699
02:05:19.600 --> 02:05:25.800
Branch now and talk to David.
Hello, David, Hi, good morning,

1700
02:05:25.960 --> 02:05:28.319
Thank you very much for taking my
phone call. Yeah. I had

1701
02:05:28.359 --> 02:05:34.079
a quick question Mike. You know
where I could buy ten fifteen onions to

1702
02:05:35.520 --> 02:05:42.800
grow them, particularly through your nurseries
that you announced there. Have you have

1703
02:05:42.880 --> 02:05:45.600
you done any Have you looked for
them at any of those nurseries yet?

1704
02:05:45.640 --> 02:05:49.000
I did? I don't call Plants
for All Seasons and they will have them

1705
02:05:49.439 --> 02:05:54.920
maybe in about in a few days, and I you know, and I

1706
02:05:55.000 --> 02:05:58.239
tied one night, I can't remember, and they will not have them until

1707
02:05:58.279 --> 02:06:00.840
a couple of weeks from now.
Yeah, well that's a fine time to

1708
02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:03.800
plan them. I mean, it's
not really a problem. You can even

1709
02:06:03.800 --> 02:06:10.920
plant little bundles of those in January, get them in the ground or maybe

1710
02:06:11.199 --> 02:06:13.760
yeah, January, I'd do it
in January, get them in the ground

1711
02:06:13.760 --> 02:06:15.920
and get them going, so there's
really no rush on those. You can

1712
02:06:16.159 --> 02:06:19.439
you can do that. Those Those
are good nurseries, you know, that

1713
02:06:20.199 --> 02:06:24.680
provide what what you're looking for.
But most of our most of our garden

1714
02:06:24.720 --> 02:06:28.359
line, garden centers should should have
those on hand. And the feed stores

1715
02:06:28.359 --> 02:06:31.439
too. Feed stores are really good
about having onions. That would that would

1716
02:06:31.439 --> 02:06:35.279
typically be, if I'm not mistaken, the feed stores are generally going to

1717
02:06:35.359 --> 02:06:39.600
have those in around sometime, you
know, after the first of the year.

1718
02:06:40.720 --> 02:06:43.079
Okay, well, I thought it
was argent to get them now you

1719
02:06:43.079 --> 02:06:45.800
know otol of fifteenth, But are
you saying I can wait a while.

1720
02:06:46.000 --> 02:06:51.560
And thanks for bringing that up,
David. That ten fifteen is why they

1721
02:06:51.560 --> 02:06:57.239
call it the ten fifteen is because
that's the date you plant seeds in the

1722
02:06:57.359 --> 02:07:01.600
valley in the Texas Valley down south. So we're not the Texas Valley and

1723
02:07:01.640 --> 02:07:06.159
you're not planning seeds. So that's
why we take the little transplants, the

1724
02:07:06.199 --> 02:07:13.600
little clusters of plants or and plant
them in the January time, getting a

1725
02:07:13.640 --> 02:07:16.600
head start on the season. All
right, that makes sense. I appreciate

1726
02:07:16.640 --> 02:07:19.560
that you take care, appreciate the
call. Hey, it's time for a

1727
02:07:19.560 --> 02:07:25.800
break. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

1728
02:07:25.840 --> 02:07:30.079
good morning on a gorgeous Saturday morning. You're listening to garden Line and our

1729
02:07:30.119 --> 02:07:34.399
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. If

1730
02:07:34.479 --> 02:07:40.119
you are, if you've got one
of these landscapes that summer just wiped out

1731
02:07:40.199 --> 02:07:44.119
sections, maybe of the lawn,
maybe certain shrubs or trees or other things,

1732
02:07:44.199 --> 02:07:47.560
or struggling, you need to give
Pierscapes a call because they number one.

1733
02:07:47.800 --> 02:07:53.920
They know how to design here,
They know how to what plants to

1734
02:07:54.000 --> 02:07:56.840
include for here. Give them a
call and say, look, I need

1735
02:07:56.880 --> 02:08:01.039
something that's dropped tolerant, I need
a bed redesigned us talk about this or

1736
02:08:01.079 --> 02:08:03.800
that. They can do it all. And maybe you want an outdoor patio

1737
02:08:03.840 --> 02:08:09.279
in the backyard something like that.
Maybe your irrigation system needs work. Boy,

1738
02:08:09.640 --> 02:08:13.880
did we learn about our inefficiencies and
irrigation this summer where some parts of

1739
02:08:13.920 --> 02:08:16.800
the yard were green and other parts
didn't quite get enough water. Well,

1740
02:08:18.039 --> 02:08:22.119
just go to pierscapes dot com.
Pierscapes dot com. They do everything like

1741
02:08:22.159 --> 02:08:26.560
that and more and they can turn
your place. It's a turnkey job.

1742
02:08:26.760 --> 02:08:30.600
You sit down with them, you
plan it out, and they turn it

1743
02:08:30.640 --> 02:08:33.039
into a masterpiece. That's what they
do. Two eight one, three,

1744
02:08:33.119 --> 02:08:39.840
seven oh five zero six zero.
They've been around since nineteen eighty eight and

1745
02:08:39.000 --> 02:08:43.239
they have been creating beauty. Beth
Way, go to that website purescapes dot

1746
02:08:43.279 --> 02:08:46.159
com. You get some pictures of
the kind of work that they've done in

1747
02:08:46.199 --> 02:08:50.920
the past. Let's head out to
bell Air and talk to Beth. Hello,

1748
02:08:50.039 --> 02:08:54.479
Beth, good morning, Thank you
for taking my call. You Bet,

1749
02:08:54.199 --> 02:09:00.000
I have a beautiful three story oak
tree in my front yard. Unfortunate

1750
02:09:00.520 --> 02:09:05.319
when they put the twenty plus years
ago put the sidewalk in, they put

1751
02:09:05.319 --> 02:09:07.560
it too close to the tree,
and now it's breaking up the sidewalk.

1752
02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:11.199
The roots are right and I need
to redo it, Okay. Is there

1753
02:09:11.479 --> 02:09:16.760
any way to I mean, there
are roots all over the front yard going

1754
02:09:16.800 --> 02:09:20.560
either to the street or to my
driveway, no matter how I reroute the

1755
02:09:20.640 --> 02:09:30.399
sidewalk. Is there any way to
protect those roots our special formulation put down

1756
02:09:30.439 --> 02:09:35.960
gravel or is there some way to
redo that and protect my tree without cutting

1757
02:09:35.039 --> 02:09:39.720
roots? Because I won't do that. Yeah, rerouting the sidewalk as much

1758
02:09:39.760 --> 02:09:43.399
as possible. That would be an
option. Getting it further away from the

1759
02:09:43.399 --> 02:09:46.720
tree. You know, when you
get real close to the tree, I

1760
02:09:46.760 --> 02:09:50.399
mean it almost tilts at an angle
because you know, close to the tree

1761
02:09:50.439 --> 02:09:52.920
is where the root is bigger,
and as you get further away so much.

1762
02:09:52.960 --> 02:10:00.079
But rerouting would be an option.
You certainly could do something where you

1763
02:10:00.079 --> 02:10:03.279
you put it a little bit above
the ground level, just a little bit,

1764
02:10:03.279 --> 02:10:07.479
by bringing in some material and raising
it up a little bit. Someone

1765
02:10:07.520 --> 02:10:11.039
who knows how to poor sidewalks ought
to be able to help you with that.

1766
02:10:11.600 --> 02:10:16.560
The alternative to that really is just
to selectively remove some roots from the

1767
02:10:16.600 --> 02:10:20.960
area, but they're just going to
grow back. And I hear from your

1768
02:10:20.000 --> 02:10:24.479
words that you don't want to get
involved in that and that sort of Oh

1769
02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:28.800
no, this is a beautiful tree, and no, I'd go sidewalkless,

1770
02:10:30.479 --> 02:10:35.279
right, Well, is this a
public sidewalk where no, No, we

1771
02:10:35.319 --> 02:10:39.680
don't have sidewalks on our street in
bel Air and it's just going out to

1772
02:10:39.800 --> 02:10:43.239
the street. But I was going
to try and reroute it to my driveway

1773
02:10:43.359 --> 02:10:48.520
like a lot of people do now. But even rerouting it, there will

1774
02:10:48.560 --> 02:10:54.000
be some route gotcha, and I
just want to protect them as much as

1775
02:10:54.039 --> 02:10:56.760
possible. All right, Well,
here's an idea, just a thought.

1776
02:10:56.359 --> 02:11:01.600
You can use those little metal borders
they go around beds, you know what

1777
02:11:01.600 --> 02:11:05.560
I'm talking about, the little yes
I do, And you could put two

1778
02:11:05.560 --> 02:11:09.600
of those sidewalk with the part and
put a stepping stone like material in there,

1779
02:11:09.680 --> 02:11:13.600
maybe fill in in between them with
some decomposed granite or lay those stones

1780
02:11:13.640 --> 02:11:18.840
on a decomposed granite base, and
then if there was some movement, it

1781
02:11:18.880 --> 02:11:20.960
wouldn't be like you cracked your sidewalk. I mean, you know you could.

1782
02:11:22.039 --> 02:11:24.680
You'd have a little room for some
adjustment there. So that may be

1783
02:11:26.000 --> 02:11:30.199
something that works for you. Okay, I'll give Do you know anybody who

1784
02:11:30.319 --> 02:11:39.680
specializes in protecting trees with sidewalks or
well affordable tree could advise you on what

1785
02:11:39.720 --> 02:11:45.039
you're doing in terms of how it
affects the tree or what you might want

1786
02:11:45.079 --> 02:11:48.560
to try elsewhere. I know Piercecapes
does all kinds of landscape, from you

1787
02:11:48.600 --> 02:11:54.039
know, concrete patios to just stones
that are laid as a walking waystone kind

1788
02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:56.399
of like what I just described,
so you might want to try them as

1789
02:11:56.439 --> 02:12:01.680
well. Okay, I really appreciate
your show, and I've enjoyed listening and

1790
02:12:01.720 --> 02:12:05.840
getting some hints for my gardening.
Well, thank thank you so much.

1791
02:12:07.239 --> 02:12:11.119
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1792
02:12:11.119 --> 02:12:15.319
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1793
02:12:15.359 --> 02:12:18.600
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1794
02:12:18.600 --> 02:12:22.439
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1795
02:12:22.479 --> 02:12:28.600
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1796
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1801
02:12:52.920 --> 02:12:56.720
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four eight oh seventy six sixty three or

1804
02:13:05.399 --> 02:13:11.720
Brinkman Quality dot Com on the web. Let's head out now to John in

1805
02:13:11.880 --> 02:13:16.600
Sour Lake. Hello, John,
Yes, as I will say about a

1806
02:13:16.640 --> 02:13:22.880
plant, a dwarf citr trace all
right? Uh, what's our pots?

1807
02:13:22.920 --> 02:13:28.399
Would I make? Tell me about
the citrus you're gonna plant? Uh?

1808
02:13:28.760 --> 02:13:39.199
We hope find a dwarf satsuma.
The satsumas are themselves a smaller statued plant,

1809
02:13:39.359 --> 02:13:43.680
but I don't know of a variety
of satsuma that's dwarf. Uh.

1810
02:13:43.159 --> 02:13:46.159
Satsuma is going to take a little
more soil. And here's the thing.

1811
02:13:46.279 --> 02:13:50.560
The smaller your pot is, the
more you're watering and fertilizing, trying to

1812
02:13:50.640 --> 02:13:54.760
keep it from going into stress,
especially the watering. So we try to

1813
02:13:54.760 --> 02:13:58.000
get him as big as we can. I've seen satsumas in something that's the

1814
02:13:58.039 --> 02:14:03.079
equivalent, John, of a half
whiskey barrel. Don't plant them in anything

1815
02:14:03.119 --> 02:14:07.800
wood like a whiskey barrel. It'll
rode away. But if you can get

1816
02:14:07.840 --> 02:14:09.800
about that volume of soil, Hey, could you turn your radio down a

1817
02:14:09.840 --> 02:14:16.319
little bit for me? If you
can get to Okay, if you can

1818
02:14:16.359 --> 02:14:18.239
get the volume of soil of a
half whiskey barrel, you'd probably do a

1819
02:14:18.279 --> 02:14:22.000
satsuma in that rate. You can
do any citrus in that well, any

1820
02:14:22.159 --> 02:14:26.920
any small statuard ceterrus, like if
you're gonna do a little lime tree or

1821
02:14:26.279 --> 02:14:31.000
myr lemon or you know, those
kinds of things you can do in a

1822
02:14:33.000 --> 02:14:39.199
that amount of soil half whiskey barrel. But how much sun would they need?

1823
02:14:39.600 --> 02:14:41.239
As much as you can give them. They'll tolerate a little bit of

1824
02:14:41.279 --> 02:14:45.159
shade. It's one of the few
fruit plants that I would say if you

1825
02:14:45.279 --> 02:14:48.800
got some marginal amount of sun,
they could probably do okay for you.

1826
02:14:50.079 --> 02:14:54.960
But everything wants full sun when it
comes to fruit, all right, And

1827
02:14:54.600 --> 02:15:01.439
when's a good time to start draft
drafting? So are you going to graft

1828
02:15:01.479 --> 02:15:07.359
the plants yourself? Well, I
was gonna try to, but okay,

1829
02:15:07.479 --> 02:15:11.319
I a little bit. Yeah.
You can go online and just do a

1830
02:15:11.359 --> 02:15:16.880
search for citrus grafting. There's a
lot of good information out there. Uh

1831
02:15:16.920 --> 02:15:22.560
And it depends on the kind of
graph you're doing. There's the uh tea

1832
02:15:22.600 --> 02:15:28.079
buds or one way we do it
where we have we want our plants the

1833
02:15:28.560 --> 02:15:31.359
bark to be we say slipping,
meaning if you if you broke a branch,

1834
02:15:31.439 --> 02:15:35.319
it would strip as you try to
pull it away the bark is loose

1835
02:15:35.479 --> 02:15:39.359
on the wood. Then there's a
cleft graph that we would do, uh

1836
02:15:39.920 --> 02:15:45.279
at any time, really a cleft
graph where you split, you cut off

1837
02:15:45.279 --> 02:15:50.960
the trunk, split the trunk and
slip the sion the grafting grafted variety in

1838
02:15:50.000 --> 02:15:56.840
there. Yeah, my daughter had
a set. Some of it froze and

1839
02:15:56.960 --> 02:16:03.560
it's got all the new growth going
below the yes, yes, yes,

1840
02:16:05.000 --> 02:16:09.279
yeah, just I didn't know if
I could graft to the You can the

1841
02:16:09.399 --> 02:16:13.439
new growth or just go back to
the root. You can? No,

1842
02:16:13.600 --> 02:16:18.159
you the new growth, the rootstock
that's sprouting, you can graft to that.

1843
02:16:18.720 --> 02:16:20.159
You sure can. Hey, John, I got to run, But

1844
02:16:20.239 --> 02:16:26.039
good luck with that out there.
There is a website at the Aggie Horticulture

1845
02:16:26.079 --> 02:16:31.960
website. There's something called patio Citrus. Just do a search for that and

1846
02:16:31.000 --> 02:16:37.600
I think that'll help you a lot. Appreciate that call. Buchanan's Garden Center

1847
02:16:37.680 --> 02:16:39.079
is always a fun place to visit
because you never know what's going to be

1848
02:16:39.120 --> 02:16:41.959
going on there. I mean they
have activities going on all the time.

1849
02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:46.200
As Speaker's coming in, I know
November eighth, they're going to have a

1850
02:16:46.200 --> 02:16:52.159
book signing when Nicole Burke and that'll
be fun to get out and do that.

1851
02:16:52.520 --> 02:16:56.120
But when it comes to native plants, they just have an unbelievable selection.

1852
02:16:56.600 --> 02:17:01.200
Lots and lots of native plants.
Maybe you I just kind of get

1853
02:17:01.200 --> 02:17:03.360
a little cooler at night. How
about a chimenea on the patio, Well

1854
02:17:03.399 --> 02:17:07.840
they have that and pinion wood to
go with it. On top of it

1855
02:17:07.879 --> 02:17:11.399
all, they got bulbs. They
got every kind of plant you can imagine.

1856
02:17:11.520 --> 02:17:13.760
Really one of the best selections of
house plants that I've seen. Wide

1857
02:17:13.879 --> 02:17:18.319
variety of house plants at Buchanans as
well. You know you've probably been to

1858
02:17:18.399 --> 02:17:22.440
Buchanans before, but they're at East
eleventh Street in the Heights. Or you

1859
02:17:22.440 --> 02:17:28.520
could just go to Buchanansplants dot com
and find out more about what's going on.

1860
02:17:28.600 --> 02:17:31.360
Sign up for their newsletter. It's
really excellent, excellent newsletter that they

1861
02:17:31.399 --> 02:17:37.840
have there. Let's go to Pleasantville
and talk to Deborah. Hello, Debrah,

1862
02:17:37.319 --> 02:17:41.760
Hello, Skip, good morning,
good morning. Quick questions, my

1863
02:17:41.920 --> 02:17:46.479
take all patch in my grams.
I've done the na Foster three step.

1864
02:17:46.680 --> 02:17:50.280
I'm curious about this peat moss application. Okay, should I do that?

1865
02:17:52.040 --> 02:17:56.319
You sertainly can give it a shot. If you've already done the fungicide.

1866
02:17:56.360 --> 02:18:00.239
We wouldn't want to put the peed
on and then spray it because this pray

1867
02:18:00.239 --> 02:18:03.719
would end up on the peat rather
than on your plant parts in the grass.

1868
02:18:03.040 --> 02:18:07.319
Here's what you do. You buy
a compressed bale of pete moss.

1869
02:18:07.559 --> 02:18:11.120
It's kind of like a hay bale, but wrapped in plastic, and it's

1870
02:18:11.120 --> 02:18:16.360
almost it's almost hard because it's so
compressed. One bail they it's a three

1871
02:18:16.399 --> 02:18:22.959
point eight cubic foot bail is spread
over about a thousand square feet. You

1872
02:18:22.000 --> 02:18:24.719
can put more than that, a
little more than that if you want,

1873
02:18:26.000 --> 02:18:28.040
but that's about the rate that was
done in the research at A and M,

1874
02:18:28.239 --> 02:18:33.319
where they found that it helped you
put it on now and then you

1875
02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:37.600
watered in just a little water just
to kind of move it down to the

1876
02:18:37.680 --> 02:18:41.680
root system or around the runners.
And it has done a pretty good job

1877
02:18:41.719 --> 02:18:45.399
of suppressing pete moss. I don't
generally recommend it because of the cost and

1878
02:18:45.440 --> 02:18:50.799
the messiness and pete being a somewhat
limited resource, but that research has shown

1879
02:18:50.840 --> 02:18:54.719
that works pretty good. Okay,
I'm gonna try it, so I have

1880
02:18:54.120 --> 02:18:58.319
a new person coming in for you, a new homeowner and a new dad.

1881
02:18:58.399 --> 02:19:03.639
He's going to buy that it chanted
garden stop by. Oh my gosh.

1882
02:19:03.440 --> 02:19:07.600
Oh Skip. Also, I'll go
in a hole. I'll know him

1883
02:19:07.600 --> 02:19:13.600
when I see him, telling him
to bring ten names. Yep. And

1884
02:19:13.719 --> 02:19:15.959
because we're not getting ready to go
to mine May Park to set up for

1885
02:19:16.000 --> 02:19:20.760
the day. Oh my goodness,
Oh my well, that sounds like a

1886
02:19:20.760 --> 02:19:22.479
fun thing too. Hey, thanks
for the call, Debra. I appreciate

1887
02:19:22.520 --> 02:19:26.360
that very much. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

1888
02:19:26.440 --> 02:19:31.079
eight seventy four if you'd like to
give us a call. And now it's

1889
02:19:31.120 --> 02:19:35.760
time for the Nicky News Network.
Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your

1890
02:19:35.760 --> 02:19:39.799
host, Skip Richter. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

1891
02:19:39.360 --> 02:19:46.079
five eight seven four. For those
of you who are interested in downloading a

1892
02:19:46.120 --> 02:19:50.479
copy of one of my two lawn
schedules, all you have to do is

1893
02:19:50.559 --> 02:19:54.360
go to my website and it's easy
to remember. Gardening with Skip. That's

1894
02:19:54.399 --> 02:19:58.959
me gardening with Skip dot com.
Gardening with Skip dot com. The laun

1895
02:20:00.079 --> 02:20:03.879
care schedules up there. All the
fertilizing you need to do through the year,

1896
02:20:03.040 --> 02:20:05.959
organic, synthetic, whatever you want
to you, it's up there.

1897
02:20:07.600 --> 02:20:15.159
How to water properly, micronutrient applications, aeration and compost, top dressing,

1898
02:20:15.760 --> 02:20:18.479
the whole thing. It's up there. And then the other one is the

1899
02:20:18.600 --> 02:20:22.840
Lawn pest, Disease and weed Management
Schedule, and it talks about some of

1900
02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:26.479
the different things when they occur during
the year and what some of your options.

1901
02:20:26.479 --> 02:20:31.399
Again, organic and synthetic both are
for dealing with those. You know,

1902
02:20:31.680 --> 02:20:37.040
Nelson's Fertilizer has been around for forty
years now. They have their anniversary

1903
02:20:37.079 --> 02:20:41.399
just the other day, October fourteenth, as matter of fact, and they've

1904
02:20:41.440 --> 02:20:46.000
created so many great lines of products. You know, Nelson's does have the

1905
02:20:46.040 --> 02:20:48.520
Turf Star that we talk about all
the time, the nutri Star, the

1906
02:20:48.520 --> 02:20:52.799
Color Star, and their organic Nature
Star line. Right now, the Nelson's

1907
02:20:52.840 --> 02:20:58.360
product that you need to put your
honed in focus on is carbo Load.

1908
02:20:58.520 --> 02:21:01.600
Carbo Load is made for fall.
This is the time, in fact,

1909
02:21:01.680 --> 02:21:07.200
right now is the time. I
wouldn't hesitate at all to get it down

1910
02:21:07.680 --> 02:21:11.239
because here's why. It's also got
a pre emergent herbicide in it, and

1911
02:21:11.280 --> 02:21:15.479
when you apply it and water it
in, that pre emergent herbicide goes to

1912
02:21:15.559 --> 02:21:20.360
the soil surface and prevents weeds from
getting established. When it cools off in

1913
02:21:20.399 --> 02:21:24.799
the fall, which we're there,
weed seeds begin to germinate, especially as

1914
02:21:24.840 --> 02:21:28.120
we go through October and November.
Those are prime months. But they'll keep

1915
02:21:28.159 --> 02:21:31.360
germinating. And that's why I say, don't delay, go ahead and get

1916
02:21:31.360 --> 02:21:35.840
it done. It's got the right
blend of nutrients. It's an excellent product.

1917
02:21:35.959 --> 02:21:41.280
And here's here's the bonus. Every
bag they sell Nelson's is going to

1918
02:21:41.360 --> 02:21:46.120
donate two dollars to Randy's Memorial Scholarship, the Horticulture Student Scholarship up at Texas

1919
02:21:46.159 --> 02:21:50.799
A and M. A good cause
and a great fertilizer. And so I

1920
02:21:50.879 --> 02:21:56.280
highly recommend you do not delay,
because he who hesitates is lost. As

1921
02:21:56.280 --> 02:22:01.319
they say, let's go out to
Beaumont and we're going to talk to Donna.

1922
02:22:01.399 --> 02:22:07.040
Hello, Donna, hikki. I'm
concerned about my Mexican petunia player.

1923
02:22:07.319 --> 02:22:13.159
Okay, a couple of a probably
a month or so ago. I thought

1924
02:22:13.239 --> 02:22:16.239
somebody could splattered paint all over it. And I was going to out see

1925
02:22:16.239 --> 02:22:20.280
what had been painted. But it's
not that. It looks like a white,

1926
02:22:22.200 --> 02:22:26.079
very thin layer of celt all over
the lead on the top side of

1927
02:22:26.120 --> 02:22:30.440
the leaves, and if I'm very
careful, I can kind of scratch it

1928
02:22:30.479 --> 02:22:35.399
off a little bit. Yeah,
that there are different things that can cause

1929
02:22:35.440 --> 02:22:41.959
that on a Mexican petunia. The
fact that you're saying white, I'm trying

1930
02:22:41.959 --> 02:22:46.239
to think of what the diseases that
Mexican petunia gets. I've seen something like

1931
02:22:46.319 --> 02:22:48.879
that on them before. But here's
the thing. If I were you,

1932
02:22:50.000 --> 02:22:52.200
once we get into some cold weather, I would cut them back to the

1933
02:22:52.239 --> 02:22:56.760
ground. Now, is this a
little short type that's only about six eight

1934
02:22:56.799 --> 02:23:00.200
inches high or is this a knee
high to waist high type? No?

1935
02:23:00.440 --> 02:23:03.719
Yes, this is the tall which
it has been my best plant through the

1936
02:23:03.879 --> 02:23:09.639
very hot summer, very hot.
Yeah it is. But you know,

1937
02:23:09.840 --> 02:23:13.479
just be careful because it wants to
take over the world, and so you

1938
02:23:13.600 --> 02:23:16.559
kind of to keep an eye on
that. I would cut the whole thing

1939
02:23:16.559 --> 02:23:18.959
down to the ground. There's that's
a good way to do it anyway in

1940
02:23:18.959 --> 02:23:22.920
the winter time, and believe me, you are not going to hurt it

1941
02:23:22.000 --> 02:23:26.639
one bit. It'll bounce back up
and we get a little warmer weather with

1942
02:23:26.760 --> 02:23:28.600
fresh new growth. It's not going
to do much in the winter anyway,

1943
02:23:30.399 --> 02:23:33.040
And just get all that material out
of there when you cut it back and

1944
02:23:33.159 --> 02:23:37.879
discard it. Normally I say,
let let's, you know, recycle organic

1945
02:23:37.959 --> 02:23:41.079
matter. But in this case,
let's just get it out of here.

1946
02:23:41.159 --> 02:23:43.959
Make sure that. Okay, bag
it and trash. Yeah, bag it

1947
02:23:43.000 --> 02:23:46.399
and trash here, just to be
sure. And if it comes back again

1948
02:23:48.079 --> 02:23:50.079
next season, would you give me
a call and we'll go a little further

1949
02:23:50.120 --> 02:23:52.600
into it. I'll take a look
at the photo, but right now,

1950
02:23:54.040 --> 02:23:56.760
if I identified it, I wouldn't
tell you to spray it, not at

1951
02:23:56.760 --> 02:24:00.239
this time. Okay, Well,
thank you very much. Yeah, thank

1952
02:24:00.239 --> 02:24:03.719
you, Donna. I appreciate your
call very much. Let's see, we're

1953
02:24:03.760 --> 02:24:07.319
going to go now to the heights, so we're going to talk to Mike.

1954
02:24:07.520 --> 02:24:09.959
Hello, Mike, good morning,
Good by you, sir. I'm

1955
02:24:11.000 --> 02:24:15.000
well, thank you great. I've
got a question. I heard you mention

1956
02:24:15.479 --> 02:24:18.280
that Craig Myrtles, there is such
thing as a three footer, you know,

1957
02:24:18.360 --> 02:24:24.280
on three feet didn't get much bearer
than three feet? Yes, who

1958
02:24:24.360 --> 02:24:28.920
did you say was a source for
those? Oh boy, you're going to

1959
02:24:28.000 --> 02:24:33.399
have to just call and ask around. Uh, you're in the heights there,

1960
02:24:33.399 --> 02:24:37.200
you're real close to Buchanans. That'd
be an easy one to start with

1961
02:24:37.360 --> 02:24:43.559
checking. Uh, you might going
up Tombo Parkway. The the plans for

1962
02:24:43.600 --> 02:24:48.719
all seasons pretty close to you.
There arbigade plans for all season Arbigate on

1963
02:24:48.840 --> 02:24:50.559
Tomball carries a lot of those kinds
of things, and I'm leap. I'm

1964
02:24:50.600 --> 02:24:54.520
forgetting one hundred different garden centers.
Oh RCW, I forgot RCW. I

1965
02:24:54.559 --> 02:24:58.559
would definitely call them our nose.
Yeah they do. I just don't know

1966
02:24:58.600 --> 02:25:03.239
what those carry. But if you
do that thing that I said, do

1967
02:25:03.280 --> 02:25:09.000
a search for skip Richter and great
Myrtle, you'll find that chart and at

1968
02:25:09.079 --> 02:25:13.319
least you'll have a few a few
varieties. There's probably a lot of newer

1969
02:25:13.360 --> 02:25:16.040
ones that I didn't get on the
chart back when I did it. But

1970
02:25:18.079 --> 02:25:22.399
yeah, give those calls. Do
they grow not any taller than three feet

1971
02:25:22.399 --> 02:25:26.520
of somebody? Yeah? They Some
of them are real dwarfs. I remember.

1972
02:25:26.559 --> 02:25:31.239
Now there's the names remind you of
New Orleans, And I don't know

1973
02:25:31.239 --> 02:25:35.600
how to describe it further than that. But you know, I don't know

1974
02:25:35.600 --> 02:25:37.680
what then. I don't want to
say names because I don't know what the

1975
02:25:37.719 --> 02:25:43.079
actual ones are. I just remember
it's southern. It reminds me of Southern,

1976
02:25:43.440 --> 02:25:46.159
like New Orleans area. But hey, just call them up. They'll

1977
02:25:46.159 --> 02:25:50.719
know what they have, okay.
And they do come in red or white.

1978
02:25:52.120 --> 02:25:56.399
The dwarfs I know are in red. I can't, off the top

1979
02:25:56.440 --> 02:26:01.440
of my head tell you the color
range on those pink. I know they're

1980
02:26:01.559 --> 02:26:05.920
pink too. There's probably a white
one. I just would think there is.

1981
02:26:05.719 --> 02:26:09.479
Okay, Skip, that's valuable information. I sure appreciate it. Thank

1982
02:26:09.479 --> 02:26:11.760
you so much for you, Thank
you for the call. I appreciate that

1983
02:26:11.920 --> 02:26:16.879
very much. You know, I
talk about a lot of different products here

1984
02:26:16.920 --> 02:26:20.799
on garden Line, and where do
you go to get all those things?

1985
02:26:20.840 --> 02:26:24.760
Well, if you're looking for a
place where you can be by any fertilizer,

1986
02:26:24.799 --> 02:26:28.360
we talk about any insecticide, fungicide, herbicide. You want synthetic,

1987
02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:35.120
you want organic, ready to use
or mix up. Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer

1988
02:26:35.159 --> 02:26:39.680
dot Com is a website. They're
down there in Southwest Houston, corner of

1989
02:26:39.719 --> 02:26:45.680
bissin Ut and Renwick. But they
have an eighty foot long wall of tools.

1990
02:26:45.719 --> 02:26:48.280
I mean it's on and on and
on, you know, by a

1991
02:26:48.280 --> 02:26:52.600
fertilizer spreadder. They got them there. They have everything there. In fact,

1992
02:26:52.639 --> 02:26:56.159
I like to say if Southwest Fertilizer
doesn't have it, you don't need

1993
02:26:56.200 --> 02:26:58.799
it. Southwest Fertilizer dot com check
them out. We're going to take a

1994
02:26:58.799 --> 02:27:03.319
break right now, and our phone
number seven one three two one two fifty

1995
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:07.600
eight seventy four or two one two
kt RH. Give Josh a call and

1996
02:27:07.639 --> 02:27:11.680
you'll be first up when we come
back. Good Saturday morning, on a

1997
02:27:11.840 --> 02:27:16.479
beautiful Saturday morning. For a gardening, for getting out and shopping for some

1998
02:27:16.639 --> 02:27:22.399
garden products. Fall is for planting. Fall is for planting. Hey,

1999
02:27:22.440 --> 02:27:24.719
if you'd like to give us a
call seven to one three two one two

2000
02:27:26.120 --> 02:27:30.799
fifty eight seventy four. I wish
that I could bottle up spring fever,

2001
02:27:31.280 --> 02:27:35.239
because we have plenty in the spring. Bottle it up and put it in

2002
02:27:35.280 --> 02:27:39.360
the water supply for fall. Because
fall is the best planning season of the

2003
02:27:39.440 --> 02:27:43.920
year. If you're planning woody ornamentals
like tree shrubs and woody vines and rose

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02:27:43.959 --> 02:27:48.360
bushes. This is the time ground
covers, perennial groundcovers, perennial herbs,

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02:27:50.280 --> 02:27:54.680
flowering perennials, perennial grasses, just
on and on down the line. Fall

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02:27:54.799 --> 02:28:00.200
is the best time to plant these. We have a mild climate here,

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02:28:00.360 --> 02:28:05.799
and those roots from the plants you
plant October November, for example, you

2008
02:28:05.959 --> 02:28:09.920
plant December too, they're just going
to be growing through the wintertime. Not

2009
02:28:11.239 --> 02:28:15.319
rapidly but just a little bit,
but they will be ahead and they will

2010
02:28:15.360 --> 02:28:18.239
do so much better as a result
of that. And when we have summers

2011
02:28:18.280 --> 02:28:22.079
like we had this year where it
was hard to keep a new plant alive

2012
02:28:24.000 --> 02:28:28.360
due to the heat and the drought, the fall planted plants have the edge,

2013
02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:31.600
and that it's not a huge difference, but it's a significant difference,

2014
02:28:33.079 --> 02:28:37.680
and I highly recommend you consider fall
planting. And so before we plant,

2015
02:28:37.680 --> 02:28:41.280
what do we do we take care
of our soil. Right, by the

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02:28:41.360 --> 02:28:43.959
time you put a plant in the
ground, you're eighty percent of the way

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02:28:45.000 --> 02:28:50.399
to success or failure. That Think
about that a minute. Eighty percent.

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02:28:50.840 --> 02:28:52.600
Now, why would I make such
a bold statement. What about fertilizing it

2019
02:28:52.639 --> 02:28:56.719
and watering it and pest control and
stuff. Yeah, yeah, okay,

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02:28:56.760 --> 02:29:00.200
I get it. Eighty percent by
the time you walk away. Why,

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02:29:00.719 --> 02:29:03.440
you've picked a variety and a species
and it's either going to be adapted to

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02:29:03.479 --> 02:29:07.559
here or it's not. You've picked
a site that is either sunny or shady

2023
02:29:07.879 --> 02:29:11.760
or somewhere in between, and the
plant's going to have an opinion about that,

2024
02:29:11.280 --> 02:29:16.920
and you've also prepared the soil or
not. Does it need a raised

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02:29:16.920 --> 02:29:20.040
bed for drainage? Boy? Does
that ever matter? If it does,

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02:29:20.280 --> 02:29:24.840
it's the bad drained spot. Does
it need to have that soil loosen?

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02:29:24.920 --> 02:29:26.760
Boy, if you have anything close
to a clay, you've got to get

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02:29:26.799 --> 02:29:33.719
some organic matter and some shale in
the ground to loosen that soil up and

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02:29:33.760 --> 02:29:37.079
to give that plant success. Soil, soil, soil, It all begins

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02:29:37.120 --> 02:29:39.879
in the soil. That is so
important. And I know it's easy to

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02:29:39.879 --> 02:29:46.479
get excited about a big giant hibiscus
bloom. Not so easy to get excited

2032
02:29:46.479 --> 02:29:48.799
about a little bit of soil,
a little bit of compost. Maybe some

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02:29:48.840 --> 02:29:52.520
people do. I do. But
what do you do? Where do you

2034
02:29:52.559 --> 02:29:56.520
get it? You get it from
Heirloom Soils And they have a huge fall

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02:29:56.559 --> 02:30:01.239
special, a really big deal.
They're veggie and herb mix and their rose

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02:30:01.280 --> 02:30:07.639
sooil are both on fall special when
you purchase a significant amount. And here's

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02:30:07.639 --> 02:30:11.360
what I mean by a significant amount. If you buy it by the cubicyard

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02:30:11.360 --> 02:30:13.799
bulk, the veggie and herb soil, it's one hundred and nineteen dollars if

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02:30:13.799 --> 02:30:18.479
you want them to bring a supersack
and set it in your driveway. Delivered

2040
02:30:18.120 --> 02:30:22.879
one hundred and forty eight dollars for
the supersac. If you want rose sooil,

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02:30:22.040 --> 02:30:28.799
it's seventy dollars per cubicyard bulk and
ninety nine dollars for the supersac.

2042
02:30:30.000 --> 02:30:33.440
Now, any way you want to
go. If you're putting in a bed,

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02:30:33.600 --> 02:30:37.120
you need more than just a few
bags of soil. What a deal

2044
02:30:37.280 --> 02:30:39.239
from Heirloom Soils. You can go
out to their porter location. You can

2045
02:30:39.239 --> 02:30:43.040
pick it up out there. But
hey, just do this. Go to

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02:30:43.200 --> 02:30:50.479
heirloomsoilsoftexs dot com airloomsoilsoftexes dot com.
You can find out everything about it right

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02:30:50.520 --> 02:30:54.520
there. But don't delay. Now's
the time to build the soil, because

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02:30:54.559 --> 02:30:56.520
now's the time to plant. And
so we got to get going on this

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02:30:56.559 --> 02:31:01.879
stuff if we want to have success. Out to McAllen and talked to Al.

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02:31:03.120 --> 02:31:07.239
Hello, Al, good morning,
good morning. Let me ask you

2051
02:31:07.280 --> 02:31:09.760
a question, is this like McAllen
in the valley or where are you?

2052
02:31:11.559 --> 02:31:15.319
Oh? Yes, uh yeah,
real grand valley. Do you get the

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02:31:15.399 --> 02:31:20.760
system? Do you get the signal? Oh, you're just one not iHeart

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02:31:20.079 --> 02:31:24.879
not by radio. Okay, I
got you all right, Well, enough

2055
02:31:24.879 --> 02:31:28.719
of that. How can I help
you? We can pick up some of

2056
02:31:28.760 --> 02:31:33.319
it, but it trist sent them
out. Yeah, okay, But what

2057
02:31:33.440 --> 02:31:39.319
I asked is I had bought from
Randy Levin. Uh he was at one

2058
02:31:39.399 --> 02:31:43.040
of the shows, and uh my
sister in law took us out there and

2059
02:31:43.079 --> 02:31:50.079
we bought a couple of bags of
the leaf with the heritage. Uh and

2060
02:31:50.399 --> 02:31:56.680
and also the medina asked you grow
and I haven't used all of it.

2061
02:31:56.840 --> 02:32:01.520
I've used about half the bottle.
Okay. Since I heard you earlier say

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02:32:01.559 --> 02:32:05.280
that you're going to see the Medina
man, I was going to see.

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02:32:05.319 --> 02:32:07.959
Well, ask him how long this
stuff lasts? Is it? Whether he

2064
02:32:09.079 --> 02:32:13.000
gets so old just throw it away
or dump it out on a planet or

2065
02:32:13.000 --> 02:32:16.520
something. Yeah, I would go
ahead and use it. How long something

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02:32:16.600 --> 02:32:20.520
lasts is really dependent on storage conditions
and if it gets blazing hot and the

2067
02:32:20.639 --> 02:32:26.000
shed outdoors versus sitting in maybe your
laundry room indoors or something. There's a

2068
02:32:26.040 --> 02:32:28.879
big difference there. Yeah. I
have a screen in port and it's sitting

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02:32:28.920 --> 02:32:31.719
on a shelf out right out there
in the air. All the time,

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02:32:31.840 --> 02:32:35.239
okay, and it has she it's
it's not in the sun. Well I

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02:32:35.239 --> 02:32:39.520
would, I would go ahead and
use it. I would just use it.

2072
02:32:39.520 --> 02:32:41.600
I mean, it's not going to
hurt anything. I guarantee you that,

2073
02:32:41.399 --> 02:32:45.639
you know, and so as far
as I can't like crystal ball,

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02:32:45.719 --> 02:32:50.239
what condition it's in right now,
but I would use it. And you're

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02:32:50.280 --> 02:32:52.959
too far away to drive up or
we just you could be part of that

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02:32:54.000 --> 02:32:58.159
giveaway that we got going on today. Yeah, yeah, Well we've got

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02:32:58.200 --> 02:33:01.719
a lot to do here. We
have a little few animals to take care

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02:33:01.719 --> 02:33:03.799
of. I bet you do.
Hey, Yeah, Medina is a great

2079
02:33:03.840 --> 02:33:09.040
product, so I would I would
just go ahead and use it. Sounds

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02:33:09.079 --> 02:33:11.040
great. Thank you for your help, all right, thank you, al,

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02:33:11.159 --> 02:33:16.559
I appreciate that, and thanks for
listening down there in Medeen and McAllen

2082
02:33:16.879 --> 02:33:20.840
Texas well, you've been listening to
the guarden line. We're going to go

2083
02:33:20.879 --> 02:33:22.879
a little bit longer here, but
we are here to help you have a

2084
02:33:22.920 --> 02:33:28.239
beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape.
That's what we do, and I've talked

2085
02:33:28.239 --> 02:33:31.639
about various things today. We always
spend a lot of time on the lawn

2086
02:33:31.680 --> 02:33:35.360
because that's the elephant in the room
when it comes to our gardening and landscape

2087
02:33:35.360 --> 02:33:39.159
care and whatnot that we have out
there. We talked a little bit about

2088
02:33:39.159 --> 02:33:41.639
trees and importance of trees. By
the way, if you're planting a tree,

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02:33:43.319 --> 02:33:45.920
pull it when you pull it out
of the container. If you see

2090
02:33:46.040 --> 02:33:48.280
roots going in a circle, go
ahead and cut them. You can just

2091
02:33:48.399 --> 02:33:52.799
use your hand pruners and cut them. If something is just like a little

2092
02:33:52.840 --> 02:33:56.120
lets see about a one gallon shrub, you can use a box cutter knife.

2093
02:33:56.159 --> 02:34:00.680
It's got a little one inch blade
you push out and cut vertically from

2094
02:34:00.680 --> 02:34:05.799
top to bottom through the root ball
a root cylinder, three places all around

2095
02:34:05.959 --> 02:34:09.760
the root cylinder. Oh my gosh, I'm killing my plant. No you're

2096
02:34:09.799 --> 02:34:11.920
not. If you come back in
two weeks, you will see fresh white

2097
02:34:13.000 --> 02:34:18.680
roots already growing on that root system. And circular roots don't unwind underground if

2098
02:34:18.719 --> 02:34:22.360
they're close enough to the trunk.
If let's say it's a one gallon container,

2099
02:34:22.799 --> 02:34:26.079
When that root gets bigger and bigger
and bigger, and the trunk gets

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02:34:26.120 --> 02:34:31.159
bigger and bigger and bigger, it's
going to embed into the trunk and strangle

2101
02:34:31.200 --> 02:34:35.239
it. And that by the time
you see the problems above ground, in

2102
02:34:35.280 --> 02:34:37.600
the way the plant looks. It's
too late. It's too late to do

2103
02:34:37.799 --> 02:34:43.440
so just cut those circling roots.
It actually helps the plant establish better.

2104
02:34:43.840 --> 02:34:46.600
Just if you pruned off the end
of a limb, what would happen.

2105
02:34:46.639 --> 02:34:50.799
You'd get two or three buds that
break, and now you've got new shoots

2106
02:34:50.840 --> 02:34:52.760
coming out from the end of the
limb. Well, our hair's a good

2107
02:34:52.760 --> 02:34:58.600
example. We gripe about crape murder
all the time. Well, what happens

2108
02:34:58.639 --> 02:35:01.840
when they top a myrtle tree?
You just get this crows foot of a

2109
02:35:01.920 --> 02:35:05.360
mess going out in all directions.
Well, when you cut a root,

2110
02:35:05.479 --> 02:35:09.799
you're going to get that sprouting and
it's going to go out in the soil

2111
02:35:09.840 --> 02:35:13.920
and establish better. Watered in with
medina has to grow for example, that's

2112
02:35:13.920 --> 02:35:16.719
a good product for doing that.
We have a lot of great products,

2113
02:35:16.760 --> 02:35:24.280
anything with fisher moulsion and seaweed,
any kind of a product that has enhanced

2114
02:35:24.280 --> 02:35:28.280
microbial activity, those are all good. Don't put fertilizer in the planting hole.

2115
02:35:28.440 --> 02:35:33.040
If it's an organic fertilizer, you
can and it won't burn the roots.

2116
02:35:33.399 --> 02:35:37.959
But I think unless your soil is
just really poor, I would just

2117
02:35:37.000 --> 02:35:43.120
suggest mixing fertilizer all through the area
before you dig the planting hole, and

2118
02:35:43.200 --> 02:35:46.319
then continue adding fertilizer to the surface
and scratch it in a little bit.

2119
02:35:46.719 --> 02:35:50.959
When you do that, it's going
to work its way down in the soil

2120
02:35:50.040 --> 02:35:54.600
and help the root system as well. Now Here we are in the fall

2121
02:35:54.639 --> 02:35:58.399
planting season. When you dig the
hole, if it's in a clay soil,

2122
02:36:00.159 --> 02:36:03.920
not just have a slick sided clay
soil. Make the hole a little

2123
02:36:03.920 --> 02:36:07.600
bigger, take your shovel and chop
at the edges of the hole to kind

2124
02:36:07.600 --> 02:36:11.079
of make it an ugly, irregular
hole. All of those kind of things

2125
02:36:11.120 --> 02:36:13.600
help. I will often take a
spading fork and push it in the ground

2126
02:36:13.760 --> 02:36:18.639
outside of the hole after I've plant
it and break loose that soil kind of

2127
02:36:18.719 --> 02:36:22.799
you're just pulling back on the top
of the handle a little bit to sort

2128
02:36:22.840 --> 02:36:26.399
of fracture the soil unto there,
and it just loosens it up a little

2129
02:36:26.399 --> 02:36:30.559
bit. I know, digging a
hole two to three times the root ball

2130
02:36:30.600 --> 02:36:35.319
size is tough. Your chiropractor is
excited because he's got some kids to put

2131
02:36:35.360 --> 02:36:39.840
through college. But whatever you do, you want to loosen that soil up

2132
02:36:39.879 --> 02:36:43.239
a little bit. Water it in
as you fill the soil that you took

2133
02:36:43.280 --> 02:36:48.120
out of the hole. Do not
put potting soil or any kind of bed.

2134
02:36:48.159 --> 02:36:50.959
Make sure any of that stuff in
the hole. That doesn't help.

2135
02:36:50.559 --> 02:36:54.319
If you want to mend the soil, amend it through a large area and

2136
02:36:54.440 --> 02:36:58.760
then dig the hole in plant.
Those are some tips for having success.

2137
02:36:58.040 --> 02:37:01.639
We want you to have some says. Hey, I'm about to head out

2138
02:37:01.959 --> 02:37:05.680
to Enchented Gardens out in Richmond.
They are on FM three point fifty nine,

2139
02:37:05.719 --> 02:37:09.239
like you're heading up to Katie Direction. I'll be there from eleven thirty

2140
02:37:09.239 --> 02:37:13.520
to one thirty. We're going to
be giving away what five different kinds of

2141
02:37:13.680 --> 02:37:18.959
several bags and containers and bottles of
various Medina products while we're out there,

2142
02:37:20.440 --> 02:37:24.600
Andy, the rep from Medina,
will be there as well. But the

2143
02:37:24.639 --> 02:37:28.520
main reason you want to come out
there is because Chened Gardens is just a

2144
02:37:28.639 --> 02:37:31.120
great place to go and shop.
You're going to find a lot of stuff.

2145
02:37:31.280 --> 02:37:35.280
I hope you joined me. Don't
forget to bring samples or pictures so

2146
02:37:35.319 --> 02:37:35.600
I can help you even further.