WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.320 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:11.000 advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 3 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:26.480 It's crazy, can you trim? Just watch him? As were so 4 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:36.119 many pots, Sea Bot, Bazys, the club back Chicken. It's not 5 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:47.920 a sign credits gas sun beamon of Well, good morning. It's gonna be 6 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.520 a great Sunday for gardening. I can tell you that right now. Look 7 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.399 outside, it's dark, can't see a thing. If your neighbor's lights aren't 8 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.520 on, go bang on the door, wake them up, tell them they 9 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.920 are missing guarden Line and they'll rise up and call you. Bless it at 10 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.640 least someday maybe when they appreciate it. Hey, you're listening to Guardline. 11 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.079 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we have a phone number if you 12 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:12.239 would like to call to discuss anything of interest to you regarding gardening. That 13 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:17.239 would be seven to one three two one two k t R eight seven to 14 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.879 one three two one two kat r H. Give us a call. Let's 15 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:23.400 find out what you want to talk about. I got some things I'm going 16 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:27.040 to go through today as we as we go through our show this morning, 17 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.120 but I suspect you may have a question or two. And you know, 18 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:34.239 the thing I found interesting is when you have a question, somebody else is 19 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:37.400 going to have the same question. That's just how it works. There are 20 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.879 a lot of people out there thinking the same thing, and people are often 21 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.319 shy. I don't want to ask because you know, nobody else thinks that 22 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.120 has that question or whatever. Yeah, they do, they do. Let's 23 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:49.599 start off by going up to Tom Ball and we're gonna go right to the 24 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.280 phones. We're going to talk to Mel this morning. Hello Mel, Hey, 25 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.200 good morning, Skip morning. Uh. I missed your show yesterday. 26 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:01.640 I tuned in late on the road. You mentioned a product that sounds like 27 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:09.719 a combination of weed killer and fertilizer. You said it's stuck to the leaves. 28 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:15.919 Leaves, huh, yeah, that product that would have been Yeah, 29 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:21.960 that's weed DNA tour by Nelson Nelson. Weed DNA tour is a slow, 30 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.719 slow release fertilizer. And you know people talk about weed and feed. This 31 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:32.960 would be like weed now and feed later kind of approach. Because it releases 32 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.800 gradually. You'll be getting release over it for two or more months going forward. 33 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.840 And so that's how that works. And yes, you do. You 34 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.639 have to have wet weed leaves, just damp leaves. You don't have to 35 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:47.360 wet the soil, just dampen the leaves and that granule sticks to them. 36 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:51.840 Then when you put it out, well, I got a combination of in 37 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.000 my in my yard of weeds, and Saint Augustine had bear spots, so 38 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.080 okay, imagine, okay, that would work all right? Then, yeah, 39 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.919 that would work fine as far as the bear spots are concerned. Night 40 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:09.159 Fuss makes a product called barricade, and that that just prevents the weed seeds 41 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:15.039 from sprouting and establishing successfully. So you can do both. Uh huh. 42 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:20.400 Anytime you're using different products, people often ask can I do as mic the 43 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:23.479 same day affertilize? Can I fertilize the same day I do barricade, or 44 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.199 you know, and so on. You can just use it make a different 45 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.159 path through the yard, a pass through the yard, because particle size is 46 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:34.680 different and you want to make sure and get good distribution of each product. 47 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:39.199 Good barricade the first time I'm gonna use these social garlic kind of work, 48 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:46.039 won't it? Society garlic on barricade? What are you a wild garlic? 49 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:50.479 Now? The garlic. I mean it could come from a seed, but 50 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:54.759 it's coming from an underground bulb, and so you're going to need a product 51 00:03:54.919 --> 00:04:00.719 that probably contains a two four D type ingredient in that out in order to 52 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:09.520 Yeah, now I don't know if the weed Nator would work. My concern 53 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:15.280 is getting it to stick to that little skinny upright garlic leaf. Do you 54 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.079 know what I'm saying that that may be one you want to just get you 55 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.439 a post emergent broadly, if we control that got two four D in it 56 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.920 and just spray it on, just spot treat it. You don't have the 57 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.360 nuclear yard. Just just spot treat those garlic and you'll see them start to 58 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:35.199 get all twisty and malformed, and that that shows that it's working. Okay, 59 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:40.040 Yeah, because those wrestlers have a lot of weeds growing up in the 60 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:44.720 can only reach them and quick to hear the trimming baby box? Who was 61 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.839 We got some baby gym box who was that we kind of about two years 62 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:55.639 ago and I wanted to grow to three feet and I trimmed him back last 63 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.519 year and I'm wondering, did did I mess up there? Growth? And 64 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.279 others? Other can I expect them to still get to those three feet. 65 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:04.319 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they'll come back. Yeah, no problem, 66 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:11.839 absolutely very good. All right, thanks sir, you take care A 67 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.199 and A plants up in Montgomery. I was there, oh gosh, a 68 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:20.279 couple of weekends ago and or a weekend ago and they had an You know, 69 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:25.519 that place is always fun to visit because there's always something changing and going 70 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.720 on, new shipments coming in. And for those of you up in the 71 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:30.600 Lake Connor area, this is your backyard garden center. By the way, 72 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:33.560 thanks to everybody that came out that day. That was fun. You guys 73 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:39.839 warm me flat out with questions. But they've got this interest in now up 74 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:44.079 there. They got a new shipment of it just the other day. They 75 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:48.399 also have a really nice selection of geraniums, the big old jumble geraniums. 76 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:54.399 They look really good. Geraniums are a cool flower. I mean they I 77 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.480 grow mine and containers at this time of year. Put your geranium containers out 78 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.079 in goods sun, lots of sun, and they'll be fine. As it 79 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:05.040 really starts to get hot, though, I'll move mine to where they get 80 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:12.240 morning sun an afternoon shade and you don't have to water them too much. 81 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.160 They don't like soggy, wet conditions. But on the other hand, they're 82 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.279 not a succulent where you just can ignore them and they'll somehow hang on, 83 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:23.680 keep the soul moist and they'll do well. But geraniums are just the colors 84 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.240 really outstanding on them. And there's so many kinds now, I know out 85 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.680 at Ana they've got the red, the cherry rose, they've got bright white, 86 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.519 they've got salmon colored geraniums. Just a lot of new things out there, 87 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.639 and they always have something new. Now. They're the garden center that 88 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:43.680 if you are on one oh five in Montgomery heading toward Lake Conroe. They're 89 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.120 right on the edge of town. And if you drive either you've seen it 90 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.959 one hundred times, you need to go by. They're open seven days a 91 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.040 week, nine to five. So to day this afternoon be a great time 92 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.240 to get out there and pick you up some plants, because I'll tell you 93 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.839 one thing. They get these shipments in, but people show up and they 94 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.879 take your plants. They buy your plants right out from underneath you. So 95 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.519 don't mess around. Go ahead and get yours while the supply is best, 96 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.800 and A and A plants and produce can get you all set up on that. 97 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.680 We appreciate you listening to garden Line. By the way, I always 98 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.519 enjoy getting to visit with folks that are listening to the show. You know. 99 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.319 I wanted to also talk about fertilizing, and I know a lot of 100 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:25.720 callers will talk about it as we go through today. But Nitrofoss has a 101 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:30.079 product that's our Early Spring green Up. If you go on my schedule at 102 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.959 gardeningwiskip dot com. The early Green spring Up. Early Spring Greenup is what 103 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:40.560 we do now. And the fifteen five ten red bag it's Nitrofoss Imperial. 104 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:44.480 The easy way to remember, it's Nitrofoss's Red Bag. It's time to put 105 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.519 it down. It it gets in the soil, the plants take it up, 106 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.519 they turn green the grass plants, and when growth begins, you've got 107 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:56.160 the nutrient in there. We'll be doing other fertilizing for the long term as 108 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.199 we go a little further into the season. Right now, it's green up 109 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.920 time and Foss's Imperial is the product to do that. Now. Where do 110 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.120 you get it? Well, I get it at Bearings Hardware and Bissonette and 111 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.959 on West Timer, I get it at Plantation Ace Hardware out there in Richmond, 112 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.240 Rosenberg, just lots of places you can get night Foss, Imperial. 113 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.920 Hey, I'll be right back, take a little break and we'll be back 114 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.879 for your calls. Welcome back to garden Line. Good morning. We want 115 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.920 to want to cover a lot of things today, so we're gonna we're gonna 116 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:26.399 jump on it. In fact, I'm going to go straight out to the 117 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.279 phones here and let's see where were going to go first. Well, who 118 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.960 was first in line? We're going to go to Girardo out in meadow Space 119 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.480 Meadows place. How you doing, Girardo? Pretty good? Skip, How 120 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.519 you doing this morning? I'm well, thank you. How can we help 121 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:46.399 today? I've been looking I have an apple tree, sun, some flowers. 122 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.000 I'm trying to do some research and I can't find anything on how to 123 00:08:52.960 --> 00:09:00.879 spray for I guess possible insects and pests and stuff like that. I I 124 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.440 have a schedule for peach trees and stuff like I can't find anything on an 125 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:09.240 apple tree. I was wondering. I sprayed dormance free before the on it 126 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:13.919 before I guess the ballooms came and everything. But you know, I had 127 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.279 some nice flowers on and everything, and I don't know what to do well 128 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.759 once it starts forming apples, I'm I can't find anything. And how to 129 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.879 a schedule too? How a spray you're lessie? Are you in Fort Bend 130 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.519 County? Yes? Okay, yeah. Fort ben County Extension Office is down 131 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:37.559 there in Rosenberg, just south of fifty nine sixty nine. I would call 132 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.960 Boon Holiday there at the office, and I'm pretty sure he has a spray 133 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:48.120 schedule that would cover apples or get you to one. That would be one 134 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.240 thing. First of all, you don't want to spray anything during bloom because 135 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.480 of the bees. You got to have the bee apples are a cross pollinated 136 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.480 The only things I'm trying to think of, we don't have a lot of 137 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:03.039 big insect issues on apples. They can get scale and there are some other 138 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.600 insect pests that can affect them. But the primary thing with apples is the 139 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.960 diseases and our rainy climate over here, and that would be a funge aside 140 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:15.639 to protect against those. And there are a number of ones if you you 141 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.840 know, I'm sending you north southeast and west here. But Cuthwar's fertilizers just 142 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.840 up the street from your Businett and Renwick and they've got the best supply of 143 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:30.159 products for controlling issues that anybody has. Go in and tell them, look, 144 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:31.559 I got an apple tree and I need a funge aside for it. 145 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:37.000 What are your options and let them take a look, and those are going 146 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.559 to be the thing. You can follow the label. I can just tell 147 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.159 you when you you know, watch your apples and see how they do, 148 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:46.039 especially when there's fruit on the tree. Controlling leaf spots is helpful. But 149 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.519 when you get a fruit rot, game over for that apple, and so 150 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:56.240 you need to after we have a rain period for the whole apple, no 151 00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:01.960 that that apple's gone, you know, so you can't that's a there's not 152 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.000 a You can tolerate a few leaf spots, that's not a problem, but 153 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.960 when you lose apples then that's a problem unless you just like like the tree 154 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:13.919 for its blooms. So yeah, I would talk to Bob over there at 155 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.000 Southwest Fertilizer and they can get you all set up on the product that is 156 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.519 labeled for use on apples. That's a big challenge is we've got to find 157 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:28.360 something that actually is labeled for them. Okay, okay, And by the 158 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.039 way, that if you want to just give them a call to make first. 159 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:39.039 It's seven one three six six six one seven four four Southwest Fertilizer dot 160 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.039 Com. You bet, thank you, Okay, thank you. Good to 161 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.519 visit with you, Good to visit with you. Let's see here I wanted 162 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:50.879 to. I always talk about soil and the importance of soil, and the 163 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:54.039 way I like to put it is brown stuff before green stuff. And what 164 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.000 that is. What I'm trying to do is to have you think about the 165 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.600 fact before you put a plant in the ground, ask yourself the question is 166 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:07.320 the soil ready? Is that soil going to make this plant productive and healthy? 167 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.559 And because a lot of people go out and they buy plants, I 168 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:15.799 get it. The flowers at the garden centers. I get excited too. 169 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.080 Let's get one to bring it home. Let's do that, but before you 170 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:24.120 do, bring home also something that will help your soil. That includes fertilizer, 171 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.240 that includes composts, that includes bed mixes. And the folks at Airlom 172 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:31.960 Soils they've got it all. They've got potting soils like the works potting soil 173 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.120 for your containers that do very very well. They have the rose soil, 174 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.639 they have leaf mold compost, which is one of the hottest items these days. 175 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.879 Leaf mold compost such a high quality compost. You can go to Airloomsoils 176 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.919 off Texas dot com that tells you where you can find them, but I'm 177 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:50.279 telling you you can find them in a lot, a lot, a lot 178 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:56.000 of places. The heirloom soils products. Now, if you are preparing your 179 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.600 soil like that, and you're getting the bed ready and the right way, 180 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:05.080 you're just going to have success. And I urge you spend a dollar on 181 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:11.639 the brown stuff before you when you spent spend a dollar on the green stuff, 182 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.080 because brown stuff comes first. That's very very important. Let's go out 183 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.879 to Katie. Now we're going to talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, 184 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:28.279 good morning, Skip Hey. Question. Recently adopted some pets and so now 185 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:37.639 we're rethinking putting the organic stuff instead of synthetic. What would you recommend for 186 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:50.799 the post emergent on weeds post or pre Well, before we adopted the pets, 187 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:56.720 I put the barricade down two weeks ago and I didn't do the post 188 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:05.080 emergent, so I'm trying to be safe for the pets. Yeah, it 189 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:09.120 depends on the weed that you have. Uh, there is a product called 190 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.279 Agerlon, a crabgrass killer that works well on a lot of weeds, but 191 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:16.039 not every weed. It's a cinnamon based product. Uh. There is a 192 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:22.600 product called Captain Jack's Lawn Weed Brew and what it is. It's a keylated 193 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.440 form of iron that again works well on a lot of weeds, but not 194 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:31.440 every weed, but it'll turn them just black quickly. It's amazing how that 195 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.799 works. But basically some weeds are just sensitive to that kind of iron. 196 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.600 And are you're Saint Augustine lawn isn't? And so I would And where do 197 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:43.320 you get this, Captain Jack Sprew, Well, you're you're out there in 198 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:46.679 Katie. I would go to the Ace hardware. You got right out there 199 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:52.480 in Katy. It's that's probably the easiest close which direction from Katie? Are 200 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:58.919 you uh South Fry Kingslinn, I'm near the ace hardware. Oh yeah, 201 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.440 okay, yeah, okay, Well there you go. I would just go 202 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.759 to the ace out there they are going to have If anybody's got it out 203 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.840 there, they're gonna have it. Uh. And again yeah, let me 204 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.960 let me get you to do this right down my website, it's gardening with 205 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:20.519 Skip. That's me gardening with Skip dot com. When you go there, 206 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.919 you'll see my lawn care schedule for fertilizing and for weed control, and on 207 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:30.559 the weed control one on the bottom right corner is the post emergent organic options 208 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.720 and these are spelled out right there for you. Okay, okay, I 209 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.799 just remember that not and this is true whether it's synthetic or organic, not 210 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.399 every product kills every weed. So just be aware of that. If you 211 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.759 got you know the history of weeds all over the lawn, then you're probably 212 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.840 gonna miss a few, but at least it'llt you going in the right paw. 213 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.360 One last question, Bob weeds say, if you do use synthetic, 214 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:58.080 how long before you have the pets come down after you water it? Uh? 215 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:07.399 Well, you're gonna have you already fertilized. Yes, okay, So 216 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.639 you're going to be doing a spray of a synthetic post emergent weed control and 217 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.840 you just need it needs to have you know, a couple of days to 218 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:21.320 soak into the tissues and then you can water, just water the lawn and 219 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:26.759 kind of wash off whatever might be there and you'll be okay, okay, 220 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.360 so I know they have to be out every day to go to the bathroom. 221 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:33.440 But you know, it's just the trade off trying to to coordinate traffic 222 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:38.120 going across the lawn. There, gotcha, all right, thank you, 223 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.240 all right, sir, thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call very 224 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:48.080 much. I want to remind you that this is the season to finish up 225 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.360 getting all that pruning work done. Now. You can prune any month of 226 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.320 the year if you need to, but we like to get it done this 227 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:57.600 time of year because the fastest time of tree healing is now the spring. 228 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:03.200 That is when the trees feel the fastest. So it's not you don't have 229 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:06.359 to do printing now, but I can't think of a better time to go 230 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:08.000 ahead and get it finished up. And I can't think of a better place 231 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.160 either than affordable tree service. I've I've talked to you before about Martin Spoonmore 232 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.880 and the fact that he has been around for a long time in this area 233 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:21.759 taking care of trees. And when it comes to trees, I would say 234 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:26.920 there's no aspect of your landscape care and stuff where you need a true professional 235 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.839 more than you do with trees, because these things are worth hundreds and hundreds 236 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.960 of dollars to your landscape. And I've seen the work of people that are 237 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.880 in a chainsaw, a pickup and have business cards. It is a mess 238 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:41.039 and it ruins them for life. Martin will come out for one hundred and 239 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.119 fifty bucks. We'll give you a consultation what he sees going on, advising 240 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.319 on what you should do and so on. If you choose to say, 241 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:49.920 okay, let's go ahead and have you do the work, that one fifty 242 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:53.640 is applied to the cost of doing the job. So you know, a 243 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.559 guy can't run around all over town with people that are just kind of curious 244 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.559 about this or that. But if you're serious about it, have him come 245 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.440 out and do that. If you're going to do any kind of construction, 246 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:07.559 digging a trench, putting us a driveway down or something, you absolutely have 247 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.559 to have somebody come out because that does or it can do significant damage to 248 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.599 trees. And there's a lot he can advise you on to help with that. 249 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:21.160 Now. Affordable Tree Service here's the website. Aff Tree Service dot com 250 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.559 a ff tree service dot com. Here's the phone number. Any of the 251 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.119 martin ER's wife Joe will answer the phone. Yep. The owners answer the 252 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:37.000 phone seven to one three six, twenty six sixty three seven one three six 253 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:42.680 nine nine two six six three makes it easy. It's got to magnolia now, 254 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:47.279 and we're going to talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, goom, 255 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:51.799 mor skip. I'm playing on here in the next month or so, laying 256 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:55.119 down some good u top soil, because I live in Montgomery County, and 257 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.440 you know, it's nothing but saying out here and then throwing laying down some 258 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.240 sod. And once I get that watered in good and well, how soon 259 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:07.759 do I have to wait before I can fertilize it. You know it's going 260 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:11.920 to be growing pretty well by the time you get that down, and I 261 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:15.039 would probably give it a couple of weeks or one way I like to put 262 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.039 it, because weather it can kind of be cooler or warmer, which affects 263 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:22.519 the rooting and the growth rate. When you've had to mow that lawn, 264 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.960 go ahead and fertilize it. Then it's not going to be in trouble if 265 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:29.400 you don't fertilize it real soon. I mean, it's gonna be okay. 266 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.759 It's just getting some roots down in the ground. There is some nutrient there. 267 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.000 But when you start to see the growth or when you reach out and 268 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.279 you grab one of those side pieces and kind of tug on it and it 269 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.640 doesn't lift up, you can see that it's pegging roots down. That's a 270 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:47.000 good time to fertilize. Okay, very good, Thank you very much, 271 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:48.039 sir. You have a great weekend. Yes, sir, enjoy your lawn. 272 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:55.240 Appreciate that very much. Well, you're listening to garden Line. Is 273 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:56.640 that the name of the show. This would be gard Line. It was 274 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.079 yesterday at least, and we're going to turn it over to Nikki for the 275 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.680 news here in just a minute. But if you'd like to give us a 276 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.480 call seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 277 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:12.000 two one two five eight seven four, we'll be right back to take your 278 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:17.440 questions. So let's see what you want to talk about next. Welcome back 279 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:21.160 to guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And what are we 280 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:23.319 here for it? We're here to turn brown thumb's green because, as I 281 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:26.799 say, there's no such thing as a brown thumb. There's an uninformed thumb. 282 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.400 So we know how to make that a green thumb. We do. 283 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:33.319 I'll tell you who else knows how to do that? And that is Plants 284 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.279 for all seasons. Plants for all Seasons has been in the business turning brown 285 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.640 thumbs green for a long long time since back oh gosh, nineteen seventy three. 286 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:45.680 I believe they opened up there on two forty nine, which is Tomball 287 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:49.519 Parkway, right just north of Louetta. So just get off Tomball Parkway, 288 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.440 go across Luetta and they're right there. And I was out there the other 289 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:57.480 day and I saw something that reminded me. I haven't talked about this on 290 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:03.400 guard Line before, but I remember the day when terrariums were all the rage. 291 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.640 I mean, people loved having terrariums. And they have a whole section 292 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:11.240 of little small plants, a little small plants that you could put together. 293 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:14.359 Maybe you want to use an old aquarium to make a terrarium. Maybe you 294 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.039 want to use one of those big old fishbowls, or the fishbowl on a 295 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:21.279 pedestal. Those are great for terrariums because the idea is to create this little 296 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.920 humid environment where they could be happy. And they also have a lot of 297 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:30.480 the carnivorous plants. Now, nothing as big as a little shop of horrors, 298 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.480 but if you're a fly, it's the same thing. They have venus 299 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.319 fly trap, and they've got the little sundews. Now, venus fly trap, 300 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.000 you know, has a little fingerlike things across that in case that like 301 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:47.279 little bars that close the prison around the fly. Sundews have sticky stuff and 302 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:49.720 a bug lands on that, a gnat or something, and they get stuck. 303 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:55.200 It's like flypaper, and sundews are cool. They have picture plants that 304 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:00.359 actually the little insect falls down into the plant. There are track did to 305 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.559 it and they fall down inside and then I hope you have up your not 306 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:11.039 eating breakfast right now. The digestive juices are released by the plant to digest 307 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:15.519 the insect. In that cool. Your kids need to know about this stuff. 308 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:18.839 They need to play with it. You need to get by there and 309 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.039 get them. Some of those kind of plants, whether it's a terrarium in 310 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.000 the room or are especially cool is the ones that eat things. And the 311 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.720 venus fly trap, of course, is the poster plant for that. And 312 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:33.400 they've got them there plants for all seasons. They also have lots of tomatoes 313 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:37.640 and peppers. I was very impressed with the selection that they had. They've 314 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:40.480 got them all grouped where it's easy to find what you're getting. And you 315 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.599 know, peppers are all the rage, and they've got everything from mild peppers 316 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:45.720 down to the ones that you have to water every day to keep the mulch 317 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:49.440 from catching on fire. That's a joke, by the way, but they've 318 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:52.079 got it all at Plants for All Seasons. Hey, just go to the 319 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.480 website Plants for All Seasons dot com or give them a call to eight one 320 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:03.599 three seven six sixteen forty six. Where are we going next? Let's go 321 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:07.559 out to Kady if I can find my mouse here, and we're going to 322 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:11.599 talk to Michael. Hello, Michael hight there, Good morning, Thank you, 323 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:17.839 Good morning. I got a quick question about my front yard. I 324 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:21.480 got some I'm kind of new to your to your schedule there and keeping my 325 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:26.039 yard keeping it maintained. I've watched it kind of deteriorate over the years. 326 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:30.119 I've been a homeowner since sixteen. The last couple of summers have been awful. 327 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:33.559 So anyways, I got some weeds, a've patch of weeds in the 328 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:36.880 front yard kind of where the yard went balled right by my house. And 329 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:38.480 then I've got you know, and I want to lay down the pre emergent 330 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:45.960 and the fifteen five ten fertilizer separately. Of course I've been using weed and 331 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:48.039 seas. I want to do this right, and I just wanted to know 332 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.240 about like the order things. Should I you? Should I do this all 333 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:55.000 one weekend? Should I space this out? What's the help me get started 334 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:57.640 here? Sure you're putting down a pre emergent and a fertilizer. Is that 335 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:02.200 the two things? Yeah, on the schedule of that that you guys have. 336 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.759 So you put the barricade down and then you put the fertilizer down, 337 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:11.119 and it could be done in either order. It doesn't matter if you're doing 338 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.279 fertilizer and barricade separately. But don't put them in the same hopper. Just 339 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:21.200 make two applications one of one, one of them day, same hour if 340 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:23.559 you want it doesn't there's no problem. The only no no is to put 341 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:27.319 them in the same hopper because they're different particle size. And if you've ever 342 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:30.839 had a box of things of different sizes and you shake it, all the 343 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:34.000 big stuff kind of comes to the top and the little stuff settles to the 344 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:37.880 bottom, And if you did that in a fertilizer hopper, you get all 345 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.160 the barricade out first and then you get the fertilizer out, and you would 346 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.480 not have an even distribution of either one. So first, whichever you want 347 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:48.599 to use first, it doesn't matter the order. Put them both down and 348 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.119 then turn them the sprinklers and put one half inch of water down. That 349 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:56.079 moves the barricade down into the soil, and it'll also wet those granules and 350 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:00.960 get them moving down too. Okay, Well, and as far as I 351 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.119 kill the weeds, just do that, give done first, and then do 352 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:08.960 this or yeah, you mean your existing weeds. Yeah, yeah, Well, 353 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.759 I mean there's different approaches to that. We've you know, we've got 354 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.759 options where there's a fertilizer and that kind of weed control, or you could 355 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:19.759 just buy a spray and spray the weeds. It kind of depends on what's 356 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:23.480 convenient for you. But if we start doing the fertilizer combo with that, 357 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:27.880 well then that changes what I just said, because then I would just do 358 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:33.440 what you're saying, do the barricade, do the the Imperial red bag fifteen 359 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.799 five ten I think you meant you said fifteen five to ten, right, 360 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:41.480 yes, and then go with that, and if you've got existing weeds, 361 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:47.279 look at them closely and see if they are flowering and setting seed already. 362 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:49.960 And if see where are you you're calm from Katie, you probably still could 363 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:55.759 get the post the post emergence down and be just fine. But in a 364 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:59.839 pinch, you also definitely are going to want to the first couple of mowings, 365 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.359 put a bagger on that mower and try to capture as many weed seeds 366 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.920 as possible. Even if you've sprayed them, the seeds may could already be 367 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.640 viable. Understood, Okay, thank you so much. All right, Michael, 368 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:17.079 thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call a lot. I was 369 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:21.119 looking at some of the work that Piercecapes does on landscapes, and I know 370 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:22.480 a lot of you listening or do it yourself first. And I also know 371 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:27.000 a lot of you listening or have somebody come do it. And there is 372 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:30.559 definitely a time where that is for sure the best thing, especially when you're 373 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:36.039 looking at a really big landscape job. And Peerscapes can do that. I 374 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:40.599 mean they can do everything from hey, come out, my irrigation system needs 375 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:44.799 some you know, check up and repair to I've got a drainage problem in 376 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.079 the back that could be a big job. It could be a small job, 377 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:49.240 not too big of a job. Do you want landscape lighting? Do 378 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:53.359 you want you know, hard scapes? And somebody install a beautiful fountain right 379 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.279 there off the patio. They can do all that kind of stuff. Peerscapes 380 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:00.599 has been doing this a long time. They know what doing. But let 381 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.440 me tell you, they stay busy. That's true. Our sponsors in general, 382 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.720 they do a good job, so they stay busy. That's how you 383 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.240 treat your customers right, and you stay busy. That's how things work. 384 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.720 So they're getting work still, scheduling work on out. So don't delay, 385 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:18.480 even if you don't want it done right now, go ahead and call them. 386 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.359 Make sure that you get that done soon so that when you can get 387 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.839 on the schedule, then later they'll be out there and they'll get you set 388 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:30.440 up just with whatever it is you need. They got all their certifications and 389 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.640 licenses. They can do any kind of work like that. Pierce Caapes dot 390 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.119 Com is a website. I would start there, or you can just give 391 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.480 them a call at two eight one, three, seven oh five oh six. 392 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:45.240 Oh. That makes it easy as well. We're going to go now 393 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:52.319 out to Paula in northwest Houston. Hello, Paula, good morning. Last 394 00:27:52.440 --> 00:28:00.680 fall, you suggested diansis too Oh, I think I lost Paula there for 395 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:06.559 just a minute. Enjoy them. My first question is how much longer will 396 00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:11.720 they last? And then what is a good nectar replacement for them for warmer 397 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:17.240 weather? Okay, Dianthus is going to go into the early part of summer 398 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:21.640 and then gradually, like our other cool seasoned flowers, it just starts to 399 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.559 lose its bigger, lose its blooming and whatnot. But it's lock and tail. 400 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:29.359 Yeah, it can warm up quite a bit. You've got some. 401 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:33.720 You got plenty of time left with these for now, okay, and then 402 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.960 when you get into summer. It kind of depends on what you like to 403 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.880 look at the little well. I want something with lots of nectar for the 404 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:45.759 butterflies and bees, okay, and you want something that's really short like dianthus. 405 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.799 Yeah, yes, okay. There are some zenias that do really well. 406 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:55.200 Any kind of a little disk like flower, daisy like flower would do 407 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.720 really well for you. The compact zenias I'm talking about, not the big 408 00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:03.559 long cut flower types, the lobularia. There's one called white stream. It 409 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.519 may be hard to find at this stage, but if you can find it, 410 00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:11.480 it is another popular one that will carry you on into some warmer weather. 411 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.759 And then once we get into the heat of summer, you've got things 412 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:21.480 like angelonia. You've got just there's just a lot of great flowers and plants. 413 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:22.920 What I would do if I were you. You're up in northwest Houston. 414 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.319 You know a lot of great garden centers up there. You know you've 415 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:30.839 got RCW, You've got plantro arborgate. Go talk to them and see what 416 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:33.920 they have, because sometimes they surprise me and they get something I didn't even 417 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.599 know it was on the market, and so I would do that for sure. 418 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.240 Hey, I got a run for another commercial break, I got one 419 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:45.279 more question. You can hold hang on. Welcome back to Garden Line. 420 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.519 Yesterday I was out at the in Conroe at the Home and Garden show up 421 00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:53.039 there. Thanks to everybody that came out. Had a good time, lots 422 00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.920 of questions and things. When I was at the event, I had a 423 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.640 couple of questions that I just want to mention the morning because they're significant in 424 00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:04.599 terms of what things we're doing now out in the yard and garden. One 425 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:08.559 person asked me about sweet green. They said okay, this is organic, 426 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.400 right, and I said, yes, it's organic, and then they started 427 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.880 asking me questions about how it works, is it a slow release or whatever? 428 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:22.400 Sweet green there from nitrofoss is a fertilizer that's made from a molasses base, 429 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:26.640 and microbial activity is part of what turns it into a fertilizer, but 430 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:32.920 it also stimulates my chrobial activity and soul because it is a sugar based type 431 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:36.960 product, a molasses based type product. That's why it smells so wonderful. 432 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:40.960 It really smells good. It's eleven percent nitrogen, so that's a good boost 433 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:44.839 for an organic fertilizer of that much nitrogen. But when you put it down, 434 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:48.000 you water it in and it is going to be released pretty quickly. 435 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.119 It's not a slow release. It's going to be released quickly and it's going 436 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:55.839 to give you feed over a number of weeks. And so could you use 437 00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:00.880 it for a green up. Yes, it's a little slower than the Imperial 438 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:03.359 the red bag fifteen five ten, but if you want to organic fertilizer early 439 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:06.640 on, this would be a good one to use. It works just well. 440 00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:10.920 And again the other question is you know where do you get it? 441 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:12.559 And The answer is, well, where do you want to get it, 442 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:17.440 because it's pretty much everywhere like nitrofoss. You got enchanted forest out there in 443 00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:18.880 Richmond Rosenberg. That's the place you can get it. You can go to 444 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:23.240 Growers Outlet and Willis, you can go to RCW Nursery up on Tombai Parkway. 445 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.960 You can get at all those places. But just remember you want to 446 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.680 water it in because it's going to dissolve away and it's going to do its 447 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.079 work and the microbes will say thanks a lot because they love the part of 448 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:38.839 organic gardening we use. We use molasses type products all the time, and 449 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.240 sweet green is a similar connected product that The other thing people kept asking me 450 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:45.359 is about as mite. When do I put on azmite? When do I 451 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.200 put on an ase mate? When do you want to put on azmite? 452 00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:52.799 It's a trace mineral, and you need trace minerals. So if you've had 453 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.880 a soul test that shows a need for trace, then you absolutely need to 454 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.559 do it, and you may do it more than once. If you just 455 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:05.160 are looking at an ongoing maintenance, then the as and mite label is a 456 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.839 very light application. It really is. A forty four point bag will cover 457 00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:14.720 six to twelve thousand square feet. That's a lot. That's way less application 458 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:20.400 than your normal fertilizer applications are. But asimite adds those important trace minerals. 459 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:24.839 Put it in your vegetable gardens too, because it just helps with the complete 460 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:28.920 nutrition of the produce you're going to be eating. And by the way, 461 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.240 if you want more information, just go to azimite Texas dot com asimite Texas 462 00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.759 dot com and you can find out about those lots of good questions we were 463 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:39.880 dealing with yesterday. We're going to go back now. We're talking to Paula 464 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:45.359 in Northwest Houston. Hey, Paula, Okay, there's two schools of thought 465 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:51.680 I have read about whether or not you should pinch out suckers on tomato plants. 466 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:58.920 What are your thoughts? Okay, there's no single answer right way to 467 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:01.920 do it, But here here's the principle that you're operating on. If you're 468 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:06.759 going to steak tomatoes or have a single vine like and you see in these 469 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.920 greenhouses we have one vine going straight up. Then you produce, you pinch 470 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.279 out every sucker and just leave that one vine. It will give you earlier 471 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:22.519 ripening on the first tomatoes. And it will give you well because all the 472 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.640 competition from all the suckers is removed and all the focus goes into those tomatoes. 473 00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:32.640 It'll also give you a little bit larger tomato for the slicers. Now, 474 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:37.680 if you don't remove them, you still want to remove a few. 475 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:39.920 You don't want to let every sucker grow, or you just end up with 476 00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:45.079 this massive tomatoes that has a lot more fruit. You get more fruit that 477 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:50.960 way by having by not removing it any of the or only removing a few 478 00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:54.680 suckers, but the fruit will be slightly later because again it's you know, 479 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:58.920 it's got a lot of babies that it's raisen. That plant does. And 480 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:01.599 so what I do is I remove the first you know, one or two, 481 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:10.000 and then maybe allowed where you're eventually getting three vines growing because I've allowed 482 00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:14.800 a couple extra suckers to come on, but then continue to do some sucker 483 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.960 removal if it's in a cage. Otherwise the cage is such a wad of 484 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.880 blooms that air can't get in there, and diseases increased and so on. 485 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:29.639 So some sucker removal is important. But just think of each sucker as more 486 00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:32.880 that that vine is trying to support. Okay, well that helps. And 487 00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:38.840 also I've read that you shouldn't any branches on the bottom that hit the dirt, 488 00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:43.480 you should cut off. Is that a true statement, Yeah, it 489 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.920 is. I mean I always must so that my leaves aren't getting splashed with 490 00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:51.800 soil and the fruit isn't getting splashed with soil, and then it's not as 491 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.559 important. But yeah, I try to clean it up. You want good 492 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:57.760 air circulation. That's an important part of disease fighting. You don't have to 493 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.000 spray for spray for everything. All right, Hey, good god, I 494 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:04.079 appreciate it. Thank you, you bet you take care. I'm going to 495 00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:07.519 head now out to where we're going. We're going to Marty in Fairfield. 496 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:13.440 Hello, Marty, good morning. Skip. I picked up some Bonye weed 497 00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:17.000 beater. But when I started to put it on, and I look back 498 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:21.920 at your schedule and it said ultra and all I picked up was Southern lawns. 499 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.719 I read the label. It doesn't say anything about whether I can put 500 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:30.199 it down now, whether I wait, It doesn't give anything about temperature wise, 501 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:32.599 you can do it now, you can do it now, okay, 502 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:37.079 So but if you're doing it now, either one is fine the Ultra. 503 00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:42.880 There's several versions of weed beater. Southern Lawns is one that's a good one 504 00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:45.599 to used to. Weed beater Ultra has a little extra kick in it for 505 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:52.280 certain kinds of weed problems. But you're you're putting either product on to kill 506 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.760 the weeds that are growing. Now, that's a chick weed, tenbat clover 507 00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:00.280 all those things. If you see a weed, now it's a cool and 508 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:04.760 weed. Yeah. Yeah, it's a post emergent. But I already put 509 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.880 down the pre emergent barricade, and then I have my ag crab grass that 510 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:10.559 I'm going to put out. What was the second thing you're gonna put out? 511 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:16.559 A would h? A g crab grass control? Oh okay, all 512 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:20.400 right, Well if you put a pre emerging out, if you did you 513 00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:22.960 use barricade or what did you do? Yes, then you don't need a 514 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:28.880 crabgrass control. The barricade will do that. They're already up. Oh the 515 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:34.239 crab grass is already up. Oh boy, I say that it's the big 516 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.719 clumps of real skinny. I'll look it up. Yeah, I think it's 517 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.400 something else. I think it's about you, say you. I'll put you 518 00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:45.840 on hold here in a bit you can give Josh your email or he'll give 519 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:49.159 you my email. Okay, just send me some pictures up close in good 520 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:52.480 sharp focus. I don't ok And thanks for theo tomato advice. I just 521 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:57.159 learned something about my tomatoes, so thanks. Well, when I walked in 522 00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:00.920 the studio, I didn't see any tomatoes that dropped off here, so I'm 523 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:05.679 sorry. I do expect that when I give good advice on tomatoes to have 524 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:09.159 something. Absolutely. I have about fifteen plants, so I will bring you 525 00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:13.119 some. I'm kidding. I'm kidding that. Thank you. I appreciate it. 526 00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:15.559 Marty. Good luck with those. I hope you have a good crop. 527 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:20.320 Thank you, bybye, all right, bye bye. Yeah, it's 528 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:22.920 a joke here on guard Line. You know, if we give you advice, 529 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.840 you just had to bring us part of the produce. Oh my. 530 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:32.119 The folks that Landscaper's Pride have a wide variety of products to help you do 531 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:37.000 what I always say, and that's brown stuff before green stuff. They specialize 532 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.159 in the brown stuff. For example, they're pot dirt. It's an omni 533 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:45.480 certified that's organic certified, organic soil, and it's really proven for the short 534 00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:50.400 term high potency growth of the flowering plants. Got It's packed with nutrients, 535 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:54.079 got worm castings and sand and vermeculi and more so you got annual bed seasonal 536 00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:58.599 color changes. You want to really pop with color. Pot dirt will work. 537 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:02.239 Landscapers Mixed It is excellent for drainage because of the way it's got the 538 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:06.400 fresh pine bark in it, with the rice holes in, pearlite and other 539 00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.639 things. Eve has a slow release fertilizer in it, and then the rose 540 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:13.679 soil, the rose mix. They call it very effective for woody ornamentals, 541 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:17.840 any kind of an acidic pH loving garden especially works well for that. Now 542 00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:22.519 you're going to find all these products all over the place. But if you're 543 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:27.119 looking for hey, where do I buy landscapers Pride products? Go to Landscaperspride 544 00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:30.639 dot com and there you go. When you go there, you will see 545 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:35.000 all the places to get these products and many many more, including their punting 546 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:39.480 soil, which is very versatile and very helpful. I am running against our 547 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:43.559 first big break for the hour here, Steve. When we come back, 548 00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:45.639 you will be our first up. Couldn't quite make it to you this hour, 549 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:49.039 but we will be first when we come back. If you'd like to 550 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.039 call Josh and get on the boards. Seven one three two one two fifty 551 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:55.679 eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 552 00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:00.880 I was visiting with and H. Dester from agg the other day. And 553 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:07.039 Andy this weekend is out at the Southern Nurseries and Silsby. So all of 554 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:12.599 you listening way out there in the you know, toward Beaumont direction in Sillsby 555 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.199 Southern Nursery. She's going to be there today from the opening to close. 556 00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:22.559 And that's eight am to five thirty and noon to four thirty. It's it's 557 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:24.039 got both of them. Oh, eight am five thirty is yesterday today, 558 00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:29.039 noon to four thirty, I believe, so I hope you will enjoy that. 559 00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:32.800 That is a good opportunity. Andy is always a wealth of information. 560 00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.239 She can tell you all about the Medina products, of course, but she's 561 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:39.679 just a good wealth of information. She and I go way back to the 562 00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:44.719 days when we both lived in Austin, Texas. We'll be right back. 563 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:52.280 KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 564 00:39:52.360 --> 00:40:06.920 this program. Welcome to KATRH Garden Line with Skip Richt. It's so just 565 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:17.440 watch him as, Hey, welcome back to guard Line. What are we 566 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.280 gonna talk about today? Can you tell me a little bit of glow outside 567 00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:25.800 some cloudy's weather? Cloudy skies today. But you know what, it's going 568 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:29.960 to be a nice mild day and it's not gonna rain on us. The 569 00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.440 weather managed promised me it's going to rain on us. So it's gonna be 570 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:36.679 a good day to get out and do some things in the garden. One 571 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:38.440 of the things that you need to do, and I need this is like 572 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:43.320 a we need that little sound of an emergency broadcast. You know, this 573 00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:46.480 is something you need to know. Our weeds eeds are germinating. That's the 574 00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:52.880 news. That's the news flash. Broad leaf, grassy, warm seasoned weeds 575 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:57.800 are starting to germinate in parts of this listening area. And in order to 576 00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:00.960 prevent them, you have to have some that will prevent them from getting up 577 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:05.760 and growing, like a barricade product. And that's prime product that we talk 578 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:10.000 about here on guarden Line for stopping both broad leaf and grassy weeds. But 579 00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:15.559 here's the deal. It's like the analogy I like to use is the baseball 580 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:20.039 analogy. If the catcher is holding the ball, the batter has waited too 581 00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:23.199 long to swing. Does that makes sense? That's what we're talking about when 582 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:27.480 those weeds are up and growing and you know, taken off and everything. 583 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:34.039 Well, pre emergent means before it emerges, and that is what barricade is. 584 00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:37.000 It's a pre emergent. So if you've got thin lawn areas, you've 585 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:42.039 got areas where the sunlighter sitting in the soil, nature will plant weeds there. 586 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.800 And barricade is what we put down watered in with one half inch of 587 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:50.119 water, just a half inch, all you're doing is just wetting the granules. 588 00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:53.199 And why well, a dry barricade granules sitting on the ground is not 589 00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.800 going to prevent all the weed seeds all around it. When you water it, 590 00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:01.320 that liquid takes it into the surface where it ties up. Now when 591 00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:06.239 a weeds he tries to come up, there is a barricade over the soil. 592 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.280 And that's why we use the term incorporating. Back in the day with 593 00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:13.920 farmers, they would maybe disc it in really lightly a product, or they 594 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.199 would water it. Watering it in is how you do it in your lawn. 595 00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:20.639 Barricade is what you use in your lawn. That's how that works. 596 00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:25.000 Now all the different kinds of weeds, crabgrass and what's the other one to 597 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:30.400 everybody? Oh grassper that people just can't stand. Well, that is why 598 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:32.119 we do it. Now, where do you get barricade? Alsposees in the 599 00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:37.039 woodlands has barricade, plants for all seasons. Two forty nine has barricade. 600 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.719 Brenham. I'll go up to Brenham Plants and things in Brenham on Highway three 601 00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:45.800 sixty five. They've got barricade and other nitrofoss products as well. I want 602 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.840 to run now to Lake Jackson and Steve. Thank you for being patient holding 603 00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.960 How can we help today? Yes, good morning, Skip. I enjoy 604 00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:59.000 your show a lot. Thank you. And so this is a follow up 605 00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:01.599 to call it from a about two weeks ago. I'm fighting this brown patch 606 00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:07.440 in my front yard. And so what I did was I put down a 607 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:12.159 some liquid funge aside. I waited about ten days. I put down the 608 00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:16.519 nitrofoss eagle to the side, and so it's, uh, the grass is 609 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:21.800 coming back. Well. I raked some of the brown and I bagged that, 610 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.199 went over and bagged it, and so, uh, the green is 611 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:32.679 coming back. It's about fifty green fifty brown and so uh so from a 612 00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:38.360 you know, going forward, Uh, is it okay for me to fertilize 613 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:43.519 at this point and maybe water a little bit? Yes, it's it's if 614 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:45.800 you're going to do a spring green up, now is when you do it. 615 00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:50.840 Now. Spring greenup is an optional application. It's not like, Okay, 616 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:52.840 this is part of what you have to do every year, right. 617 00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:55.760 Uh, it's an optional one. But if you want to get the grass 618 00:43:55.800 --> 00:44:00.360 of greener earlier, that's what we do. That's why we call it spring 619 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:06.599 green up. We'll begin our i'll say our main warm season fertilization schedules. 620 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:08.960 Those begin in April. They go through May, June, July, and 621 00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:15.239 then we come back in October for a fall application. But those will begin 622 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.920 pretty soon. If you wanted it for whatever reason, Uh, you wanted 623 00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:22.079 to wait and just start with the summer schedule, that's fine. It's all 624 00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:25.119 on my gardening schedule. I don't know if you've seen a copy of it 625 00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:30.320 or not, but it's online at gardening with Skip dot com and it lists 626 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.800 all the products and everything. So yeah, if you're going to do an 627 00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.159 early greenup, you can do that now. So I've printed that schedule out 628 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:43.639 it's just wonderful. I really appreciate that. And so how does this brown 629 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.079 patch propagate? You know? How is you know? And once it sets 630 00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:51.800 up, is it likely to return you know next year, next summerfall. 631 00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:54.320 Yeah, Like a lot of fungi, it's we would say it's ubiquitous. 632 00:44:54.360 --> 00:45:00.760 It's everwhere, the spores are, everwhere. When we create conditions that brown 633 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:06.599 patch likes, then it can it will infect and be worse. So those 634 00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:14.119 conditions mean extra nitrogen during the season when it affects, it attacks, extra 635 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.119 moisture during the season when it attacks, so you get lush growth in the 636 00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:22.440 fall. And that's why when we move to fall, we switch over our 637 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:27.280 fertilizer a little bit and the application timing in the falls a little different, 638 00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:30.599 and so as a result we try to avoid it. But if you overfertilize 639 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:37.719 with nitrogen during that season, brown patch only attacks in cool, mild weather 640 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:42.000 conditions, So it's not a summer disease, it's a fall disease. It 641 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.760 can be a spring disease too with those cool mild conditions. So that's the 642 00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.800 main thing. Take take care of your lawn properly and you don't predispose it 643 00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.480 to things like brown patch. Okay, thanks for helping bring my yard back, 644 00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:58.280 all right, steep, thank care, I appreciate you, ll thank 645 00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:04.519 you. Yeah, that is That is a principle of plant pathology, folks. 646 00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:13.280 Is we predispose our plants to problems or we don't. It all depends 647 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:15.199 on our cultural practice. So for example, let me use this as an 648 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:19.519 analogy. You go around to the shady side of your house. Let's say 649 00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.800 you got brick face brick on the exterior of your home, and there's no 650 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:27.599 algae on that brick. But turn on a little mister and have it run 651 00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:30.480 all day for about a week, and what you're going to see is the 652 00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:35.159 appearance of algae. Where did that algae come from, Well, it was 653 00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:37.239 spores, it was around, It may have even been sitting on the brick. 654 00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:43.519 But it's not growing. But when you created those moist cool, shady 655 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:51.880 conditions, especially the moisture, you suddenly allergy allergy algae appeared. And it's 656 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:55.280 because you created the conditions and you can do that. We're about to get 657 00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:59.159 into summer, and if you look on my schedule, you will see that 658 00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:01.599 we start talking about gray leaf spot in April and May and June and even 659 00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:07.239 July. And what happens is if it's very shady and you keep it extra 660 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:12.719 moist and you just put down a fertilizer and you overdo the nitrogen and a 661 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:16.440 quick release over overdone application, you're going to see gray leaf spot. I 662 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:19.599 always tell you, if you don't know what gray leaf spot looks like, 663 00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:23.039 go through a piece of plywood on your lawn in April, late April and 664 00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:27.400 May and leave it there for a week and pick it up, and you 665 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:30.000 will see gray leaf spot. Where did it come from? It was always 666 00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:32.400 there? But was the grass going to get sick before you did the plywood? 667 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.159 Nope, You created the conditions that predisposed it and created the problem. 668 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:39.920 So that is part of the cultural thing. And I talk about some of 669 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:44.800 those things in my lawn care schedule. You know the importance of doing things 670 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.000 properly. Well, those are those just a little extra things to think about. 671 00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:51.239 We're going to take a little break. Here, it's time for another 672 00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:53.239 break and I will be right back. Our phone number is seven one three 673 00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:58.559 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well for back to the guardline. 674 00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:00.840 I hope you're having a good time. I sure am. Today it is 675 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:06.679 spring. I'm a gardener, what could be better? This is, as 676 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:09.760 Robin Williams said, spring is nature's way of saying, let's party. And 677 00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:14.480 that is the fact. By the way, they're having a party out at 678 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:19.039 Moss Nursery, Done and Seabrook. I love going to that place. I 679 00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.119 mean like acres and acres that you're just wandering through and seeing all the cool 680 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:27.400 stuff they have. They have got there, for example, their house planting 681 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:29.960 greenhouse, which is one of the first places I go when I get there, 682 00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:32.559 just because I love the selection of succulents. It's like none other. 683 00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:37.039 The selection of tropicals, again, like none other. They're hanging from the 684 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:40.599 rafters in there, They're on the tables and floors, I mean the shelves 685 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:45.599 that just everything is loaded up. Moss is a place where you're going to 686 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:50.880 find eight hundred bazillion kinds of containers as well for whatever you want to grow 687 00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.519 in a container. They are loaded up on those things. Of course, 688 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:59.960 They've got tomatoes and peppers and herbs and vegetables. They have beautiful hanging baskets, 689 00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:05.840 just gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous hanging baskets out there at Moss Nursery. They 690 00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:09.599 the shipments have come in on color and it's just outstanding. But I really 691 00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:14.119 would suggest you consider it maybe one of their hanging baskets this year. That 692 00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:19.599 is a great versatile way to just light up an area. It's instant color. 693 00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.079 You bring it in and they can get you fixed up on that. 694 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:23.519 You know, when you go to Moss, you know you're going to get 695 00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:27.440 good service. You know you're going to get knowledgeable people helping you. I 696 00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.519 mean the higher gardeners, people that know how to garden. A couple of 697 00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:34.199 last time I was out there, a couple of my master gardeners came by. 698 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.599 They that I trained when I was in Harris County. Moss Nursery is 699 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:40.960 a place to go and it is a destination and you do need to go 700 00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:44.039 see it. If you haven't. If you have, you know what I'm 701 00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.599 talking about, and you need to get back out there because they are loaded 702 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:52.079 up right now. They're in Seabrook on Toddville Road and the phone number write 703 00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:55.800 this down two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two eight one 704 00:49:57.199 --> 00:50:01.639 four to seven four twenty four eighty eight. Moss Nursery always fun to go. 705 00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:07.800 It's like wandering through a jungle of coolness when you head out to Masner. 706 00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:10.079 Every time you turn around the corner, who knows what's going to be 707 00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:15.320 around the corner, a beautiful fountain, some cute cool artifact or whatever. 708 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:19.519 I love going out there. I love going out there. It is seasoned 709 00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.800 to be planting. You got vegetable transplants. Time to get your tomatoes in, 710 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.039 get it done. Go ahead. You can go ahead and go with 711 00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:28.239 your peppers as well. If you want, you want to wait a little 712 00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:30.639 bit, that's fine too, but definitely get those tomatoes in right away. 713 00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:35.840 I'm planting peppers and tomatoes this week out of the house. My plants are 714 00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:37.199 big, they're too big to be into the light, and I got more 715 00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:39.480 plants that need to come under the light, so they're about to go out. 716 00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:43.719 The old plants are about to go out to the garden. Peppers already 717 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:46.400 have blooms on them, starting to set small fruit. The tomatoes are just 718 00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:50.840 about to start there blooming as well. Time to get them in and when 719 00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:53.480 I put them in. Here's what I do, and I recommend this if 720 00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:58.239 you're planting vegetables, herbs, flowers, if you're putting in a rose bush, 721 00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:04.000 hash to grow sick twelve to six from Medina has to Grow six twelve 722 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.920 six. What is that? Well, it's a six percent nitrogen, twelve 723 00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:13.119 percent phosphorus, six percent potassium fertilizer that's good for watering in a new plant 724 00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:17.440 to encourage new root growth and fast establishment. It's got Medina soil activator in 725 00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:22.880 it to stimulate the biological activity. It's got humic acid in it as well, 726 00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:25.760 and it has seaweed extracts in it as well. So it's a really 727 00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:30.880 nice cocktail of good things to help that plant hit the ground running. You're 728 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:34.360 not going to burn your plants with it. You can use as a folier 729 00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:37.079 spray if you want, and that's not a bad idea really as they begin 730 00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:40.639 to grow, but initially on planning you at least got to have some mix 731 00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:44.320 it up in a watering can. That's what I do, and then just 732 00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:46.880 drench the plant and watered in really well. And Medina Has to Grow is 733 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:52.519 widely available, Lots of different places carry it, and anytime I'm going to 734 00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:53.880 put a plant in, I mean, you can use just water to water 735 00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:58.480 in a plant, but why not use something that gives those roots and that 736 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.599 plant itself the things it needs to have that early boost, because that is 737 00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:09.239 the first step to success with those I was out of Southwest Fertilizer visiting with 738 00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:15.039 Bob the other day and looking at the three sixty tree stabilizers which he has 739 00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:21.800 in out there by the way. Three sixty tree stabilizer is a device that's 740 00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:24.239 used You attach one end of the post, you attach the other end of 741 00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:30.280 the tree, and it holds that tree securely so that it doesn't blow over 742 00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:35.880 when you put a new tree in. But the straps are soft and allow 743 00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:38.719 movement, a rubbery strap, and it allows that tree to move, and 744 00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:44.880 movement is important for strengthening it. There's a principle of nature that when things 745 00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:47.679 are stressed and moved, they get stronger. You go to the gym and 746 00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:51.679 you work out, and you wear your muscles out, and then you go 747 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.079 rest awhile and they build back and you do that again and again, and 748 00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:59.239 what happens You get stronger. Well, when a tree is held without movement 749 00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:01.280 by three guys number one, you're going to trip over the wires. It's 750 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:05.400 a mass. Uh. The wires are going to cut into the tree. 751 00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:10.119 These three sixty tree stabilizer won't do that and that tree without movement, the 752 00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:15.119 strength of the stem is hampered by that. When a tree moves and bends 753 00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:20.440 and stretches, just like our bodies, it gets stronger. The lignin, 754 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:24.840 the tissues in the trunk that make that tree stem stronger start to form, 755 00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:30.079 and the movement is important. And three sixty tree stabilizers designed for that. 756 00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:32.599 You can put them around a regular round fence post type post. You can 757 00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:37.280 put them around a t post one the metal te posts. They hold well. 758 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:39.840 If you've got something that needs a lot of support. I would put 759 00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:44.880 one at another at right angles, two of them. That's all you need 760 00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:47.199 is just one let's say nor south, the other east west, or whichever 761 00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:51.519 you want to put them, but a right angle, and that holds very 762 00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:53.480 very well. Also, they're good for crape myrtles that have multi stems. 763 00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:57.639 You can just grab one or two of those branches and you're your set. 764 00:53:58.239 --> 00:54:02.639 And it isn't investment. Listen, those trees aren't cheap and you want to 765 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:06.320 have success with them, and this is one of the things that'll do that, 766 00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:07.159 and just hang it up in the garage. He things you're going to 767 00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:13.079 last forever. The three sixty tree stabilizers. Our phone number is seven one 768 00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:17.280 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 769 00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:23.280 eight seventy four. When I was at the Home and Garden show up in 770 00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:29.239 Conroe yesterday, I mentioned earlier that we had a lot of questions and a 771 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:31.679 lot of different things. And one of the things that people ask me about, 772 00:54:32.079 --> 00:54:37.280 both in the session but also when I was at the table outside afterwards, 773 00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:43.840 is what is this turf star weed and eight or what like? How 774 00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:45.599 do you use it? How does it work? What you know, when 775 00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:49.559 do you put it on, and whatnot. Here here's what you need to 776 00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:52.559 know it is. Think of it. Don't think of the term weed and 777 00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:55.960 feed. Think of the term weed now feed later. That's a better way 778 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:00.400 to put it, because here's how it works. You what the lead of 779 00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:02.320 the weed. You just turn on the sprinkler. We're not talking about watering 780 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:07.079 the soil. We're talking about just wetting the foliage. Then immediately you run 781 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:12.800 your fertilizer spreader through and you put out the weedonator at the proper rate, 782 00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:16.320 follow the label. At the proper rate. It sticks to the wet leaves, 783 00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:21.199 the granules, and then you give it a day or two for it 784 00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:27.280 to thoroughly soak in to those tissues, and then you water the lawn to 785 00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:30.199 move the fertilizer granules that are stuck, some of them stuck to the weeds 786 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:35.960 up there on down into the soil and it begins this long release process for 787 00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:39.519 the fertilizer that's in weedinator. It's going to release over two, maybe even 788 00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:45.400 three months. It's a gradual release that it does. It's got a really 789 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:50.679 cool chemistry of the nitrogen forms so that it doesn't just wash away, but 790 00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:53.480 it releases little bits over time. That's what a solil release does. And 791 00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:58.000 we'll talk about those more as we get into summer. But I was trying 792 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.280 to help people understand how that works works out, and why how that whedonator 793 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:06.000 works and why it works. It's got a lot of nitrogen at twenty percent, 794 00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:09.760 but you're going to get that released over months, so don't worry about 795 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:14.880 that high number. That's exactly what you want and it's a good combination of 796 00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:19.800 everything you need in the turf Star the Weedenator, and that's a Nelson plant 797 00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:22.800 food product, one of their many good products that they produce there. Our 798 00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:28.679 phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 799 00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:35.079 three two one two five eight seven four. All right, I uh in 800 00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.440 my own garden this week. Yes, I actually get time to get to 801 00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:42.679 my own garden occasionally. I'm going to be planting my peppers and tomatoes. 802 00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:47.199 As I said, my cool season peas, the sugar snap peas, not 803 00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:52.679 that variety, but that type of pee They are coming on. They've their 804 00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:57.639 tenders are grabbing and climbing, and they're about to produce themselves. Really well. 805 00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:01.440 I love those things. They're sweet. I mean you eat them raw. 806 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:05.239 In fact, I used to just plant a little bit of them and 807 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:07.920 it ended up being gardener food because I never make it back to the kitchen 808 00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:12.440 with enough to cook. I would just be like I'd eat them while I 809 00:57:12.519 --> 00:57:14.920 was out working in the garden. So this year, my daughter and I 810 00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:17.440 we planted a lot of them, and I mean we got I don't know 811 00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:22.960 what we're gonna do, probably open a sugar snap peace stand out at the 812 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:27.039 street, or because we have we probably have too many of those things planted. 813 00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:30.119 But you know, gardening is fun and it's always a new year. 814 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:32.079 I like to say gardening is like an etch of sketch. For those of 815 00:57:32.159 --> 00:57:36.119 you who remember those, you had a little two knobs. You draw up 816 00:57:36.159 --> 00:57:37.599 and down with one knob, and left and right with the other knob, 817 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.679 and you try to create a circle with an etch of sketch. Good luck, 818 00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:45.800 because your brain messes up and you think you're going right and you go 819 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.960 left, and now you've messed up your picture. What do you do? 820 00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:52.639 I can hear you all answer the question. You turn it upside down and 821 00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:55.840 you shake it and it all goes away and you get to start drawing again. 822 00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:00.559 That's gardening. The equivalent of that's just sketching. Gardening is called a 823 00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:06.960 rototiller or a spading fort or a hoe to chop out this stuff. You 824 00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:10.320 get to start over. It's always a new thing, and that is fun. 825 00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:15.760 I love being able to go out and try something new. You don't 826 00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:21.320 fail at gardening. Listen to this. You don't fail at gardening. You 827 00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:25.639 just regroup and do it again, and one year your tomatoes will be just 828 00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:29.760 awesome. And the next year it's like, wait, I know how to 829 00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:31.840 grow tomatoes. Why am I having some trouble with this variety this year? 830 00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:37.119 That's the vicissitudes of nature. That's gardening. That's okay. You know, 831 00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:43.320 the nice thing about nature is it's not all about straight lines of perfection. 832 00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:49.639 It's about enjoying yourself and the natural world. It varies, but it's fun 833 00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:52.920 and there's always new plants, there's always new things to do. It is 834 00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.920 rejuvenating for the mind, it's rejuvenating for the body, and it's rejuvenating for 835 00:58:57.039 --> 00:58:59.880 the soul. And if you've been listening to the show and you're not, 836 00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:04.800 you're not out there getting those things done this year. Try it. Let 837 00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:07.559 me talk you into try a container, a big container, and grow something 838 00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:10.760 in it. Maybe a pepper, maybe an egg plant. Maybe you can 839 00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:14.239 grow carrots in a big container. And what do you want to grow? 840 00:59:14.440 --> 00:59:16.880 Grow something in a big container. If you've got a little spot where you've 841 00:59:16.920 --> 00:59:22.480 started gardening and not had success, let's get you to success. Call the 842 00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:27.199 show. Let's talk through the things that you are finding challenging and we'll fix 843 00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:30.559 out. And for those of you live out in Kingwood, you've got two 844 00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:34.239 garden centers out there that will do the same thing for it. They will 845 00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:37.119 help you, they will hold you by the hand and guide you. They'll 846 00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:38.559 get you the right plants, they will get you the right advice. They 847 00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:43.320 will get you the right products that you need, and that would be Warren's 848 00:59:43.480 --> 00:59:46.760 Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center right now. They, by the way, 849 00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:53.079 today got public service announcement the last day of the leap You're special last day 850 00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:59.239 is today. What is that You can get rose soil at a greatly discounted 851 00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:01.199 rate. In fact, if you buy two or three even more discounted and 852 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:05.639 you need two or three, you can get azamite at a discounted right you 853 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:09.239 can get Nelson plant food and Microlife plant food in the little jars by the 854 01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:15.239 way, Warns Garden Center in Kingwin Though, they have the little refill stations. 855 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:17.960 So when you buy one of those jars of Microlife or Nelson's, you 856 01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.519 just when it's empty, take it back and for a discounted price, you 857 01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.000 actually can refill it right there, just like when you're buying peanuts at the 858 01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:29.519 grocery store and you pull the little lever and fill up the bag to take 859 01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:31.920 home. Well, that's what we're talking about. That's what they have out 860 01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:37.320 there. They also have the Chinese fringe trees right now they're just about to 861 01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:42.400 pop. And I'm telling you that is one of my favorite, let's say 862 01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:45.880 Top five trees for modern landscapes because it only gets about fifteen twenty feet tall 863 01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:51.199 twenty twenty five feet wide, so it fits in our modern landscapes. And 864 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:57.719 the blooms in the spring at a billow of shaggy, little pleasantly scented blooms 865 01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:00.440 Chinese French tree. You need to take a look look at them, and 866 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:01.920 they got them out there at Warren's Garden Center. We're going to turn it 867 01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:05.800 over to Nikki now for the news. Give us a call seven one three 868 01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:09.840 two one two KTRH. Welcome back to the garden Line. Glad to have 869 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:15.400 you listening in today. Boy, what a what a spring we're having. 870 01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:20.599 This is great, it is really, it is wonderful. Finally to be 871 01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:23.280 past all the things we've been waiting on. You know, gardeners, we're 872 01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:29.000 not not always so patient, although we should be being through year after year 873 01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:31.880 of dealing with nature and things, but we're not. And that's okay. 874 01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:36.280 Time to get outside and enjoy things, Time to get outside and plant, 875 01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:40.239 time to get outside and just make your garden magical. Remember a garden. 876 01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:44.280 Now, I've told you this before, but when you say a garden, 877 01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:47.440 people are a landscape. People picture the visual, and of course you do. 878 01:01:47.639 --> 01:01:52.840 You think of flowers and vegetables or whatever your picture of a garden is. 879 01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:55.239 But there's also the garden. That's the sound. That's our birds. 880 01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:59.159 You know, we have birds that come in and sing for us, and 881 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:01.360 we have the sound of wind going through the trees. I've yellow clump of 882 01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:07.079 clumping bamboo. Not the running kind that your neighbors will not rise up and 883 01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:10.440 call you bless it if you put running bamboo near the fence line, but 884 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:14.920 the regular clumping kind. When the wind blows through, there's a sound of 885 01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:19.159 like light rainfalling. It's a little papery leaves of bamboo rubbing against each other. 886 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:22.920 It's kind of cool. I like that. There's a sense of fragrant 887 01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:25.400 plants out in the garden. There's a lot of features of the garden. 888 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.159 One of the things is popular now is pollinators. Taking care of our pollinators. 889 01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:34.440 Had a call today about that. What can I plant and in general 890 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:42.719 plants that have small disk daisy like flowers, so things like fall aster things 891 01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:50.320 like the zenias, for example, things like the blackfoot daisy that's one for 892 01:02:50.519 --> 01:02:52.400 native to central Texas. If you give a good drainage. It does well 893 01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:58.519 even here. Those little kinds of flowers they do well. Okay, Now, 894 01:02:58.639 --> 01:03:01.119 Chemomeal is an herb that has that kind of flowers, and then plant 895 01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:09.480 flowers that are herb flowers. Most herb flowers from chives to rosemary and on 896 01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:15.760 down the line time they all attract little, tiny beneficial insects are very popular 897 01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:20.639 with small beneficial There's other kinds of flowers we can group and generalize and whatnot, 898 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:25.119 but they support our pollinators and bees especially, and bees are an important 899 01:03:25.159 --> 01:03:30.239 part of the backyard environment, native bees and the honey bees that are here, 900 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:35.320 and you know honey bees when they pollinate. When any bee pollinates your 901 01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:38.400 flowers, you get better production. You get more seeds set and therefore better 902 01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:45.679 produce. You will have larger size blueberries because more seeds get pollinated and the 903 01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:49.840 berry gets bigger. You will have a normally shaped apple, for example, 904 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:53.440 you have an apple that didn't properly pollinated and slop sided. And then the 905 01:03:53.519 --> 01:04:00.480 squashes, the cucumbers, the melons, the watermelons, and cantelopes. All 906 01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:03.719 of those curbits need pollination. So have you ever thought about having bees for 907 01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:08.719 your own backyard? You know you can keep bees. It's allowed, there's 908 01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:12.559 guidelines on it. But you can keep bees in the city and bees will 909 01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:16.000 pollinate your blooms and you get honey. What a deal you get honey. 910 01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:19.320 The folks at the Bee Supply can get you set up. They've got all 911 01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:23.639 the stuff you need to get set up with bees. But even better than 912 01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:27.519 that. Right now they're ordering bees by the way. Yes, you buy 913 01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:31.079 bees like buying a herd of cattle that you put in a box. But 914 01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:34.800 they're ordering those in. But they're having their classes. The beginning beekeeper classes 915 01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:39.400 are underway. They've been going on since February twenty fourth. The next class 916 01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:43.519 is March ninth, The class after that is March twenty third, and then 917 01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:48.679 April thirteenth. Go to thebsupply dot com. The class will walk you through 918 01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:55.039 it, they'll feed you lunch. It's a nine thirty in the morning to 919 01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:58.880 three thirty in the afternoon, and you will learn all about bees. You'll 920 01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:02.239 even get to go out suit up and learn about handling bees. And I'm 921 01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:06.000 telling you it is fascinating and wonderful. And if you just want to learn 922 01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:10.400 about bees, if you've got kids, you must take them out there to 923 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:14.320 see the observation hive. This is out in Dayton, and you can do 924 01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:16.199 what they call the honey Tour, where they will give you samples of like 925 01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:21.000 six different kinds of honey. They will give a presentation of all about bees 926 01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:26.159 that will blow your mind. And plus you get to even go outside and 927 01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:30.599 see them take a frame out of a hive if weather permits to do that 928 01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:34.920 as well. Vbsupply dot com. That's where it all starts. And hey, 929 01:05:35.119 --> 01:05:39.840 why not add that hobby to your backyard gardening. I think it's kind 930 01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:43.039 of cool. Take a nice Christmas gift. You know, you raise your 931 01:05:43.079 --> 01:05:45.440 own creature on honey. I say, your own bees are doing all the 932 01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:49.199 work, but you know, bottle it up. Think about that kind of 933 01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:53.480 fun. I think I used to keep bees myself when I lived up in 934 01:05:53.599 --> 01:05:57.840 Willis, Texas. Yes, I used to live up there and we had 935 01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:01.000 a strawberry patch and I had a pea torchure and we had bees and that 936 01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:04.840 was fun messing with the bees. An old bee keeper taught me how to 937 01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:09.039 do that. And God rest his soul, that was a that was a 938 01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:12.960 wonderful, wonderful thing, and I learned more from it. I still am 939 01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:15.079 amazed every time I think about what bees can do. We're going to go 940 01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:18.320 out to Ralph in Lake Jackson. Now, hey, Ralph, how are 941 01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:25.360 you today? Wondrously? All right, totally totally off topic. I was 942 01:06:25.440 --> 01:06:30.519 at breakfast and some friends yesterday and the topic of freeze protection for plants, 943 01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:34.519 not so much wrapping them, but when you know a freeze is coming, 944 01:06:35.079 --> 01:06:41.559 do you want to water them or not water them? Okay, the answer 945 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:45.199 is if the soil is already wet, you don't need to water. If 946 01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:48.199 the soil is at all dry, you want to water enough to moisten it. 947 01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:55.320 Because moisture holes heat better than air, and so well moistened soil does 948 01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:58.679 two things. Number One, you have that heat sink, and at night, 949 01:06:58.760 --> 01:07:00.840 on a cold night, when you've cover plant, the warmth of the 950 01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:05.599 soil rises up underneath that cover and makes a huge difference. Secondly, a 951 01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:12.400 plant that's water stressed is not That's not a good way to go into a 952 01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:16.280 freeze, and so making sure your plants are adequately watered. But this thing 953 01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:20.559 about spray and water on to make ice on the branches, if you want 954 01:07:20.599 --> 01:07:24.239 to know more about that, if you go to my website, gardening with 955 01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:29.079 skip dot Com. I have a whole publication, nine page publication on the 956 01:07:29.159 --> 01:07:31.440 science of freezing and how to protect plants and all that kind of stuff, 957 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:34.440 and you can take that with you the next time you visit with the folks 958 01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:41.480 and it will answer a lot of questions. What brought it up is a 959 01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:45.880 lot of rural areas where there's fencing for cattle, okay, and a lot 960 01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.800 of trees that have grown up through those fences. We've seen it in Brossoria 961 01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:55.760 County, in Paris County, and in Fort ben County. A lot of 962 01:07:55.840 --> 01:08:00.280 those trees have died and they're falling over, and we were wondering if they 963 01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:04.719 were stressed from not enough water during the drought and then the freeze comes along 964 01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:10.400 and kills them. Probably not the freeze. It depends on what species you're 965 01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:15.880 seeing dying, but probably the drought is the bigger thing there. Yeah, 966 01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:19.359 but you know it could be certain species that are a little bit on the 967 01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:25.680 edge of hardiness. You stress them and weaken them and you can get more 968 01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:31.079 freeze damage. Thank you, mich all right, Ralph, take care appreciate 969 01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:35.479 that call. We love feed stores here on Garden Line and League City feed 970 01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:40.000 that is the one you need to know about if you live down in San 971 01:08:40.119 --> 01:08:43.399 Leone, Lamark Bay, Cliffe, League City, of course, Calcamino Reale. 972 01:08:43.640 --> 01:08:45.720 They're on Highway three, a few blocks south of ninety six. Now 973 01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:50.039 the Thunderbergs have been doing this store since for forty years now. Monday through 974 01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:54.439 Saturday nine to six. Are closed today, close on Sunday, but every 975 01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:57.319 day they're open till six, so you can catch them on the way home 976 01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:01.079 from work if you want two eight one three two sixteen twelve to it. 977 01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:04.760 One three, three two sixteen twelve. They're going to have everything you need 978 01:09:04.840 --> 01:09:09.359 for backyard chickens. They're gonna have every fertilizer I talk about. They've got 979 01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:14.800 the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and premium types of pet food. You 980 01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:17.199 need to go by there at League City feet again, they are on Highway 981 01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:20.680 three, just a few blocks south of ninety six. People live in that 982 01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:24.399 area. They already know about it, and you need to find out about 983 01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.039 it. It's a fun place. We'll be right back. We're gonna take 984 01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.039 a little quick break and when we come back, we'll go straight to your 985 01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:33.239 calls. Oh man, can we just take this segment and just listen to 986 01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:38.399 music. That wouldn't be a bad way to go. Welcome back to garden 987 01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:41.000 line. Hey, if you would like to call a garden line for some 988 01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:44.600 reason in the perfect storm, we got some open lines here to just jump 989 01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:47.079 right in. So if you've if you've hesitated to call because you think, 990 01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:49.720 well there's too many people, call it, well, now's a good time 991 01:09:49.760 --> 01:09:55.640 because it's kind of quiet on the Western front. As they say, you 992 01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:59.880 know, the the call thing is always interesting. You can have some call 993 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:01.479 where you're trying to get to everybody and you hate people sit there, wait 994 01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:05.479 online on a lot, and suddenly you just go into a no call. 995 01:10:05.640 --> 01:10:09.399 So that's part of the deal. Hey. I like the note calls too 996 01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:13.199 though, because it gives me a chance to talk about things that I think 997 01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:17.079 are important. Hummingbirds are here. Do you know that they're arriving? They 998 01:10:17.159 --> 01:10:25.239 are now here in the area arriving. Excuse me, mine about to sneeze 999 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:30.279 here. So anyway, that was not a good time. So while Bird's 1000 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:34.000 unlimited, of course, is your place for all kinds of things. When 1001 01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:39.159 it comes to birds. Now they've got the feed, that's the quality feed. 1002 01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:42.399 In fact, I don't post something to Facebook, I saw a picture 1003 01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:44.239 the other day, No I saw a bag. I took a picture of 1004 01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:49.359 a bag of cheap bird seed. Now, cheap and inexpensive aren't always the 1005 01:10:49.399 --> 01:10:54.640 same thing, right, Cheap bird seed full of the full of the little 1006 01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:57.960 red bebes. Birds kick it out. You think you're getting a deal, 1007 01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:01.239 but when you actually weigh the part the birds are going to eat, you 1008 01:11:01.399 --> 01:11:06.760 are not getting a deal. You're wasting money. Wabirds has feed that if 1009 01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:10.119 they're seed in a bag, the birds are gonna eat it. That's how 1010 01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:13.239 they do it. They even have one like if you like sunflowers, which 1011 01:11:13.279 --> 01:11:16.880 birds love sunflowers, black oiles sunflowers, for example, they have one the 1012 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:20.279 talllest, so you don't even have the sunflowers that the birds have broken apart, 1013 01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:24.960 dropped onto the ground. The shells wilbirds that get you fixed up on 1014 01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:27.960 all that. Now is hummingbird season. You need to get your feeders out, 1015 01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:32.399 and they have gorgeous ones at Wildbirds Unlimited. Wibirds Unlimited has six locations 1016 01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:36.399 around town, and you can find the one near you by going to wb 1017 01:11:38.199 --> 01:11:45.720 you dot com forward slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash Houston Wabirds Unlimited that's 1018 01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:49.000 the time to have your bluebird boxes out. Bluebirds are setting up shop. 1019 01:11:49.079 --> 01:11:53.119 It's the time to get the purple Martin houses out. And boy, they've 1020 01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:57.600 got some really cool purple Martin houses, very easy to clean, care for. 1021 01:11:58.039 --> 01:12:02.000 And the birds will lineup on the block. Because some of the wildbirds 1022 01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:06.479 was showing me the inside of the little birds the purple Martin houses and all 1023 01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:11.039 the different features and stuff and why it's easy clean and why the birds like 1024 01:12:11.079 --> 01:12:13.840 it. And it's like dot Com, I'd move into that place. That's 1025 01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:17.960 pretty cool. They've got it all there, WBU, dot Com Forward Slash 1026 01:12:18.079 --> 01:12:24.000 Houston. Bring the feathered friends in their beauty, their color, their songs, 1027 01:12:24.079 --> 01:12:28.159 their antics. It just is part of gardening. So you got to 1028 01:12:28.199 --> 01:12:30.199 go into a wildbird's just check them out. You'll see what I'm talking about. 1029 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:33.960 You know. Another way that we take care of our hummingbird is by 1030 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:40.800 planting things that attract them. For example, the kral honeysuckle, the long 1031 01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:45.479 tubular red blooms of coral honeysuckle. Many of the salvias. I like the 1032 01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:50.920 Salvia gary nittica. It is a typically blue to purplish colored blooms on about 1033 01:12:50.920 --> 01:12:55.880 a four foot bush. Hummingbirds love that one too, but there are a 1034 01:12:55.920 --> 01:13:00.319 lot of other plants that hummingbirds like. Typically a red tubular or red long 1035 01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:02.399 bloom is a good cue that they're going to like it. But you know, 1036 01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:06.680 Garyitica is not a red bloom and they love it, so plant those 1037 01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:12.439 kind of plants. The Buchanans Nursery specializes in that they've got all the native 1038 01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:17.399 plants that you can imagine Buchanans native plants. That's their name, Buchanan's Native 1039 01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:21.439 plants, and they have those like the coral honeysucle they've got those right now. 1040 01:13:21.520 --> 01:13:26.279 You can go pick one up today. But all the plants that you 1041 01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:29.960 would want, they're going to have, and a plant that attract hummingbirds is 1042 01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:32.560 something they're gonna have. They also, oh my gosh, I was looking 1043 01:13:32.760 --> 01:13:41.439 at their list, their list of tomatoes and peppers and things. I don't 1044 01:13:41.520 --> 01:13:44.399 know. I don't know that I've seen this long of a list of tomatoes 1045 01:13:44.439 --> 01:13:46.560 in a very long time. But how about this Amish past Arkansas Traveler, 1046 01:13:46.640 --> 01:13:49.000 beef Steak, beef Steak, beef Master, better Boy, better Bush, 1047 01:13:49.079 --> 01:13:55.920 big Boy, black crim I sound like a lawyer. Commercial Brandywine Camaros celebrity 1048 01:13:56.000 --> 01:14:00.600 champion Cherokee purple chocolate sprinkles. Yes, dark Star, Yes, that's a 1049 01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:03.520 tomato, Early Girl. Jrummer Johnson Homestead j D's Early Black. That's from 1050 01:14:04.319 --> 01:14:09.359 Conra Greenhouses up there in Conro, Texas. JD's Early Black. Excellent tomato. 1051 01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:12.640 That was half the list that I just read. Yeah, all the 1052 01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.600 rest of them are out there too. Lots and lots of tomatoes. They 1053 01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:21.039 have the trailing, the vining type. If you've never If you like cherry 1054 01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:26.319 tomatoes, super sweet one hundred and sun gold or two, you gotta have. 1055 01:14:26.640 --> 01:14:30.960 They are excellent, excellent tomatoes. They've got those there, along with 1056 01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:33.359 a bazillion others. And if I started reading the peppers, it would take 1057 01:14:33.399 --> 01:14:39.039 me just as long a mile long. Have you ever heard of a megatronjlopeno? 1058 01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.279 Have you ever heard of a ghost chili? Ghost peppers are so hot 1059 01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:45.760 they make the maltz catch on fire. You have to water it to keep 1060 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:48.359 it. Okay, I'm joking. I have to say I'm joking because some 1061 01:14:48.439 --> 01:14:53.359 people. Have you ever heard of a pepper called Bulgarian carrot? We'll go 1062 01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:55.880 find out what it's like. In Buchanan's plums, they're on the Height. 1063 01:14:56.039 --> 01:15:00.039 They're in the heights on eleven Street right there. It's it's a great place. 1064 01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:03.560 They absolutely are going to have every kind of plant you can imagine, 1065 01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:06.600 people that know what they're talking about. The fertilizers you talk about here on 1066 01:15:06.720 --> 01:15:12.000 garden Line, they're going to have them at Buchanans Plants as well as the 1067 01:15:12.079 --> 01:15:15.600 soils brown stuff before green stuff. Grab a bag of soil or more and 1068 01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:20.199 grab your bags of fertilizer when you grab your plants. They're at Buchanan's Plants. 1069 01:15:20.359 --> 01:15:25.359 Makes it really easy. We're going to head out to Winchester now and 1070 01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:29.039 talk to Craig. Hello, Craig, Hey, Skiff, how's going. 1071 01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:32.680 I'm good? How are you today? So fine? Hey? I want 1072 01:15:32.840 --> 01:15:39.359 I have forty acres out here and winches are just north of Lagrange and I 1073 01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:43.000 want to get watermelon on the growing but I haven't had much luck. If 1074 01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:46.119 you have any tips, is your soil sandy clay or what? It's a 1075 01:15:46.199 --> 01:15:50.960 layer of sand on top and clay underneath. How deep do you go to 1076 01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:57.479 hit the clay? About six inches sometimes deeper? Okay, well you might 1077 01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:00.279 get you may have some success with them out there. You want to get 1078 01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:02.000 all the weeds out of the way. That's the biggest challenge because once you 1079 01:16:02.079 --> 01:16:05.840 have all the watermelon vines, you can't get in there and hoe and whatever 1080 01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:09.800 you're going to do as well. Are you talking about just a garden sized 1081 01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:15.920 patch or we talk about commercial garden sized pad? Okay, Well, choose 1082 01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:18.520 good varieties. There's a lot of great ones out there that do well depending 1083 01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:25.680 on what you're looking for. And they need consistent soil moisture, they need 1084 01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:29.920 to not dry out. Bees are very important. A bee has to visit 1085 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:31.840 a watermelon bloom. I don't know what the number is, just like thirty 1086 01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:38.560 times to get full full pollination, which gives you the full sized watermelon that 1087 01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:43.960 you're trying to grow with that whatever variety and modern amount of nitrogen and other 1088 01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:48.560 fertilizers, So a modern amount and that's pretty much. Yet it's getting close 1089 01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:53.640 to time to plant those. I'd wait a little bit longer, but then 1090 01:16:53.720 --> 01:16:56.840 when it's time, go ahead and get those things out either by transplant or 1091 01:16:56.960 --> 01:17:01.119 by direct seeded, which is the more common way. So how do they 1092 01:17:01.199 --> 01:17:08.199 grow with the watermelons? And like gluling, when are they watering those things 1093 01:17:08.319 --> 01:17:12.039 regularly or are they Yeah, they're they're irrigating. They have big, bigger 1094 01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:15.199 irrigation in watermelon fields because you can't depend on the weather if if we go 1095 01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:19.840 into a drought period. The commercial folks they can't they can't risk that. 1096 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:24.800 But that's it. Yeah, let me give you one other thing, and 1097 01:17:24.800 --> 01:17:27.840 I'm gonna have to run here, Craig. If you go to the Aggie 1098 01:17:27.880 --> 01:17:30.920 Horticulture website, Aggie Horticulture, just do a search for it. There's a 1099 01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:36.199 vegetable section and there's a whole publication on home growing of watermelons that is outstanding 1100 01:17:36.279 --> 01:17:41.279 and it covers everything from soil to fertilizer, to watering, to varieties and 1101 01:17:41.359 --> 01:17:45.000 everything. Okay, okay, all right, good luck with that. I 1102 01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:47.920 appreciate that a lot. When you're looking for supplies and you're going, hey, 1103 01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:50.800 where do I buy stuff? Where can I get fertilizer? Where can 1104 01:17:50.840 --> 01:17:55.920 I get pest control? ACE Hardware is the easiest answer to give you because 1105 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:59.399 there's forty ACE hardware stores. They're everywhere. You're going to find ACE no 1106 01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:01.640 matter where you go. They're going to have furtilizers like Microlife, by the 1107 01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:03.920 way, you need if you get the Microlife you need, get their hu 1108 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:09.079 mats plus right now. That's the first one to put down this year over 1109 01:18:09.239 --> 01:18:13.359 time, HU mats plus over and over again, you just get an absolute 1110 01:18:13.720 --> 01:18:16.840 improvement and sold drainage and everything else. I've told you about that before. 1111 01:18:17.119 --> 01:18:20.319 I'll tell you but more about it as we go through the data. You're 1112 01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:24.359 listening to Gardenline. I'm your host Skip Rictor. If you would like to 1113 01:18:24.399 --> 01:18:27.960 give us a call, our number is seven one three two one two fifty 1114 01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:30.439 eight to seventy four. We're gonna take a little break for the top of 1115 01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:33.640 the hour news here Bert, you will be the first up when we come 1116 01:18:33.760 --> 01:18:39.039 back. Thanks for that call. I want to remind everybody my garden schedules 1117 01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:44.840 are online at gardening with Skip dot com. We are slowly but surely putting 1118 01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:48.640 more and more things on that website and everything up there is something educational to 1119 01:18:48.760 --> 01:18:55.159 help you have a more beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape at Gardeningwithskip dot com. 1120 01:18:55.239 --> 01:18:59.560 But for right now, the lawn care schedule and the lawn pest disease 1121 01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:02.439 and we management of schedule. Pren them out, take them with you when 1122 01:19:02.479 --> 01:19:05.880 you go to buy products. It'll help you find the right thing. We'll 1123 01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:13.039 be right back. Kat R H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 1124 01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:17.680 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H 1125 01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:36.399 Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's crazy Trim just watch him as many things, 1126 01:19:36.439 --> 01:19:48.640 the super crazy gas back again, not sorry, Welcome back to garden 1127 01:19:48.680 --> 01:19:53.680 Line. Boy. This is going to be a day for gardening folks. 1128 01:19:53.800 --> 01:19:58.039 I hope you are making plans this afternoon to get out there and get some 1129 01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:01.119 good stuff done. Let's turn your place into a more beautiful place. Turn 1130 01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:04.800 your garden into a bountiful garden. That's what we're here for. That is 1131 01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:08.920 what we are trying to achieve, because this is the greatest hobby in the 1132 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:12.760 world. And it's good for you. It really is. It really is 1133 01:20:12.840 --> 01:20:15.119 good for you. It's good for your health. It's good for your physical, 1134 01:20:15.319 --> 01:20:18.840 it's good for your mental, it's good for your psychological. It's just 1135 01:20:19.199 --> 01:20:23.159 good for you. That's how that works. We're going to go straight to 1136 01:20:23.199 --> 01:20:27.319 the phones and talk to Bert in Conroe. Hello Bert, Well, I'll 1137 01:20:27.359 --> 01:20:30.079 tell you what it would help if I turned to you on there. Okay, 1138 01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:32.600 Hi Bert, how are you doing today? Hi, good morning, 1139 01:20:32.760 --> 01:20:38.199 Thanks for taking the call. I've just picked up an Eastern redbud. Is 1140 01:20:38.319 --> 01:20:42.279 it more of a tree or shrub question? And the next one, I'm 1141 01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:47.039 concerned, how far away from the foundation, house, foundation or driveway should 1142 01:20:47.039 --> 01:20:50.039 it be planted? All right, good, it's a tree, a small 1143 01:20:50.159 --> 01:20:55.239 tree. It's a very small tree, and time they can get larger. 1144 01:20:55.439 --> 01:21:00.560 They do best if they're in an understory kind of location where get a little 1145 01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:03.520 bit of a break from the full brunt of the hot afternoon sun. You 1146 01:21:03.640 --> 01:21:06.880 will see red buds in the full sun. They just seem to do a 1147 01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:10.920 little better if they have a little bit of a break from it. Don't 1148 01:21:10.960 --> 01:21:14.720 put them in deep shade, but just a little bit of a break they 1149 01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:19.159 probably I would say, I wouldn't want to get much closer than about well, 1150 01:21:19.199 --> 01:21:23.119 there's two issues when it comes to planning them near the house. Number 1151 01:21:23.159 --> 01:21:27.920 one is, of course the roots, but it's more the top the branch 1152 01:21:28.039 --> 01:21:30.960 is growing out and rubbing on the eaves or the shingles or the house itself 1153 01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:34.920 or whatever. So I'd probably make sure and get them at least twelve feet 1154 01:21:34.960 --> 01:21:39.640 away from the house, fifteen feet away from the house. That way, 1155 01:21:39.680 --> 01:21:43.520 it's manageable. When it comes to a driveway or sidewalk. Again, if 1156 01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:45.560 you can get them about ten feet out. They're gonna be okay. They 1157 01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:49.720 don't have a lot of huge surface roots. All right, well, thank 1158 01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:53.720 you, all right, there you go. I'll have fun. And by 1159 01:21:53.760 --> 01:21:56.960 the way, when you're out shopping, look around a little bit, because 1160 01:21:57.039 --> 01:22:00.479 there's a standard type of Eastern red bud with those beauty full blooms in the 1161 01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:04.760 spring. There are types that have a burgundy to the leaves. As they 1162 01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:09.119 are in a lot of sun, they get more burgundy. There's even a 1163 01:22:09.199 --> 01:22:15.960 type called Sunrise that has kind of a golden orange yellow chartrouse color as the 1164 01:22:16.039 --> 01:22:19.840 leaves progress. So you get to pick whatever every kind you want. So 1165 01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:25.600 do a little shopping, all right, you bet? Thank you? What? 1166 01:22:26.359 --> 01:22:29.079 Yeah? And the folks up at A and A plants and produce, 1167 01:22:29.119 --> 01:22:30.239 I bet you they can get you fixed up. And you're just down the 1168 01:22:30.279 --> 01:22:35.880 street from them up in Montgomery. They carry a wide variety of different kinds 1169 01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:38.800 of plants. Give them a call first, make sure they have them, 1170 01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:41.680 and if they don't have them, I'll bet you they can get them for 1171 01:22:41.920 --> 01:22:45.920 you. That for sure is something you're going to want to do. I've 1172 01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:49.479 told you about jungle Land before. Jena Land is a product by Nelson plant 1173 01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:56.600 Food and I'm sorry Nelson Nitrofuss. You know, we need to get names 1174 01:22:56.640 --> 01:23:00.680 that begin with different letters. I think because my brain goes on autopilot. 1175 01:23:00.239 --> 01:23:06.079 Nitrofross is a distributor of the jungle land product, and jungle land is it's 1176 01:23:06.199 --> 01:23:11.479 two different products. Actually, it's the outdoor jungle land and the indoor jungle 1177 01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:15.279 land. Outdoor is called flower and Vegetable planting soil, and we use it 1178 01:23:15.359 --> 01:23:17.119 for containers. So if you want to grow a tomato in a container, 1179 01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:20.199 a pepper, if you want to grow herbs too, by the way, 1180 01:23:20.640 --> 01:23:24.800 it's good for that. If you want to grow flowers, that's the outdoor. 1181 01:23:24.960 --> 01:23:28.119 The indoor has the water saving crystals in it, and it's called jungle 1182 01:23:28.199 --> 01:23:32.359 land water saving potting soil. What are crystals, Well, it's a polymer 1183 01:23:32.960 --> 01:23:38.119 that when it gets wet, it swells up and holds a lot of water. 1184 01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:41.880 And then when your soil gets a little dry, the plant roots have 1185 01:23:41.960 --> 01:23:45.479 gone up against that polymer and they can draw from that moisture reserve. It's 1186 01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:49.039 kind of having it like having a little bank account of extra moisture in the 1187 01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:53.840 soil for when the plants need it. Now, jungle land is widely available. 1188 01:23:53.880 --> 01:23:57.000 You can find it, like all these nitrofoss products that are out there. 1189 01:23:57.199 --> 01:24:00.560 You're going to find it at places like plants are all seasons on TOMBOI 1190 01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:02.720 Parkway. You're going to find it at all spas, ace up in the 1191 01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:06.479 woodlands. You're going to find it plants for all things, and plants and 1192 01:24:06.680 --> 01:24:12.439 thing. Excuse me, and Brennam they've got that like they do other nitroposs 1193 01:24:12.520 --> 01:24:15.159 products. Makes it easy when you got one, stop shopping like that. 1194 01:24:16.319 --> 01:24:21.720 Set out to Katie and talk to Judy. Hello, Judy, good morning, 1195 01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:28.520 Skip, good morning. I have what I think is mold on the 1196 01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:32.079 trunk of my kreik myrtle tree. Can you tell me how I would get 1197 01:24:32.159 --> 01:24:35.760 rid of that? Please describe it to me a little bit. It's just 1198 01:24:35.960 --> 01:24:41.439 black. The trunk's just black where it hasn't been before. Okay. What 1199 01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:45.359 that is is city mold, and it's growing on sugary substances. So it's 1200 01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:49.840 not a disease of the tree. It's just insight It's just insightly. So 1201 01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:56.960 you can use like a soapy spray in a spray wind on it, and 1202 01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:00.439 then you can use a soft brush and scribe it to get rid of it 1203 01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:04.039 like that. But it's not real easy to just get rid of. It's 1204 01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:11.319 there because you have crpe myrtle bark scale on your crate murder and that's the 1205 01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:15.880 cause. And so the real long term solution is to deal with the scale. 1206 01:25:15.560 --> 01:25:20.920 But short term a I wouldn't worry about it other than the visual aesthetics. 1207 01:25:21.239 --> 01:25:26.439 It's not hurting your it's not hurting your plant, so it won't hurt 1208 01:25:26.479 --> 01:25:30.399 the tree itself. It just looks bad, right, Yeah, it won't 1209 01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.840 hurt the tree, but the scale takes energy from the tree, but the 1210 01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:39.159 scale doesn't kill the tree either, so uh huh yeah, all right, 1211 01:25:39.279 --> 01:25:45.439 Okay, good to know you bet, you bet, John Bye, I 1212 01:25:45.600 --> 01:25:49.159 enjoy that crpe myrtle. Have you been out to Nelson Water Gardens and Katie? 1213 01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:53.439 If you haven't, you need to go. And I'm telling you why 1214 01:25:53.479 --> 01:25:56.600 you need to go. Number one, it's a garden center too. They've 1215 01:25:56.640 --> 01:26:00.439 got all kinds of flowers and vegetables and herbs and things. It's a garden 1216 01:26:00.520 --> 01:26:05.680 center, but their main focus is water gardens and they have what do you 1217 01:26:05.800 --> 01:26:09.279 want to create a water garden? They can actually come out and do it 1218 01:26:09.359 --> 01:26:13.680 for you. Do you need koy. Do you need shabunk and fish or 1219 01:26:13.800 --> 01:26:16.199 something else to go on it? Do you need water garden plants like lily 1220 01:26:16.279 --> 01:26:19.399 pads for example, beautiful, beautiful plants. They have all of that. 1221 01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:24.920 They also have the disappearing fountains. They invented that. Now what that is 1222 01:26:25.119 --> 01:26:28.680 is think of a big, beautiful vase that in and of itself would be 1223 01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:30.640 worth putting in the garden. It's so beautiful. But now you've got water 1224 01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:34.439 coming on the top of it and running down the sides and going into gravel 1225 01:26:34.840 --> 01:26:41.079 where it recirculates. And so it's just this self contained fountain out there wherever 1226 01:26:41.159 --> 01:26:43.960 you want to put it on a patio or out in the yard or whatever. 1227 01:26:44.479 --> 01:26:46.279 They can get that set up for you as well. And Nelson Water 1228 01:26:46.359 --> 01:26:49.079 Gardens they're in Katie. If your head out to Katie on Iten, you 1229 01:26:49.239 --> 01:26:54.439 just turn north. They're well, I don't know, stones throw off of 1230 01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:59.119 Ien as you go north on Katie Fort Ben Road, so it's easy to 1231 01:26:59.159 --> 01:27:00.239 get by the way. They have herbs out there right now. I bought 1232 01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:04.760 some herbs from a while back. They have every kind of herb you can 1233 01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:09.800 imagine. I mean, things like rue and lovage and lemon balm. The 1234 01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:13.840 probably weren't even knowing you needed. Well, they've got them lots of different 1235 01:27:13.880 --> 01:27:16.439 kinds of mint and time at a regano, and number of different kinds of 1236 01:27:16.479 --> 01:27:21.760 basil. So yeah, it's a garden center also, but mainly you got 1237 01:27:21.880 --> 01:27:27.800 to go just see the displays. They have it set up where it is 1238 01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:31.319 a pleasure to walk through. And I'll call it a destination garden center because 1239 01:27:31.359 --> 01:27:33.920 you need to take your friends, you need to get a group and go 1240 01:27:34.039 --> 01:27:38.600 out there and see it. It in and of itself is just worth a 1241 01:27:38.680 --> 01:27:43.199 visit it really, I mean it, just seeing it is inspiring. Like 1242 01:27:43.319 --> 01:27:45.119 you may think, well, what am I going to do with a fountain? 1243 01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:47.359 You go out there and you'll see exactly what you do with the fountain, 1244 01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:50.239 and you'll have to have one to believe me. I was sitting there 1245 01:27:50.319 --> 01:27:53.960 going, I think I need to buy more properties on post some of this 1246 01:27:54.079 --> 01:27:57.479 stuff up out there. We're going to take a break for a little bit 1247 01:27:57.640 --> 01:28:00.319 here. Our phone number is seven to one to three two two KTRH. 1248 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:05.439 Will be right back. Oh little rodeo music there, that's right. Larry 1249 01:28:05.479 --> 01:28:09.399 Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers used to come to the Rodeo all the time. 1250 01:28:09.880 --> 01:28:12.640 I'm going to be heading out there after the show today. I'm superintendent of 1251 01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:16.079 the horticulture contests and the kiddos are bringing all their different kinds of things from 1252 01:28:16.159 --> 01:28:21.079 floral arranging to containers. This week we did we did some of the outdoor 1253 01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:28.920 designs the large landscape type planting containers last week and we'll be doing stuff again 1254 01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:34.000 next Sunday afternoon at the at the Houston Life Stuck Show on Rodeo. Makes 1255 01:28:34.039 --> 01:28:36.880 it real, real fun to get out there, all kinds of things going 1256 01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:40.399 on. I hope you take advantage of it and get out today see some 1257 01:28:40.520 --> 01:28:43.079 of the things that are happening out at the stock show. While ago, 1258 01:28:43.079 --> 01:28:46.079 I was talking about microlife and the hummates plus. That is the purple bag. 1259 01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:50.039 It is concentrated compost in a bag. What does that mean? Well, 1260 01:28:50.199 --> 01:28:53.920 think of it this way. You got this giant pola leaves in your 1261 01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:58.119 yard, you compost them. Now you've got a small kind of medium sized 1262 01:28:58.119 --> 01:29:01.239 pile of compost, and you you take that further down and now you have 1263 01:29:01.479 --> 01:29:08.600 a bag of microlife. Humtes plus humts is a final decomposition stage of organic 1264 01:29:08.680 --> 01:29:11.760 matter and when you put it in the soil. It improves the soil. 1265 01:29:11.880 --> 01:29:14.920 When you put it on your lawn, it finds its way down into the 1266 01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:18.399 soil where it opens the soil. It helps with the heavy clay soils. 1267 01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:24.840 It provides a home for many kinds of microbes. Plus. Microlife Humates plus 1268 01:29:24.960 --> 01:29:28.359 has a lot of kinds of microbes in it, and it's just a way 1269 01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:31.439 of doing what nature does over a long period of time in a shorter period 1270 01:29:31.479 --> 01:29:38.520 of time in your yard. I recommend using it annually. You can use 1271 01:29:38.600 --> 01:29:42.520 it at the same time you're doing fertilizer, just apply them separately, or 1272 01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:45.560 you can do it now and do your fertilization later. It's up to you 1273 01:29:45.760 --> 01:29:48.159 how you want to go about it. Microlife products are easy to find. 1274 01:29:48.319 --> 01:29:53.279 You just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You're going to find them everywhere. 1275 01:29:53.439 --> 01:29:58.199 They are widely widely available, top selling organic fertilizers here in the Greater 1276 01:29:58.279 --> 01:30:01.359 Houston area. For sure. Life Humus plus is one that I would suggest 1277 01:30:01.600 --> 01:30:05.319 is a good one for right now out there in your landscape, in your 1278 01:30:05.359 --> 01:30:11.359 guard, in your lawn specifically, nothing wrong with putting it in a garden. 1279 01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:14.319 To you, by the way, I should I should add that we're 1280 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:17.520 going to go to Parland now and talk to Loretta. Hello Loretta, Hello 1281 01:30:17.720 --> 01:30:27.119 Skip, thank you for your show. I have an unusual question with potatoes. 1282 01:30:28.680 --> 01:30:33.520 This time of year, they start sprouting these swimming things, and I 1283 01:30:33.640 --> 01:30:38.560 know I've heard that you know you can keep the potato and plant those and 1284 01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:45.199 make potato plants. That's right. My question. My question is is it 1285 01:30:45.279 --> 01:30:48.319 safe to eat those sprouts? Do you have to wash them off with potato 1286 01:30:48.479 --> 01:30:54.680 before you use it, or are they If you have a potato you bought 1287 01:30:54.720 --> 01:30:57.279 in the store and it's sprouting, I would break those off. They break 1288 01:30:57.359 --> 01:31:01.760 off real easily. Potatoes are a stem tissue themselves, and so if they're 1289 01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:05.640 in the sunlight, if they're in light, they turn green and that is 1290 01:31:05.960 --> 01:31:12.279 a corphyll response and there's a compound called solanine and potatoes that's not good for 1291 01:31:12.439 --> 01:31:15.039 you. So if you have a potato that's got green skin because it got 1292 01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:18.359 some light on it, you want to just peel that off. And then 1293 01:31:18.399 --> 01:31:23.279 when it comes to the sprouts, you don't want to eat them, Okay, 1294 01:31:24.359 --> 01:31:30.039 And the second question. In the past, I have bought tomatoes that 1295 01:31:30.760 --> 01:31:35.000 they call ripping on the vine tomatoes. They come in a cluster okay, 1296 01:31:35.279 --> 01:31:41.800 with the vine connected, Yes, and setting on my counter. I have 1297 01:31:42.039 --> 01:31:48.399 had several tomatoes with the thieves inside the tomatoes sprout. Did they poke through 1298 01:31:48.439 --> 01:31:54.199 the skin? Yeah? Isn't that weird looking? That is a yeah? 1299 01:31:54.319 --> 01:31:58.319 Okay, here's your five dollars horticulture word for the day. That is called 1300 01:31:58.399 --> 01:32:02.640 the vippery. Vippery is when a seed sprouts and it's still in the fruit, 1301 01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:05.680 for example, and that happens, they can have the pecans and other 1302 01:32:05.760 --> 01:32:10.159 things on the tree. You just got to toss it. You know, 1303 01:32:10.920 --> 01:32:13.239 it's kind of messed up. I guess if you want to get in there 1304 01:32:13.279 --> 01:32:15.640 and pick out all the sprout sections and stuff, you could slete the tomato. 1305 01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:19.600 But basically it's kind of going to be a mess inside at some point. 1306 01:32:19.720 --> 01:32:24.920 Okay, So both sprouts are not good to eat, no, ma'am, 1307 01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:27.239 No, you don't want to do that. You don't want to do 1308 01:32:27.359 --> 01:32:33.239 okay. I have also looked for bean sprouts in the stores slightly, and 1309 01:32:34.720 --> 01:32:41.520 must stores don't carry them anymore. Okay, we'll find out. But if 1310 01:32:41.560 --> 01:32:44.399 you go to a specialty top store you'll find them are Why don't you just 1311 01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:46.560 grow them yourself? You can buy the seeds. You buy them online. 1312 01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:51.199 Some stores will, some garden centers will carry the sprouting seed and you just 1313 01:32:51.239 --> 01:32:55.279 put them a little tray. There's even a little device crews on the top 1314 01:32:55.319 --> 01:32:58.840 of the mason jar that you it's kind of like a screen and you put 1315 01:32:58.880 --> 01:33:01.000 the seeds in there, you them and turn it upside down and you can 1316 01:33:01.039 --> 01:33:03.600 grow your own sprouts. And that way you can grow them when you want 1317 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:06.600 them, the kind you want, as much as you want. And so 1318 01:33:06.760 --> 01:33:10.960 that's just another thing Loretta to think about. I'm going to have to run 1319 01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:15.800 to another call. But if you want to try sprouting, I think it's 1320 01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:17.199 well, it's a fun thing to do. It's fast, and it's easy 1321 01:33:17.279 --> 01:33:20.840 and it's not that expensive. Well, thank you for the HILP. All 1322 01:33:20.920 --> 01:33:25.800 right, thank you very much. Man, appreciate that call. The other 1323 01:33:25.960 --> 01:33:30.239 day, I think it's yesterday. Maybe someone was looking for expanded shale and 1324 01:33:30.319 --> 01:33:31.680 we're trying to figure out where to get them, where to get some and 1325 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:35.119 I finally thought, oh, go to Ciena Maultch and they just sent me 1326 01:33:35.199 --> 01:33:39.079 an email. Yep, we went to Siena. They had it. We're 1327 01:33:39.119 --> 01:33:42.840 all squared away, and you know, why should that not surprise any of 1328 01:33:42.920 --> 01:33:46.000 us. Ciena Maltz has everything that you need. Remember brown stuff first, 1329 01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:48.520 Well, when I say brown stuff, it doesn't have to be brown, 1330 01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:53.760 expanded jale is gray. But it deals with the soil. Right, brown 1331 01:33:53.800 --> 01:33:57.199 stuff means the soil, so it means compost, it means bed mixes, 1332 01:33:57.359 --> 01:34:01.920 it means fertilizers, it means expanded for heavy clay soils. Ciena Multch has 1333 01:34:02.079 --> 01:34:05.920 all of that. They have a wide variety of fertilizure. I mean, 1334 01:34:06.039 --> 01:34:10.680 if I talk about it, they've got it there. And it's a one 1335 01:34:10.760 --> 01:34:14.880 stop shop for getting your soil ready. And when you get your soil ready, 1336 01:34:15.319 --> 01:34:17.119 you're going to have success. That It's as simple as that, and 1337 01:34:17.239 --> 01:34:23.800 Ciena Maltch will definitely be a place to provide you quality, quality ingredients in 1338 01:34:23.920 --> 01:34:29.399 that way. Now they the website is Cenamultch dot com, siennamult dot com. 1339 01:34:29.479 --> 01:34:32.920 They're down south near Highway six and two eighty eight on FM five twenty 1340 01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:36.680 one, just northor Row Sharon, so that whole region down there. They 1341 01:34:36.760 --> 01:34:40.920 deliver within about twenty miles of the of the place, so if you need 1342 01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:44.680 a bulk delivery, they can take care of that too. Always a good 1343 01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:46.840 day to go out to Cienamultch. They are open, by the way, 1344 01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:50.720 I should. I should tell you this Monday through Friday seven thirty to five 1345 01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:55.640 and on Saturday seven thirty to two. They're closed today, but they'll be 1346 01:34:55.800 --> 01:35:00.319 back up open again tomorrow. We're going to head out now to sugar Land 1347 01:35:00.439 --> 01:35:03.600 and talk to James. Hello, James, Hey, good morning, scar 1348 01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:11.119 My Saint Augustine here, sugar Land is starting to turn. I guess, 1349 01:35:11.279 --> 01:35:15.760 but it's already starting to yellow. We killed ten or fifteen twenty June boats 1350 01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:19.479 on the patio last night. Could we be having grubs this early? No? 1351 01:35:21.319 --> 01:35:27.520 No, Why is my grass yellow on already? Different things can cause 1352 01:35:27.600 --> 01:35:31.520 that. Diseases can cause that. It could be did you use any kind 1353 01:35:31.520 --> 01:35:36.479 of products on it to kill weeds or anything? No fiction, to put 1354 01:35:36.560 --> 01:35:41.560 out fertilizer and pre emerging today that's going to be night for falls. Yeah, 1355 01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:45.880 okay, follow the label carefully when you do that. The yellowing could 1356 01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:49.039 be different things. If the yellowing is older leaves, that's one thing. 1357 01:35:49.239 --> 01:35:53.680 If it's the new growth that's yellow and you pick a blade and hold it 1358 01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:58.840 up to the light and it's yellow and green streaked, it looks yellow from 1359 01:35:58.880 --> 01:36:00.239 a distance, but when you get up close you see it's got the little 1360 01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:04.680 green streaks in it. That's an iron deficiency, and that will go away 1361 01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:09.600 in most cases on its own. But you can also add an iron supplement 1362 01:36:09.800 --> 01:36:14.760 to it to help cure that a little quicker that's typical in cool, moist 1363 01:36:14.920 --> 01:36:17.600 conditions in the spring, and it tends to grow out of it. Well, 1364 01:36:17.640 --> 01:36:23.359 now we sprayed propoconaisol. I think I pronounced that right last fall. 1365 01:36:23.760 --> 01:36:26.760 Okay, is it? Do we need to do that again? Just in 1366 01:36:26.880 --> 01:36:30.800 case. You know, if you're dealing with something like a brown patch, 1367 01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:34.279 large patches, but that'd be circles, it wouldn't be just generally yellowing. 1368 01:36:34.479 --> 01:36:38.680 I think if you want to send a picture of it to me, I 1369 01:36:38.760 --> 01:36:41.000 can put you on hold you and you can send me one an email. 1370 01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:44.319 But I'm about ninety percent sure of what I just told you is going to 1371 01:36:44.359 --> 01:36:47.479 be what I would say after looking at a picture too. One more quick 1372 01:36:47.560 --> 01:36:51.880 question. I usually buy eight or ten bags of sixty four to put out 1373 01:36:51.920 --> 01:36:56.239 on my trees at around the trees at the ranch. Okay, but I 1374 01:36:56.359 --> 01:37:01.239 noticed Nitrofoss also has a sixteen to four A tree and shrub fertilizer. Yes, 1375 01:37:01.520 --> 01:37:05.039 it is one better than the other. They both will work. One 1376 01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:12.359 is organic, one is synthetic. The synthetic significantly cheaper. So well, 1377 01:37:12.880 --> 01:37:16.279 then there's it's a great fertilizer. Night foster and shrub will work just fine. 1378 01:37:16.720 --> 01:37:20.520 It's a it's a fast release, so don't overdo it. I would 1379 01:37:20.880 --> 01:37:25.720 What I would do is go up to the tree trunk and look at how 1380 01:37:25.760 --> 01:37:30.319 many inches across, not around, but in diameter, how many inches across 1381 01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:34.319 is it? And give it a cup or two per inch of trunk diameter, 1382 01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:38.520 And that way a big tree gets more than a little tree. A 1383 01:37:38.640 --> 01:37:42.880 couper two per inch of trunk diameter of the nitrofoss product. The tree and 1384 01:37:42.960 --> 01:37:45.960 shrub you talked about. It's an excellent product that will work very well. 1385 01:37:45.880 --> 01:37:48.680 Okay, great, thank you, all right, you take care. Thanks 1386 01:37:48.720 --> 01:37:56.359 for the call. Appreciate that Anti grozen Porium is a place that if you 1387 01:37:56.439 --> 01:37:58.199 haven't been, you need to go. If you have been, you know 1388 01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:01.399 what I'm talking about. It's destination. It is the whole. It's like 1389 01:38:01.479 --> 01:38:09.000 you've gone back in time and that they have the outbuildings that are just rustic 1390 01:38:09.119 --> 01:38:13.039 and cool, and of course that fits well with antique roses that you know 1391 01:38:13.239 --> 01:38:17.159 that that feel they are loaded up on roses, but they also have more 1392 01:38:17.279 --> 01:38:20.880 than that. There are more than just roses. They have perennials, all 1393 01:38:21.079 --> 01:38:26.760 kinds of great perennials, lex Alvia's and other wonderful things, Purple cone flower, 1394 01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:30.199 you know, lentanas and whatnot. Coming up March ninth and tenth. 1395 01:38:30.439 --> 01:38:33.720 What would that be next Saturday? I believe it is on my calendar. 1396 01:38:34.079 --> 01:38:38.880 March ninth and tenth is a spring celebration and they're going to have speakers, 1397 01:38:38.960 --> 01:38:42.039 including myself. I will be out there giving a talk. I'm gonna talk 1398 01:38:42.119 --> 01:38:45.960 on beneficial insects. So if you'd like to learn more about attracting beneficials next 1399 01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:51.000 Saturday, you got it. Antigros and Porum Now they have an artistan market 1400 01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:56.199 and food trucks and of course all the plants and tools and fertilizers and everything 1401 01:38:56.279 --> 01:39:01.520 you need. Antique Roseemporium dot com. That's a website, Antique Rosanmporium dot 1402 01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:06.079 com. You want to go there and learn more about it because it's always 1403 01:39:06.119 --> 01:39:13.359 a good time to go to Anti grosm Porium. Spring is just visually unbelievable 1404 01:39:13.399 --> 01:39:16.840 out there and if you want to call them ninety seven nine eight three six 1405 01:39:17.279 --> 01:39:21.880 fifty five forty eight nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight, 1406 01:39:23.279 --> 01:39:26.000 you can do that. I encourage if you're going to go, load the 1407 01:39:26.079 --> 01:39:29.000 car up, get your friends, get your family, you know, go 1408 01:39:29.199 --> 01:39:31.720 out and see it because this is a destination and you want to be there. 1409 01:39:31.720 --> 01:39:34.920 And I hope you show up next Saturday, March ninth. It's March 1410 01:39:35.000 --> 01:39:38.960 ninth and tenth the events. I'll be there on Saturday. Look forward to 1411 01:39:38.960 --> 01:39:42.000 seeing you. We're going to take a little break here. It is time 1412 01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:45.760 for Nikki in the news. I will be right back our number seven one 1413 01:39:45.880 --> 01:39:50.800 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 1414 01:39:50.840 --> 01:39:57.960 eight seventy four. Welcome back to Garden Line during the Houston Livestock Show in 1415 01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:00.800 Rodeo. Have you been to a rodeo this year? You need to go. 1416 01:40:00.159 --> 01:40:05.399 They got the lineup there is awesome, always fun. Plus there's something 1417 01:40:05.439 --> 01:40:09.159 to do out there at the Houston Life Section and Rodeo. I'm gonna be 1418 01:40:09.159 --> 01:40:13.359 out today. We're having a horticulture contest going on again this weekend and next 1419 01:40:13.399 --> 01:40:17.079 weekend as well. I'll be working with them out there on that. If 1420 01:40:17.159 --> 01:40:20.319 you live up in Tomball, here's your hometown feed store. If you're anywhere 1421 01:40:20.359 --> 01:40:24.720 near Tomball, here's your hometown feed store. D and D Feed and Supply. 1422 01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:28.399 They're west of Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. You just head out 1423 01:40:28.439 --> 01:40:31.960 that way and they are always getting shipments of chicks in out at D and 1424 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:36.319 D Feed. They it's a regular supply coming through. You can go and 1425 01:40:36.439 --> 01:40:40.279 give them a call first. Just give them a call at two eight one 1426 01:40:40.960 --> 01:40:45.159 three five one seventy one forty four two eight one three five one seven one 1427 01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:48.600 four four and say hey, what you got now and when are you getting 1428 01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:53.199 the next ones? And they can tell you they've got all the feed you 1429 01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:56.399 need, of course, livestock feed, great quality pet feed. By the 1430 01:40:56.439 --> 01:41:00.399 way, do you need soils like I was talking about the works potting soil 1431 01:41:00.479 --> 01:41:03.159 from airloom soils. They carry airloom soils out at D and D Feed. 1432 01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:08.239 Do you need fertilizers? They have a wide variety of fertilizers. They've got 1433 01:41:08.359 --> 01:41:12.359 nitrophoss fertilizers. They got the super green that we were talking about a little 1434 01:41:12.359 --> 01:41:15.239 bit before. Do you need your barricade for the weed control they've got that. 1435 01:41:15.560 --> 01:41:18.640 In other words, they've got a lot of things at D and D 1436 01:41:18.800 --> 01:41:23.720 Feed that you need for your home and for your garden. Again the phone 1437 01:41:23.800 --> 01:41:28.960 number two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. Check them out 1438 01:41:29.039 --> 01:41:30.920 at D and DE Feed. It's a great place, great supplies. And 1439 01:41:31.000 --> 01:41:33.319 oh, by the way out front, they got a lot of plants. 1440 01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:38.039 They do a good job of bringing in a lot of different kinds of plants 1441 01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:42.119 that are going to be timely, that's for the season, and they're going 1442 01:41:42.159 --> 01:41:45.119 to be all kinds of things you want, things like strawberries. I saw 1443 01:41:45.159 --> 01:41:47.159 some of those out there the other day. So D and defeed get you 1444 01:41:47.239 --> 01:41:49.880 all set up. We're going to head out now to East Houston and talk 1445 01:41:49.960 --> 01:41:55.640 to Tom. Hello. Tom, Hello, how are you to day? 1446 01:41:55.720 --> 01:41:59.479 Skip? Okay, sir, how can we help? I wanted to share 1447 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:05.359 some no what that man that called yesterday concerning about what he called mestita hawk. 1448 01:42:05.560 --> 01:42:08.760 All right, I need you, I need you to give a fast 1449 01:42:08.920 --> 01:42:12.640 version of that. Can you do that for me? Those are called crane 1450 01:42:12.720 --> 01:42:16.159 flies. They are forty four They do not have mouths, they do not 1451 01:42:16.359 --> 01:42:24.000 have stingers. They are primarily on this earth to feed the birds. If 1452 01:42:24.039 --> 01:42:28.960 you look outside, you start seeing birds in your yard. So it's a 1453 01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:32.960 beneficial insect. It actually is. They don't do any significant damage to anything. 1454 01:42:33.479 --> 01:42:36.960 And you're right about the mouths. But the larvae basically chewing up organic 1455 01:42:38.079 --> 01:42:41.800 matter done in the soil, moist organic matter, so they're even part of 1456 01:42:41.880 --> 01:42:45.039 that cycle as well. Tom, I appreciate that information. Good to good 1457 01:42:45.079 --> 01:42:49.199 to hear from you, and thanks for passing that along. You're welcome, 1458 01:42:49.359 --> 01:42:54.279 all right, sir, You take you take care. Now's the time to 1459 01:42:54.319 --> 01:42:59.840 get your wheden weeding done in the lawn. That means a product like barricade 1460 01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:03.880 to prevent the weeds that are coming up and they are sprouting. Now it's 1461 01:43:03.920 --> 01:43:09.039 time to get that done. But also how about your early spring green up. 1462 01:43:09.199 --> 01:43:13.560 Nitrofoss Imperial that is the red bag. It makes it so simple when 1463 01:43:13.560 --> 01:43:16.520 they have colors Nitrofos Imperial red bag. It's a fifteen to five to ten. 1464 01:43:17.000 --> 01:43:23.039 That three to one to two ratio is what any turf specialist from Texas 1465 01:43:23.159 --> 01:43:27.800 to Florida to really across the country will tell you is three one two ratio 1466 01:43:27.880 --> 01:43:30.319 fertilizers. That's what grass takes up. That's what you need and that is 1467 01:43:30.359 --> 01:43:36.880 why Nitrofoss Imperial is in a fifteen five ten combination. It's a three one 1468 01:43:36.960 --> 01:43:42.079 two ratio. That's what it needs. Where do you get nitrofos, Well, 1469 01:43:42.239 --> 01:43:45.199 throw a rock and you probably hit a place that sells nitrofoss. That's 1470 01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:48.199 the fast answer. If you are in the Memorial area, Memorial Drive, 1471 01:43:48.279 --> 01:43:53.159 Ace Hardware City has got nitrofoss products. If you're in Stanton Shopping Center, 1472 01:43:53.239 --> 01:43:56.239 don in Alvin, Yep, you're going to find them there. Go out 1473 01:43:56.239 --> 01:44:00.920 to Katie Ace Hardware on Pinoak Out in Katie. They've got night FoST products 1474 01:44:00.039 --> 01:44:03.439 as well, easy to find them. Now's the time. If you're going 1475 01:44:03.520 --> 01:44:08.760 to do primerge, now's the time to do the barricade. If you're gonna 1476 01:44:08.800 --> 01:44:13.199 do spring greenup, now's the time to put that Imperial down. Don't delay 1477 01:44:13.239 --> 01:44:15.399 because we got an other fertilizing we'll be doing later on, but now's the 1478 01:44:15.439 --> 01:44:19.479 time for that spring greenuple. Let's quit and head out to Kingwood now and 1479 01:44:19.560 --> 01:44:25.520 talk to Jeremy. Hello, Jeremy, Hey, skip has a great segue. 1480 01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:30.880 I wanted to ask you, so the weeds in my yard have emerged. 1481 01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:34.439 Yah, So I want to make sure that I can put down the 1482 01:44:34.840 --> 01:44:39.039 I already have the nitroposs weed and feed. I haven't put it down yet, 1483 01:44:39.039 --> 01:44:41.600 but I want to. It's okay to put it down now and then 1484 01:44:41.720 --> 01:44:45.399 wait how many how long until I could put it down the Imperial Now, 1485 01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:50.439 I haven't been on any any fertilizing schedule or anything for a while, so 1486 01:44:50.680 --> 01:44:54.880 I'm just trying to get going now, and I want to make sure I 1487 01:44:55.000 --> 01:45:00.920 don't mess it up from this point on. Okay, So you what if 1488 01:45:00.960 --> 01:45:05.640 you put down already? Nothing? Oh? Nothing? Okay? So which 1489 01:45:06.039 --> 01:45:11.720 which nitrophoss weed and feed do you have? What color is the bad blue 1490 01:45:11.760 --> 01:45:15.319 blue bag? Okay, that's a that's going to be a post emergent TRIMEC 1491 01:45:16.560 --> 01:45:21.000 combination product, and so it's going to do the early greenups. So you 1492 01:45:21.079 --> 01:45:24.600 want to go ahead and do it a S A P. Because here's the 1493 01:45:24.680 --> 01:45:28.119 deal. You need the weeds to be wet and you need the granules to 1494 01:45:28.199 --> 01:45:30.439 stick to the weeds. So give a quick little sprinkling just enough to what 1495 01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:33.560 the weeds put it out. It sticks to the weeds and it moves down. 1496 01:45:34.239 --> 01:45:39.279 As weeds get further and further along blooming and setting seed, they're harder 1497 01:45:39.359 --> 01:45:42.840 to kill, and at some point they've already made seeds, so you kind 1498 01:45:42.840 --> 01:45:45.159 of miss missed your boat. So don't delay. Get that down. Now's 1499 01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:48.920 the time for green up. Now's the time to go ahead and kill those. 1500 01:45:49.399 --> 01:45:54.399 Those are all winter weeds. Anyone listening, any weed you're seeing now 1501 01:45:54.720 --> 01:45:57.800 is a sticking up in the garden or the yard weed, that's a winter 1502 01:45:57.920 --> 01:46:00.880 weed. And now's the time to get them done, because as we move 1503 01:46:01.000 --> 01:46:06.560 forward, they become less and less susceptible or already have set seeds to sentence 1504 01:46:06.600 --> 01:46:10.359 you to more weeding next year, in the year after and the year after 1505 01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:15.840 that. So let me follow up real quick. Once I put this down, 1506 01:46:15.920 --> 01:46:18.479 I will get it down today. How long should I wait until I 1507 01:46:18.760 --> 01:46:24.960 do the next step? And as the next step, the imperial or the 1508 01:46:26.680 --> 01:46:30.399 blue bag is in place of the imperial. You've made the decision to choose 1509 01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:34.800 not just fertilizer, which is imperial, but fertilizer plus pust emergent. Broadly, 1510 01:46:34.840 --> 01:46:41.119 if we control that's the blue bag. So the next step will be 1511 01:46:41.439 --> 01:46:45.479 when you do your fertilization as we get into spring. So at this point, 1512 01:46:45.640 --> 01:46:47.720 let's say you are in Kingwood. At this point I would say, 1513 01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:51.640 probably about mid April would be the next time that you're going to fertilize, 1514 01:46:53.039 --> 01:46:56.760 and that would mid to late April. Even that would be when you put 1515 01:46:56.880 --> 01:47:01.720 your your long slower release product out. You're using the nitrofoss products, so 1516 01:47:02.159 --> 01:47:05.880 that would be the super turf, the silver bag, but that's not coming 1517 01:47:06.000 --> 01:47:13.560 until we get much further out into April. Okay, perfect, all right, 1518 01:47:13.600 --> 01:47:15.159 thank you very much, sim I have a gret day. Yeah, 1519 01:47:15.359 --> 01:47:18.039 and for people listening, just just for clarity, so we don't so I 1520 01:47:18.119 --> 01:47:24.520 don't confuse you. I say that because he is putting out the greenup. 1521 01:47:24.680 --> 01:47:28.479 Now, if you don't use the greenup, that's the green Up's the optional 1522 01:47:28.560 --> 01:47:30.840 application. If you don't use the Greenup, then you can start, you 1523 01:47:30.920 --> 01:47:38.079 know, earlier in April, h putting out your longer term slow release things 1524 01:47:38.279 --> 01:47:43.880 like in the case Jeremy's using the nitrofos products, that would be the silver 1525 01:47:44.039 --> 01:47:48.079 bag, the Imperial in April. It's always hard to say these things on 1526 01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:55.520 the radio because people selectively listen or selectively here however you want to go about 1527 01:47:55.560 --> 01:47:57.520 it, and someone will say, well, I heard I was supposed to 1528 01:47:57.560 --> 01:48:00.039 put Imperial out now. No no, no, no, no, no, 1529 01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:02.199 no, I'm sorry. Yes, yes, yes on Imperial No no, 1530 01:48:02.319 --> 01:48:05.079 no, on the silver bag. Not yet, not yet. It's 1531 01:48:05.159 --> 01:48:09.840 coming. It's a great product and it'll feed and feed and feed on through 1532 01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:14.439 the weeks and months early into the late spring and summer season. All right, 1533 01:48:14.520 --> 01:48:15.600 Well, our phone number if you'd like to give us a call and 1534 01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:19.880 talk about things that are of interest to you is seven one three two one 1535 01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:27.800 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1536 01:48:29.279 --> 01:48:31.359 Welcome back to Guarden Line. Good to have you with us today. 1537 01:48:31.399 --> 01:48:34.880 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to answer gardening questions. 1538 01:48:35.000 --> 01:48:39.159 That is what we do. Listen, if you were down in the 1539 01:48:39.279 --> 01:48:45.199 Richmond Rosenberg area, you need to get by Chanted Forest. They have loaded 1540 01:48:45.560 --> 01:48:50.560 up on color on shrubs, trees, vegetables, herbs, everything you can 1541 01:48:50.600 --> 01:48:55.319 imagine. I was looking out they had some beautiful angelonias. That's what we 1542 01:48:55.439 --> 01:48:58.439 call it, summer snap dragon. You plant that thing now and it's going 1543 01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:01.279 to carry all the way through summer. It just grows and blooms and blooms 1544 01:49:01.319 --> 01:49:05.560 and blooms and blooms. It's a wonderful bedding plant. Beautiful color combinations, 1545 01:49:06.439 --> 01:49:12.119 tall spiky blooms. It's just beautiful. It's part of any summer landscape bed 1546 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:15.239 color. And they got them right now, so don't wait for summer for 1547 01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:16.560 them, go ahead and get them out. They have all kinds of other 1548 01:49:16.640 --> 01:49:20.560 things. All the petunias and all the other plants that we would think about 1549 01:49:20.600 --> 01:49:25.159 planting now are going to be there. They also have Texas Mountain Laurel. 1550 01:49:25.279 --> 01:49:27.319 Now, if you never smelled one of those, you got to go buy 1551 01:49:27.359 --> 01:49:30.800 and smell one. They are a purple bloom that looks like a cluster of 1552 01:49:30.880 --> 01:49:36.000 grapes and smells like grape kool aid or a great bubblegum rather that strong grape 1553 01:49:36.039 --> 01:49:41.640 bubblegums. Oh, it's wonderfully fragrant, grows, slow, takes its time, 1554 01:49:42.000 --> 01:49:44.560 has to have good drainage, plant it on a mound, but they 1555 01:49:44.640 --> 01:49:47.720 have them. They've got hanging baskets. They just have everything that you would 1556 01:49:47.760 --> 01:49:51.520 need. They are loaded up on it and as they always are out there 1557 01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:56.399 and enchanted for us, it's a fun place to go hang out and wander 1558 01:49:56.640 --> 01:50:01.520 and see. They just continue to have more and more cool stuff going on, 1559 01:50:01.760 --> 01:50:04.479 and they always if you doan't to have a butterfly garden, you have 1560 01:50:04.600 --> 01:50:09.479 to go there. They have the milkweeds, they have all the plants that 1561 01:50:09.640 --> 01:50:13.439 attract butterflies. In fact, during peak season they got so many caterpillars. 1562 01:50:13.439 --> 01:50:15.119 They'll even give you caterpillars to take home, so you can kind of like 1563 01:50:15.239 --> 01:50:20.000 a sour dough starter for butterfly gardens. Right, you bring a caterpillar home 1564 01:50:20.079 --> 01:50:26.000 with you with the plant so you can get going on it. Enchanted Forest. 1565 01:50:26.079 --> 01:50:29.520 Where is Enchended Forest. Well, if you're in Richmond heading toward Sugarland, 1566 01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:33.399 it's off to the right on FM twenty seven fifty nine. The most 1567 01:50:33.439 --> 01:50:38.439 important thing, really, the most important thing that you're going to need to 1568 01:50:38.520 --> 01:50:45.840 know is the website Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, 1569 01:50:45.960 --> 01:50:49.600 Richmond, TX dot com. Let's go now out to We're gonna talk 1570 01:50:49.640 --> 01:50:56.159 to Vicky in Willis. Hello, Hello Vicky from Willis, Good morning, 1571 01:50:56.479 --> 01:51:01.359 Good morning. The caterpillars as a starter for or butterflies. That's your riot. 1572 01:51:01.439 --> 01:51:05.600 That's great. That is the first time first time Clay Clay and Danny 1573 01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:09.560 told me they were doing that out there is like, that's a great idea. 1574 01:51:11.760 --> 01:51:15.079 Very good. I've been really good this year. I've done my pre 1575 01:51:15.239 --> 01:51:18.479 margin on everything doing well or not totally weak free. But we live out 1576 01:51:18.520 --> 01:51:23.520 in the country and we just will deal with that. But I'm starting to 1577 01:51:23.560 --> 01:51:28.840 see my Saint Augustine. I'm starting to see patches already. Summer's green and 1578 01:51:29.039 --> 01:51:31.760 some is. I've got a couple of spots of yellow. We've got a 1579 01:51:31.800 --> 01:51:36.119 couple of spots of just not doing anything. It's patchy. I have no 1580 01:51:36.239 --> 01:51:40.600 idea why what do I do well? The yellow is probably due to an 1581 01:51:40.600 --> 01:51:44.399 iron deficiency, which happens in the spring quite often, especially when the temperature 1582 01:51:44.560 --> 01:51:48.600 cool The Saint Augustine roots are not growing very fast and the plants aren't They're 1583 01:51:48.680 --> 01:51:54.039 kind of waking up slow like Saint Augustine does, and you get a little 1584 01:51:54.079 --> 01:51:58.279 early on some of that iron deficiency. You can put an iron supplement on 1585 01:51:58.479 --> 01:52:02.840 it. I have found that is the weather warms up and organic matter decompositions 1586 01:52:02.920 --> 01:52:08.399 picks up faster that it sort of goes away on its own. But if 1587 01:52:08.439 --> 01:52:11.319 you'd like to do an iron supplement, that this would be a good time 1588 01:52:11.720 --> 01:52:14.760 to do that. Also, just be careful don't get iron on your sidewalks, 1589 01:52:14.800 --> 01:52:18.520 your driveways because will it will leave a rust stain. Yeah, and 1590 01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:24.479 I would say that's probably all there is to it. There could be some 1591 01:52:24.600 --> 01:52:28.920 other things going on, but it's just too early to expect a lot out 1592 01:52:28.960 --> 01:52:32.359 of your Saint Augustine appearance wise. So if it still looks bad three weeks 1593 01:52:32.399 --> 01:52:35.720 from now, let's talk again, okay, sor right, Well, we'll 1594 01:52:35.720 --> 01:52:41.640 give it time to grow itself and see what happens. You Victa, take 1595 01:52:41.680 --> 01:52:43.920 care. I used to have a peach orchard in Willis by the way. 1596 01:52:45.079 --> 01:52:48.079 Oh, oh, that'd be great. Love that, Love it up there, 1597 01:52:48.279 --> 01:52:51.920 love it up there. I was visiting with Ty Strickland and his wife 1598 01:52:53.399 --> 01:52:57.520 from Fixed Nice Lab Foundation Repair the other day and I was just picking his 1599 01:52:57.640 --> 01:53:01.520 brain. And the guy he he knows foundations. I could not ask a 1600 01:53:01.600 --> 01:53:04.560 question that he didn't know the answer to. He's been doing this for twenty 1601 01:53:04.600 --> 01:53:09.840 three years. Really, I fixmyslab dot com. That's his website. So 1602 01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:13.199 do you see a crack in your brick? Do you see a crack in 1603 01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:17.800 your sheet rock? Maybe you know the doors are sticking a little bit in 1604 01:53:17.880 --> 01:53:21.560 the house because the foundation moves. And as you get a house that gets 1605 01:53:21.600 --> 01:53:27.439 older and older, the chances of that just get larger and larger. And 1606 01:53:27.520 --> 01:53:30.479 there's things that contribute to it, and he can help you understand the things 1607 01:53:30.520 --> 01:53:34.600 that are in your power to do to help protect your foundation. That is 1608 01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:38.560 important. Now tell him you're a guarden line listener. You get a free 1609 01:53:38.680 --> 01:53:42.239 estimate if you tell them you're a garden line listener. The thing about ty 1610 01:53:42.600 --> 01:53:46.159 and Fix my Slab is they're committed to be on time, to show up 1611 01:53:46.159 --> 01:53:48.680 when they say they're going to show up, to do it at a fair 1612 01:53:48.800 --> 01:53:55.840 price, and to fix it right. That is important and doing it right 1613 01:53:56.199 --> 01:54:00.239 is very critical to having good success. Now again, Fix my Slab dot 1614 01:54:00.279 --> 01:54:03.960 Com is the website two eight one two fyy five forty ninety nine to eight 1615 01:54:04.000 --> 01:54:08.720 one two five forty nine forty nine. Don't delay, it's not going to 1616 01:54:08.800 --> 01:54:14.199 get better. Now's a great time to have foundation work started on your property 1617 01:54:14.359 --> 01:54:17.159 because this is just a good time with the soil and the condition it's and 1618 01:54:17.640 --> 01:54:21.800 go ahead and do that. If your sidewalks and driveways are heaving and cracking, 1619 01:54:21.960 --> 01:54:26.279 that's a whole different issue, and they can come in and they can 1620 01:54:26.359 --> 01:54:30.680 fix that as well, including the thing where you kind of float it up 1621 01:54:30.800 --> 01:54:32.840 and re level it. They have a way of doing that. So you're 1622 01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:38.000 not buying a new driveway. What a great deal. Fix my slab foundation 1623 01:54:38.159 --> 01:54:42.960 repair. David in Tomball is going to be our next call here. How 1624 01:54:43.279 --> 01:54:45.920 how are you doing out there in Tomall? David, Good, Good morning, 1625 01:54:46.000 --> 01:54:51.760 sir. Hey, I got a little tomato myth or truth question. 1626 01:54:53.079 --> 01:54:57.479 Okay. I got a flower bed that's about four feet by ten feet and 1627 01:54:57.960 --> 01:55:01.159 on one side, I got my tomatoes planning way. On the other side, 1628 01:55:01.840 --> 01:55:04.439 I was gonna put some peppers, and my neighbor, oh, no, 1629 01:55:04.560 --> 01:55:09.439 you can't do that. And I researched it, and I never could 1630 01:55:09.520 --> 01:55:13.000 get a definitive yes or no that I could or could not. Okay, 1631 01:55:13.560 --> 01:55:16.239 what's your take on it? Do it? You can do it. It's 1632 01:55:16.319 --> 01:55:20.920 fine. Okay. Here's where that comes from. Plants in the same family 1633 01:55:21.319 --> 01:55:26.359 tend to get the same diseases. And if it's a soil disease like Fizariam, 1634 01:55:26.439 --> 01:55:30.760 reverse cilium, root rod or something, and you grow the same plant 1635 01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:33.600 year after year after year, and happened to get that disease in there, 1636 01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:39.960 then following up with peppers in that spot or eggplant in that spot, because 1637 01:55:39.960 --> 01:55:45.399 those are all related, then you're just you're that's a problem. But having 1638 01:55:45.439 --> 01:55:48.119 a tomato in the same bed as a pepper. Absolutely no problem. Now, 1639 01:55:48.159 --> 01:55:53.359 should you someday develop some root disease or something, plant something different there 1640 01:55:53.399 --> 01:55:56.680 and put your tomatoes and peppers in other beds. Hey, if I can 1641 01:55:56.840 --> 01:56:02.359 one more question, all right, I want to build a strawberry bed and 1642 01:56:02.520 --> 01:56:06.279 build it in a box? What dimensions, how date and should it be 1643 01:56:06.399 --> 01:56:10.720 and how wide? Kind of an ideal you need about a foot of soil 1644 01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:14.720 deep, and it gets you a lightweight soil. If you can even mix 1645 01:56:14.840 --> 01:56:18.000 some sand in with a quality mix, you know, like a vegetable and 1646 01:56:18.079 --> 01:56:26.199 herb from heirloom or something a mix, then that sand is good good drainage, 1647 01:56:26.239 --> 01:56:29.039 and strawberries don't like a heavy clay, so give it a good mix 1648 01:56:29.079 --> 01:56:32.520 about a foot deep. I plant mine on beds that are about three feet 1649 01:56:32.560 --> 01:56:38.439 across because you can put three plants across the bed that way, and it's 1650 01:56:38.560 --> 01:56:42.159 not too far to reach to get to the middle from either side. So 1651 01:56:42.560 --> 01:56:46.279 that would be my advice. Alrighty, thank you sir. All right, 1652 01:56:46.319 --> 01:56:50.479 good luck with that. Have fun out there and tumble take care. You've 1653 01:56:50.520 --> 01:56:56.960 got RCW Nurseries down on two forty nine where it hits belt Way eight. 1654 01:56:57.680 --> 01:57:01.279 They are specialists when it comes to having every kind of rose under the sun, 1655 01:57:01.600 --> 01:57:04.399 they grow them all. You know, if you remember the Rose Society, 1656 01:57:04.439 --> 01:57:09.239 you want to find a place that's got all kinds of beautiful cutflower roses, 1657 01:57:09.359 --> 01:57:13.279 shrub roses and anti They got it all right there at RCW Nursery. 1658 01:57:13.640 --> 01:57:16.640 They grow their own trees up in Plantersville, so they have quality grown trees 1659 01:57:17.159 --> 01:57:23.520 varieties that belong here. That's very very important. Now we are entering the 1660 01:57:23.600 --> 01:57:27.479 big spring season, so it's time to finish up your roses and tree planting 1661 01:57:27.520 --> 01:57:30.680 if possible, just because things do better when you plan them early on rather 1662 01:57:30.720 --> 01:57:34.079 than waiting until July to put those things in the ground. Now is the 1663 01:57:34.199 --> 01:57:36.560 time to get it done. They have all the supplies you need to put 1664 01:57:36.600 --> 01:57:41.960 in to put with the plants as you're planting them to ensure good success. 1665 01:57:42.840 --> 01:57:46.000 RCW Nurseries they better on a long time. They know what they're talking about, 1666 01:57:46.159 --> 01:57:51.199 and they carry stuff that grows here and that is very very important to 1667 01:57:51.319 --> 01:57:54.840 have that as well. I also want to talk to you about a little 1668 01:57:54.840 --> 01:57:58.760 bit about Nature's Way resources. They're having their Spring Garden Festival and that is 1669 01:57:58.920 --> 01:58:01.000 March ninth, That would be next Saturday, from nine to two. They're 1670 01:58:01.000 --> 01:58:05.079 gonna have education. They're gonna walk around and get you some sangree at a 1671 01:58:05.159 --> 01:58:09.359 drink. They got stuff with the kids, all kinds of stuff happening. 1672 01:58:09.720 --> 01:58:14.239 It's always fun and listen. Never go to Nature's Way without an empty car 1673 01:58:14.520 --> 01:58:18.039 for bringing home native plants. They've got for bringing home the soil mixes and 1674 01:58:18.119 --> 01:58:23.640 the blends. Call them, give them to get them to deliver toy Nature's 1675 01:58:23.680 --> 01:58:28.720 Way Resources dot Com. That's the website. I always like going out there 1676 01:58:28.800 --> 01:58:33.399 Connedy and they they just the place just keeps getting better and it's just more 1677 01:58:33.439 --> 01:58:36.279 fun to get out and do. You don't want to miss that event. 1678 01:58:36.800 --> 01:58:41.880 It will be a lot of fun while you're listening to garden Line. Here 1679 01:58:41.920 --> 01:58:45.880 we are putting another show hour in the books. We've got one more left 1680 01:58:45.920 --> 01:58:48.239 today. I hope you stick around for us. Maybe those neighbors that have 1681 01:58:48.319 --> 01:58:53.000 their light to offer a wake. Now, if you want to go back 1682 01:58:53.199 --> 01:58:56.039 and knock on the door again, tell them, hey, garden Line's still 1683 01:58:56.079 --> 01:58:59.319 on. Don't miss it. I'll be right back in just a moment. 1684 01:59:09.520 --> 01:59:12.920 Katie r. H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 1685 01:59:13.000 --> 01:59:17.439 or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden 1686 01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:35.680 Line with Skip Richter's Crazy trim. Just watch him as were so many brothies 1687 01:59:35.880 --> 01:59:50.680 supprazy gas not a sim. Welcome back to, Welcome back to Guarden Line. 1688 01:59:50.880 --> 01:59:54.840 Glad to have you with us today. Hey, we are here to 1689 01:59:54.920 --> 01:59:58.920 answer gardening questions. So if you got one seven one three two one two 1690 01:59:59.359 --> 02:00:03.399 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 1691 02:00:04.039 --> 02:00:11.640 if you are interested in a high concentration organic fertilizer for your lawn, Nitroposs 1692 02:00:11.640 --> 02:00:15.800 Sweet Green is that product. It's eleven percent nitrogen, which is higher than 1693 02:00:15.920 --> 02:00:21.039 most nitrogen sources that come from a natural source. And this is a molasses 1694 02:00:21.079 --> 02:00:27.319 based product. Through microbial activity, it is turned it basically into a quality 1695 02:00:27.399 --> 02:00:31.000 fertilizer. Smells wonderful, smells like molasses because that's what it's made from, 1696 02:00:31.640 --> 02:00:36.159 and that sugary substance really enhances back to your life in the So it's why 1697 02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:41.800 we use in organic gardens, why we use molasses as a soil amendment. 1698 02:00:42.159 --> 02:00:45.319 It is very very effective for that and this one will provide the nutrients and 1699 02:00:45.399 --> 02:00:48.319 the green up that you're going to need for your lawn. Now. Nitrofoss 1700 02:00:48.319 --> 02:00:51.800 Sweet Green is available widely. You can find it in a lot of different 1701 02:00:51.840 --> 02:00:56.800 places, like all the different nitroposs products that you would see, for example, 1702 02:00:57.159 --> 02:01:00.640 ACE Hardware at single ranch out there in Katie, Yep, they are 1703 02:01:00.760 --> 02:01:03.159 going to have this product. If you go to a task Asita, Ace 1704 02:01:03.439 --> 02:01:08.319 out in a task Asda, they're going to have nitrofoss products as well, 1705 02:01:08.520 --> 02:01:13.960 like our Sweet Green here and Lake Jackson down at Lake Hardbearing Clute specifically, 1706 02:01:14.359 --> 02:01:16.239 they're going to have the nitrofoss products as well. It's not hard to find 1707 02:01:16.279 --> 02:01:19.479 them. They're widely available. And the Sweet Green I think you will be 1708 02:01:19.640 --> 02:01:23.600 very pleased with both, from the fragrance of it all the way down to 1709 02:01:23.880 --> 02:01:27.319 the way that it works. I want to go out now and we're going 1710 02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:30.279 to start doing some more calls for this hour. We'll start with John in 1711 02:01:30.399 --> 02:01:33.359 League City. Hello, John, Good morning to you morning. I have 1712 02:01:33.439 --> 02:01:41.159 a question. I put Shaw in my backyard, okay, about four years 1713 02:01:41.159 --> 02:01:47.439 ago, and the dogs have trampolin and so in October I planted Rye rass 1714 02:01:47.520 --> 02:01:51.720 win or right, and it's going in nice and thick and I really like 1715 02:01:51.800 --> 02:01:55.479 it, but I know it's going to die off. Yes, so do 1716 02:01:55.600 --> 02:01:59.279 they make a summer ride. Nope, they don't. They don't, Unfortunately 1717 02:01:59.319 --> 02:02:02.159 they don't. You just want to as it, what's going to happen? 1718 02:02:02.239 --> 02:02:10.319 What kind of lawn do you have? Senegast? Okay, so the Saint 1719 02:02:10.359 --> 02:02:13.439 Augustine's would try to wake up here as the weather warms up, and the 1720 02:02:13.560 --> 02:02:16.399 rye grass is going to be wanted to grow like crazy. And so there's 1721 02:02:16.439 --> 02:02:20.560 this transition where the rye grass is basically like a whole bunch of weeds in 1722 02:02:20.640 --> 02:02:26.600 your Saint Augustine competing for water and nutrients. So you're gonna want, as 1723 02:02:26.680 --> 02:02:30.319 we get a little further into the season to mow that down pretty short and 1724 02:02:30.439 --> 02:02:34.479 then let this Saint Augustine come on up and get sunlight, because a good, 1725 02:02:34.640 --> 02:02:39.039 thick, healthy, standard rye grass is quite a competitor in the spring 1726 02:02:39.520 --> 02:02:45.239 during that transition. All right, did I fertilize it? Now? You 1727 02:02:45.359 --> 02:02:49.479 can't. You can fertilize with the spring green up. I think. I 1728 02:02:49.560 --> 02:02:55.279 think what I might do in your situation is I might hold off and then 1729 02:02:55.399 --> 02:03:00.680 on April first, begin the slow release fertilizers that are on my schedule online. 1730 02:03:00.720 --> 02:03:04.399 If you go to gardening with Skip dot com, online. You can 1731 02:03:04.479 --> 02:03:08.560 see the schedule. It's free to print out. And I think I would 1732 02:03:08.600 --> 02:03:12.119 skip the spring green up because you've got all that ryegress in there and I 1733 02:03:12.159 --> 02:03:15.239 don't want to encourage it any further. And then I would go ahead and 1734 02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:19.199 do a good, a good mowing down low as we're coming, you know, 1735 02:03:19.680 --> 02:03:24.119 a little further toward the end of March, and then do the Saint 1736 02:03:24.159 --> 02:03:29.079 Augustine fertilization at that time. Okay, very cool, all right, you 1737 02:03:29.960 --> 02:03:31.479 good luck with that, John. I hope that, hope that works all. 1738 02:03:34.439 --> 02:03:38.159 Arburgate Nursery and tom Ball is the place that, of course everybody has 1739 02:03:38.199 --> 02:03:42.399 heard of. They have been around, they've been around a while, and 1740 02:03:42.479 --> 02:03:45.880 I was surprised at the arbor gate. You know, I've been going there 1741 02:03:45.920 --> 02:03:48.880 for ages. I always love to go out and visit with Beverly and really 1742 02:03:48.960 --> 02:03:54.720 all of our staff out there. They have a group of very, very 1743 02:03:56.199 --> 02:04:00.319 friendly and educated folks that know gardening, and you get answers from them, 1744 02:04:00.840 --> 02:04:05.279 You're gonna absolutely know that you can depend on those answers because they know what 1745 02:04:05.359 --> 02:04:11.079 they're talking about. And that's important. Listen, when you go out and 1746 02:04:11.159 --> 02:04:15.279 get gardening advice from people, you often don't know. And I hear people 1747 02:04:15.359 --> 02:04:16.680 all the time that they'll call the show and say, well, so and 1748 02:04:16.800 --> 02:04:20.279 so tell me such and such, and it's just not right. But it 1749 02:04:20.640 --> 02:04:25.079 absolutely at Arburgate. You don't have to worry about that. You got people 1750 02:04:25.159 --> 02:04:30.319 that know and they every time I go there, it's like shipments and shipments 1751 02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:34.800 of plants coming in. It's always loaded up and beautiful, the best, 1752 02:04:34.960 --> 02:04:40.199 coolest new thing. By the way, they celebrated their twenty eighth anniversary this 1753 02:04:40.359 --> 02:04:44.800 week, twenty eight years. Can you believe that? I can't, It 1754 02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:47.840 seems like yesterday. But Arburgate Nursery is on twenty nine to twenty west to 1755 02:04:47.920 --> 02:04:51.319 Tombul and there's a little road called Trishel Road that goes behind it, and 1756 02:04:51.439 --> 02:04:56.880 the brand new beautiful parking lot is back there, and so you don't have 1757 02:04:56.920 --> 02:05:00.319 to worry about parking on the road. On twenty nine to twenty. Take 1758 02:05:00.399 --> 02:05:03.079 Trischel and go behind it. It starts before Arburgate and it comes back into 1759 02:05:03.119 --> 02:05:06.359 twenty nine to twenty after Arburgate. So if you miss it on the way 1760 02:05:06.439 --> 02:05:11.239 through, just pass by Arburgate and look for Trischel. It'll come back in 1761 02:05:11.359 --> 02:05:15.800 there and jump on it. And run out run behind Arburgate All Weather Parking. 1762 02:05:15.039 --> 02:05:20.000 It is wonderful and Arburgate is loaded right now. I was out there 1763 02:05:20.000 --> 02:05:26.840 about a week ago and it was just unbelievable the supply of everything they had. 1764 02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:29.119 I mean I could name every plant, but that would take the rest 1765 02:05:29.199 --> 02:05:32.479 of this show in the next two because they have so many cool things. 1766 02:05:32.479 --> 02:05:36.479 I was talking earlier about. You know how important the summer color is, 1767 02:05:36.640 --> 02:05:40.640 and they can fix you up on that at Arburgate. Why are you there? 1768 02:05:40.920 --> 02:05:44.520 Pick up their one two three easy system. It's the food organic food 1769 02:05:44.600 --> 02:05:48.000 that's complete. It's the organic soil complete and the organic compost complete. The 1770 02:05:48.079 --> 02:05:53.279 latter two both have expanded shale in the mix, which is especially nice. 1771 02:05:53.960 --> 02:06:01.600 Let's see, we're going to go now to Willis and to Jessica. Hello, 1772 02:06:03.680 --> 02:06:09.520 Hello, hight Sorry, this is Gary. My wife's dialed in and 1773 02:06:10.199 --> 02:06:13.319 she handed me the phone, so I'll ask I'll ask you the question. 1774 02:06:13.600 --> 02:06:17.680 All right. I love your show, listen to it a lot. We're 1775 02:06:17.760 --> 02:06:23.520 new at the Gate at the gardening program, and we were hoping that we 1776 02:06:23.560 --> 02:06:29.079 could get some guidance on where we might find a gardener for hire help us 1777 02:06:29.199 --> 02:06:34.640 establish establish a nice vegetable and fruit and flower garden, and we could kind 1778 02:06:34.640 --> 02:06:39.520 of work alongside of someone for a while and uh and and learn how to 1779 02:06:39.600 --> 02:06:42.399 do it. Would you have any suggestions. We've really tried a lot of 1780 02:06:42.439 --> 02:06:47.800 different avenues and we just haven't been able to find anybody that's available to Well, 1781 02:06:47.920 --> 02:06:51.039 that's that's a good that's a good question. Unfortunately, I don't I 1782 02:06:51.119 --> 02:06:55.159 don't have a real specific answer for you, but I have two suggestions. 1783 02:06:55.960 --> 02:06:58.520 Uh. Now, it's a little bit of a distance for you for Willis, 1784 02:06:58.600 --> 02:07:02.720 but over in Montgomery at a and a landscape or a and a garden 1785 02:07:02.840 --> 02:07:10.000 center, they have they hire out to go clean up yards and things in 1786 02:07:10.239 --> 02:07:14.000 the Lake Conroe area. I think you're going to be too far for them 1787 02:07:14.079 --> 02:07:15.960 to go. No, that's where we are. We're very close to they 1788 02:07:16.000 --> 02:07:18.920 come. Okay, well, you can hire their crew to come out and 1789 02:07:19.039 --> 02:07:23.279 do spring cleanup and things like that. I would talk to them and see 1790 02:07:23.359 --> 02:07:26.600 what kind of a service like that. Maybe they would visit, you know, 1791 02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:29.760 several times during the year and you would meet them there and they would 1792 02:07:30.119 --> 02:07:31.840 I don't know, you just have to talk to them at ana and see 1793 02:07:31.840 --> 02:07:35.960 what they're say. The other thing is cursh your over in Lake Conroe side 1794 02:07:36.800 --> 02:07:43.119 on Airport Road outside of Conroe where the Lone Star Convention Center is. The 1795 02:07:43.159 --> 02:07:45.520 Montgomery County Extension offices right across the street there, and they have a master 1796 02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:51.079 gardener program. There may be somebody within that program who would be willing to 1797 02:07:51.199 --> 02:07:55.800 do that. And normally master Gardener's a volunteer program. They don't hire out. 1798 02:07:56.319 --> 02:07:59.600 That's not how that works. But I would call that office either, 1799 02:07:59.640 --> 02:08:03.720 talk to Michael Potter, the horticulture agent. There are some of the master 1800 02:08:03.840 --> 02:08:07.159 gardeners and they should be able to help you. I am up against a 1801 02:08:07.319 --> 02:08:11.199 hard break and so I'll put you on hold. If you want to hang 1802 02:08:11.279 --> 02:08:13.039 on, we can. If not, I hope that is helpful for you. 1803 02:08:13.239 --> 02:08:18.840 Thank you for that call. We'll be right back. Try not to 1804 02:08:18.039 --> 02:08:22.520 move and wiggle your foot or tap your toes or anything during that song. 1805 02:08:22.640 --> 02:08:26.000 And I defy you to try that. It is impossible. Yes, that's 1806 02:08:26.079 --> 02:08:28.920 true. Hey, you're listening to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Richter. 1807 02:08:30.159 --> 02:08:31.479 We are glad to be talking to you today. I want to tell 1808 02:08:31.479 --> 02:08:37.880 you about jungle Land. It is a soil for containers by the folks at 1809 02:08:37.920 --> 02:08:43.840 nightrofous now Jungle land has two versions. There's the Flower and Vegetable planning soil 1810 02:08:43.960 --> 02:08:46.720 for putting outdoors, and it says flower and vegetable, but you can put 1811 02:08:46.720 --> 02:08:48.520 it for herbs too. Anything in a container like that, it's going to 1812 02:08:48.600 --> 02:08:54.720 do well with it. For color plants, you will absolutely ignite really solid 1813 02:08:54.920 --> 02:08:58.479 color and growth for all those plants. It knows how to hold water and 1814 02:08:58.560 --> 02:09:01.720 knows how to drain excess water, and that's what you need in a good 1815 02:09:01.800 --> 02:09:05.279 quality mix. Now there's a jungle land for indoor plants. It's called the 1816 02:09:05.399 --> 02:09:09.520 water Saving Potting soil, and that has the crystals that hold onto water. 1817 02:09:09.760 --> 02:09:15.359 The roots go upside the crystal hold onto the crystal essentially, and when the 1818 02:09:15.479 --> 02:09:18.279 things get dry well it can pull water out of those crystals because if they 1819 02:09:18.359 --> 02:09:24.560 hold water very very well, that makes it more forgiving when you forget to 1820 02:09:24.680 --> 02:09:28.520 water. Where do you get jungle land, Well, wherever you get any 1821 02:09:28.600 --> 02:09:31.600 kind of nitropos product, which are widely widely available. You can go to 1822 02:09:31.720 --> 02:09:35.720 Kingwood Ace Hardware down in Kingwood and they have it there. You can go 1823 02:09:35.760 --> 02:09:39.039 to the Arbor Gate up in Tombol. You can go to Shades of Texas 1824 02:09:39.199 --> 02:09:43.880 on Genoa Bluff. Road down in South Houston all places where you can find 1825 02:09:43.520 --> 02:09:50.399 nitrofoss products. I want to mention today by the way, that this is 1826 02:09:50.600 --> 02:09:56.000 the time to get any kind of landscape work scheduled and get it. You 1827 02:09:56.079 --> 02:10:00.800 know, whether you're doing landscape renovations or or compost top dress. Things are 1828 02:10:01.119 --> 02:10:05.399 aerations and things. The folks at Greenpro are the ones that will do your 1829 02:10:05.479 --> 02:10:09.960 aeration up in the northern part of our Araine area. We're gonna say Magnolia 1830 02:10:09.359 --> 02:10:15.039 and within a forty five mile range around Magnolia, so that'll go down about 1831 02:10:15.079 --> 02:10:20.520 to central Houston area. I'll go over maybe about Interced forty five down to 1832 02:10:20.600 --> 02:10:22.439 around it ten. That's roughly speaking. You have to give them a call. 1833 02:10:24.199 --> 02:10:26.560 They will come out and they will do the compost top dressing with top 1834 02:10:26.880 --> 02:10:33.359 quality composts. They will do the core aeration where you pull a core out 1835 02:10:33.399 --> 02:10:37.800 of the soil, pop it onto the surface and that helps get oxygen down 1836 02:10:37.880 --> 02:10:41.600 in the roots. The compost falls down in those holes. It builds the 1837 02:10:41.680 --> 02:10:46.000 soil and enhances it really stimulates, especially when you're dealing with the heavy clay 1838 02:10:46.079 --> 02:10:54.199 soil. Grass can struggle in a compacted, heavy clay compost top dressing after 1839 02:10:54.399 --> 02:10:58.000 you have air rated will work very well. Now you can do the other 1840 02:10:58.159 --> 02:11:01.720 order if you want, but you could just aeration, or you can do 1841 02:11:01.840 --> 02:11:05.960 both. The the are just the compost top dressing, or you can do 1842 02:11:05.039 --> 02:11:07.960 them both, and I would recommend both. By the way. Now that 1843 02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:13.920 is green Pro and their number. Write this down seven excuse me two eight 1844 02:11:13.000 --> 02:11:18.880 one three five to one forty seven thirty three two eight one three five one 1845 02:11:20.199 --> 02:11:26.279 forty seven thirty three, or go to greenpro dot net talk to them about 1846 02:11:26.319 --> 02:11:30.880 it. They know what they're doing. They do an excellent, excellent job 1847 02:11:31.199 --> 02:11:35.800 for that region that they surface up there, service up there. I think 1848 02:11:35.840 --> 02:11:37.920 I'm running toward the end of the show, and my brain and my mouth 1849 02:11:39.039 --> 02:11:41.600 connection is starting to falter a little bit as I try to say words. 1850 02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:46.920 Microlife has a wide variety of fertilizers. You know, you can get their 1851 02:11:46.960 --> 02:11:52.399 fertilizer for acidic plant. You can get the fertilizer that's designed for the citrus 1852 02:11:52.479 --> 02:11:56.079 and fruit kinds of plants like that. You can get the fertilizer that we 1853 02:11:56.199 --> 02:11:58.119 think of as a lawn fertilizer. It's the green bag. It's really the 1854 02:11:58.319 --> 02:12:03.680 everything fertilizer. I mean fertilized trees with it, a furtlized vegetable gardens with 1855 02:12:03.720 --> 02:12:05.560 it. It's a good fertilizer. Right now, I want to talk to 1856 02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:09.720 you about the hum mats plus that is concentrated compost in a bag and it 1857 02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:16.439 is Microlife's purple bag. Now, this is one that you're doing periodically over 1858 02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:22.800 time to your lawn to improve the soil structure, to improve the effect of 1859 02:12:22.920 --> 02:12:26.960 the microbes that are there, making things better for your root system. Well, 1860 02:12:26.039 --> 02:12:30.439 hum mats plus is part of that cycle. And what you need is 1861 02:12:30.520 --> 02:12:33.279 you need the purple bag. That's a zero zero four and I would put 1862 02:12:33.279 --> 02:12:37.439 it on now. Don't think of it as a fertilizer. It does have 1863 02:12:37.520 --> 02:12:41.880 four percent potassium. Think of it as a microbial provider and a soil enhancement 1864 02:12:43.119 --> 02:12:46.000 product, and that's what it does. Microlife humats plus purple bag. Let's 1865 02:12:46.039 --> 02:12:50.239 do that now. You want to do that periodically and pretty soon we're going 1866 02:12:50.279 --> 02:12:54.960 to be talking about the green bag and fertilizing your lawn. But for right 1867 02:12:54.039 --> 02:13:00.479 now, Microlife humts plus very important part of a long term that's the wayne 1868 02:13:00.600 --> 02:13:05.720 nature takes care of plants, that's the organic process, long term benefit to 1869 02:13:05.760 --> 02:13:09.680 your soil. We're going to go now out to Beaumont and talk to Donna. 1870 02:13:09.760 --> 02:13:15.800 Hello, Donna, Hey, Skip. I got two questions. First 1871 02:13:15.840 --> 02:13:18.600 of all, I have a yesterday to yesterday, today and tomorrow plants that 1872 02:13:18.640 --> 02:13:22.520 I've had for a long time. They're in pretty large pots, all right, 1873 02:13:22.560 --> 02:13:28.199 and they're starting to put new growth on, but they're real stimmy looking, 1874 02:13:28.439 --> 02:13:33.920 and I was wondering is there a time I can pring those back a 1875 02:13:33.000 --> 02:13:37.960 little bit? And also what kind of fertilizer is best for those? Okay, 1876 02:13:39.319 --> 02:13:43.880 so you said it's a yesterday, Today, and tomorrow plant, right, 1877 02:13:45.920 --> 02:13:48.600 Yes, sir. It has the flowers that change colors from blue to 1878 02:13:48.680 --> 02:13:52.560 white and whatnot. Okay, that violet and then it gets a little lighter. 1879 02:13:52.479 --> 02:13:54.560 Yeah, okay, I want to make sure we're talking about the right 1880 02:13:54.600 --> 02:13:58.359 one. You can print it back a little now if you like it's okay, 1881 02:13:58.560 --> 02:14:01.479 you can leave it as it is, and then next winter print it 1882 02:14:01.520 --> 02:14:05.279 back a little bit as we get toward the end of winter. If it's 1883 02:14:05.359 --> 02:14:09.920 got decent light, and if you're fertilizing it, it'll fill in. It'll 1884 02:14:09.960 --> 02:14:13.439 look really nice, a beautiful plant, like the way the branches arch over 1885 02:14:13.520 --> 02:14:18.439 and have those blooms and stuff. I would use a lawn fertilizer on it 1886 02:14:18.560 --> 02:14:22.520 myself. I mean, there's a lot of good fertilizers out there that will 1887 02:14:22.600 --> 02:14:26.119 work well on it. But when we're talking about our turf fertilizer, if 1888 02:14:26.159 --> 02:14:31.039 you get my lawn care schedule at Gardening with Skip, yeah, just go 1889 02:14:31.159 --> 02:14:33.920 down there. Whatever you're going to use on your lawn, use that on 1890 02:14:33.079 --> 02:14:37.760 that. Brune Felcia, which is the fancy name for yesterday. Okay. 1891 02:14:37.079 --> 02:14:41.239 And the other quick question was I have one of those corn plants. I 1892 02:14:41.279 --> 02:14:43.520 think it's what you call it. It's got a real long stem and some 1893 02:14:43.840 --> 02:14:48.960 leaves coming out at the top indoor plant, right, and it looks just 1894 02:14:50.199 --> 02:14:54.159 so yellow on the leaves. I'm thinking it either might need a bigger pot 1895 02:14:54.600 --> 02:15:00.880 or maybe different fertilizer or something added to it. Yeah, you know you 1896 02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:03.359 could. I put you on hold here when we're done, and if you 1897 02:15:03.399 --> 02:15:05.720 don't send me a picture of it, I'll give you an opinion about the 1898 02:15:05.760 --> 02:15:09.479 bigger pot. But in general, yes, some nutrient fertilizers would help. 1899 02:15:09.640 --> 02:15:13.600 But also watch the water is as you get as the plant gets big and 1900 02:15:13.680 --> 02:15:18.359 it's too big for the pot, it turns dry. Really quick because you 1901 02:15:18.439 --> 02:15:22.800 have very little soil to support that big plant, and so just watch that 1902 02:15:22.000 --> 02:15:26.880 the soil doesn't dry out nor stay soggy wet. Both of those create issues 1903 02:15:28.000 --> 02:15:33.640 for those plants. Soggy wet starts root rots that cause yellowing two. Okay, 1904 02:15:33.960 --> 02:15:37.279 all right, all right, all right, Well you're welcome, Bunches. 1905 02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:41.359 Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. If you're looking for 1906 02:15:41.439 --> 02:15:45.760 a quality tree, Verdant Tree Farm will get you set up. Listen. 1907 02:15:45.920 --> 02:15:50.279 Verdant has three locations. It makes it really easy, really easy to find 1908 02:15:50.359 --> 02:15:54.199 a Verdant tree here in Houston. You can go out to West Houston on 1909 02:15:54.359 --> 02:15:58.760 Barker Cyprus. You can go to the Heights where Yell Street comes into Inner 1910 02:15:58.800 --> 02:16:03.520 State. Right there that area, there's a Verdant Tree Farm down in Pearland 1911 02:16:03.560 --> 02:16:07.960 on Broadway Street, just a few blocks away from the Killing Steakhouse. There 1912 02:16:09.119 --> 02:16:11.920 is a Verdant Tree Farm there. Now. They have a wide variety of 1913 02:16:11.960 --> 02:16:16.000 trees. They have excellent selection of palm trees as well. By the way, 1914 02:16:16.319 --> 02:16:20.920 but if you want a fast instant tree seven hundred gallons, they can 1915 02:16:22.039 --> 02:16:24.520 sell you trees up to seven hundred gallons. You can go in take them 1916 02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:26.279 a picture. You can sit down with them and go, hey, what 1917 02:16:26.399 --> 02:16:31.279 tree would go well right here in this location, and they can talk to 1918 02:16:31.319 --> 02:16:33.040 you about that. You pick the tree, you tag it yourself, they 1919 02:16:33.120 --> 02:16:35.399 bring it to your house, they plant it, and if they plan it, 1920 02:16:35.479 --> 02:16:39.200 they guarantee it for one year. Now, you're not going to do 1921 02:16:39.319 --> 02:16:43.959 better than that. This is called Verdant Tree Farm and that's the website Verdant 1922 02:16:43.239 --> 02:16:48.040 Treefarm dot com. Talk to them. I was out a while back looking 1923 02:16:48.079 --> 02:16:52.239 at some of the trees and things they had coming in and just visiting with 1924 02:16:52.319 --> 02:16:54.840 Patrick about some of the things they had. It's a great place with a 1925 02:16:54.920 --> 02:16:58.159 lot of great product. We're going to head out now. Let's see. 1926 02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:03.440 Next would be the Anthony in Spring, Texas. Hello Anthony, Okay, 1927 02:17:03.520 --> 02:17:07.760 good morning, how are you. I'm well, sir, good. I 1928 02:17:07.879 --> 02:17:13.479 have a question. I need to build my lawn up with soil. I 1929 02:17:13.639 --> 02:17:18.360 had a lot of erosion from gutters overflowing, not draining properly, and I'm 1930 02:17:18.399 --> 02:17:22.000 not sure what to put down first. I mean, eventually we want to 1931 02:17:22.040 --> 02:17:28.879 put a small garden back where all the dirt ran off, but we look 1932 02:17:28.959 --> 02:17:31.159 like we need to probably add at least a couple of inches of soil along 1933 02:17:31.239 --> 02:17:35.479 that foundation and then build it out along the front yard. It's just my 1934 02:17:35.600 --> 02:17:39.399 front lawn. What do I put down first? And do I have to 1935 02:17:39.520 --> 02:17:43.239 till or air rate the existing soil first, or how do I go about 1936 02:17:43.280 --> 02:17:46.360 this? And this is St. Augustine, You say, oh, yes, 1937 02:17:46.360 --> 02:17:50.040 sir, I'm sorry, Well, there used to be grass there. 1938 02:17:50.079 --> 02:17:54.040 I have a couple of trees in the front yard and I've been told that 1939 02:17:54.079 --> 02:17:56.799 they're just sucking the life out of all my grass too. So because the 1940 02:17:56.879 --> 02:18:01.479 grass is very sparse in the area. Okay, if you need to raise 1941 02:18:01.559 --> 02:18:05.200 the level, I would do it gradually over time. You can go out 1942 02:18:05.280 --> 02:18:07.520 and spread about an inch. If you can do a top soil type lend, 1943 02:18:07.559 --> 02:18:13.360 that's truly good there. Some folks will also take a compost material and 1944 02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:22.120 mix it with a compost or a sandy mix together and spread that out. 1945 02:18:22.639 --> 02:18:26.920 The organic materials like the compost are going to decompose away and so that in 1946 02:18:26.079 --> 02:18:31.520 long term they're not going to raise the level. But the soil top soil 1947 02:18:31.719 --> 02:18:33.920 or sand will raise the level. But you're going to do it gradually, 1948 02:18:35.040 --> 02:18:37.040 maybe a half inch, and let the grass grow through it and a little 1949 02:18:37.040 --> 02:18:41.799 bit later in the season, add another half inch or third of an inch, 1950 02:18:41.920 --> 02:18:46.600 and just keep gradually bringing it up over time. That is better for 1951 02:18:46.760 --> 02:18:50.000 the grass, unless you just want to strip it off and reside. But 1952 02:18:50.000 --> 02:18:52.000 it's also better for the trees. If you could drop three inches of soil 1953 02:18:52.159 --> 02:18:56.000 over a tree's entire root system, you severely stress that tree. And we 1954 02:18:56.079 --> 02:18:58.719 won't to avoid that, We're going to take it a little bit slower than 1955 02:18:58.799 --> 02:19:05.079 that. Okay, Yeah, because I've got roots popping up in the lawn 1956 02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:07.719 as I'm trying to cut whatever grass is there. Yeah, I'm running over 1957 02:19:07.879 --> 02:19:11.680 roots everywhere. Yeah, but I mean years ago, the grass was nice 1958 02:19:11.719 --> 02:19:15.639 and green and thick, and then just I don't know if it's just the 1959 02:19:15.719 --> 02:19:20.559 erosion killing the grass or if it's the trees killing the grass. Probably both. 1960 02:19:20.920 --> 02:19:24.440 Yeah. The trees shading the grass weakened the grass, and so it's 1961 02:19:24.520 --> 02:19:30.639 ability to fuel growth and density goes down as the light intensity goes down. 1962 02:19:31.120 --> 02:19:35.200 So trees they don't get along. Well, they don't like each other. 1963 02:19:35.280 --> 02:19:39.959 That's what I've got. I've got full shade until about one or two o'clock 1964 02:19:39.040 --> 02:19:43.000 and then my house faces west, so I get full sun the rest of 1965 02:19:43.040 --> 02:19:45.760 the day. Okay, well, Anthony, that's the best shot. I'm 1966 02:19:45.760 --> 02:19:48.559 gonna take a little break here for the news, but that's what I would 1967 02:19:48.600 --> 02:19:54.000 do. And I would also seriously consider maybe doing a groundcover or something else 1968 02:19:54.079 --> 02:19:56.879 there, because once it gets too shady for grass, it's hard to have 1969 02:19:58.000 --> 02:20:00.680 it. Just come back and be lushing. You be with it all, 1970 02:20:00.760 --> 02:20:03.280 right, Hey, I appreciate your call. Thank you, sir. I 1971 02:20:03.319 --> 02:20:05.600 appreciate that call very much. We're going to turn it over to Nicky and 1972 02:20:05.719 --> 02:20:09.440 the news. By the way, Nikki, the news is that weeds are 1973 02:20:09.479 --> 02:20:13.360 sprouting all over town and the time to put the pre emergence out that I 1974 02:20:13.440 --> 02:20:16.040 haven't all I've been listening to news all day and you haven't mentioned that, 1975 02:20:16.200 --> 02:20:18.559 and that is a critical factor that needs to be more important than all the 1976 02:20:18.639 --> 02:20:22.440 other news that could be possibly out there. Okay, if I have time, 1977 02:20:22.479 --> 02:20:24.840 I'll squeeze it in here. I'm sure you will. Welcome back to 1978 02:20:24.840 --> 02:20:28.319 the guard Line. What are we going to talk about now? I'll tell 1979 02:20:28.319 --> 02:20:31.559 you what we're going to talk about now, talk about the things you need 1980 02:20:31.559 --> 02:20:33.200 to be doing in your garden and your landscape. If you'd like to give 1981 02:20:33.280 --> 02:20:39.200 us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one 1982 02:20:39.319 --> 02:20:43.280 three two one two ktrh, So another way you can go about dialing it. 1983 02:20:43.879 --> 02:20:48.000 Driving around town yesterday, I was looking at some beautiful, beautiful blooming 1984 02:20:48.239 --> 02:20:54.959 plants that are their spring announcers. What do we say, the harbingers of 1985 02:20:54.120 --> 02:20:58.799 spring? Right? Uh? And one of them is a saucer magnolia. 1986 02:20:58.000 --> 02:21:03.559 Have you ever seen saucers? They are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. The saucer 1987 02:21:03.639 --> 02:21:09.920 magnolia is a shrub slash, let's say, big shrub. We'll leave it 1988 02:21:09.000 --> 02:21:16.760 at that, big shrub. And saucer magnolias have beautiful pink everything almost from 1989 02:21:16.799 --> 02:21:20.680 a wine to a pink to a white colors and the flower, depending on 1990 02:21:20.719 --> 02:21:24.920 the cultivar, mostly pink. And they just pop out in the spring on 1991 02:21:24.040 --> 02:21:28.840 bare branches and they have these big, old saucer like attractive blooms. They're 1992 02:21:28.959 --> 02:21:33.959 really cool, a lot of fun to be able to have that kind of 1993 02:21:33.079 --> 02:21:37.559 color that early in the season, and it's important, it's important to be 1994 02:21:37.600 --> 02:21:39.879 able to do that, and that's what they look like. I've seen in 1995 02:21:39.920 --> 02:21:45.639 some still spring blooming around town. They are easy, easy in terms of 1996 02:21:45.719 --> 02:21:50.000 giving them a you give them a acidic soil, you give them adequate soil 1997 02:21:50.079 --> 02:21:54.000 moisture, you get them decent sunlight, and they're going to perform well for 1998 02:21:54.159 --> 02:21:58.239 you, and they do, they do super well. And other spring blooming 1999 02:21:58.280 --> 02:22:01.120 plants are on the way. You know the I was bragging earlier about the 2000 02:22:01.600 --> 02:22:07.280 Chinese fringe tree and how beautiful they are in the spring and the way they 2001 02:22:07.639 --> 02:22:13.040 just absolutely light up the sky with shaggy white blooms that smell so good. 2002 02:22:13.159 --> 02:22:16.239 Red buds another good one for the spring. Some of you are fortunate enough 2003 02:22:16.319 --> 02:22:18.840 to live in an area where dogwoods will do well for you, and that's 2004 02:22:18.879 --> 02:22:22.319 another one for spring. And then we have all the things we can do 2005 02:22:22.440 --> 02:22:26.440 in our landscapes, lots and lots of things from color plants. There are 2006 02:22:26.520 --> 02:22:31.159 annuals to color plants that are perennials, to containers. And where do you 2007 02:22:31.280 --> 02:22:35.520 get all of this wide variety of plants. Well, if you head over 2008 02:22:35.799 --> 02:22:43.040 to Ingented Gardens and Richmond, you're going to find a lot of wonderful plants 2009 02:22:43.159 --> 02:22:46.840 just like what I've been talking about. They know how to put the collections 2010 02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:52.959 together. Are the things that do well here and that are just just outstanding 2011 02:22:52.280 --> 02:22:56.360 in terms of performance and beauty. And Chaney Gardens has always been good at 2012 02:22:56.399 --> 02:23:00.959 that. You know, they've been a showplace since the family has been part 2013 02:23:00.959 --> 02:23:03.520 of that community since nineteen ninety five. And in Channet Gardens, Richmond, 2014 02:23:03.520 --> 02:23:07.399 by the way, that's that's the garden center that if you go north from 2015 02:23:07.520 --> 02:23:11.159 Richmond, like you're going to Katie fullsher direction, Well it's on three fifty 2016 02:23:11.280 --> 02:23:15.319 nine and it's up there, and you've probably been there before if you haven't 2017 02:23:15.440 --> 02:23:18.840 worth the drive there. They're open today from ten am to four pm. 2018 02:23:20.360 --> 02:23:22.360 So if somebody would like to head out, maybe you lift some other direction 2019 02:23:22.559 --> 02:23:24.920 and you just have ever been to this nursery, you want to go see 2020 02:23:24.959 --> 02:23:28.440 it? I think you should, and I think you'll be very very impressed 2021 02:23:28.479 --> 02:23:33.079 with it because it is it's the kind of place that you want to take 2022 02:23:33.120 --> 02:23:35.680 friends and family when they come visit. It's that kind of a showplace. 2023 02:23:37.239 --> 02:23:41.280 And in Channi Gardens, Richmond, easy easy to get to again FM three 2024 02:23:41.479 --> 02:23:46.239 fifty nine. What do you need? You need vegetables, herbs, flowers. 2025 02:23:46.719 --> 02:23:52.040 They have beautiful, beautiful containers, beautiful containers full of flowers. They 2026 02:23:52.079 --> 02:23:56.479 have succulents, they have pretty much everything you can dream up wanting to have 2027 02:23:56.120 --> 02:24:00.920 there at in Chenni Gardens, and I love to go. I love to 2028 02:24:01.040 --> 02:24:05.840 visit. I love to visit with the folks there because they absolutely know what 2029 02:24:05.920 --> 02:24:09.079 they're talking about and it's just fun. It's just a fun place to go 2030 02:24:09.239 --> 02:24:15.600 see. You know. I always encourage you guys that are listening to Guardline, 2031 02:24:15.680 --> 02:24:18.719 why don't you get out in the afternoon. This afternoon be a good 2032 02:24:18.760 --> 02:24:22.479 time to go out and visit. We have so many good nurseries here North 2033 02:24:22.520 --> 02:24:28.920 Southeast, West Central that you can just enjoy time out and get inspiration and 2034 02:24:28.079 --> 02:24:31.559 yeah, bring home some stuff for the soil and stuff for the for the 2035 02:24:31.840 --> 02:24:35.479 color and the plants. This is a good time to do it, all 2036 02:24:35.559 --> 02:24:39.079 right. I'm going to go over to Orange County and I'm gonna talk to 2037 02:24:39.319 --> 02:24:43.600 Greg. Hello. Greg, Hello, thanks for taking my call. Yes, 2038 02:24:45.200 --> 02:24:50.559 I have a question about I heard you talking about like turf store weed 2039 02:24:50.600 --> 02:24:54.360 and later. I have a property in Jefferson County that I'm building a house 2040 02:24:54.440 --> 02:24:58.639 own and my lawn is just covered with weeds. I mean, it's been 2041 02:24:58.719 --> 02:25:05.479 neglected for years. But I can't find that brand in my area, at 2042 02:25:05.559 --> 02:25:11.600 least I haven't yet. But I traveled to Houston to Pasadena on Wednesdays and 2043 02:25:11.760 --> 02:25:16.280 I heard you mentioned a place called Shades of Texas or nitrofos. What would 2044 02:25:16.280 --> 02:25:22.079 you recommend because I want to get a good, uh you know, product 2045 02:25:22.159 --> 02:25:26.799 to put on the lawn to try to get the weeds. And I was 2046 02:25:26.879 --> 02:25:31.760 wondering what you recommend. You're you're where I could get it. You're an 2047 02:25:31.840 --> 02:25:35.000 Orange, yes, sir, I am, but I don't. I've looked 2048 02:25:35.040 --> 02:25:41.200 online and I can't see anyone that lists a nitrofos or this church store brand. 2049 02:25:41.559 --> 02:25:45.760 Well, I would. I would talk to the folks at Child's Building 2050 02:25:45.799 --> 02:25:50.159 Supply in Orange. There an ACE Hardware Child Building Supply there on sixteenth Street 2051 02:25:50.280 --> 02:25:56.680 nor sixteenth Street. They yes, Ace is really good about carrying nitrophos products. 2052 02:25:56.719 --> 02:25:58.920 I would expect that they have it. You may have to drive a 2053 02:25:58.959 --> 02:26:03.639 little further up to my There's an M and D supply up in Maurysville, 2054 02:26:03.079 --> 02:26:07.280 and of course then over Inviter in Beaumont, and there's a number of aces 2055 02:26:07.319 --> 02:26:11.680 out in that area. If you go to the the ACE Hardware or ACE 2056 02:26:11.719 --> 02:26:15.159 Hardware dot Com and do their store locator, you can see all the red 2057 02:26:15.239 --> 02:26:18.000 dots of the aces. That's where I would start looking for nitrofoss out in 2058 02:26:18.040 --> 02:26:22.159 your area. Okay, I really appreciate it. Thank you you've met Greg. 2059 02:26:22.280 --> 02:26:26.399 Thanks a lot. Appreciate that call. Helpe get that lawn back into 2060 02:26:26.639 --> 02:26:31.559 shape, that is for sure. Yeah. Ace Hardware, you know forty 2061 02:26:31.600 --> 02:26:35.000 of them here in the Greater Houston area. Forty Ace Hardware stores. So 2062 02:26:35.200 --> 02:26:39.760 yes, all the way out there in Orange, Texas there are Ace Hardware 2063 02:26:39.799 --> 02:26:46.040 stores Mauriceville, vider Beaumont, Lumberton's got them out that direction and of course 2064 02:26:46.159 --> 02:26:48.600 all over the Greater Houston area. Just go to acehardward dot com, go 2065 02:26:48.719 --> 02:26:52.559 to the store locator. If you want me to spell it out, it's 2066 02:26:52.639 --> 02:26:56.920 Acehardware dot com slash store dash locator. I'd just like to say, go 2067 02:26:58.000 --> 02:27:01.079 to Acehardware dot com. You can find it. And when you're there, 2068 02:27:01.159 --> 02:27:03.799 you're going to find ever fertilizer I talk about. You're going to find everything 2069 02:27:03.840 --> 02:27:07.280 you need to control insects and to carol weeds and control diseases. There you're 2070 02:27:07.319 --> 02:27:11.079 going to find the tools that you need, the water hoses and things, 2071 02:27:11.479 --> 02:27:15.479 and then all the cool stuff for indoor and outdoor living. And if you 2072 02:27:15.520 --> 02:27:18.520 haven't been in an as in a while, you need to go check them 2073 02:27:18.600 --> 02:27:20.799 out. You are going to be very surprised. And when you go to 2074 02:27:20.879 --> 02:27:26.079 an ACE you need to ask about the ACEH Rewards program because you're going to 2075 02:27:26.120 --> 02:27:28.719 be there shopping. You're going to be going back to get your stuff time 2076 02:27:28.760 --> 02:27:33.040 and again. Well, you join that program, and you earn money on 2077 02:27:33.239 --> 02:27:37.680 your produce, on your produce, on your purchases. So I belong. 2078 02:27:37.920 --> 02:27:41.719 And every time I go into an ACE hardware store make a purchase, well 2079 02:27:41.799 --> 02:27:43.520 it just goes on and first thing you know, Hey, you got some 2080 02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:46.959 money to spend. So I would encourage you to do that when you're out 2081 02:27:48.079 --> 02:27:52.079 shopping for ACE. Yeah, makes sense, good good place, good products, 2082 02:27:52.239 --> 02:27:56.399 good deals. What else do you want? ACE is a place, 2083 02:27:56.440 --> 02:28:00.959 as they say, you're listening to garden Line and you're here to answer gardening 2084 02:28:01.079 --> 02:28:03.760 questions. I'm gonna take a little break here and give a little break for 2085 02:28:03.840 --> 02:28:07.319 the news. But in the meantime, why don't you give us a call? 2086 02:28:07.639 --> 02:28:11.639 Call Josh at seven one three two one two kt r H and he 2087 02:28:11.719 --> 02:28:13.399 will get you on the board. You will be first up when we come 2088 02:28:13.479 --> 02:28:18.760 back. All right, folks, we're back for our last segment today on 2089 02:28:18.879 --> 02:28:22.319 Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and uh, I don't 2090 02:28:22.319 --> 02:28:24.360 know it's rodeo time. So let's just say I'm back in the saddle again. 2091 02:28:24.479 --> 02:28:30.319 Here we go. Uh. I want to remind you that this that 2092 02:28:30.520 --> 02:28:35.360 this coming. I'm sorry, Josh talking to meut here. This coming Saturday, 2093 02:28:35.799 --> 02:28:39.239 I'll be at the Anti Rosing Porium because they will be having their Spring 2094 02:28:39.440 --> 02:28:43.200 celebration that is March ninth, for those of you who like to look at 2095 02:28:43.239 --> 02:28:46.799 the calendar, March ninth, Saturday, Saturday. After the show, I'm 2096 02:28:46.840 --> 02:28:50.319 gonna head that way. They're gonna have speakers, artisan markets, food trucks. 2097 02:28:50.399 --> 02:28:52.959 They're gonna have of course, they got the plants. They got native 2098 02:28:54.000 --> 02:28:56.319 plants to perennials. Yep, they're not just roses. Oh boy, are 2099 02:28:56.360 --> 02:29:01.280 they ever roses. But they're not just roses. They have tools and fertilizers 2100 02:29:01.319 --> 02:29:03.159 and gift items and everything. But I'm going to be there giving a talk 2101 02:29:03.239 --> 02:29:07.959 on Saturday. But this is a two day deal of the Spring Celebration March 2102 02:29:07.120 --> 02:29:11.159 ninth and March tenth. I hope you will come out to see me. 2103 02:29:11.479 --> 02:29:13.959 Listen, if you haven't been out there before, this is your permission to 2104 02:29:15.040 --> 02:29:18.399 head a sent to the Antique rosen for him. You are gonna love that 2105 02:29:18.559 --> 02:29:22.639 place. It is just fun and it's a cool drive out in the countryside. 2106 02:29:24.440 --> 02:29:26.639 By the way. You might swing by blue Belt and pick up some 2107 02:29:26.719 --> 02:29:28.959 ice cream. I don't know if they're open on Saturday or not, but 2108 02:29:28.319 --> 02:29:31.159 if they are, that would be a good idea. Always good to get 2109 02:29:31.200 --> 02:29:35.760 blue Belt, the national ice Cream of Texas. All right, we're going 2110 02:29:35.840 --> 02:29:39.920 to go to Champions and talk to Glenn. Hello, Glenn, Hey, 2111 02:29:41.000 --> 02:29:45.440 s get. I know I'm late doing this, but I'm gonna put down 2112 02:29:46.000 --> 02:29:50.719 the barricade today before it rains, okay, and then tomorrow or Tuesday I'll 2113 02:29:50.760 --> 02:29:58.239 put down the Nightrifoss green up. Okay. My question is how safe is 2114 02:29:58.280 --> 02:30:05.799 that for dog pets? After I put that down, It's fine. You're 2115 02:30:05.840 --> 02:30:09.079 gonna water it. Don You're gonna You're gonna put it down. You can 2116 02:30:09.120 --> 02:30:11.719 put about a half inch of water on it to move it down into the 2117 02:30:11.799 --> 02:30:16.280 soil, because it does no good sitting up on If any granules stick to 2118 02:30:16.319 --> 02:30:18.520 the plants, that's not doing any good. If it just sits dry on 2119 02:30:18.600 --> 02:30:22.399 the soil, that's not doing any good. You gotta wet it, incorporate 2120 02:30:22.440 --> 02:30:24.760 it into the surface, and that that should take care of things as far 2121 02:30:24.799 --> 02:30:31.639 as your pats, okay, and that's for both of them. In other 2122 02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:35.920 words, the Imperial yeah, I know water is a barricade in, but 2123 02:30:35.000 --> 02:30:37.719 the Imperial water in as well. Yeah, you want to because you know 2124 02:30:37.799 --> 02:30:43.879 it's a it's a salt based fertilizer granule sitting on the surface that dissolves quickly, 2125 02:30:43.040 --> 02:30:46.840 and that's why it's our spring green up because it immediately releases those nutrients 2126 02:30:46.879 --> 02:30:52.559 into the soil. So yes, I would do if I we do both, 2127 02:30:52.040 --> 02:30:56.360 you could do go through and do one and go reload your fertilizer hopper, 2128 02:30:56.639 --> 02:31:00.479 change the setting, do the other one, and then add the half 2129 02:31:00.520 --> 02:31:03.360 inch of water and you're done with the whole thing. Okay, that's fine. 2130 02:31:03.440 --> 02:31:09.840 Now my last question is I plan on thirty days from now putting down 2131 02:31:09.959 --> 02:31:18.000 the Nelson's whetenator that works. No, No, weedonator is for killing existing 2132 02:31:18.120 --> 02:31:22.840 broad leaf weeds, and those things are already starting to bloom and go to 2133 02:31:22.920 --> 02:31:26.920 seed, and you want to get that down sooner rather than later. The 2134 02:31:28.000 --> 02:31:31.159 weedonator is going to be you know, the hen bitt and chick weed and 2135 02:31:31.200 --> 02:31:35.280 clover and all those cool season weeds. That's what you're putting the weedonator down. 2136 02:31:35.319 --> 02:31:39.520 For but it also has fertilizer in it. So you can go one 2137 02:31:39.559 --> 02:31:41.719 way, you can go the other, but don't don't do all the above 2138 02:31:41.799 --> 02:31:46.120 together. Okay, So if I'm going to do the Wheatonator, don't do 2139 02:31:46.239 --> 02:31:54.280 the Imperial. I'm my hesitation as I'm trying to think through you let me 2140 02:31:54.360 --> 02:31:58.120 put this weight you could. The Imperial is going to release, It's going 2141 02:31:58.200 --> 02:32:03.920 to dissolve and release right now. The weed Nator is going to gradually feed 2142 02:32:03.200 --> 02:32:07.840 over the next two or three months. So normally I would say don't put 2143 02:32:07.879 --> 02:32:11.360 two fertilizers down at the same time. I think in this case you could 2144 02:32:11.399 --> 02:32:16.440 get by with that and do it. Normally I would tell you we'll wait 2145 02:32:16.680 --> 02:32:22.239 on the next fertilizer, but you got to it's important to stop the weeds 2146 02:32:22.319 --> 02:32:26.440 that are going to sprout with the barricade, so don't delay. It's important 2147 02:32:26.440 --> 02:32:31.399 if you're going to kill existing weeds to go ahead and in that case put 2148 02:32:31.760 --> 02:32:35.920 the the If you're using the weed inator, that's what that would be for 2149 02:32:35.479 --> 02:32:39.760 now one alternative, and I know these are all good products, and you 2150 02:32:39.879 --> 02:32:46.959 go the direction you want would be to shift over to the Nitrofoss's blue bag 2151 02:32:46.360 --> 02:32:52.680 instead of the Imperial red bag. That way, you would get the fertilizer 2152 02:32:52.799 --> 02:32:58.840 that's immediately released now, and you would also get the broad leaf products sticking 2153 02:32:58.920 --> 02:33:05.000 to the weeds that would work now. So you would do beat ad I'm 2154 02:33:05.040 --> 02:33:09.079 saying, barricade plus the blue bag from Nitrophoss, and you can do all 2155 02:33:09.120 --> 02:33:13.559 that now. You can come later and do the gradual release products, you 2156 02:33:13.600 --> 02:33:16.319 know, like the weed Nator for example, like uh, you know, 2157 02:33:16.520 --> 02:33:20.440 well, there's there's just a lot of different options out there, and then 2158 02:33:20.760 --> 02:33:24.120 Nelson Plant Food makes the weed Nator. They also make a slow release, 2159 02:33:24.200 --> 02:33:30.040 slow and easy uh type product that's going to feed your your lawn over time. 2160 02:33:30.120 --> 02:33:33.479 We would do that probably starting in sometimes mid to late April, if 2161 02:33:33.479 --> 02:33:37.280 you've done the spring green up already. Okay, so so do the blue 2162 02:33:37.360 --> 02:33:43.440 bag now with the barricade. With the barricade, yes, April, you 2163 02:33:43.479 --> 02:33:46.600 could do the Weedonator then or at that point in time, sir, I 2164 02:33:46.639 --> 02:33:54.680 would I would just shift over to a different product from Nelson's. Okay. 2165 02:33:54.920 --> 02:33:58.520 That's that's that's why I was saying the Okay, That's why I was saying 2166 02:33:58.559 --> 02:34:03.159 it. The way idea Nelson's they have a number of different products. So 2167 02:34:03.920 --> 02:34:07.920 the gosh. I just went blank on the name. It just went out 2168 02:34:07.959 --> 02:34:09.760 of my head. Slow and easy, I said it a minute ago. 2169 02:34:11.079 --> 02:34:13.120 Slow and easy. Yeah, I wouldn't. If you're going to wait and 2170 02:34:13.200 --> 02:34:16.559 delay, I wouldn't do the weed and eat. I'd do the slow and 2171 02:34:16.639 --> 02:34:22.200 easy. Okay. If you go online to my website, you can see 2172 02:34:22.200 --> 02:34:24.159 all the options right there, and it's all laid out. It's gardening with 2173 02:34:24.399 --> 02:34:28.520 Skip dot com. Okay, yeah, very good. Well, thanks a 2174 02:34:28.559 --> 02:34:31.520 lot, Skip. Appreciate it all right, you bet, thank you very 2175 02:34:31.559 --> 02:34:37.840 much. I appreciate that. The folks there at Nelson by the way also 2176 02:34:37.959 --> 02:34:41.040 have a product called Genesis. Have you heard me talk about that before. 2177 02:34:41.559 --> 02:34:46.200 I I've used it myself. Here's what you do with Genesis. You mix 2178 02:34:46.280 --> 02:34:50.959 it in to the soil you're transplanting into. So I was bumping up some 2179 02:34:52.159 --> 02:34:54.680 tomatoes and peppers and I just took you know, I had my little plants. 2180 02:34:54.719 --> 02:34:58.200 I was gonna move them to bigger containers, and it takes some extra 2181 02:34:58.319 --> 02:35:01.639 soil to do that. I mixed the Genesis into that soil mix. So 2182 02:35:01.719 --> 02:35:05.159 as the roots go out they find the nutrients they find. It's got beneficial 2183 02:35:05.239 --> 02:35:09.520 bacteria and endo and Ectomycoriza in it as well, so it's like root heaven. 2184 02:35:11.239 --> 02:35:13.399 I mixed it in that watered it in, and my gosh, they 2185 02:35:13.479 --> 02:35:18.639 took off. This is a transplanting mix. It's a six one three and 2186 02:35:18.719 --> 02:35:24.239 it's called nutros Star Genesis. You buy a little canisters, plastic canisters, 2187 02:35:24.440 --> 02:35:28.440 and it works really really well, and it enhances the biology of the soil. 2188 02:35:28.760 --> 02:35:31.040 And it's something you ought to consider. I mean, if you're doing 2189 02:35:31.079 --> 02:35:37.520 any kind of transplanting, those of you putting in containers and bringing home flowers 2190 02:35:37.600 --> 02:35:41.200 and vegetables and herbs that container soil, just mix some nutri Star Genesis in 2191 02:35:41.319 --> 02:35:46.799 it. Follow the label and you will find that the response is very soon 2192 02:35:46.079 --> 02:35:50.280 and very impressive. When I did it myself, I was I was really 2193 02:35:50.399 --> 02:35:54.879 surprised at just how well it worked. We're going to go out to Conro 2194 02:35:54.040 --> 02:35:58.920 now and talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, Hello, how can we 2195 02:35:58.040 --> 02:36:01.840 help? Answered my question? But I got a little bit confused too. 2196 02:36:03.239 --> 02:36:05.120 Okay, I can't find that weed mate or anywhere. And I know you 2197 02:36:05.200 --> 02:36:11.079 said it was Nelson's, Yes, plant food, but I'll look at I'll 2198 02:36:11.120 --> 02:36:13.559 look up Nelson's plant Food, and I don't see it. Maybe I don't 2199 02:36:13.559 --> 02:36:18.719 know well, okay, here's what you need to do. If you just 2200 02:36:18.799 --> 02:36:22.559 go out to Ana Plants on the on the on your side of Montgomery out 2201 02:36:22.559 --> 02:36:24.959 there, they're going to have it there. Call them first, make sure 2202 02:36:24.000 --> 02:36:28.399 that it hadn't sold out on them or something. But call them and you're 2203 02:36:28.440 --> 02:36:31.040 going to find it. Uh that that will be probably one of the easier 2204 02:36:31.760 --> 02:36:35.799 ways to just just find what you're looking for. There are some ACE hardware 2205 02:36:35.840 --> 02:36:39.280 stores. We don't have any right there where you are located. You have 2206 02:36:39.360 --> 02:36:43.760 to come down in the Houston area to find it there. But I would 2207 02:36:43.799 --> 02:36:46.360 just go out to an a that's not that far from you. Plus it's 2208 02:36:46.399 --> 02:36:50.239 fun to go to Ana. Okay. The other thing is, can you 2209 02:36:52.280 --> 02:36:56.440 can you tell me what root rot is? And I don't know that I 2210 02:36:56.600 --> 02:37:00.959 have it, but I can plant dying and I'm I don't know how you 2211 02:37:01.079 --> 02:37:03.040 tail. Root rot is typically a fungus, can be a bacteria, and 2212 02:37:03.159 --> 02:37:07.040 the soil that moves into the plant kills the roots and they just turn into 2213 02:37:07.120 --> 02:37:11.120 mush and dye and then the plant can't get water our nutrients because they lost 2214 02:37:11.200 --> 02:37:15.040 the roots. What kind of plant do you have? Oh? Well, 2215 02:37:15.120 --> 02:37:18.399 I mean it's I've got about I've got about fifteen seconds for they start playing 2216 02:37:18.440 --> 02:37:24.000 the endo show music. Okay, shrubs and Camellia. Okay, so yes 2217 02:37:24.079 --> 02:37:26.559 you can. You're old. You know they're old. Okay, well you 2218 02:37:26.639 --> 02:37:30.399 probably don't have root rot, but just watch that you don't keep them soggy 2219 02:37:30.440 --> 02:37:35.079 wet. When it's a soggy, soggy wet, that's when root right tends 2220 02:37:35.159 --> 02:37:39.479 to move in. And so there are if you start to get it, 2221 02:37:39.559 --> 02:37:41.200 there are some things you can drench into the soil to find it. But 2222 02:37:41.319 --> 02:37:45.719 I don't want you going out buying and playing that stuff until we know you've 2223 02:37:45.760 --> 02:37:50.000 got that problem. And it really comes down to good drainage. Okay, 2224 02:37:50.280 --> 02:37:54.000 all right, thank you. I don't think I have that problem. I 2225 02:37:54.079 --> 02:37:56.639 bet you don't. I hope you don't. I bet you don't. Thank 2226 02:37:56.680 --> 02:38:00.719 you, Mary. I appreciate the call. All right, Bubby, Just 2227 02:38:00.840 --> 02:38:03.319 one more reminder. Where am I going to be next Saturday? Antique rosing 2228 02:38:03.399 --> 02:38:07.239 for him. I'll be there for the big shindig they call it the Spring 2229 02:38:07.360 --> 02:38:09.520 Celebration. I'm going to be there from twelve to two. So when I 2230 02:38:09.600 --> 02:38:13.600 finished the show here, I am making a bee line. If you see 2231 02:38:13.600 --> 02:38:16.079 anybody flying by down two ninety. That's me on the way to antiqu rosing 2232 02:38:16.120 --> 02:38:20.719 for him twelve to two. I'll be giving a talk on beneficial insects. 2233 02:38:20.120 --> 02:38:22.600 Do you want to learn about what beneficials are? Do you want to learn 2234 02:38:22.639 --> 02:38:26.760 how to attract them and keep them in your landscape? Come see me. 2235 02:38:26.079 --> 02:38:30.280 It's gonna be fun. Plus, there's a lot more going on at antique 2236 02:38:30.319 --> 02:38:31.319 rosing for him that day